phineasjones

i can't believe i didn't say this yesterday, for i certainly thought it many, many times....

HAPPY BRITHDAY

i almost didn't post about sin city because... i don't know. because i don't like to be negative? or something. but i hated that movie like i have hated few things in recent years. i despise it. i left feeling dirty and abused. i envied the people in the theater who walked out before the end. i don't know why i felt compelled to stay. because, sure, it was pretty. it was visually impressive and amazing as a realization of a graphic novel and yada yada. but come on, people. it took me back to the years when i dismissed so much of this genre out of hand for its portrayal of women. i know now that it's not all like this. but if i had seen this movie years ago, i might have closed that door and never cracked it open again.

it wasn't the violence. it wasn't even the glee in the violence, though that was certainly disturbing. it was the unrelenting male fantasy of the whole thing. i was bored and kept rolling my eyes. it's just pathetic.

ok, so that's it. i have expressed my hatred and i think i'm done with that.

oh. lj. i don't know how to get back into it. my computer troubles and my crazy schedule before that have left me longing to get back into regular flist reading and the spammalicious posting i'm used to but... it's like i cant' figure out how. it overwhelms me and i walk away and do something else instead. which could probably be interpreted as a really good thing in terms of general productivity and all. but it's not all good because i miss my connections here. and so i'm going to just try.

i think part of the problem is that there's so much that's been going on in my head in the past month or so. and i haven't really put it here and now it's like it stands in the way. but the thought of writing it all down is overwhelming. i don't know whether i will or not. and then there's all the stuff i had lined up to read and respsond to before the computer troubles. which i just don't have to time to get to now that it's all piled up. ::sigh:: all i can do is ignore it and go on for now, or i never will.

erk. enough of that. how about a meme? i really like memes that make other people do the work. gacked from many, most recently

coloredvision. i don't think i'll be able to come up with 15 fandoms, though. we'll see. (hm, i can come up with a bunch but i'm pushing it a little by calling them 'my fandoms.' i read or have read in all of them, though, so let's say that counts.)

a. Post a list of 15 fandoms.
b. Have your friends list guess your favourite character from each one.
c. When guessed, bold the line, include the character name, and write a sentence about why you like that character.

1. harry potter: lupin. (yay for

coloredvision) haha, big surprise, i know. do i really have to write a sentence about why i love him? i can't think of a sentence of why i wouldn't love him. i love lupin because he's good and smart and caring and sad and suffering and afraid of himself and... because he still loves and is still good after more horrendous and horrible shit has happened to him than most people could endure.
2. lotr:

semielliptical correctly guessed sam, though there is one other who lives up here at the top of my list with him. (and it's not eowyn, though she comes in a close second to these two.) sam. the noble everyman. he did it all for the glory of love. and the other, guessed rightly by miss

annelarissa, is faramir! oh, my noble gondorian. he's just everything that's good and strong and sweet and gentle and he loves eowyn so, you know, we have that in common. :)
3. lotrips: billy! guessed by

anandangel. indeed, i cannae resist teh cute accent.
4. lost: locke. guessed by

scottxwl. though i don't know, he may lose me if he keeps up his nut-case-y ways. my dirty little lost secret, though, is my love for jack. i may be the only one. but i am always a sucker for the ones who are trying their darnedest to be good, to do the right thing, if you will, even while fucking up along the way. [see: undying love for harry potter.]
5. buffy: scott guessed faith... i think she's one of two. or three. or four. this category is way too hard.
6. angel: cordelia. guessed by

scottxwl. hands down. until season 4. but i would like to pretend seasons four and five never happened, so maybe that doesn't count. i love that she becomes powerful and strong while still being essentially herself.
7. firefly: scott guessed jayne. and perhaps yes, he is the character in whom i take the most delight. but i think he is not my absolute favorite.
8. the o.c.
9. dark is rising: will, guessed by

semielliptical. what hero fixation?
10. x-men movies

er... yeah. that's all i can come up with. feel free to tell me what i'm forgetting.