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September went by fast. Wow.

Cyd Charisse. 
I definitely want to see Silk Stockings. This'll save time. I can watch The Band Wagon & Silk Stockings in one go. Already seen Singin' in the Rain (good bloodly movie) though I wouldn't be adverse to watching it again.
Though I wonder how many Charlton Heston movies TCM aired. More than 3? Though some of his are long (i.e. Ben-Hur, The Ten Commandments). I have no idea how many hours/days Charlton Heston movies took up so I can't say if the male got the gender preference or Heston was just the more prolific star or there was no difference. Either way, I'm looking forward to the Charisse movies. 
Funny, I just researched her, being impressed she was still alive. Thus is life (to die). But she had a long life so that's good (but she apparently might of had a heart attack which is bad -_-;). Can't make any judgements of her life, really, since I don't know much about her personal life. I know she was a great dancer with good things to say about 2 other great dancers: 
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Asian Images in Film
The Themes are usually interesting. This is no exception. I particularly like the non-movie clips of (I think) Asian & Asian-American actors (resses) commenting on images in film such as yellowface or the opportunities of Asian(American?) actor(esse)s. For The Good Earth the actors were all...white (I guess is the phrase). WTH? There were perfectly good Asian-American actors to play roles. Ugh. [insert annoyance which I made to tired to make rambling, fuming gibberish out of]
Mostly it is enligtening and fun to heard their various opinions.

Summer Under the Stars
Whee. Fun. I love August. That is all. 

Frank Sinatra
Just for kicks. He was the star of the month in May since he died May 14, 2008  1998 (the same year Quest for Camelot came out. Eerie.) I watched The Man with the Golden Arm and The Manchurian Candidate for my birthday.  Yes....I love that man's voice. Yes.

And Judy Garland's voice. I like her's too (there are a few but I won't list them all since I'm bound to forget someone). Only other thing: young Garland was contemporary with Ava Gardner, Elizabeth Taylor and some one I forget (all beauties). I had never thought of Garland as ugly before. Though Taylor (for example) has the more traditional beauty look. which Garland lacked. I could see, if one was judging beauty based on some narrow standardized view we had, that Garland wouldn't be as pretty. But, my god, she wasn't ugly. Some studio producers (or some such) nicknamed her his "little hunchback". WTBFH? Garland's main selling point was her voice, and she was ugly. How can someone SAY that. I was so surprised that anyone would even think that. Just because some doesn't fit the narrow conventional definition of beauty does NOT make them ugyly hunchbacks!!!! What a horrible thing to say to a teenage girl. Geez. The world's a cruel place.

That is all.

So an update!
Haven't been updating the last few months due to college and real life (whee--not to those, which were stressful, but to having an actual life outside of lj). I probably won't be updating much here at all. I'll try to about once a month (at least during the summer--I guess and minus the vacations). Mostly I'll just use this lj to persue my friend lists. To see what everyone is doing in internet world. Who has 
lived/died/gotten a job/gotten fired/married/divorced/graduated from college/started college/came out/started dating/got dumped/moved/not on lj anymore/hates me/loves me/doesn't care about me/read a good book/hasn't read anything/drawn a good picture/hasn't drawn anything/played music/traveled/gotten a new pet/lost an old pet/moved to a different country/...etc & etc.

Went to Florida. Feed & petted dolphins and rays on birthday. Reading a biography on Edna St. Vincent Millay plus Portait of a Lady by Henry James, among other things. Good times.

That is all. 

PS. I love Frank Sinatra's voice. Heck yes.

 Wow, (some) Americans are stupid.

Well, I'm finally updating this thing. 
But it's all good because I've been off lj so long because of real life which makes me happy. ^_^
I'm going to try to update and check my friend lists once a week.
I've been trying to think about my readings for college. Trying to be very alive. As well as working on poetry, drawing and, even, music. And archaeology. Along with school. And my sexuality (which would be a whole entry in and of itself).
Read Pride and Prejudice over winter break (enjoyed it--need to read more Jane Austen). Still reading Lady Chatterley's Lover (it fell by the way side when college started up again). The Three Musketeers is also good. 
I need to work on my vocabulary and word choice. 
There is a really, REALLY good poem I read that I'll post..someday.
That is all.

See here. 
Yes, I am random.

Kay...

Lets101 - Free Online Dating

 Some thoughts as I read:
* Good ol' Kenpachi. (BLEACH is funny again)
*Urahara is MENTIONED and pictured. (him being my favorite character this made me pleased)
*Byakuya is gonna kick yer ass for messing with his sister!! Heh. He's the only one without a vice/assistant/whatever (Renji's off with Ishida--though he'd be equally pissed. Ichigo seems to have forgotten the whole "Rukia dead" thing >.>)

And that's it other than I still hate/strongly dislike Mayrui. Ugh. 
Reading this amused me too much. Ah well. I need some enjoyment today.

 Different perspective... from msnbc
Interesting.
Perhaps opinions to follow.

Happy Halloween.
Yeah.

BLEACH is suddenly cool  again! 
:D Kenpachi (or Zaraki or whatever one wants to call him) is back.
I am soooo hoping he fights Noitora (Nnoitra) and kicks his stupid, sexist, back stabbing ass!!! :D

Now if only Kisuke(or more commonly called Urahara) would show up...

Take action online at http://www.savewolves.org/alaska

Article here.
Gist of my response: I feel it is wrong for military/armed/etc  to attack/hurt/thrown things (tear gas) at unarmed/defenseless  other people (such as would include Buddhists monks. You don't think they'd go around with machine guns, do you? Excuse me while I laugh at this concept).

Of course I have to take into account the biases of the article itself. I have no idea what the UK interests are but...I should still not believe every article blindly. That would be just stupid.

It was interesting to see the list of other countries interests in the whole deal.  I get the US biases/interests/etc. Bush's quote amounts to "we support you but we're not going to do anything about your current circumstances" Granted, the general feel I got was that Europe and the US have little actual influence over the area so maybe the US couldn't do anything anyway. 

And I guess that's all there is to that. For the moment. Aside from the: what kind of people attack monks? Or any religious people  (i.e. official religious people like monks, priests, nuns, all those others I'm forgetting NOT just a very religious person--I'm thinking the Viking attacks on monasteries). It's not like they've got weapons. Of course religion (and religous m/p/n/etc) have problems in and of themselves. They ain't perfect and I'm certainly not defending them (I'm rather distrustful of religions as a general principle) but one doesn't attack  the defenseless (like stabbing someone in the back has no honor). 

Also made me realize...what kind of world am I living in? And how do I make it the kind of world I want to live in? WHAT am I doing to improve the world? Nothing. Need to work on that.

I guess I should have expected this ( picking for my period in history that interests me the non-existent Arthurian era )

Found an article about a fake website where parents sold their daughters. Read it here. 
The main things I have to say are 
1) the fact that in some states girls can be married before the legal age for sex (i.e. a 13 year old gets married but the law states sex with anyone younger than 16 is a felony--this is an abritary example, don't think it's a real one but you get the idea). That's just WRONG. Not sure on why but I feel, in my opinion, that it is ...odd, fishy, wrong.  
2) in some states a girl can be married but isn't old enough to go to court by herself to get a divorce. That ain't right either.
And what's with the whole "she's pregnaunt=marry the father" bit? What if the guy's a jerk? Isn't it better to him out of her life? 
I know I wouldn't have wanted to get married that way at that age. I barely think I'm ready for it at 22 let alone 13/14/15/16.  Heck, I didn't even start getting interested in boys (and I do mean only a tiny, weeny bit) when I was 15 almost 16 so ..yeah so wouldn't have worked for me.

Oh and the icon is of Jasmine (who also was tried to be married off about 16 I think) in her wedding dress from Aladdin and the King of Thieves. Just for reference.

Even if it's not suppose to be taken seriously it makes me happy to think I got a high score. Is it high? Maybe medium. Still pretty good in my opinion.

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