JULIAN BARRATT PLAYING THE GEETAR. GUH.
I don't know why, but guys and guitars - it's a winning combination.





(Yoinked from calmallamadown)

Sorry for such a randomly silly post, but I just had to share. :)

Cheery bye, Scarlett

I totally thought my computer had spazzed or something (it often does strange things) when I went to Google a few minutes ago:


Turns out they "turned the lights out" to raise awareness of a thing called Earth Hour. That's great and all, but geez Google, ya scared me for a second there! :(

Cheery bye, Scarlett

The upcoming issue of Q magazine looks to be a thing of wondrous beauty:


Well, I for one can't wait for April to arrive!!! :D

Cheery bye, Scarlett

I'm on Spring Break now (I go back on Monday) so I'm pretty much just chillin'! I saw this meme floating around on LJ and thought I'd use it as a sort of template for my "Why I Love..." thing I'm trying to do - I've only done Kylie so far (here) so I need to do some more cool peeps! The bold underlined bit is what I'm concentrating on, the rest is a cool meme to do if you'd like!

Open up your music library. Find at least five bands that are fronted by amazing, rocking women. Or entirely made up of them! Tell your flist about them! Sample songs! Pictures! Video! Reasons why they are the rockingest ladies ever! Then tag some people to do the same! (If you do the same band as someone else, give us some different songs/pictures/opinions on rockingness.)

Cheery bye, Scarlett

Hey all! I hope everyone's doing well. :) Not much has been up with me since I last posted, which is always a good thing! Just the usual. :)

I'm going to be a bit moody now, but don't worry, it won't last long. Things pick back up after the cut. :)


Madonna is releasing an album in late April and I am far too excited about this. A radio rip of the first single, "4 Minutes," is circulating the internets and I do believe I will explode with happiness when a CD rip leaks. The horns! The beats! The Justin Timberlake! It's all too awesome. :) Madonna delivered with her last album, Confessions On A Dance Floor, and I expect nothing less from the Queen this time around!

In other music news, after loving but not being in love with Kylie's recent album, X, I have recently fallen in love with it. This makes me happy, because I was worried that I was never going to really love it. Like, I adored several tracks but as an album I wasn't so hot on it. Now it's part of my "trekking across campus" soundtrack. :) This doesn't sound very important, but as a Kylie fan, this is serious stuff!!

Edit: Oh snap! I've just passed the 20,000 mark on last.fm! I think the 20,000 track was "Wuthering Heights [Live TV Performance]" by Kate Bush. Cool beans. :)

Cheery bye, Scarlett

Nicked from my flist:


Cheery bye, Scarlett

ARGH! I'm attempting to redesign lunaestas.com using just CSS and it's driving me nuts. I just can't seem to get some very basic elements to work. I've been using what I call "ornamental CSS" (just CSS to define how fonts, images, and little bits display) on my websites for awhile but I've never actually used it to construct the whole layout. It's proving to be a challenge! Ah well, I'm going to take a break from it and come back to it later with hopefully a refreshed perspective. :)

Hope everyone had a wonderful and chocolate-filled Valentine's Day! :)

This past week was fairly boring save for the fact that Sen. Obama came to speak at UMD - and I couldn't see him because I had to go to silly old lab! :( (Chelsea Clinton came the day before but I didn't find out till the last minute.) The worst part was I was right next to the stadium where he was speaking. History in the making - and I'm stuck in a greenhouse!


I'm thinking of doing a Boosh picspam sometime, and maybe even a Doctor Who spam too. Any suggestions for stuff I should picspam? :)

Cheery bye, Scarlett

Well my real first name is Deanna - Scarlett is just my online pseudonym that I've used forever; it would be too confusing to do the sensible thing and use my real name instead now! - and it has been pronounced a bunch of different ways through the years. "Deenuh", "DeAnna", and "Diana" are the main goofs. It's really pronounced "Dee-ahh-nuh". :)

Argh, I haven't updated in yonks. Since my last update, winter break ended (all good things come to an end, I suppose!), and the spring semester began (I'm taking Intro to Horticulture - a required course - and Intro to Women's Lit - a nifty course). Lots of little things happened along the way - I saw Cloverfield, which was awesome; Sarah Brightman's Symphony was released (I don't think it will ever be one of my faves of hers, but it's all right); I finally watched all of series 3 of The Mighty Boosh, which was also awesome and hilarious; and... uh... well, not much else. :)

I have a new favorite hobby - buying CDs for cheap. There's this fantastic little used CD shop in College Park that sells CDs (well, duh), records, DVDs and video games for ridiculously low prices. A few weeks ago I got five CDs for a grand total of $2.44, and last Friday I bought 3 albums for 48 cents. And it's good music, too! So if you're ever in the area, check out The CD Game Exchange. :)

Cheery bye, Dee-ahh-nuh ;)

Awhile ago I said I was going to write a post about Kylie, in honor of her recent album release. Better late than never! :)


Take care everybody! Cheery bye, Scarlett

Hey all! Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday and a great start to 2008! :)

Not much going on with me right now - I'm pretty much just goofing off. :) I've been enjoying my Christmas prezzies a lot - I got an all-region DVD player and The Mighty Boosh series 1 & 2 box set and a Peter Cook and Dudley Moore DVD from Australia, as well as some other lovely goodies (make-up, jewelry, books, money for iTunes...). As you can probably tell from that list, I'm more than a little pleased! :) Christmas dinner was excellent - there's nothing better than Christmas ham, stuffing, and all the other fixin's! New Year's Eve was all right - I had felt kinda woozy all day and had a headache (I'm OK, it was from random anxiety) but rang in 2008 sufficiently with the fam. ;)

And that's basically what's been going on with me! I've made some icons that I'll be posting over at the iconpile, so pop on over if the mood strikes ya!

Cheery bye, Scarlett

Have a laugh with this classic account of Jesus' birth by one Arthur Shepherd (Peter Cook), as told to a reporter (Dudley Moore) from the Bethlehem Star. :) - nicked from the fantastic stabbers.org!

Lots of love, Scarlett

(I did this last year - I think I'll make it a tradition! :) )

O hay guys!

So I saw Sweeney Todd with my mom on Friday, and it was awesome.


I got my grades for Theatre and Women's Studies... I don't really know how I managed it, but I got an A+ in both! This is wonderful for several reasons: first, it's just great in general to get good grades; second, it certainly doesn't hurt my GPA; and finally, it proves to me that I haven't lost any of my abilities since I've been out of action and shown me that I am still extremely capable of doing well. That last point is worth its weight in gold. :)

I've got all my Christmas gifts for the family all set and ready to be given! I downloaded a ton of music for them and feel quite pleased with myself for finding some stuff that I think they will really like. :) I'm quite excited for Christmas and am enjoying watching my fave Christmas movies/TV shows. It's not Christmas with out It's A Wonderful Life, White Christmas, A Christmas Story, and Christmas Vacation or the TV classics A Muppet Family Christmas, Pee-Wee's Christmas Special, and Blackadder's Christmas Carol. I really do think this is the most wonderful time of the year. :)

Hope everyone's having fun! :) Cheery bye, Scarlett

2007 meme thing yoinked from david_macgowan  :)


Cheery bye, Scarlett

I'm a shameless pop culture junkie, and ohnotheydidnt feeds my addiction. I went for a few months without reading it regularly but recently I was sucked back into the gossipy vortex. A comment on a recent post confirming Jamie Lynn Spears' pregnancy cracked me up mightily:

Someone else already said it back in the other post, but I have to say it again: this is the perfect way to bring 2007 to a close. God bless America.

ONTD gets a lot of flack on places like stupid_free (an otherwise amusing community) and Fandom Wank, but I love ONTD to bits because its members come up with gems like the above quote. :)

(My winter break plans of relaxation and goofing off are off to a good start, as you can probably tell by this post! ;) )

Cheery bye, Scarlett

All righty! The semester is over! Exams are done, final projects are over with - yay! I'm really so pleased with how much progress I've made in the last few months both academically and OCD-wise. I'm not one to toot my own horn, but I think that deserves a little melody. :)

My Theatre exam was pretty straightforward and had the usual multiple choice, matching, and essay sections. The Women's Studies exam was a bit less... conventional. It was a "group exam," and we basically chose groups of five (we chose our groups before the exam day) and, using concepts we learned during the semester, collaborated on a response to several questions about a news article. It wasn't that difficult, it was just a strange way to format a final exam. :/ But, all in all, I think I did well on the Theatre exam and I think our group came up with a good essay for the Women's Studies final.

I'm looking forward to just relaxing and goofing off during winter break, seeing family for the holidays, and hopefully getting together with friends. I'm able to enjoy things fully again - for so long it was hard to be able to enjoy stuff without sort of looking over my shoulder for the next difficult time to come. With time I've realized that life doesn't have to be like that. :)

Things are just going really well right now, and it's a wonderful feeling. My dad, who has been struggling with depression for years, started on Abilify about two weeks ago (he's never been on it before; I've been on it since 2005 and have had a lot of success with it) and the difference is really rather miraculous. He feels the depression lifting, and my mom and I have really noticed that he's a lot more like his old self again. It's still early days yet, but things are looking better for him than they have in a long time and what's most important is that he feels good about it. :)


Take care guys! Cheery bye, Scarlett

All righty, so that Kylie post I was gonna do awhile ago is postponed now until after exams, and in general I'll (hopefully) be posting more after exams end. My last exam is on the 18th and then I'm free! Well, for the winter break, anyway. :)

I've really enjoyed my classes (all two of them! ;) ) this semester. I've never actually had an academic experience where I truly enjoyed the process - like, in years past I mainly felt like it was just required and I had to do the work (which is true, of course). Now, though, I wanted to do the work, and I wanted to do it well. Part of this was because the classes were very interesting, and part of it was because I had been out of action so long that I wanted to prove to myself that I hadn't lost whatever academic spark I had. So it's been a fantastic semester, both academically (if I do say so myself!) and just in general.

It's winter once again, and you know what that means - the holidays are upon us! Music is such a big part of Christmas for me, so I posted a few albums, plus a revised edition of my Christmas compilation, on my music blog. I'll post my Christmas comp, which I call And So This Is Christmas: Tunes To Sparkle The Dark Up, below, for easy access. :)


That's it for now! The next few days are going to be devoted to studying - fun stuff! ;)

Cheery bye, Scarlett

Found this survey-ish thing and thought it looked like fun! If you have free moment, fill this survey out in a comment, then post it in your journal so I (and others) can fill it out too!

You

1. Name:
2. Birthday:
3. Place of residence:
4. What makes you happy:
5. What are you listening to now/have listened to last:
6. Do you read my lj:
7. If you do, what is particularly good/bad about it:
8. An interesting fact about you:
9. Are you in love/have a crush at the moment? Who is it?:
10. Favourite place to be:
11. Favourite lyric:
12. Best time of the year:
13. Weird thing about you:
14. Do farts poots [poots is funnier] make you laugh:

Recommend

1. A film:
2. A book:
3. A band, a song and an album:

Me

1. One thing you like about me:
2. Two things you like about yourself:
3. Put this survey in your LJ so I can tell you what I think of you.

In addition to sakuracorr's great encouragement of "music and pictures and updates", david_macgowan had a fantastic suggestion for me, re: my last post:

i have an idea for your blog - how about a themed week/month? At regular intervals (like every day, or every sunday or wtahever) you could post on a certain topic (Who! Freddie! Boosh! Peter Cook!).

And so I shall! :) I love this, so I think I'll try to do a themed post at least once a week, if not more often. With Kylie's new album being released next week, I think my first themed post will be about the lovely Ms Minogue! I'll probably do it tomorrow night, so mark your calendars. ;)

Cheery bye, Scarlett

Note to self: Must update journal and check up on flist's journals more often!!!!

The 5 serious things I'm thankful for...

1. Having wonderful family and friends
2. My health (both mental and physical!)
3. Being able to be back in school - and enjoying it, no less!
4. I'm glad I've learned how to live in the moment
5. I'm thankful to be where I am now

The 5 not so serious things I'm thankful for...

6. The Mighty Boosh is back on the air - whoop!
7. Kylie's new album comes out next week
8. Good TV: Pushing Daisies, House, Boston Legal...
9. Music blogs and forums turn me on to great new sounds daily
10. The holiday season is upon us!

Anyways, hope everyone's doing peachy! School's still going well, as is life in general. I got back my Theatre midterm, by the way - managed a 100% on that one too! :O I'm rather shocked, and pleased!

Seeing as I'm rather dull at the moment, but want to post more, has anyone got any posting suggestions for me? For instance, shall I do a few picspams? Reviews? That sort of thing? There's a little life in this old journal yet - I just need some ~*inspiration*~. :)

Cheery bye, Scarlett

PS - (For anyone interested, I've posted the new Girls Aloud album and a review of it on my music blog - take a peek!)

For the last year or so I haven't really been posting a lot. And when I did post, it was usually to document whatever misery I was dealing with at the time. Now that I'm feelin' good, I think some more cheerful posts are in order. So here's a list of things I'm currently happy about, no matter how silly, and if that strikes your fancy, why not post your own happy list in your journal? :)

In no particular order... things I'm happy about right now!

• Kylie Minogue is releasing her tenth studio album this November - simply and niftily titled X. It's never been a more fun time to be a Kylie fan!
• Oh, those talented Minogues - Dannii is releasing a slew of compilations and reissues later this month and on into November. Some really interesting unreleased tracks and mixes are finally going to see the light of day, and I for one am stoked!
• I got a perfect score on my Women's Studies midterm! Quite a good confidence-booster! :) I'll find out what I got on the Theater exam this week. Fingers crossed! :)
• I love that the weather's finally getting cooler here in MD. It seemed to be sweltering hot forever! I've grown to appreciate the fall season - for years all it meant was "back to school," but thankfully I've moved beyond that. ;)
• I'm super excited about Sweeney Todd coming out this December - I've never seen the play, but this movie stars Johnny Depp and Alan Rickman. So I'm definitely going to see it. :)
• I've no idea when The Mighty Boosh series 3 is going to air in the UK, but I can't wait for it to start so that I can, er, digitally acquire the shiny new episodes. :)
• MPT (my local PBS station) is airing the Tom Baker Doctor Who stories again, starting with "The Sunmakers". Odd place to start, but hey, any Tom Baker Who is good Who!

Hope everyone's having a good weekend. :) Cheery bye, Scarlett

I haven't fallen off the face of the earth! I'm just busy - for the first time in a long time, and it feels good