• 10:16 @sameoldstory DDDX What test was this? #
• 10:26 @sameoldstory there was a test for that? fff <3 I'm sorry. SOMETHING WILL COME ALONG #
• 16:20 @sameoldstory You won't feel better afterwards if you do that. :| #
• 16:26 @sameoldstory the kidneys cannot filter the toxins. B| And that's why it damages your liver. AND SAID TOXINS mess with your endocrine system #
• 16:27 @sameoldstory the hangover is still going to be there. #
• 16:31 @sameoldstory .... I'm just worried about you. #
• 17:03 community.livejournal.com/roleplaysecrets please to be updating so that my stress for the day can go awwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay #

AAHHHHHH AHHHHHH

+ Found my immigration papers
- My AC Adapter isn't working
+ Aced exam for music
- My AC adapter is not working

The first time I watched the TV mini-series based on The Stand, it actually seemed rather epic. Having now rewatched it many years later, I can't believe I ever felt that way.

It's bizarre how Stephen King's work often seems to have that effect when translated into movie (or mini-series) format. For example, the televisual incarnations of It, The Stand, and even the less well-known like The Langoliers seem fairly well regarded by people who haven't read the books they're based on. I know people who will defy anyone who suggests that the It mini-series was anything less than stellar. They'll even claim that folks who say the book is better are just snobbish assholes who hate movies.

Snobbish assholes we may be, but It is an extremely flawed piece of TV. Fun, yes, but highly flawed. Sure, Tim Curry is an amazing Pennywise, but he is let down by some extremely hokey effect (LOL CLAYMATION!), and the less said about the ending the better. Seriously, if you haven't read the book, that ending must be the most inexplicably anticlimactic thing since M. Night Shyamalan thought to himself "Hey, a movie about aliens and Mel Gibson? That's a good idea!"

Maybe it's just the undeniable power of the imagination when compared to the restrictions of cinema, but King's novels are in a whole other league when compared to some of the awful adaptations Hollywood has produced. Every so often there's a gem, like Shawshank Redemption, but more often than not his books aren't very well translated. The Shining is something of an anomaly, as I don't consider it a very good King adaptation at all, but it remains a very good Kubrick movie.

Yet still there are countless people who enjoy the movie versions, because perhaps the core idea behind the story remains intact, even if it's not quite so fleshed out as it is in the novels. The idea of an evil clown that murders children is appealing, because it's such a cool and frightening concept. So people enjoy watching a movie about that. Explain to them that the novel is much better, and that it involves a sequence where a number of pre-pubescent boys have very random sex with an equally pre-pubescent girl while lost in a sewer, and you'll probably earn yourself a very bewildered look. And maybe even a restraining order.

I watched the movie version of The Dead Zone the other day. And I'm a big fan of Cronenberg, and King, and Walken, and damn near everybody involved. Yet it just seemed... dull. And slow. And uninspired, and meandering. But I'm sure as hell that it has its own little following of fans who haven't read the book, and who haven't the faintest idea of how it might compare.

This isn't meant as a slight against people who say "That movie was so cool! Why should I bother to read the book?", as I myself was once one of those guys. I thought The Stand was an amazing mini-series that could have possibly been the coolest thing I'd ever seen on the TV. And I distinctly remember Randall Flagg being the most kick-ass villain of all time.

Now I watch it, and I see the hokey effects (no claymation this time though), and the bad ADR, and the low budget sets, and the bad acting, and even Randall Flagg seems to kick a lot less ass. And this is because I've read the books, and I know the characters more intimately, and I'm rather ashamed to see them painted with such broad strokes as they are on film. Yet there was a time in my life when Matt Frewer's Trash Can Man seemed to light up the screen with insane gusto, and Gary Sinise's Stu Redman was as cool as the other side of the pillow. So did the mini-series just suddenly suck after I put down the novel? Of course not.

I don't know where I'm going with this. I'm just rather fascinated by how a guy's perspective can change like that. And I'm somewhat worried that they might film The Dark Tower, and one day somebody will come up to me and say "Those Dark Tower movies are the shizzle! I don't have to read the books!"

Because I'll have to look that person in the eye and kindly inform them that they've forgotten the face of their father. Thankee-sai.

⌈ Secret Post #686 ⌋

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101.
[Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium]

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMYJACK!

*hugs*

• 09:09 @sameoldstory ARE YOU HAVING FUN WITH IT #
• 09:09 @actionhalo w-who is that #
• 09:44 My coffee is cold. :( #
• 10:45 sometimes I just need to shut up #
• 12:38 ... I can't believe that Trish is going to freak Vergil out with her boobs. #
• 13:13 @sameoldstory yes to me shutting up? #
• 13:27 @sameoldstory I THINK YOU LIE #
• 17:07 @molars *3* My Gmail has flowers #

AAHHHHHH AHHHHHH

Okay, when I talked about Vic Mignogna "calling me out" the other day, I wasn't being serious, so please stop all the silly arguing over whether or not the guy's a jerk. Whether you like the guy or not, it's neat that he took the time to watch the video and respond to it. I'm not afraid of him or whatever, it's just somewhat worrying that the guy probably things I'm some weirdo internet fanboy who obsesses over him. The former is of course very true, the latter not so much.

Just over a month until Christmas. My favourite time of the year. I'm like a big kid at heart when Christmas comes around. I love seeing the lights up in the streets, and I wave to the guy down the street dressed as Santa every morning when I walk past on my way to work. I'm a little worried about finding the money for everybody's gifts, but I'm sure I'll cope.

This year I'm going to go out of my way to make a Christmas special video for you guys. I know I missed last year's, and I still feel awful about it. I'll make it right.

I'm so tired.

I want to write something original for once. A story that's all me. But I know it would just distract me from Abridged or whatever.

⌈ Secret Post #685 ⌋

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101.
[Super Junior]

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• 09:03 @actionhalo .... fff now I want onigiri #
• 09:16 @actionhalo ffff :( I WANT #
• 09:40 @actionhalo I want one for breakfast #
• 09:43 @actionhalo *3* So nice of you #
• 09:48 @actionhalo ... IS IT ROTTEN ? #
• 12:24 OH GOD I DELETED THE FILE I WORKED TWO HOURS ON #

AAHHHHHH AHHHHHH

→ A N O N _ M E M E

I am scared what people will say.

⌈ Secret Post #684 ⌋

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101.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY ah_anime18

Happy 19th, and hope you have a great day~

• 11:21 @actionhalo ... should I even click? #
• 11:21 @sameoldstory SLEEP OH MY GOD #
• 13:05 @sameoldstory ;( F-for me. ;____; #
• 13:05 @actionhalo .... I- I don't believe you. #
• 13:10 @sameoldstory @tanzmatic 8O #
• 13:11 @sameoldstory ;___________; I love you. Please sleep. #
• 13:11 @sameoldstory .. fuck that I can't keep up that act. #
• 14:07 @sameoldstory @tanzmatic ;( I need a phone #
• 14:22 @sameoldstory !!!! Where? #
• 14:23 @sameoldstory I get off of work at 5 #
• 14:23 @sameoldstory I might come around 7 ? #
• 14:29 @sameoldstory Twitter me ~ or e-mail me which is easiest #
• 14:46 fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck #
• 14:49 this lady has to e-mail me back or I'll get fucking deported #
• 14:55 @sameoldstory Immigration stuff #
• 15:02 @sameoldstory we shall talk about it tonight #
• 15:06 @actionhalo 8O Where do you work? #
• 16:54 @sameoldstory 8O can you e-mail me oyur number ? #
• 17:03 @sameoldstory. #
• 17:22 @sameoldstory D: #
• 17:31 ffff can't breathe #
• 19:29 @sameoldstory D: Is your Dad okay? #
• 20:29 @actionhalo ... I so cannot imagine you working there. I am so sorry #
• 20:34 @actionhalo I kind of imagine you eating pizza with extra meat and your customers going "... >:| Where is your vegan vegetarian meat?" #

AAHHHHHH AHHHHHH

⌈ Secret Post #683 ⌋

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101.
[Pushing Daisies]

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• 08:46 I hate facebook #
• 08:46 So much it makes me feel like an ld lady #
• 09:00 @rickettsia B| My friends won't stop sending me little patch things and I'm like 'WHY CAN'T I JUST ADD THIS" #
• 12:54 @actionhalo do you feel like shit? If so. You're sick. #
• 16:00 @tanzmatic 8OOOOOOOOOOOOO #
• 16:37 ffff I have a study thing with a bunch of people and I am freaking out #
• 16:37 Like mundo #

AAHHHHHH AHHHHHH

Vic Mignogna's calling me out. I'm scared.

The guy in the background saying I do a lot of British cons? What's that about? I've been to one. And it hardly qualified.

stolen from ah_anime18...

T H E T H A N K S G I V I N G M E M E

Why yes, I am a bit of an attention whore. Thanks for asking. :X


...*goes to check total of icontest votes*

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