Anything still happening over here? D: I feel bad for neglecting this, but I have a hard enough time coming up with crap to talk about in my LiveJournal.

Okay, I've been meaning to do this for a while and I've got nothing to do, so I will write a post about the best animated cartoon ever, Dungeons & Dragons. If you haven't heard of it, it's because it only ran for twenty-seven episodes and it was cancelled in 1985, the same year I was born. Supposedly it was the most violent show on television at the time, and I'm linking the most violent episode of the series, and I'd personally feel okay with kids on any age watching it so I don't know what the National Coalition on Television Violence was complaining about—but that intro, the one from the third season, probably demonstrates the somewhat sinister themes they were going for. It also shows all the characters' personalities and powers really well in fifty-eight seconds, I like it a lot. Also, that villainous voice at the end? That's Optimus Prime.

( Dungeons & Dragons, why it's awesome, and the episode 'The Dragon's Graveyard' )

How to light the stove in our home.

1. Turn on the gas.
2. Let it run for a minute.
3. Dig out that old lighter, which is broken and has no fluid in it; however, the spark wheel still functions.
4. Hold the lighter in the stream of gas and flick it until you've successfully lit the stove.
5. You'll know when that happens because shit that stings.

Surprisingly, I've only set fire on myself once.

I don't think I've mentioned it on Dreamwidth yet, but I've got an apartment in Tucson and I can move in at any point in August, but for practicality I probably won't actually go down there until close to the school year since I think they actually expect you to pay for food down there, go figure. The neighborhood is terrible, it's actually got a reputation for prostitution and I guess there's a lot of drugs there, but then Tucson's sort of statistically dangerous to begin with.

I need very much to clean my room.

... I can't think of anything else to say.

Okay. So. It wasn't nearly as bad as, say, Wolverine. But that leaves a lot of room for it to be really bad! However, there are ... bright spots among the ... oh, hell, it's bad. It's so bad. I love most of the canon it adds to the franchise itself and I still fucking love the human cast but it's awful and here is why—

( HERE I AM SPOILING THE WHOLE DAMN THING )

Expect me to possibly change my mind upon reviewings, because I am probably going to see it again. I didn't hate it, it was just really badly done, mostly it was badly directed? How can I like and hate something at the same time? I have no idea. But I have no qualms at all about laying almost everything that sucked right at the feet of that wicked, wicked man—Michael Bay. He clearly had no idea what the strengths were in the first movie and he played up a lot of the wrong things while leaving out a bunch of the stuff that worked, and ... augh, here is hoping for a better Transformers 3.

Edit: Oh, and Avatar looks hilariously terrible. Like, it'll be good to see it. For laughing. My brother and sister apparently had no idea about the M. Night Shyamalan thing because when they realized what they were watching, they stared at the screen in blank unseeing horror and Bryce said, "... What a twist?"

And I'm sorry to my fandom buddies, I don't know if you guys will agree with me or not about how bad this movie was, but I still like Transformers! I just ... need some good fic or something to soothe away a lot of what I just saw.

I've been so wiped out for the last few days, I actually passed out while I was watching the instruments the other day—I've been known to doze off in the back of my dad's truck, but even though I'm asleep I'm generally alert enough to wake up in case someone tries to touch the equipment, or back into it with their truck, or walk up to me or wave their hands in front of my face or whatever. This time I was freakin' asleep, my dad walked up to me and whacked me in the back of the head before I snapped out of it.

I think I've made enough money to cover my bills for the rest of the summer, now I'm trying to grab some cash to save for the next school year, because I'm starting to accept that realistically, while taking so many classes, keeping my GPA up or possibly even raising it, and possibly doing some independent study for one of the professors, I won't be able to have a job. I still have my ridiculous, childish goal of getting myself an Xbox 360, so I can still play and chat with everyone in Flagstaff, but we'll see. I've been sort of an irresponsible shit about the financial aid thing, not to mention my need for an apartment, my volunteer work, my antibiotics and ... there's something else, too. I blame getting so sick I couldn't get out of bed for a week and a fucking half throwing off all my plans but I don't know, maybe I just suck.

If I do study abroad at all, it'll have to be next summer, which means I have to start finding money and applying and crap.

Every day I spend just fucking around instead of being useful, I'm just screwing myself over worse.

thor's birthday is tomorrow! She's sixteen. We saw Star Trek again with her friends and reign today as a sort of party, and tomorrow we're seeing the midnight showing of Transformers. unicorn keeps threatening to kill me over this, but I think she's bluffing. Probably.

Tonight I watched some videos with reign about GameStop's terrible business practices and customer service. It's long, and it's probably not worth watching beyond the first episode if you don't have a serious beef with the company—spoiler: my brother and I have between us eighteen months with GameStop, therefore we do—and since the video is old some of the information is outdated, but it is all true. God, I hated working for GameStop. I'll probably have a lot more jobs that I hate but at GameStop I actually refused to do things I was told to for ethical reasons, which is sort of heavier than I was expecting from my part time retail job.

A good post about the shit going down in Iran is here, and that has more links, and another post of stuff you can do is here. It's not much, mostly small things like changing the location on your account to Tehran (presumably so the Iranian government has a harder time tracking down people legitimately Tweeting from the city.) The situation's terrible from a humanitarian standpoint but interesting from a technological one—it strikes me as sort of crazy that Twitter is where so much crap is going down. Has this happened before? I guess it makes sense since this is really an information war, like one of the links says, and Twitter makes it easy to spread it, but still, it's surprising to see people talking about uses for Twitter which have nothing do with @Oprah.

LOOK AT THIS MOTHERFUCKING GQ MEME


Okay, this is blatant attention whoring. I feel like I've been kicked in the stomach repeatedly. Please cheer me up?

Okay, so I like Dreamwidth a lot, but it just doesn't seem like there's much to do here. Which is probably due to the fact that no one seems to really talks to people that they don't know already because they met them somewhere else, and so the actual social networking is coming from other sites, mostly LiveJournal. And that sucks.

So, I went looking for neat communities, which are also active and with more than a handful of members. I found, well, four five. And three feeds. Which defeats the entire point of my search, since they are mirrored content from elsewhere, but they're still neat feeds?

hot_daily_feed - Feed of hot_daily, y'know, that JournalFen community that posts daily pictures and the occasional picspam of hot people of every sort? That one.
scans_daily_feed - Feed of scans_daily, which is at InsaneJournal now since LJ killed it. I think this community might be the only reason to go to IJ but I could be wrong.
fandom_wank_feed - I could describe this one, too, but then it'd be obvious I'm just moving words from the username around.
stayintheroom - Writing prompt community for original fiction.
science - It is about science.
nano_writers - Probably not relevant until October, but it has more members and activity than most DW communities, so what do I know.
tarot - Lots of members, but hasn't been updated in a month, hn.
addme - Decided to add this, because while the concept seems lame on LiveJournal, there's barely any place at all to meet new and interesting people on Dreamwidth.

So if anyone has any leads on other interesting, at least semi-active communities, toss 'em my way? I think studies have shown that a carefully trained chimpanzee is more capable at finding things on the Internet than I am, so there could well be more. The sense of community, it must thrive.

Apparently sudden feeling of wellness and cheeriness while being simultaneously still stuck in bed causes this sort of "productivity." How good to know.