forever and ever is a very long time;

Just a book meme. :)

( I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander. )

YAY FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT! YAY DEMOCRACY! DELICIOUS PRESIDENTS! I love American history (and history in general), and I'm kind of a weirdo who thinks the United States of America is pretty awesome regardless of who's President. But now I need a picture with the giant bust of Barack Obama at President's Park in Williamsburg. I wonder how long it takes for them to make one? Where will they go when there are too many busts? Hmmm. Oh god I'm totally geeking out AMERICAN HISTORY YUM. I am being consumed by the need to learn all of the Presidents in order.

I can't even imagine wanting to run for President. ABC News has some before-and-after pictures of recent Presidents who served two terms. Poor Dubya seems to have aged the worst, but the effects are almost as bad in good old FDR and Wilson (obviously, wars are not helpful in keeping your youthful complexion).

So, hopefully there will be a little lull before the ruckus that will be DECISION 2012 starts up? This election seemed to take ages!

Every so often I get a hankerin' to find some sweet AMVs...



"DeathSponge NotePants"



"Let Them Eat Rei"

Jack and Sally at Disneyland are adorable! Jack is ridiculously in character, even his voice sounds similar. I seriously hope these two are in Disney World too (there are pictures of them in Disney Paris...?), and still around the Haunted Mansion in December. :D



There are a bunch of pictures here too. I'm seriously impressed by Jack's costume. The rest of the videos from briberry are goofy character moments at Disneyland, I totally recommend just browsing through. The Hatter and Alice are especially funny together.

We haven't been to Disney World since I was four, so I'm totally dorking out about going there this year, especially at Christmas. I am probably about as excited to go this year as I was when I was little, if not more so! I want to take tons of pictures. 8D

Now, no more procrastination! D:

I'm considering pre-ordering the new Prince of Persia game for the PC and praying it plays as beautifully as it looks. I'm totally in love with the art style and graphics. Or maybe I should wait for a review or two? :/

NINTENDO ANNOUNCE THE RELEASE DATE FOR NEXT LAYTON GAME PLEEEEASE. I keep hoping they'll announce Pandora's Box before the end of the year. D:

NBC has the new season three posters, which I love, up for sale, but they're $20 each. I kinda want a Petrelli brothers trio and maybe even a HRG. I probably don't have enough space anyway, I'd have to take down the other Season One cast poster I have. :( Maybe I'll wait and see if they go down in price or if I can find them somewhere else cheaper. I miss the "Vote Nathan Petrelli" stuff they used to have too. If I had a car here at college, I totally would have bought a bumper sticker.

My favorite thing about Halloween is that either Disney or ABC Family plays Hocus Pocus. Best Disney Channel movie EVER.

...Talk about Biblical imagery! I've never seen that poster before, it's pretty snazzy. I love you, House. :D

LittleBigPlanet really makes me wish I had a PS3. D: But they're so gosh darn expensive! And I'd want to get one with a decent amount of memory.

I made an AIM screen name just to talk to my friend who goes to school faaaar away, so we can't chat too often. Monday night is our date night! We discuss/freak out about Heroes.

Some thoughts about "I Am Become Death" (there be spoilers in these here waters):

- Goody two shoes Sylar was DELICIOUS! His son, Noah, was adorable too. I thought Zachary Quinto really pulled off making Gabriel sweet and docile, a nice throwback to the episode when he visited his mom. But the question remains: WHO IS HIS BABY'S MAMA?! I can't even think of anyone who could be a candidate. Claire's his niece (insert "that didn't stop Milo Ventimiglia joke" here), Tracy digs herself some political Petrelli, Maya just seems ridiculous, Daphne apparently hooks up with Matt, etc. Elle? Maybe he adopted him Molly-style? Also, I am super jealous that he got Mr. Muggles.

- I really liked the idea that Sylar's power comes with 'THE HUUUNGER,' as he puts it. So is it the watch, the brain, or both?

- HEY PETER. Killing your BFF and my favorite character IS NOT COOL. However, Nathan seems to have a good track record when it comes to this dying thing. I remain cautiously optimistic. :/

- Mohinder and Maya have been annoying me since the beginning of the season. Maya doesn't do anything but bounce her boobs around and Mohinder whines way too much. Alejandro was so much cooler than either of them.

- ADAM! YES. I wasn't a huge fan of the Ancient Japan storyline, but I loved Adam.

Went to see Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist, and was surprised to learn it was co-written by David Levithan. I really liked his other book, The Realm of Possibility. It seems like I read that such a long time ago! I was also proud of myself for spotting a Go! Team poster. Way to make me feel super cool, movie. It was a sweet movie, my fave character by far was Caroline, drunk friend extraordinaire.

Have to start signing up for next semester classes already. :/ But I'm actually kind of excited to take some art classes! Just Fundamentals of Art & Design and Basic Drawing, but I haven't taken a real art class since...eighth grade? Oh man.

Guess who's avoiding writing a three page paper about Dante as an atypical epic hero? It's me! I remember spending weeks on The Inferno last year, this semester we read a few cantos, now I have to write a paper and then that's it. I guess it's only an intro to Western Literature...

So while I am still angsting about Half-Blood Prince being pushed back (UGH), there are always new photos. BUT! I am very happy to have fall TV back! Heroes on Monday and House on Tuesday is more than I could ever ask for. Everyone is a Petrelli, but it's never lupus.

My mom is a huge fan of Josh Groban (his voice is seriously out of control). I've even seen him in concert with her (ahahah I'm like 70 in my mind). Anyway, he sang at the Emmys last night, and I was particularly impressed with his rendition South Park theme song (I can only imagine that the creators of that show have epic lulz every time they get nominated for an Emmy) and "Movin' On Up" sounded great. Just don't look at his eyes too much...he kinda looks like a Hobbit. :D I love TV theme songs...oh, Fresh Prince.




I'm also thinking about buying A Raisin in the Sun on DVD, because I missed on it ABC earlier this year. Oh, Sean Combs...

Hey guys! I'm sorry I've been a horrible friend and commenter, school seems consist of either class, eating, work, or procrastination. D:

I brought David Bowie's crotch with me to college! I was capping Labyrinth and forgot I'd left it in the CD drive. I also have a few pretty interesting caps of Jareth and Sarah. OHOHOHO. But I still need to finish capping, I really wanna make some icons.

So it's mid-September and I've already started listening to Christmas carols...

I'm waiting for 10:00 pm for the new Ace of Cakes episode. Man, I love that show.

I'm ashamed to admit that I've never actually played Parappa the Rapper, but Mega64's "real life" version is fantastic! :D



Touch my shirt
Touch my shirt
I'm real glad it didn't hurt

Hey everyone! I'm reporting to you live from college. :O I'm a little homesick, but classes started today, so I'm hoping that will help me get into the swing of things. I even had an eight o'clock class this morning! The perks of being a freshman, I guess...

It's always so weird when old old old old friends/kids I knew find me on Facebook. Some of the kids from Luxembourg I still imagine as 5th graders. :D And then I see them in bars and mourn my childhood.

I can't believe it's almost fall! Time seems to fly by these days. I hope you're all doing well!

Bo Burham's the guy who opened for Joel McHale, his songs combine fantastic wordplay and delicious inappropriateness. He used to go to a private school around here, that some local kids would go to instead of the public high school.

I love The Road to El Dorado so, so much. Miguel and Tulio have such a possibly very gay bromance, and Chel is equally fantastic. Dreamworks needs to make movies like that again, instead of Shrek sequels.

:D! I customized my LJ with a gorgeous layout by milou_veronica, and then added a header from the new Prince of Persia game. I also finally posted some icons. D: I wonder if I should make an icon journal here at scribbld too...?

"Zac is getting a lot of press in Japan because of the popularity of the High School Musical films which made quite a splash here, and he's accumulated a sizeable base of screaming female fans. The article was especially interested in whether or not Zac's love of anime like Dragonball Z, Death Note and Evangelion qualified him as a bona fide otaku or not."
-From here.

(From last year but -) WHAT. Zac Efron, that is not cool. I refuse to believe that you can reduce girls to screaming piles of hormonal mush (my personal fave is Hairspray!Efron) AND have the ability to watch Evangelion (ahaha Evangelion)? Oh Kira Zac Efron.

I can't believe summer's almost over. D: I go off to college this year! Hopefully that will be fun...

The new Prince of Persia looks really interesting, I might grab it for the PC when it comes out. I know the buddy system can be frustrating in games, but hot lady-friend seems to mirror the Prince's movements well, and he even grabs her hand and swings her up when she lands just below him after a jump. I'm a sucker for pretty graphics, and I love high quality screenshots. Yum.

Hm. I think I might have slowed down the network trying to get my songs on the Mac to my laptop, downloads are taking ridiculously long. I'm almost done, though! I've also been really frustrated with my Hotmail account lately, I think I might get a Gmail account instead. The only trouble is redirecting everything. :/

I made chocolate chip cookies this morning but I forgot that EVERYONE IN THIS HOUSE IS A SCAVENGER. I made a dozen and there's only one lonely cookie left. No cookies left. D: But I still have brownie mix! :D

Now I have to vacuum. :/

Hey everyone! Are any of your scribbld/CSS savvy? I'm trying to customize my journal (in S2, with the "Dear Diary" layout) with the CSS here. I followed the directions, and I can save changes when I only change the option to not use the layout's stylesheet, but after I paste the custom stylesheet into the box and click "save changes" again, the operation times out in IE and loads a blank page in Firefox. I wonder if this is problem on my end? I had no problem customizing in S1. D: Should I try to find somewhere to host the stylesheet and upload it from a URL?

Thanks for any help in advance!

A few more levels and my Vincent will be able to use a lute! :D I am inappropriately excited. His voice is ridiculous. "The ladies love this one!"

Went shopping with my parents yesterday, and got a laptop for school. Now I just have to move stuff around, and then pretty much delete everything off of my account here at home. This computer could definitely use the free space. I also have the Sword of the New World installation CD, which means I won't have to download it all over again.

I also got a last.fm, does any one else have one? My username is northerngale.

Rotten Tomatoes is releasing a Coraline featurette every day this week! The first three are here. I absolutely love Henry Selick's stuff (James and the Giant Peach and The Nightmare Before Christmas), and I think stop-motion animation is fantastic in general. I haven't read the book...I was trying to work my way through Neil Gaiman's stuff this summer, but the last thing I read was Fragile Things in June. D: The Tale of Desperaux also looks like it has gorgeous animation.

I just cleaned out a bunch of manga on my HD, and now I've practically replaced it with CLAMP. They are such cruel mistresses. D: But, I caught up with Kobato, and have X, Tokyo Babylon and Legal Drug.

I always try to connect CLAMP's stories together, especially since their more recent works have crossovers all over the place. xxxHolic, Legal Drug, Suki Dakara Suki, Kobato and Wish (?) seem to take place in the same universe (Wish would be the earliest? Then Suki, then the rest seem to occur simultaneously), Tokyo Babylon and CLAMP Campus are before X (I feel like xxxHolic has some connection to TB and X? I might be making that up), Angelic Layer leads to Chobits, while Cardcaptor Sakura takes place before Tsubasa, which runs parallel to xxxHolic, and Clow Reed shows up wherever he wants...ugh.

Anybody else watching the Olympics? I'm addicted. I watch gymnastics and swimming almost every night!