i'm-a-thrilled

i love nothing more than a large group dance scene!
set it in a prison and it's even better...
make the scene a re-enactment of an '80s smash and you're nearing perfection...
throw in a very ugly inmate dressed in drag and you've just won the blue ribbon:

http://community.sparknotes.com/index.php/2007/07/24/sparkvideo-of-the-week-returns-thriller/

saving the best for last

i stayed up waaaaay too late last night to finish deathly hallows... it was just too good to put down! i'll suffer today at work, but it was well worth it!

my kudos to j.k. rowling. deathly hallows is by far my favorite book of the entire series. i'm really looking forward to reading it again when liam and i get to that point in our bedtime story series!

pottermania

nearly 300 pages into deathly hallows as of 7:30 this morning... can't wait to read more at lunch!

i know i'm not as fast as some other readers out there, so don't tell me anything!

i should probably finish at least 200 more today if i don't go running...

fun book quiz

i took the book quiz... thanks, mommywrites!

You're Watership Down!

by Richard Adams

Though many think of you as a bit young, even childish, you're actually incredibly deep and complex. You show people the need to rethink their assumptions, and confront them on everything from how they think to where they build their houses. You might be one of the greatest people of all time. You'd be recognized as such if you weren't always talking about talking rabbits.


Take the Book Quiz at the Blue Pyramid.

no more pounding the pavement

so i'm trying to start running again. the new high school down the street has a bouncy, fresh rubber track that's barely a year old. this is much more comfortable for running than the streets in my neighborhood. we'll see how it works out... i'm trying to make this a habit and not let it fall by the wayside like so many of my other plans for exercise.

achievement #1: i've gone running three times so far, and last night i took 35 seconds off my mile time! woohoo!

you control the radio

i've sent in my playlist... have you? (click on the "my perfect playlist" link)

lost eternal

it's going to be a long time before lost comes back ... what am i going to do with myself until then? i know! drive myself (and possibly some friends at work) crazy with lost theories that can't be proven until next season!

here's the one i've been toying with since the end of last season: the natives of the island are immortal. ben believes that the island is the key to immortality, and that he can somehow learn its secrets, become immortal, and rejoin his dead mother, who has seemingly reappeared on the island.

now, there could be some evidence out there that disproves this theory. i'm not an avid follower of the writers'/producers' interviews, so they may have already stated that immortality is not the key to the show. however, here are the pieces of evidence that i present:

1. richard alpert has not seemed to age since ben first met him, even though ben is obviously twenty to thirty years older than shown at their first meeting. why is this? he's immortal.

2. mikhail is unkillable. he keeps coming back from seemingly mortal wounds. how can this happen? he's immortal.

3. no babies conceived on the island have ever survived. every non-native of the island who has gotten pregnant on-island has died, and so have their babies. this is because a baby born on the island would have to be immortal, and how could mortal parents give birth to an immortal baby? the question this raises: is aaron immortal, or does he disprove my theory? perhaps claire's ex-boyfriend, aaron's father, was really a native islander? we don't know much about him...

4. ben brought juliet to the island because she produced a miracle baby for her sister. perhaps he believed she could produce the same miracle on the island, creating immortal children.

to flesh out a bit more: perhaps ben's mother was really a native islander who left the island, fell in love with ben's father, and conceived ben. she was unable to have a baby off-island because she was immortal; however, her baby could live. her death was really not a death- she was somehow drawn back to the island (her soul, perhaps). ben sees her on the island because she comes to him, wanting to see her son, but he cannot join her because he is not immortal, having been born off-island.

we have already seen that ben's father drinks heavily and is emotionally abusive to the child ben. this scars ben and he obsesses over what life would have been like if his mother had lived. essentially driven crazy, he desires to take over the dharma project's research and turn it towards his own purposes: researching immortality.

he colludes with the 'hostiles,' who are really native islanders and probably do not want the dharma project to discover their true nature, to kill off the non-cooperative dharma researchers and be allowed to continue his own research. the natives allow him this freedom only on the condition that he agrees to help them keep the island secret- jamming communications between the island and the outside world and allowing no one who arrives on the island to leave. only those who ben and the natives trust may leave to further ben's plans.

thus, anyone who tries to leave the island without permission is a threat to ben, for he will incur the wrath of the natives if the island is discovered.

feel free to comment (but please don't tell me i'm a crackpot- i'm just having fun)!

the owls are not what they seem

www.lynchnet.com and www.tvshowsondvd.com are reporting that what i have been waiting for will finally arrive in october 30: twin peaks seasons 1 and 2, plus pilot, will be released on dvd!!! the twin peaks definitive gold box edition!!! if you want to buy me a present, that would be my number one choice.

added a link to the twin peaks 'official site.' although it hasn't been updated in a long time (read: years), it still has some interesting tidbits. i'm hoping the creators will update it soon, what with all the hype over the gold box edition release.

interesting/fun links

well, i'm not much of a surfer, but i've put up a few links that i find interesting/fun (look right). check them out!

you probably already know the onion, but if you haven't been there in a while, it's still worth it. the page may have gotten more cluttered, but the content's still funny.

94.7-the globe. it's been my recent radio salvation! not since the late '80s and early '90s (say 1989-1994, for me) have a had a radio station i've truly loved. these guys have got it right- a flexible playlist not dictated by the pop/alternative charts, classic dj's, and a worthwhile cause.

finally, a link to my friend patrick's website. he's a very talented musician who made the decision a couple of years ago to move to LA. he's out there submitting music to movies, etc. check out his stuff- it's great, and yes, that is him playing most/all of the instruments!

inaugural post

hello to the world of blogging! discovering an old friend's blog inspired me to create my own. let's see how it works for me.