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Firstly: a very (belated) Merry Christmas to those of you who celebrate! And a Happy New Year too while I'm at it, because god knows my posting habits are anything but reliable. I had a nice, subdued Christmas, a good portion of which I honestly did spend sleeping. (Don't judge me! I had a pretty brutal work week and a half leading up to it.) Got some lovely gifts from my family and friends, and just generally hung around relaxing. How will I be spending New Year's Eve? The same unabashedly pathetic way I do every year, which I refuse to apologize for: watching the Twilight Zone marathon.
Quick RL updates: Met up with the lovely Kylie in Oceanside today, walked the pier for a bit, then had a nice lunch and did a bit of shopping before she heads back to the UK for school. Miss her already! Saw Sherlock Holmes with BFF Matt and Mike tonight, which was... well, I didn't honestly expect anything, because... come on, it's Guy Ritchie "reimagining" Sherlock Holmes. Jude Law was quite good, Rachel McAdams was... well, she wasn't great, but she wasn't bad either. But of course, the entire film pretty much revolves around Robert Downey Jr.'s phenomenal (as always) performance. Is there anything this man can't do? Honestly. His accent is nearly flawless, and he continues to completely become characters as naturally as hands slip into gloves. Bravo, sir, I will happily watch this one again, and it's all your fault. (Also, Iron Man 2 trailer on the big screen, W00T!)
But this post isn't meant for those particular ramblings, so I'll leave it at that. This post was meant to go up on Christmas Day, but (a) I totally underestimated how long it would take me to put it together, and (b) again, I... kind of slept through half of that day. Whoops? Anyway, that means it's two days late now, and there was only a handful of folks around here who would've cared about it even if I had managed to deliver it on time, but... at this point, I'm determined, dammit. It's something I've been wanting to do for a while, and this most recent occasion (if you can call it that) seemed as good an excuse as any.
Six months ago, as of Christmas Day, (yes, you probably guessed it) Michael Jackson passed away. Since then, I've pretty much fallen headfirst back into the fangirl mode I spent the first 15 or so years of my life in, in regard to his music, his art, his life, and the man himself as a person. Thanks to places like ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) shamone_mj and the wonderful people I've met through it, it's been a hell of a lot of fun, informative, enlightening, silly, ridiculous, sad, reflective, but ultimately rich and wonderful. You guys out there, you know who you are; thanks for the ride. Needless to say I'm sure, I plan to stick around, and in the meantime this is sort of a little gift that we can share to mark the six month mark together, hopefully in some sort of a positive way. As time passes, I become more fascinated by Michael, not less; I miss and love him more. This is just an attempt of sorts to examine this further.
It isn't much, honestly. It's just a big picspam with very limited commentary. Ultimately I wanted the images to speak for themselves, because I chose them pretty carefully. There are literally millions (perhaps billions?) of photographs of this man out there in the world, and over the years I have seen a lot of them, so that's a big part of what took so much time. There's at least one specific reason for each and every photo you'll see in this post (some will probably be obvious, others perhaps not so much), and each one struck me in some way as special or beautiful (or most likely both). On the whole my favorites - which all of these qualify as in some way - show something candid and unguarded (♥), vulnerable, sweet or reflective of Michael in the many ways we knew him: musician, dancer, humanitarian, son, brother, father, inspiration.
JUST SAYIN': There are about 150 images below the cut, so please click with caution! (I got carried away, okay? He's just so pretty.) Give this page time to load! You've got quite a bit of scrolling ahead of you, so be patient. ;)
( Michael Jackson: 50 years, 8 eras, 1 King. )
Wow, that was absolutely massive. (In my defense, it feels like I haven't picspammed a thing in ages, I guess it sort of ran away with me.) If any of you actually made it through that entire thing, I hope you enjoyed it. Please, feel free to spread the love and pass the link on. I'm off to run to work for the night. Peace out, my BBs.h
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| boxing day purchase |
[26 Dec 2009|08:41pm] |
One of the small luxury items I have a weakness for is soap. Especially triple milled french soap. I found a great deal on some today and I immediately treated myself to two bars - "Currant" and "Citrus" :)
Just look at how pretty they are! I almost don't want to use them because the wrapping is so pretty. There's even a fake jewel attached to them!
 
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[19 Oct 2009|07:57pm] |
ABOVE Magazine
September 09
Emergence: A Life in Ten Chapters.
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[10 Oct 2009|12:58am] |
Vogue, September 2009
editorial: In the Mood
Models: Viktoriya Sasonkina, Sasha Pivovarova, Coco Rocha, Karen Elson & Liya Kebede
Photographer: Steven Meisel
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| Brothers |
[25 Dec 2009|09:36pm] |
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http://intensify.org/movies/2060/
- Just like every other movie involving war, the message is WAR IS BAD, so in that sense it’s not really novel
- However, it does highlight another aspect of combat that sometimes gets overshadowed in movies, and that is the fact that going to war doesn’t only get people killed and maimed and hurt, but it pretty much fucks everyone up psychologically, which is the real cost
- I was not impressed by any of the leads except maybe Tobey Maguire. Natalie Portman totally left her A-game at home and Jake Gyllenhaal always plays the same character
- I WAS impressed by the kid who played the older daughter. Damn girl!
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[14 Dec 2009|11:25pm] |
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Vanity Fair Spain / October 2009
"Carrera Olímpica"
Models / Jon Kortajarena & Oriol Elcacho
Photographer / David Dunan
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| it's a jolly holiday with you, bert |
[25 Dec 2009|04:40pm] |
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It's been said too many times before that Hollywood's been long drained of ideas, hence all the idea ripping from Asian cinema and books and graphic novels and things, and there's no way for me to rehash this any more creatively than its been previously done, but i want to express my EXTREME dismay in the Golden Compass movie. Didn't watch it in the past because i wanted to read the books first, which i only got around to doing last week and i COULDN'T FRIGGIN PUT IT DOWN. Oh sure sure, anti-religious themes bla bla bla (Though I found it more philosophically discursive than blatantly anti-religious? What's up with all the hatred, Catholic Church? Although SURE i can see how institutions, religious or not, would want to cut away your soul so you can become blameless as well as thoughtless BUT I DIGRESS)- I REALLY FRAEKIN LOVE LYRA. That is one badass kid.
Anyway, the movie sucked. I hate it when they just pick a couple of scenes from the book they want to film, make a couple of awkward dialogue-based links between scenes and then just string the whole thing together with a smear of shiny all over it. It's AWKWARD. It's what they do to Harry Potter, it's why these fantastic characters seem so flat and lifeless on the screen, and it's why the stories all seem so damn COMPLICATED. Fuuuuuuu. Either rewrite it for cinema, or do what Peter friggin Jackson did. If not, take a hike Hollywood and do not waste my time >:(
Oh hey yeah, Christmas! Was run-of-the-mill, by my family's standards, though we did manage to Skype with my brother in Vienna briefly. Lots of hugging and sweating! Nicki got me The Subtle Knife and I also got this really badass Spiderman bubble gun. For making BUBBLES. UH-HUH. BE JEALOUS. And I cleaned my ROOM!!! Woah, i unearthed so much crap.
Going to party my ass off with the fam tonight, get a couple of cousins drunk, and then it's off to Bohol! I wish i still knew what my thesis was!
Was gonna write some shite today about my current ideological and philosophical standpoint, but i guess it can wait. Rest assured that i have been pretty happy with my stance lately. Maybe i'll write about it on New Year's. ♥
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| Alice; part 3/4 |
[24 Dec 2009|12:19am] |
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Radiohead / Ben Kweller / Pixies / The Breeders |
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I apologize for the inconsistency of the captures, editing-wise. I just started having too much fun with making certain things pop out in all of the shots, and matching it with moods and whatnot. :)
( Alice: Part 2 )
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| HO HO HUM HO |
[23 Dec 2009|11:54pm] |
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CHRISTMAS EVE EVE....EVE OF CHRISTMAS EVE...EVE CHRISTMAS EVE...???? WHATEVER...I'M BORED ALREADY.
Sitting at home, alone, nothing to do. I have finished all my wrapping, finished all of my buying, still not feeling very Christmasy this year. AND I JUST LOST THE MARIO GAME I WAS PLAYING ON THE DS BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT WAS CHARGING BUT IT WAS NOT. NOW ALL OF MY PROGRESS, GONE! STUPID BATTERY. I was on the second to last castle of level 8 too. OH WOE IS ME. I got so mad there is a chance I might have thrown something. YES, I AM SEVEN...WHY DO YOU ASK?
It's night like these that make me wonder why I always push myself away from any kind of normal relationship. I am of the age...ahem...the age that should for all intents be married. Yet, I can't even seem to function in any kind of normal and realistic relationship at all. It's nights like this that leave me wondering if there is something fundamentally wrong with me. Will I spend ever Christmas for the rest of my life alone? I guess that's a possibility. But if that's the case, how will I ever be okay with that? Will I be one of those people that ends up spending Christmas with my siblings families because I don't have any family of my own? WILL I BE A CRAZY CAT LADY EVEN THOUGH I ONLY HAVE ONE CAT AND HAVE ON INTENTION OF HAVING ANOTHER? Is this my ~big~ epic destiny? You know, you grow up with all of these unrealistic romantic expectations of what life should be like. How things should turn out by the time you are "this" age, and then the next landmark, what you should have or have accomplished by that point. And I'm learning, as I get older, that those things rarely work out the way that I think that they should or the way that I might want them to. But maybe that's only for me. Maybe it is my lack of motivation or my like of drive and determination. My seeming inability to have a dream, look at it realistically, and do what I can to achieve it. Is that it? Do I just take my dreams and look at them like pretty things behind some kind of display case and watch as they collect dust, wondering why they're not quite as shiny a few years later??? I don't know. I feel like...I feel like...I need to reinvent myself. But how? By doing what? How do things change when you get to the age when it's kind of time to start settling down? I don't know. Things to consider for the new year I guess....right now, it's time to get drunk and forget about it!
In the mean time, I will think about my five essential Christmas specials/movies. I end up watching them every year in the hopes that they will somehow get me in the Christmas spirit, something that I'm finding harder and harder to locate with each passing year. SORRY GUYS, I DON'T MEAN TO BE BAH HUMBUG ABOUT ALL THIS. I REALLY DO LOVE THE HOLIDAYS! I BELIEVE IT IS MY LIFE IN WHICH THE ISSUE LIES!
Now, since I am planning ways to sabotage myself in to the Christmas spirit, something I have been doing for several years now; I have made a convenient and picture flavored list of the movies that I usually watch to try and help. MOVIES/CHRISTMAS SPECIALS. Note: This is not a guaranteed cure for that nonChristmasy feeling. Sometimes it works, sometimes it just makes me eat a lot of Christmas cookies. Eh, either way...it's progress I figure.
( in no particular order.... )
And on that note...
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!
I hope that all of you have a wonderful holiday. I wish I could have done more for my friends list this year, but I have been strapped for time and money. BUT THE LOVE I FEEL FOR YOU ALL IS BOUNDLESS. I hope that you all have the best holiday that the universe could ever possibly offer.
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| this is the weirdest scandal I ever read about |
[23 Dec 2009|09:45pm] |
The Lee Byung Hun scandal makes no sense... and it just keeps getting odder. There's a baseball pitcher and gangsters involved now. Errr. Whut?
I really hate the husband and his sugar momma in Last Scandal. They're so BORING and ugh. It almost makes me want to stop watching because he gets way too much screentime. WHO CARES???
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