ran across a twelve days of Christmas generator through someone's LJ and realised my interests are not conducive to personalising the poem.

( below is nonsense )

hmmmm....

well, this is embarrassing. i haven't been on LJ since the end of july and all i can really think to update with is how stupid my roommate is. best leave that until the end.

good news, i haven't slipped off this mortal coil just yet :) i've been kept extremely busy though thanks to school, hockey, skateboarding and the eternal bargaining with my parents to have them let me take my PS3 to school. (note: i'm still on the losing side. the argument becomes void the closer we get to the holidays anyway.) classes are going well and only one professor has managed to make me almost nod out. that might have been my fault though. i really like the campus. however, i'm not sure if i'm mostly amused or mostly annoyed that people keep asking me if i'm in the ROTC program. (my hair isn't anywhere close to a regulation cut ;)

the whole experience has been great so far. i don't have to check and censor myself when i meet new people and i actually got to participate in National Coming Out Day. i also got a kick out of the G20 meeting and the protests. seems like i picked the right place after all ;)

i'm going to try and catch a few hours of sleep before class now. plus my browser just crashed >_< more later.

most of my summer has been spent working in a mechanic's shop so i haven't really seen to many movies recently. (which is strange if you consider that rain or shine, good film or bad film, my crew and i have been at the movie theater every Friday for the past 4 years.) however, i did see Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince.

( here be spoilers. not really since everyone read the book four years ago. )

another historic day, Maine has legalised gay marriage!! and if all goes well, Washington D.C. may be next.

that's fantastic news and made me very happy.

( then i picked up my newspaper )

i'm attempting to do a major overhaul of my profile. so far it's amounted to me pulling all the band names out of my interests section. truth is, i've had this profile for a couple years and never really saw much point in investing the time and effort to make it spiffy. i still don't, but now i feel obligated to since someone is now paying for it. so, i'm going to try anyway.

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in an unrelated note, my zombie alter-ego has managed to eat 131 brains. that's pretty awesome.

word of advice, never watch a Todd Haynes film for the first time while doing something else. his films are amazing and complex so if you miss a minute, the next one you pay attention to makes no sense whatsoever.

i'm sitting here watching I'm Not There and uploading icons. so of course i have no idea what's going on in the film. just as well, it's my punishment for waiting so long to watch it. whoever thougt it was a good idea to give me a hundred icons is an idiot. i'm looking at you V.H. ;)

( birthday stuff )

of course. as soon as i have a million things to do on-line and people to keep up with, RL decides that i have too much time on my hands and springs everything at once. couple that with Simon's parents taking his internet access away so he's been hogging MY internet connection. almost makes me want to beg my parents to get wireless lol

i apologize to anyone who has missed me. i miss everyone.

in other news i'm finally giving up on Heroes. the writers have lost their minds and it's nothing like the show i fell in love with. i now love Southland. the voice over in the beginning is stupid but over all the show is well put together.

yesterday saw the real start of the trial of Kaing Guek Eav aka Comrade Duch, the director of the Khmer Rouge's most brutal prison S-21. it's about time. the Khmer Rouge are responsible for the death of 1.7 million Cambodians as well as the destruction of their modern culture.

but is it too little too late? we're prosecuting old men who will likely never serve time for their crimes. Pol Pot died as a free man. and the world doesn't really seem to be paying attention. the only mention so far in my local paper was quoting Kaing Guek Eav as saying that Nixon and Kissinger's policies helped the Khmer Rouge's rise to power. that was a small blurb on page 20.

i realise that not everyone has a personal interest in this trial. i also have grudgingly resigned myself to the fact that 80% of my classmates have no idea what the Khmer Rouge was or what they did. but this is HUGE. any family my uncle had in Cambodia died under the Khmer Rouge. the world has gone 34 years without seeking justice for those who died. it's been too long. even Cambodians have forgotten.

( this kinda tore at my heart )

now, i hate remakes. especially when it comes to horror films. it's always a gamble and unfortunately these remakes tend to miss far more often than they hit. so when i heard that A Nightmare On Elm Street would be getting a remake, i was understandably... nervous.

( rumours below )

100 things meme
( more information than you require )

actual quote just now from Simon - "oh my god Wrath of Kahn is coming on!!! we should totally watch that."

so sayeth the raver who has never watched a Star Trek related program in his life. it's Simon Pegg's fault for being in the new film.

there's a new Denny's commercial out which has Simon doubled over with laughter every time it's on. it's pretty darn funny, but rather inconvenient when i lose him to hysterics whenever it comes on.

( cut )

this isn't anything new and by no means is it an isolated incident, however it still puzzles me.

( one idea, copy and paste )

the show crash finally wrapped up tonight and i'm not quite sure how i feel about it. i'm almost mad at myself for actually watching it.

( it's not a good show, but i had to find out what happened )

i've learned that hoping for cancellation only prolongs the life of the offending program, so i'm going to ask my program killing friend to say she likes it. the American remake of Life on Mars is an insult.

( Kudos, why have you forsaken me? )

Spaced is being released on DVD!! Now maybe i can get 'mon to watch something other than zombie films this month ;)

despite the fact i've been taken to see Sweeney Todd three times (or perhaps because of it, i do enjoy a good Johnny Depp flick after all) and despite my bf's new obsession with the film, this has been a really fun year so far. celebrated my one year anniversary with my bf on the 8th and had a lot of fun. never understood why they were important, but after hitting this milestone myself, i think i understand.

the writers strike may turn out to be a positive for a couple of my new favorite shows. would be nice to actually have favorite shows that last for more than one season ;)

i tried to join a fan community for a show starring one of my favorite actors, and i was rejected.

it is a moderated community, which is cool. some communities could stand to be a little more organized in that respect. they rejected me with no explanation. i am not a ghost profile, i am not a sock puppet, and my profile was not recently created. so the only explanation is they rejected me for a preceived lack of activity. which, to be frank, is utter bullshit. just because i do not pour my heart out in daily public entries, that does NOT mean my account is inactive.

i could try to appeal this, but the thought that then occurs is: why would i want to chat with a bunch of elitist morons in the first place?

it has been two months since i've posted here. they have been a busy two months so it's more that i haven't had time than anything else. i'm currently in D.C. visiting my cousins. we're having a lot of fun. i miss Simon though.