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Just came back from seeing Mean Girls (alone) and Van Helsing (last night with Matt, Luke and Brett).

Mean Girls: It was really funny, although I find myself completely unable to relate to contemporary movies depicting high school. Tim Meadows is still funny, and he did really well opposite Tina Fey. I'm not a big fan of Amy Poehler, though. Lindsay Lohan was great, and her breasts did a stellar job of causing audiences to cower in fear. There was some shockingly frank language and situations (her character drank in this one, oddly enough), so it was definitely aimed at the upper teen demographic. A few cheesy moments, but it avoided a lost of terrible clichès. Interesting plot twists as well.

And annoying girls getting hit by buses. I think there should have been more of that. Ninety minutes of annoying girls getting hit by buses.

8 / 12 Final Fantasies.

Van Helsing: Again, I liked it. I know a lot of people have referred to it as "Van Helstink" and complained about the massive amount of effects, but I disagree with both. The soundtrack had some interesting strings in it that caught me by surpise, but I liked it. It was a really good action movie with pretty good effects. I wasn't dissapointed, and I don't think anyone else I went with was.

8 / 12 Final Fantasies.

I've given up trying to rank them all. Maybe later...

In gaming news, I checked out Rise to Honor and Star Wars: Bounty Hunter. Rise to Honor had an innovative control system in which the right analog stick controlled the attacks. It was pretty cool, but it was hard to get into it. I'm liking Bounty Hunter. I feel like a real badass. I still want to check out Samurai Warriors and Transformers. There's a few others I need to check out. I'm going to go play some now, but I'm in the middle of a Chelsea funk. Expact another history post later.

Again, fair enough. I didn't really plan on taking a side either until I saw Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen. It was really good. I think Mean Girls will be really good, as well (it did open #1 this weekend, beating out Denzel Washington's new one, and a few other lackluster titles). I haven't seen it yet, but if I can't a hold of Cullen to go play DDR tonight, I will. That, or tomorrow night. I still have to register for the summer, too. I'm glad for the few weeks off, though. That'll be nice. Katie, Rose and I went apartment hunting yesterday. Also fun. Oh, I shaved all of my hair off - I'm completely bald right now. I plan on keeping it for a while; I kinda like it. What else, what else? Oh, I think I kinda like Tracy. She's so awesome!! I never realized it before. Or rather, I did, but didn't really. I don't know. But not really - it's not like a real crush. I don't know how to explain it. It makes sense to me, darn it.

The link's fixed - apparently, unless you explicitly put http, it puts it as a site inside of this one, which makes no sense since you don't get any additional webspace anyway.

Hmm....

But anyway.

I'm not wrong, I'm opinionated

Non sequiter. You can be opinionated and wrong.

Cute? I'm not seeing it. Well, maybe in a little sister kind of way (Hilary is, after all, almost a year younger than my little sister, whereas Lindsay turns eightteen in... almost exactly two months). Of course, Hilary may be cute in a little sister kind of way, but she has another major little sister trait - ANNOYING AS HELL. And eternal damnation is *quite* annoying.

Hmm...

So there's this girl. We'll call her... Ayla. She's a little slutty. I think it's a rebellion thing that became permanent - did she just like sex a whole lot, or what? No idea.

But she's pregnant. That's what happens when you have a lot of unprotected sex. I'm not surprised. She's not entirely sure who the dad is, but she's pretty sure. He's okay with it.

I have no idea what to think. I'm really upset right now. Just at the world, in general. It probably doesn't help that I've gotten a ridiculously small amount of sleep in the last four or five days.

I'm kinda tired, but I'll sorta have a break for a few weeks until summer school starts.

And Plif, you're wrong:

It's come to my attention that there's a large number of things, relatively harmless things, that get on my nerves to no end. I'm going to work on compiling a list of these things, which will eventually be posted on my website.

• "/me gets a blanket."
  
  
  
  • Using "/me" actions in a chat room
  
  
  • Writing "*me goes and *" in a message board
  
  
  
  
  I hate this so much!!! I can't begin to explain why - I don't know. All I know is that I want to smack people whenever they do that. ESPECIALLY in message boards, when they mark it with asterisks. I mean, why? If you're trying to say something, just say it. If you're trying to be cute, you've failed. Nov did it consistently once, I wanted to muzzle him (of course, I couldn't since he's also a ghost, and I wouldn't, since it would have been a blatant abuse of ghost powers.)
  
  But it would have felt SO good.
  
  Update: That bothers me too - *nod*
  
  ARGH!! HE KEEPS DOING IT!!!



• "That's just my two cents."
  
  
  
  • "That's just my two cents."
  
  
  • "Just my $.02."
  
  
  • "Just my two hundredths of the local currency."
  
  
  • "IMHO"
  
  
  • "IMO"
  
  
  • "But that's just my opinion"
  
  
  
  
  Why do people feel the need to point out that they're expressing their opinion? Do they think everyone reading it is incredibly stupid,and won't realize it? Are they afraid people will think they're being arrogant if they don't mention this? Seriously. You're just wasting time, bandwidth, and power. Have some FUCKING CONFIDENCE in yourself. Just say what you want to say, and don't qualify it as your opinion. This also ties into the "I'm sorry" post later.



• O_o
  
  
  
  • ^^
    
  
  
  I can't do a good sub-list of these, since I don't really know many of them. It's mainly the top one that bothers me. I want to reach through my computer and strangle however uses those. Especially Anime_Tencho, or whatever the hell his name was. He would throw that first one out all the time when I was trying to help him code Tanshihana. Every time I'd give him a piece of advice, he'd make that face (across AIM, of course). Heaven forbid he actually use words, which convey ACTUAL MEANING, as opposed to some fucking ridiculous catch-all symbol for {"Help", "I'm confused", "I'm constipated", and "I'm a FUCKING DUMBASS"}. Actually, I'm pretty sure the last one applies to every use.



• "I'm sorry, but..."
  
  
  
  • "I <possess some quality>
    
  • "I <hold some opinion>
    
  
  
  Why? Why are you sorry? Have some FUCKING SELF ESTEEM (and coming from me, who's had self-esteem problems his whole life, that means something). You don't need to apologize for who you are. So you hold an unpopular opinion. So what? That's the whole point of having freedom of expression; hell, of having individual thought in the first place. If people didn't have differing opinions, there'd be no point in having the ability to form opinions, and we'd grow out of it (well, we're damn sure making a good attempt at it as is.)
  
  

That's all for today. More later.

Damn. I pushed Linsday too far down. Let's see that pic again:


Ah, that's better.

Well, I have definitely taken a side on the "Lindsay Lohan v Hilary Duff" debate.

That, and SNL was kinda funny for once. Not bad. They've still got Horatio Sanz, Darrol Hammon, and Chris Parnell, so they'll be okay for this season.

Again on the boob-front:

Just saw "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen" at 50 cent movie night at Showplace. Lindsey Lohan has a huge rack!! The four girls behind me (and Rose and I) noticed it right away, and commented about it incessently. And she's supposed to be playing a 15 year old... Wha?

Got called in today for a few hours (was supposed to be my day off); Katie and Carrie were both working, which made it quite nice. She talked to me again - quite odd. Carrie did too, a little. I have to be back in 11 1/2 hours. Argh.