Extemporaneously Kate

2012-03-19T18:34:00.001-05:00

I'm still still alive!

2012-01-31T15:37:00.001-06:00

I'm still alive!! Lol

Nasa launches its last shuttle.

2011-07-08T11:47:00.000-05:00

Today at Cape Canaveral, Nasa launched its last space shuttle, marking the end of a 30 year government funded space program. Space shuttle Atlantis blasted off into space at 11:30 eastern and will meet up with the International Space Station in about two days.

It is a somber yet exciting day.

For a full article from Wired on the launch and what the end means for Nasa, Click here.

Crochet, mofo!

2011-06-29T18:45:00.000-05:00

So my hobbies have had a bit of a changing of the guards. Its taken some things to the back burner if not completley off the table and other things back to the forefront of crap I like to do. Music has once again stabbed me in the fucking face so I'm going to let that simmer somewhere else. The hook, however, is a trusty and loyal friend who was there for me when the staves decided to crap on me. Oh dear sweet crochet hook, why did I ever put you down? Crochet hook, I love you. (crochet hook says, "shut up baby. i know.")

With that said, I'm cleaning up my cave of a craft room/office and preparing for market days in the fall as well as making myself a quiet and relaxing quiet to study in come the fall semester. That was a fucking long sentance. Right now my craft room looks...well....there's a lot of crap everywhere.

I have about five projects I'm working on right now. One is a comission and the others are for friends or jstu for the hell of it.

1. a case for a nintendo DSi as a comission. It really shouldn't take too long.
2. Amigurumi steak and beer for my cousin.
3. Covering my headphones with yarn and adding big fox ears. (almost done with this one.)
4. Afghan. (why god why?)
5. Open work hoodie. (again, why god why?)
6. Hats for a co-worker and friend.

The afghan and the sweater will be long term projects to do in between other more awesome projects. I just want to prove to myself that I can. Plus the yarn I bought for the afghan was on sale. ON SALE!!!! My yarn stash just keeps growing... lol

I've kind of ran out of crap to type here.

Isolated

2011-06-23T08:45:00.001-05:00

That's how I've been feeling lately. Now i don't like getting whiny on my blog, especially if I haven't posted in a while, but I've been melancholy. Oh lord... I tried to spell that "meloncholy."

I had to drop my trig class this semester. Four weeks just isnt enough time to master the material. I sincerely don't care if the other kids can do it. As an adult, I know my limitations and learning trig in four weeks is one of them. Three months in a normal semester? Oh hell yeah. Four weeks no.

Three months good, four weeks bad.

So I closed the door to the cafe cubicle and the people who usually barge in here to spread germs and get ice, are fucking confused and annoyed. I can see it in their pushy faces. It gives me the internal jolly lolz. I really can't stand some of the people that work in this building. They figure that if you're behind the counter slinging coffee, you are not only a subclass species but their personal butler/slave as well. (see also : indentured servant) they treat our cafe like their personal kitchen. It's bullshit. Especially since most of us are students who are working towards a life of not slinging coffee. Plus, those who aren't don't deserve to be treated like crap.

Fragmented and run ons abound!

Anyway, feeling all isolated and crap. I call my friends, all two or three of them (JE SUIS LE BUTTERFLY SOCIAL!), and no one answers. Text them and no one texts back. Kind of unnerving since I have le social anxiety for the phone and I wont call unless in have to. I live through text. Plus come to find out that my BFF made some sort of huge life decision months ago and said nothing about it. But I learn about it from someone else who accidentally let the cat out of the bag? Mad? Well yes, I mad! Will I tell her? Prolly not. Firstly because I don't want to upset her since her decision was difficult enough already. No sense in salting the wound. Secondly, in my younger years I became notorious for being a hot headed filly with a tendency to overreact or bombard a person with my opinions, sulking and bitching if they weren't adhered to. I've since dialed it back a bit. Now I'm an old mare who doesn't like kids in her pasture but doesn't kick or bite and as long as someone is giving me apples, life is good. (greetings from horrible metaphor land!) What I'm getting at is I don't deserve to voice my hurt feelings since it's my fault she doesn't want to confide in me anyway. The reason I'm isolated is because I can be hard to be around. I've got no one to blame but myself.

- Posted with the utmost tedium and annoyance using BlogPress from my iPhone

My mind gets lost in Satie.

2011-06-06T19:47:00.000-05:00

I really am in a Satie kind of mood. Wistful, melancholy, and nostalgic. It is confusing to see people with your adult eyes when you were used to seeing them with your child eyes.

The past that is gone
is the bridge we will cross.
The people we loved
become the people we lost.

2011-05-21T13:14:00.001-05:00

This is a test post!

Go go gadget finals!

2011-05-10T17:25:00.000-05:00

Two down and one more to go tomorrow. And then....GRADUATION. Even though it's just my associate's degrees, i'm still pretty excited. After that, its as much math as my puny brain can handle. mmmMMmmmmm Math. Tastes good.

I'm also excited today because my brother-in-law is dropping his dog off at our house for a month or so. That dog is freaking cute and it will be fun to have another dog running around with ro-ro muffins. Apparently Baxter is resisting house training so we're going to give it a shot and hopefully their dog will learn something about where to eliminate from our dog. At least that's the plan.

I actually picked up a hook today and did some crochet. I'm making another toast purse. But a bigger one. I think I might actually make a toast afghan. Like a big one with real big fluffy stiches and then i'll make a pillow that looks like a butter pat. Tres cute.

And now for a classic entry from my old live journal.

2011-05-05T14:34:00.001-05:00

I saw this picture in my photobucket. It was kind of interesting so i thought I would share it with you.

I know what you're thinking. you're thinking, "EEEWWWW!!! MAN-FAYE!!!" well, that's if you're an anime fan. if not ,i'm sure the "ewwww!" will suffice. But if you're not apalled, here's something else.

Yeah. Yeah!!! and then like, this one dude was like, "show me your boobs!" so man-faye is like, "alright!"

suddenly, unbenounced to Mrs. Orange, Mr. Orange finds her in the arms of.....ANOTHER BANANA!!! dun dun DUN!!!

"what the fuck, ho!?" he seems to say.

From the bathroom, a random clown says, "NOOOO! Don't do it!!!!!"

But Random-Con-Guy goes Super Sayan anyway!

Run!!! RUN, cast of Tesseract, that one film that chris never finished (;_;) RUN FROM SUPER SAYAN RANDOM-CON-GUY!!!!

And through all this chaos, Princess Leia pokes her head out of the control room and says, "If you don't shut the *bleep* up, i'm gonna turn this mother *bleeping* secret base right around and there will be no battle on hoth today!!!"

and as we all know, Leia means business.

Somehow, she angers god. Probably because she yelled at Random-Clown. So God sends down his only begotten pork-eating cake monster to purge the unbelievers! And to kill the shit out of Princess leia.

Which pisses off star wars con people. And they were mad.

Really mad.

Milla Jovovich says, "OMG!!"

God responds with his only begotten Huge-assed-armageddon-meteor that squishes most of california, and blows up man kind.

Leaving only santa, and his mad bitches.

and like, some gum.

And this is the story of how me and your mom met.

the end.

i'm not giving you my phone number, google!

2011-05-04T18:15:00.000-05:00

So quit asking.

Oh hey everybody. Bet you think I died. Bet you think I drowned in a vat of mayonnaise and yarn while trying to recite my highschool alma mater. wtf is wrong with you? o_O I did nothing of the sort. I did have a wacky dream about that but there is no way in hell you could have known. ...or could you?

Sorry, my mind is officially fried by stress and finals preparation. I'm assuming that it isn't an isolated event and many people within 15 years of my age are suffering similar cases of "brain dumb." I think I may have advanced brain dumb though. I'm not even in "summer mode" where my body glues itself to my computer chair for marathon Minecraft/netflix/crochet time. I'm thinking and looking forward to summer session classes. ^___^ Trig and astronomy then precal. awwww yeeeaaaahhh. And then calculus 1-3. Then finally my upper division math classes. The road to mathematical greatness is paved with stupid prerequisite classes.

Sometimes I think i'm much too old to be battling it out in college. Fuck it. I've got this.

Other news, i'm not sure if we're going to be at market days at all this spring. I've taken a crochet hiatus for the moment and I have nothing new to add to our booth. Just scarves and beanies right now. Not good south texas items. This summer will prove to be prolific. I will crochet like a fiend to try and use up a bit of my yarn stash. Plus, I have a ren-faire costume that needs starting as well as finishing. I will be attempting to blind innocent bystanders at Scarborough Faire sometime this summer in a belly dancing type outfit. muahahaaaHAHAHAAaHAHAaAAahhh godIneedtoloseweight.

which is another thing on my summer of awesomeness 2011 list of shit i'm going to do. Bump up my workouts! i've already lost about fifteen lbs by cutting out shitty stuff and moving more. fuck yeah. I think I can actually jog again with out killing myself so that's going to happen now. What am I waiting for, you ask? FINALS, god dammit! They need to be gone before I can enjoy anything. I plan on being in the best shape of my life when I get to 30 next year. Did I say 30? I meant 25....

ARG, KNITTING!!!

2011-03-03T19:31:00.000-06:00

U Y SO HARD!?!?! EVERY TIME!!! D:< Seriously. every time I try to knit, it looks like the cat threw up yarn. *throws circular needles* SCREW YOU, NEEDLES!! I DONT NEED YA!

Anyway, I haven't updated in a while, as you may or may not have noticed, so this is going to be very hodge-podgy. As usual... Well here we go! :D

First off, I was in a WWII kind of mood so I watched "Hitler: the Rise of Evil." I have come to the conclusion that all Lil' Adolph needed was more hugs from his Uncle/Father *shudders*, less coddling from his Mother/Cousin *shudders again* and then in his early 20's just some constructive criticism of his paintings. I think he would have been a little less war-mongery and...well, fucking nuts.

"I can't paint the tress....DAMN! I will kill everyone in the world!!" -Eddie Izzard

Secondly, I bought a little gadget the other day and I love it. LOVE IT. I don't know if you'd really call it a gadget because it doesn't have any electronic parts. I guess it's a support tool. Its a stylus by Griffin that's for your iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. Its an aluminum barrel with a hollow rubber tip that works on the touch screen. Looks just like a pen except for the tip. I have an iPod touch and it has enhanced using it exponentially. I can draw cute pictures on it like this!

And this!

Dem skillz. I used a program that I found in the apps called Art Studio. The free version is wonderful but i got the paid version anyway. three more layers (Yes layers on your iphone!) and some other stuff. Anyway, this stylus is FANTASTIC! Screen is less smudgy and its just a fun tool to use. Plus, it was only like, 15bucks. Win/Win.

OOOoooh!! Spring Break is coming up and I'm so excited! I'm going with a group to Sherwood Forest Faire in Austin and i'm just stoked. I need to make another costume because I think we're going two days but if not, I've got a good costume already that will make it through both days. Its not like they washed their stuff everyday way back when. I'll be totally accurate! :D We're going to be camping and I'm over the moon about that as well. Mead, turkey legs, festivities, revelry! It's going to be so much fun. ^_^

Aside from that, not much else. School is school. Taxing as fuck. The weather is nice so as soon as I get my electical problems fixed, it will be vroom vroom scooter time! :D

Oh, San Antonio Reptile Expo this Saturday. hopefully we'll find a mate for our Black Milk Snake.

Parasols FTW

2011-02-22T11:43:00.000-06:00

I forgot about blogger! D: Damn school got me busier than a hooker in spring. Hooker in spring? wtf?

I want badly to sew more. i can either never find the time or the internet sucks up that time. Plus i always have trouble with my machine spitting string at me! I want to make some casual Victorian-esque clothing. Kind of like steam punk plus goth but with out the flair. Plus I know I can't fit into anything pre-made so i'm better off doing it myself.

Ordered a parasol for the summer!! I'm so excited to get it in! Of course its coming from Japan and will take for frakking ever. :( I bought it on Ebay and i think it is tons cuter than last year's parasol. If you're wondering what last year's looks like, just imagine any photo you've ever seen with a girl and a black parasol. Thats the one. Anyone who has ever bought a parasol on ebay probably bought that one first. lol Its really cute but I just got tired of seeing it with every coordinate that was black and just a little gothy. ^_^()Oh goodness, look at me! Acting like i know what I'm talking about ^___^()

But a good parasol is indispensable in texas. Especially if you don't want cancer and don't like getting tanned/burnt. I usually only use them in the summer because thats the season when i go outside the most. I love hearing "Hey, don't you know its not raining?" and I'm like, "hey! don't you know the sun hates the fuck out of you?" Every summer, the sun and I battle. I fucking won last year too. I hardly got a tan at all and I tan so easily.

And its not that i'm anti-tan or anything. Well kind of. But its that: 1. I dont' like changing my makeup when I get tanned. 2. I don't want skin cancer. 3. Its hot. :( 4. I look classy with a parasol and a matching fan. So parasol ftw.

Rift (the game)

2011-02-05T21:37:00.000-06:00

I started playing the beta version of Rift today. I must say I love the hell out of it so far. I think I'll dump WoW when Rift goes officially live. Its just gorgeous.

Going out tonight. (closet lolita)

2011-01-29T20:13:00.002-06:00

So i'm headed out tonight with my sister-in-law for some fun on the town. I dunno what to wear but since I never ever go out anymore i'm thinking of going bat shit crazy and putting together a gothic lolita type outfit. Now, as I've said before, i'm not actually hardcore into lolita fashion like alot of you are but I know what sucks and I know what ita is so I should be alright. besides, I doubt there are going to be any 'litas @ the local bar so I'll be alright. If anything, I'll tell them I'm a drag queen. That usually works.

Anyhow, I've got this one piece dress with a nice flounce to the skirt, this kick ass waist cincher from ren-fest, and a lovely black petticoat. Then I'm going to wear black tights, some lovely purple platforms, and this awesome half wig.

Maybe. I might chicken out and wear jeans and a cute top.

EDIT: On second thought, after brushing out my half wig, it looks terrible. It was sitting in the back of my car for a while.... so nix the wig.

EDIT EDIT: I put it all on and it was actually cute for shit I pulled out of my closet but I chickened out. LOL another time.

El Orphanato (The Orphanage)

2011-01-29T15:01:00.002-06:00

I love scary movies. LOVE THEM. And I'm really picky about them. They either have to sweep me away with a story, scare the shit out of me, or make me uncomfortable yet intrigued. Or just look really awesome. This movie came really close to doing all four. I didn't have the ever loving crapola scared out of me but it got pretty suspenseful from time to time.

El Orphanato (the orphanage) is a 2007 Guillermo Del Toro movie. It's in Spanish, which I love listening to, and its subtitled. I usually don't watch subbed movies while I'm crocheting because I want to be able to follow a movie without having to stop what I'm doing. I thought that since it was in Spanish, it wouldn't be a big deal since I know some Spanish and I can pretty much follow along. In this movie, they were talking at the speed of light. I'm sure thats what it sounds like to non-English speakers when they hear us speak but I was still amused. Plus, we talk slow in the south. lol

Anyway, the movie. Wonderful! It all had that washed out filter going for it. Some people think thats over used but I love it. I think its pretty and it sets the tone with out having too much cheese. The music was alright as well. nothing really special but it did well for the movie. The acting was really good too.

The premise of the movie is basically a woman who comes back to live in the orphanage she grew up in decides to reopen it as a home for handicapped kids. She also has an adopted son who has imaginary friends. he ends up disappearing and then all sorts of creepiness ensues. It does get a little slow in the middle but over all, it keeps your attention. I really loved the ending.

Trailer! :D

(every time i hear that voice, i'm reminded of pablo fransisco)

Over all, this is definitely a movie to watch if you're staying in on a Saturday night. Its not too scary to where you can't watch it alone and trust your underpants to stand the test of time, but its scary enough to where if you cuddle up on someone, its understandable. Watched it on netflix.

Another Layout.

2011-01-29T12:08:00.001-06:00

I got this from somewhere online. I almost like it. I just need to bite the bullet and just write one with CSS. Too lazy. :(

Cozy the world.

2011-01-28T12:30:00.000-06:00

Starting with Wall Street.

Plarn, The Fall, and Dr. Pithy.

2011-01-27T15:17:00.000-06:00

I decided to make some plarn. For those of you who are saying, "wtf is plarn?", I'll explain. Plarn is basically plastic yarn. You can make it out of plastic film. Most people use plastic shopping bags. its a great way to recycle.

I had a bunch of plastic bags and instead of shoving them in a kitchen drawer, telling myself I'd use them someday, or throwing them away, i decided to make plarn! :D And with this plarn, I made this:

hooray for recycling!

Plarn is a little hard on your hands verses regular yarn. It doesn't have much give. It sure is fun to work with though and feels so cool! It insulates well too. Especially with heated stuff. So this coozie was pretty fun and I'll definitely do this again.

Also I saw a kick ass movie with a few friends last night. The Fall, which came out in 2006, is about a guy and this little girl who are in a hospital together. Its set in the 1920's. He's telling her stories to get her to steal morphine for him. Its a beautiful movie. Have some pictures! :D

The visuals are amazing. And the costuming was FREAKING AWESOME.

that guy in the pimp jacket is charles darwin. ^_^

If you want to watch something that just stunning as well as a great story, watch this movie. Its on netflix.

Lastly, (oh wow! center alignment. ok.) Dr. Pithington. My other cat, Pithius, has a crap ton of nicknames like the rest of my pets. Usually he's Pithy-cat. sometimes he's Pithington. This month, for some reason, he's Dr. Pithington or Dr. Pithy. Her he is, hanging out in my supply closet, watching me while I hang out at my desk.

That shadow makes him look alot fatter than he is. He's the most cuddly cat i've ever known. You can cuddle up with him and put a blanket over him and he will stay there, purring his head off. Sometimes he slobs out on the arms of the couch, his arms splayed out on either side. Dr. Pithy cracks me up.

And a little bit on Crochet.

2011-01-25T19:14:00.000-06:00

I did some crochet today and broke out the old wrist support. :D I finished a meshy grocery bag yesterday with cotton. Today, after balling a shit ton of roaming yarn, I decided to do this pattern.

Party Wristlets

I did one and it ended up all floppy and lame. Now i'm not some sort of total newb who can't read a pattern. I'm not saying i'm a goddess with the hook either but a pattern that says "easy" should fall into the catagory of "piece of cake." It came out....well... you'll see

Seriously. WTF? I redid it three times and still it was baggy and lame. I'm throwing it into my scrap bag to use for later. But my cat is laying on it. -_-

dawww, i can't be mad at her ^_^

Anyway, Cat-ro aside (that's her name....i dunno why), that freaking pattern!! I dunno what happened with that crap but that pattern was lame. I'm not too sure I want to do another pattern from that site. I had wanted to give this one a shot but in black or dark purple and carry a sparkly bit of thin yarn with it but I dunno if i want to do the whole thing and have it turn out funky.

Aloha Top

We'll see. In conclusion, here is one of our snakes. My husband has some beefy mitts. :D

Yay snake!

Another Movie Rant.

2011-01-24T21:31:00.000-06:00

You know what movie was awesome? Machete was awesome. And I'm not just saying that because I'm of Mexican decent. I'm saying that because I genuinely loved it. Much like The Fifth Element, which I watched every day for a year (a story for another time, kiddies), I could watch Machete (too lazy for underlines from this point on) again and again.

And again and again and again.

I man, just look at that face.

That's the look of love.

After watching that movie, I felt closer to my people. It was campy, trashy, bloody, and violent yet poignant as hell. Now, I'm not going to go all "Brown Panther" on you right now and I had always taken the fact that I was born in the United States for granted but for some reason this stirred deep love for my Mexican brethren. Leave it to blood, boobs, and guns to give me feelings shitty depressing border towns can't give. This movie really appealed to my sense of justice, disdain for discrimination, and love for the campy 70's movies of yore.

Actually, this post had no point really.

New layout.

2011-01-23T16:38:00.002-06:00

I kind of hate it. I'm so bad at this! lol the only part I do like is the picture in the background. I took that one sunny day in Rockport while trying to avoid getting tanned.

That last post I did.

2011-01-23T13:48:00.000-06:00

It was pretty whiny. I think I had hormones going out my ears or something. I will be putting down the "woe is me" and picking up the "i'm in control" now. *flex*

Ranting with Kate.

2011-01-22T13:13:00.000-06:00

I haven't been to an actual college in a few years. My mind is mushy and I'm out of touch with today's youth. I've prepared myself by watching Daria, but I suppose that is quite dated too and dealing with the subject matter of high school. High school, college, what's the difference when you're ten years older than everybody?

So now I'm the doddering old weird lady in all of your college classes. Yep. The one who asks stupid questions and who talks to the teacher like they are neighbors instead of having that teacher/student boundary. Thats me. And my purse, backpack, crocheted water bottle holder, and spiral notebooks all match. A nice palate of purples and black. ^_^ My class mates are 18-21ish and my bff and I milking what we can out of our last one or two years in our twenties. We do find if amusing in that, "Hahahaaa hehehee...hehheh.....heh......*sigh*" kind of way.

"But who cares!?"- Ruby Rhodd, The Fifth Element

That crap aside, it feels good to be using my brain again for things thats not smalltalk, haircutting, and nail painting. I am so bad at small talk and when you're doing cosmetology, you have to master the art of shooting the shit with strangers. Naturally I forced myself into a habit of at least trying. Well now that I don't have to, I CANT STOP. Like yesterday, in my govt class, I look over at my desk mate's notes and notice he has very nice handwriting for a guy. The words "You have incredibly tidy handwriting." somehow found their way out of my mouth, followed by, "My handwriting looks like my pen threw up everywhere. I get home and I can't ever read what I wrote during class. You must not ever have that problem!" the guy was pretty polite about it and told me that he only writes neatly for class because of the whole note conundrum. That right there just put more points in the creepy-old-college-lady fund. You know the one. The older woman who is unabashedly friendly and will strike up an unwarranted conversation with you. She's so nice that you cant' bring yourself to ignore her/tell her you dont' want to talk. God dammit. i've come full circle back into ranting about this.

MOVING ON.

I watched almost half of The Runaways last night. Almost half. My husband and I made the decision to turn it off. It was boring and very dull. Dakota Fanning should NEVER SING. Ever. and Kristin Stewart should NEVER TOUCH A GUITAR. Ever. Their acting was so bland. From Fanning, this was a complete shock. I love her acting. With Stewart, I was willing to give her another go since the first thing I saw her in was the Twilight movies. Its not her fault that the character she was portraying could have easily been played by a houseplant. Stewart is just the same angsty person in everything she does, i think. I saw a preview where she plays a stripper. It's like Bella-the stripper. Just like this was Bella cosplays Joan Jett. the whole thing was annoying and boring. :( I was really looking forward to this movie.

AND THEN I GOT ANGRY. Because I was thinking about Fanning's character. She had no talent. She was just pretty and skinny. Thats why she got the job as their lead singer. Maybe it was Dakota Fanning and not her character she was portraying, but this brought out the almighty rage in me.

Story time!! :D

You see, once apon a time, Kate was a singer. She was amazingly awesome and sang all across the land with her band. They did covers so it wasn't that big of a deal but it was fucking important to her as it had been her life long dream to be in a cover band. (dont judge me.) Everyone told her how amazing she was and how much better she would be if she'd wear make-up and lose weight. "Oh you're so bad ass! Your voice is fucking awesome! but you should really lose some weight."

She decided to ignore the haters on the principal of "if I'm so talented, who gives a fuck what I look like?" Kate spent the next five years singing her head off and getting paid. shit was so cash and she was even contacted by record companies who advised her to, "lose some of that weight." One night, she walked off stage and never came back. She had enough of "we love you but you're too fat for music." She never sang again. Not even karaoke. The end.

Naturally this hit a chord with me when I saw half of the Runaways. So bollocks to that movie.

I'm done ranting for now.

While playing Minecraft quote of the day.

2011-01-16T15:30:00.001-06:00

"AHHHH My house!!! CACTUS SAVE ME!"
-Me while accidentally flooding my safe house.

Inception and Black Swan

2011-01-15T13:09:00.000-06:00

I finally saw Inception and I saw Black Swan when it came out. I don't usually do movie reviews but these two movies were just...well.... I can sum up how I felt about these two with a throw back from the 90's.

I did. I hated both of those movies. Lets start with Black Swan, shall we? First off, when I tell someone I hated that movie, they usually say, "well you just don't get artsy and deep movies." NO. You're stupid and I wish you'd die in a fire. I absolutely get artsy deep movies. This was NOT artsy and it was definitely not deep. This was Fight Club's angsty little sister with a tu-tu and sexuality issues.

Firstly, they tried to hit so many issues I coudn't settle on one theme in the movie. Overbearing mother? Stresses of ballet world? Coming of age (while having a raging psychotic battle with yourself)? Breaking personal sexual barriers? The pitfalls of over achieving? Bitch you need to eat something, thats why you're hallucinating? When I type this out, I can see how they all kind of fit together. In a book. Not a movie. That was too much for this team to tackle. And then was this a psychological thriller? Was it horror? It sure as hell wasn't pretty.

Which leads me to my next point. Mila Kunis was a graceful as a teenager on a first date.

So was Natalie Portman's problem all along that she needed to be sexed up to realize her true potential of breaking free of herself? Sexed up, drugged and stabbed? I mean, I watched the movie and at the end I was like, "ok, i see what you did there." But I kept feeling that they used too much shock factor (hooray for hand up the chest cavity!) and too much sex (everyone gets a grab at her cooch!), and not enough real story. the damned movie was just all over the place and at the end I realized that the only part that moved me was listening to Tchaikovsky's music, further solidifying that good music can turn crap into gold. So yeah. totally hated this movie.

BUT WAIT! These people made The Wrestler!? OMFG you knock one out of the god damned park and then you take a shit on home plate? I LOVED THAT MOVIE! I cried so hard afterwards. That movie was an emotional ride. I was moved. man...that movie...*sniff*...it was beautiful.

Ok, Inception. Everyone's dreaming. Who gives a shit? That's how I feel about Inception. Again people have told me, "well you just didn't get it. it was too artsy and deep." The only thing "deep" about that movie was this man's smoldering eyes.

I can see forever.

After that, Leo was alright. Ellen Paige, DIAF kthxbai. She plays the same person in every movie. But acting aside, the premise. Dream diving/stealing/protecting. Again, WHO CARES? when that guy got shot i was like, "its cool. he's dreaming." and then they were like, "OH NOES!! ETERNITY IN LIMBO!" And i was like, "but you're your own god in limbo. how is this bad?" And then they're like, "MUST GO DEEPER!! OH NOESZ!!! MOLL!!!" and I was like, "wut?"

Freaking Moll. Again, WHO CARES? When ellen paige's character says something along the lines of, "Moll isn't real!" I said, out loud, "UH DUHHHHHHHH." Illustrated below.

I just never cared about any of the characters. What I wanted to know more about, which they never ever touched on was how the dream machine bull worked. I wanted to at least know that. It always bothers me when I'm watching science fiction (YES IT WAS) and there is no science to base it on. There was a small blurb in there. Something about the military and a basement of middle eastern folks....i dunno.

The music, superb. Well done Hans Zimmer. The cinematography, also superb. The rotating room, FREAKING SWEET. After that, I was dissapoint.

And thats all I have to say about that.