or the truth that i’m so naive. my heart keeps leaping back to you like a dog tied to a tree. i know it sounds crazy, it’s riduculous to me. but without you by my side girl. you might think i’m incapable of loving a soul like yours. you might think i’m a fool, for you. girl you got style, that’s what I love about you. the way that you still back and watch this grow. you got dreams, and therefore i believe in you. all the small town people with their big remarks, they aint got jack to say about my movie star.
what are the odds of finding someone just like you. tell me why I never wanted to go back home. i’m still falling for you today.
she’s got style -nevershoutnever!

i had to keep it going. my favorite line is the last one but i really wanted to use the one i used as the title.

anyway.
i am not in a good mood.
i’m in a horrible mood.
let’s start with the background information.
i am not comfortable in my body. i feel fat. i think i’m fat. i hate it.
i have a very low self esteem.
so it’s one thing i think i’m fat.
and it’s another to have my family,
my own family call me fat.!
do you know how horrible that makes me feel about myself?!?!?!
terrible.
i got into the shower and tried to throw up.
yes, i’ve steeped this low.
since i haven’t actually thrown up in seven years, i think i have forgotten how.
now matter how far i shoved my finger down my throat i wouldn’t even gag.
so now i’m fat and can’t throw up.
i have decided,
to diet.
extreme dieting.
no eating except for the small dinner i’ll have to consume so my mom doesn’t bitch to me about it.
i am desperate to lose weight.
along with this not eating thing, i have decided to walk everyday for at least half an hour.
we’ll see how they think about me when i can barely fit into my size seven jeans.

that’s where i am stuck.
we have no money to get new pants.
and i happen to love the pants i have.
so how can i possible fit into a size seven but lose ten pounds?
i guess my skinny jeans will have to be loose.
ew.
i’m gonna hate that. maybe i can get someone to fit them for me.
maybe i can just get all new pants.
size three here i come.

am i going down the wrong path?
if you ask me, yes.
if you ask me if i care, i don’t.
we’ll see how it goes.

if you want to know about my day, read the last post.
ignore this one.
pretend it never happened.
no, don’t do that.
i need someone to watch out for me when i’m dieting.
i don’t plan on telling any of my friends.
i don’t need them bitching to me either.

-your fat monster.

[ps. go read the last post. it's pretty intersting. not really. oh. and i have a new page. an about me. it's the old one just with a different like three lines.] d:

Hey Everyone,

I haven’t been able to get to the movies to see the Bond movie for myself, but the reviews are out. I browsed around for the best reviews and came up with two that are listed below. I could’ve posted metacritic’s average, but I think metacritic has a horrible scoring system. Enjoy!

IGN: 8/10

Entertainment Weekly: B

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The NBC Peacock is losing a few more feathers.  Since the suckfest that is “Heroes” can’t even draw in an audience for itself, the show that follows it - Christian Slater’s “My Own Worst Enemy” - is getting shit-canned.

Okay, maybe it’s getting cancelled not because of “Heroes” sucking, but because it actually sucks on its own.  (How would I know?  I never watched it.)

“Lipstick Jungle” is also getting the axe.  (I wanted to put axe-wound, but that would have been in bad taste, right?)

Do you have any cheese?

“Knight Rider,” which also bites dust is still going.  It might have been moderately watchable if Will Arnett had been the voice of KITT as originally planned.  (They gave the job to the fat guy from that garbage musical “The Ten Commandments.”  How do I know it was crap?  Because it’s a musical of “The Ten Commandments!”)

Sad news/ glad news: If ABC doesn’t renew “Pushing Daisies” (sad news), creator Bryan Fuller will return to be “Heroes” hero (glad news).  (He wrote the first season’s awesome HRG-focused episode, “Company Man.”)

Also glad news - Brooke Shields will be free to keep making Volkswagen commercials.

(via Entertainment Weekly and Hollywood Reporter)

Sucking the blood out of EW

James Bond: In honor of the release of Quantum of Solace (how many times can YOU put ‘of’ in a sentence?), take a stroll down memory lane by revisiting Bond’s sexual puns and theme songs.

Reality TV: What’s the difference between ‘reality’ and ‘unscripted’ television?  This article attempts to explain it but we’re still not sure we understand.

Desperate Housewives: The rumor of the day is that Sarah Palin will appear on Wisteria Lane.  Says the show’s creator: “There is no way!”  Whew.  Close one.

EW: As expected, the ax came down today on some unlucky staffers at Entertainment Weekly.  We’ve become numb by this point.

Gawker: Kudos to them for taking a swipe at the ridiculous hysteria surrounding Twilight and, yes, EW’s absurd obsession with the series.

PEOPLE: And while, yes, we are numb, this did make us cry a little.

Joe Scarborough: His morning show on MSNBC will now have a 7-second delay.  That’s what happens when you drop the F-bomb!

OTH: We could not be more excited for One Tree Hill’s 1940s-themed episode next week and we are so glad its getting the media attention it deserves!

AP: The people at Associated Press have too much time on their hands.  (Then again, so do we.)  They’ve decided with a new election, comes new style changes.

Prison Break: It’s almost a sure thing this season will be the last.  Fox just commissioned two more episodes–likely to serve as some sort of wrap-up.

Jodie Sweetin: The Full House star may have spilled to PEOPLE all about her meth addiction but apparently, there’s lots more to share.  Like a whole book’s worth.  Stephanie Tanner is writing a memoir!

Obama: Time’s Person of the Year.  Not like we didn’t see that coming.

SIZZLED OUT: Live! With Regis and Kelly

STILL SIZZLING: The Parents Television Council says these two shows–one animated, one not–are the worst and best for kids, respectively.

Apparently a “Sanrio Luxe” store opened in Times Square, New York. This is, apparently, Hello Kitty for very, very rich little girls or very, very deranged grown-ups. Jezebel kindly posted some shots for us to go “Pfft, wow, seriously??!” at.

Hello Kitty Diamond Jewelry (by Kimora Lee Simmons)

Hello Kitty Mary-Janes (in what looks like suede?)

Blinged-Out Pez Dispensers

WHAT RECESSION???

Ok sooo I got tagged with a Meme, Saturday Social, by ExMi on..well..Saturday. It’s not 1:30 A.M on Monday and I am finally going to answer the Meme. Talk about procrastination. But really - I’m dealing with a ferret that is shooting shit out of her cage and kamikaze flies. And a baby shower on Sunday. Well. Here goes.

Did you vote this past Tuesday?

Why yes, I did! It’s not like I’ve been super secret about it either as my blog has been primarily political since election day. It was my first election that I was old enough to vote in and it was exciting. I love that I was able to vote in one of the most historic presidential elections yet! Either way, America would have had a first, whether it was a first Bi-racial president (as it is now) or whether it was the first female Vice President. It was just so exciting. And I didn’t have to wait in a line either! Surprisingly, there were only about ten people in front of me and I was in and out in about 30 minutes, which was fantastic since I had to vote in between my classes! Although, I did accidentally wander into the “provisional ballot” line but was eventually brought to a voting booth by a rather chipper, middle aged woman who resembled a tomato. Oh! And I got a sticker! I’d post a picture, but I put it on my Western Civilization notebook which is currently being borrowed by Katie.

Oh and what about when I read Barack Hussein Obama was going to be our next president?! Well, I was ecstatic (and so was a few of my neighbors, whom I heard screaming outside in our little courtyard/concrete yard/bicycle/bbq holding area and later witnessed dancing in a drunken stupor. And yes, I shed a tear at Obama’s acceptance speech. It was truly wonderful, being apart of history.

And, as requested, my ferret, Rain:

As has been mentioned previously, she has developed this habit of shitting from the second level of her cage, as opposed to using her litter box. To make matters worse, she also shoots her shit out of the cage and onto the floor below (or Luke’s toolbox and one of my library books, as that is what occurred the other day). I’m not sure why she has suddenly started this awful habit, but I have moved her food dish to the location she is shooting her shit from. It seems to be working, but I could also be rather hopeful at the moment. Hmmm.

Also, here is a short video taken on my phone of Rain trying to open a bottle of soda.

To continue with the happenings of my life, there has been a sudden infestation of flies in our apartment and, much to my avail, the countless times I have killed a fly with a newspaper has not eliminated the overwhelming fly population in my apartment. Luke and I have set up various traps and are attempting to keep our apartment spotless. But honestly, I am sick and tired of being woken up multiple times in one night to a fly diving in my face or have to shake a fly out of my hair after they fly into my head.

That was the fifth time since I began this entry. Oh dear.

And it went to an incredibly boring baby shower today where I was forbidden to say the word “baby” otherwise, my tiny little pink clothes pen would be stolen and I would not receive the mystery gift (which turned out to be a pumpkin spice candle)! OH NOES!

I was proud of myself, I did not utter the word baby and managed to steal my mom’s pin from her. Unfortunately, someone else managed to steal everyone else’s pins so my two was nothing to her 12. I guess she really wanted that candle. At least I got to see some family members whom I haven’t seen in a while (and thus, hate me, I think, for not coming around often enough). Although, honestly, I don’t see what all the fuss is about. They hardly saw me more than they see me now. Just on holidays mainly and random occasions such as a Baby shower and football game. Also, I am insanely jealous of my cousin Andrea’s (she’s the one having the baby whose shower I attended) house. Not only does she have THREE DECKS AND TWO 44″ FLAT SCREEN TELEVISIONS, but she also has….a DISHWASHER! A luxury I took for granted until I moved into this fly infested shit hole.

I think my period is due any day and I usually write like this around that time. God I hope I get my period soon…And yes, I did laugh to myself as I wrote this so most of you probably won’t think it’s funny. And I KNOW more than a small handful of people read this as I do get quite a large handful of hits in one day. Or I have some creepers who visit my page multiple times and touch themselves to my words.

Have a fantastic week.

- Beckie

This hat is much better than the Palin glasses.

In other news:

-Babies who frequent the Asian market love to grab my arm and maniacally laugh at me.
-I Must learn better hand gestures to communicate to non-English speaking tourists.
-My education on pantry moths has been maximized due to disgusting infested muffin mix!
-The winter has come… again. Probably.

Where we live there is a mall. In this mall there is a store, a well known store, that I despise. Hollister… Ever heard the name? Most children my age worship this store as if it was sent by god. Hollister this, Hollister that, I want to go in there and throw stink bombs at it. The problem is that wouldn’t work, because the one thing even worse than the whole school population wearing it is it’s smell. Their perfume must have skunk pee,  sweat, old lady, vinegar, and anything else that smells like sh*%. I’m really glad i’m not asmatic for these reasons. Every time my friends and I pass by we close our noses. We can’t even escape the smell at school because everyone wears it and when my siblings and I see our dad every two weeks he’s even wearing that crap!!!!! Hollister is his favorite store and we have to go inside every time we go to the mall with him. I never go in, but poor Baby Girl went inside to keep him company. She talks of that moment and it sends chills down her spine.

I’m Proud to say that i’ve never been inside the place and have only smelled it’s Perfume from afar. This is something I brag about to anyone who’ll listen.

WARNING: DO NOT SPRAY

So,
was she diggin’ for gold down there?
And then she smelled it …. [HOICK]

How much you bet she went under and around … if you know what I mean.

“I, like, really hope I wiped carefully!”

again: [HOICK]

-J.

By the way, this post may go into details you don’t want to read about. You’ve been warned.

I woke up this morning absolutely unable to breathe. Not like I’m surprised, I mean, I could hardly breathe last night. But then today, one side of my nose is super stuffed up and the other side is running like crazy. Ew.

I’m thinking maybe it’s not allergies, because I think I have a fever. It sucks. Every time I get actually sick, it lasts way longer than I’d like and I’m super sick. I need to take some muscle relaxers and some cold medicine and all sorts of nonsense.

Oh, and since I’m trying to get in the habit of brushing my teeth when I wake up, I did, right? But apparently sleeping with my mouth open leads to a layer of phlegm on my tongue that, when brushed, makes me gag. Ew.

I hate being sick.

You're either with them or against them.

via msnbc.com

David war am gestrigen Sonntagabend gemeinsam mit American Idol-Kumpel Jason Castro, dessen Freundin sowie Papa Jeff und Tante Lauri bei einem Jason Mraz-Konzert im Greek Theatre in Los Angeles (wir berichteten).

Entertainment Weekly traf David backstage und führte ein kurzes Gespräch mit ihm. Das Unterhaltungsmagazin hatte auf seiner Website einen Artikel über David’s Danksagung in dessen CD-Booklet verfasst, der von einigen Fans als etwas zu süffisant aufgefasst wurde.

David selbst sah das ganze jedoch entspannt. Er tendiere dazu, entweder nur Einzeiler von sich zu geben oder aber ins krasse Gegenteil zu verfallen und stundenlang zu erzählen und erklären. Seine Danksagung sei deswegen so lang geworden, da er niemanden auslassen wollte.

Ironischerweise fehlte in David’s Dankeschön jedoch der Mann, der sich im Interview mit der New York Post vor Begeisterung über David kaum noch einkriegen konnte und mit David gemeinsam an Songs arbeitete: JC Chasez. David erklärte EW, dass er seine Danksagung bereits einreichen musste, bevor die Arbeit am Album abgeschlossen war, so dass er JC nicht aufnehmen konnte, da er erst später erfuhr, dass sie zusammenarbeiten würden.

Darauf aufmerksam gemacht, dass Idol-Kumpane David Cook am gleichen Abend in der Comedy-TV-Show “Saturday Night Live” auftreten würde, wurde David etwas aufgeregt. “Ich frage mich, ob die einen Sketch über mich machen werden. Das wäre typisch. Es ist so einfach, sich über mich lustig zu machen, weil ich ja so ein wenig verschroben bin. Aber das wäre auch lustig.” So David, der erklärte, dass er nie etwas persönlich nehmen würde, es sei denn es richte sich gegen seine Familie.

Am Schluss verabschiedete sich David vom EW-Team mit den Worten: “Ich hoffe, mein Album wird Euch gefallen! Aber gebt ruhig ein bisschen Kritik, ich verstehe, dass das zum Job dazu gehört!”

Hier der Link zum vollständigen Artikel in Englisch: EW Pop Watch Artikel

(Bild von Archuleta Fan Scene’s user Ann!)

My cousins are visiting my grandparents today. My grandparents live next door. They always come over for trick-or-treating. They smell so bad. They live in the country side of Oconomowoc. Which means they are allowed to have lots of animals. They have like 4 big dogs, 9 cats, 30 ducks and geese and who knows what else. They never do the laundry and they never shower. And now they’re in my house making it smell like cat pee. And I sorta feel bad for them because they get made fun of at school. But I make fun of them too because I hate them as well. They’re just really annoying. I want them to leave my house so they don’t stink it up. ewww… I want to make them take baths. But the water will probably turn either yellow or puke brown/green. Sick.

It’s been a while since I’ve written anything about America’s favorite prime-time network superhero drama, but this set of articles has me fired up enough to go at it again.  I like ComicBookResources as a website, but I can’t say that I agree with their criticism of Entertainment Weekly’s criticism of the show (BTW: wow, we’re really getting layered with this one.)

The articles begin in agreement: Both EW and CBR agree that “Heroes” needs to trim its roster.  When you’ve got A-plots, B-Plots, C-Plots and D-Plots all operating concurrently, is it such a surprise that your show is getting an ‘F’ from readers?  And again, this goes back to my hatred of the “Dragon Ball” method of splitting storylines: Start with the characters apart, slowly bring them together, then send them all scattering to the winds again after the climax.  It almost seems as though the writers are afraid of having to figure out a problem that a room full of heroes couldn’t solve, and if that’s the case they have no business writing anything related to superheroics.  CBR tries to explain that it’s not always so easy to trim storylines, and that fans will cry out when characters aren’t given what they see as their due.  I argue that the key is to do it properly, unlike their write-off of Caitlin that will never be addressed in the story.  That was just shoddy storytelling, and there’s no excuse for it. Besides, if you kill a few characters and don’t have them miraculously rise from the dead, you actually heighten the tension of the story!

EW argues that the absurd plot twists can be solved and removed by making the characters less prone to making pants-on-head idiotic decisions, while CBR rushes to their defense saying that sometimes stupid decisions add to the realism.  After all, they may have superpowers but they’re not actually heroes!  My mistake, I thought the show was called “Heroes” and not “Supers!”  That’s why we love HRG: He’s a guy with no powers who makes the world as much of a better place as he knows how to.  Compare that to most of the cast, who have never used their powers to help anyone but themselves (or whoever is pulling their strings.)  What happened to the days of Claire pulling people from train wrecks, or Hiro trying to save diner waitresses and Vegas showgirls (even if they were lying to him?)

EW presents two problems: Overheightened emphasis on grim & gritty “reality” and stale storytelling.  CBR argues that their proposed solutions: “Get back to Heroes’ roots” and “Get a new bag of tricks” are mutually exclusive, and that it’s an illustration of the classic fanboy complaint (that heroes never “move forward”, but that every change ruins what they love about the series.)  I don’t see it that way at all.  To me, the two solutions can go hand in hand if the producers of “Heroes” reexamine the first season in a Geoff Johns-esque way and find the essence of what made the show so great in the first place: Ordinary people doing extraordinarily heroic things.  You don’t need to keep telling the origin again and again, but you do need to have more story points focused on ordinary people trying to do the right thing with these incredible gifts given to them.  You don’t need increasinly more complicated shadow organizations (and don’t even get me started on the whole it-was-really-so-and-so-the-whole-time cliche that they loooove to use so often) to serve as adversaries when you’ve got so many real-world dangers that they could be facing.  Just look at “Kick-Ass” for inspiration on that front, though I must say that series seems to be falling off the rails a bit as well.

One of the big disagreements between EW’s review and CBR’s is in the discussion of whether or not “Heroes” should emulate “Lost’s” model of grand vision and planned finale.  EW says it could save the show from its constant feeling of running in circles, of adding twists and turns without knowing where the road was leading in the first place.  CBR thinks nothing could be worse for the show, given its tendency to plod through its previous season-long story arcs at a dinosaur’s pace.  Can I imagine what would happen if they planned two seasons in advance?  Gosh, I don’t know, maybe they’d actually be able to have a coherent metaplot that was both internally and logically consistent!  Whose idea was it to blow up New York in season 1, anyway?  First it was thought to be Linderman, then Angela, then Maury Parkman, then Adam, then back to Angela, and now Arthur?  It smacks of make-it-up-as-we-go-along, as does anything with the character of Angela Petrelli.  While that’s excusable to some extent (Christine Rose is an excellent actress and was underused in the original version of the role) you can’t just keep changing major conspiratorial story points as you go and expect a coherent narrative!  Even comics don’t usually have their continuity get this convoluted after only three story arcs!

Finally, EW and CBR agree that one thing Heroes desperately needs is an infusion of single-episode stories that can serve as “jumping-on” (or jumping-back-on) points for non-fans and aren’t as bogged down with an overarching continuity and “decompression” of story progression.  I agree as well, and think that it could be the only path out of the mire they’re in.  Even in today’s writing-for-the-trade paperback model of storytelling, done-in-one issues are always welcome.  They manage to have a concrete and finite beginning,  middle and end, and they very often succeed at encapsulating exactly what the property is all about.  In fact, if “Heroes” had had a few more of those in the early seasons, the producers might have had a better understanding of what we the fans liked so much about the show in the first place!

Allright, that’s it for now.  More on this when I actually get around to catching up with this season.