This is of no interest to anyone but me, but here's a list of the books coming out next year that I'm excited to read (this will be updated, probably):
January:
5: Captivate by Carrie Jones (sequel to Need), Bleeding Violet by Dia Reeves, Some Girls Are by Courtney Summers, Noah's Compass by Anne Tyler, Not My Daughter by Barbara Delinsky, It All Changed in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs
12: The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova, All Unquiet Things by Anna Jarzab
19: Dug Down Deep by Joshua Harris, The Mark by Jen Nadol
21: The Brightest Star in the Sky by Marian Keyes
26: Blood Ties by Kay Hooper
February:
1: Possessed by Kate Cann, Numbers by Rachel Ward
2: Secrets of Eden by Chris Bohjalian
10: The Wife's Tale by Lori Lansens
16: Horns by Joe Hill
23: The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place by Maryrose Wood
March:
2: House Rules by Jodi Picoult, Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
9: Arcadia Falls by Carol Goodman, So Much for That by Lionel Shriver, The Dead-Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan
16: Vampire Diaries: Shadow Souls by LJ Smith, The Body Finder by Kimberly Dirting
23: Every Little Thing in the World by Nina de Gramont, Caught by Harlan Coben
April:
1: Cool Beans by Erynn Mangum, This World We Live In by Susan Beth Pfeffer (sequel to Life As We Knew It)
6: Strange Fate (Night World) by LJ Smith
20: Radiant Shadows by Melissa Marr
27: The Last Time I Saw You by Elizabeth Berg, The Reckoning by Kelley Armstrong (Darkest Powers book), The Distant Hours by Kate Morton
May:
3: The Red Thread by Ann Hood
4: After the Kiss by Terra Elan McVoy, Lies by Michael Grant (sequel to Gone and Hunger)
25: Heart of Valor by LJ Smith, Night of the Solstice by LJ Smith, The Lighter Side of Life & Death by CK Kelly Martin
June:
1: My Name is Memory by Ann Brashares, The One That I Want by Allison Winn Scotch
10: The Evil Within by Nancy Holder (sequel to Possessions)
15: Churched by Matthew Paul Turner, The Nobodies Album by Carolyn Parkhurst
July:
13: Live to Tell by Lisa Gardner, Broken by Karin Slaughter
I had the misfortune to watch this movie last night. I was so looking forward to it. Apparently I like torturing myself.
How do these movies get made? How do they persuade talent to do them? They're not even funny.
Here are my beefs.
1) It's always tight-ass, neurotic, cat-loving, super controlling women who are stunningly good looking but incapable of finding a man. Inevitably because their standards are 'just too high', [a] and they are just plain desperate because its been [insert time period] since they've had good sex. The woman, though intelligent and educated is always extremely naive when it comes to 'how to get a guy' and has to enlist the help of all kinds of jaded or sex deprived friends to help her land a good one.
This is just plain ridiculous. Don't knock standards, they can be very helpful and protective, and can often be a sign that someone knows themselves, and what works for them, well. Also, Sex isn't the be all or the end all, nor is it the most important thing in a relationship. The single woman/cat lover cliche is SO VERY OLD! In this movie the main female character was portrayed in being so wrapped up in her ideals of a man and so desperate to catch him that she allowed herself to do all kinds of hi-jinks that were so anti her thoughtful and controlled character. Granted we all do stupid things from time to time, but you can't sell me on the idea that a T.V. producer who can make split second decisions on which camera to go to, and the best thing to say in a situation would not find an excuse to visit the powder room and remove her climax inducing panties before a business dinner, or feel the need to Cyrano de Bergerac her way through a baseball game date with earpieces, sounding to all the world like someone suffering from acute Turrets Syndrome.
2) It's always guys [b] who are the lowest common denominators of maleness. Sex is the most important thing, and the more you get of it the better a "man" you are. Men only put up with relationships for the sake of getting sex. They think with their penis and as rude and crass as they want to be.
Seriously. Grow up! If this is all that you are going to be, we're well shot of you! Men take responsibility, Men give and receive, Guys take and callously use others. In this movie the main character not only disparages women who are lonely on a regular basis, but he repeatedly ignored his supervisors instructions on air, and basically only did what he wanted to do. Every once and a while you see a glimpse of a relationship with a young boy and his 'responsibility' to the kid, so you're led to believe that there is more to this man than you can see. COME ON! The Diamond-in-the-rough guy is all played out. There is something to be said for seeing the true person, but this is so far from that. The guy likes who he is. He hides the responsibility as if it is a weakness, or something of less value.
3) The Guy helps the Crazy lady catch a Man by playing all sorts of mind games.
This is the worst part of the romantic comedy for me.
Just so we're clear. I think relationships that come about by manipulation of the things you think will titillate your partner and obfuscation of who you really are, so that only the characteristics and traits he/she would like appear, for the sake of securing him/her are wasted time.
I will never play games with someones affection, and I would walk away from anyone who does. It isn't romantic to me. It isn't funny. It's cruel, and it will never build a relationship that lasts. It ends. Always. Either in an apology (if you have some character) or just walking away after you've taken what you wanted (as witnessed by the main guy's answering machine messages in this movie).
What makes it even more frustrating for me is that I frequently work with teen girls who have seen this over and over and think that this is the way they're supposed to behave, or the behavior they're supposed to put up with. They just get their hearts crushed in the process.
As you may have guessed I thought this movie was Drivel, plain and simple. I just want to be able to watch one romantic comedy that doesn't make me want to curse. They're just not funny. They're just cruel and callous. I think I need to watch Wall-e to cleanse my palate. At least robot's understand :)
Can I rate a movie with negative stars?
a) and sometimes they are just absolutely ridiculous ideals, I'll grant you that. They're so over the top. Tolstoy reading, Austen loving, long walks on the beach, love all animals but cats the best, etc.
b) guys are not men. Guys are men in age only. They live life as one big game, enjoying all they can get, never taking responsibility, expecting the world to revolve around them, consequences be dammed, etc.
That is, St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold, Very Important Questions...
Q) What is the point of a St Trinian's sequel?
A) The first one made a shedload of money... thus, a sequel was inevitable. No matter how awful it was, or how much the killjoy critics complained about it pooping on the original series.
Q) What is the point of a St Trinian's sequel without Amara Karan?
A) None whatsoever, as far as I'm concerned... but then I'm not the target audience. I'd be curious to know whether she was offered a role though, and turned it down. I hesitate to even bring up the subject of diversity, now that their cast is even whiter and blonder than before...
Q) What the hell happened to Amara Karan's career?
A) Don't ask me! She clearly has the talent, beauty and charm to be a big star, but in two years she's gone from a lead role in Darjeeling to... er... short student film obscurity? Are we living in a counter-clock universe?
Q) Showbiz is constantly swallowing up and spitting out young actresses. Fame, like Life itself, is fleeting and illusory... so, why get het up about such things?
A) I don't know. Sorry.
Crash: hug
for you
me: gahhh i'm so fat right now Crash
132
do you believe this
i was 125 like 6 weeks ago
i want to die
Crash: is it muscle?
me: no it is HIDEOUS FAT
Crash: baby katzen, no! omg how did it happen!?
me: my clothes are tight
Crash: mine are, too
me: i want to hurl self off bridge
just need a bridge
Crash: i think i am up to 140
me: why isn't there ever a BRIDGE when you need one
Crash: so i'll probably fall faster than you
lol
me: LOL
well we're screwed with no bridges
Crash: this is true. at least i refilled my meds today, tho.
me: and i'm in day FOUR of the same anxiety attack
mmmmmmeds
Crash: damn!
that is so not good
me: considered getting back on, today
took a benedryl instead
;-)
Crash: i don't blame you
me: poor man's narcotic
Crash: i keep popping cyclobenzaprine and xanax
cos i ran out of paxil for 3 days and no time to refill it because of evil evil job
me: mail order!
Crash: ooh good idea
me: oh i'd be lost without mail order
funny, in tthe middle of an anx. attack, the LAST thing i wana do is run out to the drugstore
Crash: i should look into that
yeah, no doubt
did i tell you about my nervous breakdown this week?
where i yelled at people at work?
me: you told me you cussed some bitch out
Crash: omg. i so did.
i did not get in trouble.
:)
i even said "fucking" in front of a little kid. at work. and i am not fired. whew!
me: b/c you're rad
Crash: and very, very lucky
hehe
but then i got mad again today at work
but didn't say any naughty words
so i think i'm ok
just a fat ass
with a sore throat and cough
and broken out skin
from being freaking overworked and overangered
me: i am also broken out
bad
stress and candy
ok well i'll have my 7 lbs gone by. thnxgiving
hopefully
i just have to pick a limb to hack off.
Crash: lmao!
i have eaten almost an entire large bag of peanut m and ms today
then i got sick. surprise, surprise.
i find feeling ugly makes me homicidal instead of suicidal anymore. it's weird.
me: at least they taste the same on the way up
Crash: or maybe it's vaguely both
me: HAHA
me too
it also makes me buy stupid shit from mall kiosks
Crash: we should write a book together
like proactiv? hehe
me: i'm that girl, the one they target to buy their dead sea salt shit b/c i look like i have low self worth
I AM THAT GIRL
Crash: ohhh the dudes that want to put crap on you as you walk by
me: yah lookin like 'i just wanna be touched'
Crash: lol!
me: 'can't you see how needy i am? due to my huge ass and my acne right there?'
Crash: i said yesterday i was going to make a new magazine about how girls who have low self-esteem get all the men
me: 'touch me for 40 seconds and i will buy two of your packs of salt shit
Crash: you are hilarious
me: it's TRUE
i'm going to blog it right now
Crash: i know, but it's so funny
you should be on snl
me: lol
Crash: yay!
me: actually i'll just paste this into vox
i'm so lazy
Crash: awesome
me, too
me: as well as fat and pimplehaving
Crash: fat, lazy, broken out assholes
that's us
me: we suck
Crash: but damn, we're witty
me: we have that going for us
Crash: i feel so much pressure to be the funny one
to make up for the ugly
me: me TOO!
Crash: it's like everyone lvoes me b/c i'm hilarious, and i entertain everyone, but then i go home and want to put a gun in my mouth
it's a sick cycle
me: is it better than putting a gun in someone elses mouth?
i suppose it depends on the mouth
and the someone
Crash: i just updated my boyfriend.
i call my blog my boyfriend, btw
me: haha did you paste my blog!?
Crash: nope
but if the feds find mine i'm effed
me: nice i'mma have to read that
Crash: yay!
ok now i have to go
love you. and don't worry, someone is fatter than you today. xoxoxoxoxo
me: love you back, thanks for the sage advice
Remembering Mary Kay Bergman, one of South Park's premier vocal talents, who died ten years ago today.
What was your favorite class in high school? (And no, lunch doesn't count.)
French. Was my favorite college class too.
Would love to take more classes - or better yet, spend a year in Paris so I could be immersed in the language. I love the way it sounds.
For the record, my father's favorite expression while driving when I was a kid: Get the fuck out of the way, NumNuts!
(I love the package design though.)
Just wondering if I am the only person that tends to eat more when they are sick. It's like, I feel bad, so I go around the house eating whatever I can get my hands on hoping that it will be the magical thing that will make me feel better. In the end, I'm still sick and now my pants are tight too.
I realised that if there was ever a time for me to update the shop, just before Christmas would be it.
I have new prints in a range of sizes and prices. Soon I will have Christmas cards and copies of Meow Magazine for sale as well. Watch this space. :)
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