On a slightly lighter note, I've been babysitting my 5 year old nieces and have blown through most of Disney's Hayao Miyazaki movies this afternoon. Holy shit I forgot how good these films are. If you haven't seen Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, or Princess Mononoke you are missing out on some of the best kids movies of all time. Seriously, they put anything Pixar has made to shame (and Pixar admits this in the intro to Spirited Away).
It's in the stack of Blu-Ray's for the girls to watch tomorrow (along with Castle in the Sky, Ponyo, and Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind). Duh.
Isn't The Cat Returns lumped in with those films as well? I think James And The Giant Peach is a wonder of imagination. It has painstaking invention to every inch of it.
Finally someone mentions a book (or movie adaptation) that I've heard of. Roald Dahl was cool as fuck. Volunteered for R.A.F. service? Check. Wrote a screenplay for a Bond movie? Check (You Only Live Twice, for those who wondered). Wrote two awesome books about what life in Africa was like pre-WW2 (mostly non-fiction and based on his own experiences) and also wrote some awesome, imaginative children's books? Check. It's just a pity most of his books that have been adapted to movies (e.g. The Witches, Matilda) were done so badly... O.K. so Anjelica Huston was perfect in The Witches but everyone else was too meh.
I saw this picture of Taylor Swift and I couldn't help staring at her bangs: Mostly because it reminds me of about a year ago when I got my hair cut. I have really long bangs (about to my nose) and the woman was standing in front of me as she "trims" them. When she steps away I was kind of in shock and said, "Wow, those are really short." But whatever, my hair grows fast. Then I get home and my husband laughs at me for a solid 10 minutes. And when I'm talking to my friends I keep seeing their eyes wandering up to my forehead, so I finally just say, "I know, I got my haircut, my bangs are too short, I look ridiculous." And then they say, "No, no, you look fine". Which means I look as stupid as I think. It took 4 months for them to grow out. Anyway, I was wondering if that is happening to her also. But really, her bangs look fine. I also saw this picture where feminists protest fashion shows by running topless on the runway. Do you think the guy's hand placement is an accident? And I was going to say I thought Germany and Italy looked the best, but I think I started staring too long and kept changing my mind. Although I will say...poor Hungary.
I love Totoro, although gun to my head I'd probably put Howl and Mononoke above it. Check out one of Miyazaki's lesser known films, Porco Rosso. Just as good, although the setting is definitely not as fantasy oriented as the other movies. As a matter of fact I believe it is his only movie that is set in "the real world".
European vegan feminist nazi activist be all: And "I'mma saw down this cross." While Amurikan vegan feminist nazi activist making you sit down to pee be all: (Really, she looks like John Candy in drag from Nothing But Trouble.)
I think we owe it to ourselves to all become educated on this dangerous 'new' menace now threatening the moral and physical fiber of today's youth: http://news.yahoo.com/drug-molly-taking-party-toll-united-states-071322449.html Some facts from the article: -100-fold increase in the combined number of arrests, seizures, emergency room mentions and overdoses! -Could be anything! 80-90% of the time when you think you're taking molly you're actually taking something else! -a whopping four people have recently died from overdosing! We all must band together to keep our children safe from this terror.
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My old man told me I work too much and should spend more time with the kids. This is the guy who missed more of my birthdays than attended growing up. Of which the only fond memory I have is of the hot sauce collection I amassed over his travels. Yet every time I'd try to enjoy a nice burrito or slice of pizza, the burn of the capsaicin would remind me of my father complex. Just because he's a hypocrite, doesn't make him wrong though.
Well, last night I got frighteningly, frighteningly high on... everything... and we decided to go to the casino. 11 hours of straight poker playing later, I'm up $700. This is particularly good because I'd already spent my food money for the next fortnight on copious amounts of stuff, and now I get free debauchery. Take that responsibility! Hah!
Oh my fucking god. Went to a bar called West End Johnnies. Went outside to throw up and the next thing I know Im waking up in my bed. Here's what I found this morning: -My phone in the refrigerator -Maraschino cherries all over the kitchen floor -The cat smells like Febreze -A drinking glass filled to the brim with cat food -Im wearing double layers of socks -My buddy passed out with an empty bag of deli meat nearby
Did you know that those air vents on the floor of your house are called "floor registers"? Even jägerette who still can't pronounce "won" right knew that they had a word for that.
It's a three-letter word with a single vowel and whose two consonants have singular, unambiguous pronounciations. How exactly do you pronounce it any other way?