I am no longer cbizkit! I have moved to duello.

Please friend me there! Or you don't have to if you don't want to, but, y'know, I'll cry. :P

Maybe I should have waited until I'd had this account for three years... but that would have been two more months. And I'm an impatient sort.

I really badly need a new username. I have such hatred for cbizkit it's unbelievable. :P

So what should my new name be? (I want to plagiarize your ideas. Um. >___<)

EDIT: Okay, there's no user "duello" on elljay. I think that would be a pretty sick name. "pernicious_rage" would be tolerable, but it takes a long time to type in. And then there's "filed_steel", which would go along with "Steelsheen" and is said by Antonio, whom I love to pieces (and not just because he's slashy).

EDIT #2: Now I'm thinking about "impassionato" (because wirlia and I were talking about musical terms) and then, because it's also in a foreign language, "sans_parapluie" (or "un_ecureuil", hehe). Also, "mad_incendiary" isn't taken. Advise me! Help!

Also, this guy analyzes the comics. It's pretty hilarious. (I was laughing hysterically at some of his stuff until way too late last night, but that might just have been because, y'know, it was way too late.)

I recently realized how insane I must look to anyone from school who reads this and doesn't really know me.

Hey, people from school! I'm really not as crazy as this journal makes me look! This is just where I dump all my craziness at the end of the day. Talk to me sometime and I'll prove it to you. :)

Amazon.com reviews of milk. Yes, milk, the thing you drink.

Annnnnd...

"This is the German Coast Guard..."

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

I have resolved to expand my vocabulary! Therefore:

Everyone comment with a huge, weird, uncommon word that you think I should know. (If you post a word I already know, -1000000003 points for you!)

Has anyone else noticed how grammatically fucked up the second amendment is?

A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

WTF? What is it trying to say?

Okay, so a well regulated militia is necessary to the security of a free state. So far, so good. But then it comes to the second comma and it all goes to hell. It's not "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed", it's "the right of the people to keep and bear arms COMMA shall not be infringed". Which makes it make no sense. And it's also not "AND the right of the people to bear arms", which would separate bearing arms and a militia as two things that "shall not be infringed". It's as if that clause was just thrown in there randomly and has no connection to the rest of the sentence. Or is it that the right of the people to bear arms IS a well-regulated militia? The commas, the commas!

No wonder no one can agree on the right amount of gun laws. Maybe James Madison wrote this when he was hung over after a night of drinking and wild speechifying on Federalism with Hamilton. I really don't know. One weird comma and thousands of people die. <--- the importance of punctuation!!

*crawls back into little hole of geekery*

Whatever You Want (Vienna Teng, of course) is really getting to me in some mysterious way...

( lyrics )

It's such an offbeat thing to write a song about – the people who have to deal with a white-collar criminal? And I'm not sure what happens at the end, like, do the "company man" and the wife get together to rat him out, or do they just continue to be all subservient? But somehow it ends up being this amazing story... especially if you listen to it over and over, like I've been doing. :P

( For personal reference. I think it's shameful that I've played flute for seven years and don't know my major scales by heart. )

I'm lonely and slothful. :( Post random shit in comments. Entertain me.

Obligatory Pirates post. Four main impressions:

1. Norrington is my boyfriend. And has the total moral high ground. "Where's your latest fiancé?" = owwwch. :D

2. In the same vein, Elizabeth has become even more of a nasty ho. WORST PERSON EVER. Which leads us to...

3. ... the BEST person ever, who happens to be TOM HOLLANDER. Loved him in Pride & Prejudice, loved him here in a silly wig being all sinister. East India PWNS (has a monopoly on) YOU.

4. WTF? Nothing made any sense in this movie. It could have been like an hour shorter. But I suppose I enjoyed it. O__o

Creole is the coolest language ever. It's like French, only without the pompous accents and silent letters.

... which is a gross oversimplification, but it's cool how when you read it aloud, you end up naturally pronouncing most of the words exactly the same as the words with the same meaning (but more counterintuitive spelling, for an English-speaker) in French.

In other news... I can't think of any other news.

BEST THING EVER.

Maybe I'm just out of it today, but I came across it somehow and now I can't stop giggling hysterically.

who do i have to unfriend in order to stop josh and matt from reading my entries? (i.e. whose password do they have?)

and damn, sorry if anyone already read this entry, before i edited it just now. it was fucking stupid.

Walked home in a thunderstorm. CrackBAM. I love thunderstorms.

Also, feeling somewhat pathetic – I have to look up Detroit on Wikipedia, because I have a character from there (based on a real person with her photo in the newspaper) and I have no idea what it's like. *will be more worldly eventually*

...Has anyone been to Detroit, perchance? Because I'd like a more atmospheric description than what you can get from Wikipedia...

Oh my Zidane!

I wonder what the other guy said to him...?

Edit: apparently it was something along these lines. I find the "want to take the shirt off your wife" kind of hilarious.

It’s official: [Vienna Teng's new album] Dreaming Through the Noise will be released in the U.S. on Tuesday, July 25th!

EEEEEEEEEEEE!

I am musically in love with Vienna Teng. She is the most amazing songwriter I've ever heard. Whenever I listen to a new song of hers, I wait for the moment when I'll get goosebumps, and it always happens. http://www.viennateng.com... check her out.

*very impatient for the 25th*

Edit: OMG BLUE CARAVAN. *shivers*

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Yeah TJ. ♥ Say what you will about him, but the guy knew how to write a document.

The "required watching" for the screenwriting class is "Wings of Desire" (German movie with Bruno Ganz about an angel who becomes mortal). Saw it a while ago. Very pretentious, with lots of bombastic inner monologue. Couldn't pay attention to it. It's supposed to be a classic or something but... not such a good sign. :/

ebliB doownosioP ehT dehsinif gnivah ym fo ronoh ni sdrawkcab si ecnetnes siht.

non-backwards interjection: Having been constantly reading Shakespeare, I was crazily moved to write sonnets last night at about 1 AM, and posted them on deviantART. (They're the first four recent deviations.)

O_____O

Hey, someone I don't personally know actually joined aaronburr!

aisb23. Interesting. I hope he posts something, because that is one sad lack-of-community I have going on over there.

You know what's really good? Bubbletea. I got some today that was supposed to be coconut-flavored, but that was fully not coconut I was tasting. It was something fragrant and non-coconutty. But it was good anyway. That's how good the stuff is.

I will now write something, I swear. I'm having problems with my not!African revolution story because I really don't know anything about Africa, and even though the location of my story is an imaginary country that just happens to be very similar to those in North Africa, I feel kind of guilty writing about it. But then again, it's not like the people who write fantasy set in some obscure medieval British/Scandinavian location really know much about medieval Britain/Scandinavia, either... I think?

I think it's really interesting how many entries in Russian I get on the "random entry" module on my "my LJ" page... totally didn't know LJ was so big in Russia.