An Unshaven Collection of Bad Habits Marinated in Alcohol

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Oh my gosh this is exciting.

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Ha, that was really fun. :D

Yesterday I sat in bed all day watching Overdrawn at the Memory Bank (I kind of love all Aram Fingals IS THIS SO WRONG?) and then after my shift at work I stayed up until 3/4 (lol DST) watching Devil Fish. I LOVE SPRING BREAK YOU GUYS. Spring break means LOTS OF MEMES.

Tagged by jordfallsmotet.

First: If you've been tagged, you must write your answers in your own LJ and replace any question that you dislike with a new question.

Second: Tag eight people. Don't refuse to do that.
I REFUSE TO DO IT. Come and get me, meme police.

( meme police sounds shockingly scary, actually )

Also, I changed my journal layout for the first time in about three years. IT IS SO PRETTY YOU GUYS. *_*

Nyssa and I went to see the Rifftrax Christmas Shorts Special in Eden Prairie last night! I lol'd quite a bit, but I would call it only ok, which is how I feel in general about Rifftrax.

Perhaps this is just revealing my deeply ingrained prejudice against anything that's not an adorable little robot, but I don't know if I like it as much with three humans instead of two robots and a dude. It's not even that the jokes are funnier, it's like, take the little robots out of the equation and you take something much bigger than just that little robot out. If you know what I mean. So, even though it had a musical short about how awesome pork is, it still was no Patrick Swayze Christmas.



We will miss you, Patrick Swayze, who is dead, and Joel, who went out to get a carton of milk one day in 1995 and was never seen again. ;_;

Funny story: a long time ago I used to pretend that I was so beyond memes because I was very intellectually smrt and stuff and my opinions were original and important. Well, I am older and arguably wiser now and I know better than to pretend. I FUCKING LOVE MEMES YOU GUYS.

My username is: neigedens, because oú sont les d'antan? :(

My journal name is: Veteran Minimalist, which I had forgotten but it's what Tom calls Crow in "Pod People" when they are making beautiful music together. ♥

My title is: "If you're like me, and I know I am..." which is something Joel says like once during an invention exchange, I don't even remember which episode.

My subtitle is: None because we live in strapped times and not all of us can afford to throw subtitles on everything ok. >:(

My friends page is called: "You're all evil and I hope you all have snacks!" which is again with the MST3K. It's from the episode "The Thing That Couldn't Die," which is my favorite MST episode with a disembodied head-theme. (Not to be confused with "The Brain that Couldn't Die," which is basically the same movie but with a lady as the disembodied head instead of a pirate and also is a bit skeevier because women's bodies are commodified like whoa. Like seriously, the plot of the movie is "I have to kill a woman and steal her body for mah lovely, crazy girlfriend. Who's just a head." DDDDDDDD:) Also it's an awesome episode because the host segments are a parody of "Shore Leave," which I didn't realize until, like, last week. /o\

My default icon is: because Bones has had it with these motherfucking tribbles on this motherfucking starship. >:/ Except when Spock's around, in which case he looooooves them because they're cute.

I used to keep a list of movies that I wish had been featured on MST3K. I mean, I know there's this Rifftrax stuff now, which I like, for the most part, but they mostly tackle these modern films and it just isn't the same (and also no adorable robots, but that's my complaint with a lot of things). Most movies nowadays don't have the guts to give a guy a Liberace cape and a pimping gold belt buckle and call him a Pumaman like they used to. In a metaphorical sense, obviously.

So anyway, this list that I made is not nearly as exhaustive as it used to be because, uh, I forgot a lot of it, but in any case I have a new addition: the 1947 DeForest Kelley opus "Fear in the Night".

Holy shit did I love this movie. It showed that Bones McCoy, the guy who stared down Ricardo Montalban and told him to either stab him or choke him or get the fuck back in line, can convincingly play a total n00b of a virgin who can't drive, the ineffectual, dopey hero with a sweet heart and no brains who is a hallmark of so many MST'd movies. Seriously, he faints like three times in this movie for no real reason other than the vapors and it gets increasingly adorable every time he does it.

This would have been an awesome MST movie to do because it's bad in that 40's, low-budget noir kind of way but it's good enough where watching it doesn't crush parts of my soul like, say, "The Blood Waters of Dr. Z" did, which was so horrible that even the paunchy dude in the lowest quality latex fish suit imaginable couldn't save it.

Total aside, but am I just too lol sensitive for being disturbed on a really fundamental level by "Blood Waters of Dr. Z"? When Dr. Z kidnapped that woman to make her his fishbride and then accidentally killed her, and the camera zoomed in on her dead face, I nearly cried. Poor fishbride. ;_;

This weekend Brett and I watched a marathon of cheesy indie horror movies. They were all pretty awful, but the one worth mentioning is Black Sheep, which was made in New Zealand and features what I can only assume is every New Zealander's worse nightmare, namely that their unnatural and freakish genetic experiments will go horribly wrong and the entire country will be overrun with vicious, carniverous versions of their country's most profitable type of farm product.

(Something analogous happening where I'm from has never worried me because I'm from Minnesota. For some reason, the idea of being ripped to shred by rabid cobs of corn doesn't seem that bad, for whatever reason. You'd just need a hairdryer and BOOM. Insane, man-eating corn is dead and you've got popcorn. \o/)

Also, I've just learned from clicking around imdb that Rowsdower is a registered nurse. I don't know about you, but I think that would totally make a great sitcom.

Zap Rowsdower, RN

Man, that would be one sexy nurse. And Troy would be an orderly at the hospital and Garth Vader would be the evil malpractice attorney.