Fangirling over Ben Folds

I'm not very good at this whole "blogging" concept. But I need pour my feelings out to the world (well, 1 person is the more accurate term I suppose), so get used to it. I'm here, I'm blogging, get used to it! Anyway, I think I'm in love. You know, in love with Ben Folds. Can you say amazing? Because I can. I've always had a few of his songs on my iPod and I liked them. I.E. "Army" is the kind of song that makes me want to jump around my room and go crazy, and "The Luckiest" just makes me want to fall in love with someone really awesome. Naturally, Ben Folds has always been cool in my book. So yesterday I decided to expand my horizons and listen to more of his songs, including "Effington". Can you say best song ever? The lyrics are just so hilarious/witty: "Are they f'ing in their yards? F'ing in their cars? F'ing in the trailers and the backroads and the parking lots of Effington?" C'mon, don't tell me that's not awesome! Aaaaaand, we share a birthday. He's like...the only celebrity I share a birthday with, apart from that girl from Phantom of the Opera...but she doesn't really count.

The other day, I rearranged my room so that my bed is like perpendicular to my desk (if you can imagine that) and it's against my wall. This really made me want to go back in time and tell myself to do this long ago. Then again, I would like to go back in time and tell myself to do a lot of things. But seriously, my room makes me happy about life. It's awesome to watch movies now because my bed isn't in the middle of the room and I have the wall to lean against. I don't even want to watch movies in my living room anymore. Except for my movies that are on VHS (because I still haven't accepted the fact that I live in the 21st Century), because unfortunately my laptop doesn't have a VCR. And I can watch movies with friends in here now! Before, there wasn't anywhere for another person to sit, unless we both squeezed on the narrow part of my bed, spooned, or sat upright. I really wanna have some people over now, so I can test this. It also lifted my mood, as I've been overly happy these past few days. I guess Feng Shui really works?

So how about that torch lighting? FAIL. I did, however, enjoy Gretzsky's "uh oh, something is wrong" face. Also, for three whole minutes I had to sit there and debate on kd lang's gender. When they first showed her, she looked like a man, and they wouldn't show her again because they were panning the audience during the whole song. And while I was trying to rationalize it in my head, I was like, "well, she does kind of have a low voice...maybe it's a man with a really high singing voice." I eventually had to even take my cat off my lap (who is obsessed with me this evening) in order to look it up on Wikipedia. kd lang is a woman.

And, ugh, I am listening to the remake of "We Are the World". Horrible. People should not be allowed to touch that song. You are not the world, the world happened. Stop. Just stop. They essentially turned it into a rap song! What the hell!?

Pride & Prejudice & Nerds

Yesterday night, thanks to Angela, I got to watch five hours of Pride & Prejudice. I am not kidding when I say five hours; the first disc is 2:35 hours long and the second disc is 2:26 hours long. That's five hours and one minute long! Usually I can't watch two hour long movies in one sitting, yet I somehow managed to watch all five hours last night. Granted, I gave myself short breaks every hour or so...but five hours is still a long time! I'm still wondering how they stretched a 367 page book into a five hour movie, but that's besides the point.

You may be thinking: "Jenna, you're dumb. Who spends their Saturday night sitting on the couch watching Pride & Prejudice? It's not even the new one, it's the BBC mini-series. You're a loser." To this I respond, you're the loser! You probably spent the night watching Hannah Montana reruns. No, you probably didn't... I take that back. I'm sorry for accusing you.

Let's get to the point of this little blog post. I freakin' loved P&P. No joke. It was awesome, and not just because Mr. Darcy was played by Colin Firth. That should make english class awkward on Monday. I'll walk in and be like "Oh hey, Mr. Darcy. How was your weekend? Read any good books? Intimidate any small childr.. Oh wait, it's just you Robby D." I love Colin's variety of facial expressions in this movie. Oh wait, there were only two: stern and serious, and that subtle smile that implies he is in love. As much as I fangirled over Darcy and wished I was Elizabeth, I think he would intimidate the crap out of me. He might even make me cry.

Okay, so here are some random thoughts that I had while watching:

The mother...Oh my god. How annoying. She made me laugh so much, though, that I couldn't even hate her. Her voice was just so annoying and whenever she opened her mouth my ears hurt. It's funny how all the crazies always have voices like that. Like what if someone was crazy and talked like that, but then they became normal. Would their voice magically change and sound like a normal person? I didn't hate her, but it did annoy me when all she cared about was marrying her daughters off into wealth. And if she was my mom, I'd be so embarrassed to go out in public with her. It would be like, "Mom.. MOM. Stop that....No, please stop trying to set me up with various guys... Mooommmmm. Come onnnn." But anyway, she was just comic relief so what else can you expect? Their dad was the best. He was such a chill guy and when he was talking to Elizabeth about marrying Mr. Collins he said, "Your mother will not talk to you if you don't marry him. I won't talk to you if you do." That was really cool, especially since the mother was standing right there and proceeded to have a spaz attack. His facial hair looked fun too.

I love how Mr. Darcy breathed so hard after he first told Elizabeth he loved her. I'm still not sure if this is because he had just run a freaking marathon beforehand, so I'll give him some leeway. But seriously, it was like telling her he loved her was the most physically difficult thing he had to do all day. As weird as that was, I like it. Also, whenever Darcy talked about his feeling towards Lizzie with her and then left, she would just take in this really deep breath like she was going to cry. Like maybe if you had said what's on your mind before he left, you wouldn't be so exhausted. And then you'd believe she loved him cause it's written all over her face, but then in the next scene she would be all angry and complain about how rude he was and how much she didn't like him. Don't get me wrong, I love Elizabeth, but she needs to make up her mind.

Now to talk about the people I hated. Ugh, LYDIA. So annoying. First of all, she completely screws her family over and makes Elizabeth leave Darcy's house to return home. Then we find out she eloped so she could do something none of her sisters have done. I guess it never occurred to her that her sisters aren't whores. And when she is staying with Wickham, she doesn't even realize that he isn't bothering to give her the time of day. She's just like "oh, when are we going to the theater together? I want everyone to see us together." Shut up, Lydia. And it amazes me that she doesn't realize that he doesn't care about her...at all. Once they get married and return home, she get more annoying. When Wickham is riding his horse and she's with her sisters, she's all, "Oh, look at my husband! Isn't he perfect? Lizzie aren't you jealous of our marriage? OH, we're just perfect together." Shut up, Lydia.

Lady Catherine de Bourgh. I don't care how wealthy she is, she's rude and inconsiderate...and kflfjlewkrdjwe. I hate her. When you're a guest in someone's house, you don't tell them how small the house is, or how big the windows are and how it must be impossible to sit in that room during the summer because of the heat, or try to tell someone who to be in love with or marry, or yell at them for putting you in your place. When she was in the woods with Elizabeth, I came super close to throwing something at my TV. The fact that she was ugly didn't help her case. Her hair really bothered me too. It was hard to look at it. Looks aside, I hate her.

Mr. Collins also rubbed me the wrong way, figuratively, and probably would literally if he was real because he's that much of a creeper. He reminded me of Wormtail from HP, only not so evil. He was their freaking cousin and he wanted to dance with all the Bennet sisters and asked Elizabeth to marry her. Creep. And I don't recall them ever talking about how Collins would inherit the estate since the Bennet's had no son? I mean, a five-hour movie out of a 367 page book and you'd think they wouldn't cut anything out...

Mary also bothered me. But I didn't hate her, 'cause you know, she didn't really do anything wrong, she was just boring.

Was it just me, or did Bingley's sister (the one with the black hair, I think it was Caroline?) look like Bob Saget in that episode of Full House when Danny and Joey dress up in drag and get arrested? She also looked like Flopsy from M&MD. And Elizabeth randomely turned into Anastasia halfway through the movie and was like "JUST KIDDING, my hair isn't short. It's really long in the back." And there were two scenes on the second disc where she looked Asian.

Non-Pride & Prejudice things:

My iTunes decided to be stupid and told me I needed to authorize my computer, but then wouldn't let me, even though I had only authorized 4/5 computers. And it wouldn't put my new songs on my iPod so I erased everything and put stuff back on, which deleted some of my Mika songs, which I had got from a friend. Eventually I just deauthorized, then authorized and it worked, but I want my Mika back!

Wizards, Witches, and Warriors is officially my favorite class. There's five other people in that class and they're all my friends so that's cool. But that's not the awesome part. The awesome part is that I get to be a nerd, and get a grade for it. Talking about fantasy all period is the perfect way to end the day. Last week I was having a really bad week, but that class put me in such a good mood that I was just like "Yo, Angela. Let's have a slumbie tonight." So we had a slumbie and all was well. And I stole all of her Narnia books, Pride & Prejudice, V for Vendetta, A Night at the Roxbury, and Alien. And we read a book about film for at least an hour. I am now informed of all films from 1900-1990. And I became a total geek when we got to the 40s and 50s cause you know, James Dean, Humphrey Bogart, Katherine Hepburn, Audrey Hepburn, and Patrick Stewart...Uh-mazing.

This blog post is filled with Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey...stuff.

Today, there was a delay. I needed to kill an hour after I was already awake, so I decided to watch one of my favorite episodes of Doctor Who (Girl in the Fireplace) on Netflix. I didn't finish it, so when I got home, I decided what better way to spend my afternoon than watching Doctor Who. ALL NIGHT.

I finished Girl in the Fireplace, Human Nature, Family of Blood, and Blink. Now let me just say, Blink and Family of Blood are now at the top of my list in terms of favorite episodes. Angela wanted me to blog today, and I don't have enough time to watch another episode tonight, so here I am, living up to my word (...and using commas like I'm Jack freakin' Kerouac).

So I decided to expose my nerdiness (c'mon spellcheck, what do you mean that isn't a word?) by talking about my favorite episodes so far. So here they are, in no particular order:

1. Blink

I was really confused at the beginning of this episode, but once Sally Sparrow started talking to the Doctor and learned about the weeping angels, I loved it. I loved how the whole transcript thing worked and how he had to look to someone else for help. I also loved when the guy (whose name I can't remember) was in the room with the angel while Sally was looking for a way out and he had to keep his eyes open. I was laying there trying to keep my eyes open the whole time to see if I could survive. Which I kind of did. And when I say kind of did, I mean I blinked a few times. And when he turned around and he looked back and the thing had moved so much closer, it freaked the hell out of me! I also love the part where they're trying to get to the TARDIS and all the angels are there and the lights keep flickering on and off and each time they go back on the angels are closer and closer. This episode will give me nightmares, but I loved it. Also, I heard they're bring Sally Sparrow and the weeping angels back with the new Doctor? So that'll be cool. And other than the fact that I didn't really understand how or why Sally's friend disappeared, it was pretty awesome.

2. Family of Blood

I LOVE THIS EPISODE. So basically the Doctor turns into a human under the name of John Smith, and he doesn't know anything about him being the Doctor, but he recorded a video before changing himself so Martha could watch it and know what to do. I'm not quite clear on why he turned into a human, but I'm 96% sure it's because this creepy family needs a Time Lord or else they will die in three months. Anywho, "John Smith" falls in love with a human. Shock. The Doctor didn't think of this possibility beforehand so he didn't tell Martha what to do so the episode basically just focuses on her trying to find the pocket watch that his "Doctor self" is stored in and trying to convince him to turn back into the Doctor. But it's not as boring as it sounds! I think the reason I love this episode so much is because David Tennant is just so brilliant at the end. He is the best at pulling of those really dramatic, tragic moments, and I love him for it. Also, his voice was really low and deep when he was a human. Sexy?

3. The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances

I love Christopher Eccleston. Plain and simple. Also, the 40s is my favorite time period and I love the fact that this episode takes place during the German air raids. If only these people had taken Rebels with a Cause and saw the video Robby D showed us that has the turtle who teaches you how to duck and cover. Although, Robby D did say that this was the video they showed children in the 40s...so maybe not. Obviously if an atomic bomb drop, ducking and covering is the best form of protection. Obviously. And who doesn't love going up to people and saying "Are you my mummy?" in a very creepy, young british boy voice. Or the more hilarious "mooommmyyyy..." Plus, the surprise ending! Hello, should have seen that coming...

4. Daleks in Manhatten / Evolution of the Daleks

I love the 20s a lot. And though she seemed really dumb at first, I really liked Tallulah. She had that stereotypical 20s flapper girl accent, which is just annoying enough to be awesome. She's awesome, and even when her boyfriend was turned into a pig-thing, she still cared for and wanted to be with him. And the way she says his name makes me laugh everytime...and she says it a lot. Laaaaaasszzlo. The only thing I hated about this episode was the "Human Dalek". His face was all wiggly and jiggly and gross, and not wibbly wobbly timey wimey. Gross.

And that's it for now, because I have to go read for Robby D's class tomorrow and attempt to start Lord of the Rings for Marky Mark. Sooooo that's all folks! Or I guess I should say "folk" instead, seeing as how I only have one follower.

That's all folk!

PS. On the Wikipedia page for Blink, it says it was preceded by Girl in the Fireplace (correct) and succeeded by Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. Umm... No?

I think I've been Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Minded.

Yo.

I decided that instead of placing my every complaint about life and my thoughts on various TV shows and movies on Twitter, I would start blogging. So I came here and learned that I apparently had a blog back when I was a sophomore (which I was never signed out of ever?) I have no recollection of this, but the internet would never lie to me. Ever. So it must be true.

Anyway, I was reading my last post trying to remember ever writing it (which eventually I did), and I am EXTREMELY disappointed in how un-nerdy I was back then. I mean, come on, I was blatantly using being a nerd as an insult. If that's how I was when I was 15, I would like to go back in time and tell my 15-year-old self how much of a nerd I would become in one year.

Also, I was a Twilight fan back then. I might just delete that post because I have a little thing called pride (and prejudice). God, I was so freaking dumb back then. My dumbness didn't wear off until the end of my junior year. Same time as I became a Nerdfighter. Yeah, there's definitely a link between the two...

Speaking of nerds, a Hank Green song just started playing. This fuels my fear that iTunes can read my mind. And now that it knows I know, I'm a little bit scared iTunes will kill me in my sleep because I know too much. Hey, it could happen; Apple can do whatever the hell they want.

ALSO, I read The Hunger Games last week and it was really good. It was written really badly and my inner grammar-nazi was going crazy, but the story was really suspenseful and addicting. And I have the sequel sitting on my bookshelf, but I'm thinking of not reading it because I'm scared it will suck. I have a feeling it's just going to be about what guy the main character will hook up with, and I hate books like that. I like the main character a lot, and if she spends a whole book going through the pros and cons of each guy, I think I'll have to kill her. Plus, I loved the Uglies series, but the only good one was the first book. Pretties was okay, but not as good as the first. I haven't even finished Specials because I hate it.

Soooooo, enough ranting. Peace out.