IF ANYONE SMILES AT ME EVER AGAIN, I'M GOING TO FREAK OUT: [24 Dec 2009|08:28pm] givemehistory 12 favorite movies, 2000-2009 a highly subjective (and probably incomplete) list 12. Me and You and Everyone We Know 2005, dir. Miranda July This movie had a little bit of everything: It had moments of art and beauty, moments of surreal innocence (how else to describe ))<>(( as a concept?) and deeply adult pain. It also had a love story between a man and a woman, but the real love story in this film, to me, was the one that developed between the characters and the world they lived in. The art of survival and communication, if you will. And none of it comes off as cheesy or forced to me. The hesitation, desperation, longing -- it's all made accessible. Whenever I rewatch it, I find empathy with different characters, and sometimes it's the adults, sometimes it's the children, it can even be the freaking goldfish. I love and appreciate that Me and You lets me change my mind each time around, look at things from a different vantage point. ( #11 --> #1 ) Conclusions: 2001, 2003 and 2004 were superb years. 2005 and 2007, not so much. And 2006 sucked for American films. I mean, Crash won the fucking Best Picture award. REALLY?? 5 comments|post comment

BAY POINT FOR A WEEK: [24 Dec 2009|03:03pm] givemehistory [ music | naked in the city again - hot hot heat ] LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THE MOST DEPRESSING AIRPORT EXPERIENCE EVER™. 11:30am: Arrive at Midway. Casually glance at the departures board. WHAT IS THIS. 80% OF THE FLIGHTS TODAY ARE CANCELLED. Rush into the re-ticketing line. Call A-T and bitch. 12pm: All they have is stand-by, FML FML FML. And the weather is supposed to get worse, so I wasn't going to reschedule for the next morning because I might as well go home and unpack. I'm like, WHATEVER JUST GET ME OUT OF HERE to the ticket lady. 1pm: Straggle into the gate area. I love the McDonalds at Midway, except they always forget the stupid ketchup packets. 1:30pm: Thank god I packed like 2348 books. Get halfway through Story of a Marriage (I want to be Andrew Sean Greer's faghag. It's pretty embarrassing.) 2pm: IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT! THE ENTIRE AIRPORT IS SHUTTING DOWN! WE DON'T KNOW WHEN IT'LL REOPEN! DON'T PANIC! 2:30pm: Airport is back open. Fall asleep from relief/boredom with fries in my mouth, clutching my luggage. 4:30pm: Wake up, find out next flight to S.F. is delayed. 4:35pm: Hey everyone, 6pm flight to S.F. is now boarding at a gate on the other side of the terminal! But stand-bys should stay here! 4:36pm: Never mind! Stand-bys should go to the new terminal! 6pm: No room on this flight. Rush to the next terminal. 6:10pm: Oh 'sup. Run into M from Doc on his way to Columbus. He gives me the rest of his Superdawg fries. This is the only awesome part of my day. 8:15pm: M from Doc boards his flight. Next plane to S.F. delayed by two and a half hours! I contemplate slitting my wrists in the bathroom. At least the Southwest ladies know my face now. They seem sympathetic. Perhaps not sympathetic enough to let me fly with the cargo. 9:50pm: HOLY SHIT I AM THE LAST STAND-BY NAME CALLED FOR THIS FLIGHT. I AM SO HAPPY I FORGET TO CALL MY MOTHER TO TELL HER I'M GOING HOME THAT NIGHT. 1am: Land at SFO. We're the last flight in for the night; this place is deserted. No BART this time of night. Door-to-door vans won't drive to the East Bay. Finally this Asian charter van driver is like, normally we would charge you $125 AND YOUR FIRSTBORN for this, but I'll drive you out to Walnut Creek for $75 plus $4 bridge fare, you can keep your babies. I'd like to think I got the Asian Student Holiday discount. Booyah. So I forgot how beautiful the Bay Area is at night. Even Oakland has it's lit-up waterfront. Home. :( 2am: Mother picks me up at the WC BART station. She gives the driver exactly $80. I almost feel bad, BUT IT'S 80 FUCKING DOLLARS. The worst part about this ordeal? I didn't even want to go home for Christmas, but my mother was all, I'll pay for your ticket! And I'll make up the difference in your paycheck! Blinded by my love of money again, fffffffff. Oh, dude, I found some of my old CDs in the garage. been listening to Hot Fuzz, Room on Fire, and Tell All Your Friends (ROFL) all afternoon, if only I could find White Pony. Does anyone remember a time when I was obsessed with this song? Yeah, I don't either. 9 comments|post comment

obligatory I so don't need a new fandom post [18 Dec 2009|10:21pm] ladylisse Please tell me someone on my flist watches Flashforward and can, like, rec me fics and stuff. (Preferably Demetri/Zoey fics, because asjdilasd EEEEE) 2 comments|post comment

[17 Dec 2009|10:10pm] cereal OH MY FUCKING GOD YOU GUYS. OK, if you just saw my Yuletide fic go up for a hot minute, please, please, please pretend you didn't see it. I put it up for my betas, but apparently hit post before selecting the beta friends group and Sara/addictedkitten can attest to the fact that I just started slapping myself in the head and going NO NO NO NO FUCK FUCK FUCK NO NO OH SHIT Please, please, please don't say anything. 6 comments|post comment

Oh, PA Notes... [15 Dec 2009|08:04am] trempnvt Hahahahaha. 3 comments|post comment

This icon has never been more appropriate! (a.k.a. Useful iPhone/iPod Touch apps for Israelis) [14 Dec 2009|11:32am] trempnvt What with the iPhone and the iPod Touch becoming available in Israel, a whole bunch of applications that are useful to Israelis have recently shown up in the app store. I haven't used all of these, so I can't vouch for most of them, but here's an incomplete listing of apps that Israelis might find useful: ( Continued under the cut. ) 3 comments|post comment

NOW I'M THROUGH WITH THE NEW YOU: [14 Dec 2009|03:06am] givemehistory [ music | teenager - deftones ] I don't think I can do top 10 lists for a lot of categories -- I haven't read nearly enough books lately, and my music consumption has been scattershot and also sort of bipolar (guys, I would have Klaxons somewhere close to Korean boy bands, shit is just not going to work no matter how I sort it). So maybe I'll do movies, top 10 or 15 of the last decade, I haven't decided yet. Part of me wants to boycott these lists just because we're not even at the technical end of the decade, but if I wait until next year, a) no one will care anymore -- WAIT, DO THEY CARE NOW?, and b) I probably won't even remember. I don't know why I'm announcing this before I actually do it. But I've been compiling and editing, I swear; I have a base list and need to revisit my ticket stubs (WHY YES I HAVE KEPT ALL OF THEM, EVER), and yeah. It's looking expansive but maybe not as illogical as my music taste. But for the record, my #1 album from 2000-2009 was Deftones' White Pony all the way at the very beginning of the "decade," it's not even a contest. Trailing very closely behind are Interpol's Turn on the Bright Lights and Ladytron's Witching Hour. Gaga places shockingly high. 5 comments|post comment

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