What a dreadful prospect

What has poor Armand done to be condemnded to matrimony?
Why did the Day of Silence T-shirts have to be yellow?
The Day of Silence itself was good.
I didn't talk until lunch. And I sort of stopped being silent during 5th period.
But I got the point across. Sort of.
It was so stupid how many people were like, "I talked! I can't stay silent again all day! I'm such a failure!"
They could have always been, "Oh darn. Well, here I go again." There's no rule that says if you break the protest, you can't take part in it again. It's pretty hard to do anyway, keeping completely silent all day long.
Apparently some people got a lot of crap for doing it. I didn't get any, except for my math teacher jokingly saying he couldn't hear me when I gave the answers on my hands.
But I didn't get any homophobic comments, like a couple people did.
One girl got called a fag, which doesn't even make sense.
I met a couple of bisexuals who were like, "Aagh, I hate super religious people who make rude comments! It's not like two men can't be happy."
But he apologized when I was like, "Well...I'm a Christian."
Even though what he's saying is technically true.
But I mentioned what the Bible does say about man + man = happiness.
Because, even though the Bible thumpers aren't exactly nice about the Day of Silence, they're right when they say it's wrong, according to the Bible.
But then we talked about loving your neighbor and such.
And he'd never heard that part before.
Hmmm....
I wasn't the only Christian at the party, or the only one participating, which was nice.
A bunch of my Christian friends were either like, "I tolerate homosexuality, but I can't condone it," so they didn't participate.
And a couple were like, "No one should ever be made to feel worthless. I'm doing this for all people being bullied."
And a couple were like, "I feel REALLY strongly about this, so I'm going to participate."
We ended the day with a delicious cake Ed made, homemade frosting and everything.
And that was that.
"Hello Dolly" is a great movie and all, but I had forgotten how long it is.
Two hours of singing and ten minute dance sequences.
At least there wasn't any trippy ballet interludes with Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse, or worse: Jud, Laurey, and Curly.
Not that those aren't loads of fun, or anything.
Ew, my dad played Jud in high school. How gross is that?
Pre-nose job Barbra Streisand is somewhat of a babe.
"Out There" reminds me so much of "Wall-E". William and I were singing along, and my dad kept asking, "How do you know this?"
Please. I only watched this movie five times in first grade.
Ew, Walter Matthau is so lame. And sort of tone deaf. And they had no chemistry. She was much too sparkly and fabulous for him.
Tommy Tune is ginormous!!!!
Speaking of music, I got out "Letters to the President" and started listening to it again.
Oh, the memories.
And those fantastic summers where we went to concerts all the time and screamed the lyrics to "Sadie Hawkins Dance".
That might have just been one summer.
And probably not that fantastic.
But the nostalgia made me a little nauseous.

You can feel it all over, people

Stevie Wonder, "Sir Duke"!!!
When you have a sore throat, $25, and endless free time, all sorts of things can happen.
So I bought some Stevie Wonder, Queen, Paramore, and "Rent".
Now I'm reading Sims 2 blogs.
Weeee, March. Greatest month. And it's getting warmer (sort of) and it's sunny pretty much all the time. It's like a different state.
If you were to rob someone, would you really take their couch?
Not only is it heavy, but how else will they watch TV?
My dog smells awful.
I watched a half hour infomercial about 70's music. My dad watched with me and salivated over Tony Orlando's music collection.
I also watched "ShakespeaREtold", which was pretty excellent. "Much Ado About Nothing" was really well done. The ending of "Macbeth" was genius. "A Midsummer Night's Dream" sucked, but I hated that one anyway.
Ugh, watched "The Bachelor" on Monday. Jason Mesnick is such a scumbag.
First, he proposes to Melissa. She seemed so happy and they were so cute together.
Then, literally 5 MINUTES LATER, on "After the Final Rose", the camera cuts to Jason sobbing as he admits he doesn't love Melissa anymore and wishes he could bring Molly back.
HELLO???
He spent 6 WEEKS with Melissa. He spent all the holidays with her family and she bonded with Ty.
But that wasn't good enough, because the chemistry "changed".
Well, DUH! As you guys get closer, your relationship changes. That's the whole point!!
But no. He went crying back to Molly.
Melissa came on the show and chewed Jason out, calling him a bastard and saying that he might've loved Melissa, and wanted to be with Melissa, but he didn't want to fight for Melissa, because he was a balless sissy.
Well, she didn't say the last part. But she might as well have.
And I couldn't stop thinking about how SELFISH he was. SERIOUSLY! On the show, he was never worried about how the girls would feel, and he was only worried about what he wanted. His son is probably really confused after spending all that time with Melissa, having his dad promise that Melissa would be their new mom, and then dumping her. His son is probably never going to have a normal life because of his dad's fame, but it was NECESSARY. Jason NEEDED to find love.
And he ASKS Molly to take him back.
AND SHE DOES!!!
What. An. Idiot. If she doesn't think he'll do the same thing to her, she's kidding herself.
The opposite of love is selfishness. No wonder he got divorced.

Please just get it over with!!

My dad has gone crazy and must be stopped.
Ever since I made sugar cookies on Friday, he's been whipping up all sorts of holiday treats.
Yesterday, after I refused to make them, he made chocolate TRUFFLES.
He made TRUFFLES.
Then, today, while listening to Medved, he made macaroons, without chocolate, unfortunately.
And then (we thought he was kidding) I found him in the kitchen cubing cheese for cheese bread! It's in the oven now and it looks like a puffy, sauceless pizza.
And he usually hates when we eat carbs.

I HATE MICHAEL MOSCOVITZ!!! He's such a jerk in "Princess In Training", and SO CONTROLLING!
And people are like, "Oh, when he says, 'You WILL be mine,' I almost MELTED. It was SOOOO romantic."
Yeah. Maybe for someone with low-self esteem and a death wish.
BUt I have a sneaking suspicion that Mia will end up with Michael.
Because he's "changed" and they're "soulmates".
Ugh. If someone pressured you for sex and threatened to DUMP you if you didn't put out, why would you stay with him? I'd drop him immediately.
And they say he was only "joking", because he said, "I'm not going to wait forever," in a joking tone of voice.
But that is NOT something you joke about. You have NO idea how INCENSED this makes me.
Actually, you probably do, seeing as I've been yelling about it off and on since 2007.
Ugh.
Perin and Ling Su are definitely together.
I've been thinking about this, and some people agree with me, but there's a chance that Mia won't choose either boy; Michael OR JP. That would probably be the best ending, showing how much she's grown and how "self-actualized" she is.
This is terrible. I'm getting emotionally entangled with a YA series about a nonexistent principality (soon to become a democracy).

Emos rather than Spaniards

Andrew Adamson, please. You had to have known that "Prince Caspian" was the most boring book in the "Narnia" series, and it would be impossible to make an even remotely interesting movie based on it.
At least you tried.
See, Pastor Matt, I'm trying to be positive.
Okay, let the rant begin.
I know there's such a thing as "artistic license", but what is with Andrew Adamson and chase scenes?? He changed the whole beginning to include a chase scene. Kind of lame.
Ben Barnes is overrated. He's pretty good-looking, but honestly? Skandar Keynes is better, especially compared to the first movie. And then the Telmarines were apparently Spanish, so they all walked around with Spanish accents the entire movie. Nothing wrong with Spanish people, but Ben Barnes' sex appeal kind of dropped when I heard him speaking in that accent. What's wrong with British people??
OMG!!! Eddie Izzard played Reepicheep!! That's so hilarious!
Too bad Reepicheep was kind of annoying and not that funny.
Caspian was one of the weaker characters. That would've made more sense if Caspian had been 13 or so (like in the book, though that's not a change I have any problem with; 13 Caspian in the BBC version was annoying as anything), but this guy's almost grown, and it was pretty annoying. Man up.
What happened to Susan? She went from being an uber-snotty freak to a babe in eyeliner who spent most of her time blinking and casting baleful looks at things.
And then, in this particular book, she was at her worst, but in the movie, all of those behavioral problems were transferred to...Peter???
PETER WAS SO ANNOYING!!! Cocky, angsty, a huge jerk, etc.
He made EXTREMELY stupid decisions throughout the ENTIRE movie, then either justified them by claiming, "I'm the High King," or playing the victim and blaming everyone else.
As a perpetual victim/hypocrite, this got old for me pretty fast.
And then his character didn't grow at all, and it was like no one expected him, too. XO Hate.
Liam Neesen got robbed. Aslan shows up more than once in the book and has lots of running dialogue with Lucy, but in the movie he had like 5 lines.
And then Lucy is one of the most important characters, and she got the least screen time. It was like they forgot she was there.
I liked the dwarves and the centaurs of color the best. The new centaurs were a definite improvement on the loser centaurs from LWW. Trumpkin and Nikabrik were both really funny and superb actors, but Trumpkin was a little too melancholic.
Okay, I HAAAAATE movies that have to have one of the characters state the theme or moral explicitly or obviously. Every five seconds, one of the characters would tearfully spout some fact of life. So annoying.
Battle scenes are boring. Andrew Adamson loves battle scenes. Andrew Adamson and I do not get along.
And the final duel between Miraz and Peter was like 10 minutes long, and then, even after Miraz died, there was another 10 to 15 minutes of the final battle.
Then there was this whole random "Let's take over Miraz's castle" adventure that came out of nowhere.
The Narnians try to invade Miraz's castle, but Caspian sets off the alarm when he learns Miraz killed his father and goes to get revenge.
Then Peter doesn't retreat until it's too late, and half of their armies are killed.
Then Peter has the balls to blame it all on Caspian, even though the whole thing had been Peter's idea and Caspian, Lucy, and Susan had all advised against it.
Jerk.
Aaagh, there was this minotaur who was holding the gate open so all the other Narnians could escape, and Peter and all them got through, but then they shot the minotaur, so he died, and half the soldiers were stuck behind, and Peter's crying and the soldiers just nod and keep fighting, and you can see them dying and accepting fate and whatnot. It was so sad.
And a lot of those soldiers were centaurs, and apparently my favorite centaur's sons. *emo tear*
I like how all the bad guys from the first movie (wolves, minotaurs, etc.) are now good guys. The minotaurs and giants had quite an advantage.
Who saw the Susan/Caspian romance coming a mile away? That would be me, and I'm sure others saw it, too. But it seemed so random. I knew they were attracted to each other and stuff, but they spent like a day together, and at the end, Caspian is all, "I wish we could have more time together," and they act all weepy and in love.
And then she kisses him and it's supposed to be sweet, but also kind of confusing?
YOU'VE KNOWN EACH OTHER A DAY!!
Seriously, the director should do "The Magician's Nephew" or "The Horse and His Boy", because then he can do all the chase scenes and battle scenes he wants.
Ugh, I just wished he hadn't changed the story so much, although there wasn't much story to begin with. Artistic license be darned.
Like a sock.