What a day! What a lovely day!
May. 26th, 2015 02:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Good golly, it's been 3 months since I last updated here. :/ Not even because I have a lack of things to say. It's from sheer laziness, I guess. I don't even know if people use LJ anymore. Do you? Or are you all off doing all the social media stuff that I don't? I keep hoping this social media thing will go away like all fads, and we'll all get back to valuing our privacy like in the good old days.
Let's do a quickie run down of what all I've been up to in the last 90 days.
1) I've seen Mad Max: Fury Road four times. I didn't even have any interest in seeing it at all, initially. I mainly went because D. asked me to go to a screening, and I went because I hadn't seen him in ages and wanted to catch up. In fact, I still almost said no, due to my total lack of interest in the movie. BUT I ended up really loving the movie (just purely on an action basis... I had no idea about all the stupid men's rights stuff until after I saw it). I didn't even find it particularly feminist at the time... I just thought it was an amazingly well done action flick that didn't offend me. Anyway. Love it. There aren't a whole lot of movies I'd say definitively should be watched in a theater, and in 3D if at all possible, but this one of them. I saw it 3 times in 3D and once in 2D, and the 3D experiences were all incredible. The 2D experience made it look washed out and underwhelming, but maybe it was the theater. My record for seeing a movie in a theater is five times, and I don't think I'm going to go a fifth time, but never say never...
2) I now have a new crush on Tom Hardy. I know, I know, everyone was gaga for him as Eames, and I loved Inception, but I didn't see what all the fuss was about. Now I'm like, ermagherd Tom Harrrddyyyyyyy.
3)adelagia and I are still excited about Comic Con.
4) We are also still excited about the 1D concert in Seattle that takes place a couple of days after we get back from Comic Con, even though Zayn leaving the group is a bummer. Seriously, he couldn't wait until I'd gone to my first 1D concert? So selfish! Although it does mean Harry will sing a little more, so that's nice.
5) Speaking of Harry singing, it was awesome to hear his voice come out of a theater's speakers when they played "Story of My Life." Unfortunately it was because it was the song they used in the live action film Jem, which looks awful. As an original fan of the cartoon when it aired in the 80s, I have to say that I am one part tickled and thrilled that they'd make a live action version of it, and three parts horrified by what they've done to it (from what I saw in the trailer). Why even make Jem if you're going to totally change it and not in a good way? Jem is a normal girl! She's also a rock star! And a crime fighter! And has access to cutting-edge technology the likes of which the world has never seen before! Take even one of those away and it's not Jem.
6) I have a new hair stylist who I really love. And I never would have met her if not for her beingadelagia's stylist first. Her name is Ginger and she is a HAIR GODDESS. I liked my old stylist, Katie, a lot (and she was inexpensive), but she wasn't very good about giving me feedback. She just did whatever I said, and I am not always the best judge of what looks good on me or what to do with hair. Ginger, however, is not only genuinely nice (despite working in an uppity/trendy Bellevue salon) and knows how to give a fantastic blowout, but she's also great about making suggestions. I first got a fabulous cut from her, and asked her advice about some white hair that I've had coming in here and there, that I don't think warrant a full dye job. She immediately suggested balayage as a potential solution -- that it might hide some of that. I've never really had my hair colored before (Katie gave me highlights once, but it was so subtle it was like not different at all), and was a little nervous about it. But it ended up being great!!!!!! I don't know if it actually hides the white hairs as intended, but I don't really care because I ended up loving the result so much:
Yeah, it's never looked quite that way again. As every woman knows, they have magic fairy dust at hair salons that makes them capable of giving your hair that bouncy, awesome body that you just can't get yourself at home. :( I'm putting some effort into trying, though. I've purchased a round brush and some hella expensive salon products (specifically of the brand Oribe, which is what Ginger uses at Obadiah).
7) I highly recommend The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken. It's the first of a complete trilogy, and I haven't read books two or three, but I'm still recommending this book. It's another YA dystopian novel, but is much better written than blockbusters like The Hunger Games and Divergent (except I hope I end up loving the series as a whole, unlike those other two). It's the first book of its ilk, in fact, that has really captured my heart and mind in a long time. I really love both the heroine and hero, and the world building is pretty darn good, even if not perfect. It's also inspired me to read Watership Down, which I know is odd, but it makes sense if you've read TDM.
Anyway, I actually don't recommend reading the blurb at Amazon. It does the thing that is so annoying sometimes, that trailers do to movies, which is give the whole damn thing away. So here's my (much better, if I do say so myself) version of the blurb:
So yeah. READ IT!
Let's do a quickie run down of what all I've been up to in the last 90 days.
1) I've seen Mad Max: Fury Road four times. I didn't even have any interest in seeing it at all, initially. I mainly went because D. asked me to go to a screening, and I went because I hadn't seen him in ages and wanted to catch up. In fact, I still almost said no, due to my total lack of interest in the movie. BUT I ended up really loving the movie (just purely on an action basis... I had no idea about all the stupid men's rights stuff until after I saw it). I didn't even find it particularly feminist at the time... I just thought it was an amazingly well done action flick that didn't offend me. Anyway. Love it. There aren't a whole lot of movies I'd say definitively should be watched in a theater, and in 3D if at all possible, but this one of them. I saw it 3 times in 3D and once in 2D, and the 3D experiences were all incredible. The 2D experience made it look washed out and underwhelming, but maybe it was the theater. My record for seeing a movie in a theater is five times, and I don't think I'm going to go a fifth time, but never say never...
2) I now have a new crush on Tom Hardy. I know, I know, everyone was gaga for him as Eames, and I loved Inception, but I didn't see what all the fuss was about. Now I'm like, ermagherd Tom Harrrddyyyyyyy.
3)
adelagia and I are still excited about Comic Con.4) We are also still excited about the 1D concert in Seattle that takes place a couple of days after we get back from Comic Con, even though Zayn leaving the group is a bummer. Seriously, he couldn't wait until I'd gone to my first 1D concert? So selfish! Although it does mean Harry will sing a little more, so that's nice.
5) Speaking of Harry singing, it was awesome to hear his voice come out of a theater's speakers when they played "Story of My Life." Unfortunately it was because it was the song they used in the live action film Jem, which looks awful. As an original fan of the cartoon when it aired in the 80s, I have to say that I am one part tickled and thrilled that they'd make a live action version of it, and three parts horrified by what they've done to it (from what I saw in the trailer). Why even make Jem if you're going to totally change it and not in a good way? Jem is a normal girl! She's also a rock star! And a crime fighter! And has access to cutting-edge technology the likes of which the world has never seen before! Take even one of those away and it's not Jem.
6) I have a new hair stylist who I really love. And I never would have met her if not for her being
adelagia's stylist first. Her name is Ginger and she is a HAIR GODDESS. I liked my old stylist, Katie, a lot (and she was inexpensive), but she wasn't very good about giving me feedback. She just did whatever I said, and I am not always the best judge of what looks good on me or what to do with hair. Ginger, however, is not only genuinely nice (despite working in an uppity/trendy Bellevue salon) and knows how to give a fantastic blowout, but she's also great about making suggestions. I first got a fabulous cut from her, and asked her advice about some white hair that I've had coming in here and there, that I don't think warrant a full dye job. She immediately suggested balayage as a potential solution -- that it might hide some of that. I've never really had my hair colored before (Katie gave me highlights once, but it was so subtle it was like not different at all), and was a little nervous about it. But it ended up being great!!!!!! I don't know if it actually hides the white hairs as intended, but I don't really care because I ended up loving the result so much:Yeah, it's never looked quite that way again. As every woman knows, they have magic fairy dust at hair salons that makes them capable of giving your hair that bouncy, awesome body that you just can't get yourself at home. :( I'm putting some effort into trying, though. I've purchased a round brush and some hella expensive salon products (specifically of the brand Oribe, which is what Ginger uses at Obadiah).
7) I highly recommend The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken. It's the first of a complete trilogy, and I haven't read books two or three, but I'm still recommending this book. It's another YA dystopian novel, but is much better written than blockbusters like The Hunger Games and Divergent (except I hope I end up loving the series as a whole, unlike those other two). It's the first book of its ilk, in fact, that has really captured my heart and mind in a long time. I really love both the heroine and hero, and the world building is pretty darn good, even if not perfect. It's also inspired me to read Watership Down, which I know is odd, but it makes sense if you've read TDM.
Anyway, I actually don't recommend reading the blurb at Amazon. It does the thing that is so annoying sometimes, that trailers do to movies, which is give the whole damn thing away. So here's my (much better, if I do say so myself) version of the blurb:
When Ruby woke on her tenth birthday, something about her had changed. Something that made her parents lock her in the garage and call the police. Something that got her sent to Thurmond, a brutal government "rehabilitation camp." She might have survived the mysterious disease that has killed most of America's children, but she and the other survivors have emerged with something far worse: frightening abilities they cannot control.
Now sixteen, Ruby is one of the dangerous ones.
When the truth comes out, Ruby goes on the run, desperate to find the one safe haven left for those like her. She joins a group of kids who have escaped their own camp. Ruby can't risk getting close to them, not after what happened to her parents, but she needs them. Nothing is as it seems, though, and there are forces at work that may force Ruby into making a terrible choice -- one that may mean giving up her only chance at a life worth living.
So yeah. READ IT!
