I believe in Harvey Dent.

The Dark Knight= awesome.

Thankfully, I got tickets to the midnight showing which was SO MUCH FUN. The line stretched outside of the theater, down a flight of steps and around a huge fountain outside. We had people at the front of the line, though, who got us seats in the center of the center section. Epic win. :)

Seeing it again in 2 hours!

I look through catalogs and wonder what dining set defines me as a person.

I don't actually do that. ^^ It's a line from the movie Fight Club, starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter. Great movie as long as you don't mind violence and cursing. And a bit of nudity.

Anyway. Thought it was about time to write another blog...

THE EPIC SUMMER OF MOVIES:

I've seen
-Iron Man (5 times)
-The Incredible Hulk (2 times)
-Get Smart (2 times)
-You Don't Mess With The Zohan
-Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
-Hancock

And I'm seeing Hellboy 2 tonight, and I've already got my Dark Knight midnight ticket, and of course there's the X FILES!!! Which I plan on seeing at least five times.

It's been a good summer for movies.

And I'm finally getting around to working on the second draft of my PLAY for a PLAYWRITING CONTEST in which I can win 200 bucks. Not a bad plan. :)

Alright. Bye bye.

The Book List.

According to the Big Read, adults are only supposed to have read 6 out of these 100 books that they say need to be read.

bold= i've read
**=hated it
different color= loved it
italics= i want to read this

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell**
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens (only cause GA was in the movie--wasn't she?)
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (BEST BOOK EVER!)
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding**
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan (i own this. still haven't read it)
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville (only cause every XF episode was a metaphor for this book)
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Give me a scotch. I'm starving.

My newest creation.

Tony Stark + Coldplay = WIN.

Things that make me happy.

- I saw Iron Man for the fifth time last night and finally stayed after the credits to see the bonus scene with Nick Fury. Totally worth the wait.

-I have a nice tan from going out on my best friend's boat this weekend.

-I got a season pass to Six Flags (a really awesome amusement park) because I've become a roller coaster junkie.

-I had last night off from rehearsal!! Which means I went to bed before eleven for once.

-I'm thisclose to being done with my play. But the ending is always the hardest.

-I went all fangirl this afternoon and found a special edition Iron Man shirt from Comic Con on eBay that I'm totally bidding on. And I want a Stark Industries shirt. And a mug. Although I'm considering just printing the logo out and putting in one of those thermoses that they sell at Starbucks that you can put your own picture in.

-I went all nerdy as well and watched the entire "When We Left Earth" miniseries that I tivoed off of the Discovery Channel.

-I bought a superbly cute dress from Urban Outfitters with a drop waist and a bunch of little stars.

Even more meaningless quotes from a movie you've never heard of.

Except Ais. We've talked at length about this movie.

Well, I talked AT her.

Oh well. Back to the status quo...

...All quotes are from "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang" starring Robert Downey Jr., Val Kilmer, and Michelle Monaghan. I missed some funny ones.

Harry: This is every SHADE of wrong. (My new favorite phrase)

Perry: This isn't good cop, bad cop. This is fag and New Yorker.

Perry: Why in pluperfect hell would you pee on a corpse?

Perry: My $2000 ceramic Vektor my mother got me as a special gift. You threw in the lake next to the car. What happens when they drag the lake? Do you think they'll find my pistol? (I swear, the delivery of that entire section is brilliance) Jesus. Look up "idiot" in the dictionary. You know what you'll find?
Harry: A picture of me?
Perry: No! The definition of the word idiot, which you fucking are!

Harry: And that's how she got to the same party as me. Oh shit. I skipped something. Damn it. This whole robot bit. I made a big deal, then I like totally forgot. Fuck, this is bad narrating. Like my dad telling a joke. "Oh, wait back up. I forgot to tell you the cowboy rode a blue horse." Fuck. Anyway, I don't know if you want to see it now, but here's the fucking robot stuff for your viewing pleasure. Can I say "fuck" more?

Perry: Go. Sleep badly. Any questions, hesitate to call.
Harry: Bad.
Perry: Excuse me?
Harry:Sleep bad. Otherwise it makes it seem like the mechanism that allows you to sleep...
Perry: What, fuckhead? Who taught you grammar? Badly's an adverb. Get out. Vanish.

Harry: Doesn't that suck? I just hit you for no reason.

A somewhat momentous occasion.

I did my first somewhat daring thing today. And once you hear it, you're going to think "Oh, come on. That's the opposite of daring.". But it was daring for me. As I tend to get shy sometimes.

So I had Singing in the Rain rehearsal tonight, and it ended SUPER early (8:45) and I just happened to remark "Wow. I really love not having a drivers license" in front of this guy in the show. A pretty good looking guy. And he says, "Hey, I can take you home if you want.". So I say, "Oh, I live on the other side of town", (because I do live on the other side of town) and he says, "I don't feel like going home.". And I really have no argument to that fact, so I called my mom and told her I found a ride. After the FREAKING SPANISH INQUISITION (Is it a boy? Who is he? Do I know him? You be careful!) from my mother, I left with The Guy. It was a fun car ride, too. We sang Red Hot Chili Peppers and talked about the improv competiton our schools had the year before. The coolest thing was that he had a POLICE RADAR that told him if there were any police around him. So he could speed. :)

So. Your blogger has been daring and rode home with a BOY.

I find that fairly awesome.