my hands are cold

<3

I love Across the Universe. it's such a good movie.

have I mentioned my crush on Damien Rice.

lalala

 I am too lazy to x-post my posts from my other two blogs. So, here. if it should so entertain you.

Disappears in the Shadows

and

Cut Me Up Inside

also, Happy New Year! Like I said on twitter, hope 2009 doesn't suck as much as 2008.

wish I saw this earlier.

horray for creative commons

he he.

"Sara" watched the man that was half a block in front of her. Of course Sara wasn't her real name, it was just the name her client knew. She popped her gum. The man up ahead paused and looked around him. He looked around the dark alley way before continuing. When he started walking, Sara started walking. There was after all, no point in hiding herself. None at all. The client had made it very clear.

xpost at Fictional Moments

so you think you can dance season 3

a little more violent

wee! I'm not distracted, I swear

better start studying

Listen to my station on Blip.fm!

The rain was coming down so hard, that Madison thought she was going to drown. Or freeze to death. She pulled her arms tighter around her chest, trying to stay warm. Not that it helped any. She closed her eyes and looked up in to the sky, silently asking it to stop the rain. It didn't listen to her. The rain continued to drive right into her bones, like millions of needles. She lowered her looked down again and rubbed her stinging eyes with one hand. The only good thing about her situation was the fact that she never wore make up. She couldn't afford it. As lightening flashed across the sky, Madison began to laugh bitterly.

Author's Note: this post was inspired by Rain Delays by Crash Parellel.

x-posted at Fictional Moments

Y in the Shadows
Karen Rivers
Raincoast

It's been a long time since I've read a book, much less finish one. So I'm glad that the first book that I pick up to read is Y in the Shadows. Y in the Shadows chronicles a teenage girl named Yale that discovers that she has the ability to disappear from sight. So, in a way it's like most of the"I just go superpowers" stories out there. You know, the ones where the main character questions why they have the powers, and what they are supposed to do with them. Except that in this case, it was more character driven than other stories. The way the story is told is different as well.

Whatever made Karen Rivers decide to have 3 different narrators that are unique and distinct form one another should be worshiped. Seriously. I've never read a book that had 2 of the narrators written in 1st person and the third written in 3rd person. At least any that were good enough to remember.  Honestly, I'm 99.9999% sure that I've never read anything that was written in such a way.

The story is told by Yale, the loner and freak of her high school (1st person POV); Tony, the athletic and popular guy (1st person POV); And Michael, the popular girl who's overly obsessed with perfection (3rd person) (Yes, Michael is a girl. That gave me a slight jolt the first time I read it). I like how distinct they are from each other. Yes, I know I've mentioned the unique-ness of each of the narrators, but it's seriously worth mentioning a few more times. One of my favourite things about this style of narration is how each character viewed each other and certain events. The only complaint I have about Rivers' style of narration was that the very first time the story went from Tony to Michael. That first transition, I found, was jarring. I had to go back to check, to make sure that Tony really was told in a 1st person point of view, while Michael was told in a 3rd person point of view. But that was about it.

Another thing worth mentioning is the fact how vivid everything was. This ties in with how distinct the characters are, which you are probably sick of me mentioning (hey, one of my favourite writters is Joss Whedon, and he's all about the characters. Have you seen Firefly?). But this was so cool. When one of the narrators was describing something, I understood how they felt and I was there with them. But more there than anything else. It was like I was in their head and in their skin. It made me kinda dizzy (but that might be because I was dehydrated). Honestly, I want to be able to write like this. To be able to actually take a reader into a character's head and make them forget that they are actually reading, until their boss catches them doing so and-... so, yea, I want to be able to write like that.

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x-posted at Side Kick to Distracted-ness

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o1. pick twenty musicians
o2. post them and see who can guess which song of each musician's is your favorite
o3. once someone guesses right, bold that row and include your favorite song

1) Evanscence
2) Blink 182
3) Avril Lavigne "Nobody's Home" by bibsy
4) Good Charlotte "predicatible" by robopatrick and
5) Yellowcard (there's 2 of them)
6) Kittie
7) Slipknot "Vermillion parts 1 and 2" by bibsy
8) System of a Down
9) Story of the Year
10) Linkin Park
11) Skye Sweetnam
12) Billy Talent
13) Vanessa Carlton
14) Michelle Branch "breathe" by robopatrick
15) Green Day "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" by bibsy
16) Simple Plan "Shut- up" by bibsy
17) My Chemical Romance
18) Our Lady Peace
19) Eminem "Mockingbird" by bibsy and
20) Black Eye Peas

eventually another person will guess, and then i'll post the rest of the answers up


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