It's kind of hard to sum up anyone in just a few words, and I'm no different. But if I've somehow sparked your interest, I don't mind being added. I check out everyone who adds me, but I don't always add back.  I'm not mean, I'm just picky. I'm mostly just looking to make new friends who are interesting, creative, and at least somewhat intelligent. It also helps if we have things in common. If you'd like to introduce yourself first, just leave a comment here.

stolen from room429

-Pick 10 of your favorite movies.
-Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
-Post them here for everyone to guess.
-Fill in the film title once it's guessed.
-NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions!

1. I thought I'd die with all my hate in my veins. But then something happened. It happened to me... just as it happened to you.
2. There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours. The Princess Bride
   
3. What Freud said about the Irish is: We're the only people who are impervious to psychoanalysis. The Departed
   
4. We were all feeling a bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it being a night of no small expenditure. A Clockwork Orange
   
5. Lots of midgets have offed themselves. I hope yours doesn't, otherwise your film'll be fucked.
6. No, no. It's not schizophrenia. It's just a voice in my head. I mean, the voice isn't telling me to do anything. It's telling me what I've already done... accurately, and with a better vocabulary. Stranger Than Fiction
   
7. Take the best orgasm you've ever had... multiply it by a thousand, and you're still nowhere near it.
8. You can start by wiping that fucking dumb-ass smile off your rosey, fucking, cheeks! Then you can give me a fucking automobile: a fucking Datsun, a fucking Toyota, a fucking Mustang, a fucking Buick! Four fucking wheels and a seat!
9. Because I'm a fucking caveman!
10. In the beginning the universe was created. This made a lot of people angry and has widely been considered as a bad move. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    

Yay! Hit milestone Day 50 this week :] No Flickr Group Roulette challenges this week :/ They were all pretty lame or boring or I just couldn't do it. Anyway, my favorite this week is Day 53. It happened by accident, and I just went from there. Day 55 is a close second. As for my least favorite, I'd say it's probably 51, just because it didn't turn out the way I wanted it to. So what do you think?

Poll #1186709 365days Week Eight
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

Which is your favorite?

Probably the most eventful week yet: new collage, new camera, new swimsuit, and traveling.
Accomplished two fgr's this week. Day 43 [T-Shirt Tuesday] and Day 49 [Five Senses].
Favorites for me: Once again, I like all of them for different reasons, there aren't any I really dislike. But I guess my favorite would have to be Day 49 just because the idea for it just hit me all of a sudden, and then it was really difficult to get the shot I wanted, so when I finally got it, I felt really accomplished. I guess my least favorite would have to be Day 43 just because I couldn't get a shot with the the entire background filled with shirts. Other than that, I loved this week.

So now you tell me what you think:

Poll #1184475 365days: Week Seven
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

Which is your favorite this week?

Which is your least favorite?

I'll explain later. Much too tired.

Wasn't tagged, but I stole this from expect-life anyway :]

Write:
1. Your name/username.
2. Left-handed or right-handed?
3. Favourite letters to write?
4. Least favourite letters to write?
5. Write "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."
6. Tag 5 people.


So get on it yous guys o_o
I'm feeling pretty silly right now.

Second time posting this meme. First one is here if you'd like to have a go at it as well.

-Put your MP3 player/other music device on random.
-Post the first line(s) from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
-Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
-Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
-Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING

1. Bells around St. Petersburg when I saw you
2. You don't know me like you knew me
3. I am overground, outselling it since God thinks I don't exist
4. Everything's been said before, nothing left to say anymore
5. I'm so tired I haven't slept a wink
6. She just wanders around unaffected by the winter winds here
7. She's only eighteen, don't like the Rolling Stones
8. I know what I know, I know, on the car ride down
9. Eyes boring a way through me, paralyze, controlling completely
10. When criminals in this world appear and break the laws that they should fear
11. All around the world statues crumble for me, who knows how long I've loved you
12. Hangin round downtown by myself
13. My baby my baby let me know, because you love me, you love me, let me go
14. All I can say is that my life is pretty plain
15. How long did we think this all would last?
16. I have come curiously close to the end, now
17. I had a dream I could buy my way to heaven
18. They made a statue of us and put it on a mountaintop
19. We're talking away, I don't know what I'm to say
20. If the sun refused to shine, I don't mind, I don't mind

Well that was interesting. And I'm really only a little embarrassed about one of them. I think a lot of them are pretty easy.

Woo hoo! Next week I hit the 50 day mark!
Only did two  Flickr Group Roulette challenges this week - Day 39: Our Little Secret [I bite my hair] and Day 42: Widescreen.
I have to say I love every photo except for Days 39 & 40. Those two just don't do it for me, and I can't pick a favorite among the rest.
So I'm going to try a new thing....poll!


Poll #1179501 365days Week Six
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

Which is your favorite?

Second ADIML for me. First one is here.
Join me for a day of aimless driving, minor shopping, cats, laundry, & random tv.
A very typical Saturday for the boyfriend & I.

So I've seen this lyric theme a few times on a bunch of journals, and I'm curious to try it out.

• Put your MP3 player/other music device on random.
• Post the first line(s) from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
• Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
• Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
• Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING

Brought to you by my cute-ass Insignia Pilot [fuck iPod].

1. I saw your face, elegant and tired
2. Who's to say what's impossible
3. The tide is high but I'm moving on
4. You know this boogie is for real
5. Readymade readymade, steady as rhythm rolls
6. I found myself wrong again, staring out my window
7. When it's over, that's the time I'll fall in love again
8. I got a date with the night burnin down my finger
9. I'm feelin yummy head to toe
10. I saw you standing in the corner on the edge of a burning light
11. I was six years old when my parents went away
12. Once upon a time there was a girl
13. I saw you slidin out the bar, I saw you slippin out the back door, baby
14. The horizon has been defeated by the pirates of the new age
15. Ka-boom kaboom ah, ka-boom ka-boom ah
    
16. I was working part time at a five and dime
17. I'll never be the same, breaking decency
18. I've been lookin' for a driver who is qualified
19. The only girl I've ever loved was born with roses in her eyes
20. Well I'll stand up next to a mountain and I chop it down with the edge of my hand

Yea, some of those are kind of embarrassing, but what the hell. And there are some, that if you know without looking up, will make me want to be friends with you forever. I think this might be a weekly thing for me. It was fun.

So I'm taking this idea from organic_cookie, who took this from someone else, who probably took it from someone else, and so forth. But it is quite an interesting thing to see how many of the 1001 Books to Read Before You Die I've actually read. So far I've seen the movie version of 26, and actually read 31 of them. Kind of sad considering I took AP English for four years. So most of the ones I've read are the older ones. I was kind of surprised that some books I've read aren't on there, like Dante's Inferno, or Kerouac's On the Road. Maybe they are, I just missed them. But I do think at least one Palahniuk book had been on there.

Bold=read
Italics=seen

After I heard It’s a Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
played softly by an accordion quartet
through the ceiling speakers at the Springdale Shopping Mall,
I understood there’s nothing
we can’t pluck the stinger from,

nothing we can’t turn into a soft drink flavor or a t-shirt.
Even serenity can become something horrible
if you make a commercial about it
using smiling, white-haired people

quoting Thoreau to sell retirement homes
in the Everglades, where the swamp has been
drained and bulldozed into a nineteen-hole golf course
with electrified alligator barriers.

You can’t keep beating yourself up, Billy
I heard the therapist say on television
                                                         to the teenage murderer,
About all those people you killed—
You just have to be the best person you can be,

one day at a time—

and everybody in the audience claps and weeps a little,
because the level of deep feeling has been touched,
and they want to believe that
the power of Forgiveness is greater
than the power of Consequence, or History.

Dear Abby:
My father is a businessman who travels.
Each time he returns from one of his trips,
his shoes and trousers
                                   are covered with blood-
but he never forgets to bring me a nice present;
Should I say something?
                                                       Signed, America.

I used to think I was not part of this,
that I could mind my own business and get along,

but that was just another song
that had been taught to me since birth—

whose words I was humming under my breath,
as I was walking through the Springdale Mall.

Hard Rain by Tony Hoagland

My first ADIML post. This is my Saturday, January 19th, 2008, a day filled with snow, movies, shopping, mashed potatoes, and ice cream. 61 photos, including repeated teaser.