eviscerate your fragile frame,

baby, i'm bad news

2008-04-27T22:06:45Z

This could, you know, totally fail, but I've been wanting to do one of these for a while, and I guess it's worth a shot!

multi-fandom friending meme

make sure you pimp this out, bbs.

the road to hell is paved with good intentions

2008-03-25T22:04:33Z

In light of the fact that I seem to be spending a lot of time ranting and raving about myself, I thought it would be nice to bust out the anonymous comment meme again. Say anything, loves. ♥

Leave me an anonymous comment pouring your heart out. Say anything. Tell me your stories, your secrets, those things no one ever asks but you wish to tell. Tell me about your love, your hate, your indifference, your joy. Tell me anything.

Post anonymously [by selecting the anonymous box]. Speak honestly, because there isn't any censure here. Post as many times as you like. One faceless wonder to another. You don't have to be on my friends list. Maybe you're just stopping by, passing through. It doesn't matter.

2008: keeping track

2007-12-31T04:12:24Z

films watched & books read,
feel free to leave recs.

Films
January 2008
01. The Bridges of Madison County (1995) - A
02. La Vie En Rose (2007) - A+
03. Knocked Up (2007) - B-
04. Like Minds (aka Murderous Intent) (2006) - A-
05. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) - A+
06. Chocolat (2000) - A+
07. Year of the Dog (2007) - C
08. Georgia Rule (2007) - A
09. Across the Universe (2007) - A
February 2008
10. Atonement (2007) - A+
11. Lifeboat (1944) - A FOR TALLULAH BANKHEAD, OBVS.
12. Juno (2007) - A
13. Madame Tutli-Putli (2007) - B
14. Même les pigeons vont au paradis (2007) - B
15. The Martian Child (2007) - B-
16. Sunset Boulevard (1950) - A+
17. Descent (2007) - D+
18. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) - B
19. Perfect Stranger (2007) - B-
March 2008
20. Margot at the Wedding (2007) - A
21. Young Frankenstein (1974) - B
22. Hotel Rwanda (2004) - A
23. The Departed (2006) - A+
24. Nancy Drew (2007) - C
25. Ratatouille (2007) - B+
26. The Business of Strangers (2002) - A
27. Six Degrees of Separation (1993) - A
28. Othello (1995) - B-
April 2008
29. The Mist (2007) - D-
30. I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007) - A-
31. The Virgin Suicides (1999) - A
32. Beowulf (2007) - B+
33. Hard Candy (2005) - A
34. There Will Be Blood (2007) - A+
35. Bonnie & Clyde (1967) - A
36. The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) - B-
37. Born In East LA (1987) - D
May 2008
38. 27 Dresses (2008) - C-

Books
(in italics are books read in school and not by choice)
01. Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
02. Rebel Angels, Libba Bray
03. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
04. Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist, Rachel Cohn & David Levithan
05. Running with Scissors, Augusten Burroughs
06. Remembered Death, Agatha Christie ♥
07. Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer
08. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight In Heaven, Sherman Alexie
09. A Yellow Raft In Blue Water, Michael Dorris
10. Gypsy: A Memoir, Gypsy Rose Lee
11. How To Hepburn, Karen Karbo
12. Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
13. The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides
14. Paint It Black: A Novel, Janet Fitch

ETA 1/5/08: Andi gave me the idea to make a list of TV shows I need to watch as well, so.
TV To-Do List
01. The West Wing (S1, S2, S3, S4, S5, S6, S7)
02. The Office (US) (S1, S2, S3, S4)
03. The Sopranos (S1, S2, S3, S4, S5, S6)
04. Doctor Who (~~Series 1~~, Series 2, Series 3)
05. 30 Rock
06. The Tudors

i'd like to see my eyes in someone else's face.

2007-12-17T20:14:48Z

fic, yo'. I don't know if I like this or not, but whatever.
Title: Five Things To Love About Luna Lovegood
Rating: PG
Ship(s): Harry/Luna, brief mentions of Harry/Ginny
Summary: She is an innocent, and he is a fool.

one.

The kind of music Luna plays is exquisite. The way she’s mastered the piano is some kind of beautiful Harry never sees coming. An unexpected early morning walk sees them passing by a Muggle music store. She’s gone wide-eyed at the sight of all the instruments, and insists, dreamily still, that they go inside. Smiling to himself, he obliges. She is taken with all of them, fingering each with a slight frown, appearing to be deep in thought. He stands by, waiting, afraid to interrupt, though his stomach aches for a breakfast yet to be eaten. She comes over to the grand piano stationed in the center of the room, and smiles, her fingers daintily caressing the smooth surface of it. It silently begs her inexperienced fingers to play, and casts a spell over her that can only be broken, temporarily, by the suggestion that they go to the café around the corner for, her favorite, pudding and a salad with extra radish.

He buys her a sleek ebony grand for her twentieth birthday, presenting it to her sheepishly. It is an act of kindness that he himself doesn’t understand. Her grey eyes are alight with excitement. The hug she gives him in return is brief, innocent. It warms him to an inexplicable extent, but he is careful to keep his distance. The blondness of her hair is a jutting reminder of the fiery red he is accustomed to. Ginny, Ginny, Ginny, he repeats faithfully to himself.

The way she plays is the only thing more exquisite than the music itself. She chooses odd, edgy pieces that lull him into a trance, slowly, easily, before jerking him violently awake, eyes flung wide open. After only a few years, her fingers barely hesitate on the keys. She plays with a dreamy grace that hypnotizes him, sending him spiraling into tunnels of smooth, alternating blacks and whites. When she finishes, there is only agonizing silence.

two.

She smells of a mixture of things, an always-pleasant mixture. There is the scent of a flower he can never remember the name of.

“Peony.” She says to him one day over tea. “My mother used to wear them in her hair. She told me they grant the wearer the power to keep a secret.” He smiles at this.

Then, there is the smell of persimmon, sweet and alluring. She bakes the orange fruits into cookies and hands them out to random passerby on the streets, all of whom usually take one and eye it with much apprehension. She tells him she does it because her father says that persimmon is especially good for curing sudden bouts of sadness and preventing a rare kind of disease brought on from long-term exposure to salamander saliva.

She, who smells of peonies and persimmon, provides another sharp contrast to his wife, who smells of synthetic floral perfume and, often, of too much whiskey.

three.

She is always surprised and delighted to be invited to the annual Christmas Eve party. She arrives two hours too early and brings odd decorations of all the wrong colors. She drapes the furniture with oranges and yellows and gazes for hours at the tree, mesmerized by the lights. She drinks mug after mug of hot chocolate, smiling privately to herself with every sip.

“Nargles don’t like chocolate much,” she says, absently.

As a joke, Ron steals some whiskey from his sister's secret stash and pours a decent amount of it into Luna's fifth mug of hot chocolate. She mistakes the burning sensation in her throat for temperature. The spiked hot chocolate is gone all too quickly, and she is laughing all too loudly. A flush creeps up and settles onto her usually pale cheeks. Harry likes it that way.

When he helps her home, just around the corner and up the hill, she laughs at the sight of the stars and asks him to dance with her. She is hardly what one would call a good dancer, but neither is he. Her odd movements have a certain kind of grace to them. Something about them makes him stand back and watch, and he finds himself surprised that he wishes he could join her somehow.

four.

She doesn’t sob when her father dies. He sits with her in her garden that is crawling with strange plants and even stranger animals. His hand rests tentatively on the sleeve of her purple knit jumper. Silent, solitary tears trace a pathway down her pale cheeks, and she makes no effort to stop them. It’s different, watching her cry. She is unashamed of her tears. She does not curse, or groan, or wipe them away feverishly. When she is finished, for now, she rests her head on his shoulder, innocently enough. His thumb twitches where it rests on her arm, and he finds it leading the rest of his fingers down a dangerous path to her leg. She loops her arm through his and sighs, commenting lightly on the clouds above.

They do not move for a long time. Finally, she gets up – “to feed the cat”, she says – and he is surprised to see little wet spots on the sleeve of his coat. Such quiet little tears.

five.

She doesn’t smile when it’s unnecessary. He appreciates that. She is an innocent, and he is a fool. He shows up on her doorstep, nearly sick with frustration and anger and tells her he isn’t allowed home. It is then that she adopts an unintentionally inappropriate look of delight. She tells him he is welcome to stay the night in her house, in the spare bedroom – “you’ll have to share with the cat, of course” -- and that she has just made a fresh batch of persimmon cookies, with a twist, this time. His anger melts into a puddle that soaks into the doormat under his feet, and he leaves it there when he shuts the door behind him.

She sits atop the table and listens to him with her head tilted to one side, eyes wide. Outside, it begins to rain, which seems to excite her immensely. All of a sudden, everything about her adds up, and he is taken. He stands a little too quickly, startling her, and presses his lips onto hers. She tastes like something he has never tasted before, and smells more like peony than ever. He notices that she has a single flower, bright red in color, tucked behind her ear. He kisses the flowered ear awkwardly, and she breathes a soft laugh in response. Her usually dreamy eyes are alarmingly clear. He is overwhelmed by her sudden sense of presence, by the way she says his name very quietly, and by the way she finally kisses him back. One clumsy hand dislodges the flower, the power of their secret, from its place and it falls, to be crushed beneath the weight of their entwined bodies.

And there you have it.
Eight days 'til Christmas. Daaaayum.

tiptoes @ 2007-09-30T19:22:00

2007-10-01T02:29:20Z

HAIRSPRAY FRIENDING MEME
Whoo! Let's see if this works, yeah?

tiptoes @ 2011-01-01T15:04:00

2006-02-15T23:05:31Z

.l o c k e d
Comment to be considered. All comments are screened.
I won't add empty or rarely updated journals.
That's just how I roll. But otherwise, give it a try. I like shiny new friends.

j'adore,
FILMS, White Oleander, Gone With the Wind, A Streetcar Named Desire, Harry Potter films, Sweeney Todd, Romeo + Juliet, The Women, Fight Club, Conversations With Other Women, All About Eve, Hairspray (2007), Big Fish, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Rear Window, Breakfast At Tiffany's, The Virgin Suicides, Stardust, Across the Universe, Dangerous Liaisons, Pretty Persuasion, Grease, There Will Be Blood, Mean Girls, Narnia
LITERATURE, White Oleander, Harry Potter, A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, Agatha Christie novels, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Running with Scissors, 1984, The Virgin Suicides, The Chronicles of Narnia, Romeo & Juliet, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
TUNES, Radiohead, Muse, Bloc Party, Coldplay, Editors, Depeche Mode, Björk, Madonna, A Fine Frenzy, Garbage, Explosions In the Sky, Skream, Imogen Heap, Regina Spektor, Kate Nash, Frou Frou, Amy Winehouse, Evanescence, Within Temptation, Billie Holiday, Patti LuPone, The Veronicas, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Shins, The Beatles, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Hollywood Undead
TELEVISION, Skins, Gossip Girl, Desperate Housewives, The West Wing, House, Pushing Daisies, Will & Grace, Doctor Who, The Office, Arrested Development, Degrassi: The Next Generation, Ugly Betty
STAGE, Sweeney Todd, Gypsy, Bare: A Pop Opera, Hairspray, The Last 5 Years, Spring Awakening, Evita, The Drowsy Chaperone, Into the Woods, Applause, Wicked, RENT, Avenue Q

ACTRESSES, Helena Bonham Carter, Vivien Leigh, Michelle Pfeiffer, Marion Cotillard, Cate Blanchett, Alison Lohman, Allison Janney, Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross, Dana Delany, Billie Piper, Patti LuPone, Sherie René Scott, Clémence Poésy, Lisa Edelstein, Olivia de Havilland, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Lauren Bacall, Emma Watson, Megan Mullally, Stockard Channing, Kristin Chenoweth
ACTORS, Lee Pace, Johnny Depp, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Robert Pattinson, James Marsden, David Tennant, Ed Westwick, Christopher Eccleston, Edward Norton, Gaspard Ulliel, Hugh Laurie, Cary Grant, Clark Gable, Daniel Day-Lewis

SHIPS,

Harry Potter, Bellatrix/Voldemort, Bellatrix/Sirius, Harry/Luna, Lucius/Narcissa, Ron/Hermione, Lily/James, Cedric/Fleur, Rita/Minerva, general Blackcest
Doctor Who, Ten/Rose, Nine/Rose
The Office, Dwight/Angela, Jim/Pam
A Great and Terrible Beauty, Felicity/Gemma, Gemma/Kartik
House, House/Cuddy, House/Wilson (friendship), Wilson/Amber
Skins, Chris/Jal, Tony/Michelle, Sid/Cassie, Chris/Cassie, Tony/Maxxie
Desperate Housewives, Tom/Lynette, Bree/Lynette, Bree/Rex
Twilight, Edward/Bella, Alice/Jasper, Rosalie/Emmett, Rosalie/Edward
Gossip Girl, Dan/Serena, Blair/Chuck, Nate/Blair, Rufus/Lily

CSS: airboy
MOODTHEME: smellbeforerain