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Hello. I can not have gifs here anymore. Nor can I have music players. But I can ramble. And I am Fonic Awesome. And that's something at least. Thank you.
Becca aka Bobby
Straight Guys Are Hot
SGAH!
Fight Yaoi With Rock
FYWR
.:The Unsaid Works' EPIC:.
Finally, Getting Back to Good.
Soooo. Haven't done this in a while. Well, I am doing completely nothing, so while everyone else has things they need to get up early for, I do not. I've always had trouble sleeping, and now I just don't want to go to bed. So when everyone leaves me all by my one and lonely, I watch tv! Yay :P. So, first, I watched Samurai Jack. You remember that, that really old tv show, same time as Powerpuff girls. I had never watched it before. So now it's on Boomerang at 11 every night. I've got a bunch recorded but haven't watched many yet. But I want to. That thing is really interesting. I LOVE the animation. It's hilarious! I actually like Jack, he's all stoic and moral. Though he manages to lose his shirt and/or hairtie every epiosode. But the most interesting is the dialogue. There is none. I've never seen such a silent cartoon. But it doesn't need it. It's still fun. Plus Mako does Aku. I love Mako. I love it, but I can't understand how it kept small people's attention. I saw your bother watching it, Dean. And no offense, but he didn't strike me as having a very long attention span. Anyway, unexpectedly good show.
Speaking of Boomerang, they play reeeeeaaaalllly old shows. Like, Birdman. I only saw half of that. It was horrible. XD But totally worth it for the "This looks like a job for BIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRDMAAANN MAN man". Still cracks me up. And the original Scooby Doo. That thing fascinates me. I watched an episode the other day that ran before the Beatles broke up. And it's still going strong. There have been so many wanna-bes. Same formula, but none picked up. What is it about Scooby Doo that kept it going? I watched the new made-for-tv movie last month. The one about the beginning of the Mystery gang. Fred wasn't even blonde. Still bugs me. But I actually liked their Shaggy. He did good with the voice. It was Shaggy with his voice changing. Highschool Shaggy. That poor guy. Listening to him hurt my throat. The only thing is, since the What's New Scooby Doo, Shaggy's only role is comic relief. He's clutsy, dumb, and completely food oriented. While Shaggy liked food, he knew his limits. And he was intelligent. He used to be the one who figured out the small things, and he had common sense. And a mild temper. He used to be kinda cool. Velma was more clutzy and Daphne's the one who fell into all the traps. Even Fred used to say so. And Fred got a lot smaller and younger. He used to be more musclebound but still had dignity. And the thing with him and Daphne was always there but unsaid. That they kept, but not so well. There were episodes where Fred would split them up with him having the girls. Shaggy actually walked away muttering that "of course Fred gets the girls" under his breath. They had more demension back then.
I analyze everything. Sorry. I could go on and on about Scooby. But I won't. My mom started watching another crime show. =.=. but I can actually say that I like this one. I hate crime shows. They're repetitive, have horribly developed, unlikable characters, the absolute worst dialogue, and they fill up their time, (cause they never have enough story to fill it) with flashing lights, slow motion, close up replays of every possible way the person might have died, and everything's about sex and everyone turns out to be bi, gay, incestual, and all of the above. Not to mention, the layers are also doing the detective's job, while they do the cop's job, while they do the CSI's job, and everyone has a working knowledge of the most advanced lab work, which they all have in their offices including things that don't even exist. And they all know the chemical, sedimentary, or bio make up of everything on earth.
Anyway, this one is Criminal Minds. It's not cops or lawyers, it's profilers. That is cool. They focus on their job and only their job. You focus on saving living people rather then digging around in dead ones. And human behavior. That's always been fascinating. If I didn't have such an empathy problem, I might seriously consider Profiler as a proffession. And it had Mandy Patinkin. I like him. I've liked him since Inigo Montoya. He's good. Always gets the wise, paternal (if slightly akward at it), thoughtful roles. Like Rube (DLM). And then there's Ried. I know he's the typical favorite character, but the guy does such a good job with him. Usually his type of character would be unrealistic, obnoxious, and kinda bland and stereotypical. But Ried's awesome. He's so cute and moral.
Somehow, realistic. All the characters are. They have developement and dimension. Good show. Not flawless. Still solving crimes. But the best I've seen. And my mother watches many many.
And TCM. Best station ever! This month is Bogie month.8) Lots of Humphry. I was watching for hours on Wednesday. It was his really early films, including The Petrified Forest. So he was the bad guy in all of them. Evidently, for the longest time people thought he could only do bad Duke Mantee types (Petrified Forest). They never even dreamed he could pull off a leading man or love interest. He was almost another Peter Lorre. But then they put him in Casablanca. Voila. Though, I must admit, not my favorite of his. That girl was just dumb and both guys deserved better. But I watched three in a row. And even though he was a villain, he was still a sympathetic character. You liked him. They were all kinda sad. First, it was sad and then he died, then he was really sad and then he died. Then him and Edward G. Robinson were having a bad time and then they both died. Good movies, though. Some things I recomend for anyone to see:
Secret Agent (Peter Lorre Hitchcock); All Through The Night (Bogie, Lorre); A Slight Case of Murder (Edward G. Robinson); I Was A Fugitive From a Chain Gang (Paul Muni?); M (Lorre); The Petrified Forest (Bogie, lots of talking); Arsenic and Old Lace(Lorre, Cary Grant). Dean, you might like Bogie in Maltese Falcon or the film, Dead End. I'll let you know when I have more.:D
Playing in participating theatres in U.S. and Canada for two nights only. We went last night, for $12.50 a ticket. But we do it for the fans.
As Cas calls it, "a feature length L lovefest". Yes it was. There were Light fans there too, but even they loved L.
So we had Ian, our little brother, dress up as L. That kid is creepy, as far as cosplay goes.
He can pull off anything! He went as Barry the Chopper for Halloween once, and he gave me shivers. He's also a self-made contortionist, and definately double-jointed in places. He made a creepily good L, but we couldn't convince him of that. We walk into the theatre and the first thing we hear is, "L! There's L! Hey, L!" And they came running down to tell him how they loved his costume. He got lots of fans and people taking his picture. One girl even commented, "He's gonna end up on Ebay."
We brought my L plushie and Cas' Ryuk plush. We also brought another L plush to see if we could sell it while we were there. We got soooooo close! But no one had $30 on them after paying for the tickets. We might have still been able to, but attendants were walking in and out so we couldn't just yell it like we would have. I don't think it's legal to sell things in theatres.
The two rows in front of us got into an "argument" over who won, L or Light. Finally, the main L girl just said, "Yah, well Light's ugly!" The whole theatre just gasped and then it turned into who was hotter. Two rows below that, some girls brought their little stereo and were blasting Zetsobou Billy, Numa Numa, and Caramelldansen, which they got about ten other people to dance to.
During the movie, all the girls in the theatre were "Awwwwwwwww!"-ing every five minutes. Especially around L and the kids. Or whenever L put his figer in his mouth. Or whenever he crouched, spoke, moved or breathed.^^' I love the fans.
As for the actual movie, I liked it. They had fun with Alessandro and Kenichi did the introduction to the film and sold it pretty well. They did good with they're comedic parts, and had a death scene that kept the entire theatre laughing. From the sad, suspenseful music playing, I'm pretty sure it wasn't supposed to be funny, but that had to be one the longest, writhing death scenes in American theatres. He'd writhe and choke and fall behind a table and it'd be quiet for a minute. Then he'd dive back up making so much noise you wonder why you couldn't hear him while he was under the table. Finally after about 5 minutes of blood, boils, gurgles, and some pretty impressive work on our voice actors part, he slowly slipped down behind a window. Then he jumped up and slammed against the glass right in front of his daughter, whom I can only imagine he could not see from behind what used to be eyes, or that would have been really mean of him.
They did get a cute kid for "the boy". and the girl wasn't a bad actor at all. The action scenes did get pretty cheesy, but I've seen much worse. And the girls in theatre cheered at every one of them. (I keep saing that like I'm not a girl, but I mean I'm just as enthusiastic) Besides, it was worth it watching L run. That guy had to have fallen down so many times during filming.
The story didn't really fit in with the actual Death Note story very well, at least not the manga/anime, and they broke some of the original rules. But I can totally see why they would want to make a purely L story. L is a very unique kind of character, with so many quirks that they didn't get to play with in line with the original story. You see some of the character that never came up otherwise. Especially since this plot is set in a fairly accurate world, without paranormal things to deal with. Plus you know all these guys are L lovers and they get to make him all heroic.
Personally, I liked Kinichi's style of performance much better in this film than in, say, the first DN movie. Because the whole thing was set around him, he had to make L more concrete and he had to actually move around, when normally L would just watch. Plus he had to find ways that L would do otherwise normal things, like typing. (definately an awesome gif avy there) He was much less zoney. I don't know if anyone else noticed, but in DN1, Alessandro was having a little trouble dubbing, because he had to change his originl voice so much. Kenichi is much younger than anime/manga L supposedly was, and much more zoney. He came across as half asleep rather than observant. (Don't blame him, that would be a difficult character) This time, he was much more the L I was used to, and Alessandro really picked it up.
Of course, like all these showings, there were special features at the end. Those were fun, but I love special features more than some movies. Keichi looks so normal as himself, I don't know I could recognize him if I ever saw him. Alessandro came on and thanked us for watching and even gave us a tiny L impression. And they gave us a chance to win Kenichi Matsuyama's autograph. Winners should be picked next week.
"L ~ Rest In Peace" - after credits
Ok, it seems like I had heard of this a long time ago, but I had completely forgotten. This looks like it's gonna pretty awesome. I hope so. It's a sad story, though. I haven't left my wild things (or even my Jereth for that matter), and I don't ever plan to. But this still makes me sad for some reason. Watch as the only movies that can make me cry are Dead Poet Society and Where The Wild Thing Are.
Man, I love this book.
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