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Today's topic: CURSE MY TWISTED LITTLE IMAGINATION!!

Actually, fear not!! Today's topic is nowhere near as twisted as my last post. I blame the coloured chalk. Some of you may recall how I got a little song parody stuck in my head, because of a scene with Lupin talking to Harry in the third movie. Well, that little parody just didn't seem to want to leave my head. So, here's a much longer version of that song.

(To the tune of 'Stacey's Mom has got it going on')

I first met Lily Evans
One day at school
(One day at school)
My friends James and Sirius
Both thought she was cool.
(Thought she was cool)
But Lily didn't like James,
Now that is a switch
(That is a switch)
Still, can't blame him for trying
'Cause she is one charming witch.
(One charming witch)

She found out my big secret,
I thought it was all over there
(All over there)
But she just smiled and said,
"I think it's cool you're a 'were."
(Cool you're a 'were)

Then she reached out
and she held my hand.
See, she knows I'm not the monster
That everyone believes I am.

Harry's Mom has got it going on,
She's all I want and I've waited for so long.
Harry, can't you see,
You're just not the one for me.
I know it may be wrong,
But I'm in love with Harry's Mom.

But since James has matured some,
He and Lily are going out.
(Now they're going out)
Could someone kind tell me
What that's all about?
(What is that about?)
I thought that she and I
Had something special going on.
(Something's going on)
But now it's looking as if
I was horribly wrong.
(So horribly wrong)

Lily, I'm hoping that
You will someday see,
You and James are so wrong,
Girl, you need a guy like me.

Harry's Mom has got it going on,
She's all I want and I've waited for so long.
Harry, can't you see,
You're just not the one for me.
I know it may be wrong,
But I'm in love with Harry's Mom.

I'm sick and I'm twisted,
I'm broke and you can't fix it!!
(Billy talent song).

You may ask, 'what brought this up?' Well, you didn't, but I'll share anyways just to spite you.

I was walking through Sears today during my lunch break. They have baby carriages right by the main doors, and as I happened to glance into the carriage, I saw they had baby maniquens. Pretty neat, you'd say. Uh... these were HEADLESS baby maniquens. Not so cute. Why headless... I really don't know. I personally think that the company would have just done better to stick a lable on the carriage stating "Must remove baby's head in ordre to fit it into this carriage".

Now, normal people would think this is strange and leave it at that. I'm not normal. I'm sick and twisted. Hence the song quote.
Seeing that display got me thinking, 'It would be funny to see the look on people's faces if they peer into a carriage, expecting to see a cute baby, when instead they see a headless baby-shaped lump of plastic in a jumper'. I was also thinking a bit of dried ketchup or something around the neck and in the carriage would complete the montage quite nicely. I had a brief image of me walking down the street with this carriage, little old ladies looking inside to marvel over the little baby, shriek in horror and clutch their chests at the sight. Let me repeat: I'm sick and twisted. And evil.

Also, let me explain: I would never, NEVER do anything like this. Not even on a dare. I don't do crazy and disturbing stuff like this. But, all the same, there is this little voice inside my head that insists 'Wouldn't it be funny if...?' And, since I'm sick and twisted, I can't help but snicker at the possibilities.

That little voice is also giving me mental images of me handing the headless maniquen to a big dog, having the dog run across a park and me chasing after it screaming 'My baby!! My baby!!' Have I mentioned I'm sick and twisted?? Now, please allow me a moment to hang my head in shame.

Dang... can't do it without smirking at the mental images. Curses.

On another note: Kenshin. I've actually sat my butt down and watched some more. I just finished episode 59. And let me say: what the huh??

I can understand the Aoshi redemption thing, and the redemption of that monk dude that Sano fought. They were basicly good people who just went a bit nuts. I can also understand why blind turtle-shell man died. I'm actually kinda glad Kenshin wasn't there to stop Sahito and go on with all this "repent and redeem" talk going on. But SUJIRO...???

Allow me to explain for my two friends who have not watched Kenshin. Sujiro is basicly a kid; a psychotic, homocidal, kill-ya-with-a-smile kid. Who, by the way, everyone says never shows emotions. Just smiles. Creepy, creepy kid. And yet, if it weren't for the killing thing, he'd be very, very cute. He kinda still is, in my eyes, and for that, I worry about myself.

Sujiro is also a poster child for abused-children-who-snap-and-go-all-homocidal. I say a poster child, because Carla and Lynnsey can name half a dozen others who would be better suited for THE poster child title. I thought this kid had to die, that he was too far gone. Noppers. Kenshin gets all 'redeem thyself' on him. To which Sujiro replies, 'You're a harder taskmaster than Shishio'. I highly agree. If you do bad, Shishio just kills you. He doesn't say 'Bad you, no donut, go out and be nice and redeem yourself'. pfft.

On the subject of Shishio... WTF??? He's a BITER?? I didn't see that coming, but I should have, and I really wasn't surprised when it came. Shishio bites people. Then he blows them up. Now, here's what I don't understand, and it's something you'll see in lots of movies and shows. I call it the 'Let's try the next-best thing', syndrome.

You see, when bad guys want someone killed, they have a tendancy to send out their best assassin/warrior/whatever first. Then, when that person is defeated or killed, they're all like 'Huh, our best person didn't get the job done. Well, let's send the next-best person just in case THEY can do it.' To these people I say, your best person is BETTER (or, more good, if you will) than your other people. Compared to this best person, the other people SUCK. So, if you're nemisis has bested your best person, what the heck makes you think the non-best people stand a chance in hell???

If you MUST kill someone, send in the weaker peoples first to try and kill them. If they suceed, then yay for them, give 'em a raise and dance on your nemisisesesees grave. If not, then you have a back-up plan... YOUR BEST PERSON. Use the weak ones to tire the nemisis out, then your best person stands a better chance of killing them. Silly, silly evil people.

In the case of Kenshin, Shishio had it right. He used the weaker peoples to try and stop Kenshin & Co. or, at the very least, injure them and tire them out. But the good guys are all like... 'Huh, Kenshin didn't kill Shishio. Well, let's get Sahito after him. Uh... nope, didn't work. Sano, wanna give it a shot. Huh, that didn't work either. Uh... we're out of people now.' Luckily for them, Aoshi came after Sano and actually did some good. But still, the good guys were kinda stupid.

And let me say, that whole huge, heroic, good-guy comeback scene... seriously, it looked like Anime meets Night Of The Living Dead. And on that note... 'night!!

Quote:
Mom (driving): I have to pass this guy.
Me: Go Mom, use that horsepower!! (pause) Actually, we're in my car, so it's more like half-dead-donkey power.
Mom: You mean a jackass?
Then I smacked her upside the head.

Well... what's new with me? Graduated on Monday. Four years of moderately-hard work and I have a piece of paper stating I got my bac es sciences. Yay! Now I can work at McDonald's or WalMart. If they like my resumé. ONe degree down, one to go. Am I excited?? I wasn't really excited at first, then before the ceremony, I was really nervous. Now I'm kinda happy that I've got one degree down... one more to go. Hopefully, that'll only take 2 years. Hopefully.

So, yes, what else is new with me? Saw Harry Potter 3 yesterday. Thank you very much to Chrissy and to Trevor for inviting us. Glad I have connections. Well, my friends have connections. At any rate... my opinion of the movie.

Reading the books, you expect a lot from the movies. This is the first HP movie I've watched after having read the book. I was still in my Anti-Harry Potter mode. I greatly enjoyed the first two movies. The third was good... but I have a feeling that I would have enjoyed it more if I had not read the book first. Here's why.

As many people know, books have an almost limitless capacity to twist plots, develope characters and describe situations and what not. As long as the writer keeps the readers entertained, they can keep their story on for a great while. Movies, as we all know, have many constraits of time and money that limit what a producer and director can do. Movies made on their own are often done very well. Movies made from a book almost always pale in comparison to the originator of the story.

The movie wasn't a bad interpretation of the book... don't get me wrong on that. But I just liked the book better. There were so many things in the movie that were left unexplained. Maybe these things weren't absolutely essential to the plot of the Harry Potter books... but they made the plot a bit more interesting. For example... they don't explain the story behind Messrs Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs. They also don't explain exactly WHY Snape hates Lupin, Black and Potter... they don't even mention that he does. Just little things left out. But somethings the litle things make a bit difference.

As for the people concerned... I was mostly happy. Daniel Radcliff has come a long way from the first movie. I'm not saying he's Oscar material, but he's a lot better than he was. In the first movie, it almost seemed like he was really only acting when he was talking... that he was just there waiting between lines. He lacked the subtly of a good actor. He's learned a lot over the course of the past two movies... his acting is getting much better and I hope that, if he does the fourth movie, he'll continue to get even better.

I always thought Emma Watson was good as Hermonie, she does a great job at getting across the inner workings of her character's personality, in spite of the normal constraints of film in this matter. Any existing lack in Hermonie's character or mood is not due to the actress herself, I feel, but to the way the character is interpreted in the movie. Rupert Grint makes a great Ron, the perfect mix of loyalty, teenage annoyingness (makes things realistic), lovability and idiocy. Prolly didn't spell that word right. Don't care... it's not the only spelling mistake in my blog. Of course, the other familiar characters do well in their role, Yay to Robbie Coltrane, Alan Rickman and Tom Felton. And the Weasly twins (Oliver and James Phelps)... they're great!! :D

Now for new characters:

Michael Gambon (Dumbledore): I liked Richard Harris as Dumbledore, and was sad to hear that he died. One of my main concerns about the movie was that the new Dumbledore would not measure up to Harris. As with Hermonie, I felt that any lack in the character was due to the interpretation and not to the actor's skill. I was pleasently surprised to find that I liked the new Dumbledore. Unlike in the previous movies, Alfonso Cuaron did keep a small aspect of the headmaster's mischevious manner (I liked the scene in Hagrid's hut before Buckbeak's execution).

Gary Oldman (Sirius Black): I didn't know who he was when I first started gathering facts about the 3rd movie. Then I found out he was the psychotic-destructo guy in The Fifth Element. At which point I thought, 'Ew... he's Sirius Black?? You can't be serious. (Pun intended. Lynnsey was right on how to prounce his name, I was wrong. It's more fun this way). Once again, I was surprised at how much I liked him in this role. Many Sirius/Lupin fans complained about the movie pairing a skeleton with a gay pirate. I say to S/L Shippers who have yet to see this movie, I don't think you have to worry. They wouldn't look that bad together, and there's a scene in there that you can use to slash to your hearts' content.

David Thewlis (Remus Lupin): Now, this is the character I was the most worried about. You see, my friend Lynnsey LOVES Lupin (in my unfinished "smack upside the head fic", I hug him on her behalf). She had very high expectations for him, and her little heart would be crushed if he didn't measure up. I'm not sure about Lynnsey, but I didn't mind him at parts. At other parts... eh... I always thought he'd be gentler and softer. He seemed kinda harsh at times. Though, Harry did deserve it. Still, not what I'd pictured. And other times, as Chrissy says, he seemed kinda pedophile creepy. "Yeees, Harry... I really liked your mom. Really, REALLY liked Lily. And your father... ah, he was great. And, ooo, I LOVE you're eyes." Actually, I exagerate. Lupin didn't really seem like a pedophile. But his comments about Lily did make me wonder whether or not he had a soft spot for Harry's mom. And now I've got "Harry's mom has got it going on, she's all I want and I've waited for so long..." stuck in my head. And I can just see Lupin breaking out into song. Note to self, must write short fic to this effect.

Hm... long post. I should end it here. Later.

*Harry can't you see,
you're just not the one for me.
I know it may be wrong,
But I'm in love with Harry's mom*
(Though, frankly, I think it's much LESS wrong than Harry and Lupin. Unless you read the right fics. Some of them are cute.) >;)