What the Hell is This?

Okay.

...Okay?

I'm sorry, I love cats was rather put off by this awkward display of emotion. I wanted to share the... love Awkwardness.

People find really weird shit to go viral with.  I mean honestly, E3 and the horrors it brings are enough.

I am Petitioning Stoner Vids.

Before I go on this potentially VERY LONG RANT...  I just want to say WOO, new blog.  I think it fits Dis a lot better than the old layout, considering...  Well, the old layout reminded me of church and all things perfect and holy and...  Giles-y.  Let's not go there, but I'm glad I changed the layout.  Aren't you?

So yes.  Stoner vids.

I'm sure many of you enjoy a good laugh once in a while.  Sometimes, it's at the expense of Wile E. Coyote.  Sometimes, it's because that one classmate you hate just hit himself in the face with his pen.  And sometimes...  Well, sometimes you've just got to have a great big guffaw in the general public's direction.

I don't know, but I think 'Your Highness' just kind of spat in King Arthur's face.  For fun.  I don't take kindly to that.

I'm not sure what I expected when I walked into this movie.  I knew the type of audience it would draw and I was apprehensive at best (Because...  Does anybody here actually picture me as willingly walking into this type of movie?)  But for some reason, the bastards at Cinemark decided not to show 'Arthur' this week.   Hence, we decided we'd settle for this...  Erm...  [Insert nicer term than 'Abomination' here.]

Those of you reading this are probably aware that your tastes in humor and my tastes in humor greatly differ (If not, then kudos.)  We can thusly infer that while you would probably be sitting through this movie either giggling your arse off or shaking your head in amusement, I would either be stewing silently beside you or dropping my jaw in awe of the debacle that has managed to sweep the nation's movie theaters, however briefly that may be.

Thankfully, the critics agree with me.  Rotten Tomatoes (Bless them) gave this film a 25% on its ratings.  I'm choosing to blatantly ignore the 50% of users who did like it, because, well, most of the population tends to need to wear dunce caps on a daily basis in the first place.  Roger Ebert, whom everyone should know lest I chop off your necessary bits and feed them to the general populace for sheer stupidity, said:

"Your Highness" is a juvenile excrescence that feels like the work of 11-year-old boys in love with dungeons, dragons, warrior women, pot, boobs and four-letter words. One of the heroes even wears the penis of a minotaur on a string around his neck. I hate it when that happens.

 And...  Well, he's right.  Though I did somehow manage to find the idea of wearing a minotaur's penis around my neck morbidly amusing, the film was just...  Bad.  The humor was bad.  The lewd visuals and less-than-charming script were bad.  The actors, some of whom I adore (Natalie Portman: HOW COULD YOU?) were bad.  Even the fight scenes were bad.  Bad.  Bad.  Just...  Bad.

But wait, just how bad is it?  Let's see what good ol' Ebert has to say about Portman's performance:

Natalie Portman is the Xena clone, a fierce warrior, laid on for anime fans who seem to regard such characters as masturbatory fantasies. She too has no personality, although she has more dialogue, all of it expressing cliches of steely determination.

Oh shit, that's pretty fucking bad.  Not to mention, those poor boys who would regard her character as material for 'masturbatory fantasy' would probably find themselves dickless within three seconds if her character (Isabel, if you really must know) ever found out.  I love Ebert for pretty much blatantly saying "GO OUT AND GET LAID FOR REALS INSTEAD OF WATCHING SHITTY MOVIES."

I could be wrong.  Maybe I'm being too hard.  Maybe I should watch it again just to make double, triple sure I'm not going to be buying this movie for Christmas?

...Or maybe I just need to smoke AN ENTIRE FIELD OF CANNABIS to properly enjoy it?

Nevertheless, I had fun.  There was a mechanical bird named Simon and a squire named Courtney that funnily enough reminded me of a girl from Giles that would fit nicely in this setting.  So I guess this film wasn't all bad.

30 Day Song Challenge, Duly Noted.

I think it's only for my sanity, but I've decided that it'd probably be smart to see what my answers are when I start this, just in case I start it again.  So, starting from February 25, 2011:

DAY OO1

 

[MY FAVORITE SONG]: Shake It, by Metro Station

DAY OO2

 [MY LEAST FAVORITE SONG]: Hey There Delilah, by The Plain White T's

DAY OO3

 [A SONG THAT MAKES ME HAPPY]: Waka Waka (Time for Africa), by Shakira

DAY OO4

 [A SONG THAT MAKES ME SAD]: Ticket to Heaven, by Three Doors Down

DAY OO5

 [A SONG THAT REMINDS ME OF SOMEONE]: Swing Life Away, by Rise Against

DAY OO6

 [A SONG THAT REMINDS ME OF SOMEWHERE]: Over the Hills and Far Away, by Nightwish

DAY OO7

 [A SONG THAT REMINDS ME OF A CERTAIN EVENT]: The Fight Song, by Marilyn Manson

DAY OO8

 [A SONG THAT I KNOW ALL THE WORDS TO]: Kingdom for a Heart, by Sonata Arctica

 DAY OO9

 [A SONG THAT I CAN DANCE TO]: Stamp on the Ground, by The Italo Brothers

DAY O1O

 [A SONG THAT MAKES ME FALL ASLEEP]: Victoria's Secret, by Sonata Arctica

DAY O11

 [A SONG FROM YOUR FAVORITE BAND]: Come Cover Me, by Nightwish

DAY O12

 [A SONG FROM A BAND YOU HATE]: How to Save a Life, by The Fray

DAY O13

 [A SONG THAT IS A GUILTY PLEASURE]: One-Winged Angel, by Nobuo Uematsu

DAY O14

 [A SONG THAT NO ONE WOULD EXPECT YOU TO LOVE]: Undo, by Cool Joke
DAY O15

 [A SONG THAT DESCRIBES YOU]: The Escapist, by Nightwish 

DAY O16

 [A SONG THAT YOU USED TO LOVE BUT NOW HATE]: When Did Your Heart Go Missing, by Rooney 

DAY O17

 [A SONG THAT YOU HEAR OFTEN ON THE RADIO]: Paradise City, by Guns 'N Roses 

DAY O18

 [A SONG THAT YOU WISH YOU HEARD ON THE RADIO]: My Pace, by Manzo 

DAY O19

 [A SONG FROM YOUR FAVORITE ALBUM]: Half-Truism, by The Offspring

DAY O20

 [A SONG YOU LISTEN TO WHEN YOU'RE ANGRY]: Feuer Frei, by Rammstein

DAY O21

 [A SONG YOU LISTEN TO WHEN YOU'RE HAPPY]: Hey, Soul Sister, by Train 

DAY O22

 [A SONG YOU LISTEN TO WHEN YOU'RE SAD]: Eagleheart, by Stratovarius  

DAY O23

 [A SONG YOU WANT TO PLAY AT YOUR WEDDING]: Rhythm of Love, by Plain White T's

FISH BLOG #2, What Happens When Sei Performs a Water Change?

Oh my effing gawd.

Okay, before I get all Zomg spazzy, the test results as of 01/07/11 (By the way, Happy New Year everybody) are:

pH: 8.0/8.2
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 0

THESE RESULTS MAKE ME HAPPY.

They mean that I actually set up the tank properly!  W00t!

The new inhabitants of the tank include 6 Cherry Barbs (3 males, 3 females), 6 Kuhli Loaches, and 1 Albino Bristlenose Pleco (At this point...  I'm really not sure if it's a guy or a girl.  I think it's a girl though.  More updates to come.  xD)

This is Pleco.  He's shy, as he was just added today, so he's hiding.  We'll see if he does a decent job cleaning the algae out of my tank, though.

 
 Most if not all of my Cherry Barbs.

A single loach.  And you guys better appreciate me getting him on camera, because these things are fast little fuckers D:  Much easier to catch on video from a distance.

Speaking of, shortly after performing my second water change I caught all of my fish having a really huge dance party.  Well, everybody except Mr. Pleco that is.  The Barbs dance like:

But the loaches are a liiiiiiiiiiittle more spazzy...

Spoiling the fun, unfortunately, is all the algae that's slowly overcoming my tank.  Big brown spots (Diatoms) are growing.  Likely, a result of my stupidity in not investing in an auto-on/off switch for the lights, and also partially because I might be overfeeding the fish.  Maybe.  Still, this is supposed to be good for the algae eaters in my tank.  Pleco-dude(ette) should be in heaven once he comes out of his proverbial shell and actually lives a little.  I won't be surprised if he develops a little bit of a gut with all the stuff growing on the back and sides of his new home.  By the by, just saying but...  They keep A LOT of Plecos in the same tanks at pet stores.  There were tons of little albino and chocolate Pleco-lettes hanging onto one single piece of driftwood when we were there.

Algae D:

 

There's tons and tons of algae on the roof of the tiki hut.  I'm pretty sure Pleco's gonna have fun chewing all that up.

 

If you can see it, hair algae is growing on the bamboo stalk.

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE, I've replaced the (Dying) Amazon Sword plant and the (REALLY ANNOYING) dark plant things with four little bunches of Wisteria.  They're very pretty, and I'll take a picture of them next time so that maybe I'll actually have a tankful and it won't look so bare, but the Barbs keep munching on the leaves (And thereby killing them).  I somewhat wonder if this is good for the plants in some way, because it kind of serves as "pruning" them, but uhh...  I think they might be munching a little too fast...