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[brokenrecord]

My parents go out to movies... not every Sunday, but many Sundays. Today they were planning on seeing The March of the Penguins, and they know I love penguins, so they asked if I wanted to come and I did.

Baby penguins! Baby penguins' huddle! Baby penguin crowdsurfers! After the movie my mom started talking about how it was such a stark example of survival of the fittest and other things that required some thought, and I was just all "...uh. The baby penguins were really, really cute."

But, uh, hi. You don't get to show me the adorability of hundreds of baby penguins and then switch to a dead baby penguin in the snow and the mother penguin finding it and poking and prodding it to try to make it come back to life somehow and yeah. That's just not ok. If I wanted angst, I would not have gone to see a movie about penguins.

Came home for an hour and a half after that and then went to have dinner with my parents, my aunt, and her boyfriend for my aunt and my mom's birthdays, since they're both in July. It was ok. Kind of boring for most of it, but not too bad. In the car on the way back my parents and I somehow got started talking about random things. Oh, I think it was my dad saying that he's started getting people into Arrested Development at his work. Hee, that's awesome. :D Then I told them that AD's second season DVD (because they've only seen the first season, when we watched the DVD during spring break in Mammoth, and that was like right before the end of the second season) was coming out October 11th and managed to sneak in that so was the season 1 DVD of Veronica Mars, and goddamnit, I am getting them into VM no matter what. I mean, they watched Wonderfalls and liked it a lot, and I told them that VM is the same quality-wise as Wonderfalls, except better. And I loved Wonderfalls. They are seeing it whether they want to or not, and they are loving it. I also mentioned the new Doctor Who and said that I liked them a bunch, and that my mom would probably really like them because she's a science fiction and fantasy writer and loves that genre and all. My mom said she watched the old series when it was on, too, so she probably would really like the new ones. I hope they come out on DVD too, so I can make her watch those. Ah, it's so fun to force my favorite shows on people. :D

Another diagnostic test for SAT class tomorrow. There's the one tomorrow and then there's one in two weeks and then it's over (until the actual SAT, of course). blah. It sucks because when I don't do as well as I hoped on these sorts of things, I feel horrible, but when I'm actually taking them I just don't care and so I don't really try. And plus, this takes out a huge chunk from the day that I could spend doing SAT hw. I really should do that tonight, but I doubt I will. Oh, crap, and I have a tenor lesson tomorrow. I always forget until the night before, and then I just don't care. Not as if I remembered during the week, I would practice, but still. blah.






Yeah, I don't really know where these came from. I was just looking for pics that come on the computer that all pretty and scenic and I played around with both of these and liked how they came out. And the first, I just randomly thought "Hm. This would make a nice friends only banner. I think I'll write 'friends only' on it!" And so I did. Anyways. Felt like sharing.

Lastly, hi to people that friended me on reprieved's Fandom Friending Meme! :)

Comments

[comedownstairs.livejournal.com]

I need to see baby penguins. I need to close my eyes when there are dead baby penguins. Baby penguins should not make me cry unless it's in a "IT'S SO CUUUUUUUUTE!" kind of way.

[http://users.livejournal.com/brokenrecord__/]

I know, seriously. I should not feel the need to cry while watching a penguin movie. There was another part, too, where this big bird came swooping in and started pecking at the baby penguins and it was pretty amusing and cute because the baby penguins would wriggle away and run to the adult penguins. But then, all of a sudden, the big bird got one by the neck and started pecking at its neck and head and it was dead. Geez.

[comedownstairs.livejournal.com]

GYAAAH!

[http://users.livejournal.com/brokenrecord__/]

I know. It was bad. It was horrible, too, because they kept interspersing moments of angst and baby penguin death with moments of adorability, and so every second they showed a baby penguin being adorable, I was all "No!!! You're not about to lure me into a false sense of security! Any second now you're going to show me a dead baby penguin! I hate you!"

...um, but, it was a good movie. If, you know, you can ignore the moments of baby penguin angst.

[comedownstairs.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking I need to head down to Santa Monica or something and catch a showing, and I'll be the last one in the theater, sniffling and going "BUT THEY DIED!" until some poor usher escorts me out.

[http://users.livejournal.com/brokenrecord__/]

Hee, I know. I was totally tearing up everytime a baby penguing died during the movie, though. At least none of them died at the very end. Otherwise, I would still be all teary after it was over, and my parents would've teased me about it on the ride home. Thankfully, there are more moments of adorable baby penguins than dead baby penguins, but still. Any dead baby penguins is too many.

[violetmist2003.livejournal.com]

Aww, penguins. And the FO banner is pretty.

[http://users.livejournal.com/brokenrecord__/]

Awwww, penguins, indeed. And thank you! :)

[thediane.livejournal.com]

OMG the baby penguins killed me. I kept squealing when they would slide around like 'LOOK AT THEM GO!' They are so awesome.

But the dead penguins made me so sad. Everyone in the theater kept gasping. It was awful.

And! The theater that I went to decorated the door to look like an ice cave with bowling pins painted like penguins :D! Oh man, I loved this movie.

[http://users.livejournal.com/brokenrecord__/]

I know! They were so cute! Especially when it was the part about them walking around for the first time. Too freaking cute.

I know, everyone would gasp when penguins died. It was so sad.

Heh, the one I went to was kind of like that. Like there were two entrances to the theater it was in, and one of the doors was decorated like an ice cave. The other was just normal, though. But on the outside of the movie theater, on the glass windows, they had painted a bunch of penguins. It was cute.

[singingrl.livejournal.com]

Hee! My aunt told me that she cried through the entire film "March of the Penguins"...I haven't seen it yet, but I want to...of course, I'll probably be bawling my eyes out too, I've heard it's pretty intense and incredibly cute at times :)

[http://users.livejournal.com/brokenrecord__/]

Aw, yeah, there were definitely moments where I teared up. Parts of it are really intense, but it is totally adorable. I think the sweetness/humor and the more depressing parts of it are balanced nicely. It really is good. I'd definitely suggest seeing it, even if you do end up crying the entire time. ;)

[coffee4tweek.livejournal.com]

oh oh!
do a tutorial on the friends only banner! do it do it do it
I dare you.
hi.

[http://users.livejournal.com/brokenrecord__/]

Hee. I'm too lazy to do a tutorial, but it was super easy, so I can just tell you here:

Duplicate the base 3 times, so there's the base and then 3 copies above it.
Desaturate the base to 50% (in PSP8 thats Adjust>Hue and Saturation>Hue/Saturation/Lightness and then make the saturation -50).
Put the layer right above the base to screen and then blur it (Adjust>Blur>Gaussian Blur and then set it to 1.0-2.0).
Put the layer above that to burn and change the opacity to 50. Desaturate it to 50%.
Put the top-most layer to soft light and desaturate it to 50%.

...that's it. If the graphic's too dark, then sometimes I'll do two screened layers (only one of them blurred, though) and lower the opacity of the layer on burn a little. But that's all there is to it. :)