It was a free screening for people who had recently bought new cell phones or something, so the crowd was not a typical mass of Twihards or even Twisofts. They were simply people who had nothing better to do than to use the free tickets and be lured with a chance to win an even newer cell phone that was to be given away afterwards.

It was so cute hearing all those ewws and omgs and giggles and feeling free to pitch in at the next overly epic barf-inducer.

The best part of that movie was when during the final scene where Ed and Bells (who thankfully acquired some balls) are both winning at lame-o-game, some guy in the movie theatre took his beer and just walked out, laughing quietly, shooting the rest of us a look saying ‘we were in this boat together for two hours but screw you guys – I’m going home’.

Don’t get me wrong, I would have paid to see the movie and I’ll probably be forced to go watch it again. I like my movies lame sometimes. But it’s a bit sad how they obviously overdid it with the epicness of it all. One mustn’t overdraw from one’s resources.

I just wanted to write about how it’s not a big deal since I’m probably not the target audience either but then I started thinking who is. It can’t be kids and pre-teens, there’s too much sex in it (one whole sex u guyzz!) and the producers must have thought that one through.

Ah, who cares. It’s over and we are finally free. BREAK THE CHAINS FROM SPARKLING VAMPIRES AND FLY AWAY MY DEAR FRIEND. Fly far away, the casters and such are coming to take you hostage.

I need that animal in my life.

BUT WHICH ONE AM I TALKING ABOUT HHHMMMMMMMM???

omgbye

Now that I’ve had time to mull things over I’d like to take the time to say a few words about the fifth season of True Blood. Three words, actually.

It

was

awful

This is the problem with popular television: nobody knows when to quit. The show must go on for as long as there is a hopeful and loyal audience to be milked somewhere. Doesn’t really matter if it becomes a great big parody of itself.

How many times have we at some point been forced to go “bleh” at our favorite tv shows because good (or even half decent) ideas are all used up but someone somewhere still wants more money. Even if the cost of that money is DIGNITY. and HONOR. AND JUSTICE TO KITTENS EVERYWHERE!!

OK so I am perfectly aware of the fact that the world will not end after a horrible season of vampire tv. But would it kill anyone to go out with a bang instead of a mumbled flop-flop-ffssshh? I think that sounds accurate enough.

They do have Alexander though and that’s a good card to hold considering half the population watching TV are people who have vaginas.

So here’s to season six. Milk me some more, HBO.

When Fringe started, I was psyched. I thought it was kind of like x-files, only more scientific – an epic win combo! And the first season was great, it totally delivered! I was pleased, Al was pleased, and we were both looking forward to season 2.

For a while, season 2 also delivered, but then confusion kicked in. The scientific side was starting to slip, and we entered Twilight Zone with hints of budding romance in the air. But with the positive feelings we had for the first season, we made it through the second and hoped the Awesome would return in season 3.

And then came season three. And it was, at first, still pretty confusing and we didn’t quite know what this show was about anymore. But now the season is half-way through and a few episodes ago…

“Oh, it’s a love story,” she said in a whisper of a cry.

A romance is also, in itself, quite OK. But when you think back on the promising season 1, you cannot help but feel like the show has curled up under a tree trunk and died a smelly death.

To illustrate this mess, here’s a typical scene from season 1:

And here’s a typical scene from season 3:

Can you hear it? Can you hear the bar being buried?

PS I cannot get over the fact that at first Walter said there were supposedly an infinite number of universes, but now, for some unexplained reason, there are only two. What happened to the rest?

Where did they go?!?

I have been absent from my blog for a while. There’s a good reason for it: I simply was not here.

I was having problems with my perception of reality after giving anime a chance and getting lost in it. Yes, I too have fallen victim to the Japanese. Of course, I did start with Samurai Champloo, so you can surely understand how a person could (the following is all hypothetical… yes, ahem) end up spending 12 hours a day on her butt doing absolutely nothing but search for new anime new new new anime more anime yes please more gimmegimmegimme no dishes we don’t have dishes who are you are you my boyfriend no yes new anime more more more what it’s already 6am what oh no school what’s that anime more more anime!

etc.

I have watched SO so many things since being captured and although I still steal an hour from time to time to watch anime, my perception of reality is once again intact. Of course, I have a looong long way to go before I reach the end of my anime craze.

To give you an idea of what I’ve been doing, below is a list of all the things I’ve seen. It is possible that some of the things are absent from the list. In some cases I just watched some of the episodes and then gave up on the series. In any case, if somebody was to mention any of these titles, I’d at least know what they are.

And yes, if you look at the list closely enough you can see that I have had a romance anime period in my life (Kimi Ni Todoke has THE BEST opening and ending theme), followed by things like Boku wa Imōto ni Koi o Suru. Say what you will about that theme, but Koi Kaze is one of the most beautiful love stories ever. And then came the yaoi period. Junjou Romantica is just SOOOOO cute! Not much of a hentai fan, though, so I can at least feel that much better about my morality. Aaaah, morality schmorality. Boy on boy beats anything anytime!

Now I am happily back to romance and will watch Peach Girl after finishing this post.

Oh, and I graduated from university. Yay.

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samurai champloo
cowboy bebop
kimi ni todoke
bokura ga ita
vampire knight
vampire knight guilty
chobits
fruits basket
ai yori aoshi
kare kano
ayashi no ceres
DNA2
the girl who leapt through time
hana yori dango
itazura na kiss
Kimi ga Nozomu Eien
skip beat
special A
marmalade boy
fight ippatsu juuden-chan
green green
ichigo 100%
please teacher
please twins
angel sanctuary
koi kaze
Boku wa Imōto ni Koi o Suru
kissxsis
okane ga nai
maiden rose/hyakujitsu no bara
papa to kiss in the dark
junjou romantica
fish in the trap
haru wo daite ita
close the last door
kirepapa
sensitive pornograph
ikoku irokoi romantan
ai no kusabi
gakuen heaven
gravitation
sukisyo
loveless
peach girl
lovely complex
inuyasha

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SO CUTE!

please bare with me

H introduced me to the verbal ticklings of Dylan Moran and I fell in love. His sense of humor is totally on the point. Perfect.

He did a stand up thingy in Australia, it’s called What It Is. Youtube has all the bits of it, I’ll just post the first part for you to love. It’s a good substitute for exercise: you can laugh your abs into rocks.

I love Discovery Channel. I mostly watch Mythbusters, Braniac and How It’s Made. Especially How It’s Made. I love seeing things made from scrap. And I love doing things from scrap. And I love pop science. I never really was any good at math or chemistry or physics or any of those important things. But that doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy them on TV, does it? No it doesn’t.

And I love the Discovery Channel ad song. It’s on all the time, but it never seems to be getting old for me.

The flu has caught up with me. I don’t feel ill or anything bad like that, but it has given me an excuse to do nothing. … like I need any excuses for that, though. But this time I don’t feel guilty about it so that’s like a whole new thing for me.

I have been watching movies for about twelve hours now. I just finished watching City of Angels. I remember when I first saw it. Gosh, I cried so hard! I was like:

why did she have to die? NO, he just got a life and he just started to feel things and then you take her away? No! what… what now… no… no-no-no he’s buying the pears! The PEARS! OH, the humanity! Why, god, why?!

And then I would watch it again, hoping that maybe this time things would go differently. As retarded as that sounds, that’s what I did. And then (surprise-surprise) it ended the same way. And I cried again. I gotta tell you I fought really hard not to break down this time. I wish I hadn’t. Now I have a headache.

In the spirit of the vampire craze that’s been going around town, I wanted to watch anything and everything vampire on TV. So I checked out The Vampire Diaries.

I have to say that it was not as divine as True Blood and not quite as sexy as Twilight, but it grew on me. Nina Dobrev doesn’t have that uniqueness to her that I would love to see in the leading lady. Nina kind of just blends in with the cast of the Hills or whoever. You know, the girls who all look like each other and you can’t really tell who’s who.

Ok, I’m not being fair. She’s pretty and she’s nice. But I can’t help but feel like there’s something missing from the picture. It’s not unfixable, though. I feel there’s hope.

- I know that although my comments may seem critical, I will be hooked nonetheless when the next episode comes out. I’m a sucker for vampires and I‘m not ashamed to admit it. –

Does anyone else see that Katerina Graham looks like Hayden Panettiere dipped in chocolate? I do. And I like chocolate. I ate a whole bar yesterday by myself. It was not pretty.

The choice of Paul Wesley as the eternal 17-year-old is a mystery to me. He is hot and so on, but 17? Come on. NEVER. I would never ever believe that he is 17. I forget about Stefan’s age all the time and every time someone mentions it I laugh. And that’s sad.

And now to the yummy part: Damon. Holy Jesus and his socks! Ian Somerhalder is hot! Damon is so gorgeous he makes Stefan look like a sad little puppy. And puppies are cute, no argument there, but you wouldn’t really want to pet one like you would Damon, would you? No, you wouldn’t.

Because that would be illegal.

It wasn’t as exciting as Twilight, but it was still pretty good. In the sense that it was a pretty good movie about hot people doing hot stuff, catering yet again to the immortal pubescent girlie girl dormant in my otherwise oh-so-grown-up self.

I did laugh though. Which makes me feel kind of good – to be able to laugh at that movie and therefore at myself (I have to say I have mastered that last skill).

I laughed when Edward (could somebody dim the lights and put some Barry on for this one?)…

…entered the scene in slow-mo…

…with his shirt open and left for the naughty wind to play with…

…looking sexy as hell, yet in a casual, effortless way that says: “I know I’m sizzlin’ hot… But I don’t care… Which makes me even hotter… But I don’t care… I’m just Edward…”

…and all the girls fell silent in the movie theatre. The silence was penetrated only by the little gasps given out from time to time from the lips of little girls in heat. I giggled my ass off. Eva shared my sense of humor. Thank God.

But I enjoyed the movie despite its lacking in plot, character development and other such itsy-bitsy details. I am not a fool: I knew exactly what it was I was going to watch when I bought the tickets. I wanted to see hot people doing hot stuff and hot was what I got. I got loads of hot. Truckloads.

So I am totally satisfied and ready for Eclipse.

PS I cannot get over Taylor Lautner’s bod. YUM-E!

I truly was glued to the seat. I had a Pepsi, but I didn’t dare drink it – what if I had to pee? I’d lose three valuable minutes! And the CGI… Oh my! What a world they have created. If I had the chance to go live on Pandora I’d do it in a heartbeat. The Na’vis and the rest of the creatures on Pandora exemplify my idea of perfect harmony, something that should be ours as well, and no doubt, once was (or at least could have been) but is lost now.

It was a wonderful thing to see.

Yes, there were drawbacks. I’m not totally blind. It was black and white, it was naive, it was made simpler than it should have been, but I get why they couldn’t have made it more real. In the sense that in real life the end would not have been as victorious on the good guys’ side as it was in Avatar. If it was real, Pandora would have been nuked without anyone even considering thinking about spending a dime on something less brutal.

Wait. IF it was real? Shut the f*ck up. It IS real. It’s not happening on Planet Fantasy or Makebelief Moon, it’s happening right here on Mother Earth and I don’t see a happy ending waving hello.

So I get why it was made so simple.

Because who would want to see Avatar – a film that is basically shouting at us that we are ignorant money-junkies who only care about the me and nothing else, showing us that the very thing that we are is destroying the potential in us to become something more –

…if it would not have a happy ending?

…if it would not end with the audience giving out a major league sigh of relief?

…if we’d actually see that we are NOT off the hook, but that we ARE responsible for a lot of destruction and that there’s a whole lot of bad karma whooshing out of our every orifice?

Who would want to see the truth?

…

You know what?

Maybe it was meant to be so naive. So that when people see it they would recognize the fact that it is too naive. Maybe they would see that this ‘good conquers all’ mentality is suitable for kindergarten. And maybe, just maybe, people will then realize that it is real. The nuking of Pandora is happening. And one day it will end. But it will not end good. They would see that this movie is a wish, but that it is one that will never come true.

Or maybe I’m just searching for something that is nowhere to be found. I tend to do that a lot so I would not be surprised. But even if my epiphanies are only relevant to me, it’s a win-win situation, because my brain is not a machine gun and no-one must die after I’m done thinking.

Whichever way anyone ever wants to put it, for me it was beautiful. And it was sad.