I really wish I had computer skills. Or Photoshop. I wish I had that. Grr.

Maybe someone can point me in the direction of a tutorial? I'm looking to make a header for my journal, using one particular photo. LJ doesn't provide NICE layouts, and I'm sick of it. I want to make my own! And this website isn't particularly helpful in that aspect.

Is it possible to put a photo and some text up there without Photoshop?

For your time, have a little Ewan McGregor:



♥

Movies I've seen in the last few months, but haven't remembered to mention:

- Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Really funny! Written by the guys who did Clone High, one of my all-time favourite cartoons. With Bill Hader! HADER! He can do no wrong.

- Bright Star
So beautiful! Achingly so. About the poet John Keats and the woman, Fanny, he loved. More about Fanny, which was interesting. One of the most romantic movies I've seen, quite lovely. I felt emotionally wrecked afterwards.

- 500 Days of Summer
Love the pairing of Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel and the unconventional narrative. Nice to see a romantic comedy where they DON'T end up together. Because life's like that. Cute and also good soundtrack!

- Away We Go
Just watched this on DVD tonight. How fucking SWEET, wow! Loved the story and the music and Maya Rudolph and John Krasinskaaaaay were so lovely together. I had a little tear of happiness at the end.

I feel like I'm missing some, but I'm tired and the brain's not up to speed tonight.

Oh! I saw Kings of Leon in concert like ... 3 weeks ago? Never got around to writing about it but it was a great show! Pretty by-the-numbers, (probably because it was their 129,962,550th show) but they sounded great and lead singer Caleb was cute and very gracious and charming. I definitely had a good time.

I can think of no more... bedtime!

So, my cell phone fell out of my pocket last night and then stayed on the ground in front of my apartment for an hour and a half in the rain. I thought for sure it was dead but I tried that old "bowl of rice" trick AND IT ACTUALLY WORKED. You know the one... pop the battery out then cover both that and the phone in dry rice overnight. Crazy that it works.

In follow-up to my Mighty Boosh obsession, I moved onto Never Mind the Buzzcocks (with Simon Amstell as host) which I quickly devoured in a few days. So sad he's not hosting anymore! But I love Noel Fielding as a regular part of the new series now.

Then I discovered The IT Crowd, which I LOVE! Great writing and a great cast. Already went through all three series (why must there only be 6 episodes each time??).

I LOVE BRITISH COMEDY SO DAMN MUCH. So much, in fact, that I am losing what already-little interest I had in American shows... Uh oh.

Any Tegan and Sara fans out there? Their new single "Hell" is fantastic, from their upcoming album which is released in a couple of weeks. Listen to it here! Love the fast-paced beat and the chorus is ridiculously catchy. "I KNOW YOU FEEL IT TOOOO..."

Oooh, The Office! JIM AND PAM'S WEDDING TONIGHT! Hour-long episode, woo hoo!

Also, this:

is so fucking funny and a reminder to all why Youtube needs to exist.

Wow, I haven't posted in a while. In the three weeks since my last, I've become absolutely obsessed with The Mighty Boosh. Noel! Julian! A journey through time and space!! Wow, I fell head-over-heels for them and then hated myself for not finding them earlier. They're hilarious and so effing charming together. I even downloaded their live show! I WANT A NEW SERIES.



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Currently, I've even-more-obsessing over The Arctic Monkeys. Yes, I know, they've ALSO been around for several years, but for whatever reason, I just never really listened to them. Their new album "Humbug" really caught my attention; I really love it! Then I went backwards from there. And seriously, HOLY SHIT, their first album really IS as good as everyone said it was. "Still Take You Home" fucking kicks ass. Ooh! Then I found a torrent download of their 2007 Glastonbury set. SO. GOOD. Alex Turner, you are a cheeky vixen with an amazing way with words.

I think I've become jealous of England with their fantastic tv shows and comedians and musicians. I TOTALLY HAVE. Please make me an honourary Brit! Please!

Guess what's gonna be on my tv screen in half an hour?



...right, I mean, THE OFFICE! :D! Yaaaay! One of the only things in this world that make me joyful.

THIS TRAILER IS SO FUCKING COOL. Christopher Nolan is one of my favourites. This movie is going to be insane and I'm pretty excited. I don't even know when it's coming out!

Plus oh my god new John Krasinski photos that made my heart explode!

( *Maeby Funke voice*: MARRY ME! )

LOVE HIM.

So, this is my cat, Isis:





Fucking precious, am I right? My family's had her forever, I actually lost count how long... She's 13 or 14 years old I believe. Anyways, she's mellowed out A LOT in her older age which is quite nice because she used to be an unfriendly beyotch.

BUT OMG SHE IS STILL A CANNIBAL :( :( :(

I went downstairs in the basement to feed her and clean her litter and OMG I FOUND A DISMEMBERED MOUSE HEAD. ASDFGHJKL;'BJRKLGBRAWJKGBK the image is burned into my eyes! The freakiest part is that there was just the head and a little blood and that was it. SHE MUST'VE EATEN THE REST :(

UGH CATS. Even domesticated I understand many still have these wild impulses, but still. FREAKED ME OUT. I couldn't even imagine cleaning it up so I just covered with a towel and asked my dad to do the honours.

And that concludes my cat-tale.

In unrelated news, Jemaine Clement from Flight of the Conchords is acting in this new movie by the guy who did Napolean Dynamite! Called "Gentleman Broncos", check out the trailer in ~HD~.   I'm thinking it actually looks pretty funny and entertaining... but WHO AM I KIDDING I WILL SEE IT NO MATTER WHAT BECAUSE OMG JEMAINE.

So I'm watching the live concert feed of Lollapalooza!

Right now it's Snoop Dogg, which is... not interesting to me. Haha. It is amusing however, to see him get thousands and thousands of people to yell "FUCK THAT SHIT".

But up next is fucking Silversun Pickups and Portugal. The Man!! Both AMAZING bands that I'm currently digging quite a lot. I'm pleased that they're showing a live feed.

I'm actually excited. Watch here, if you're interested!

♥

So this is mostly towards branchesofpaper but HOMG MUTE MATH.

The new album killlllsssss! "Backfire" is my new jam, holy shit.

(Are they going to tour soon?! Must check!)

Also, I saw Half-Blood Prince tonight in ~IMAX 3D~. They don't happen to mention that it's only the first 20 minutes that are in the third dimension, but oh well. Fortunately I was tipped off to this fact before hand so I wasn't too disappointed. Still enjoyed myself, of course, it's HP!

Oh yeah, and visit Marc Johns' website. Simple and yet genius:

This bearded angel welcomes you inside the cut :)



( days are just drops in the river to be lost always )

I kind of just want to replay the memory of this night over and over again in my mind... So I think I shall.

♥

Alright, so I've had some time since Harry Potter last night to sleep and think. And, THUS, here are my thoughts!

( There may be mention of Rupert in here... )

( And why not more photos? )

Off to see a midnight showing of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince! My friend and I are going 4 hours early to get a good spot in the theater. I'm 100% positive that I will feel like a loser, but oh well. My friend really wants to and it'll be a laugh. Here's hoping the freakin' movie is worth it! (Who am I kidding, OF COURSE IT WILL!)

It's been so long! I've been away at a friend's cottage for a week, sans computer or television. It was quite nice to get away from it for a while... not to say that I didn't turn my computer on immediately after returning.

( A few wee photos of me at the cottage... )

HARRY POTTER NEXT WEEK!? THE TIME HAS FINALLY COME.

AND THERE IS RUPERT EVERYWHERE, I CAN'T EVEN HANDLE IT! I can't believe the time has come, I feel as though I've been complaining about seeing this movie forever! And now I can finally stop. Oh my.

( Ruuuupert! )

GOOD MUSIC:

+ Phoenix - "One Time Too Many", acoustic. ♥

+ New Bloc Party single, "One More Time" ...love it!

One last random thing... Michael Ian Black is a new favourite comedian! He's on Twitter, and his tweets are probably my favourte thing about that stupid website: EXAMPLE. Oh yeah, and Michael was on Craig Ferguson the other night. Love the two of them together, too funny.
/random

+ Especially funny today: Awkward Family Photos.

( + JOHN KRASINSKI IS BENEATH THIS CUT. )

( + ALSO, RUPERT GRINT. )

+ True Blood tonight!

+ Play me out, Keyboard Cat.

Weeds and True Blood are back! There was a draught there, where are my other tv favs had ended and THERE WAS NOTHING TO WATCH. But, yay, the summer television season has descended upon us! *cheers*

And wowzers, I really enjoyed both season openers!

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Have a good night ♥

+ THE CONEBONE HATH RETURN! And it was amazing! Thank you for not changing Conan! Plus you have Andy back! YAAAY ♥

+ EVERYONE GO SEE UP. RIGHT THIS VERY MINUTE. PRETTY MUCH THE BEST FAMILY MOVIE EVER. I went to see it with my best friend and we really knew nothing about it, but I completely fell in love with it within 2 minutes. GodDAMN Pixar knows how to make a good movie. PS bring some Kleenex.

+ I know I'm missing some things I wanted to write about but I can't think of anything. In my real-life life, I'm missing my mother a lot because she is in South Africa right now for three month volunteering at an AIDS hospice near Johannesburg. I've tried to call but it's very hard to plan a time and sometimes my calling card doesn't work and even e-mailing isn't reliable because she doesn't have free access to internet. So, LONG STORY SHORT, my momma is very very far away from me right now and I miss her. She's very alone right now and I just wish I could be there with her. Love you Mama ♥

+ Andy Samburg is fucking cute. That is all.

That is seriously funny. Oh man.

I got another one too! A scene from a fake tv sitcom starring Jason Schwartzman and Bo Burnham... called "Yo Teach...!"... So good it could be a real show! When in fact, it's just brilliant advertising for Judd Apatow's upcoming Funny People movie.



Yeah this was a total cheat of a post because it's just funny internet videos. My life just isn't that interesting. I keep telling myself I should write more personal entries, but then I think, what's the point? I've never been good at keeping a diary! Ah well.

This video just made me want to see this movie. HIGHLIGHT OF MY DAY AT 1:40... Ryan Reynolds, you're amazing.

Two weeks from now... CONAN IS BACK! As host of The Tonight Show, and with Will Ferrell as a guest!! YESSSSSSSSSSSS.

Speaking of which, it was so good to see Will back at SNL last Saturday! THEY BROUGHT BACK CELEBRITY JEOPARDY. I SQUEALED WITH HAPPINESS. ♥

Also bringing me happiness these days? THE LONELY ISLAND.

( AWESOMESPAM )

First and foremost, THE OFFICE! I don't care, I LOVED the ending! And I'm usually so cynical and sarcastic but I just CANNOT be a wet blanket when it comes to Jim and Pam. They fill me with warm fuzzies and all that shit. ♥
 
Also, it was a KILLER Dwight ep. He had so many good lines! Definitely going to rewatch it tonight. But damn, the season's over now... :(

Secondly, I posted my ~top 10~ list of sexy fellas the other day, but I now realise that this list is SHOCKINGLY incomplete without the following men:



Therefore, consider this an honourable mention! Mmm, high-res photos...

( Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto picspam! )

YES, PLEASE. MAY I HAVE ANOTHER.