quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Groovy.

iheartar — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:16:29 GMT

PS - Aim4theHead
Come get some.

Hey, look. Isn't that a meme?

iheartar — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:41:44 GMT

1. My username is _____ because ____.

iheartar because back when I was like...13 and first made this journal, I was obsessed with Alan Rickman. Oh Yes. Since then, it has seriously stuck as a username. I use it almost everywhere now; dA, Acornrack, Xbox Live....etc.

1a. My name is _____ because ______.

Rachel, because my name was going to be Bailey, but my dad didn't want me named after my mom's maiden name (Bayly). So I guess they decided on Rachel because they hate me or something.

2. My journal is titled ____ because ____.

"quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - but who watches the watchmen?" Because I'm a bit obsessed with the graphic novel, Watchmen, and that's the best quote I can come up with that people can understand without having read the novel...and also isn't spoilery.

3. My friends page is called ____________ because ____.

Friends because I'm boring like that.

4. My default userpic is ____ because ____.

Rorschach setting some mother fuckers on fire because Rorschach's a badass and it matches my overall layout - Which is of Rorschach...because...he's amazing.

"I'm Dr. Horrible..."

iheartar — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 04:12:15 GMT

"I have a PhD in horrible-ness,"

Joss Whedon. I just....can't quite put into words how hard I love everything you do.

Especially when it involves music and Nathan Fillion.

And NEIL PATRICK HARRIS.

Dear Theater Goers of America

iheartar — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 02:38:14 GMT

If you are going to sneak food into the theater, at least have a minimal amount of human decency and take your mother fucking garbage out when you leave.

Thank you,
The Managment

Hey look. I'm alive. And all that.

iheartar — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 08:23:15 GMT

So...it's been a while, LJ? I got back into RPing and we just sort of grew apart. The time between calls grew longer, the letters stopped coming, and soon, I got the email saying my paid account had expired and it was like a slap in the face. Now you show up on my door step in the form of friends IMing me with "OMG I HAS LJ DO U?!" and accept you into my home once more. I don't expect us ever to go back to the way we were, but it's nice to have you back.

This post was going to include a meme and a bit more substance, and then I looked at my clock and realized, "Wow, 4:30 am,"....so I'll get on that tomorrow.

*wastes space*

I need help here...

iheartar — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 17:57:12 GMT

View Poll: I would like to make a new layout...

Life lesson number one: Jobs steal time

iheartar — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 02:24:17 GMT

As does school. School plus job means no time.

To update or check my flist. *sigh*

Anyway, the job's going fine. Black Friday was a ZOO, I have a few friends, and I don't really like my manager, mostly cause I don't really think she likes me. I like the people that work there though. Not neccessarily the ops people (they're just your generic, boring people who think I'm a geeky nutcase), but the other people that work in computers and media. The ones that were in the breakroom when we broke into "The Lumber Jack Song", the ones that come up and ask what level my Druid's at now and how far I've gotten in The Dead Zone...

LOOK IT'S BARTY CROUCH JUNIOR AKA DAVID TENNANT!!! ALL SHAGGY AND INSANE!! *GLOMPS*

Yah, watching Goblet of Fire on HBO ^_^

....anyway, those are the people I find interesting. And who find me interesting. I can't wait to get into Media *yearns*

I'm working on a chemistry project right now, a commercial for Magnesium. Well, more of a public service announcment. Either way, it's turning out just peachy. I'm totally gonna put it on YouTube ^_^

*jumps on the bandwagon* ZOMG CHRISTMAS CARDS!! Anybody interested? I love Christmas, and mail, and Christmas+mail= let me send you a card! Leave me a comment with your address, they're screened.

EDIT: Why did I make the "bouncy" mood a picture of Shawn holding a pineapple?

EDIT PART DEUX: Christopher Eccelston is going to be on Heroes!! Like, as part of the group, in my understanding. Exciting or what?!?!

"Im nerdy in the extreme, and whiter than sour cream...."

iheartar — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 16:06:48 GMT

Alright, I made some animated icons from the Weird Al music video "White and Nerdy". There's really no place to put these so, I guess they're just for my f-list. I also made two Jeffrey Coho colorbars, cause he owns.

Example

01. 02. 03.
04. 05. 06.
07. 08. 09.
10. 11.

Comment, credit, yaddayadda

IMPORTANT

iheartar — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 02:46:05 GMT

I'm redoing my photobucket account. Reorganizing it and cleaning it up. This may result in many broken links when it comes to icons, and for this I apologize.

We will now return to your regularly scheduled program.

dances wildly

iheartar — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 19:45:20 GMT

I was looking at my calendar and suddenly it hit me:

Torchwood premieres tomorrow!!

I'm so excited.

You know what else I'm excited about? The Nightmare Before Christmas in 3D! I don't know if I'll ever get the chance to see it, but I'll fucking try my damnedest. I've had 'Jack's Lament' stuck in my head all freaking day.

Hal Sparks-centric, Multimedia Post

iheartar — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 01:18:09 GMT

To celebrate my new layout (*squee*) I bring to you a (pretty big) post featuring the one and only Hal Sparks:

Just plain "AWES."

So not only is he a comedian and actor, but he has his own band:

KILT kjhsdfkjSDkjhgdsjk!!!
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Hal's band is called Zero 1 (formally The Hal Sparks Band). Here are three of their songs (SOS, Sattelites, and She Waits):

Zip file on megaupload
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Some videos:

Hal gives a short info and sings "Satellites" acoustic on The Wayne Brady Show.

Hal's band performs "Satellites" on The Mike Bullard Show

Now, as I've mentioned before, Hal is a contestant on "Celebrity Duets". Here are some clips:

Hal Sparks and Wynonna Judd- "I Want to Know What Love is"

Hal Sparks and Wynonna Judd- "No One Else on Earth"

Hal Sparks and Dennis DeYoung- "Come Sail Away"

Hal Sparks and Dennis DeYoung- "Mr. Roboto"

Hal Sparks and Dee Snider- "We're Not Gonna Take it"

Hal Sparks and Dee Snider- "I Want to Rock"

I encourage you to watch and vote for him Thursdays at nine!
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Here are some icons for ya:

Hal Sparks

01. 02. 03.
04. 05. 06.
07. 08. 09.
10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15.
16. 17. 18.
19. 20. 21.
22. 23. 24.
25. 26. 27.

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And some wallpapers:

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Some nice sites to check out:

Hal's Official Website

Sparksfan.com- A Hal Sparks Fansite

Hal's Lair- The Official Forum

Hal's MySpace
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All of the pictures used were obtained at Sparksfan.com

Yeah, so that was probably a huge waste of time....but....at least I can look at it XD

Calling my f-list....

iheartar — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 23:00:49 GMT

Alright, I need some help. I cannot decide what I want to be for Halloween, help me out here:

View Poll: I'm indesicive....

I'd love to be all of these things...but I can't choose.

Tagged by candyflossrain

iheartar — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 19:59:38 GMT

Fill in this list with people from your f list. You can use one person for multiple answers. When finished, tag 3 people from your f list.

Person who makes you laugh the most: candyflossrain XD
Person you wish you knew in outside LJ: candyflossrain So we could see Snakes on a Plane together!! "OMG I NEVER EXPECTED THERE TO BE SNAKES ON THE PLANE!!")
Person who's from the same country as you (If more than one, choose first that comes to mind): sawcat
Person you want to get to know better: cuteelf14
Person you relate to the most: candyflossrain.....SOUL TWINS.
Person who shares the same obsession as you: candyflossrain
Person who makes you go, "WTF?!"...but in a good way!: candyflossrain :P
Person you know the least about: peonyll8
Person you know the most about: candyflossrain

Like I said, candyflossrain, you totally own my meme XD

I shall tag:

ctsquirrel, raven353, and sparrowlove

Ahoy, me hearties!!

iheartar — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 22:59:22 GMT

T'day be National Talk like a Pirate Day, for all you scurvy land lubbers what didn' know.
Me school-mates didn' much care fer me speakin' t'day, and me teachers er not an exception XD

Alas, to celebrate this here day I bring ye a meme, pirate-themed o' course:

My pirate name is:

The Dread Beth Flint

Like the famous Dread Pirate Roberts, you have a keen head for how to make a profit. Like the rock flint, you're hard and sharp. But, also like flint, you're easily chipped, and sparky. Arr!

Get your own pirate name from piratequiz.com.
part of the fidius.org network

Well, sink me! The Dread Pirate Robert's be a lad after me own 'eart.

I'll be bringing ye a report on the ceremony of the rings as soon as I round up me photos. Arrr, I be sportin' quite the booty on me bonny digit. Wait, till ye feast yer scurvy deadlights on this. Yarrr!!

Meme from martoufmarty,,,,again XD

iheartar — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 01:31:26 GMT

Choose 5 fandoms you like and answer the 10 questions:

1. The first character I first fell in love with
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now
3. The character everyone else loves that I don't
4. The character I love that everyone else hates
5. The character I would shag anytime
6. The character I'd want to be like
7. The character I'd slap
8. A pairing that I love
9. A pairing that I despise
10. Favorite character

Angel
1. The first character I first fell in love with: Wesley
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Lindsay
3. The character everyone else loves that I don't: Fred
4. The character I love that everyone else hates: Lindsay?
5. The character I would shag anytime: Wesley, Lindsay...Angel : D
6. The character I'd want to be like: Wesley
7. The character I'd slap: Lilah...Virginia Bryce
8. A pairing that I love: Angel/Curse
9. A pairing that I despise: I dunno
10. Favorite character: Wesley

Firefly
1. The first character I first fell in love with: Wash
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Zoe
3. The character everyone else loves that I don't: Book? I dunno anyone's opinions on the characters...
4. The character I love that everyone else hates: Again, unclear on opinions.
5. The character I would shag anytime: Mal, Simon
6. The character I'd want to be like: Simon
7. The character I'd slap: Jayne
8. A pairing that I love: Simon/Kaylee
9. A pairing that I despise: Ah, none.
10. Favorite character: Mal or Simon...or Wash...or Zoe...

Lost
1. The first character I first fell in love with: Charlie
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Sayid
3. The character everyone else loves that I don't: Kate
4. The character I love that everyone else hates: Locke
5. The character I would shag anytime: Desmond
6. The character I'd want to be like: Desmond
7. The character I'd slap: Shannon
8. A pairing that I love: Desmond/Polly
9. A pairing that I despise: ?
10. Favorite character: Desmond

Boston Legal
1. The first character I first fell in love with: Alan Shore
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Denise and Tara
3. The character everyone else loves that I don't: Again, unclear on people's opinions
4. The character I love that everyone else hates: Ditto
5. The character I would shag anytime: Alan. Duh.
6. The character I'd want to be like: Alan.
7. The character I'd slap: Sally?
8. A pairing that I love: I don't ship.
9. A pairing that I despise: Alan/Sally
10. Favorite character: Alan. Duh.

Harry Potter
1. The first character I first fell in love with: Neville
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Snape
3. The character everyone else loves that I don't: Tonks
4. The character I love that everyone else hates: Well, Snape....now.
5. The character I would shag anytime: Remus. Sirius.
6. The character I'd want to be like: Sirius.
7. The character I'd slap: Umbridge.
8. A pairing that I love: I....don't ship.
9. A pairing that I despise: Remus/Tonks wtfew
10. Favorite character: Remus, Sirius, Snape, and McGonagall
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I love how for Lost and Boston Legal I'm all "Desmond Desmond Desmond." and "Alan Alan Alan." XD

So there was a Firefly marathon on today. I really need to get this show on DVD. Really. My mom sat down to watch it with me and I had to tell her about all of the characters. I described Mal's past and added "Also he wears tight pants" and then anytime there was a nice shot of his pants I yelled "PANTS!" After awhile she was like "God, I wish he'd take that coat off so we could see his ass." XD Nice one mom.

I forgot how attractive Simon looks when we first see him in his rose glasses and suit.

We get our class rings tomorrow. I can't wait. I'm prolly gonna have a lot of pictures to post.

Night.

Oh Yeah!! I love kung-fu Wesley!! *points to icon*
lidi is fabulous.

Wheeeee!!!

iheartar — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 23:11:51 GMT

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MASSIVE icon post!

iheartar — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 20:15:26 GMT

161 icons:
70 Final Fantasy: Advent Children
30 Brick
12 Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical
10 Serenity
10 Beauty and the Beast
20 Fullmetal Alchemist
06 Psych Quotes
03 Misc. Quotes

Final Fantasy: Advent Children

01. 02. 03.

04. 05. 06.

07. 08. 09.

10. 11. 12.

13. 14. 15.

16. 17. 18.

19. 20. 21.

22. 23. 24.

25. 26. 27.

28. 29. 30.

31. 32. 33.

34. 35. 36.

37. 38. 39.

40. 41. 42.

43. 44. 45.

46. 47. 48.

49. 50. 51.

52. 53. 54.

55. 56. 57.

58. 59. 60.

61. 62. 63.

64. 65. 66.

67. 68. 69.

70.

Brick

73. 74. 75.

76. 77. 78.

79. 80. 81.

82. 83. 84.

85. 86. 87.

88. 89. 90.

91. 92. 93.

94. 95. 96.

97. 98. 99.

100. 101. 102.

Reefer Madness

103. 104. 105.

106. 107. 108.

109. 110. 111.

112. 113. 114.

Serenity

115. 116. 117.

118. 119. 120.

121. 122. 123.

124.

Beauty and the Beast

125. 126. 127.

128. 129. 130.

131. 132. 133.

134.

Fullmetal Alchemist

135. 136. 137.

138. 139. 140.

141. 142. 143.

144. 145. 146.

147. 148. 149.

150. 151. 152.

153. 154.

Psych Quotes

155. 156. 157.

158. 159. 160.

Misc. Quotes

161. 162. 163.

Keep in mind:
_Comments give me a fuzzy feeling
_Credit is love
_Textless icons may be used as bases, just please credit me for the base

7 Misc. Colorbars

iheartar — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 01:51:47 GMT

I've got 8 colorbars: 2 Psych, Steve Carell, Alan Shore, The Dread Pirate Roberts, James Spader, Gene Wilder, and Hal Sparks.

Credit and enjoy ^_^

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My first tutorial

iheartar — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 04:14:47 GMT

This is a tutorial on how to make a simple mini-movie animation on a white background in Animation Shop 3, as requested by my soul-twin candyflossrain.

This is what we're making:

This tutorial assumes that you’ve already made your frame by frame caps in a program like Virtual Dub. If you’d like me to add a tutorial on this however, I could.

Okay, first you want to open up Animation Shop. Click on this button to open up the animation wizard. Select “Same Size as first image frame”, next “Opaque”, next “Upper left corner” “With canvas color”, next “Yes, repeat animation indefinitely”, next.

Click “Add Image” and add all of the frames you capped (easiest way is to click the first one, hit shift, and then click the last one. That should select all the ones in between). When you return to the animation wizard window if you scroll up you’ll notice the last frame is on top. Just select it and click “Move Up”. Then hit “Next, and then “Finish”

You’ll get a window like this:

If you want to view your animation click this button. If you view it now you’ll notice it runs slow, we’ll fix that later.

Now you’re going to want to crop the frames to your liking. Click this button to get the crop tool. Use it to select the image you want. You should try to make both sides the same size. Look down here for the dimensions. Check that your subject stays within your cropping box by scrolling to the last frame. You can move the box you made around if need be. When you’re satisfied click “crop” on the toolbar.

Now you’ll want to resize your animation. Go to Animation>Resize animation (shift-s). I usually resize mine to 60x60. You won’t want to go higher than 70x70, because you have to keep the animation below 40k.

Now, hold the ctrl key and select every other frame. Right-click>delete. This will not only lower the number of frames you have, but also speed up your animation so it looks normal.

Okay, now you’re ready to make the background, which looks like this

Open whatever graphics program you use (I’m using Photoshop Elements 2) and open a new file 100x100. Flood fill this file white. I made the corner thingies myself (hence the sucky-ness) but I’ve seen brushes like that on 100x100_brushes. When you’re done making the background save it and go back to animation shop.

Go to File>open, and open the background image. Now right-click on it and select “Duplicate selected”. Do this for however many frames are in your original animation plus one. I have 19 frames in my animation, so I made 20 background frames.

Now select every frame of you original animation. Drag from frame one of that, to frame one of the background animation.

You’ll get this. If you scroll to the last frame you’ll see a blank one. This is where you’d put any text you want. Or you can simply leave it blank if all you want is a break in the animation. To add text make it in your graphics program. Copy-paste it into animation shop and then drag it onto that frame. Like this. Right click this frame, go to “Frame Properties”. Enter 100, in that box. This will make it delay for a second.

Preview your animation. If you’re satisfied with it, save it. A window like this will pop up. This will optimize the file. Use the bar at the side to adjust the quality. This takes experimentation. Hit next twice. It will show you a preview. If you’re okay with that hit next again. In the new window, look at this box. If it’s under 40k then your animation is fine. Hit finish and you’re done!

This is my first tutorial, and I’ve never been very good at explaining things, so if any part of this is unclear, don’t hesitate to ~~scream at me~~ ask me about it. I know that was probably long-winded. Con-crit is appreciated!

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Psych Season Finale

iheartar — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 03:02:24 GMT

Tonight is the season finale of Psych. Let us try a running commentary shall we?

Oh, total Shawn/Juliet moment! If I was a shipper I might be excited. No, not just a moment, a whole scene.

"Tell me you're not excited about pancakes." XD

Haha, the missing kids room looks like my room >.< Except bigger.

That money is soo fake.

OH SNAP! Gus is totally pwning Shawn.

O.O I totally thought that the chief was Lassiter's wife for a mo....whew.

Wheee...Conventions!!

YAY GEORGE TAKEI!! "Excuuse me?" Yeah, the way he talks alone makes me giggle.

Johnny Depp reference *thud*

Alright...I'm not liking lack o' Lassiter.

OH NOES!! The Cheif's water just broke while she was driving with Lassiter XD

And there Shawn goes, dating the criminal...

Shawn likes funny named food.

I wanna sing Kareoke with George Takei...

OMG Lassie's gonna coach the chief XDD

I seriously gasped when Shawn tore the cover off that comic book.

Lassiter: "I don't know what any woman wants."

Aw, really touching Lassiter moment...with the babyyy Oo awes......

Oh, aren't they clever. Shawn suggests the Cheif go on maternity leave until January, when the second season premieres.

USA seasons are far to quick.
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Shawn is lickable in a t-shirt.

Whew. That was fun.

iheartar — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 08:47:42 GMT

18 animated icons of David Tennant's appearence on The Ultimate West Wing Challenge, and whinch he was adorable and fan-boy-like.

David Tennant

01. 02. 03.

04. 05. 06.

07. 08. 09.

10. 11. 12.

13. 14. 15.

16. 17. 18.

Keep in mind:
_Comments give me a fuzzy feeling
_Credit is love
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I kinda knew this...

iheartar — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 01:11:23 GMT

Your Geek Profile:

Movie Geekiness: Highest
Academic Geekiness: High
Fashion Geekiness: High
Gamer Geekiness: High
Geekiness in Love: High
Internet Geekiness: High
Music Geekiness: High
SciFi Geekiness: High
General Geekiness: Moderate

How Geeky Are You?

I think it's funny that all of the specific areas say 'high', and yet, generally, I'm moderatly geeky.

Psych Moodtheme

iheartar — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 17:25:10 GMT

It’s finally finished!

Full Preview Here
132 moods, 80x40
Here on Megaupload

Due to download limits, I’d like it if you comment when you download.

Also, if you could comment just to let me know what you think, this is my first moodtheme, and I may do more.

So, you can create this mood theme the classic way, or you could do it the technical, but shorter way. Here’s how:

1. Upload all of the images (132) to your own server (like photobucket)
2. Now go to http://www.livejournal.com/admin/console.
3. Now you will type in the box where it says “enter commands” ( type this EXACTLY…in fact, Copy-Paste it) moodtheme_create "iheartar’s Psych Moods" "Psych moods" Now hit ‘execute’.
4. It will give you a Mood Theme ID#...you must save this. Don’t close out of this page.
5. Next, find the text file that was included in the .zip you downloaded. It should be “psychmoodtheminfo.txt” or something similar. Open it, and copy-paste everything in there into a program that has a “replace all” option, such as Microsoft word.
6. If you’re using Word, go to Edit>Replace (or Ctrl-H). Enter “"moodthemeIDnumber" where it says ‘find’ and put the ID number you got from the admin site in ‘replace with’. Hit ‘Replace all’
7. Now replace “serveryouuploadedthem” with the the URL where you’d find them (You’d find “h*ttp://severyouuploadedthem.com/angry.jpg” at h*ttp://severyouuploadedthem.com/, for example)
8. Now go back to the Admin page and Copy-paste all of that info into the command box, and hit execute.
9. Now after the next page loads, just go to where you’d change your mood theme and at the bottom of this list should be “iheartar’s psych moods”, select that to start using you new mood theme ^_^

Now, again, this is my first time attempting something like this, and I’m sorry if the above technique doesn’t work, because I may have screwed up >.<

One reason the above may not work is because of a typo or mistake on my part or yours. Just go back and edit the missing moods manually.

Psych Icons

iheartar — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 02:39:11 GMT

32 Psych Icons
17 Animated
15 Quotes

Psych- Animated

01. 02. 03.
04. 05. 06.
07. 08. 09.
10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15.
16. 17.

Psych- Quotes

01. 02. 03.

04. 05. 06.

07. 08. 09.

10. 11. 12.

13. 14. 15.

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Keep in mind:
_Comments give me a fuzzy feeling
_Credit is love
_Textless icons may be used as bases, as long as you tell me your intentions and credit me for the base
_Feel free to friend me if you like what you see!

Garrett Hedlund Prettieness

iheartar — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 15:22:55 GMT

21 Garrett Hedlund Icons

Cause he's yummy.

Garrett Hedlund

01. 02. 03.

04. 05. 06.

07. 08. 09.

10. 11. 12.

13. 14. 15.

16. 17. 18.

19. 20. 21.

As you can see I went a little crazy with this picture. It’s a—It’s a really good picture. *thud*

I also made two wallpapers. For me, but, I’ll share them:
This one
And this one, my current wallpaper *thud*

They’re both made for my screen resolution: 1280x768

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Mh-mhmm 8D