I found this picture today, courtesy of "Pink is the New Blog", and thought it was adorable. That's Emma Watson looking at the new pictures of Daniel Radcliffe in Details magazine. He's wearing lots of leather and looking rather scruffy. Personally I think he looks a lot better in the Harry Potter movies.
This is the picture of Daniel that she's looking at:
Maybe the face is because she really likes the leather. Who knows?
So, I'm taking my last psyc class this summer to get the credit hours over with and our professor suggested this website: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/research/ It's an online psyc experiment being run by Harvard University that is supposed to measure participants' implicit attitudes, or attitudes that we unconciously hold towards certain topics. They have dozens of tests and once you sign up you're randomly assigned to the topics. Measuring your reaction time during the task it's supposed to determine if you associate one topic vs. the other more positively or negatively. For example, my first task was Barack Obama vs. Hilary Clinton but I ended up with no particular preference detected, which I pretty much knew anyhow. It might be different for you though. Check it out and see how you really feel about things!
I also found the best video on the internet last night.
I just heard the most ridiculous song. It's called "Love Addict" by Family Force 5. It features the hilarious hook "Hold up, wait a minute, put a little love in it" to a hard rock melody "sung" by a screaming vocalist. I'm sorry, but I don't know anyone who listens to metal music that would want to headbang and sing along to those lyrics, but whatever. I just thought it was amusing. I'm always looking for new music (not necessarily new to everyone but at least to me) and that's how I came upon that song. They were actually featured as one of Launch.com's "Who's Next?" Artists. That must mean someone likes them. Well, go them. My personal newly discovered favorites are "1234" by Feist and "Again and Again" by The Bird and the Bee. Actually the later is a completely new artist to me and I really like a lot of their stuff. Check them out if you get a chance on myspace or itunes. Another favorite band for the moment is Grandadbob. Their song "Pictures" is wonderful.
I saw the movie, 1408 last night. It wasn't the scary thrill I thought it would be but it did scare me in parts, most definitely. I'm sure watching it in a theater full of talking people helped me get through it a little easier than if I had watched it alone in my dark living room. But I like to think I'm brave so I'll say it didn't shake me too badly. :) It was creepy though. I'd recommend it. The movie I've enjoyed the most in theaters recently was "Pan's Labyrinth". Even though that was awhile ago, it has still stuck with me. I thought it was a beautiful movie and the soundtrack was gorgeous. At least I thought so. I'm very interested to look into other work by the movie's director, Guillermo del Toro.
On another note, this is a video I found today of my childhood hero acting completely bizarre and drunk on an australian talk show. Oh Jesse, where have the good days gone?
And here is a clip from one of my favorite comedians, Demetri Martin. More will come later. I just want to share him with people because he's hilarious.
I have to admit that this blog of mine is mostly to the benefit of myself but if there happen to be readers and those readers have comments on how to make it better or more interesting, then I would be happy to listen. So comment away if you feel like it!
I suddenly had inspiration yesterday to begin a blog. I talked myself out of it last night but it didn't seem to last 24 hours. I get stuck on things like this, always finding new interests and things to occupy my time. I'm going to be fairly bored for the next month so it seems that this curiosity is at an all time peak to help me compensate for all my extra time. Sad thing is that I never seem to be able to manage that time in a productive way and inevitably just end up wasting it all with nothing to show for the day.
I've tried this blog thing before, but I'm doing something different this time. Completely anonymous! I think that's what was lacking before. I didn't feel safe enough to just write whatever I wanted to in case someone I knew would choose to judge me in a way I couldn't bare. And even though I would love for certain people to read this blog (despite it's pointlessness) and know who's behind it, I think I'll feel even better about it if no one chooses to read it but it's just floating out there in cyberspace anyway.
