beads, wire, about 8 inches high
TC is a name of the firm :)

Every so often I find myself being more sociable then is my norm, and spending time with groups of girls my own age. It is during these times that I feel just slightly out of place with the preferances and tastes... I dont usually watch cheesy chick flicks although I do enjoy them on occasion, and I try to avoid high school drama flicks like the plague, as they dont actually stop at boring me but actually offend me to my core (OMIGAWD, we like, totally have to beat those POPULAR GIRLS)...and yet, while watching the trailers all the girls around me are going "Oh yeah that looks so good! SQUEE TWILIGHT IS COMMING SOON"
And say things like "I saw "The Box"...it wasnt very good...I liked it untill it started to get all weird and sci fi...ugh I really cant stand sci fi..."
And I realise, I dont QUITE fit in here.
But thats okay.


17 Again

I'v actually been meaning to see this for the sole reason that my cousin told me there was an incredibly nerdy side character in it that was hilarious.
And there was.
And he is.
Actually the nerd was probably the best part of the whole movie. There is something just ever so adorable about nerd-love. The nerdy romance side plot made me so happy, mostly because it was intended to be goofy but I found it sweet. Your supposed to laugh at the guy who collects medieval weaponry and sleeps in a star trek bed and wears elf ears, but I thought he was awsome, because I can completly relate to that.
This movie was 100% predictable, a complete mishmash of plots already done. Mysterious stranger who instigates a transformation and leads him to his destiny? Check. Its a Wonderfull Life rip off? Oh yeah. Bitchy highschool girls? Yes. But it was charming and fun the way it was done. Im not a big Zac Effron fangirl, first of all. I loved him in Hairspray, mostly because he was so over the top corny, but Im not a Highschool Musical fan, and hes just so young, he just looks like a little kid to me. Hes got such a babyface. But oh man, you can sure tell theres potential there....when he gets into his 30's he will be sexy as hell, for sure.

I really appreciated his character. The first thing we find out about him is that hes the captain of the basketball team and best friends with the school nerd, and sticks up for him all the time. His girlfriend informs him that she is pregnant, and while he suffers a moment of shock and confusion, when she runs away he abandons his BIG GAME (which presumably his whole athletic career was riding on, was going to get him into college ect) to go after her, and ask her to marry him.
I mean this guy is so over the top "wow-what-a-great-guy" its almost unbelievable. Fast forward and his life has fallen apart a little bit, because he became a little depressed and bitter, his wife has kicked him out and his kids are snotty teenagers who hate him. Driving home however THE MYSTERIOUS JANITOR who had given him a cryptic message earlier, jumps off a bridge into the river, and because he is just such a GREAT GUY he jumps in after him, and wakes up 17. (I told you it was highly reminiscant of Its a Wonderfull Life)
He goes back to highschool and finds out what the world his kids live in is like. His daughter is dating The School Bully of course because she is The School Slut suprise suprise and his son is The School Looser yay.
So he works on trying to help them and set theirs, and his, lives in order. While at the same time continuing to hit on his wife who thinks that hes her sons good friend who looks oldly like her husband, which is a little on the creepy yet hilarious side.
I actually really enjoyed this movie a lot more then I thought I would, it was hilariously funny. I havent laughed this hard since Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, it was so funny.
The humor was great, though the plot was painfully predictable, but it was all good fun anyways.


The Ugly Truth
Another movie that I did not really expect to be all that into. But its Gerard Butler, who is amazing (Phantom of the Opera anyone?) and much more my taste then babyface Zac Effron.
What I kind of appreciated about this one was that it wasnt your typical socially normal romance story.

First of all, the girl is a complete nutjob. Shes an obsessive compulsive control freak, who even I would have a hard time being friends with, let alone dating. She cant get a boyfriend because shes kind of really creepy/socially awkward and she has incredibly stupid unrealistic expectations in romance. But shes a sucessfull TV Producer so her crazies come in handy at work.
The guy is a complete asshole. Like, you think youve seen chick flicks where the guy starts out as an asshole? You have no idea. The guy hosts this TV show called "The Ugly Truth" wherin he talks about how "Guys only want 1 thing ladies! SEXSEXSEXSEX they arent interested in you or your personality or anything at all only your ASS AND TITS" and on and on it goes, hes rude, hes crude, he treats women like shit, hes more then just a little "rough around the edges".
First half of the movie was actually making me angry the characters were so unlikable. What makes me most angry is that guys like him actually get girls, ever. Because seriously, you couldnt meet a more unlikable guy.
So the girl is trying to get a boyfriend and the guy tells her that he can whip her into shape so that shes not so insane and can actually attract a man. He changes her look and wardrobe (because one has to dress sexier dontchaknow) and trains her how to act not so neurotic. And it works and she gets the guy she was going for, but during the process the asshole learns about being sensitive and romantic and she learns about being more sexual and they end up falling for each other.

The interesting thing is, the guy does have some good points in his sex talk speals. Sex, control, power and manipulation are factors of relationships that get overlooked, and he emphasises them. The problem is, that they are not the only factors in a relationship, that people are much more multi-faceted then that, and good lord while I watched this Iwas so glad that I actually know guys who ARENT "just about sex".

The movie obviously was filled with sexual discussions and referances and earned its R rating for being incredibly crass, but I appreciated the honesty and the frankness of it.
There was also one incredibly hilarious scene, in which the girl puts on a pair of vibrating panties, but then her coworkers show up early to take her to her business dinner. She dosnt have time to change so the remote goes into her purse and off they go! During dinner however she looses the remote and some kid picks it up, and wondering what it is, starts flipping switches! Funny but at the same time sexy....kind of a.. pet fantasy of mine, being out in public, trying to carry on a conversation and act normal while someone was playing with the dial on a pair of vibrating panties :D

Anyways.
I fell in love with this movie by the end of it. The characters changed and grew so much during the course of the film that it was hard not to. And it was as predictable as any hollywood romance is, but it wasnt as conventional as some which is why I liked it.


Jungle Emporer Leo
Watched this one a whiile back been meaning to write about it.
Adorable! I love Kimba the White Lion its such a classic.
But it really didnt age well and its aimed at such a young audiance that I cant really watch it much anymore. But! This new one came out more recently and it was a beautifully done updated version. An alternate reality to the main Kimba storyline?
Its set in a sci fi esque future and the Ranger from the originals is now a little kid and there is a bg adventure and it is all MOST ADORABLE!
I loved it so much.
But it was so long ago that I forget what I was going to write about it I should not wait this long to write about stuff again. D:

http://www.metafilter.com/86601/Oriental-Angel

Lou Jing was your average 20 year old woman from Shanghai, until being on Go! Oriental Angel, an American Idol like singing competition show, had to point out the obvious. Lou Jing is half Chinese, half African- America, something China apparently wasn't ready for.

http://www.metafilter.com/86600/Writers-on-writing

In How to Write a Great Novel authors such as Edwidge Danticat, Hilary Mantel, Orhan Pamuk, Junot Díaz and Margaret Atwood speak about their writing process. If you want your thoughts on writing in a longer format, you could do a lot worse than The New York Times' Writers on Writing series, which features short essays by, for example, Kurt Vonnegut, Saul Bellow, Louise Erdrich and Annie Proulx. Should you thirst for meditations longer yet, Barbara Demarco-Barrett has on her Writers on Writing radio show interviewed a boatload of authors and it is available as a podcast [iTunes link]

http://erinislame.tumblr.com/post/238312052/shit-happens

Taoism is the only religion that calls it like it is.

EDIT: http://abstrusegoose.com/187 <-- also spot on.

I haven't posted much lately cos I've been working on a big project. I can't talk about it yet so here's a few animations from the last game I worked on: Drawn to Life the Next Chapter by 5th Cell

http://www.metafilter.com/86599/Brazilian-Girls

Brazil is known in the US as the home of Rio de Janeiro's Carnival, the "dental floss" tanga bathing suit, and the namesake of the Brazilian wax. This week in Brazil, though, a Sao Paolo university defied national stereotypes by expelling, and then unexpelling (inviting back? reabsorbing?) a student for wearing a hot pink minidress and "acting provocatively". Video of her expulsion shows her being escorted out by guards in bulletproof vests, covered in a lab coat, while a largely male crowd shouts "puta! puta!" (Portuguese for whore; spelling not guaranteed.) The BBC's international call-in show World Have Your Say addressed the topic today (this link is not to the audio itself but the variety of comments are representative.)

and i had a ton of turquoise beads... so i spent the day making this stuff

( more stuffs! )

and i still have a ton of the turquoise beads left!!!

so tonight was my first "official" night in the nursery. However, I didn't even make it by myself. Brenda had to be in there too because there was so many. And that was only the ones 3 and under. There were more kids out during the sermon! We really need another room to split up the ages. One little girl was really awful. The nursery is only separated from the rest of the church by this small wall, so the kids know their parents are right there. she wouldn't stop screaming and she was way too old to be acting like that. I was so frustrated. she left half way through so she did not get a treat at the end, even though when it was time for everyone to leave the nursery she wanted to go back in and play. what a brat! Ethan is waking up so it's time for his last bottle then his bathtime. and I have to make dinner!

ta ta for now
~Moni

http://www.metafilter.com/86598/Club-Internet

Club Internet, curated by Harm van den Dorpel

http://www.metafilter.com/86597/He-took-his-job

Lou Dobbs has quit his job at CNN.
But will he quit whining?

http://www.metafilter.com/86596/To-put-right-what-once-went-wrong

Christopher Bird at Mighty God King has written some corkers in the past - from his ejection from Livejournal owing to his review of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows to his frequent conversations with Flapjacks and Photoshopping of Final Fantasy Covers (previously). He's really outdone himself this time, with Scenes From An Alternate Universe Where The Beatles Accepted Lorne Michaels' Generous Offer. Read it, and, quite possibly, weep. Bonus points to the first person who constructs a Primer-level explanation of what happened.

http://www.metafilter.com/86595/NOW-BEAR-MY-ARCTIC-BLAST

Videogame voice acting at its finest.

http://www.metafilter.com/86594/What-would-Michelle-Bachmann-eat

How Food Preferences Vary by Political Ideology
Courtesy of Hunch. Previously.

http://www.metafilter.com/86593/Armored-Car-Without-Phallus-Lets-Save-The-Whales

"One month ago Dartz presented uberluxury armored car with whale penis interior - PROMBRON... As the world's resonance was very huge and Dartz got lot of angry e-mails from Greenpeace, WWF and also Pamela Anderson, Dartz make strong decision to stop their plans regarding such interior."