Song: Gone Away by Safetysuit

Damn, I'm so in love with this song.

Hope you enjoy,
~~Lisette~~

P.S -- Thanks Mars.

School and my major - Education or Child Psychology???

Ahh!

I have such a crazy workload and it's only the first week.

This semester I'm taking:

Music -- we're learning how to read notes. No, I know nothing about music (I play nothing, I can read nothing yata yata)

Abnormal Psychology --so awesome!

Child Psychology --ditto! It's mandatory to do 15 hrs of community service in one of three facilities that help children who've been abused. I really hope I can help those kids!!

History -- there's a guy there who aspires to legally grow weed (it's surprising how much he's got planned, he really knows what he's doing). hilarious.

Japanese -- hajimimashte Lisette-o desu/how are you, my name is Lisette. I think how are you? is more like hajimimashte ku agh! not sure. I forgot already.
I learned a bit of Japanese about 3 years ago and forgot pretty much everything so grr sucky mc suck suck.

Now, about my major. I have no idea what I want to do!! I'm thinking strongly of it being Education so I can be an elementary school teacher or child psychology. I'm so interested in both but agh! I don't know :(
It's so hard to pick a freakin' career. Do I have to mention how expensive it is? Very.

Hmm maybe I should major in Child Psychology then much later become a teacher by getting my certification through a program like the one I work for. Qualifications for Texas teacher looking to becoming certified through an alternative program: minimum of an overall 2.5 GPA (overall or just on Bachelor's, depends on the program), minimum of a Bachelor's and anything else program may require.


'Tis all for now. :)
Have a great week!!!
~~Lisette~~

Interesting: What Jason Bateman?

Uh interesting. I really wish it was funny.

~~Lisette~~

Movie Review: Going the Distance 9/3/10

Rating: 4/5; fun. really liked it.

Release Date: September 3, 2010


Synopsis:
The film revolves around a couple who try to maintain a long-distance relationship, one in New York, New York and the other in San Francisco, California.
-wiki.

Thoughts:
Buttprint, Mia, "statue!", phone sex, hilarious best friends, traumatized sister, bathroom open door policy, dry humping, Thanksgiving.
Doesn't that intrigue you?
This movie is technically a romantic comedy, but it's not like all that crap that's been coming out lately that usually has the same exact and predictable plot line. It's really fun and hilarious. It wasn't amazing, but it is something I would not mind watching again. It's so cute how Barrymore and Long are a couple in real life and in this movie. Too cute! The story did a pretty good (and realistic) job at showing how hard it must be for a couple to deal with a long distance relationship, but I wish the audience was shown more moments with Garret and Erin together instead of apart.
Sometimes it really made the audience laugh out loud. There was one particular scene that made me laugh so much my throat hurt afterward which really sucked when I laughed like crazy a minute or so later.
Like I said, really enjoyable with neat music (wow The Boxer Rebellion!!!) and odd/awesome Charlie Day from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Oh that reminds me of the Charlie Chaplin scene haha so funny!!
Just watch it if you're in the mood for something a little different, quirky, and not total crap like other Rom-Coms.

Soundtrack:
*click on the cover up there for sample clips and whatnot.

Generationals - "Either Way"
Georgie James - "Places"
Katie Herzig - "Hey Na Na"
Albert Hammond, Jr. - "In Transit"
The Cure - "Just Like Heaven"
The Pretenders - "Don't Get Me Wrong"
The Boxer Rebellion - "Spitting Fire"
Cat Power - "Could We"
 Band Of Skulls - "Cold Flame"
 Eels - "Prizefighter"
 Passion Pit - "The Reeling" (Groove Police Remix)
 Fanfarlo - "Harold T. Wilkins, Or How To Wait For A Very Long Time"
 The Replacements - "Here Comes A Regular"
 The Boxer Rebellion - "If You Run"
 Gotye - "Learnalilgivinanlovin"
 The Airborne Toxic Event - "Half Of Something Else"
 The Boxer Rebellion - "Evacuate"
 Joe Purdy - "Miss Me"Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - "40 Day Dream" 

I had never heard of The Boxer Rebellion but now that I have, I'm in love!


Trailer:

The release date is NOT in August! It was pushed back to September 3rd. This trailer doesn't tell you everything so that's why I chose it.



Related:
Rom-Coms
Drew Barrymore
Justin Long
comedies
The Boxer Rebellion -- real British band that came out in the movie!! They're awesome, check them out!
Charlie Day
Christina Applegate
Jason Sudeikis  --hahahaha his "time machine"

~~Lisette~~

Remember?: tootsie pop

"the world may never know"

hehe I never realized how I didn't find it odd to see that seemingly naked kid

~~Lisette~~

Song: Devil's Haircut by Beck

~~Lisette~~

Book Review: The Eternal Ones by Kirsten Miller

Rating: 3/5; It was okay. Support your local library for this one.

Release Date: August 10, 2010

Series? Yes. This is Book One.

Synopsis:
Haven Moore can’t control her visions of a past with a boy called Ethan, and a life in New York that ended in fiery tragedy. In our present, she designs beautiful dresses for her classmates with her best friend Beau. Dressmaking keeps her sane, since she lives with her widowed and heartbroken mother in her tyrannical grandmother’s house in Snope City, a tiny town in Tennessee. Then an impossible group of coincidences conspire to force her to flee to New York, to discover who she is, and who she was. 

In New York, Haven meets Iain Morrow and is swept into an epic love affair that feels both deeply fated and terribly dangerous. Iain is suspected of murdering a rock star and Haven wonders, could he have murdered her in a past life? She visits the Ouroboros Society and discovers a murky world of reincarnation that stretches across millennia. Haven must discover the secrets hidden in her past lives, and loves¸ before all is lost and the cycle begins again. 
-Goodreads


Thoughts:
Wow I really wanted to like this one. I love the idea of reincarnation (I especially fancy Buddhism), but gosh the protagonist really killed the reading experience for me. It wasn't just her stupidity and gullibility that made it a difficult read. The rest of the characters were lame and very flat. The story wasn't much better.
There are certain parts of the book I really enjoyed which made me like the book. For example: I love the author's writing. Miller pays such great attention to detail I could clearly "see" so much of the world she was describing. Unfortunately this book is still not something I would re-read or particularly recommend. Maybe if it were shorter (it can get SO slow and tedious) it would be slightly more enjoyable. Only slightly. The characters need some cojones. Most of the time, the actions the characters made were ridiculous. Why would you blindly believe something a stranger tells you? Why would you later believe the contradiction of things stated by said stranger from another stranger? D-U-M-B. Oh and the "twists." Psh! Please. I saw those coming from a mile away. Lame.
If you care about a well thought out story and characters, you will not highly enjoy this book. The love story did not convince me and neither did the antagonist. At some point, the story built up to a scene were it seems there will be a confrontation of some kind, but nothing happens. Can you say disappoint? Sometimes I don't care too much about the story if the love story is amazing and believable, but in this case it's not. Not even close.
Since this book is the first in a series it is possible the sequel has a few surprises in store, but I doubt it. If I get really curious I will just check it out of my local library. I still wouldn't run like crazy for it though.

Related:
reincarnation
Kirsten Miller
The Eternal Ones site
The Ouroboros Society site <-- Someone should let them know there's a typo under their page "Testimonials" (Gwendolyn's account)
My Name is Memory by Ann Brashares (click for my review) -- the storyline is very similar and the characters + "love story" are equally uninteresting and forgettable
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger


~~Lisette~~

Book-to-Movie: Never Let Me Go by Kazou Ishiguro

Ahhh!!! Can't wait!!

Release Date: September 15, 2010


Check out more info on the book by clicking the cover:


~~Lisette~~

In My Mailbox: Isn't this quite the surprise?

Thanks to The Story Siren and Pop Culture Junkie for IMM!

Have not posted an IMM in a while so it's a bit long. I hope I didn't forget anything.
-synopses from goodreads 

 For review:

RD: August 10, 2010

What if love refused to die? 

Haven Moore can’t control her visions of a past with a boy called Ethan, and a life in New York that ended in fiery tragedy. In our present, she designs beautiful dresses for her classmates with her best friend Beau. Dressmaking keeps her sane, since she lives with her widowed and heartbroken mother in her tyrannical grandmother’s house in Snope City, a tiny town in Tennessee. Then an impossible group of coincidences conspire to force her to flee to New York, to discover who she is, and who she was. 

In New York, Haven meets Iain Morrow and is swept into an epic love affair that feels both deeply fated and terribly dangerous. Iain is suspected of murdering a rock star and Haven wonders, could he have murdered her in a past life? She visits the Ouroboros Society and discovers a murky world of reincarnation that stretches across millennia. Haven must discover the secrets hidden in her past lives, and loves¸ before all is lost and the cycle begins again

RD: September 21, 2010

Mackie Doyle seems like everyone else in the perfect little town of Gentry, but he is living with a fatal secret - he is a Replacement, left in the crib of a human baby sixteen years ago. Now the creatures under the hill want him back, and Mackie must decide where he really belongs and what he really wants.

A month ago, Mackie might have told them to buzz off. But now, with a budding relationship with tough, wounded, beautiful Tate, Mackie has too much to lose. Will love finally make him worthy of the human world?

RD: October 19, 2010

While other teenage girls daydream about boys, Calla Tor imagines ripping out her enemies’ throats. And she wouldn’t have it any other way. Calla was born a warrior and on her eighteenth-birthday she’ll become the alpha female of the next generation of Guardian wolves. But Calla’s predestined path veers off course the moment she saves the life of a wayward hiker, a boy her own age. This human boy’s secret will turn the young pack's world upside down and forever alter the outcome of the centuries-old Witches' War that surrounds them all

RD: November 30, 2010

In the Society, Officials decide. Who you love. Where you work. When you die.

Cassia has always trusted their choices. It’s barely any price to pay for a long life, the perfect job, the ideal mate. So when her best friend appears on the Matching screen, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is the one . . . until she sees another face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black. Now Cassia is faced with impossible choices: between Xander and Ky, between the only life she’s known and a path no one else has ever dared follow—between perfection and passion.

Matched is a story for right now and storytelling with the resonance of a classic.

RD: December 28, 2010

**beware of spoilers if you haven't read the first book**

Finn has escaped from the terrible living Prison of Incarceron, but its memory torments him, because his brother Keiro is still inside. Outside, Claudia insists he must be king, but Finn doubts even his own identity. Is he the lost prince Giles? Or are his memories no more than another construct of his imprisonment? And can you be free if your friends are still captive? Can you be free if your world is frozen in time? Can you be free if you don't even know who you are? Inside Incarceron, has the crazy sorcerer Rix really found the Glove of Sapphique, the only man the Prison ever loved. Sapphique, whose image fires Incarceron with the desire to escape its own nature. If Keiro steals the glove, will he bring destruction to the world? Inside. Outside. All seeking freedom. Like Sapphique.

RD: August 31, 2010

Riley Bloom left her sister, Ever, in the world of the living and crossed the bridge into the afterlife—a place called Here, where time is always Now. Riley and her dog, Buttercup, have been reunited with her parents and are just settling into a nice, relaxing death when she's summoned before The Council. They let her in on a secret—the afterlife isn't just an eternity of leisure; Riley has to work. She's been assigned a job, Soul Catcher, and a teacher, Bodhi, a curious boy she can't quite figure out. 

Riley, Bodhi, and Buttercup return to earth for her first assignment, a Radiant Boy who's been haunting a castle in England for centuries. Many Soul Catchers have tried to get him to cross the bridge and failed. But he's never met Riley..

RD: September 14, 2010

**beware of spoilers if you haven't read the first two books like me hehe **

Hunter, Autumn, and Summer—three of Kristina Snow's five children—live in different homes, with different guardians and different last names. They share only a predisposition for addiction and a host of troubled feelings toward the mother who barely knows them, a mother who has been riding with the monster, crank, for twenty years.

Hunter is nineteen, angry, getting by in college with a job at a radio station, a girlfriend he loves in the only way he knows how, and the occasional party. He's struggling to understand why his mother left him, when he unexpectedly meets his rapist father, and things get even more complicated. Autumn lives with her single aunt and alcoholic grandfather. When her aunt gets married, and the only family she's ever known crumbles, Autumn's compulsive habits lead her to drink. And the consequences of her decisions suggest that there's more of Kristina in her than she'd like to believe. Summer doesn't know about Hunter, Autumn, or their two youngest brothers, Donald and David. To her, family is only abuse at the hands of her father's girlfriends and a slew of foster parents. Doubt and loneliness overwhelm her, and she, too, teeters on the edge of her mother's notorious legacy. As each searches for real love and true family, they find themselves pulled toward the one person who links them together—Kristina, Bree, mother, addict. But it is in each other, and in themselves, that they find the trust, the courage, the hope to break the cycle.

Told in three voices and punctuated by news articles chronicling the family's story, FALLOUT is the stunning conclusion to the trilogy begun by CRANK and GLASS, and a testament to the harsh reality that addiction is never just one person's problem.

Borrowed:

RD: 2006

Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school...again. And that's the least of his troubles. Lately, mythological monsters and the gods of Mount Olympus seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy's Greek mythology textbook and into his life. And worse, he's angered a few of them. Zeus's master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect. 

Now Percy and his friends have just ten days to find and return Zeus's stolen property and bring peace to a warring Mount Olympus. But to succeed on his quest, Percy will have to do more than catch the true thief: he must come to terms with the father who abandoned him; solve the riddle of the Oracle, which warns him of betrayal by a friend; and unravel a treachery more powerful than the gods themselves.

A friend thinks I'll like this. I started it but agh! It's really hard to get into! It's so similar to Harry Potter it's putting me off. Does it get better?

Gifts:


I got the following nail polish from my awesome boss! :) The three on the right are Fall colors and the green one is one of the ones from the OPI Shrek series

I got this wonderfulsuperduperohmygoshImighthavejumpedupanddownafterseeingit package in the mail a few weeks ago. Ahhh so exciting!!

This is what was in it!!! YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL!!!!

It's a Korean T.V show that is super cute. If you haven't seen it you should seriously check it out. It's way more cute and semi-cheesy than a lot of American stuff. Trust me. I talked about it here. It will turn you into a fan girl. If you need more opinions on the show you should check out the comments on that post I linked to.

I want to give a million thanks to the extremely generous and kind person that sent me the DVD. THANK YOU LISSA!!
Be sure to check her (and her talented self) out on the blogosphere! You can find her at the following sites:
The Daytrippers <--check out her awesome post about this Mime in New York. It's so cool!
Paper Storms
The Memory of Rain

Online Textbook Stores?

Anyone know of any legit and inexpensive online textbook stores? College textbooks are way over priced so it'd be nice to save as much money as possible. Used books are more than okay with me.

I know of:
Alibris
The Book Depository
Ebay
Half.com
Amazon
Amazon Marketplace

Thank you!! :)

~~Lisette~~

Movie Review: Scott Pilgrim vs the World

Rating: 5/5; So freakin' awesome. Add-to-your-collection worthy. Totally worth the theater ticket.

Release Date:
August 13, 2010

Based on:
Scott Pilgrim by Bryan Lee O'Malley

Why I Watched It:

Had the chance to see an early screening

Loved Shaun of the Dead

Fan of Nelson Franklin (hello "IT" guy from The Office), Erik Knudsen (Jericho, Saw II), Kieran Culkin (Igby Goes Down), and Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Death Proof, Final Destination 3, Sky High) 

Uh, have you seen the trailer?!

Synopsis:
In Toronto, 23-year-old Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera) is the bass guitarist for the band Sex Bob-omb and has just met the girl of his dreams, Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead). Scott learns that he must battle Ramona's seven evil exes, who are coming to kill him, to finally win Ramona's heart. As Scott gets closer to Ramona, his encounters include skateboarders, vegan rock stars, and identical twins. To stay with Ramona, Scott must vanquish all of the seven evil exes before they defeat him.
-wiki.

Thoughts:
Wow. Very very awesome. Way more awesome than I expected it to be. To be honest I hate Michael Cera. At first I found him charming and yes, I do like the movies he is in, but I always hate him. Maybe he's not a bad actor, I wouldn't know since he's always the SAME person in everything, but either way I'm not a fan. For that reason I was somewhat hesitant about this movie. I didn't let that get too much in the way and I'm glad because this movie is so freaking fun and oh so darn hilarious!
Watch it. Just do it. There really isn't too much I can say about this movie. I loved it, I will watch it again, I will buy it on blu-ray, it made me laugh constantly, I loved the dialogue so much it hurts, I want to dye my hair green even more now (HA! loved the "he literally slapped the highlights out of her hair!" bit plus the visuals showing that had actually happened), and I really really want to play that ninja game Scott and Knives were playing. Don't expect the love story to be fully developed, but do expect to have a blast when watching this movie.



Soundtrack:

The soundtrack is really good.

1.	"We Are SEX BOB-OMB"	Sex Bob-omb
2.	"Scott Pilgrim"	Plumtree
3.	"I Heard Ramona Sing"	Frank Black
4.	"By Your Side"	Beachwood Sparks
5.	"O Katrina!"	Black Lips
6.	"I'm So Sad, So Very, Very Sad"	Crash and the Boys
7.	"We Hate You Please Die"	Crash and the Boys
8.	"Garbage Truck"	Sex Bob-omb
9.	"Teenage Dream"	T. Rex
10.	"Sleazy Bed Track"	The Bluetones
11.	"It's Getting Boring by the Sea"	Blood Red Shoes
12.	"Black Sheep"	Metric
13.	"Threshold"	Sex Bob-omb
14.	"Anthems for a Seventeen-Year-Old Girl"	Broken Social Scene
15.	"Under My Thumb"	The Rolling Stones
16.	"Ramona (acoustic)"	Beck
17.	"Ramona"	Beck
18.	"Summertime"	Sex Bob-omb
19.	"Threshold 8 Bit"	Brian LeBarton

-wiki.



Trailer:


~~Lisette~~

Free Read: The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong (online)

Browse Inside this book Get this for your site

Click on "browse inside this book." It's free to read online for an unknown limited time.

I love this series! It's so fun! Go read that first book!

Synopsis:
After years of frequent moves following her mother’s death, Chloe Saunders’s life is finally settling down. She is attending art school, pursuing her dreams of becoming a director, making friends, meeting boys. Her biggest concern is that she’s not developing as fast as her friends are. But when puberty does hit, it brings more than hormone surges. Chloe starts seeing ghosts–everywhere, demanding her attention. After she suffers a breakdown, her devoted aunt Lauren gets her into a highly recommended group home. 

At first, Lyle House seems a pretty okay place, except for Chloe’s small problem of fearing she might be facing a lifetime of mental illness. But as she gradually gets to know the other kids at the home–charming Simon and his ominous, unsmiling brother Derek, obnoxious Tori, and Rae, who has a “thing” for fire–Chloe begins to realize that there is something that binds them all together, and it isn’t your usual “problem kid” behaviour. And together they discover that Lyle House is not your usual group home either…

Check out my review. 

~~Lisette~~