Top 10 Movies of 2010

In conjunction to my last post, here is my top 10 films of 2010.

10. 127 Hours
9. Valentine's Day
8. Shutter Island
7. Jackass 3-D
6. From Paris, With Love
5. The Runaways
4. Toy Story 3
3. Inception
2. The Town
1.  Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part I

Top 10 Albums of 2010

I love music and everyone right now is making their "top 10 of 2010" lists, so I'm going to make my own.

10. Kings of Leon - Come Around Sundown
9. Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday
8. MGMT - Congratulations
7. The Pretty Reckless - Light Me Up
6. Eminem - Recovery
5. Vampire Weekend - Contra
4. Katy Perry - Teenage Dream
3. Taylor Swift - Speak Now
2. Angus and Julia Stone - Down The Way
1. Lady GaGa - The Fame Monster

Quiz

I like answering quizes, so I'll post a heap.

1) What author do you own the most books by?
Ah, Ann.M.Martin but that's because of the Baby-Sitters Club and California Diaries. I read a lot of series, so I don't think it counts.
2) What book do you own the most copies of?
Jane Eyre. I have two.

3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
No it didn't.

4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
Sebastian Magenta from Finding Cassie Crazy and Sebastian Valenti from the It Girl series. I swear it's because they have the name Sebastian. Both boys have dark hair, creamy complexion, mmm. My type of boy. Never mind that they both do insane crazy stuff to prove the girls that they're after that they are serious.

5) What book have you read the most times in your life (excluding picture books read to children; i.e., Goodnight Moon does not count)?
I've read Finding Cassie Crazy like a million times.

6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
The Whole entire BSC series.

7) What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
I haven't read anything crap in the past year execpt some really crappy blurbs on the back of some books.

8) What is the best book you've read in the past year?
A Clockwork Orange.

9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
Um, this is hard. Probably On The Road.
10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for Literature?
Someone who doesn't write about SPARKELY VAMPIRES.

11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman.

12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
Stephenie Meyer's other book that isn't Twilight. I read the first chapter and instantly regretted paying $32 for that.

13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
I once had a dream that I slapped Blair Waldorf in the face.

14) What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult?
I don't know...

15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
Animal Farm.
Animal's now creep the shit out of me.
16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen?
I've seen a few, I'm pretty sure Macbeth was my fav though.

17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
Chekov, Tolstoy, Eat my heart out.
20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?

Shakespeare.

21) Austen or Eliot?

Austen.

22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?

A lot of the classics. I have never read Pride and Prejuidce, War and Peace, Lolita, I can keep going but I'm going to embarass myself.

23) What is your favorite novel?
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
24) Play?
I'm not into plays.

25) Poem?
Fire and Ice. Though I hated how it was put into Eclipse.

26) Essay?
I hate reading essay's.

27) Short Story?
I dislike a lot of things.

28) Work of nonfiction?
The Female Ennouch.
Enlighten me.

29) Who is your favorite writer?
Ann M Martin, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Jerry Spinelli, J.K Rowling, E.Lockhart, Malorie Blackman, Stephen King, Truman Capote

30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
Stephenie Meyer. Seriously, SPARKELY VAMPIRES.

31) What is your desert island book?
My entire California Diaries collection.

32) And... what are you reading right now?
Nothing. I'm a bit bored with reading the same thing over and over again.

Sunshine Daydream Winslow

Sunshine Daydream Winslow.
She's one of my heroes/idols/those people who you look up to.
She's one of the main characters from my favourite book series of all time, California Diaries. I love reading them. I read them a lot still.
Sunny's 13. A product of two ex-hippies and in CD, her mom has lung cancer. Sunny has these overwhelming feelings of anger, hurt and she starts to rebel against her life. She gets her belly-button pierced in the first book, to the shock horror of her friends. I find this funny because when I was 13 and I got my belly-button pierced, everyone else wanted it done and none was "shocked" when you got it done. She also later that day, gets so wasted that she vomits and then passes out and that's just too much for straight-laced Jill. Jill stops being their friend, thank god, because she really annoyed me. And they becomes friends with Amalia, the new girl at school and older, quirky boy, Ducky (Aka Christopher). In later books, Sunny runs away for a boy, returns home but ends up at her best friend's house, almost burns down that said house after helping Carol when she needs it the most and writes of the most emotion ridden books I've ever read. Seriously, CD#11 is just captures everything I think that the series is about. When I think of Sunny, I don't think of her as a girl who has nice, strawberry-blonde hair and wears nice OC-inspired preppy clothes. I think of early 90's grunge, dark hair, messy clothes with rips and stains. But yeah you know, that's just probably me.

"The Thing About Atonement is..."

Atonement was a good movie. I'll probably watch it before I go to sleep tonight just because I'm in that mood to watch Keira and cry. Keira Knightely is a beautiful woman and a great actress. The movie makes me cry everytime I watch it. I also hate that girl with the red curly hair and Keira's younger sister in the movie. Seriously. STUPID, STUPID YOUNG GIRLS BREAKING UP AN EPIC LOVE! Ugh, it frustrates me. It also frustrates me how skinny Keira is. So, so jealous. The story it's self is good. I want to read the book, which is on the list I've written of books that I want to read, which is probably not even half completed because I've only got three Stephen King books and barely any of the "classics" that I want to read and celebrity bio's. "Atonement" shows up in a lot of books, TV shows and movies. Angel's atonement was for all the bad things he did as Angelus, everyone he helps and saves after he's gotten his soul is helping him towards that. Pretty much, that show showed me what Atonement meant.

Models. I love models. Seriously do.
I'm jealous of the 5'9'' +, 100lb beautiful women that grace most of my fashion magazines, internet pages and books of fashion that I like to buy. One of my favourite models is Freja Beha Erichsen. She has this grungy, un-made up look about her that makes me look at her. I love her tattoos. They're pretty cool. Victoria Secret Fashion Show was on the other day. I don't even know when it will be on Australian TV, or if it has already. Damn...! I remember the first ever Victoria Secret Fashion Show I ever watched was back in 2006. Justin Timberlake opened the show with Sexy Back and Gisele walked out in gold. It was Miranda Kerr's first show ever and she was the first ever Australian model to walk for VS.
Makes me wanna go buy some VS, ha.

Carpe Diem

"Seize the moment, 'cause tomorrow you might be dead." - Buffy
Buffy's words from the first ever episode of Buffy stuck in my head. Seizing the moment isn't as easy as it seems because your brain goes into overdrive of "NO, WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU THINKING?!?!!?" But sometimes, my mind just seems to shut down instead. Like yesterday, for example. I got my first tattoo. It says Carpe Diem on my side. Carpe Diem is latin for "Seize the day". I don't often seize the day but yesterday I did.

When I was living at home, I literally did nothing but wake up, sit on my bed with my laptop and watch TV or read a book while attempting to write fanfiction. I now live out of home and spend most of my time not writing fanfiction. This years been better than last year. Sure, I haven't been updating as much as I did in high school but it's better than last year. I didn't update between February and October last year. That's pretty much when I went through this rough patch and when the problem left, I opened a document file and wrote for three days straight. I just wish I had enough time each week to be updating at least two-three times a fornight per story so I can finish them all....
Sigh. If only.

Don't You, Forget About Me

80's were great for one thing:

Coming of age movies. Teen Mobies. Craptastic B-Grade horror films that I refuse to watch without a pillow in front of my face. Grade 11 English was great. We studied The Breakfast Club - which is probably my favourite 80's movie ever. Pretty In Pink, St Elmo's fire, Ferris Bueller's Day Off are god-awesome too. I have been wanting to see Sixteen Candles for about as long as I've heard of it. I find it weird that Molly Ringwald was cast in so many roles as the main actress. She's not that pretty and with red hair. I have red hair naturally and I'm not pro-ranga. I now understand where the nickname Ducky comes from. It's referenced in the first California Diaries book, and I was always like, "Dude, who is this Ducky guy?". I watched Pretty In Pink, and there is Ducky, pining for Molly Ringwald who in the end chose Andrew McCarthy. It's also weird to think that Ducky is now Charlie Sheen's brother in Two and A Half men....

Castiel, dreamboat angel

I'm Sorry.

I have to say this.

CASTIEL IS SO FREAKING HOT.

I've let it out, I can move on now.
I hope.
I watched the first season of Supernatural on tv. The season ended and then I waited three months for it to return to tv. Did it? No. Supernatural has problems airing over here on tv. Yes, it's popular. Yes, it's so freaking annoying that I had to wait to see season 5 on DVD for like three months. But was it worth it? YES YES YES! Dean is hot. Sam is cute. Castiel is just skfnwknk. He's probably my favourite character out of the whole show and he's been in it less than two full seasons. Something about him is so socially awkward (maybe because he doesn't get Dean's pop culture references) and so blunt. He just is now part of team free will. Sigh.
Another show that I'm obessed with is Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Thank god in that universe sparkly vampires don't exist. Seriously. Sparkly vampires? Are you kidding me? Anyways, vampires on Buffy were a little bit more realistic and scary and weren't pansys who couldn't kick ass. Buffy is kind of a hero to me. Willow and I share the same kind of social awkwardness that makes some situations weird.
Anya is just so Anya. Dawn reminds me of my
annoying little brother. Dawn really doesn't do the show justice. She's annoyed me since the first episode of season 5. She just got worse as the show progressed.
Tres` annoying.

Teenage Dream

Lately there has been this big "thing" about what would you tell your sixteen year old self. I was 16 three years ago. I was in grade eleven. Here's what I would tell myself:

• Don't do OP. Change straight away to Voc-Ed. Keep OP English, but seriously. CHANGE! You won't regret it because you'd probably get better grades than the shit ones you got for two years.

Don't worry about not having a boyfriend because within a year, you'll go through two relationships and come out hating the idea of being in one.

Start saving for that trip to America. It will become your life's mission to become an american citizan. And your going to need serious amounts of dough to do that.

When it comes to the end of the school year and your in the biggest friendship fight of your life. (Yes, the one that you didn't go to school for two weeks and then went to a different school to sign up for) Don't give up. It seems like the end of the world and that your never going to have any friends and that you spent 9 weeks alone all summer but when you walk up to the group on the first day of senior year and it's like that fight never happened, that moment is probably the greatest feeling you feel.

Sunny Winslow will become your hero. Right now, you just copy her look.

That day you and Rachael skipped school and went to chermside and you came home and Mrs Sullivan left a message. Thank the heavens when she calls back several weeks later, it's about Luke, not you.

Don't worry about growing up. By the time you hit 19, you still don't wanna.
You're never going to grow. 157cm for the rest of your life baby.
Contact that girl from when you were eleven and she was your best friend. Never is too late.
Become a serious vegetarian.
Finish collecting all of those Baby-Sitters Club books. They get more expensive as the years go on.

"Hi, my name is Johnny Knoxville and welcome to jackass!"

jackass is good.
jackass is great.

jackass is awesome.
I'm pretty sure I don't even know how I got into jackass but I'm pretty sure I love it.

I am pretty immature for a 19 year old sometimes. Some would argue, most of the time. jackass started when I was 8 and I didn't start watching it until I was at least 15. I own pretty much everything related to it other than jackass 3-D which came out like four days ago. Yes, I saw it. Yes, I loved it. One major downside was that it didn't have my favourite jackass/Viva La Bam member, Brandon DiCamillo. Man, that boy can make me laugh. I love his crazy, whacked out sense of humor and his weird way of dressing up in outfits, Eg: When Phil wasn't allowed to eat, Brandon turned up in a general's outfit with a hat on and proceded to cover himself in food...

I guess I'm pretty immature but still: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Right now, my obession is Nicki Minaj. The girl has a ghettoo bootah bigger than Kim Kardashian's and this really cool tattoo down her arm. Ps, her songs are super catchy which is good. I'm not big into doing new things. I'm set deep into my roots of what I like, in terms of what books I enjoy (Stephen King, Teen Lit, Classics, Psychology books, Celeb bio's, TV show guide books), what music I like (Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Muse, Placebo and good bootah shakin' rap music) and what movies I love (Little Miss Sunshine, (500) Days of Summer, Juno, Lars and the real girl). My friends think I'm weird but I think I like to take a step out of the box of "normality".

What is "normal" anyways? Does anyone ever know? Find out? Reach that goal that will ulimatliy let them into the "IN" crowd?

I don't know.

I'll let you know.

Smurfette

Katy Perry is very pretty.
Even with blue hair or cream coming out of bottle that are on her chest.
Though I think she's had a boob job.

My fanfiction has taken a back seat in my life recently. But I read a really good fanfic about the Baby-Sitters club and about characters I usually don't read about and it's kicked me into high gear about California Diaries (My fanfic called that) and Changing Lanes. Right now, California Diaries has 23,000 words and 6 chapters over Changing Lanes but that's because California Diaries follows the book series, which means there is instant inspo. Changing Lanes starts two years after California Diaries. After CL, Chaser and Caught in the Crowd will be written. Chaser is going to be about Tiffany Kilbourne and her life. Caught in the Crowd will be about Kristy's younger siblings Karen and David Michael.

Ah, i better go back to it. I'm on a roll.

Obviously, doctor, you've never been a 13 year old girl

The Virgin Suicides.
Great movie, great book.
One thing different between the two is that Mary, doesn't actually die in the book. She survives and then later kills herself.

I love that movie. I'm pretty sure it started my love for indie flicks along with Little Miss Sunshine, which is pretty much my #1 favourite movie of all time. Dwayne - you're yummy. He started my love of Nietzsche. Frank started my love of Proust. Since then, I've wanted to study philosphy. I love learning new things, but I've decieded not to go to university. I'm not a good studier. I didn't do much homework during high school, earning the term "the waifer" by my biology teacher in grade 12. I guess that's why I got a OP23. Which is 2 more than the lowest score before it doesn't count. I think our grading system in Australia sucks. I wish I went to an American high school. I used to dream about it while I was attending an Australian one. I was so so so insanly jealous of everyone who lived in America - I still am. That's why I'm applying for an American Green Card. I know the odds of me actually getting one is silm, but it doesn't hurt to try.

I'm meant to be writing my fanfiction, like usual. I'm re-writing 3 stories... hard task considering one is complete and two haven't been updated in two years.

Why So Serious?

I love the joker. I loved him in the batman cartoons on Cartoon Network and then I loved him in the Dark Knight. Heath Ledger, you did me proud. I was glued, literally, to the movie theatre screen as I watched the movie on it's opening day. I love the art work they did for the promotion of it. I love the fanfiction that involves the Joker and Harely Quinn. I love her too...

I've almost finished my Veronica Mars marathon. I've got 9 episodes to go. I've been hooked into the fanfiction. My favourites have suprisingly enough been one of the Veronica and Lamb pairings. The Yellow Brick Road. Wow, that was a good story. I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT THEY CANCLED THAT SHOW! GOD, ARE YOU STUPID???? Yes, YOU ARE!!!!!! STUPID, STUPID PEOPLE! I love watching Veronica and Logan together... I love watching Dick make a dick of himself.... I love watching Lamb being the crapiest sheriff ever to exist.

I love it.

Obessed.

We used to be friends, A long time ago...

Veronica Mars, is one of my favourite shows. I've been watching all three seasons for the last two weeks. Logan and Veronica now have become one of my fanfiction addictions. I at least, have jumped 40 new favourite stories on my list. Do you know how hard it is to find a good fanfiction? VERY HARD. In any category. Beyblade is usually hard to find a good one too... oh and the Baby-Sitter's Club. Hard, Hard, Hard.

I've been working on a new fanfiction. I can't even think of a good title.... god.
I'm going back to work ;)

Mary Kate, Eat My Heart Out

I love Mary Kate Olsen.

I do.

She's one of my fashion icons, ever since I brought her book with her sister, Ashley. That book changed my life in terms of the way i look at fashion.

I just love it. Love it. LOVE IT.
And her.

I wish I had the money to buy more clothes, though I have no idea where I'd put them.

I moved out of home, like a month ago.

So I now don't have a closet. Just five drawers of clothes, full. Jam packed to the top.

god.

I need to save to money for the usa.

WEEKEND VAMPIRE

I want a tattoo.
My mother says if I get one, I'm getting a slap across the face and I'm getting kicked out.
How nice is she?
I already know what I want.
I would like a sleeve, on my left arm but I know that I'll never ever get it done.
I want a trail of ladybeetle's up my right ankle.
I want a half sun on my right ribcage, in honor of Sunny Winslow.
I want "All right is with the world" somewhere, Idk.

See, it's not some skanky tramp stamp!
I hate those. And those who get them, you skanky tramp!

I wanted to go for a run sometime this weekend.
But, I'm lazy and I really need to update my fanfiction.
Yesterday, I recieved 16 emails saying that someone had added 16 different stories to their favourite list.
Jesus, I didn't know you liked my reading that much!
But it's a nice thing, I guess.

Except from the fact they are all my beyblade fanfictions, or most of them and I mainly write for the BSC world now. Hmm... Odd. Though I love how my one-shots got some love too.

Haha.

Camping trip 2010 is only 10 weeks away!
I'm so exicted!
And I have nothing saved!
But it shall all be fun!

AMERICAN LIFE

I would live in the United States of America.
Give me US$10,000 and a green card and I'd drop anything to be over there.
My goal is to move there.
Visit there next year. Possibly for 90 days. Do you think I could get away with re-entering the country every 91 days? Go down to Mexico for 24 hours and then return? Or maybe Canada. Mmmm. I dream of leaving here. Often. Daydreaming is not fun when you realize you're meant to be here, in reality. I WANT TO LIVE THERE, CAN'T YOU GET THAT US SECRUITY? I'D LIKE TO BE A CITIZAN!!!!

DOES THAT NOT GET ANYWHERE, OVER THERE?

YO, Obama. You follow me on twitter, you can let me go in, yeah? Sounds like a plan Stan.

I just Skyped to Kailey. I missed talking to her soooooooo MUCH! God damn my webcam and failing to work at night! What is with that? Does not make sense at all, but still, it was something that brightened my day. She does brighten my day. That reminds me, wash Michigan State shirt on Saturday! HAHA. I'm meant to be writing fanfiction, but I'm all distracted.

I like Life

I want rosary beads. I want a better mattress for my bed. I want one, one-way ticket to Michigan, US. I want the last two California Diaries books. I want Supernatural, Season 5 because Castiel, you are mightly fine. Mmmhmmm, That's why that show is so much better now.

What I want and what I need are two very different things.

I need to fix my phone. I need to save for my camping trip in October. I need to eat healthier for my own sake. I need learn how to cook. I need a new iPhone cabel/earphones. Why does it cost $39.99 for a new cable dock, and then $39.99 for earphones? EARPHONES?! OMFG... I'll buy them later. Maybe. This is why I own a shiny Hello Kitty case which I brought for $25.

It's my goal to write in this blog everyday.
Good luck. I can barely remember to feed myself.

California Diaries

I heart california diaries.

I remember how I scored Dawn, Diary one through an old friend who went to a different high school than me. I would always gaze at it until one day, she reached down and took it off the shelf and went, "Here, have it." I was 13. I scurried home and read it. I was in love instantly. I had already read the Baby-Sitters Club, so I knew who Dawn, Sunny and Maggie was. Sunny has been my favourite character ever since. Most people hate her, but I love her. I now own 13/15 books, after six years of trying to get them all. Dawn, Diary 3 and Ducky, Diary 3 is all I have left. I think the series has inspired this bug inside of me to move to California, or anywhere in the US like I have been dreaming about.

I now write California Diaries fanfiction. It took me 4 years after signing up to the website to even consider writing anything in California Diaries/Baby-Sitters Club fandom, but I drank a bottle of concrete and just did it. I've never looked back. I even asked ff.net for California Diaries' own category, which it got about a month ago! I'm now in the process of re-writing CD, with new outlooks from different characters. It's so hard, but I'm enjoying it.

er...

i start alot of things with er... lately.
espically when i wake up.
i'm back to sleeping almost a clean 16 hours before i'm not tired as soon as i get out of bed.
it reminds me of when i was 14, and would spend all of my time sleeping.

when i was 14, i had a friend called Ashleigh Wright. i thought i could find her on facebook, cause you know, you can bascially find anyone under the age of 18 on there, but no. she's not on there. id like to know what happened to her. we were friends for like a year before she decieded that i wasn't cool enough (or i wasn't intro drugs) to hang out with anymore. she just stopped being around. at that time i found a bunch of... people who i spent the next 2.5 years with who don't talk to me now.

high school sucked.
i always dreamed of going to a American high school... i still do...
i dream of the Californian sun
i dream of the tacky, gaudyness of Las Vegas
i dream of those yellow taxi's in NYC.

guess i'm a bit lloooony.