_{*Yes, it's heavily inspired by My Chemical Romance's The Black Parade. No, I don't know the band. No, I'm not doing this for profit. You know. In case anyone asked...}

So I figured that since *LastOnePicked and ~labrattish have each posted a blog, it's about time I post a new one, too. (What can I say? I secretly have a desperate need to fit in with the cool kids.) There isn't a lot going on, so this will really just be less of a blog and more of a list.

1. Dollhouse. OHMYGOD. Dollhouse. o_o;; Friday night's episode was just...just... I'm still cleaning stains out of the carpet from where my brain melted out of my ears and made a puddle. Sierra's backstory is tragic. Adelle DeWitt is the ultimate Chessmaster. Topher is totally heading into Saint Essex territory (but still with Ean-like wit), Boyd is awesome and...Victor. Dear, sweet, precious Victor. You can read the rest of what I thought here: [link]

Also? I love that Sally and I have been suggesting that Enver Gjokaj (the guy who plays Victor) would make a perfect Future or Saint Sorrows--and then the first five minutes feature Victor imprinted as a suave Italian. (I can't remember if he was a wealthy critic or just a critic. But he was a suave Italian.) Never mind that he was dressed pretty much the way Claudio would dress. It. Was just. Awesome. And now there are no new episodes until December!

2. The Rattler has some of my articles up on their website! I have tweeted about this before on Twitter, but now it seems they are also featuring my column. You can read the newest here: [link]

3. I recommend checking out ~labrattish's newest pieces. She's uploaded something like...80 pieces? 85? It's a lot. And it's stuff like this!:



And this!:



I would follow her on Twitter if I were you, if only for her visually amazing Twitpic updates. Plus? Her Mini Cooper is made of win.

4. Yesterday was the third anniversary of The Black Parade. It's also the third anniversary of the completed TWP. I meant to make the hardcover book available again on the 18th, but I've been so busy and so terribly stressed out that I forgot. >.< I'll wait until January, for Ean's death day, to make the link to the Lulu ordering page available for a week. Or maybe I'll do something even more special. We'll see. There's plenty of time left to plan...

5. NaNoWriMo begins next week! Who else is going to partake of the madness? I'm already signed up and you can add me if you like: [link]


Prose:
Taking Inventory - Writing
Hellbeast - Writing/Editing
Imprints - Draft 1 Revising
Prodigal Sibling - Writing
Stew - Draft I Revising
New Year's Eve Story - Writing
One Week - Writing
Not Quite the Rat Pack, But They'll Do - Writing
The Boy Who Calls Himself (the) Future - Writing
Origin of Sorrows - Writing
Friday Night in Dis - Writing

Scripts:
Night of Absolutes - Writing

_{*Yes, it's heavily inspired by My Chemical Romance's The Black Parade. No, I don't know the band. No, I'm not doing this for profit. You know. In case anyone asked...}

Beeeep!

The grayscale face of the digital scale reads 182.08. One hundred and eighty-two-point-zero-eight pounds. I have gained, if my limited talent for mental math properly serves…which…it doesn’t…

“Cris?”

I poke my head out of the bathroom, shielding my body with the door. This makes it impossible to see her--she’s at her desk, judging from the sounds of typing--but seeing her means opening the door wider. It means showing myself completely. It’s not that I’m naked, but being in boxers… Close enough.

“Cris?”

“Yeah?”

She must have her headphones on. There was delay between my calling for her and her answer. This is helpful to know.

“Honey, where’s your calculator?”

Read the rest at Under the Van Gogh.


Prose:
Taking Inventory - Writing
Hellbeast - Writing/Editing
Imprints - Draft 1 Revising
Prodigal Sibling - Writing
Stew - Draft I Revising
New Year's Eve Story - Writing
One Week - Writing
Not Quite the Rat Pack, But They'll Do - Writing
The Boy Who Calls Himself (the) Future - Writing
Origin of Sorrows - Writing
Friday Night in Dis - Writing

Scripts:
Night of Absolutes - Writing

_{*Yes, it's heavily inspired by My Chemical Romance's The Black Parade. No, I don't know the band. No, I'm not doing this for profit. You know. In case anyone asked...}

Cross-posting from my LiveJournal...

First: It's amazing what a sandwich will do for energy. I was totally dragging ass today and then I inhaled a Subway sandwich. Now I'm dancing in my seat to "Prosessen" in the UC. Yay, food!

Second: I've been dragging ass up til the sandwich because I went to a midnight showing of 9 with Nancy and Jessica. (I am also sort of sore from climbing in and out of Jessica's super-awesome Scion, but that's okay because her Scion is super-awesome.) Seriously, if this movie doesn't at least get an Oscar nom, it'll be a major WTF. The movie itself is short (76 minutes) but it manages to tell a complete story in that time, which puts it above Gamer in my list of "Recent Movies I Love". Moreover, it told a good story well. At no point did the plot feel rushed and there wasn't any part that I can think of where I was thinking WTF because it wasn't clear. That's so hard for good movies to do these days...

The times when I did think WTF was pretty much every time a new "monster" machine was introduced, because...seriously, WTF is the only appropriate response when a mechanized worm thing with a head that looks like it was stolen from the main character of MediEvil (am I the only one who remembers that game?) shows up on scene. It was both my favorite of the baddies and the most Nightmare Fuel-y of the bunch.

Oh. And while I'm referencing tropes: "Nice job breaking it, hero!"

You'll understand what I mean once you see it. Because you must go see it. You must!

As far as the "heroes" go, 7 is probably my favorite. She's so badass! It's enough to overlook the Smurfette Syndrome. >.> I kept waiting for 1 to bite it, though... 6 is also a favorite. 3 & 4 would be so helpful come exam time. XD 8 is...amusing. There should've been more of 2! 5 was awesome because John C. Reilly pretty much makes any character he plays awesome by default (and he's probably the only reason I want to see Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant even though it's a film adaptation of a book series; if the movie is good, I may just pick up the books).

I think it goes without saying that 9 (the character) was pretty epic in his own right. Right? Okay. So go see this movie.


Prose:
Taking Inventory - Writing
Hellbeast - Writing/Editing
Imprints - Draft 1 Revising
Prodigal Sibling - Writing
Stew - Draft I Revising
New Year's Eve Story - Writing
One Week - Writing
Not Quite the Rat Pack, But They'll Do - Writing
The Boy Who Calls Himself (the) Future - Writing
Origin of Sorrows - Writing
Friday Night in Dis - Writing

Scripts:
Night of Absolutes - Writing

_{*Yes, it's heavily inspired by My Chemical Romance's The Black Parade. No, I don't know the band. No, I'm not doing this for profit. You know. In case anyone asked...}

You'll be happy to know, House, that nobody stole my BLT panini today.

American Romanticism is okay. Sister Ann seemed to make it a point to inform us that it was actually American Romantic Transcendentalism instead, and while it seems interesting, I think I may change over to...I think it's Modern (or Contemporary) Literary Criticism, even though I'm wary of any class with "Literary Criticism" in the title after that Intro to Lit Crit class I took in the spring.

Tomorrow is Algebra (and I hope I have a teacher who doesn't make me feel like I'm stupid for asking a question, like last semester), Capstone (where I get to hang with Lily--yay!) and Irish Lit (where I get to hang with ~labrattish--double yay!). I'm going to pull on my skinny jeans and pretty up my face. It's that sort of day. I actually had lunch with ~labrattish and another friend today, which was really awesome. It was great to catch up with them and see how life was treating them.

Also? Apparently somebody doesn't like me/thinks I'm annoying and other people who know me have known about this for a while now. WTF. So far as I know, I haven't given this person any reason to seriously feel this way about me. Honestly, I find the whole thing really silly. But as long as things remain civil then I won't go about starting any drama since this person is a friend of some friends.

Moving on.

Under the Van Gogh is updated, so go read "This Moment is Sponsored by Your Favorite Sweetener"! I'm debating whether or not to post it on DA (I already know the title won't fit) but it'll probably stay exclusive to the UtVG site.

Also, did anyone else see Dance Your Ass Off last night?! Oh my God. I can't believe Alicia is still around, but I'm glad nobody got sent home. Also? Ruben and John = cute! Next week's episode is going to be tense. I will be tweeting a lot, so I apologize in advance for all my followers on Twitter.

Also? Expect a heavy load of tweets on Thursday, too. Project Runway season six begiiiiins!


Prose:
Taking Inventory - Writing
Hellbeast - Writing/Editing
Imprints - Draft 1 Revising
Prodigal Sibling - Writing
Stew - Draft I Revising
New Year's Eve Story - Writing
One Week - Writing
Not Quite the Rat Pack, But They'll Do - Writing
The Boy Who Calls Himself (the) Future - Writing
Origin of Sorrows - Writing
Friday Night in Dis - Writing

Scripts:
Night of Absolutes - Writing

_{*Yes, it's heavily inspired by My Chemical Romance's The Black Parade. No, I don't know the band. No, I'm not doing this for profit. You know. In case anyone asked...}

And it went off without a hitch. I'm still amazed that nobody got angry, although I did threaten to punch my brother while holding a rolled up extension cord. (I wasn't really gonna hit him, but he has a tendency to be as snarky as Ean sometimes, which is both baffling and amusing to me.) So now I'm currently sitting here, waiting for my roommate to show up with the TV because my music is starting to all run together and I left most of the CDs that *LastOnePicked sent me (the ones I still have to go through, anyway) at home. I'm not too addicted to TV, but once in a while I like to have it on as background noise, y'know?

Tomorrow I register for classes that start on Tuesday. I'm praying for no 8:20 classes. I would've priority registered, but...money. Yeah. That's all I'll say.

And I just came back from briefly being outside and I think my neighbor is somebody I would rather not have as my neighbor. *headwall* As long as he doesn't try to invite himself over, I'll be fine. Anyway.

This month seems to be "focus on Present" month in terms of stories. Brigit's Flame is making it awfully easy with the prompts they're throwing out this month. This week's is "something old, something new". We'll see what happens. I also have two more stories I need to tweak and put up, and then we'll see how much I get done now that school has basically started.

Also, if you have Twitter, do me a favor: Copy, paste and tweet: RT it like a meme: Under the Van Gogh - Stranger things have happened. (http://tinyurl.com/strangerthings)

It's the catchiest thing I could come up with on a whim. If you've got catchier, please go with that. You don't have to do it an obsessive amount--people tend to get tired and annoyed very quickly when you repeat the same thing too often--but once in a while would be cool. Spreading the word is love.


Prose:
Taking Inventory - Writing
Hellbeast - Writing/Editing
Imprints - Draft 1 Revising
Prodigal Sibling - Writing
Stew - Draft I Revising
New Year's Eve Story - Writing
One Week - Writing
Not Quite the Rat Pack, But They'll Do - Writing
The Boy Who Calls Himself (the) Future - Writing
Origin of Sorrows - Writing
Friday Night in Dis - Writing
Cash for Capsaicin
This Moment is Sponsored by Your Favorite Sweetener

Scripts:
Night of Absolutes - Writing