speaking of challenges, i'm also doing the 30/30 challenge for national poetry month! all my poems are posted on my deviantart, and i made it a little easier for myself by setting a theme. instead of searching for something to write about and failing miserably like i do every year, i've decided that every poem will be titled and somehow correlated with a city. so far, so good! i'm actually quite proud of all the poems i've written so far, but they'll probably get suckier and suckier as the month goes on, considering i'm still pretty likely to run out of ideas...
OH, AND QUICK QUESTION: does anyone know what city either a) gets the most/best sleep or b) has the most nightmares? i wrote a poem about sleep/nightmares the other day and i couldn't find anything because google was being dumb (google is my overlord. i love you, google. do not punish me). and so instead i named it after tokyo, because they apparently get the WORST sleep. huh.
ah, one last thing before signing out. has anyone seen this post about the hunger games "script"? if that is really lionsgate, THEY ARE A BUNCH OF ASSHOLES. i mean, it's bad enough that they aren't casting racially correct actors for the characters (THE BOOK SAYS KATNISS'S SKIN IS OLIVE-COLORED, I DON'T CARE THAT JENNIFER LAWRENCE IS A GOOD ACTRESS, SHE IS WHITE, KATNISS IS NOT, AND and let's not even get in to how they didn't cast hunter parrish as peeta). that alone made the movie's lack of appeal all the more apparent, but THIS, this fucking thing, is absolutely INFURIATING. i hope the head of lionsgate sees this and either fires this person or confirms that they do not, indeed, work for lionsgate (can't believe everything you see on the internet) because my GOD, WHAT A BUNCH OF ASSHATS. i don't want to see the movie at all anymore. and i was really hoping it would be great, because suzanne collins's writing is choppy and suckish. ugh, i am just fed up with this. and all this movie-business-deciding-that-every-character-has-to-be-white-and-not-any-trace-of-color-at-all-y. YEESH.
okay, wait, so maybe i do have stuff to talk about. first of all, water for elephants. finished the book a little while ago. it was great. i wrote a quick review of it over at goodreads. it's been a while since i was so thoroughly engrossed in a story like that one. i'm reading a draft of the script right now and i hope the final draft is a bit better, the draft isn't terrible but there are definitely some things i would change. (movie people, what's up with "uncle august"? ew. that sounds terrible). but i've seen two trailers so far and i saw the spot on HBO last night and i'm keeping up to date with the film fansite and it looks promising. i'm actually really excited to see it, especially with the story fresh in my mind and the fact that i LOVE movies that take place during different time periods. i think rpattz will make a fantastic jacob, although i'm still a little uneasy over reese witherspoon as marlena. christoph waltz will be a TERIFFIC august, though, without a doubt. and i hope the guy they cast as walter is good, because walter was my favorite character.
um, oh yeah, and i totally miss pushing daisies and am rewatching the series LIKE A BOSS.
also, sorry for not posting for the last week or so. i haven't really had much to say, life is going well but nothing exciting enough to talk about has happened. although, monday, i am probably finally meeting that one guy i keep talking about! (knock on wood). i'll definitely tell you guys how THAT goes...and tomorrow i'm going to see a swedish hip-hop band john green recommended a couple months ago on twitter. they're so good. i'm pumped. hoping to see other nerdfighters there, but who cares, it's sure to be fun! i'll post about it this weekend, for sure.
and so, to wrap this up, finally, here is another song of the day which is a particularly good AND relevant one, if you ask me:
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