Friends Only. Rules:

x. Comment on this post if you wish to be added, I don't spend a lot of time looking at my 'Friends Of' list...so if you don't comment I won't know you want to be added.

x. Add me before you ask to be added (this is mostly for Friends Only journals, so I can see who you are.)

x. Make sure we have a couple of common interests (or we have a couple of the same friends.)

x. Please tell me your name in the comment you leave me. I don't want to keep calling you "the one kid with the icon" even though it's endearing at first.

x. There is a 99% chance that I will add you if you follow the above four rules, I'm pretty friendly.

Also, the Friends Only Banner is made by me...so don't steal it. K? ♥

Maybe it's just me...but wasn't Zeffirelli ahead of his time when he cast Zac Efron as Romeo!? I mean, who knew the kid would be so big now-a-days!?

( Evidence )

I mean, sure, he looks a *teensy* bit different, now, what? 40 years later? But, in essence..

( Further instruction )

...maybe it's just the hair? Leonard Whiting has much better cheek bones

But, in all seriousness, I'm watching Romeo + Juliet again. I'm going to watch the Luhrman version tonight, hopefully. Why is Shakespeare so amazing?

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THE GREATEST THING I'VE EVER WITNESSED IN THE SIMS HAPPENED TODAY!!!!! (Even greater than my good luck with genetics.)

LILAC GOT COVERED IN BEES!!!!!!!!!!!

I am so pleased, happypeppypunk I didn't know this was possible until I saw it.

♥

Yay.

I have a book post and now I want one for the crap that I'm watching on TV, DVD, online, wherever. I'll probably post everything I watch on DVD and only a handful of the things I watch online because I spend a lot of time on YouTube and it'd take forever to do all of that. And TV? Well, I don't watch much and when I do watch it it's never anything worth remembering (for the most part.)


July Notables:
Tin Man
The Dark Knight
Maybe Memories
Halloweentown I and II
Halloweentown High
Roseanne
Dan's Alphabet Song

August Notables
Boomtown Season 1
CSI Season 1 (
Berth
Rose Red
"Design" - Law and Order: SVU
Stephen Lynch: Live at El Rey
Eddie Izzard: Glorious
A Room With A View
Martian Child
Grace is Gone
A Knight's Tale
Sweeney Todd
Cry Baby
House Bunny

September:
And Then There Were None
13th Warrior
Yours, Mine and Ours
Howl's Moving Castle
Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Season 4
Angel: Season One
CSI: Season 2
Three Men and a Baby
The Heart of Me
Nights in Rodanthe
House 5.1 (Dying Changes Everything)
House 5.2 (Not Cancer)
Grey's 5.1 (Dream a Little Dream of Me)
A Beautiful Mind
The Da Vinci Code
Moulin Rouge

October:
Firewall
Gangster No. 1
Mulan
Dogville
Pitch Black
Chronicles of Riddick
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
The Shining
1408
The Secret Life of Bees
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
Scotland PA
Hamlet
( I'm such a nerd )

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PSP packaging? Nuclear war proof.

Some people have friends. I have people my age who I babysit (+ a few jewels like cashmerekisses, happypeppypunk, smathers and kris932 + precious few others...thank god for them)

Some people have hobbies. I obsessive compulsively make icons.

Some people go out and have fun. I stay at my other grandma's if I'm feeling very outgoing.

Some people paint nails, do makeup and giggle at sleepovers. I force people to watch 1408 and Saw II while trying not to sing "We've Only Just Begun" or fall asleep at the sound of Donnie Wahlberg's voice.

Some people travel lightly. I carry a laptop, four seasons of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Band of Brothers and several books + other DVDs wherever I go.

Some people shop for clothes. I sort through big piles of dusty books and literally squeal with joy when I find one on 'my list.'

Some people have big plans for Spring Break. I'm just waiting for the summer after my senior year so I can go on a road trip with a chick from Florida <3

Some people have cell phones. I dropped mine in tea.

Some people are pretty cool. I am amazing.

♥

(Yes, I'm a narcissist. I blame Benadryl.)

Oh, and I'm still sick. However, my sore throat is better...my cough is worse, but, meh.

at shatteredicons_ as per usual.

Join? Please?

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A books and reading survey I completed.

This post got too big!!!!!! PART TWO!!!!!!!!!!

January

1. An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
2. Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends by William "Wild Bill" Guarnere, Edward "Babe" Heffron and Robyn Post
3. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
4. Deadly: The World's Most Dangerous Everything by Phil Scott
5. I'm A Believer, Updated Edition. My Life of Monkees, Music and Madness by Micky Dolenz
6. Looking for Alaska by John Green
7. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
8. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
9. The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy by Jeanne Birdsall
10. Rock My World by Liza Conrad

February
11. The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
12. A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith

March
13. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
14. Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
15. Birdland by Tracy Mack
16. Devil in the Details: Scenes From An Obsessive Girlhood by Jennifer Traig
17.The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
18. 'Tis: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
19. A Monk Swimming by Malachy McCourt
20. Feed by M.T. Anderson

April
21. The Memory Keeper's Daughter" by Kim Edwards
22. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
23. Uglies
24. Pretties by Scott Westerfeld
25. Specials by Scott Westerfeld
26. Teacher Man by Frank McCourt
27. Extras by Scott Westerfeld
28. Just Listen by Sarah Dessen

May
29. Dreamland by Sarah Dessen
30. The Boy In The Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
31. Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

June
32. Naked by David Sedaris
33. Holes by Louis Sachar
34. Stanley Yelnats' Survival Guide To Camp Green Lake by Louis Sachar
35. Small Steps by Louis Sachar

July
36. The Host by Stephenie Meyer
37. The Nature of Jade by Deb Caletti
38. Crank by Ellen Hopkins
39. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
40. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
41. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
42. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
43. Blue Bloods by Melissa De La Cruz

August
44. Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
45. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
46. Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen
47. Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause
48. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
49. 1984 by George Orwell

September:
50. Double Dealer by Max Allan Collins
51. Cold Burn by Max Allan Collins
52. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
53. Easy Company Soldier: The Legendary Battles of a Sergeant from World War II's "Band of Brothers" by Don Malarkey and Bob Welch

October
54. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
55. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
56. Sin City by Max Allan Collins
57. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
58. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
59. A Dab of Dickens and a Touch of Twain by Elliot Engel
60. Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
61. Inkspell by Cornelia Funke
62. Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke
63. Hamlet by William Shakespeare

November
64. Jane Eyre
65. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

December
66. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
67. Tales of Beedle The Bard by JK Rowling
68. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by JK Rowling
69. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling
70. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling

NOW READING:
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffery Chaucer
Angels & Demons by Dan Brown


( My two-cents worth )

My Rating System!:
0 Stars: Absolutely horrible. Avoid this book like the plague.
.5 Stars: Bad, bad, bad.
1 Star: Some redeeming qualities.
1.5 Stars: Worth reading, but don't plan on being thrilled throughout.
2 Stars: It's OK.
2.5 Stars: It's a step above OK, enjoyable, but not a work of art.
3 Stars: A good book, above average in either characters, plot and writing style.
3.5 Stars: Interesting. Top-Notch characters, plot or writing style. Possibly above average in two or more fields.
4 Stars: A really great book. Pick it up when you see it. Read it, love it. Yay for this book.
4.5 Stars: Read it! NOW! NOW! This book probably has AMAZING characters who you will love.
5 Stars: Life-altering type of amazing you find once in a long, long while.

Suggestions? Comments? Recommendations? Questions? Comment this post. I will be updating it as I finish a book.