Concupiscence is the word of the day. It always makes me think of Threesome. Oh, Josh Charles. Even with that stupid nineties haircut you were still adorable.

I just watched a bunch of movie trailers.

I am so excited about Idlewild. A musical written by Outkast! How can it not be brilliant? And the trailer looks SO GOOD.

I love the trailer for Marie Antoinette. Who cares if the music is anachronistic when it works so well? And I love New Order, and i love Sofia Coppola, and I think this looks promising.

I'm not sure about Akeelah and the Bee because it's based on Spellbound which I love dearly, and I am the kind of person who watches spelling bees on ESPN 2, but it looks cheesy. I don't know.

Don't Come Knocking looks interesting, and it stars Sam Shepard. And he also wrote it, which I hadn't realized until I just looked it up on IMDB. It has a great cast.

Confetti looks hilarious. I love a good mockumentary. And this one has Martin Freeman! The nudist couple looks especially hilarious.

I'm also looking forward Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story. It looks funny and smart and I've heard loads of great things about it.

I have to get ready for the band concert. It's going to be embarrassingly awful.

Another unexceptional Christmas has passed. I know there was a time when the holiday meant something to me but I can scarcely remember it. It's not that this year's celebration was any more meaningless than last year's, it's that I'm more conscious of it's meaninglessness, I suppose. I know I used to be a Christian but I don't remember when I changed my beliefs. I just stopped thinking about it, really. It's not really that I "know better" now, because I really hate the idea that if you believe in something you must be gullible or ignorant. I think I gave up on Christianity because it's too much work to reconcile those beliefs with everything else that I know and believe. Not that it would be impossible to, but because it's easier to just not think about it. And now I can't believe in Christianity even if I wanted to and I'm not really sure why. I don't feel anything anymore. I can't make myself believe something that just isn't there for me. It was easier when I didn't think about this at all but now it scares me to not believe in anything at all.
I really wish religion wasn't such a public issue. Beliefs are something personal and it's so disgusting the way religion has been drawn into politics so tightly. I hate the way Christianity has been made into something so huge and gaudy and oppressive. I think I blame contemporary Christianity for a large part of my current spiritual dilemma. The worst part of it is that when George was at CHUM it used to be a refuge from that type of Christianity. Now "not your ordinary church" is almost a joke. I can't even stand to sit through a service with the new clergy. The Christmas eve service was painful.
Present-wise I did pretty well, though.

I just finished reading The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger and it is incredible. The story is captivating; I could barely put it down last night. The writing is beautiful.

I feel like seeing a movie or something. I've been laying around and reading all day and now I'm restless. I need to get out of the house. I almost went shopping with my mom but I'm not really in a shopping mood. Especially not with my mom. Ha.
I should probably eat something as I haven't yet since yesterday, but I really have no appetite. But I'm hungry, if that makes sense.

My paid account is expiring in 3 days and I think that means I can't use my custom mood theme. I hope not, because it makes me giggle every time I pick my mood. I'm so retardedly amused by it. Oh, Newsies. Sigh.

So anyway, it's November and I've started my novel. As of this moment I have 826 and I'm in the middle of a sentence. My working title is "The Art of Making Excuses" but I'll probably change it at some point. It depends how well it fits with whatever direction the plot goes. So far, the writing is going pretty well, but it's not like I've gotten around to the action yet, so we'll see how that goes.

Go to google.com and type "(your name) needs" Then pick the 5 funniest ones there.

If your name is James, you would put this in to the search engine: "James needs"
you got the idea

Then copy and paste this into a new bulletin with your answers filled in:

Whitney needs a little polish.
Whitney needs serious drug rehab.
Whitney needs a fresh comeback.
Whitney Needs Your Soccer Shorts!
Whitney needs to level with her mother, our experts say.
Whitney needs some help -- and a new wigmaker.

I just posted a bit ago but I felt like doing this meme anyway.

LJ Interests meme results

1. boys in drag:
   Hahahahaha. Well, yeah. Who doesn't? This interest dates back to fourth grade, when my favorite movie was Adventures of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert, and I thought Guy Pearce was really hot.
   
2. devendra banhart:
   He has such an incredibly interesting voice; I love it. And I have such a weakness for weird folky-type music.
   
3. feminism:
   I hate it when people think all feminists are man-hating hairy-legged radical. Feminism is about equality for both sexes. Women's issues are important to me, for obvious reasons.
   
4. harold and maude:
   God, I love this movie. It's so simple and funny and it's got a great soundtrack of Cat Stevens songs. Everyone needs to see it.
   
5. keren ann:
   I like her voice; it's soft and low and breathy but not annoyingly so. My favorite song of hers is currently 'Seventeen' because I love the orchestration.
   
6. models:
   I love fashion photography because it's a cross between art and marketing. And I like looking at pretty things. America's Next Top Model is addictive.
   
7. old 97s:
   I haven't actually listened to them in a while. Their song 'Question' is the sweetest song ever.
   
8. reading:
   Well, this is kind of generic. I've always liked to read, although I don't read for leisure nearly as much as I used to, or as much as I would like to. Right now I'm reading The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie.
   
9. stargate: atlantis:
   Generally I'm not into scifi; I watch this show for the characters. I love John and Rodney and Zelenka and Ronon and even Teyla (and her people, hahaha). Although I mostly watch the show for the fanfic, because there are so many great authors in this fandom.
   
10. umbrellas:
    I don't know why, I just find them aesthetically pleasing, I guess. I don't get to use my umbrella enough.
    

Enter your LJ user name, and 10 interests will be selected from your interest list.

Because I have too much time on my hands (or rather, because I'm not working on things I should), I made my own custom mood theme. A Newsies mood theme, because I love that movie like I am twelve.

Samples of my totally awesome mood theme: ( let's soak 'em for crutchy! )

I am perhaps a bit too enamored with my own work; all I did was crop them, basically. I cropped 'creative' so the headline reads "NUDE CORPSE ON RAILS CONNECTED TO TROLLEYS" which makes me giggle. I am so completely lame.

I'm enrolled! And I have a parking decal, even though I will probably not drive often, considering I live all of 10 minutes away, walking. But if it snows or rains or something, this will be nice. I had to call home about 6 times before I got a hold of anyone to find out the tag number, because Caroline apparently can't hear the phone from her bedroom. And, um, if you ever call my house and get a high pitched squealing noise, just hang up and call again. I have no idea what that's about.

So anyway, my schedule:

01 Band Hamant
02 Euro SL Harden
03 Spanish 5 HL Shelly
04 Bio HL Weigand
05 IR Lacosse/ Photo 2 Salley
06 C Writing Williams/ Government Harden
07 World Lit Maack

No surprises, really. I wish I could have arranged things better so that I wasn't taking a single semester of creative writing and photography. It's all because of government.

I was reading a thread on literary crushes on Chicklit where I occasionally lurk. Most people list the same characters: Mr. Darcy from Pride & Prejudice, Laurie from Little Women, various Harry Potter characters. So I was thinking of my own literary crushes, of which I have quite a few, actually. I do share a few of the most common crushes; I've always loved Laurie since I first read Little Women in fourth grade. I HATE that Jo doesn't marry him, mostly because he gets so depressed and then marries Amy even though he doesn't really love her. I was also enamored with Barney Snaith of The Blue Castle (despite his name). I think my number one fictional crush would have to be George Emerson from A Room with a View. He's so passionate and progressive and perfect (and my alliteration was entirely unintentional). His speech to Lucy about why she shouldn't marry Cecil is probably one of my favorite passages ever.

So, do any of you have any particular literary crushes?

Since I didn't see you today, HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELLEN! I hope your biology test goes well.

School is so boring when half the people are gone. I had no one to play Escrable in Spanish with. We played Phase 10 in calc, and it was fun. More fun than Krypto, which I am horrible at. I can do calculus but I can't add and subtract in my head. It's really sad.

Katie and I went to the meeting about the trip to Eastern Europe or China. I really hope they go to Eastern Europe, the itinerary sounds amazing. I would love to go to Prague. My parents aren't overly enthusiastic but I know that I can pay for half, so hopefully I can talk them into letting me go. I've never left the country before. Since I am currently considering careers involving travel, I think I need to get some experience. Maybe I'll use that argument with my parents.

Does anyone have any plans for a psychology study group? I should probably get some studying done, although I'm not particularly worried about this test. I should probably brush up on different theorists and studies, because that seems to be mainly what they ask about.

OMG THE TRAILER FOR SERENITY IS OUT!
I am speechless with excitement right now. SO MUCH SQUEE.