dance to the music i hear inside my head

I have been unhappy with Livejournal for some time now and in an attempt to get happier posting on here again, it's time to cut my flist. There are people who have me friended that I have no idea who you are or where you came from; there are dead journals; and there are people that I just feel I've grown apart from.

If you were cut (hovering the mouse over my icon seems to work, if it doesn't say mutual...) please remove me from your list as well. If I never added you back to begin with, please defriend me also. No hard feelings towards anyone, I just have my own reasons for finally doing this.

I am about to start the process of making this journal almost completely Friend's Only, this is in preparation for that. If I didn't defriend you, I hope that you'll enjoy staying on my flist, but to anybody who's been waiting for the chance, please take this time to defriend me as well. Comments are screened for anyone who has anything to say, but this is done.

My dad and I saw Inglourious Basterds tonight. He doesn't know whether or not he liked it, but I think it was kind of an awesome piece of art. I'm not really a huge Quentin Tarantino fan, but this movie made me really respect his work. And Eli Roth's even more than I already did, because he directed a film-within-the-film that I thought was done gorgeously. And this is where this turns into me fangirling Eli Roth and horror movies, somehow.

Now. I love Eli Roth's stuff, I love him, I am really attracted to the guy. I had heard/read before that he was a member of the so-called Splat Pack ("the group has been credited with bringing back ultra-violent movies, as well as moving away from PG-13 rated movies and into the R-rated spectrum, all while operating with low budgets"), but tonight, I actually looked at the full list of Splat Pack members and Splat Pack movies. I know I'm a horror movie fan. It is my absolute favourite genre, and I try not to miss any that get released to my theatre, on the off chance that it will be amazing and actually scare me, or it will just be super gory and awesome. Some people hate that stuff, I completely live for it. Tonight, I am proud to say that I have seen at least one movie by every member of the Splat Pack.

Alexandre Aja - The Hills Have Eyes
Darren Lynn Bousman - Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV
Neil Marshall - The Descent
Greg McLean - Wolf Creek
Eli Roth - Cabin Fever, Hostel, Hostel II
James Wan - Dead Silence, Death Sentence
Leigh Whannell - Saw, Saw II, Saw III, Dead Silence
Rob Zombie - House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil's Rejects, Halloween

Now, I know, not much of an accomplishment, I'm sure that more than one somebody on my flist can step up and say the same thing, but as the horror movie fan I am, this made me really happy. And what's more, I liked all the movies I saw. Which I'm sure not everybody will say, because I know a lot of people who shudder to even think about watching them. But these movies, these movies are my movies! Call it torture porn, call it crap, call it whatever, I would watch it any day of the week.

So, to sum it all up: Inglourious Basterds is a gorgeous art film, Eli Roth is an even bigger god to me and I would do naughty things with him, those horror directors do it the best and I'm undeservingly proud of seeing so many of them. Plus, Halloween 2 this weekend! Another movie to add to the list.

I think that I am starting to like Megan Fox a lot more than I ever wanted to like Megan Fox. I don't really like to watch her on the red carpet, or when she's all sexed up, but I have seen some gorgeous photo shoots of her just looking pretty, not with her tongue sticking out or anything, and when she's just out and natural, she's kind of gorgeous. I think once I made a picture of my desktop and got excited to see Jennifer's Body, that's when I figured out I didn't dislike her. I actually am really excited for Jennifer's Body, and I hope that it will disprove my theory that she's not really that great of an actress. I think that she tries too hard, or plays too much into the sex symbol idea (I've never seen anybody lick their lips as much as her), which is why I like it when she's just being pretty and normal.

God, next thing you know, I'll start to get a girl crush on Taylor Momsen. Okay, haha, yeah right, that one I know for sure will never happen. Leave me alone, you converters! I dislike Taylor a lot more than I ever disliked Megan.

Random, but I was out in the sun all day, so maybe it all went to my head and made me write this. By tomorrow, I'm sure she'll say something equally as dumb as other crap she says and she'll just annoy me all over again.

No spoilers, but Harper's Island was one of the saddest things ever this week. And that made it a great episode, I think. I don't know if other people will like it, but I thought it was really good.