Stuff you guys totally needed to ever know about me (also, movies!)

[vethica]

Saw two awesome movies in the past few days. The first was Summer Wars, which was amazing and touching (I actually cried, which... doesn't happen often). Despite what people say, it really isn't all that similar to Our War Game, apart from the ideas of a rogue AI and impending missiles. It came off as more of a homage than anything. I'm actually planning to get the DVD (and I don't own many DVDs either), if only to see how the dub came out. In conclusion, watch this movie. :B

The second was Atlantis: The Lost Empire, which I've been meaning to watch for forever. It turned out to be another one of those that I should have seen back when it came out, because I found myself being very fond of it. The characters! ♥ I found I could ignore the plot holes, but I did come out thinking that it should have been longer for the sake of character development. If we got to see more of the characters' interactions and growing friendships, I think it would have been a lot more powerful. And Milo should have totally gotten with Audrey. (Also, yeah, huge crush on Milo. He's not the trope picture for Adorkable for nothing. A socially awkward linguist with the voice of Marty McFly, come on, that's not fair.)


Also this meme's been kicking around the flist.

You know how sometimes people on your friendslist post about stuff going on in their life, and all of a sudden you think "Wait a minute? Since when were they working THERE? Since when were they dating HIM/HER? Since when???" And then you wonder how you could have missed all that seemingly pretty standard information, but somehow you feel too ashamed to ask for clarification because it seems like info you should already know? It happens to all of us sometimes.

Please copy the topics below, erase my answers and put yours in their place, and then post it in your journal! Please elaborate on the questions that would benefit from elaboration. One-Word-Answers seldom help anyone out. :)

Name - Vethica
Nicknames - Vethie, Veth, Señor Awesome
Birthday - 12/28
Zodiac - ... I mean Capricorn


Hair - Brown, straight.
Eyes - Brown, myopic.
Height - 5′4.5″ (the .5 is VERY IMPORTANT </height complex>)
Body Type - Terrible. No I guess it is okay but I do not like my thighs. :\

Relationship Status - Taken. :B

Kids - None.
Pets - Two cats, but they are my family's, not mine.

Favourite Colour - Umm. Probably a shade of purple at this point.
Favourite Flower - I... don't know. Do people normally have favorite flowers?
Favourite Movie(s) - Lord of the Rings, Juno, Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame, and we can throw Summer Wars in there too. For now, anyway.
Favourite Song(s) - Right now, it's got to be "Major Tom (Coming Home)" by Peter Schilling. What a song.


3 Random Facts about you:
1. Despite being Jewish, I really love Christmas lights. They make me feel so peaceful, mannn.
2. My team's come in second in the town spelling bee for the past two years.
3. I can peel grapes with my teeth.

Story behind your username:
There... really isn't one. As I've said before, it is just a made-up name that I liked. And has no relation to the French veterinary company.


1. First Name
Not telling, sorry.

2. Age
Recently 19.

3. Location
Massachusetts, both home and school.

4. Occupation
College student. ._. I'm going to try and get some work at my school next semester, though.

5. Partner?
birdboy2000, who is awesome. ♥♥♥

6. Kids
None. I doubt I'll have any the way things are looking, but if I do, it won't be anytime soon.

7. Brothers/Sisters
I have two brothers. One is my twin, and he's autistic. He lives in a group house thing for special needs kids, but he comes home on the weekends. My younger brother takes it in turns to be nice and a jerk, but he predicted that once I started college we'd get along better. True to his word, he has been mostly nice to me when I've been home. He continues to make things difficult for my parents, though. :| Also he can drive and has a job despite being two years younger than me. Oh hi insecurities.

8. Pets
Like I said, my family has two cats. I don't like them much because they bite me, or at least they used to. Trying to be less of a jerk to them though.

9. List the 3-5 biggest things going on in your life
1. The upcoming second semester
2. Romeo & Juliet rehearsals
3. ...Social life? Maybe?

10. Parents
Mom's a lawyer, dad's a rabbi. They are both very cool people. :D

11. Who are some of your closest friends?
alex_romao, akasunano_usagi, birdboy2000, hoyvinglavin64, kazekageshad, lyarrah, momokuma626, rekkazaal, tymaporer, and also people who do not have LJs. And probably I forgot some people too. But. You guiiiise.

12. What are some of the things you like most?
My fandoms, being happy, music, TV Tropes, and bread.

13. A photo of yourself and anything else you want to say
No photo, sorry; I am internet paranoid forever. Besides, this way you can imagine me as someone who actually looks cool. :B
Also writing this has reminded me yet again how boring my life is. yaaaay

FEEL FREE TO ASK FOR CLARIFICATION OR WHATEVER


Also! If any of you guys have an OC that you want icons of, djinni is doing an icon day again. The art's really cute and tipping is completely optional - and despite the fact that most people request animals, he draws humans just fine too. It closes tomorrow, so if you want to request, do it soon! :D

Comments

[birdboy2000.livejournal.com]

*imagines as someone who looks cool. i. e. you*

Also that zodiac will not tell me what you turn into when I hug you. :P

[vethica.livejournal.com]

*dumb, but thanks. ♥

And sure it will. I'll turn into a thirteen-year-old alien juggalo who cusses too much.

[birdboy2000.livejournal.com]

Yes but. There is no year of the troll.

[vethica.livejournal.com]

Hasn't the internet taught you anything? Every year is the year of the troll.

[fujicori.livejournal.com]

I saw Atlantis when it first came out, but I don't remember it. Think I should rewatch it sometime; I keep hearing good things about it, and Milo's a linguist? Heck yes.

Also whoops, reposting because resident genius didn't realise I was still retyping the meme in this window. Sorry about that.

[vethica.livejournal.com]

Yes, you should definitely rewatch it! It is one of Disney's most forgotten movies and that's terrible. :( And yes, linguist/cartographer. (You know the whole thing about how they came up with the Atlantean language for the movie? I remember reading at the time about how much thought they put into it. I was 9 at the time and knew nothing about conlangs, but I thought that was pretty cool. :D)

[fujicori.livejournal.com]

They made a language. They made a language. Okay, looking for a DVD of this ASAP. :|

[cheshirecgrin.livejournal.com]

Oh man, Atlantis. I remember when it came out on video and I got a DVD only to find out that it didn't play right in our DVD player (this was back in the early days of DVD) so I had to get the VHS. Which I still have, I think.

I also think I'll have to fill out that meme now too.

[vethica.livejournal.com]

I have it on VHS too! Though in my case I bought it at the library a few months ago, and finally owning it was the reason I ended up watching it. But still. VHS buddies \o/

[hoyvinglavin64.livejournal.com]

Been a while since I've seen Atlantis. I remember being kind of annoyed that both the story and visuals seemed to have been ripped off from Dinotopia: The World Beneath (I mean, I know they were based on the same legends, but I don't recall the legends involving crystal-powered robots and shit, so yeah...). I've also seen people point out too-close-for-comfort similarities to Nadia in terms of the presentation of the story, but it seems like it was actually more Disney trying to do their own take on Castle in the Sky (which was Miyazaki's response to a failed production that would later become Nadia, and Disney pulled the American release of Castle in the Sky around the time Atlantis started shaping up to be the movie it would end up being, and then years later Avatar would steal from parts of all of the above but made forgivable for its sheer grandness of filmmaking, and yeah, all these Jules Verne-inspired movie comparisons are making my head hurt now). So yeah, it's probably a good movie, and I remember liking Mike Mignona's design work (Mike Mignona doing a Disney film! How cool is that?), but compared to Dinotopia and Laputa, it's kind of inferior.

[vethica.livejournal.com]

I know, and The Lion King ripped off Kimba. (And Hamlet.) Honestly, I know I'm a bad person, but I can't bring myself to be upset about that stuff. If it's a good movie, it's a good movie, y'know? Then again, my focus always ends up being on the characters, so I'm probably not the best person to talk.

[hoyvinglavin64.livejournal.com]

The Lion King/Kimba thing didn't end up bothering me, mainly because I saw Lion King years before I knew a thing about the controversy, and when I did research it seems like The Lion King was actually in production as a remake of Kimba and Disney lost the rights but the movie was just too good so they changed it up to an "original" movie. Wish they'd publicly acknowledge the influence, though, since its so obviously there and to deny it makes them look more like plagiarists to the public rather than simply artists who play with their influences.

And they acknowledged Hamlet, and it's not even that Hamlet-esque. If it was, then Nala would go insane, Timon and Pumbaa would turn out to be spies for Scar, and Simba would confuse a hyena for Scar when he decided to start acting and it'd all go down from there. (That would be kind of awesome) Also, Scar would be straight and not all drama-queeny and would be hating on Simba for being a drama queen. (That would be less awesome)

[vethica.livejournal.com]

Well, it's not an allegory. What's this about Scar being non-straight?

[homunkulas.livejournal.com]

Summer Wars is amazing! I liked it A LOT but I don't remember if I cried at the end. Probably did, considering what a crybaby I am ;___;

Life must be tough with two brothers >_> My hands are already full with one :D
And I didn't know you were internet paranoid! What an interesting thing :O Well actually I didn't know a lot of this .////.