Lissiel's Journal

This post was almost titled "I would hit that in a New York Second". Cause, um, WOW.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_EfVtiUBSc&feature=channel

Also, Tokyo Hotel?


...I am not learning German now. T.T Who said German guys could be hot now? And he's a twin. Cripes.

/Edit: Oh man. IOWA got marriage equality before we did? Fail, California. Faaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiil. -_-;

I was linked to this from one of the election threads I'm following tonight and...I mean, it might be kind of late to say anything else about prop 8, I just. I got to about halfway through, when Rabbi Feinstein said, "My faith supports the right to marry, because as a Jew, I have the responsibility to fight for justice, to act towards righteousness, and to help bring goodness into the world," and I started crying like a little baby. I type this right now with a little white furry nose tucked firmly under my chin, because Finn hates it when I look upset.

You hear so much about people of faith fighting this, tooth and claw, about the depths they'll sink to in order to deny that LGTB people are people too...Hearing these ministers, priests, rabbis talking about a loving G-d, about faiths and communities that are welcoming and loving and supportive for ALL their members... it was powerful, ok?

It was powerful.

OH NOES!!!!1 THAT POOR CUTE LITTLE GIRL FORCED TO SEE HER DIRTY LESBIAN TEACHER GET MARRIED!!!! WHAT DO HER PARENTS THINK?



...Er, wait. What? Yes on 8, surely you didn't just...

Protecting the children, huh? How 'bout protecting them from political exploitation first?

Also? This is fabulous. <3


/Edit: And WTF is this? THREATS now? Yes on 8 has to try and extort donations? ...maybe, you know, if you have to lie to and threaten people in order to convince them? Maybe you're wrong.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbiO5qDfGS0

Just in case anyone hasn't seen it yet? Mama Mia is a FANTASTIC movie. It makes my list of top five all-time favorites, easy. It's a musical cobbled together from ABBA music, about a little girl who's getting married and wants to meet her father before she does, full of buddy!hikinks and random dancing and gorgeous filmwork and just. I am completely a geek over it. <3

That said, there's one scene? Where the mom is helping the girl get ready, and thinking about her girl growing up, and sort of...how even the people you love, you don't ever really know, the way that people keep moving beyond you, beyond the self that you knew. And. And I cry like a baby every time I see it. So clearly I had to upload the song for people to listen to. Clearly.

Slipping Through My Fingers
Slipping through my fingers all the time
I try to capture every minute
The feeling in it
Slipping through my fingers all the time
Do I really see what's in her mind
Each time I think I'm close to knowing
She keeps on growing
Slipping through my fingers all the time

I think there may need to be a "love" post soon, too. Because there are a lot of awesome people in my life. <3

1: A short film on John McCain. Just in case any of you aren't registered to vote yet. Pretty damning.



2. We got a new puppy! His name is Finnen; he's an American Eskimo Dog, about eight years old. Our friend Jenny found him wandering about two weeks ago, no collar, no chip, really dirty and with sores from not being taken care of, and no one had mentioned him to any of the local shelters, so we ended up taking him in. And he is the biggest sweetheart EVER. He follows me around the house as I work, and slept on the floor next to my side of the bed until we gave up and moved his pillow. ( Click to see pictures of his adorableness.<3 )

Went down to Monterey this weekend, had a really nice easter. Got to be with my whole family (minus danny. D:). We got together at Robatas for dinner Friday night, and sam slept over with us at tia's house--in his own bed, all night long, didn't give us any trouble at all because he's very good--then went to the preserve for brunch, and it was yummy and nancy came and sam found about 99.9 bazillion eggs. Then we all went to Meme's house and hung out with her and papa. They just had to put down their dog, so they've been having a rough time, and I think they enjoyed the company. And Tiana--jeez, after all this time being so careful not to show or mention my tattoo because I knew Papa would freak out and I didn't want to upset him? Tiana leaves hers showing, and sure enough what's the first thing out of her mouth when he sees and starts to freak? "Misha's got one too!" orz. I was thiiiiiiiis close to killing her outright.

*huff*

Then we came home and ( watched some movies )

Then we picked up some herbs and strawberries and a little cherry-tomato starts, which I will hopefully not kill before we get to eat from them, which should be fun. <3 I like playing in dirt.

Altogether a very nice start to spring break.<3

YOU ALL HAVE TO STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING RIGHT NOW AND GO WATCH THE BEST MOVIE EVER.

Destroy All Robots! and don't forget to watch the outtakes too!

WATCH IT OR REGRET IT FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE.

Went and saw Cloverfield tonight. Holy shit. I am so motion sick. *Is green* But very very impressed.

( Click here for the rest of the review. )

That said? Sam will really really like this film, in a few years. Don't even think about taking him to see it now, though. That would be trauma on a massive scale. Everyone else I suggest should go see it right now.

So, I'm getting on a plane tomorrow and coming home!! YAAAAY!!! And those of you who've had the misfortune of trying to travel with me know how utterly neurotic I get right before I have to walk out the door for that kind of thing, because I'm convinced I've forgotten something and OMG YOU CANNOT BUY TOOTHBRUSHES IN CALIFORNIA IT WILL BE THE END OF THE WORLD OMGOMGOMG!!!1.

So, in the spirit of not going through my packing a fourth time and having to re-do it again, I bring you a brief intro to Arashi, with more reasons to love them (for those of you who weren't listening the first couple of times, omgseriously why don't you all love them as much as I do yet??? T^T?)

The thing about Arashi that makes them very very different from anything in the American market, as far as I'm concerned, is that they're happy. American musicians sing about smacking up their hos and shooting police, or their slutty girlfriends cheating on them, or how their women hate them and such? Arashi's song lyrics are all "It's definately going to be all right" or "In the next five years, who will be by my side? It'll be the five of us, again. <3" (Yes, matsujun wrote a song about how much he loves his bandmates. Seriously. They are all so wooby.)

American Stars go on drug binges and star in reality shows where they sleep their way through the household and scream inebriated obscenities at each other on the lawn? Arashi does shows about visiting cranky old people, and taking care of little kids so their parents can go on dates. But they're not all sweetness and light. They ARE twenty-something boys, who've been friends since they left home at about ten. Nothing delights them quite as much as making each other do COMPLETELY ABSURD, BIZARRE THINGS. Like the one time they made ohno go to an okama bar. :Db

The short answer is: THEY ARE HUGE DORKS AND YOU SHOULD LOVE THEM BECAUSE THEY'RE HILARIOUS.

( The long answer is under this cut, with picspam and youtube links. Seriously, you guys. )

*To be continued*

In honor of the fact that my interview actually went pretty well (even though I was so terrified I babbled like an idiot at the beginning) and I'm not that worried about my presentation tonight or my finals next week, and that the college app looks like it's maybe going to be ok after all, and best of all, that it's like... ten days until I get to see everyone again, have an awesome song:

"I'm yours"- Jason Mraz
It's so happy and laid-back and just. Love. Go download it and listen to it. Your day will be better for it.


Before the cool done run out
I'll be giving it my bestest
Nothing's going to stop me but divine intervention
I reckon it's again my turn to win some or learn some
I won't hesitate no more, no more
It cannot wait, I'm yours


For those of you who don't want to download without hearing it first, you can hear it here, with bonus adorable hostclub video-ness.
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In the continuing tradition of responding to trauma with the need to tramatize EVERYONE ELSE JUST AS BAD. I want to unsee this.

/Edit: Omg, you guys. It's like, some sort of...genre. O.O

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The intro to the new game Michael and I are playing. We're only playing in little bits, whenever we both have free time, so we're not very far yet, but... it's so shiny, guys. Seriously. Atlus does such brain-breaking games (this is the same company that made the cannibalistic demons game I was playing before), and the art is so pretty and cool-looking, and the plot (as much of it as I know yet) is really interesting and involved. You play half of the time, during the day, as a normal highschool kid, answering questions in class, going to clubs, talking to girls, and all that, building friendships, right? And whenever a friendship gets stronger, you gain points associated with a certain tarot card. Then at night, you go fight these evil blobby things that eat people's souls, using demons who are themselves tied to a tarot card: so the stronger your friendships with townspeople during the day, the stronger your demon-fighters are at night. <3 Did I mention that you summon your fighter-demons with things that look like--but are repeatedly stated not to be--guns? Yeah. So messed up and broken.

Also, there's all sorts of subtext implying that this game is going to end up being some sort of metaphor about mental illness (kind of like Digital Devil Saga ended up being a metaphor for preforming the kundalini and achieving enlightenment) but I can't talk intelligently about that yet, so early in the storyline. I. Um. Might think too much about my pop culture.

Because September is TOTALLY early enough to start getting excited. Forget you guys, at least it's better than when I was doing it in June. :P *lol*

I think everyone under the age of thirty who has a soul has seen The Nightmare Before Christmas, yes? If you were too old to mess with 1993 kids movies or were hideously abused as a child and never got to see it, I've posted a link to the song in question up on Youtube in my Halloween Music Videos post.

The awesome thing? Panic!At the Disco, one of the most awesome bands in the history of ever (though, sadly, not quite at Arashi's level of pure win) did a new cover of "This is Halloween" that, while not as different from the original movie-version as might be hoped and thus sounding more like really good karaoke and less like an actual cover, is still a pretty darn sweet way to wallow in the otherwise sadly lacking Halloween spirit for three minutes.

Another cover Michael found and showed me this evening, of the same song, was by Marilyn Manson. Which. I mean. It was really good! They changed enough little things that you really feel like you've heard a new take on the theme, which is really what doing covers is all about right? It's just. It's Marilyn Manson singing tunes from a kid's show. It just. No. Does not compute. *headdesk*

Also? I bought candy corn at the store today when I went to get stuff for dinner to spite the store for not having pumpkins yet. Because I'm devious like that. Also, it was there.

It was delicious.

http://www.break.com/index/bush-worried-about-new-threat.html

Lol. Bush is worried about the zombie threat.

/edit: There is now downloads for music in the comments, if anyone wants them. :D Happy Pirating.

Since my Halloween-Stuff post is getting kind of cluttered (omg, it's still only august...O.O), I'm going to do this set of seasonal youtube clips and then link this post up there, rather than link them all seperately. Hopefully that's more convenient for you guys. Also, I've gone ahead and included text links for those of you who can't see the embedded video. :D

( Videos under here, nothing too scary/gory. )

*Note to these next two videos: If you aren't watching Supernatural obsessively yet, what in the heck is wrong with you? Go watch. Two hot brothers, traveling the USA in a Chevy impala, hunting demons. How much better does it get?
( Supernatural Promo Videos )

What are your favorite halloween-flavored videos?

So, so today? Total hearts. Here's why:

1. I got my third-to-last prompt-pic done over on mitsuhachi. It's not great, but it's done. Also, I will maybe be able to combine my last two prompts and have time to do something that doesn't suck! <3 Plz to keep your fingers crossed.

2. My refrigerator is all cleaned out and ready to be left alone for a month while I go home. Likewise most of the deep-cleaning. Now there's only last-minute stuff like dishes and laundery and packing. OMGYOUGUYZI'MSOEXCITEDCANYOUTELL????

3. We went to see 1408 today. Overall, it was really good. The story-arc was really tight, and it gets MAD PROPS for using psychological tension rather than gore as it's main thrill. Also, that moment where everything has been normal and then suddenly stuff starts to get weird and no one knows what's going on will never not be awesome and worth sitting through a whole movie for.

My only reservations were that( Cut for minor spoilers ) But even acknowledging those things, it was one of the best horror movies to come out in years and I'd highly recommend it. :>

4. We checked out a new chinese place here in town. It was a little over-priced, but it had REALLY REALLY GOOD vegetarian lettuce wraps, and crab wontons, and we brought some chow mein home (cause we ordered too much; the appetizers were really large portions) which also looks good.

5. We walked all the way home from ward center- Michael thinks maybe four or five miles? I have no idea, I can't measure distance, but it's a pretty decent walk all told, maybe twenty, twenty-five minutes by bus. It was pretty out, and it sprinkled for a little ways and it was not too ridiculously hot, and it felt really good after the movie and our early dinner/late lunch/whatever it was.

6. Then when we got home, I posted the new pic, and Daniel had updated www.Luckylewis.com with my newer work, and his page is totally awesome and you should all check it out.

7. And then I made pancakes. Mecha umai!!!
<--dork.