| Because someone might care... |
[Aug. 12th, 2008|10:48 pm] |
Accents in movies, particularly ones (ostensibly) from the Southern United States:
* Sawyer from LOST: Supposedly from Alabama; Josh Holloway (who was, himself, raised in Georgia) does a respectable job. I could believe he's a Walker County boy.
* Everyone but Dennis Quaid did an okay job in The Big Easy. When Bree and I watched it, she was confused by how many of the New Orleans cops sounded like New Yorkers. I was like, "They're Yats!!" But Quaid's accent was WAY overdone. In fact, the only really good Cajun performance that pops to mind is Michael Jeter's turn as Eduard Delacroix in The Green Mile.
* Speaking of Tom Hanks movies, Sally Field did a damn good job of an "Old South" accent in Forrest Gump. Ditto Kevin Spacey in Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil...sort of. LOL
* Sissy Spacek in Coal Miner's Daughter. Solid fucking gold, people. That's a West Virginia girl, right thar. Of course, she had a particular accent to copy, so...
* Do not, under any circumstances, ever believe that Nic Cage's accent in Con Air even remotely resembles an actual Mobile accent. D:
I think I'm done ranting for now. |
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| I took this from tehrin and...well, everyone. |
[Aug. 12th, 2008|12:11 am] |
Take five of your fictional crushes then list five reasons why it wouldn't work out in real life.
I did seven, too. LOL
1) Rhett Butler...but he'll always be in love with Scarlett, no matter what a bitchwhore she is. >: (
2) John Winchester. ZOMG, the things I would do to that guy. I would even help him fight demons and vampires and shit. But, alas, he's a rambling man. (I'd still do him a lot, though.)
3) Wolverine. But everyone knows there's only one woman for him. Ahem.
4) Dr. John Carter from ER. And...actually, that might work out. Except he ran off to Africa to get married. Suck.
5) Sweeney Todd (as portrayed by Johnny Depp, of course). Hot, hot, hot. Too hot for a murderer. I'd do him anyway. As long as he growled at me.
6) Sawyer from LOST. I'D HIT IT. SO HARD. But he's stuck on that island, and I sure as fuck ain't goin' there. Uh-UH.
7) Colonel Brandon from Sense & Sensibility. The character in the book is awesome, but Alan Rickman's protrayal in the Ang Lee movie adaptation? HOLY FUCK.
There are more. Many more. But these are most of the biggies. |
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| I r srs writur |
[Aug. 4th, 2008|11:28 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | i get paid for this? | ] |
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| | Fan-Fucking-tastic | ] |
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| | China Girl - David Bowie | ] |
So. I'm not sure how anyone could ever take me seriously as a writer. Especially since I lazed around this morning, and now I am sitting here with my iced tea, editing porn and listening to David Bowie.
Bree and I were up late last night, plotting out the rest of this trilogy arc we just contracted. I have no idea why, but working under contract and on spec makes my tummy hurt. Too much pressure. I want to get things done as soon as fucking possible, so I don't have to worry about them anymore.
Conversely, I have never had a problem spending months on a project with no assurance anyone will buy it. Which is perhaps a stupider way to work, honestly.
...
No wonder I don't update this thing ever. Why should I torture you poor people with my boring life?! |
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| >: ( |
[Jul. 17th, 2008|05:12 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | jdm needs to call me | ] |
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| | Obscene | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | When It Don't Come Easy - Patty Griffin | ] |
So. Bree told me I couldn't go see Watchmen when it comes out.
Bree: did you catch the Watchman trailer before they axed it?
Bree: oh wait, it's on youtube now
Bree: though it may get axed from there soon too
Bree: ...
Bree: you can't go see this movie. JDM showed up for 5 seconds and my eyes almost popped out of my head
Donna: ...
Bree: I'm just saying
Donna: >: (
Well, you know, I watched it. And she's right, goddammit. It was LESS than five seconds, and I made a noise I've previously only heard in very theatrical pornos. :( If I go see this movie in a theater, I'll be arrested. What a bummer.
Good fuckin' GOD, man. JDM, smoking a cigar and wielding a flamethrower? That's "How To Incapacitate Donna, Step One." |
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| Hahahaha! |
[Jul. 10th, 2008|03:46 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | homg funny | ] |
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| | *sporfle!* | ] |
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| | "You're So Damn Hot" - OK Go | ] |
- Michelangelo finished his great statue of Johnny Depp in 1504, after eighteen months work.
- Ostriches stick their heads in Johnny Depp not to hide but to look for water.
- Johnny Depp has four noses!
- In Japan it is considered rude to talk with Johnny Depp in your mouth.
- The Johnny Depp-fighting market in the Philippines is huge - several thousand Johnny Depp-fights take place there every day.
- It takes 17 muscles to smile, and 43 to frown at Johnny Depp.
- Johnny Depp can usually be found in nests built in the webs of large spiders.
- The average duration of sexual intercourse for Johnny Depp is two minutes.
- Johnny Depp, from the movie of the same name, had green blood!
- Johnny Depp is actually a vegetable, not a fruit.
Numbers 4, 6, and 8 actually work for me. |
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| *sigh* |
[Jul. 3rd, 2008|10:41 am] |
Right now, "being awake" is on my Do Not Want list. And yet, here I am.
I need to buy a copy of Sid Meier's Pirates! for PC. I have a copy of the game for XBox, but my console is crapping out. I dismantled it the other day and cleaned the DVD drive's optics, but it hasn't significantly improved gameplay. (Though it did make me feel like a badass. And my husband thought it was pretty hot.) So, it looks like ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) breecita is going to be getting this game, after all. Happy anniversary!! LOL
I roasted a chicken for dinner last night, and I have the urge to make a pot pie with the leftovers. Mmmm.
Meanwhile, my iTunes account looks like at least three different people use it. My last ten purchases have been: The Breeders, OK Go, the Goo Goo Dolls, Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan, Avril Lavigne, the Carpenters, David Bowie, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Glenn Miller.
Okay, make that four or five people.
I need to get some work done. But all I want to do is look at hot men. |
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| GAH!! |
[Jun. 25th, 2008|01:59 pm] |
DEAR BODY:
I GOT FIXED AFTER KATIE WAS BORN BECAUSE I DIDN'T WANT MORE BABIES. PLZ TO NOT BE PREGNANT AGAIN.
Also, if he knocked me up again, my husband is TOTALLY getting a vasectomy. >: ( His testicles are ruining my life.
(I had to use this icon, even if it sort of makes me cry a little right now.) |
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| Zombie Memeage!! |
[Jun. 5th, 2008|09:19 pm] |
You are in a mall when the zombies attack. You have:
1. one weapon.
2. one song blasting on the speakers.
3. one famous person to fight alongside you.
Weapon can be real or fictional, you may assume endless ammo if applicable. Person can be real or fictional.
I have never made a solid decision in my life. I think it's a Libra thing. So I offer you two choices for each.
1) Either a good 9mm with hollow-point rounds, or the Noisy Cricket from MIB...minus the recoil, of course.
2) Atom Bomb by Fluke or Kiss Kiss by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3) Theodore Roosevelt (most badass American president EVAH) or John Winchester (if the zombies overran us, at least we could maybe squeeze in some hawt sex!) |
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| Holy crap. |
[May. 30th, 2008|03:44 pm] |
I am so fucking sick it's not even funny. I'm dying. >:( This blows.
To top it all off, I am so high on cold meds that I can't even write porn. OR read it. I just keep trying to watch PS I Love You and getting distracted, because DUDE. WTF? Spike has brown hair and Gerard Butler is hot but silly and dead, and don't even get me started on Jeffrey Dean Morgan's dimples. They're not funny! And yet I can't stop laughing.
I hate you, body. D: |
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| Hahaha. |
[May. 26th, 2008|02:59 am] |
Oh man. I'm going to have to see this Woody Allen movie, aren't I? Because OMG, me & Javier Bardem & Scarlett Johannson. There is no threesome permutation that doesn't work there. 'Cause, see, it could be us on him, us on her, or both of them on me! I'm a winner any way we work it!
As an aside, my husband is remarkably okay with how gay Scarlett Johannson makes me. |
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[May. 25th, 2008|10:14 pm] |
You know what's bad? When you realize that you kind of want to write Dino Squad fanfic, just so you can intro an original character who exists only to make fun of and/or beat the living shit out of the canon characters.
For serious, man. |
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| WTF dreams? |
[May. 24th, 2008|10:20 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | wtf dreams? | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | Fan-Tabulous | ] |
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| | Wallflower - Better Than Ezra | ] |
So, huh. I just had a dream that I guess was a nightmare, I don't know. I was married to Gary Sinise (that part is awesome) and we bought this house for super awesome cheap...because it was haunted.
Okay. Anyone who knows me knows that I am Not Okay With That. Supposedly, the family that died there had been killed by the two youngest brothers, who were KIDS--like eight and ten. And then they killed themselves.
So in my dream, I'm cleaning the kitchen in this house and thinking, "Man, I wish we'd rented this thing first, because NO FUCKING WAY am I staying here if weird shit starts to happen. I hope Gary Sinise doesn't get mad at me, 'cause I'd like to hit that."
So OF COURSE weird shit started happening. People would walk by rooms when no one else was home, we'd be awakened in the night by terrified screams, these two creepy little blond boys WHO WERE MAYBE EIGHT AND TEN kept playing outside, blah blah. And so forth.
At that point, I was like, "Gary Sinise, can we move?" Then we started cleaning out the closets, and found they were loaded with all the dead owners' belongings, which included a shit ton of antique stuff, as well as lots of couture clothing from the sixties. I'm talking full-on Coco Chanel stuff, people. I immediately thought of eBay. So, instead of telling my dream husband I wanted to move, I was like, "This place is huge. Can we have roommates so I won't be alone in the house ever? Oh, and a priest to bless the shit out of this place?!"
What is the moral of this story? Donna may be a 'fraidy cat, but her greed far outweighs her quaking fear...even in her bizarre dreams.
Oh. I also got to hit that. *dances* |
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| OMFG |
[Jan. 9th, 2008|01:24 pm] |
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Yeah. So.
A county sheriff just showed up at my house with one of my neighbors and an unidentified little boy. My neighbor found the boy wandering around on the road.
SOMEONE LOST THEIR GODDAMN KID. D:
He couldn't have been more than three years old. He had no jacket (though the temp here today is around 60-65, it rained heavily last night and the ground is all wet) and no socks or shoes. His nose was runny, and he was all shivery. I didn't recognize him.
This is a very rural area. Only a handful of people live out here. WHAT THE HELL WAS THIS KID DOING OUTSIDE BY HIMSELF, WANDERING AROUND? WHAT THE FUCK?
I put some socks on him and gave them a blanket to wrap around him. I hope they find his parents so they can toss their asses in jail. OMG |
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[Jan. 9th, 2008|02:23 am] |
True or False: Your vibrator should be like a carnival in your pants.
Discuss. |
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| Bah. |
[Dec. 28th, 2007|12:04 pm] |
So. It's noon, it's sort of rainy, and I just walked down to the mailbox in a tank top and shorts. BAH. When it's this warm in DECEMBER, it can mean only one thing.
Yay, tornadoes. Only NOT.
*sigh*
In other news, Audrey has now decided that Jeffrey Dean Morgan is, indeed, for making babies, as she has been announcing all morning. I wonder if she's been reading my diary... |
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| Waaaaah! |
[Dec. 8th, 2007|09:43 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | i totally suck | ] |
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| [ | Current Music |
| | the everpresent emoPod | ] |
I made Bree cry today.
LOTS.
Which I suppose was mean of me, but I really didn't mean to! |
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[Nov. 7th, 2007|03:38 am] |
Hypothetical question time!
Let's say you're a writer, yeah? And the things you write sometimes (read: ALWAYS) contain scenes of an erotic nature. Would you consider the purchase of streaming internet porn to be a tax-deductible business expense? It is, after all, TOTALLY for research purposes.
...okay, MOSTLY. Mostly for research purposes.
...a little bit?
...okay, fine. This guy with the tattoos is really hot.
*sigh*
Fuck all of y'all, anyway. |
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| Heroes |
[Nov. 6th, 2007|10:30 am] |
Is it a spoiler to say that Peter Petrelli looks fucking GOOD naked and wet? Or is that more of, say, a universally accepted truth?
OMG, and Bree? NO WONDER Michelle is always so flustered. Jesus Christ. THAT, coupled with the resting state of hot? Nick and Carmen are like, "...can we--No? Oh, okay. Dammit. Maybe just a--NO? FUCK!" |
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| HP Fandom? SOME OF YOU GUYS ARE SCARY. |
[Nov. 5th, 2007|04:37 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | fandom is scary | ] |
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| | Candy Everybody Wants - 10,000 Maniacs | ] |
breecita: *gapes*
breecita: "Come off it Ms Rowling, your books are in the public domain and anyone can write books about them without your permission. If you're so concerned about charities give them the money you're about to pay your lawyers and shut up."
donna: ...
donna: But...
donna: They're NOT public domain
donna: She holds the copyright
breecita: I KNOW
breecita: they're comparing them to Sherlock Holmes
breecita: *dies*
donna: WHERE DO THESE MORONS COME FROM?
breecita: *dies more*
donna: *goes back to writing porn* |
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[Oct. 10th, 2007|09:05 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | my kids are aliens | ] |
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| | Ballerina - Leona Naess | ] |
Donna: ...
Donna: My child is using a potato to activate the water dispenser on the refrigerator
Bree: which one?
Donna: Guess
Bree: ...
Bree: Katie?
Donna: Uh-huh
Bree: *fears*
Bree: JESUS
Bree: your kid's a little freak
Donna: I KNOW
Donna: I am so posting this on JF
(Katie is 20 months old, and more mechanically-inclined than I am. And now she's using TOOLS.) |
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