My Bloggy Wog

Writer's Block: Honey Bear

rascalthemutant — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:09:32 GMT

Eeyore. Thanks for noticing me.

Although some days I can be Rabbit, Tigger, Piglet, Pooh, even Owl. But mostly I love Eeyore.

Slumdog Millionaire

rascalthemutant — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:11:17 GMT

For your consideration:

I just saw this today. It is completely deserving of the Golden Globe Best Picture. I hope it continues to be recognized. 11 BAFTA nominations as well.

It follows the story of Jamal, born to the slums of Mumbai who goes on the game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionarie" at the age of 18, all in the pursuit of his childhood love Latika. As he is asked the questions, we are given a look into events of his life that teach him the answers. Of course growing up in the slums, he did not have a pleasant childhood. He and his brother are orphaned, meet Latika, are taken to an orphanage, escape, and take up numerous less-than-legal jobs to survive, including a stint at the Taj Mahal giving tours to gullible foreigners and stealing/re-selling shoes. His brother eventually gets involved with some gangsters and he and Jamal part ways, reunited only shortly before Jamal's appearance on the show.

The film is exciting, humorous, and uplifting. Go see it and be sure to stay for the credits. You'll love it.

Your Eyes Open...music meme

rascalthemutant — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:46:33 GMT

Stolen from mrstilney
1.Put your iTunes or whatever on shuffle. (I use Windows Media Player)
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS!
4. Tag 2 friends who might enjoy doing the game as well as the person you got the note from.
mrstilney, mrs_tubbs, rantsofpassion

IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY??
New Year's Day- U2

WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
Ruled by Secrecy- Muse

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
Sabre Dance from Gayane ballet- Aram Khachaturian

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
Expo '86- Death Cab for Cutie

WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
It's the End of the World as We Know it (And I Feel Fine)- REM

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
Think of Me- Emmy Rossum (from Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera)

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
The Road to Mandalay- Robbie Williams

WHAT IS 2+2?
The Wanderer- U2

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIENDS?
Yellow Submarine- The Beatles

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Island in the Sun- Weezer

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Head Over Heels/Broken- Tears for Fears

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
Ruñidera- El Septeto

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Lowlands Low- Bryan Ferry & Antony (from Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, & Chanteys)

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
Drive My Car- The Beatles

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
Once You Lose Your Heart- Maryann Plunkett (from Me and My Girl)

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
This Fire- Franz Ferdinand

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
Tomorrow- U2

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
Farewell Nancy- Ed Harcourt (from Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys)

WHAT'S THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?
Acrobat- U2

HOW WILL YOU DIE?
Fire Down Below- Nick Cave (from Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys)

WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET?
Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games- Of Montreal

WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?
Win Some, Lose Some- Robbie Williams

WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?
Kettle's On- The Feeling

WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED?
This Boy- Franz Ferdinand

WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST?
Vampires- Fastball

DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?
A Drop of Nelson's Blood- Jarvis Cocker (from Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys)

IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?
Golden Slumbers, Carry That Weight, The End- Phil Collins

WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW?
Goodnight and Go- Imogen Heap

WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?
Your Eyes Open- Keane

Seriously...these are the songs that came up. Funny, freaky, ironic.

100 books meme

rascalthemutant — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:09:25 GMT

Oh alright, I'm going to follow the pack. First saw this on mrstilney's journal weeks ago, actually. She has it as a future-dated entry. But I've enjoyed reading everyone else's, so thought I might as well go ahead and do mine.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Underline those you intend to read.
3) Italicise the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list so we can try and track down these people who’ve read 6 and force books upon them.

I've also put them in orange if I haven't read them but I've seen a movie version and green if I've read parts but not the entirety.

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (Golden Compass)
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare (Macbeth, Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, Taming of the Shrew, Julius Caesar, several sonnets)
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - J D Salinger
19. The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres Mans
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (I haven't read them all)
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Something to do

rascalthemutant — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:19:49 GMT

Found on mrstilney, alicat1971, mrs_tubbs, hedgeypig, and rantsofpassion. Take your pick as to who gets credit.

I have highlighted the things that apply to me in bold and italicized the sortas.

1. Started your own blog- yes here and blogspot

2. Slept under the stars

3. Played in a band

4. Visited Hawaii

5. Watched a meteor shower- have attempted to do this, even driven away from town but there's always been too much light pollution to see them

6. Given more than you can afford to charity

7. Been to Disneyland- not Land in California, but World in Florida many times

8. Climbed a mountain- just a small one

9. Held a praying mantis

10. Sang a solo

11. Bungee jumped

12. Visited Paris

13. Watched a lightning storm- many times. Tampa is the lightning capital of the world, afterall

14. Taught yourself an art from scratch- like hedgey said, does PS count?

15. Adopted a child

16. Had food poisoning

17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty

18. Grown your own vegetables

19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France

20. Slept on an overnight train

21. Had a pillow fight- no flying feathers, though

22. Hitch hiked

23. Taken a sick day when you're not ill

24. Built a snow fort

25. Held a lamb

26. Gone skinny dipping

27. Run a Marathon

28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice

29. Seen a total eclipse

30. Watched a sunrise or sunset- both

31. Hit a home run

32. Been on a cruise- 8 (some just for the weekend that went out to sea and back)

33. Seen Niagara Falls in person

34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors

35. Seen an Amish community- no, but Shaker

36. Taught yourself a new language

37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied

38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person

39. Gone rock climbing

40. Seen Michelangelo's David- copies at Ringling

41. Sung karaoke

42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt

43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant

44. Visited Africa

45. Walked on a beach by moonlight

46. Been transported in an ambulance

47. Had your portrait painted by your mother

48. Gone deep sea fishing- I've been on a boat while others did it

49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person

50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris

51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling

52. Kissed in the rain

53. Played in the mud

54. Gone to a drive-in theater

55. Been in a movie

56. Visited the Great Wall of China

57. Started a business

58. Taken a martial arts class

59. Visited Russia

60. Served at a soup kitchen

61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies- was never a Girl Scout, but I went door-to-door selling barbecued pork for my high school

62. Gone whale watching

63. Got flowers for no reason

64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma- no because drawing blood from me is a horrible ordeal involving numerous stabbings

65. Gone sky diving

66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp

67. Bounced a cheque

68. Flown in a helicopter

69. Saved a favorite childhood toy

70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial

71. Eaten caviar

72. Pieced a quilt

73. Stood in Times Square

74. Toured the Everglades- well not really toured, but driven through several times

75. Been fired from a job

76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London

77. Broken a bone- thankfully no

78. Been on a speeding motorcycle

79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person

80. Published a book- I was published in a book when younger

81. Visited the Vatican

82. Bought a brand new car

83. Walked in Jerusalem

84. Had your picture in the newspaper

85. Read the entire Bible

86. Visited the White House

87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating

88. Had chickenpox

89. Saved someone's life

90. Sat on a jury- Teen Court, where they'd already pled guilty and we sentenced them

91. Met someone famous- seen famous people, talked to not so famous actor

92. Joined a book club- I need to do this. Anyone want to start one?

93. Lost a loved one

94. Had a baby

95. Seen the Alamo in person

96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake

97. Been involved in a law suit

98. Owned a mobile phone

99. Been stung by a bee- wasp

100. Read an entire book in one day

31 bolds, 14 sortas...I best get busy!

Happy Halloween!

rascalthemutant — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:53:42 GMT

Hope everyone has a spooky, creeptastic, and -most importantly- FUN Halloween!

I will be dressing as The Tenth Doctor as portrayed by David Tennant this evening. A friend of mine will be The Fourth Doctor, aka Tom Baker. His grandmother crocheted him a 15ft. scarf! Another friend was supposed to be #5, but she couldn't get the costume together.

Huh

rascalthemutant — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 15:20:47 GMT

1.) Copy and paste this into your journal:
<*font color="yourusername"> <*b>yourusername<*/b> <*/font>
2.) Eliminate the asterisks.
2 1/2.) Replace "yourusername" with your user name.
3.) See what color you are.

rascalthemutant

Missing...

rascalthemutant — Sun, 21 Nov 2004 16:41:37 GMT

I miss Lord of the Rings!!! Christmas is coming up and there isn't another LOTR coming out! It's very sad...Christmas just won't be the same. They really should do a post-LOTR movie...showing what happens to the characters in more detail. It wouldn't have to be 4 hours long, just like a regular movie. Even if they make The Hobbit, it won't have the same people except for maybe Andy Sirkas, Ian McKellen, and Ian Holm, but Ian Holm may be too old.
I just finished watching the second part of the Two Towers last night...I had started it during the Rock-A-Thon and didn't have time to finish it. I don't know how many times I've seen Fellowship and Two Towers, but I've spent quite a bit of time doing so since they're about 4 hours each. Now I have to buy the Return of the King extended version...hopefully that will come out soon. I do wish they had more merchandise than they do. I would love a t-shirt or something, especially with the different kingdoms' symbols, like the tree of Gondor, horse of Rohan, etc.
So yeah...I went to the doctor on Friday and do have a sinus infection, so am now on antibiotics. Hopefully I'll start getting better.
Movies to see in theaters:
Save the Last Dance
The Incredibles
Polar Express
Finding Neverland (opens everywhere Wed.)
Ocean's Twelve (12.10)
Series of Unfortunate Events (12.17)
Phantom of the Opera (12.22)
Bride and Prejudice (12.26)