Amusement Central...

Mood: Tired, really tired
Music: Only You - Josh Kelley
On a Friday night Big Brother can be the source of a whole lot of amusement, particularly today. Big Brother Friday night games ROCK. It's fun to watch people to do completely random shit on Big Brother.

In relation to the Laguna Beach related post of yesterday, seen above is Stephen and Kristin, two stars of Laguna Beach. And yes, Stephen is a spunk. A damn hot spunk. Much like that new teacher at school...not like I'm gonna do anything, it's just fun to watch. Oh yea, it's definitely fun to watch spunky teachers. They add amusement to the day, someone to stalk.

FORMAL NEXT WEEK. Ohmigod. It's so close. So strange right now.
Anyway, I'm not really in a typing mood and I figure I should save any typing enthusiasm I have for an essay I have to do.

Later,
Chars

Laguna Beach and other reality shows...

Mood: Tired, feeling a strong hatred towards ticker timers
Music: Built This Way - Samantha Ronson

Laguna Beach, the real OC, yea fully guys. Besides the bad tagline, this show isn't that bad, I mean it's good for mindless teen drama. It's like the OC with real people who are shallow and rich. Yep, it's great.

Cold Mountain, great movie, shit ending. I mean it's great that people want to move away from the atypical happy hollywood movie ending, but still. I for one, am still a lover of the old fashioned happy ending. Any movie where everybody's happy suits me just fine. Which is probably why I hated Sweet November. Keanu and Charlize were SO cute and happy together, but then she has to go be alone because she's dying. Boo-freakin-hoo. They still could've had a few months of happiness together. Eg. A Walk to Remember style. Sure she died, but they were happy. And I was happy. That's all that really matters.

I actually have a physics practical to do right now, so this is going to be short one...ending NOW!....no just kidding...ending.....NOW!

Epiphany of the day...

Mood: Tired, frustrated
Music: Losing All Control - Rooney

Well not really an epiphany of the day, because I don't have an epiphany everyday... but you get what I was hinting at. So anyway, my epiphany for the day comes about after watching an episode of VH1's All Access, which posed the question, How Thin is Too Thin? In this day and age, girls everywhere are expected to drive themselves to drop weight. Movie stars are often idolised and girls, in particular teenagers, expect themselves to live up to the expectations given by those movie stars. Unfortunately, these idols do not seem to have a firm grasp of reality. Many of them drive themselves to lose weight so that they are ridiculously and unhealthily thin.

What is the female fascination to be thin? Isn't it some strange connection in the human brain that somehow connects thin within beauty? In essence, I believe that the need to be thin stems from the basic human need to mate. Everyone wants to be loved, and the fear of being unloved is a scary one, which is present in every human. Loving is a part of humanity and everyone, in particular females, are looking for that special someone. Do women feel a need to be thin and beautiful because of a fear that if they are not gorgeous, men will overlook them? Do they fear that they're soulmate will pass them by? Who knows.

Studies have shown that girls as young as 5 feel that they are too fat. This study signals the beginning of a sad sad era. By needing to be thin, are we affecting a new generation? Are we setting unattainable goals for the following generations and making them more insecure? With rates of eating disorders increasing, the mental stability of our generation is at risk. Eating disorders affect not only those suffering, but those around the ones suffering. Sometimes there is a need to walk on eggshells around victims of eating disorders, and there is a constant lack of trust. If they lie about an eating disorder, what else are they capable of lying about?

I will admit, that in those dark times of insecurity and doubt, I have looked in the mirror and considered myself to be fat. Thankfully, those moments are few and far between. However, on rare occasions I have been driven to start dieting. Once again, thankfully, my lack of commitment in that sort of area wins out. Common sense does eventually kick in. After calculating my BMI I have discovered I am the perfect weight for my height, information which is often comforting. So I urge any females who read this, calculate your BMI, if your weight is normal, be happy with that. Even if it's not, you're still gorgeous and I'm sure your loved ones see you that way. I know it sounds corny, and I can't believe I'm saying this, but a smile is you best accesory. :)

One last thing on this rant of mine, please please please people, buy clothes that fit the body you have and not the body you want. I guarantee it will improve your whole look. There is nothing worse then seeing a girl wearing pants that are way way too tight or a streched out top.

Stay happy people!
Chars

#22 Sucks....

Mood: Happy and Excited
Music: Counting Down The Days - Natalie Imbruglia

I'm incredibly happy right now! Just went to the footy today, AFL rules. As does Ken McGregor, who despite missing several goals, is still my favourite player. In a crowd of about 40 thousand people, football was tonnes of fun. Went with a couple of friends who persisted in endlessly mocking and abusing one player. Perry. Who really does suck. Can't catch a ball for crap.

Despite the presence of the crappy Perry, the Crows still won, 100 and something to 35. Yep we kicked those Bulldogs' asses. Definitely on track for the premiership this year!

One of the highlights of the day definitely happened when we got back to the car. After parking in front of a fire hydrant, my friend got a parking ticket for $36. Hilarious. Always remember the name, Classic Crt. Brilliant. Jokes abounded all the way home as a result of the ticket.

Ice skating tomorrow, if people can make it, which hopefully they can. Will be sooo much fun. Unco-ordination fest '05. It will be brilliant, I think I should fall at least 6 times. AT LEAST.

Until I bring you tales of falling on my ass on the cold cold ice, farewell!
Chars

Sin City and the Half-Blood Prince

Mood: Awed, kinda upset
Music: Tomorrow - Lillix

So last night I watched Sin City. Visually, that film is amazing! Warning, there will be spoilers from her on out about Sin City and the latest Harry Potter book.

So I watched Sin City last night at 9:30, large cinema though, just enhances the film. Went with four guys and my girl friend. Had good seats. Got to steal popcorn from a friend. Sin City is without a doubt one of the strangest, most rewarding films I've ever seen. In a film noir style, the story opens quite violently, with Josh Hartnett's character romanticizing about a female, before embracing her and then...shooting her. Yep, that one was definitely a shocker.

Of the three stories, my favourite is without a doubt the second one. The story of Jackie Boy and Dwight. The first one, featuring Mickey Rourke's character whose name I can't quite remember, was gruesome. Opening with sex, the story quickly delved into violence with Rourke's character killing his way up the ladder to find out who was behind the murder of his 'friend' Goldie. Eventually meeting Elijah Wood's character. Let's just say I can never watch LOTR again. Frodo goes wild in this one, a cannibal with a penchant for eating prostitutes. It's gross. The way in which Rourke kills him, however, is even grosser. I'll admit it, I was definitely slumping down in my seat and hiding behind my hair in that scene. Ew.

I've decided I love the Clive Owen's character, Dwight. He rules. The perfect vigilante, standing up for and playing hero to the prostitutes in Old Town. Those prostitutes KICK ASS. So innocent...well not really innocent, but looking defenceless yet each of them carrying bigass guns AND showing that they know how to use them. Mihao ROCKS! Prostitute with samurai swords. That girl kicks ass. Silent and deadly, Devon Aoki does it SO well. In this story, Jackie Boy's death is particularly gruesome. Never thought he'd be a cop either. Dwight's hallucinations in which Benincio Del Toro's head is talking to him is just damn FREAKY. Hated that.

By the third story, the movie kinda seemed to be dragging. The story of Nancy and Hartigan had been introduced earlier. The villain in this, that yellow thing was disgusting! Freak AND a pedophile. Sicko. He deserved to be yellow and he deserved the horrific death which he suffered. The whole Nancy/Hartigan relationship didn't really appeal to me. The age difference was just WAAAY too big. Kinda gross. I loved the way they ended the film too. Josh Hartnett going after Becky in the lift. Btw LOVE Alexis Bledel's blue eyes.

Now onto Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. I just finished it about half an hour ago. All I can say is, wow. It took me about eight straight hours. That book is nothing short of amazing. In some bits, it did drag, with Rowling relying on old formulas a bit too much, but in the last few chapters of the book, Rowling delivers. In an amazing finale, I will admit that Rowling moved me to tears. That was amazing and moving. Can't write a proper review right now, still trying to wrap my mind around it all. Wow. I don't see how that was a children's book. It was ridiculously creepy and gruesome in some portions. Sure nowhere near as gruesome as Sin City, but freaky nonetheless.

That book made me cry more than the Do No Harm episode of LOST. But not as much as A Walk To Remember. I miss Boone. Ian Somerhalder is such a hotty and despite the wrongess and Cruel Intention-ness of it, the Boone/Shannon relationship was HOT. They were gorgeous together. So in response to the loss of Boone, I've posted some nice Boone/Shannon-ness above.

Enjoy, what they have kids, is undeniable chemistry. I honestly hope that Ian Somerhalder and Maggie Grace are going out in real life, so cute together.

Later,
Chars

Get Torched!

Music: All Nite (Don't Stop) - Janet Jackson
Mood: Pretty Good! Shoe-induced euphoria

So I'm going to see where the muse takes me for this post. Not that I need a muse for a post...is it strange that I need a muse to update my blog? Meh, don't really care. I've always been weird, why change now. Well not really weird I spose. What is weird? (Oooh deep, I know) So anyway, I have new shoes! Somehow managed to get new shoes from my mum, I think it counts as a 'reward' for a good report. Basically, it's her justification as to why, on a whim, she bought me $90 shoes. Which I have fallen in love with. In the last month, I have spent almost $200 on shoes. But in my defense, the other pair of shoes was for formal, which is in less than a month! Yay! So excited

Gone full out for formal. Got the shoes, the dress, the bag. Taking a limo, hopefully going to afterparty... It shall be a fantastic night! Hopefully with lots of pics to remember with. So strange, I swear my generation has the worst memory. Which is why digital cameras and photos come in handy. Of course if a pulse thing happened eg. Dark Angel style, we'd all be screwed, and probably not remember what we looked like as children. So sad.

Sin City tonight. After an immensely long wait, the film is finally getting released here, and it looks FANTASTIC!! Violence should be abounding. It'll be great. However, in conjunction to seeing Sin City, I've discovered that at this point in time, I have more friends who are guys than girls. Why you may ask? Well it's because a chunk of them are embroiled in a fight that I don't wanna get involved in, one's grounded, one's in Greece and a chunk of them I'm not actually that good friends with anymore. Which is kind of depressing. Instead, it's me, one of my girlfriends and a whole lotta guys. And no, that doesn't make me a skank. I just happen to have more friends who are guys...at the moment. But all my close friends are girls, if that makes a difference.

Saw Fantastic Four the other day with my mum. Despite what a lot of people have said, I liked it. Especially Chris Evans as the Torch, he was fantastic, brightened up the film a lot and kept it from getting too heavy. I think I'm gonna take a picture of my formal dress later and post it up here, but until then, here's some Chris Evans to heat you up!

Well the picture actually ended up above the post, but you get the general idea.

So hopefully when I return, I'll have rave reviews for Sin City!

Later,
Chars

Sorry...

So I haven't updated in about a month. Been kinda busy. And stressed. At least according to several personality tests. Lol damn straight I'm stressed. Also not really in the mood to type at this moment, just felt like updating. So there, updated. Maybe I'll write again later.