You're so Vain, You Probably Think this LJ is About You

I need to start watching my spending. I always go a little crazy during the holidays. I can't help it! Santa made me do it!

JP and I were at the Half Price Books earlier and lo! They had several volumes of Boys over Flowers manga, but of course I couldn't remember which ones I was missing so I had to pass because I am an airhead. But I am going back. Oh, yes, I am going back.

What was that about saving money? LOL...

We also went to see Sweeny Todd earlier and...yeah. Let me preface this by saying that I loooove Johnny Depp and I would willingly have Alan Rickman babies if only he would ask. I am also nuts about musicals and actors who can sing. But...ew. Blood splatters everywhere. If the live performance of Sweeny is anything like the movie, it must resemble a Gallagher show. 

I know, I know. Melissa you are a weenie with a weak stomach, you say.  Johnny and Alan singing should have transported you to another realm of fandom where none of the icky stuff could touch you. But. I dunno. The singing was good. The actors were good (I also love Helena Bonham Carter). And the seaside scenes were both hilarious and a little heartbreaking, but overall I just couldn't get into it. Couldn't get past the grody-ness of it all. *sadface*

Tomorrow, I have three million things to do because procrastination rules!!!

My co-worker went to my high school for a year and so we remember some of the same people from a long time ago. She asked me to bring my yearbook to work and tonight I pulled it out and had a great laugh. Mmmm, my curly, curly perm brings all the boys to the yard! LOL...

I notice that the more I like a poem, the less eloquent I become: Hell yeah!

And in other news, Hana Yori Dango, episode 27 is my new favorite because:

1. Rui explains that he won't stab Tsukasa in the back as Sojiro sweetly links his arm around Rui's neck. I LOVE THE BONDS OF BOYISH FRIENDSHIP, OMG!!! I think I like it better than yaoi, actually (sacrilege!).
2. The parallel memories of the two boys regarding the teddy bear: Tsukasa using it to spur him on in his quest to become a noble man and Rui's more mischievous deferment of the truth because of it.
3. How Rui finds a way to tell Tsukasa that nothing happened between Makino and him while Tsukasa is on the plane and his violent, comical reaction.

I love this show.

Oh, yeah, I also saw Becoming Jane and it was sweet and sad, but I felt like it was missing something. I dunno. Still good, just not great. Never thought I would say that about anything concerning Jane Austen, but there you have it.

Hot Gimmick ripped off the "socially-inept, abusive boy-child  falls in love with the girl he is bullying" theme from Hana Yori Dango. Y/N?

Still loving HYD and their melodramatic use of Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor. Because that piece of music? Is love! So totally suited for a show like this (which, incidentally, JP calls "creepy" but whatevs). Also, it took until episode 6, but I am back in love with FMP:TSR. Poor Souske! Buck up, little camper! Am impatiently waiting for the last disc because I cannot be arsed to find the episodes elsewhere.