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Writer's Block: All About My Mother

Sun, 10 May 2009 16:09:04 GMT

Who is your favorite mother (the character, not the actress) from television or the movies?

Francine Smith from American Dad!

Writer's Block: Community-Minded

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:49:06 GMT

The first LiveJournal communities began in December of 2000, and now there's a community for any and every topic possible. What is your all-time favorite LJ community?

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Oh No They Didn't. I don't visit too many communities, especially ones for TV shows, because they focus too much on character relationships and who-slept-with-who and stuff like that gets old really fast.

Writer's Block: Musical Affliction

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:12:42 GMT

Have you had an earworm lately? Exorcise it by inflicting it on your friendslist. Post the lyrics or - even better - a video.

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I've been listening to Skye Sweetnam's 'Sound Soldier' for a few days now and I've been going around with 'My Boyfriend Is Music' in my head since this weekend.
MY BABY IS THE BANG THE BOOM THE BEAT!

A Post Where I Post About Myself

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:00:19 GMT

I admit that it has been forever and a day since I have attempted to add anything to my LiveJournal, it’s just stagnant and uninteresting but I was never much of a blogger to begin with and things like Twitter are totally lost on me. I’m the type of person who is more adapt to writing down her thoughts in a college ruled notebook rather than on the internet for the whole world to see, but since my good friend vampira34 is making the attempt to post on a regular basis, I thought I would try even though I have no audience because the audience I could have has been driven away by my general assery across Oh No They Didn’t! and other forums around the internet.

Let’s just say it’s a reputation that I didn’t plan to have on the internet, but somewhere along the line my cynicism and id got in the way of me becoming a productive member of internet society. I’d rather comment in celebrity blogs ragging on the queens of divadom and people’s warped ideas of romantic relationships between television show characters than write a coherent blog. I suppose cynicism, rage and inflated ego have become my interweb trademark and it has been that way since at least 2005. The awful truth is that I couldn’t be more opposite of the character I’ve come to portray on certain Television & Film imageboards and elsewhere. If people judged me by my idiotic replies online, I think they would see me as a bigoted fangirl hating creep, which is further from the truth.

One thing I would like to get out of the air is that I am by no means a homophobe. I actually think that homosexuals are very much disrespected on the internet and they are little more than a fantasy for 20-something heterosexual women and men that are still mentally stuck in high school and not yet secure in their thoughts of sexuality to the point they can fantasize about themselves with their object of desire. It is not voyeurism so much as it has become a crutch of pornography for young people. Be damned if these same-sex couples actually have personalities, emotions and opinions outside of looking hot and having constant buttsex. This is why I do not agree with bromance, slash fiction and I have actually abandoned association with shipping or fan fiction of any shape or form, I’m just sick to death of the glorification and I really think that some heterosexuals have no grasp of the realities at all, this is why it angers me and why I sometimes go into a full-fledged ragefest when someone dead seriously brings up something as asinine as Dr. House and Dr. Wilson having feelings for each other.
Yes, I’ve been known to sling opinions about my fantasies around and that make me look like a total doucheess (Female form of douche?), but in the end what does it really matter? It only matters to me and my future Master (Yes, I said it right). Unless I’m writing an erotic fiction novel, something I hope to achieve in this lifetime once I grasp an attention span, no one wants to hear about my fantasies because to the internet at large because they suck and don’t involve two hot men wanting to get it on, but that’s just me straying from my topic.
All I’m really trying to say is this: let’s focus less on the subtext of two guys getting it on in your favorite television show and focus more on how you can actually help the real ones you know by researching, supporting and voting to get gay marriage instated around the US. I’m not a huge social/political junky, but this has been gnawing away at me for quite a while now and finally hit a fever pitch when that douchebag Perez Hilton turned the tables on Miss California. I really needed to vent about a lot of misconceptions that have really pissed me off big time, especially about myself and where I stand when it comes to my opinions.
Anyway, enough with the soapboxing, I hate anything that brings negative attention to myself because I’m trying to get rid of the negativity in my life and I’m trying to be optimistic in a time where it’s hard to be optimistic.

Elsewhere in my life I’m trying desperately to get away from the internet and start reading books other than textbooks, because my writing professors keep telling us the students to read books so we can look at other writers’ disciplines, dissect them so we can make an improvement on our own writing formats. I finally have made the effort to start reading, although I wouldn’t consider the Star Wars expanded universe to be a testament of how to write good literature, I know that it’s sixth grade fluff, but sometimes I NEED sixth grade level fluff before I begin indulging in the heavier material. At least, thank goodness, I’m not reading Twilight. Twilight is an example about how far high school teachers have fallen with showing people how to write a proper composition and I doubt Meyer actually mastered in English as I and other college students are attempting to, she probably received an Adult Ed diploma from a Creative Writing program and passed it off as legit.
I feel bad that instead of being in honors English in high school, I was thrown into Remedial Writing 101 where the teachers wouldn’t know proper grammar from the hole in the ground they dug yesterday. At least my high school English teacher was a great friend to me during my formative years and was kind enough to let my imagination flow and write 20+ page mini-novels, but he didn’t teach me shit. I still have comma splices and loads of trouble figuring out where I should be adding my thesis statement and my professors have let me be well aware of and comfortable with my flaws, leaving room for growth.

While I’m here I may as well explain the whole Robert Palmer thing as well. Yes, I am a crazy bitch that loves Robert Palmer passionately to the point of obsession, misses him terribly and always has a few avatars of him in her LiveJournal account. I think that Robert is the one responsible for my suit fetish and music fetish later in my life, because when I was younger I just could not get away from his music videos even if I tried. I grew up watching not only Robert, but Madonna during her Like A Prayer era, strut around in fabulous fitted suits with double-breasted sportcoats and the like. Okay, now I’m straying out of Robert Palmer and into the reason for my suit fetish but that’s aside from the point. I IDOLIZE THAT MAN! I wish I could do half of what he did. He was so incredibly talented and was never afraid to use diverse genre forms in his music. Unlike becoming stagnant in his themes like artists such as Mariah are known to do, he made himself available to a wide audience. You could be deeply rooted into liking Arena Rock, Funk, R&B or New Wave and somewhere in his library he would have your niche covered. I think his music is still appealing today and albums like the electro pop-fest Pride can be easily compared to current artists like Lady Gaga.
He also got to travel all around the world, something I really wish I could achieve in my lifetime but I probably won’t. His exposure to many cultures are what brought the inspiration for most of his album material, especially in the earlier part of his career. If I had half the life experience that he had at my age, I imagine I could probably produce a really mind-blowing, thought provoking novel that would change the world, but alas I’m coming upon my Saturn return and still haven’t found my purpose in life, let alone given myself a chance to create a timeless work of art.

Anyway, this has been fun but I should pack it away for the next entery, for the most part those that are willing to read will probably give me a TL;DR or debate with me on gay rights or slash fiction to some ridiculous extent. If there are Robert Palmer fans lurking about PLEASE don’t hesitate to stick around because I will probably talk more about my fascination with him and I’d love to have a lively discussion of him taking place on my journal.

Writer's Block: Opposites Attract

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:21:27 GMT

What celebrity would you consider changing your sexual identity for?

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Hmm, this is an interesting one. If I were willing to gender bend and turn gay, it would be with a girl that was freaky, fun and open minded about the whole thing that would basically push me to do it or get me to do it for the sake of our boyfriends' pleasure. I cannot think of any one female celeb because there are so many of them that have had secret sexual identities.

Writer's Block: Untimely Passing

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:01:18 GMT

RIP John Lennon. The list of sudden and unexpected celebrity deaths is long—Princess Di, Heath Ledger, Kurt Cobain, Marilyn Monroe, and many more. Which one affected you the most on an emotional level?

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Robert Palmer's death affected me greatly. He was and still is underappreciated in the United States. Over here he is only known for his music videos with the models. He recorded wonderful albums, some of which no one will ever hear unless they seek them out. The good news is that Island Records is re-releasing his entire 1974-1985 collection for their upcoming anniversary in 2009, so maybe the younger set will discover his early work and fall in love with it on the level that I did.

I'm Wondering Why I Shouldn't Just Kill Myself Now

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:27:58 GMT

Okay, so maybe I was a little bit over dramatic.
*sigh* Things are going to continue being terrible, right?
I was really, REALLY hoping that Carl Sack was going to get killed or die in the finale of Boston Legal. I wanted some satisfaction and piece of mind. I hate that he's going to get married to Shirley Bitchface. Why, instead of making the show better, it just kept getting worse? I stopped watching the show at the fourth or fifth episode of the fourth season after I realized that Carl Sack is the WORST CHARACTER in the history of John Larroquette characters. I mean, he's not cool like Dan Fielding and he's not dark, brooding and cool like John Hemingway. Why in the hell does he exist? He had no personality whatsoever and only retards seem to like him. Also, why do people want this show to continue? The fouth season episodes were painful for me to watch emotionally. I felt like I had my heart ripped in two.
At least Roan Montgomery from Chuck vs The Seduction sort of turned things around. I loved Roan and I'd like to see him back on Chuck as a semi-regular next season.

MORE Annoying Words and Terms I'm Sick Of:

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:54:44 GMT

BB: Who in the fuck thought this was cute? Every retard seems to use "bb" in lue of "Baby".

Skinny: Okay, this isn't middle school, use the word thin or something else more intelligent . There was something I always found so disgusting about that word and I hate when people use it.

SatAM: The fucking acronym for Sonic the Hedgehog doesn't even resemble Sonic the Hedgehog or hold any association with it. The only people that remember it being on Saturday mornings are 20-somethings. SatAM is actually an outdated Usenet acronym for Saturday Morning Cartoons in genral, not just Sonic. Stop fucking using "SatAM Sonic" because it's fucking clunky looking and come up with a new acronym for the show. I'm embarrassed to display my copy of Sonic the Hedgehog on DVD because the fan art design is fucking ugly and I'm sick of looking at that fucking SatAM acronym. "SatAM" needs to die a horrible gruesome death.

Annoying Things on the Internet I Want Done Away With

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:01:17 GMT

Here is a list of the things that I want done away with online:

Action!Name: I'm so fucking sick of this. The last thing I want to see is cutesy shit like "Naked!Stan" or "Steve!Voice". It's not cute, it's overly annoying and I wish I could reach through the cable line and slap you hard.

Snark: Okay, this was never funny to begin with and the people that think they're "snarky" are lame and have very poor humor, usually recycled from elsewhere on the Godforsaken urine and shit-soaked cesspool that is LiveJournal.

Hater: Fuck. You. You. Processed. Pop. Music. Loving. Shithead. I want to reach through my monitor and punch you personally.