The Girl: Juliet, Julie, Jules. 27. 5'3". Proud Canadian and Toronto resident. University girl no longer, recent addition to the real world. Capricorn on the cusp of Aquarius. Owner of 1 blog, 1 website, and 1 fanlisting, which is enough for now. Insane. Honest. Loyal. Caring. Occasionally witty. Dreamer. Realist. Dork. Oxymoron. Walking contradiction. Addicted to Buffy, The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Our Lady Peace, Savage Garden, movies, various movie people, fanlistings, fanfiction, the Internet, and addictions. ( More? )
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Off the top of my head, there's Savage Garden: Affirmation and Our Lady Peace: Gravity. I quite liked Backstreet Boys: Millennium back in the day, too. :)
The first album you bought?:
Romeo + Juliet soundtrack
The last album you bought?:
Veronica Mars soundtrack
Do you download songs/albums? Or prefer to buy the albums?:
I prefer to buy the albums if I'm planning on listening to more than a few tracks.
How many CD's do you buy a month/year?:
Apparently, I've bought 11 albums so far this year.
Current song you're obsessed with?:
Dandy Warhols: "We Used to be Friends" and Sarah Slean: "Day One"
An album you have at home and you are ashamed of/regretted you bought?:
Shouldn't have bought the 1999 Grammy Rap Nominees album or Jessica Simpson: Sweet Kisses. I'm not really ashamed, per se, about anything. :)
A band you love and you are (not) ashamed to admit?:
Um, the Backstreet Boys. It may be the nostalgia value...
Your fav vid clip? (you don't have to like the song!):
Other than videos by favorite artists in general and/or from movies, Spice Girls: "Viva Forever"
Your fav combination of vid clip and song? (you like both clip and song).:
Other than videos by favorite artists in general and/or from movies, Matthew Good Band: "Apparitions". Ooh, and R.E.M.: "Everybody Hurts"
The song that makes you cry?:
No songs make me cry, but some of them make me think really deep thoughts. :)
The songs that makes you wanna party/bounce/dance?:
I don't think I actually party, bounce, OR dance, really, so I don't really know. ;)
The song with the most beautiful lyrics?:
Oh God, you want me to pick ONE song??
The song with the nicest title?:
Three Days Grace: "(I Hate) Everything About You" ;)
Best cover song?:
Oh, man, so many...um, off the top of my head, there's OLP: "Imagine" and OLP's cover of Sarah Slean's cover of OLP's "Julia". ;)
The hottest/sexiest singer alive (or dead)?:
Meh.
A gig you loved (even if you just heard/saw on TV)?:
The first one ever, Backstreet Boys' Into the Millennium tour, Savage Garden Affirmation tour
Music for me is....:
the bread of life. ;) No, but I mean, how much less interesting would the world be without music?
When was the first time I relised I'm a music addict?:
When I realized what kind of world I thought the world would be without music.
People who don't care for music are...:
really, really missing out. And possibly delusional. ;)
Every year, the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail publishes its Canadian Literary Quiz, which I never enter because, well, I usually don't know most of the answers. This year is no different, but I thought I'd put the list of questions up and let all of you try your luck. I guess Canadians might have a bit of an advantage, but not all the questions are about Canadian books or authors. So here you go. :)
The four questions I am able to answer: 11. How did John Steinbeck's East of Eden become a bestseller in 2003? 19. Which day of Henry Perowne's week was captured this year? 31. What genre of book does the film A History of Violence spring from? 35. Why would you not want to trust the 2004 guidebook Molvanîa?
If you want the answer to those 4 (and ONLY those 4), let me know. Heh. The Great Canadian Literary Quiz By TED MUMFORD Saturday, November 26, 2005 | Page D39
Globe Books invites readers to enter the 10th annual Great Canadian Literary Quiz. The three highest-scoring entries will receive gift certificates from Indigo Books & Music. A fourth entry will be selected at random. Entries may be mailed to The Great Canadian Literary Quiz, c/o Ted Mumford, The Globe and Mail, 444 Front St. West, Toronto, Ont. M5V 2S9; faxed to 416-585-5505; or e-mailed to litquiz@globeandmail.ca. Please include address and daytime phone number. Deadline is Dec. 12, 2005; winners and answers in January.
It doesn't say, but I'd assume you'd have to actually be Canadian in order to send in a valid entry. :)
Duuude, new teaser trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is available now! Right-click save-as here to watch it. Updated with better versions: click here to download the teaser in QT or Windows Media format. :D
Saw Harry Potter again today. Unsurprisingly, it was remarkably similar to the way it was when I saw it on Sunday. :) I didn't notice too much that I'd missed the first time around, but it was nice to revisit the movie and take a second look at things that bothered me (and they still bother me), things I liked (still cool), and the ways characters reacted to things. The theme music was actually present in this movie, though, but I guess just not as pervasively. After the first time, I hadn't remembered hearing the theme at all. Anyway, I don't think there was enough letting-it-stew time between viewings, since, you know, I just saw the movie 3 days ago. I've talked about the movie a lot with different people (do you KNOW how hard it is to keep track of who it was who's watching the movies without reading the books, or who hasn't seen any of the movies and hasn't read any of the books? The rabid seen-everything, read-everything fans are easier to keep track of though), but those conversations have been mostly superficial "here's what I liked/disliked" types of conversations rather than the "whoa, man, that's deeeeep" kind. :) So yeah, if it's a while 'til I see this movie again, that's fine by me.
Wheee, Harry Potter! I can't wait to see how they handle the next movie. Muhahaha. Should be...interesting. There are certain scenes the moviemakers have to include if they value their lives at all (personally, I wouldn't want a bunch of Potterheads after me), and then there are scenes that you could probably already accurately surmise won't make it into the movie (come on, the next book's even longer than the fourth is!).
I was talking to a friend yesterday about The Lord of the Rings (just before I decided that I didn't really need to go to my Economics tutorial, after all) which kinda revived the never-entirely-silence LOTR fangirl in me. Anyway, giving it all more thought, as one is wont to do when there is other, less interesting work to be done, I came up with a list of the questions we are still left with after watching the movies. So here we are.
20 (-2) Questions
If Frodo and Sam put on orc armor in Mordor so that Frodo wouldn't have to walk around in "naught but [his] skin", where did their clothes come from in the ensuing scenes at Mount Doom?
How can the Great Eye be ever-watchful and all-seeing if it sees with a beam of light similar to a lighthouse's?
Why do they refer to Frodo's ship to the Grey Havens as "the last ship" when it so clearly isn't the last?
Why can some people still not be able to tell the difference between Merry and Pippin?
Why, in the movies, has Gimli, Son of Glóin, been reduced to the role of comic relief?
Are there any funnier Engrish subtitles than the ones for The Two Towers bootlegs?
Does Frodo really wear Jockeys?
Why does Legolas feel the need to state the obvious?
If Aragorn had listened to Legolas about not lingering in Moria and about leaving the western shore of the Anduin River before the shadow and the threat growing in Legolas's mind drew near, couldn't the Fellowship have avoided a bit of trouble?
How does Frodo get the chain around his neck to constantly change its length?
Exactly how many times does Merry say Pippin's name in the scene in Minas Tirith where Pippin takes the Palantír from Gandalf?
Were Arwen's brothers off on vacation somewhere during the making of these movies?
Gorbag (a Mordor orc) wants to give Frodo's Mithril shirt to the Great Eye. Why exactly does the Great Eye need a shirt?
Has anyone ever considered that the Mouth of Sauron might have been of a nicer disposition if somebody had just taken the time to buy him some good toothpaste? (ROTK extended edition)
How is it that Mordor collapses completely, but the perfect semi-circle of land that the good guys are standing on just outside the Black Gate remains intact?
How long did the Dead Men of Dwimorberg spend putting together that skull landslide? (ROTK extended edition)
Where do we sign up for shield-surfing lessons?
Who's really taller: Merry or Pippin? (TTT extended edition)
Do I happen to have an mp3 of a song that you want? Check my list here and see if there's anything you need. Send me your e-mail address and state the song you want and I'll send the mp3 to you using YouSendIt.com, SendThisFile.com or SendSpace. :)
Music I need
There are the mp3s I'm looking for. If you have any of these and wouldn't mind sharing it with me, please use YouSendIt.com, SendThisFile.com or SendSpace to send it to me at verbatim119[at]gmail.com. Thanks much! :D
- none right now
Current Conditions
Right now, I am: feeling: reading: n/a. Last completed: City of Glass. working on: keeping optimistic listening to:LAUNCHcast Radio
loving: stories not liking: uncertainty anticipating: (chronological)
- Shutter Island
- Alice in Wonderland
- Deathly Hallows ( view complete list with dates )
Uppers and downers:
Ý new friends
Ý fiction
ßß the unknown
ßß lethargy
Most recent purchase(s):
eBay gift for a friend
Lesson #65: When you are running late or you are low on time, you will always be driving behind the slowest car possible.
Last download: Vampire Weekend albums
Last movie seen at a theater: The Princess Bride
Last movie seen on video/other: Starstruck
Quote of the moment:
"We were frightened of being left alone for the rest of our lives. Only people of a certain disposition are frightened of being alone for the rest of their lives at the age of 26…we were of that disposition." — High Fidelity
Lyrics of the moment: I miss Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Oh God I miss that show
Misspelling/factual/grammatical error of the moment:
"Visitors Parking"
