*shuffles in slowly with head hung*

Wow.  3 months.  I suck.  Hard.  Anyway, enough about my many talents, on to the blogging!

 I have pictures of me, my sisters and my neice reenacting the best part of this video.  Except we're wearing real clothes.  And we're not Japanese men.  The pictures can be displayed or destroyed for the right price.  Let the bidding begin!!

      

 Okay, the strike is officially killing me, ya'll.  I've been watching a lot of DVDs and random reruns that I've seen 8 million times, but not much else.  I think the strike may also be affecting my taste levels, because watching TV last night, I had two completely different reactions to the programs.

My journal is such a sad place lately.  Like an abandoned K-mart.  Wait, isn't any K-mart an abandoned K-mart?  Anyway, here's a list to brighten it up around here.


23 Words that I Need to Use More Often


 

Alright, so just 6 hours left in the year here, and I had a SoCo and coke and decided to give you this:

23 Things I Didn't Do in 2007

So, aublilsis and I went to see Sweeney Todd  yesterday, and it was incredible.  Mind you, it is definitely not a movie that everyone would like, but we both really enjoyed it.

 

So much suckage lately.  Anyway, working on two different Lists of 23 right now, but I'm having a hard time focusing.  It's all Christmas' fault.  Damn you, December 25th, for wrecking my whole month!  *shakes fist furiously*  Work has been making me want to pull my hair out, too, mostly because I have to deal with some dumbass motherfuckers who like to blame their stupidity on others.  They suck, too.  

As I said, got two different Lists going on, so if anyone wants to give me some ideas for people who need to be shot in the head, or totally imaginary reality shows that are better than American Idol, please do so.  Sometimes it's really hard thinking of 23 things, and my brain is ever so tiny.  

By the way, I've already patented the idea for "Stupid Baby".  Please do not submit anything with a similar concept.  Thank you. 

In case you are wondering, yes, the Black Eyed Peas do suck.  And West sucks, too.  Forever.  And Ever. 

 A late Merry Christmas to all!  And Happy Kwanzaa to...none.  I mean, does anyone really celebrate that?  I've never actually met anyone who does.  I really wish we had Boxing Day here, though.  What a fantastic idea!  I got home around 10 last night and was thinking Damn, I wish I didn't have to work tomorrow.  Wouldn't it be awesome just to have a day to clean up all of your Christmas shit and play with new toys?  The answer is yes, it would.  I would turn around and go home, commencing my own Boxing Day celebration, but the street in front of my house is flooded, and I just barely made it out of there in the first place.  That makes me sad.  How 'bout a poll?  Everyone loves a nice poll.

I've been absent from lj for awhile, what with all the brain-eatage of Christmas.  (I may have just made up the term "brain-eatage."  If I did, I trademark it.  No one else can use it unless they give me a quarter.)

 Christmas is less than a week away, and I’ve been trying hard to shake off my Christmas apathy, which has been carefully cultivated through the years. You see, this year will be the first Christmas since I was 16 that I’ll be off and able to see my family on Christmas Day. I didn’t build up the apathy deliberately, but years of treating Christmas like just another day has led to it feeling like just another day. I’m hoping that if I purge some of those Christmas memories here, I can shake this off and embrace Christmas this year.

 For those of you who, like me, loved Batman Begins, the trailer for The Dark Knight is here.  I think that it looks pretty good.  Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman and Gary Oldman are all still around, and Katie Holmes has been upgraded to replaced with Maggie Gyllenhall.  (But seriously, what an excellent replacement.  I think that Katie Holmes was the biggest problem I had with Batman Begins, she just seemed out of place.)  Also, odds are good that CB will take off his shirt at least once, so I'm there!  (Sorry, fangirl moment.)

I'm not really sure what to think of Heath Ledger as the Joker yet.  He looks completely awesome, and the voice is appropriately crazy enough, I'm just hoping that it's not the same ole re-tread of the Joker.  One of the things I like about Batman Begins was that it put a new twist on characters that we were already familiar with, I hope they do the same with the Joker.  

The bat-cycle is kinda lame.  I wish they would just stick with the Batmobile and not try to impress us with new gadgets every time.  Le Sigh.

 ETA:  *sobs*

 It's Friday!  So, of course I'm working really, really hard, as evidenced by the following collaboration between my lil sis (aublilsis) and myself:


23 Beer Grades

( We actually thought of this idea as an alternate to grading tests. )

 Okay, so I didn't go to bed until after midnight last night, and I was wide awake at 4 this morning.  That is your warning for the babbling incoherency that is to follow.  Proceed with caution.








I'm gonna go drink some caffeine now, and attempt to get through the day without going to sleep or running around like a mad woman, because sometimes that happens when I'm really tired.

So, ever since Greg Beeman posted the Slusho! photos  on his blog ("Cautionary Tales" entry), I've been incredibly curious about Slusho!  Greg Yaitanes, the director of "Cautionary Tales" mentioned on the commentary that Slusho! was from Alias, and was going to play a big part in the upcoming Cloverfield movie.  I discovered that Slusho! has a website, which is absolutely hilarious.  The website even has a Japanese address.  I haven't been following all the Cloverfield viral stuff, because I didn't really care much about it.  I gotta say that all this Slusho! stuff has me intrigued.  I saw some videos over on YouTube in which people are trying to dissect the clues in the Slusho! website and the trailers for the movie.  Honestly, I'm too lazy to do all of that, and I really just don't care enough about the movie to put that much work into it.  I can say for sure that if I do end up seeing Cloverfield, which seems pretty likely at this point, it will be almost entirely due to Slusho! with a little bit of help from J.J. Abrams.

After nearly 3 weeks, I finally have a new Embarrassing Confession of the Day!  Yay!

Confession:  I will most likely be watching that new version of American Gladiators.  Worse yet, I would've watched it even without the strike.

Justification:  It's a guilty pleasure.  A very guilty pleasure.  I used to watch the original version when I was young, and I still watch it sometimes when it's on ESPN Classic.  It's fun!  People in ridiculous outfits with ridiculous names doing ridiculous things!  And who doesn't love that big ball thing that has a name that I totally can't remember?

Ramification:  Will have to pretend that I don't know who Turbo is or what the rules of Hang Tough are.  Will also have to contain my excitement if they re-use the old American Gladiator theme.  I might even have to DVR the show, and sneak outta bed to secretly watch it in the middle of the night, all alone with my shame.

Okay, so I swore up and down that I was going to be ever so good and productive today, but, with the strike news I received over the weekend, I just really felt the need to do this:

23 Things I Will Do This Spring Instead of Watching TV

( Crack? What crack? )