a) I thought that it was in pre-production with a 2009 release date.
b) Meryl Streep is singing in it.
c) Lilly is looking nothing like Lilly
d) ex-007 and Mr Darcy as maybe!Dad

So I get bored of writing papers and takes tests about cancelled shows on Fox. I kinda wanted to be Firefly. How the hell is do they score this anyway?

Link: The When Will FOX Cancel You? Test written by hashtable on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

Promise me that there won't be a 'cinematic adaptation' of the remaining books in the HDM series.
Make the TPTB realise that they've been greedy bastards and the strike will end tomorrow.
Change the world so that finals are no longer a reasonable requirement at the end of a course. Finals should be regarded as something akin to baptising infants in choleric waters.A pony and some new clothes would be nice too.

Amen.

Then there'd be a lot more to watch and a lot more to squee over. Then again it's almost finals week and I ought to be re-reading Cicero instead of dreaming up ways for Chuck and Ned to be able to hold hands without the aid of a beekeeper's outfit.

Not good. I mean really. It's less of a 'not good' and more of a baaaaaaaad'. I hate the idea of giving the audience what they want. I mean look at freaking Heroes for crying out loud. No matter how intense the UST, it's still a procedural show with romantic subplots. When the show's focus turns to Booth/Brennan then it's really just all kaputt.

I am seriously hoping for an All In piano moment in regards to this. Let it be some lame ass lame lame LAME thing. AMEN. 

There are times when I feel like I worry a little bit too much about my life and my future without any reason. I'm here and I've got a few years to go before Real Life hits me over the head with a skillet and kick me in the shins. Yet I keep thinking that I'll be a loser after college and all my plans will just dissolve into nothing.

All that is made ten times worse when I watch things like Quarterlife. It's almost a sign telling me that this is what life is going to be like if I do decide to dream big, move to California and start writing lousy scripts. and follow my dreams. I don't want to end up in the rat race this soon but I don't want to go to grad school and spend more time studying something that I'm not really that passionate about. I just want life to get a move on so I can grow up and grow out of this awkward shit show comes with being young-but-not-young-enough.

EDIT: Please ignore all of that. I am not doing this so that you can tell me I am great and wonderful. I suck as a person. I have so many non-issues that make me oh-so-very atypical of my generation. Let's just compare battle scars and call it an excellent venture.

First off, I am back to watching absurd amounts of Bollywood. detriment says that if I start 'bollywailing' then she'll shoot me. So do warn me if I start to hum.

I'm watching "Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak" right now. I generally avoid things made in the eighties as a rule but this is Aamir Khan's debut (and baby!Aamir is just oh so very adorable so it's worth the risk) and it's the Aamir/Juhi jodi so it's worth the risk. Ever since I saw "Ishq" i've been interested in watching more of Juhi Chawla and today was a Juhi Chawla sort of day. First it was Dosti: Friends Forever with her as Aditi the doctor (Aditi is such an ugly girl's name, Aditiya on the other hand is a passable boy's name. FYI, I'd totally name my child (or is it just a girl's name? All the Kirans I have come across in films are female) Kiran.) Then I saw little bits of Ishq again and now I can remember my reason for not really liking the movie very much as its soundtrack blows.

Awards Daily had a post about "Once" so I went over to the official site to check it out and I was pleasantly surprised by the music from the movie (just wait for the music to load and you'll be listening to the single from the movie) I am so jealous that CP has already seen it. I hope the DVD will be available for purchase in the HK when I go home this Christmas, as it only comes out on the eighteenth. This Christmas is gonna be a really busy one.

The great Joss Whedon has a new show.

YES.
Never mind the fact that it's on Fox. Thank god the deal is for 7 episodes and not just the pilot. It says January at the earliest, but if Joss is picketing then how the hell does that work?

As much as I hate Fox and it's inane programming, they do manage to bring awesome to the table with House and Bones. Not that I am not appreciative of the fact, but why are they just so bad with programming?

First off, House was really awesome this week despite the letdown RE: Thirteen. So all this time she wasn't really trying to pique House's interest in order to get hired? Here I was thinking that she was doing it on purpose just to stick it in Amber's face. So was this week's case to reveal that little tidbit or vice versa? This season is giving the audience a better glimpse into House's character I am not sure if I like it. He seems too playful.

Memo to Hart Hanson: ILY. Halloween episode beats everything that's been done so far. Bones being so afraid of snakes yet still coherent enough to mumble an excuse? Booth's clown phobia? House's POTW from last week being Hodgins' PI (Okay, that was just bad scheduling. Doesn't that sort of thing ruin the realism and whatnot?) and sniffing Angela's ex? Mmmmm mummies.

I need to see this week's Private Practice.

ANTH104 TR  09:30 am - 10:50 am
ANTH333 R 01:05 pm- 04:00 pm
RHET276 MWF  09:30 am - 10:50 am
GER102 MWF 01:10 pm - 02:30 pm
GER102 R 11:00 am-11.55 am

Krista Vernoff, you are officially my hero.

So Veronica Mars: the FBI Years. is gonna be available on DVD this coming Tuesday, let's all hope that it makes it to youtube by say, Friday? I'd love to see what was pitched to the CW as an alternative to Super Sleuth: The College Years. The one screen cap that I saw looked fairly promising with Miss Mars in a suit and an FBI standard issue ID lanyard. Then again, you gotta love an FBI agent.

So now I know that Saathiya means friendship, as does dosti. Eklavya means beloved. Shaadi means marriage and Lagaan's land tax. Such useful words to know. I think I know how to ask someone to marry me in Hindi. Muhje shaadi pehe rogi? Please let that be wrong or I'll be really disturbed.

Why is it that I get sucked in by the trailers to Sanjay Leela Bansali's movies even though there's a little voice at the back of my head that says "they aren't gonna be that great, remember Devdas and all those wasted hours..."? Saawariya looks amazing, too bad the soundtrack is lame. No swelling ballad or a upbeat dance number. Non-believers should go listen to the songs here. It's not enough to have the gorgeous visuals  from SLB, it needs a good soundtrack to compensate for the fact that two nobodies have been casted as leads in yet another 'inspired by' movie.

I'll still watch it with Sonia, but I'll just bear in mind that it's an SLB.

So it's finally October break(!) so I can go and watch 45894985 trailers and complain about how my life is getting in the way of my hobbies. I sort of like being a college student just because it means that I can put off the real world for a few more years. It also means that I am in a small town without a decent cinema so I can't see all the things I want to see. One of these being Southland Tales. I loved Donnie Darko and I was really hoping that I'd get a chance to see it when it comes out. I thought it was due out sometime in October (but the trailer's still on the front page of Apple Trailers so I guess not) and I really wanted Flagship to show it here in L-Town.

Now? It looks like someone got bored, decided to cast JT, Buffy and the Rock in a music video-esque disaster about the end of the world. Richard Kelly, you could have done so much better. I'd rather go see Mos Def and Jack Black in a movie about remaking movies for a video rental store.

Chin, I need someone who won't be too horrified by me when we go see Atonement so will you go see it with me? I will cry like a very large infant and possibly moan in pain.

So I cope with that stress by not doing very much work the night before hand, typical Debbie behaviour really. This is what got done today:
- note cards to all my friends who are a little bit more than a ten-fifteen minute walk away.
- looked at really pretty things online.
- attempted to clean my room (as I have just realised, in order for this to fully work one must go do some laundry.)
- listened to a lot of Broken Social Scene so I will actually enjoy the concert.
- attempted to listen to M.I.A.

In short, nothing remotely academic. I am really not that worried about my history midterm, seeing how all that stuff gets filed away in my 'do not open until exam' hanging file folder in the back of my peabrain. I will somehow manage to get through this midterm alive.

Last night was amazing. Gogol Bordello was really fun to watch, despite NH's protests that it was nothing like a rock show because people were making out like their lives depended on it/grinding/dancing. It was a good way to spend a Saturday night. I jsut wish that I had my camera with me because I wanted to be able to see a little more of the stage and less of shirtless sweaty men.

Or as the non-pretentious people would call it, Russian Dolls.

It takes place five years after L'auberge Espagnole (and I had no idea that Xavier was meant to be around 25 in LE, I just thought that he'd be 'college age' but then again it's not entirely uncommon for people to be done with university at a later age right?) and Xavier is still alone and a bit of a mess. It's apparently made for the exact same audience as LE, but now older, wiser and a little more jaded. Hence the reason for the A-plot to be a little more angsty and the B-plot to be a little more focused on just one person.

I really liked the idea of bringing in a Russian person into this dynamic because it makes for better filming locations and adds depth to William's character. (Come on, if anyone did that for me I'd just melt into a rather wet mess and then be moved to pieces.) It's exactly the kind of movie that I would have gladly watched in the cinema without having seen its predecessor. It's a story about coming of age. I'm a sucker for movies about rites of passage and I have a terrible fondness for this one as well.

CP nailed it when she said that I must have liked Wendy the best and she is right.  Wendy reminds me of people I know from STC, she could have been anyone of us. It's not that much to hope that we all end up with a happier ending right?

Im Juli has one of the best sappiest moments that almost edges out my all-time-favourite sappy moment from Notting Hill. The speech Anna gives William kills me but this one from Im Juli is also REALLY good. It's an adorable road movie about going places and finding people, namely in the form of the protagonist's self. I really enjoyed Moritz Bleibtreu's performance and I need to watch Run Lola Run again.

Why am I here and not there? This place has next to nothing that makes me deliriously happy. At some point, my friends aren't gonna be enough to make me keep coming back here.

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Marmite? WTF.

SERIOUSLY.

Just 'cause they both begin with M doesn't mean that you can have Paddington Bear eating that foul smelling crap.

detriment tagged me with the letter 'J' for 'Joss'. I think it's time that I start my version of the alphabet so each letter is represented by something I actually care about. So now I have to list ten of my favourite songs that begin with that letter.

1. "J'y Suis Jamais Alle" from the Amelie soundtrack by Yann Tiersen
   
2. "Jag Ja Ri Gudia" from teh Omkara soundtrack by Vishal Bharadwaj (I just about bawled when they play it again at the very end of the film when Omkara is kneeling by Dolly's dead body)
   
3. "Jerk It Out" by Caesars.
4. "Julia" by The Essex Green
5. "Just Another Girl" by Pete Yorn (Thank you, Rob Thomas, the one not of Matchbox Twenty fame, for the music from the Veronica Mars soundtrack. I will always love the songs from all three season. Too bad I can't say the same about the the plot.)
6. "Just Like Heaven" by The Cure
7. "Just That Good" by The Calling (Camino Palmero is one of my favourite CDs so it's gotta be here on the list)
8. "Just the Girl" by The Click Five
9. "July, July!" by The Decemberists. 
10. "Joyful Girl" by Dave Matthews Band feat Soulive

Am sort of tempted to do the fandom one but I am not quite ready to out myself. In other News, I got so bored I actually went and watched Mostly Martha being remade scene for scene but with English dialogue No Reservations and was glad to know that somehow none of the charm that was in the original translated into this pathetic movie. Firstly, as much as I think that Catherine Zeta Jones is drop-dead-gorgeous, she is not that great an actress and she can't carry the part of grumpmeister Martha the chef with next to no interpersonal skills. Aaron Eckhart wasn't charming enough for the part of Mario either. Sure, he's cute and reminds me of David Boreanez in a "golden retriever who just chewed up your shoes and is completely oblivious that you are angry at him" sort of way, but he's not charming enough.

Another interesting thing I noticed about the two leads. In the German version, I got the impression that Martha and Mario were both a little older and more weary; whereas in No Reservations either of them seem convincing as chefs who have been doing this for a long time.

Anyway, I went into No Reservations convinced that it wouldn't be half as good as Mostly Martha and I was right.

Verdict: Skip No Reservations and watch Mostly Martha instead. At least it doesn't play Nessun Dorma 578 times during the movie.

I got tagged by lissie_pissie  so here I am with a the following instructions:

- Pick your birth month.
- Strike out anything that doesn't apply to you.
- Bold the five-ten that best apply to you.
- Copy to your own journal, with all twelve months under a lj-cut.
- Tag 12 people from your friends list (As I know people generally hate this stuff)

♥ SEPTEMBER:
Suave and compromising. Careful, cautious and organized. Likes to point out people's mistakes. Likes to criticize. Stubborn. Quiet but able to talk well. Calm and cool. Kind and sympathetic. Concerned and detailed. Loyal but not always honest. Does work well. Very confident. Sensitive. Good memory. Clever and knowledgeable. Loves to look for information. Must control oneself when criticizing. Able to motivate oneself. Understanding. Fun to be around. Secretive. Loves leisure and traveling. Hardly shows emotions. Tends to bottle up feelings. Very choosy, especially in relationships. Systematic.

Well, try not to read too much into it alright? It's really just to say that I am not that great a person to be about if you get my drift. I am mcuh better at nitpicking than I really ought to be. All I ever do is complain without ever giving constructive feedback. The next two are self-explanatory. I spend way too much time googling the shit out of everything. I can be understanding and a good ear when I decide to be/ if I think you are worth the trouble. I'm usually not a miserable grump. i like to bum around and not to anything in the work side of things. I can be very systematic, ever seen my DVD excel file?

Some of you may already know that I keep bitching about that one episode of Doctor Who that tv-links didn't have up on their site. It's called Boomtown, which also happens to be the one on CONSTANT rerun on UKTV Gold or whatever the hell it's called. I've seen bits of that episode about a million times. It's got Rose on Weakest Link and Nine on Big Brother. GAWD. Coulda saved so much bloody time.

Now I am gonna go watch Boomtown from the beginning so I can move onto the dorky adorable-ness that is D. Tennant.