Happy Birthday, Luv
Hope it was grand! :D
- Feelin':cheerful
Sing a song of Birthdays
Full of fun and cheer
And may you keep on having them
For many a happy year.
- Anonymous
Full of fun and cheer
And may you keep on having them
For many a happy year.
- Anonymous
Wishing you a Happy Birthday in advance. Hope it's a wonderful one! :D
- At:home
- Feelin':cheerful
Happy Birthday, Atlantis2_04
Wishing you many many more!
"Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest."
Father Larry Lorenzoni
Wishing you many many more!
"Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest."
Father Larry Lorenzoni
- Feelin':happy
M: Ask him about Slate.
Tanner [on the phone]: She wants to know about Slate.
James Bond: Slate was a dead end.
Tanner: He says it was a dead end.
M: Damn! He killed him!
And in another scene,
M: You killed a man in Brigenz.
James Bond: I did my best not to.
M: You shot him in cold blood and threw him off a roof. I would hardly call that showing restraint!
Judi Dench is LOVE.
Anybody seen Valkyrie? I've been wanting to see a WWII movie, but I don't know if I want to watch that or Defiance.
I saw the trailer for The Young Victoria. I'm so excited to see Paul Bettany as Lord Melbourne! Check it out:
My New Year's Eve celebration: quesadillas + tacos, apple Martinelli's, and M*A*S*H reruns. :D Happy New Years, everybody!
I haven't written a New Year's resolution list yet, but I will. Soon. And it will probably include "exercise more often". ;)
- At:Home
- Feelin':chipper
A local terrorist group has declared responsibility for the acts, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if they were affiliated with Al-Queda.
I'm hoping, hoping that the Indian government will let the US bring in their Special Forces to help them.
Ironically, my mum and I were talking about Obama's world-standing, and how groups like these will look to see what sort of leader he is. What sort of opponent. Obama says he wants to talk. And while there are some people, hopefully many, who wish to do just that, there will be others looking for the first weak spot to step on. They know what McCain will do, said my mum. He's a military man. Obama? Will he recoil or stand firm?
Of course, the Bush administration will handle the Mumbai attacks for now. They know what to do -- they've faced 9/11, after all. Obama's just getting a taste of what he'll have to deal with when he comes into office. I, like many Obama supporters, have the best faith in him. It's a highly prestigious position to have, but who the hell wants it?
My mum made another remark at tea today: the extremist groups have expressed that they will conquer Britain and turn it into a Muslim nation. Isn't that a frightening thought?
It's not the fact that they are Muslim -- I have many friends who are. It's when you start to use religion -- any religion -- to justify murder and destruction that it becomes something terrible.
- At:Home
- Feelin':discontent
- Listening to:CNN
BREAKING NEWS
- At:Study room @ university
- Feelin':bouncy
- Listening to:College students celebrating outside
So I'm going back to the university tomorrow, much to my regret. I dropped off some of my things last week, so I just have to bring food and a few storage-related items tomorrow. My 2008-2009 dorm is newer (and therefore nicer) than the one I had over the summer, and my roommate seems very nice. I lolz when I saw that she had a hot pink comforter while mine was this pastel blue-green spread with little pink flowers :P More pros: top-most floor, right next to the elevator (which my other dorm lacked), and between us and 2 other girls (in the room nextdoor), we get a bathroom! Don't know how this is going to work instead of the typical communal, multi-shower, toilet, and sink deal, which is usually shared between a whole wing of girls, but we'll see.
I also FINALLY got my hands on A Knight's Tale {Special Edition}, with the Brian Helgeland/Paul Bettany commentary, which I'm definitely going to listen to. :D I've heard it before (with the copy I borrowed from the library), but now I have MY OWN. :) And it was only $5!!
I'm working on a new sketch -- this one's taken from a screencap of Paul Bettany and Kirsten Dunst in Wimbledon. :) I'm not quite finished yet...I want to do more work with the background and get a nicer contrast, but I wanted to upload a preview first. It's rather small and poorly scanned (some of the pencil-work and shading was distorted), so I'll try to post a nicer, finished version soon.
This one's for you, Atlantis2_04!!!
- At:Home
- Feelin':busy
- Listening to:A Knight's Tale DVD commentary
To nautilus12,
Happy Birthday, girl!
Now blow the candles out my dear, and make your wish come true!
:D
And don't forget that you've still got 364 *un*birthdays, so make sure you celebrate each one with cheer!
- At:home
- Feelin':cheerful
- Listening to:A Very Merry Unbirthday - Disney's Alice in Wonderland soundtrack
Well, I'm finally going to return my Acer laptop to Costco for a Dell, firstly because it's just too heavy to tote around campus (it's a 17", and weighs around 7lbs), and as I pointed out before, has been giving me quite a few problems since I bought it. I'll be without a laptop for 2-3 weeks (which rather sucks because school starts in 2.5 weeks), but my new one will be a pretty red color and have all the feaures I want, so it ought to be worth it. :)
Now I just need to get wireless Internet access and Windows Vista on my *desk*top.... anybody know where I can get a good deal for the software? Fry's Electronics, Costco, Sam's Club....?
- At:bedroom
- Feelin':sad
- Listening to:Dido - Thank You
Looking on the bright side, I'll have nothing better to do for two days than browse LJ and write!
- At:Home
- Feelin':anxious
Feel free to use and credit. I'm still working on several others, but since school's just eating up my time right now, it's a slow process.
Enjoy!
- At:home
- Feelin':creative
I think Stephen Maturin is getting to me. :)
And I saw this beautiful yellow-and-black butterfly on some flowers yesterday (once again, intense scrutinization on my part), and a few days earlier, I saw a hummingbird in one of the local pharmacy stores, just minding its own business and enjoying the air conditioning on one of the aisle signs.
Oh, and on the first day I came on-campus, I saw a squirrel near the dorms. :D
Just my uh, wildlife-appreciation snippet for the day. I need to get back to work! **scurries off to find textbook**
Laters!
- At:dorm room
- Feelin':pleased
- Listening to:Hyuk Joo Kwun plays Mozart violin concerto no.3 3rd mov.
"This warranty does not cover damages caused by acts of God, including flood, erosion, or earthquake, but excluding lightning on products with Power Blocker technology...."
You gotta read the fine print on those warranties. These guys think of everything.
- Feelin':sleepy
Just for you, girl. :D
Magazine scan from a December 2003 interview with Paul's good friend Stellan Skarsgard. Click here for the Interview. 
Heck, the article even comes with another (and far more enticing) picture!
In fabulous high-def. ;)
Courtesy of paulbettany.net
- Feelin':cheerful
Oh, and his family: why are they all in their late teens and twenties? You can be a 40-50 year old and still look good (ehem, Harrison Ford, and he's in his sixties, I think!).
I had hoped he would ask her if she'd love him if he were ugly, but considering how she turned down a lesser boy in her class (pimply faced and a little geeky, from my memory), she probably wouldn't. :(
While I think this series is directed at younger teens, I think I prefer the Code V Ultraviolet version of vampires. :) Way, way much scarier and cooler. If you want to watch a good vampire tv-show, watch Ultraviolet.
Well, that's my review for Stephenie Meyer's Twilight. If you haven't read it, don't take this to heart - it's just a personal opinion. Go read it, and decide for yourself if you liked it or not.
I think I'll just stick with Patrick O'Brian and good ol' Aubrey/Maturin for now.
- Feelin':disappointed
- Feelin':ecstatic
I won't give away too much for those who have yet to see it, but I have to squeal on one thing:
There is a scene in which Tony Stark's robot-suit gets banged up and shot at to the point it won't come off. The robots in his lab are trying to yank it off of him, and OMG how hilarious it was to hear Paul B.'s voice telling Stark to "please stop struggling, sir" and that it wasn't going to make the suit come off any faster. Something like that. It just made me LOL. Dirty thoughts, perhaps?
Sorry, enough of my fangirlish rambling. I didn't stay for the after-credits bonus scene ,but I'm fairly certain they'll make a sequel. And hopefully get JARVIS in holographic form. ;)
An article on what Paul said filming the part: Courtesy of paulbettany.net
- Feelin':relaxed
More Bettany pics for your viewing pleasure, once again from paulbettany.net. I'm really not obsessed with this guy....
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atlantis2_04Paul makes such a bad-ass villain.
Kids, NEVER take cookies from strangers.
But how can you say no to that face?
Now THIS is what a real bad guy looks like:
THERE's a man that can scare the shit out of you while wearing sandles and a brown dress. ;)
I gotta put the rest under a cut before I go picture-crazy
Master and Commander (for
concertigrossi), A Beautiful Mind, and Wimbledon pics below- Feelin':cheerful
- Listening to:Boom-De-Ya-Da
I'm still here, guys. Life's just been busy. Seems like LJ's been going through a few changes since I last checked. Anyway, pleased to note that
concertigrossi's finally posted one of her fics. :D Mmmm....delicious Norrie-angst. Haven't had the time to read it yet, but I've seen it, and I eventually will read it! Hope you haven't given up on Norrington/Caroline! I'm still waiting for that one. Can't wait 'till summer break. I'm going to take a few classes June and July, so it'll be nice to go to the university when there's a lot less folk around. And luckily I'll still have two more weeks of summer to enjoy before the regular school year starts.
On another good (nay, excellent) note, I am officially smitten with yet another Brit actor.... **drools** For those of you who have -- sadly-- not seen the gorgeous Paul Bettany in action, check out www.paulbettany.net. He's in A Beautiful Mind (fantastic movie; he's married to co-star Jennifer Connelly), the Da Vinci Code, A Knight's Tale (playing THE Geoffrey Chaucer), Wimbledon, Master and Commander (amazing movie, amazing book) and will be in a kid's movie called Inkheart later on next year.
(Paul in A Beautiful Mind)
(Da Vinci Code publicity photoshoot)
(Paul in Inkheart....looking like Aragon and Legolas had a train-wreck, according to one of the comments on pb.net) :D
Well, off to do more finals-studying.
Toodles!
- At:Home
- Feelin':blah
NEW YORK - Heath Ledger was found dead Tuesday in a Manhattan apartment in a possible drug-related death, police said. He was 28.
According to the New York Times, Ledger was found naked and unconscious with pills [possibly over-the-counter sleeping medication] strewn all around him in an apartment. Cause of death is still tentative, whether it was by suicide or accidental over-dose.
My deepest sympathies to his family, friends, and daughter.
Check for updates at http://www.cnn.com/
- Feelin':shocked
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