I was terrified of the original Alice in Wonderland as a kid, and now the new Burton movie is going to scare the shit out of me. But, god, it looks so damn creepy-good. And the cast is pretty damn amazing.

"Starring seven-time Burton collaborator Johnny Depp as the Hatter, the film mixes live action and CGI, borrowing storylines and characters from both Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Burton's partner, Helena Bonham Carter, plays the evil Red Queen (pictured), while Anne Hathaway plays the lovely White Queen. Alan ­Rickman (the Caterpillar), Matt Lucas (Tweedledum and Tweedledee), Stephen Fry (the Cheshire Cat), and Christopher Lee (the Jabberwock) also take part."- Here.

ANNE HATHAWAY. And even though it's kind of a surprising choice for a Lewis Carroll character, she looks incredible in the pictures. She looks as ethereally beautiful as Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter look, well. Creepy. In a good way?


More pictures.

And this is just because holy crap, she's crazy hot.

I'm back. My grandmother passed away, but it was really a good thing. She was in absolute agony. There were IVs in her neck. But I don't know, it was a really good trip. After she passed, I got really close to a lot of my family who I never knew well before. And I hadn't realised how awesome a lot of them are.

That... might sound horrible, but Amachi would have been glad.

It, um. It looks a little bit like Pirates of the Caribbean crossed with, maybe, Marie Antoinette. Although, Robert Downey Jr is nothing but ten kinds of awesome (Ironman!) and Rachel McAdams is unbelievably beautiful, so, eyecandy. Jude Law, eh.

So basically, even though it looks vaguely average, I'm still ridiculously excited. Accents! Bromance! Corsets!

Christ. So my week has been crazy busy, and I've still managed to wound myself, despite not doing anything particularly out of the ordinary. *headdesk*

On Tuesday I went out for dinner with Dad, his new girlfriend and a couple of his friends for his birthday. And holy crap, most awkward thing ever. His new girlfriend, Pauline (not the old Pauline, this is a different one) was 20 minutes late and I was hungry, damn it. And she's completely taken over my house. It's insane. I don't recognise it any more. It went from a shithole house to an actual home. But not my home. It's odd. AND she was really subtly denigrating me for not seeing Dad often. So, yes, I'm not too fond of her. I'm going to see Dad's ex next Wednesday. I miss Audrey.

On Wednesday, oh, I did the stupidest thing possible. I woke up (obviously), early, for uni. And I was carrying my breakfast milkshake from the kitchen to the living room. And I was wearing socks, and Mum had just cleaned the hardwood floors. I slipped, landed heavily on my back and legs. My back was so bruised and swollen I couldn't go to uni. It hurt so much. But by the evening it had abated somewhat, so Mum, Laura and I went out and had an amazingly awesome time. It was the most fun I'd had out in a long time. So much better than mainstream places.

Thursday was the Monash Asian/ASEAN Ball. The venue was absolutely amazing. It seated 800 people. It was beautiful. It was a good night, nothing special, but okay. Not really my scene. But Max and I finally co-ordinated our timetables and got the train together this morning, so that was awesome.

And tonight is Sam's party-thing, which promises some good times. And then, holy crap, I'm going to go home and sleep so much.

/end

Just another piece for my Creative Writing class. A monologue, this time.

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I have an eclectic gathering of icons that were mostly for icon challenges. So I figured I may as well put them somewhere I'll remember.

13 SGA icons
1 Supernatural header
1 Christian Kane header

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Just. A huge, huge thanks to rilestar, who knew exactly what to say last night when I made my horribley angst-filled Entry. I'm grateful that you caught it before I deleted it, because you really lifted me. And thank you so much for the v-gift. *squishes*

Oh. Good. God. Christopher Heyerdahl (Todd from SGA, Alistair V2 from SPN) is going to be in the New Moon movie. As Marcus. Christ. Why?

Also. TIPSY JOE!

Poll #1380975 Societal Niceties
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Is it okay to fill up your water bottle in piblic restrooms?

But seriously. Can you?

Eric Kripke/Joss Whedon slash. Brilliant. I love my fandoms so hard. You must go and read this. Now. The Gods command you.

According to IMDB, Tom Welling "Was on Stephenie Meyer's wish list to play Emmett Cullen before casting even began for the movie Twilight."

ETA: Jensen Ackles "Was offered a role as Eliza Dushku's love interest on "Tru Calling" (2003) but chose to take a role on "Smallville" (2001) instead. Eric Christian Olsen was eventually given the role and the character's name was changed to Jensen." That's awesome. Even if Tru Calling was kind of crappy. I still love it.

Ahahaha. Chad Michael Murray "Was originally up for the role of Ryan Atwood on "The O.C." (2003), but turned it down for Lucas Scott on "One Tree Hill" (2003)."

I am so bored. I'll stop now.

Things that have happened in recent times:

- I tried acupuncture. It was both less and more painful than I expected. The actual needles barely hurt at all, except when I moved, and then it stung a little. I had 6 needles stuck in my forehead, 1 in each wrist, 1 in each calve, and 1 in the arch of each foot, so, 12 all together. The painfulweird part was the, um, electroshock acupuncture treatment. I had electrodes stuck onto my forehead among the needles, and they pulsed for 20 minutes. That's a long time to a) have electricity running through your head and neck in sticky-sharp bursts, and b) have absolutely nothing to do. I couldn't move. I was so bored.

- I got pie. Raspberry pie. And beef burgundy, and lamb and rosemary.

- Fell in love with Leverage. And not just because of Chris Kane, although, hmm. I do adore him. Amy, I reckon you'll really like it. It's kind of like Ocean's 11, but in a TV show format. Yup. True story.

- Got evacuated. I was at uni, in the union house computer lab, and it was raining pretty hard. Then all of a sudden, warning alarms went off and we got evacuated. No one knows why. But we were stuck outside in the pouring rain for 20 minutes, and then they let us back in without explanation. The working theory is that the lightning disrupted equipment. Meanwhile, my centrelink application got disrupted, so instead of fixing that, I decided I'd post to lj. Because I'm that responsible. Did anything rain/lightning-wise happen to any other Melbournians? Hell, even Sydney-ans? Its wet up there, isn't it?

- Yeah, no, I think that's about it. Oh, Laura, Amy, you were right: the Skins finale is nothing special. Also, god forbid, I may have started watching Gossip Girl again. WHYWHYWHY.

- Realised I am broke. Not sure if I can go out next Friday. *ponders this*

I am having an awesome end to a crappy day thanks to my Laura (AMY! OUR SYSTEM WORKS!) and ADB being on foxtel. Um. Australians, go watch it NOW, on Movie One.

Okay. So. Supanova is clearly inferior to Armageddon, but. It was still awesome.

Katee Sackhoff just looked incredibly pretty. In the show, or what clips and screencaps I've seen, she's looked sexy and beautiful, but not this pretty, so that surprised me. And she's very sweet. Her line for autographs wasn't too long, so that was good. Her panel was pretty frakking awesome.

I asked Vanessa's question, "If you could play any other character on the show, or any other sci-fi show, who would it be?" and she answered, "Well, i've always loved Gaius Baltar. Oh, I always wanted to be a cylon. It was weird, Tricia and I were up against each other for Starbuck, and when I auditioned, I kind of knew I was going to get it. I felt so bad for her, i actually told my mum that if the network was smart, they'd cast her as someone else. And of course she ended up being Six. So for most of the first season, I wanted to be her, and she wanted to be me."

Also. Correct me if i'm wrong, but she has/had cancer?

She spoke about how after BSG ended she was offered a role in another Battlestar project which she turned down because she was so exhausted and loved Starbuck's ending. She also spoke about how she ad-libbed parts of the finale because she liked it better than the scripting (i'll tell people in comments). Oh, and when there were scripts she disagreed with with regards to Starbuck, and the directors wouldn't cave, she just showed up and acted the scenes so badly that they had to cut them.

Oh my god, there was so much more, but nothing that I can remember off the top if my head. Seriously, Vanessa, ask me questions and i'll answer. Oh, and do you want me to mail the autograph to you or wait til you come down?

Sorry this was so crappy.

Jesus christ. I am so goddamned over this shit.

I had a fantastic day. Definitely one of the best ways to celebrate my 18th. First thing I did: go to Club X with Amy because I am just that awesome. Second thing: eat. Oh my god. We went to TGIF and had potato skins, fried mac and cheese and chocolate malt turtles. Holy shit they were good. And Sunah! It was so good to see her again, and she looked amazing with her hair curled and her contacts in. *smushes her*

Then we went to June's house and just hung out for a while. Amy was feeling quite sick again so we just parted ways at the train station and I went to Eastland and hung out with Laura for a while before I got picked up. Oh, by the way, the Brekkie to Gogo smoothies are really good from Boost.

Went home and got ready, and then we went and picked Laura up and went to Know. We went to Seamus O'Toole's pub and had a few drinks: a quick fuck shot, and vodka lemon lime and bitters (Laura asked if i've ever had a shot before and I laughed). We went for dinner at Bar Bosh, which was absolutely amazing. We got, to share, smoked chicken and mushroom fritters, field mushrooms in molten cheese, an amazing pizza-thing, and then we got a pasta with chorizo later. And for dessert we all got incredible dishes and shared. I got sticky date pudding with real clotted cream and this stunning caramel sauce, Mum got a slice of Mars Bar cake which was layered with a soft chocolate mousse, and Laura got an incredibly tangy slice of Lemon Tart which was unbelievably good.

Went back to the pub and Laura and I danced for a few hours. Tremendous fun.

Thank you to Amy and Laura and gets_it_faster! I love you.

Moar poetry. Sorry. But, PLEASE, advice, criticism... anything at all.




At some point, his love became
superfluous. An unnecessary,
fleeting creature that, yes,
is nice to hold close but,
ultimately? is irrelevant.

his love, because he is in no
risk of being cannonised, is
both a carrot and a stick:
a promise and a threat. It is
a tangible object, lubricated
by yeast and grapes, sometimes-
although, often, it drowns
in the most bitter of liquids.

Impossible to trap, his love
flitters like dark secrets in
the mind. It's an echo of past
affections; a reflection of
potential futures. Truly, has
no love been so interminable.

It is an impossible paradox:
a love promised forever,
always present and, still,
always absent. A unsolveable
riddle of uncertainty and
fear. hope. desire. he looks on as,
unseeen, the potential for his
love, his hate, plays in the
deep, dark creatures crawling
in the back of your (my) mind.

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You know you're a nerd when you understand 98% of bash.org quotes. *headdesk*