"medicate."

autumn.

in celebration of the fall solstice, or mabon to some of you, i've made a playlist of my favorite autumn songs. i love fall. it's my favorite season.

okay, of course i'm going to love this.

check it out!!!! some of my very favorite songs here!


vamp love.

ah, i'm feeling better. you know how i know? well, one of the reasons anyway. i'm listening to new music. and actually enjoying it. like blasting it in the car and not feeling antsy like i have to change it to something familiar. before when i heard new music i was just kind of like, eh, this is cool, i'll remember it for later when i'm feeling better. but now, i'm actually enjoying it. for the past few months i've just been listening to everything old and familiar. blasting tons of afi like listening to all the songs of my past will somehow make it 2005 again and nothing will have ever happened. but life doesn't work like that, does it?

annnnnnyyyyywaaaaaay. don't worry about the layout change. it's only for vampire week. i'm not going full-on goth for you or something. i just thought it'd be nice for our little celebration of the undead.

just a few updates on my life. yesterday was rainy. so i saw two movies. first, i saw orphan by myself. that movie is twisssssted! you must see if you haven't already. i know i'm a little late on orphan but i just hadn't gotten around to seeing it yet, and when i finally did, i was so shocked it made the wait so worth it. seriously, it's crazy. seeing it was kind of funny. it was the middle of the day and i was the only person there, like literally, the only person. and even though it was broad daylight outside, being the ONLY person in a dark movie theater during a horror movie is a little creepy. later on i saw all about steve with arianne and krista. WORST MOVIE EVER. it was really, really, really stupid. but then we went to the cheesecake factory for dinner and that was really, really fun so it was all good.

you know what i was just thinking about? alice in chains. i love alice in chains. and i love them more in the fall for some reason. their sound just reminds me of fall colors. and it just sounds better in the fall. it doesn't fit quite right with other seasons. but you know what pisses me off? how alice in chains came back with a new singer after layne staley died. they should have just stopped. and if they wanted to keep performing, which makes sense, i mean they're all good musicians, especially jerry cantrell, he's totally talented, but they should've gotten another singer and started performing under a different name. not alice in chains. and even if they HAD to do that, they should've just had like one reunion tour and played the old stuff with the new singer just for the fans to like go to a concert and see the other guys and sing along to their favorite alice in chains songs, but they should not have started releasing NEW music with this NEW singer as alice in chains. because to me, they're not alice in chains anymore. they're a different group. i mean, they still have the same guys, and the same sound, but it's not the same...to me, a lead singer makes a group (except maybe in fall out boy, and wow i can't believe i brought THEM up in a discussion about alice in chains, but yeah, that's ANOTHER story, one that i'll actually probably never talk about because i don't really care about them, but still, you get the point, in alice in chains, layne staley was the lead singer and the FRONT MAN....maybe some people would say jerry cantrell was/is the frontman, but i would disagree). to me, alice in chains died when layne died. like nirvana died when kurt died. and sublime died when bradley died. the guys from nirvana kept doing their musical thing. obviously, dave grohl has the foo fighters. and krist novoselic had that band, sweet some number or another, i can't really remember, but he did. and the guys from sublime kept performing, under the name the long beach all stars, but they weren't sublime anymore without bradley. and to me, alice in chains is not alice in chains anymore without layne. and i kind of feel like they're disrespecting him a little bit by keeping going under that name with this new dude who's basically replacing him. layne staley is not just replaceable. i'm sorry. i know i'm ranting about something stupid. it just bothers me. i really like alice in chains. i'd go so far as to say that they're one of my favorite groups of all time. top ten definitely. they may not be exactly what kind of music i'm into at a given time, but i always have a love and respect for alice in chains. they're just good. they WERE good. now, i don't know what they are. their new stuff could totally rock but i refuse to listen to it, because they're saying it's alice in chains and to me it's not alice in chains. anyway. i'm moving on. i have other things i must do. i just felt like sharing this with you all. ha. sorry. later.

i love this movie. i adore this song. props to whoever made this.

this is my favorite summer-turns-to-fall song. of. all. time. amazing.

so you won't believe what i just did. i undid my ceiling. have you ever seen my ceiling? probably not. some of you who read this definitely have. but if you haven't, this is what it USED to look like:

now, that's an old picture, but it's looked basically like that for the past three and half years, just with different pictures every now and then. but i've never taken everything completely off. but i needed a change. so today i did. i think it's a good step to de-cluttering my life. my room's a lot brighter now. so that's good.

i did it while i watched just like heaven. that's my dog's favorite movie. it's one of my favorite movies, too. gosh, i love that movie. i love that SONG really! that song is definitely one of my favorites. definitely my favorite song by the cure. here it is so you can enjoy it, too:


it's actually a really sad song. about robert smith's love drowning. it's a true story. at least that's what i heard. let me look that up. ok, no, that's not true. it's not a sad song. his girlfriend or whatever never drowned. someone told me that he had a childhood sweetheart that drowned and he never got over it and that's what the song was about and i was like yeah okay that sounds eerily similar to lolita but whatever. but yeah, i just looked it up (on wikipedia, but say what you wanna say about wikipedia, i think it's a pretty reliable source!) and robert smith is married to his childhood sweetheart so she never drowned. and the song even has it's own wikipedia page and it says the song was inspired by a sea trip that robert smith took with his wife, aka his childhood sweetheart, but it was a romantic trip, not a tragic trip. that's good. because even though i'd heard that fake tragic story i'd always thought of the song as super romantic and wanted it to by like one of the songs that me and my future whatever consider "our" songs and like play it at our wedding or something. same with "love will tear us apart" by joy division. now, that song is actually kind of sad. ian curtis wrote it about problems he was having with his wife. it's especially sad since ian curtis's wife had it inscribed on his tomb stone after he committed suicide, making the song kind of tragically ironic for them i guess that lots of people (i'm guessing, considering the fact that it was even played as the first dance song at the wedding in the time traveler's wife), including myself, consider it such a romantic song (kind of, since at least some people know the story behind it, which IS true by the way). anywaaaaay. i'm rambling. have you ever seen "just like heaven" performed by afi? have i ever posted it here? i can't remember why i would have. but i should have at some point. it's so good. it was at an mtv tribute thing to the cure or something. but it's amaaaazing. this is actually one of the only afi songs my mom likes and i think davey's vocals, which i think are great all the time, are at his best in this performance. here it is:


anyway...i don't really have anything else to say. other than my head kind of hurts. that's all i suppose. for now at least.

omg, what do you think?!?! i love it, i think they look great! i can't wait for the new album (coming out in september)!!! they're going on a short tour in october but nothing i can go to, so i'm still waiting to see them again! here's a new pic of them, from shockhound:

this is kind of old news, but i need to let everyone out there know, from shockhound.com:

AFI's Long-Awaited CRASH LOVE Due Out September 29
07-07-2009 by ShockHound

The wait is almost over, AFI fans. According to a message sent out yesterday to the loyal folks on the NoCal goth-tinged punk band's e-mail list, Crash Love — the much-anticipated follow-up to 2006's Decemberunderground — will finally see the light of day at the end of September.
""After two years of focused writing and recording we have finished Crash Love in its entirety and are thrilled to hear it come to life," writes frontman Davey Havok. "Personally, I've never been more proud of an AFI record. We are writing to announce that on Sept 29th it will be released to the world. We wanted you to know first and do hope that you enjoy it!"
Recorded with producers David Bottrill (Tool, Muse) and Joe McGrath (Morrissey, Alkaline Trio, Blink-182), and including the backing vocal contributions of six lucky fans, Crash Love will be the band's eighth full-length release. While we're still waiting for that oft-promised EP — featuring previously unreleased songs from the sessions for Decemberunderground and Sing the Sorrow albums — to come out, we'll just as happily take an album of all-new AFI goodies, right?

— Dan Epstein

ok, i know a TON of songs by heart, but here are the ones i can think of off the top of my head... (and i'm not even kidding about any of these, you can test me, i'm like really good at memorizing songs...)

"smells like teen spirit," "lithium," "in bloom," "come as you are," "sliver," "you know you're right," "verse chorus verse," and basically any other nirvana song.....

"celebrity skin," "awful," "violet," "miss world," yeah i went through a hole phase, too, so basically that entire catalog.

"whatta man," salt n pepa.

"silver and cold," "malleus maleficarum," "girl's not grey," "this celluloid dream," "brownie bottom sundae," "file 13," a ton of afi...definitely all of sing the sorrow.

"infected," bad religion.

"head like a hole," nine inch nails.

"don't fear the reaper," blue oyster cult.

"nuthin but a g thing," dr. dre.

"mono," courtney love.

"you don't own me," lesley gore.

"i will follow him," little peggy march.

"california love," tupac.

"runaway," del shannon.

"why do fools fall in love," frankie lymon.

"teenager in love," dion.

"runaround sue," dion.

"fuck you," lil kim.

"will you still love me tomorrow," the shirelles.

"party lights," claudine clark.

"mama said," the shirelles.

"picture to burn," taylor swift.

"settlin," sugarland.

"the lion sleeps tonight," the tokens.

"the boys are back in town," thin lizzy.

"strutter," kiss.

"jack and diane," john mellencamp.

"jump around," house of pain.

"back from the dead," house of pain.

"without love," hairspray.

"don't trust me," 3OH!3

"jane fonda," "friends and lovers," "my dick," "so rich so pretty," "dipped in vaseline," "mr. right," "fuck'n em all," "waitin to die," mickey avalon.

"irreplaceable," beyonce.

"99 problems," jay-z.

"hands down," "rapid hope loss," "as lovers go," "vindicated," dashboard confessional.

"where the boys are," connie francis.

"frankie," "love/hate," betty blowtorch.

"kiss my ass goodbye," 7 year bitch.

"face down," red jumpsuit apparatus.

"goodbye earl," dixie chicks.

"summertime," billie holliday.

"heaven is a place on earth," belinda carlisle.

"livin' on a prayer," bon jovi.

"ice ice baby," vanilla ice.

"wicked game," chris isaak.

"bills, bills, bills," destiny's child.

"i will follow you into the dark," death cab for cutie.

"boogie woogie bugle boy," andrews sisters.

"dream lover" bobby darin.

"summer of 69," bryan adams.

"edge of seventeen," stevie knicks.

"bohemian rhapsody," queen.

"just like heaven," the cure.

"the boy from new york city," the ad libs.

"december 1963," the four seasons.

"hypnotize," biggie.

"let it go," keyshia cole.

"fever," peggy lee.

"ghost of tom joad," rage against the machine.

"what's your fantasy," ludacris.

anything by sam cooke or ben e. king.

i'm going through a very serious megan at age 15/16 year 2006ish phase right now. which isn't bad because that was one of the happiest times of my life. looking back i like most parts of my life except for one. delete that and mostly all my memories would be happy. it's just that i have to put so much energy into forgetting that part because that's really how my life ended up where it is today because that affected me so much. which i guess isn't that strange. because it was so traumatic and all. it's normal for someone that's had to go through it. i just wish i hadn't. that's why i like to remember the other times. the times before and the times after. anyway, here's the throwback vid, gotta love davey!!!:

us weekly reports that the following couples recently got engaged:

Zooey Deschanel is engaged to Ben Gibbard, the front man for Death Cab for Cutie, a source close to the couple tells Usmagazine.com. Rumors that the Yes Man actress, 28, was getting married spread after In Touch falsely reported she was engaged to a different musician: Hunter Burgan, a bass guitarist for AFI. (MEGAN NOTE: hunter and zooey were together a few years ago though, i though they were cute...) Deschanel and Gibbard, 32, are "so thrilled," the source tells Us. "Zooey was swept off her feet, and Ben is so excited."


It's official! America's Next Top Model Season 3 winner Eva Marcille (formerly Eva Pigford) is engaged to her boyfriend Lance Gross. Surrounded by family and friends, the actor, 24, got down on bended knee and popped the question to his House of Payne costar, also 24, on Christmas Eve with a 3-carat Pave Cartier ring."I cried. It was totally unexpected. I'm still in shock," Marcille told Essence. "I could not even sleep because I was afraid that I might wake up from the most beautiful dream ever. The pair met on the set of the Tyler Perry television series, but Marcille first spotted her fiance at an audition two years
ago. "I'm proud to call Lance mine because I was in love with him before we ever met," she gushed to Essence. "He's my dream guy." And the feeling is mutual. "I knew the day I laid eyes on her because I just got that feeling," Gross echoed. "She took full control of my heart, and is the only woman that has ever made me feel that way, that’s how I knew she was special." Marcille and Gross have not set a date, but are considering a summer ceremony in 2010.

hannah montana best of both worlds tour counts as legendary? well, i was definitely at that, and yeah, it was a pretty crazy experience. so many little girls screaming for hannah montana, and the jonas brothers, too. crazy, crazy time. some legendary (i love this, i sound like barney from himym) shows for me (at the time, and still to some degree) were definitely my first warped tour (saw mcr (they were absolutely hug then and this was a big deal for me), fall out boy (this was like when they were right on the verge of hitting it big), and the offspring who are one of my favorite bands of all time!!!), sufjan stevens!!!! because we trucked all the way to indianapolis for that and it was intense! that man puts on a good show, afi because they were by far my favorite band at the time that i saw them, nsync celebrity tour, britney spears oops i did it again tour, backstreet boys millenium tour, and spice girls spice world tour, because that was the first concert that i went to that wasn't like something my parents liked or barney or something, and it was such a big deal to get tickets to that for my 8th birthday!!!

oh boy...here we go.....

(please note, this list is highly subject to change and is not necessarily in correct order because i love all of them too much to do the perfect ranking!!!)

runner-up: "three cheers for sweet revenge" my chemical romance. yeah, whatever, they're emo and kind of lame, but at the time, this was one of the greatest albums i'd ever owned. all the tracks were great, to me they were a completely new sound, and it was really what i needed at the time.


10. "for never and ever" kill hannah. this was just one of those albums that you i could just play straight through and not even skip tracks, which to me is kind of a big thing because i tend to skip all the time. just a really good overall album.


9. "adore" smashing pumpkins. i feel like i'm the only person who considers this a masterpiece. but seriously, this album is great. from beginning to end.


8. "mellon collie and the infinite sadness" smashing pumpkins. AAAAAH! amazing. another album i love listening to straight through...so many GREAT tracks came out of this...."tonight, tonight," "zero," "bullet with butterfly wings," "1979," and so many others. the title of this album also inspired by alter-ego which i referred to myself as for over a year...but let's not talk about that...


7. "good mourning" alkaline trio. the album that really got me into alk3. it's so gloomy and somber and melancholy and dark. so me at 15. so fabulous.


6. "live through this" hole. there's no denying it...i was obsessed with this album in 9th grade. i still love some of the tracks. they're really powerful. this is courtney love at her best.


5. "mtv unplugged in new york" nirvana. i don't really know if this counts as an album or not, because it was really just a show that was recorded. but it's one of the most powerful things i've heard heard/seen in my entire life. it was taped months before kurt died, and if you've never seen it in it's entirety i highly recommend checking it out.


4. "a mark, a mission, a brand, a scar" dashboard confessional. so emo, but so great. this is such a perfect summer album. summer of 2006 this was all that played in my car. another one of those albums where you can play it straight through and never get sick of it. ever.


3. "goddamnit!" alkaline trio. the first and best alkaline trio album. i loved the concert where they played the album straight through. gosh i love this album. all the songs kind of sound the same, but that's kind of the beauty of it, because they're all so great.


2. "sing the sorrow" afi. say what you want about it, but i love it. all the hidden messages and secret tracks...it was so much fun to follow the "mystery" and all of the tracks are fantastic....every afi album is great in my opinion and they all have some tracks that have become some of my favorite songs of all time (with the exception of decemberunderground because that really didn't do it for me), but this is the one album of their's where EVERY song is great. all their albums, however, are close runners-up.


1. "nevermind" by nirvana. the album that started it all for me. i feel like this album has a place on a lot of people's top 10. it's just...perfect.

i absolutely loooove halloween! and halloween music is THE BEST! here's some of my favorite spooky songs:

"walk like a zombie" the horrorpops. I LOVE THIS SONG! it's like retro/rockabilly with a little bit of a horror twist...i guess that could be termed "psychobilly" but no, i just call it perfection. um, and how much do i looooove my walk like a zombie tshirt?!?!?!


"malleus malleficarum" afi. suuuuuch a great fall song in general! the witches hammer...loooooove it!!!! it's just such a great song!

"she's my vampire girl" the groovie ghoulies. i really don't know what this song is, i just found it on itunes one time, but it's so much fun.

"vampire heart" him.

"dragula" rob zombie.

"astro zombies" my chemical romance. misfits cover. can't beat that. it's a really good version.

"zombie graveyard party" be your own pet. loooove them. why did they break up?! :( :(

"bela lugosi's dead" bauhaus. classic.

"monster mash" boris pickett and the crypt kickers. the essential song of halloween, duh.

"monster mash" misfits. take your pick, i love them both, but i just feel like it's perfectly punked out by the misfits.

"ghouls" horrorpops.

"halloween" afi. another misfits cover, but i just love the way that afi does it.

"don't fear the reaper" blue oyster cult. more cowbell!

"thank you for the venom" my chemical romance.

"i was a teenage werewolf" the cramps.

"over at the frankenstein place" alkaline trio.

"helena" my chemical romance.

"incorporeal" tiger army, with davey havok. a great song about the undead.

"vampires curse" koffin kats.

"time warp" rocky horror picture show.

"spellbound" siouxsie and the banshees. old school.

"teenagers" my chemical romance.

"last caress" afi. misfits cover agaaaain.

"this is halloween" marilyn manson. a creepier take on my favorite song from one of my favorite flicks.

"night of the living dead" misfits.

"thunder kiss 65" white zombie.

"forsaken" david dramain. from the queen of the damned soundtrack, totally creepy and still awesome.

"ghoulina" nekromantix.

"living dead girl" rob zombie.

"this magic moment" misfits. there's just something about the misfits performing oldies that makes it perfectly creepy and halloweenish.

"i put a spell on you" marilyn manson.

"runaway" misfits. the del shannon song. because of the reason i said before, and also because this is the song from children of the corn when the little girl is in the house...ha yeah.

"purevil" son of sam. davey havok at his best.

"fall children" afi.

"cemetery drive" my chemical romance.

"mercy me" alkaline trio.

"trick or treat" nekromantix.

"love potion no. 9" the searchers.

"join me in death" him.

"totalimmortal" afi.

"dream lover." misfits.

"this could be love" alkaline trio.

"the munsters theme." loooooove it!!!!!!!

"curse of the coffin" nekromantix.

my favorite month. there are just some things that are so...october, you know?

so i think i'm going to do a series of things that remind me of october...starting with, my favorite "october" movies. some of these movies have nothing to do with the actual month of october, they just feel like october to me.

october sky.

of course, this is because it has october in the title, and also because it just feels like october to me, probably because it's called october sky...hard to tell if it's just because of the title or not, but it's a great story, and you know i love history and the 1950s...and it's so sad! and homer is hot, jake gyllenhaal all the way!

national treasure.

i always felt like this movie took place in the fall, especially the scene where they're shopping at urban outfitters...they pick out very fall clothes. and this is just one of my favorite movies of all time.

twitches.

I LOVE THIS MOVIE! it's so much fun! and it's october all around! i mean, it obviously takes place in october so the awesome halloween funness and scenery is just spectacular! and i've always loved tia and tamera! i remember when this movie came out in october 05, one of my favorite octobers ever!

twitches too.

of course. it's just as much...if not more...fun than the first! and just as cute too!

hocus pocus.

when i was little, i was so afraid of this movie! but then, when i was like 7, i was like omg hocus pocus rocks! and it really does! it is probably one of the most fun halloween movies of all time! i love the whole salem with trials/historical aspect of it, and max is totally hot in that 90s way, and thackary is kind of hot in that 1600s way....

sleepy hollow.

this movie is so typically tim burton. so creepy, yet so good. i love the imagery...the entire town of sleepy hollow is just so like creepy and stark but i totally love it. this movie IS october. and i love christina ricci, as we all know....and yes, johnny depp is in it as well :).

the hollow.

i'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that most people have never seen this movie...let alone heard of it. it's with nick carter (yeah, i know...), kaley cuoco (one of my fave girls), and kevin zegers (so hot!). it's another take on sleepy hollow in like a fun teen thriller really not scary but kind of trying to be sort of way. it's about kids that live in the town of sleepy hollow, which is like still obsessed with the legend and then kevin zegers finds out that he's a descendent of icabod crane. it's super fun.

breakfast at tiffany's.

ah, what a lovely, glamorous movie. that does, indeed, take place in the fall, in october i think, because when they're stealing things at the store there are halloween masks! ah, this is just such a good movie! it makes me feel happy and nice! and i love the soundtrack, moon river forever!!!!!

children of the corn.

i don't know why, but this movie is like my all time guilty pleasure. i just love it. it's so lame, but it's hilarious, the kids are just so crazy! isaac and malachai, hahahahahaha. and i just love the part where the girl is in the room listening to "runaway" by del shannon....i love that song!!!!!! and it just holds a special place in my heard because mr. hastings used to call our class his little children of the corn in 11th grade english :).

casper.

retro christina ricci! i love her as kat! this is suuuuuch a fun movie!!!!! so cute! and i always though that vic and real life casper were kind of cute! and that's not weird because this movie came out when i was five!!!!!!!

casper meets wendy.

retro hilary duff! katie and i loved this movie when i was like 8! i remember my grandma getting it for us at rite aid after my after school french class one day...the best! this movie is pretty crappy, but it's like even more fun than the first!

harry potter and the sorcerer's stone.

i know this movie spans over an entire school year, but this is an october movie all the way. does anyone else LOVE the scene in the dining hall during halloween when the jack-o-lanterns are like floating in the air??? and the food always looks so good, especially in that scene! that alone made me want to go to hogwarts!!!!

the covenant.

yeah, okay, so maybe this is a crappy movie, but come on, how bad is it really? great fall setting in new england...creepy story of witchcraft...lots of places that make you jump...good music (white zombie <3<3<3)...and um, HOT GUYS! chace crawford, taylor kitsch, steven strait, tobey hemingway...yuuuum!

urban legend.

kind of creepy, but totally fun in that scary, teen thriller kind of way. and um, joshua jackson and jared leto are totally hot. and idk, there's just something about a college campus that says fall.

teen witch.

classic disney at it's best. with blake lively's older sis! i love how this was originally a sequel to teen wolf...ha. i love this movie though! i heard they might remake it, with ashley tisdale!

marie antoinette.

maybe it's the macabre aspect of the young french queen...or the fall woods where she's transformed from a young austrian girl into marie antoinette...or maybe it's that there's a sex scene set to bauhaus...idk, i just really like this movie...visually. like i could watch it on mute or just have it play in the background of a party or something...but it has good music, too. i just love the costumes, the scenery, the decadance...

halloweentown.

the original. not the second. hated it. halloweentown high was okay, not as bad as kalabar's revenge, but still not the original. i refused to see return to halloweentown because they replaced the original marnie with sara paxton, but now that it's october! i might reconsider just because i'm in the mood to watch any and all halloween movies. but anyway i love this movie. that's like my dream...to live in a town where it's always halloween. and after i saw this, i was just like waiting to find out i'm really a witch!

corpse bride.

sometimes i feel like no one else liked this movie. true, i didn't like it as much as the nightmare before christmas, but it's still fun and i loooove the music!

the little vampire.

such a lame, yet such a good halloween movie. so fifth grade for me! that was one of my favorite octobers, the first one in our new neighborhood, classic autumn!!!! anyway, i love like the scottish setting and the old costumes and stuff....and jonathan lipnicki was so cute!

the nightmare before christmas.

of course. a classic. one of my favorite halloween and christmas movies. i love the story, and the songs, and it's just so good!

monster house.

i love watching this movie while babysitting. it's so cute. and it has some grown up elements in it too. some of it's really dumb, but overall i was pleasantly surprised by this movie.

the scream team.

no, not the cavs hip hop squad...the terribly underrated disney channel original movie, with kat dennings!!!! omg, i love this movie, i wish that they would show this more often!

mom's got a date with a vampire.

i probably just like caroline rhea because i'm fat, but whatever, imo, this is another great dcom halloween flick! i love the random rockabilly club that they go to, and you know i love vampires. i remember watching this on a friday night in fifth grade before a swim meet the next day. that was the first night i ever had chipotle. weird, i know, but i remember it.

phantom of the megaplex.

dcoms rule when it comes to halloween. you know i love the movies so this has always been fun for me...plus mickey rooney is great!!!! and when i was younger i thought the kid was cute!

under wraps.

this dcom is never on, but i remember seeing it at my old house when it first came out...i remember going on a walk in daisy hill that day and kim from down the street was babysitting us...it's a fun movie.

tower of terror.

i love this movie, because it's got the whole retro-glamour-historical side, with the swing music and all, and i also love kirsten dunst..and morgan from boy meets world!

interview with the vampire.

so good. the historical costumes and sets are fabulous, and kirsten dunst is great as mini-vampire claudia...oh, and brad pitt is the sexiest vampire ever.

the haunted mansion.

love the movie as much as i love the ride (when it's not broken, which it seems to be quite often these days....). but this movie is just so cute and fun! i remember seeing it with my cousin when i was in 8th grade and actually being kind of like woah! at some parts, and i enjoyed it so much that i saw it again with my dad, and i saw my math teacher there, like with his five year old son, and i remember thinking wow i'm too old for this movie but i totally love it...yeah....

just like heaven.

for some reason this is absolutely a fall movie. maybe it's like fall when she's in the garden at the beginning, idk, but it just seems fallish to me...and because it's all supernatural and stuff! and it's riley's favorite movie!!!! i miss you little buddy!!!

beetlejuice.

sometimes i'm like wow i hate this movie it's so lame, but other times i'm like omg i love it...and sometimes i'm like okay, i love it for this one reason: my whole life is a dark room. one. big. dark. room.

the addams family.

gotta love a creepy family...especially one with a mom named morticia...i love that name :).

the craft.

this movie is soooooo crazy. but i kind of love it....in a weird way. like it's a pretty terrible movie, but it's just so wonderfully creepy!

halloween: h20.

for some reason i really like THIS halloween the best...maybe it's because it's like modern and i can actually remember when it came out...and josh hartnett's in it and he's not like completely terrible!!!! i mean it totally beats the halloween before it (the curse of michael meyers) because they totally messed everything up from 4 and 5 because they didn't recast danielle harris. i actually like 4 and 5, too, because i like jamie, and a guy from my church wrote one of them, i think it was 5. of course the original is good, but 2 and 3, especially, suck...and then there's resurrection...with tyra banks. ha. best part of that movie: busta rhymes- "trick or treat...motherfucker." HAHAHAHAHAHA! yeah but h20 is the best...and don't even get me started about rob zombie's remake, as far as i'm concerned that is NOT part of the series.

scream 2.

definitely the BEST of the series!!!! i love how they're at colege...as i've said before, college campuses are just soooo fall!!!! and this one has the best cast for sure, with sarah michelle gellar (total scream queen), jerry o'connell, rebecca gayheart (she's so underrated), joshua jackson, omar epps, neve campbell (who just gets better with age), jada pinkett smith, tori spelling, luke wilson, heather graham, portia de rossi, and of course jamie kennedy (who, btw, is teaching a film class at kent). i also love how matthew lillard makes a cameo at a party...when his character totally died in the first movie!!!! love it...so much better than the third which is totally overly corny. scream 3 definitely could've been good because it's when everything kind of comes together and the whole mystery is revealed but courteney cox's hair looks crazy and parker posey just makes the whole thing lame...but i do love patrick dempsey, jenny mccarthy, jay and silent bob, and kelly rutherford. but yeah, love the sorority house scene with smg...it's such a nice house! it makes me wish that we had sorority houses here, but we don't because of dc brothel laws...true story.

a cinderella story.

one of my favorite movies ever...sooo cute! i love hilary duff! and chad michael murray is SO HOT! and yeah, loooove the halloween homecoming dance! her dress is sooooo GORGEOUS! and regina king and jennifer coolidge are great in this movie too!

today was kind of bittersweet. becuase i'm leaving tomorrow. and i'm super excited. but i'm totally going to miss everyone....

krista came over to say goodbye, and we had so much fun! we watched acting with james franco and talked about how much it would suck if someone from our school married him, ha...we always come up with the most out-there stuff...except if you actually knew the entire story about how this came up, it wouldn't really seem thaaaat far-fetched, but that's another story...i'm for sure still going to be calling krista up a lot. who else is going to know what i mean when i say stuff like "carlos the dwarf" and "he leans great???" no one. at least no one else i know right now...well, carly gets the jordan catalano stuff to some degree, but most people don't. so i'll def call krista and stuff. and i'll miss most of my other friends, too. we've had fun times, of course, but it's not like i'm going away forever to siberia or something...it's 2008, i don't have to go half an hour without communicating people if i don't want to...

anyway.

we had dinner with both sets of grandparents tonight and that was nice.

i ate way too much though. and i feel kind of sick...

i took two naps tonight. how strange is that? actually both naps occured while i attempted to watch team usa crush greece in basketball. the first time i was watching it live by myself and just dozed off because it was super early, and then later i was like really tired and i was watching the game again with marshall because we recorded it and i just fell asleep again but it was like really cold in the family room so i kept waking up.

even though i took those quick naps, i'm still totally tired and want to go to sleep pretty soon, but i really want to watch the gymnastics! and i loooove nastia lukin's outfit tonight! sooooo, my style! i like her a lot, but i really like shawn johnson, too, so i'd be happy to see either one of them win. i love the olympics. love, love, love!

ah, i'm gonna go watch some gymnastics now...tata!