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[rocknload]

I have a Flickr now. If you also have a Flicker we should be friends. My intention here is to put up many awesome pictures of my year in Taiwan and I have a camera so we'll see how that goes. Look I took this pretentious picture of myself.

In the last few days I've seen (500) Days Of Summer and Kick-Ass, and I liked them both a lot. Which I shouldn't, because one of them stars a raging misogynist we're supposed to sympathize with and the other one has a little girl murder, seriously, like forty fucking people. Across five separate scenes. Blood everywhere. My excuse is basically they are good movies and I am a sucker for that sort of thing. I can more easily justify (500) Days of Summer because I don't really see the movie reward Tom's Nice Guy bullshit, even though I'm pretty sure most of the people who watch it see the story as Tom Is The Perfect Boyfriend and Summer Is A Heartless Bitch. The viewers are blinded by JGL's charm but seriously he's put down and called out by almost every character with a speaking part. And as for Kick-Ass, Hit-Girl is actually sort of interesting, and she's not a ~broken little doll~ like every other fictional girl assassin I can think of. Cough. River fucking Tam. Cough.

But mainly the movies have Chloe Moretz, who I have a creepy sort of admiration for. Both movies are pretty problematic, though, don't get me wrong.

I have acquired a bricked BlackBerry 9630. The bricked part would, yes, be the reason I acquired it at no expense to myself, but if I can by magic repair this thing then I can use it in Taiwan. Otherwise when I get there I have to drop the cash to buy a unlocked phone, which will probably be like an entire month's worth of my scholarship money. I'll probably be able to take it home with me but, yeah, ouch.

I will probably find some time in the next week or so to feel bad about turning 25, but right now I'm pretty chill.

Comments

[pretzelcoatl.livejournal.com]

BUT OMG RIVER TAM IS SO AWWWWWESOME AND SHE CAN DO EVERYTHING

seriously I see her mentioned on every TV trope page there is and I'm like "she wasn't really THAT interesting :|" But that might be my jadedness with Whedon speaking.

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

River almost isn't even a character, she's a bundle of unstable, ~crazy~ reactions and also a plot device. WE NEED THOSE DUDES KILLED bam they are dead. WE NEED TO PISS JAYNE OFF bam River's done something nutty again! I mean it's not just her in particular but if you have a young female character who is crazy and also kills people they're always that exact same person, and being completely helpless is a gross part of that character.

I'M NOT CLAIMING HIT-GIRL IS FEMINIST OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT just, you know, different is nice.

[pretzelcoatl.livejournal.com]

I get what you mean, even though I haven't seen the movie yet.

And I also appreciate that you seem to be on the same level on me with "AAUUUUGH" w/ regards to the Firefly stuff. I'm wary of talking any trash now after one of my friends kept harping on how wrong I was for criticizing "Objects in Space." 6_9

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

I'M NOT SURE I'D RECOMMEND IT FOR EVERYONE it's interesting in the "How fucked up would superheroes be like if they were real people?" sort of way. There's a lot of gratuitous violence. Music is really good though.

Who could even fault you for criticizing that. Was their defense FIREFLY EXISTS IN A POST RACIAL UNIVERSE.

[neuroticisizing.livejournal.com]

So, would you be able to use all the applications on your BlackBerry in Taiwan?

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

Everything but Skype! Because that's a Verizon specific program. But everything else should run on any BlackBerry.

[neuroticisizing.livejournal.com]

EVEN PLURK AND TWITTER?

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

YES though I should be able to use those anyway, since I'll have like, HAL and the Internet and stuff. I want to get a smartphone regardless since it'll make it way easier to keep in contact with everybody back home, and Plurk is huge in Asia so it'll probably come preloaded onto anything I buy there.

[neuroticisizing.livejournal.com]

YAY!