So I've been doing some belated Halloween movie viewing online, maybe trying to find a bit of inspiriational material for my book, and I ran accross two very awesome, very disturbing, very bloody vampire movies. Both play alot with the idea of a "vampire", both as a psychological and physical disease. They're absolutely awesome. Watch them. For FREE.

Daddy's Girl (Cravings; USA): A British film from 2006 that involves a psychiatrist and a young girl with an affinity for blood. The more disturbing movie of the two. Awesomely fucked up ending, and the girl just gets creepier and creepier. She looks like Wednesday Addams. lol
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The Hamiltons: Friggin kicked the goddamn sparkles off of the Cullens. Made in 2009, a story about a family of vampires trying to make their way in the world after their parents' deaths. Poor little Francis doesn't fit in quite yet with his vampire siblings. The un-sterilized version of the Cullen family; Twilight meets Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Blood, sex, and blood. Oh, yeah, and Lenny. This movie also made me think of Strangers. Also, an awesomely creepy movie.
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NEXT...
If I can get a hold of a copy I wanna see "The Death of Alice Blue", a Canadian film from... 2009? '07?

いやだな。。

Or maybe it's just Jazz majors. My Writing class is full of them. They're Honors kids, too. Makes them more annoying. They're Freshman, too. Jeebus, need I say anything else?

First of all, you'd think they've been at the University forever. Like they were 五年生　or something. Maybe it's because they're not the first of their family to go to college? I don't know. And yet they act as though college is something to be so uptight over and that First-Year seminar is a real class. For Chrissake, you're a MUSIC major. A JAZZ major no less. You /have/ to think college is a joke to begin with. Nonetheless, if you have to be that uptight to be an Honors kid, there's a problem. Maybe it's with me, because all of the "Honors" courses I've taken have been the biggest joke of my life. I get my tuition /paid/ to take these shitty, easy classes.

So, we hafta write all of these mini-papers over the semester and read them aloud for peer critquing. The topics were as follows: Place, Person, Voice(fiction), and Story/Event. All, save the third one, are supposed to be from one's life, a true story. ANYWAY, instead of being CREATIVE, VARIED, and WELL-ROUNDED, nearly all of these Freshies (except the two nursing majors, two art majors, some stragglers, and myself) WROTE ABOUT MUSIC IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. That was well and dandy for for the first few readings, but I can't stand it anymore. Shit, I like music too, but you don't catch me orgasming over B flat and laughing about the witty jokes the author makes about his rival who cannot play a simple Arpeggio-V-chord-Megatron-friggin'-lick. (OH, HO,HO,HO!) And, what is "dirty jazz?" Is that like someone making sexual moaning sounds while skatting? I don't even want to find out. I just... IDC!

There's this one kid, who should file for a change of major. He's trying so hard to get out of the shadow of his father and brother, that it's coming out in his writing. He tries to outdo the length of everyone's paper. The papers are supposed to be about 3 pages long. His last one was 8 pages single spaced. Again, I love to write, but I'm not about to tell random 17-year olds about my life's story. I'd much rather write about something that brings out my ego less. Non-fiction is for the uncreative.

They all say, "I like the mood you created." Or something like, "Very well-rendered dialogue." Or, "Oh! I like the part when you talk about the complex scale of the improvisation used in executing your saxophone solo!" Cut. Me. A. Break! Yet, these youngins can't remember to place punctuation /inside/ the quotations, or how to use commas properly, or not use colloquial speech. You should not write how you speak! But colloquial English seems to be the American NewSpeak. Grammar is a dead art. All they know is music terminology and they cling to it like it's their native tongue.

And they are youngins. They just don't seem to think so. They act like the 80s were the good 'ol days that they remember so well. They weren't even AROUND for the 80s. They weren't even a twinkle in their mothers' eyes. I wasn't even around for the 80s, and I don't pretend that I was. 1989 babies barely were, either. It's just in the number. Given, the 80s did in a way spill over into the 90s; yanno, numbered decades don't clearly box off trends, but they were born in 1991. '91, really! Now my sister, born in '74, she knew the 80s. And she knew it were gangsta. lol Berlin wall and all. lol

Yeah, I hate music majors. I hate my Writing class. What a drag. And in the language of of my classmates, "It's full of civilians." For God's sake, music is not the be all and end all (at least not jazz), just like your designer shoe brand isn't. Learn a second language, or study history, or philosophy, -something useful- or just care about something other than Satchmo, or some shit! Don't lock yourself up in your room and jamm for hours, spilling out your soul like diarrhea over music with no rhyme or reason!

MY HEAD JUST F-CKING EXPLODED!!!!!!!!!

WUTHERING HEIGHTS. AWESOME BOOK. WHY OH FRIGGIN WHY DO BOTH VAMPIRE DIARIES AND TWILIGHT MAKE REFERENCES TO IT?!?! WTF. AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! I AM ASHAMED. FORBIDDEN LOVE. YAYAYAY. ISN'T ONE THIRD OF THE LITERARY WORLD CENTERED AROUND THAT VERY IDEA? THEN WHY OH WHY CAN'T TWO 21ST CENTURY NOVELS/MOVIES/TV SERIES MAKE A REFERENCE TO SOMETHING OTHER THAN THAT SAME FRIGGIN BOOK?!

AND CATHERINE! AS IF THAT WEREN'T COINCIDENTAL ENOUGH THAT KATHERINE GIRL SHARES THE NAME OF THE FEMALE LOVE OBJECT(S) [Catherine] FROM WUTHERING HEIGHTS!

I've been meaning to post this here:

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UMM, GOD, YAY! If we ever get an open beta. YAYAYAYAY!

They need another programmer, modeler, texture artist, and animator, so if you know/are one of these, you should go help them so I can have the game of my dreams. lol BE COOL. DO IT. I'd help, but I'm useless.

YAYAYAYAY!!

So, just saw the season finale of True Blood, which was amazing. In an effort to pacify myself until the next season, I watched the pilot of Vampire Diaries. Not so great.

Honestly, WHAT WAS THAT?! I felt like I was watching the Twilight movie all over again, but the acting was actually WORSE. >< Elena girl, a reincarnated Katherine girl? Oh, get the hell off of it how many times has this plotline been vomited and reingested? Here’s the whole plot for the rest of the season right here: Stephen guy wants to be with Elena girl because she looks like Katherine girl. Stephen guy killed Katherine girl back in the day, maybe in an effort to change her? Whatever. Damon tries to destroy the town by taking a sip from every female juicebox around, Stephen say nay. Sounds like a spinoff of TB season 1 with Renee. Blah blah blah we get Bill vs. Eric and Edward/Bella vs. evrybdy all over again. Yuck. BTW poor poor Elena girl and Jeremy boy. Your parents died. How bad for you. –no sympathy- And duality, nice for Dickens novels but kind of falls flat on its face regarding the relationship between StePHen and DAMON. DAMON. Cute actor, but jeez what a name choice! Just call the two of them friggin Lucifer and the other St. Michael! Furthermore, how CLICHÉ! They even pretty much say it in the pilot. Crows, fog, SRSLY? How fake. Cemetary? Friend me before I can enter your house? Hows about we turn into bats next episode? What’s more, a ring to keep you from becoming vampire cocaine in the morning? (I was excited that the daylight curfew looked like it would be lifted from this series, but OF COURSE NOT) Come to think of it, I think I had that item in Oblivion. It was called The Vampire Signet Ring of FAIL. Aww, and how cute they both have DIARIES. Are..you..SRSLY?! XDD Come off it. I have reason to believe even when it was perfectly hetero for a man to have a journal they secretly felt very, very, gay. That’s why their shirts had ruffles. And keeping their wigs clean was just an excuse to bake and sing to Madonna. Not to mention Stephen’s actor looks like JAY LENO. (Ew.) And I thought Bill Compton’s face was rather erm.. erm. Was this a book?? Did it have pictures?

In any case, I might watch this garbage just to pacify myself until True Blood season 3. Some SookiexEric would be cool and more character development of Lafayette and Sam!

I wonder, in a lovely hypothetical world, would you have to friend a vampire before he could access your public myspace? Lol Rapists and identity theives-- no problem. All powerful, blood-sucking, dead things? They need permission.

EDIT: Another WTF moment. In TB, Sookie's umm, a mind reader. And her best friend is a Black girl, Tara. In Diaries the best friend is a Black girl also, and she's a psychic. Umm... CAN I HAVE TEH SECKS W UR STORIE AND HAVE AN UGLY BABY SPINOFF??