'tis a confused wind blowing

[stoney321]

I hate the wind. HATE. IT. Hate being out in it, hate having my hair go into my mouth, then my eyes, then walking into stuff because I can't see. Hate having my clothes plastered to my body exposing my less than taut self. BAH!! No more going outside today. Which means no more THUNDERDOME, and I've been teaching Emily how to touch her toes. Boo! To get out of my grumpy mood, I'm going to spam your flists with lists! Whee!


Things I Don't Want to See on TV

• Fred Burkle: Snakemaster! (now if it was Lilah...)


• Clem and Snyder: The Love Continues (well, if it was modeled after Sonny & Cher, maybe)


• Shopping With Dawn! Get the tips and tricks of a pro!


• Cops: Sunnydale


• Charlotte's Web 2: Dead doesn't mean gone

Things I DO Want to See on TV

• Faith and Spike on a motocycle, fighting demons 'round the world


• The forgotten Shanshu episode


• The Xander in Africa show


• The forgotten "all nude" episode of Angel.


• Spike without the "sock"


• The 5 minutes that were cut from Buffy Season 3 when Angel comes back, nekkid on the floor and he stands up. Nekkid. Why's they cut that?


• The missing Troika episode where they re-make Star Trek and Jonathan and Andrew fight over who's going to play Spock, and Jonathan ends up as Uhura

• The abuse of the word "technology." Zip-lock^TM claims to have "yellow and blue makes green" technology. WTF?


• "Hand crafted burgers" No monkey paws!! ANd little old ladies knit burger cozies to keep them safe until you eat them.


• Buzz words like "metrics" "granulation" and "off line." I actually heard this in a meeting the other day: "Let's discuss the metrics of your proposal off line so we can determine the level of granulation in that report." Uh, we're a gardening group. Is that REALLY necessary? Dirt good, tree pretty.


• The misuse of the word "actually" and "literally." Listen to the TV. They use it incorrectly all the time.


• Y'all (not Y'ALL, though) not spelling that contraction properly. It's you and all. Knock out the "ou" and stick in an apostrophe. Read it spelled ya'll in a PUBLISHED BOOK.

This is bad. I'm NEVER whiney in my journal. Here's some funny from McSweeny's.

Pick up lines from Serial Killers

• Hey baby, you look so good in those jeans I 'd like to chop your legs off.


• Was your daddy a thief? I'm not. I'm a serial killer.


• If I said you had a beautiful body would you stop screaming?


• That shirt looks great on you, but it would look even better in an evidence bag.


• Will you run away from me somewhere romantic?


• Do you come here often? I don't, because I only leave my underground cave when the voice of Marilu Henner inside my head tells me I must prowl the earth for victims, or Jesus will hurt my dog.


• I love you.

GAH!! Forgot to mention that I found a stack of packages I forgot to mail! kita0610, sangueuk, vincitveritas, and mskakaako they were mailed this morning! Hence the being in the wind and crankiness.

Comments

Re: <-- IN YOUR FACE!!! Hee hee!

[likeadeuce.livejournal.com]

(I've noticed you hate the girly/feminine/goofy chicks. Except for Fred. Huh.)

And I usually hate Fred when she's like that, honestly. this is interesting, because it's not something I've ever thought before, but it probably has some truth in it. hmm, I like Buffy & Willow, and they can both be girly. . . though those are probably the moments I like them least. I like Tara, but she has a certain gravitas that negates her goofy-chickness for me. The best I can do is that I've experience with women who act that way and I tend to think it's a front of some kind. Which I guess is why I can like Willow & Buffy . . . there's always a sense that they're being flaky girls as a cover for something deeper; which perhaps was the idea with Fred, but it didn't always come across (I still can't watch Supersymmetry except for the scenes with Wes).

so now I'm interested . . .I don't have a good answer for why this is, but taking what you know about me, do you care to analyze this?

really -- consciously at least -- I just thought LMM's prose sucked when I tried to read it as an early teen -- but seriously, Tolkien's prose sucks too, and I ate those puppies up.

did you ever happen to read the book Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt? I think it had a lot in common with the Anne books, in terms of setting and themes and such, but I absolutely adored and worshipped that book, while I couldn't deal with Anne.

best thing about LMM? she introduced me to the name Cordelia -- wasn't that the name of Anne's alter-ego? Cordelia Montmerency, or some such? Up a Road Slowly has an aunt Cordelia, and since then I've never met a Cordelia I didn't like.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

I will call it the Jan Hooks/Victoria Jackson principle. I HATE chicks like Melanie Griffith, Victoria Jackson, etc. Chicks that do the baby talk, giggly, sex thing. YUCK. But then, I hate someone who is challenging and confrontational like Courtney Love. Mainly because she's skanky and gross to boot.

That being sad, I identify with someone like Anne. Dream-prone, lost in a world of imagination, feminine but not overtly so... Don't forget she was the brain, too. I recall you saying you hated Garden State mainly because of Natalie Portman. That the only reason she was in the movie was because she's pretty.

I would disagree. I KNOW those kind of girls: pretty, but not All American Looks pretty, goofy, heart on their sleeve... I wonder if you associate "girly" with weak. In the case of Victoria and Melanie, yup.

I haven't read that book you mentioned. I wonder if you hate the Anne books because they are rather flowery and gossipy (about Avonlea). Honestly, that's why I didn't read past book 6. I wanted to hear about Anne and Gilbert, not neighbors, etc. Probably why the Emily series is my favorite. It's darker.

And she did wish her name was Cordelia. Ha!