I love ballads.

I hate making this post so long by including the lyrics, but they are a must. Please read them. ^^ When I first heard this song, it was just a nice song. Then I read the lyrics, and now I'm hooked...
Dear Reader is my muse. (And Anna, of course.)

He climbed into the belly of the great white bear
It's very sticky and it smells a little fishy
But no one will look for him there
He took a moment to pick his thoughts and make them clear

Oh, what a day it's been
Oh, what a terrible state he's in
Oh, what a day it's been
Oh, what a terrible state he's in

Her eyes are wired there's a hat over her thick black hair
They're racing through the snow
Their sweaty hands keep slipping
But they're almost there
Her father's shotgun ringing out now through the cold night air

Oh, what a fix they're in
Oh, what a terrible sin
Oh, what a fix they're in
Oh, what a terrible sinister game

The hunter did play
To give them the hope
That they could get away
When biding his time
He did wait down the line
To bring a disaster
On their youthful dreams of escape

Oh, what a day its been
Oh, what a day its been

Run! there's a bullet in your back
Run! Run! there's a bullet in your back
Run! Run! Run! there's a bullet in your back
But I wouldn't take it back
Run! Run! Run! there's a bullet in your back
But I wouldn't take it back
Run! Run! Run! there's a bullet in your back
But I wouldn't take it back, I wouldn't take it back
Run! Run! Run! there's a bullet in your back
and I want to take it back

I want to, want to
I want to, want you
I want you, want you
I want you, want you, want you, want you
Back

I'm uploading a million photos to Facebook. =__=

But! But! I just bought my tablet!!!
Isn't it beautiful? And so cheap! (Compared to what it would cost if I bought it from the original website... But then, that one comes with Coral Painter and some other programs.... I have GIMP, that's all I need!)
It should be here on Wednesday. (So excited!)

Things I still want to buy this summer:
►Shojo Beat magazine, July 2009 (very last issue!!!)
►Salvador Dali: Portfolio (artbook)
►Willow by Julia Hoban
►Pattern for a dress I want to make
►Fabric for this dress
►A Nintendo DS Lite

My mom offered to stop at the bookstore on her lunch break, but I want to go there! I just love hanging out at bookstores... Even if I rarely end up buying anything.

OMIGEEZE I just found a picture of cookies I made a long time ago that I once posted here on my blog, and now I really have to make some!!!

From Chocolate Strawberries

Not much to report on.

I need to go to the gas station to return a HUGE trash bag of pop cans and bottles later. Hopefully I'll be able to keep the money. I'm [finally] saving up for a.... (duh-duh-duuuh) Tablet!!! I'm excited. I want to do some digital art (even though I'm more of a traditionalist), and it's quite hard with a mouse. I have enough money right now, but I might put a little of that into savings, so I can, y'know, go to college.

Hmm, yes, so I suppose I'm expected to give my opinion on the passing of a certain pop star.
I am actually quite indifferent.
I've never been very fond of MJ. Not disliking him per say, but I never really listened to his music (except when I was little, I loved that song in the beginning of Free Willy) (I'm listening to it now. I still like it!).
When my dad told me that he was in the hospital (possibly dying), I was shocked. It didn't last for too long, but I was most certainly shocked. I just couldn't imagine that man... Dead. But now I'm indifferent again.
(And I'm back to listening to Dear Reader.)

I've started drawing some realism. People. I've only drawn Cyan and Timothy, and now I'm working on Erica. (These are all my OCs, by the way!)
I'm having a lot of fun with it. Unfortunately, no comments on the one I've posted (Cyan), which disappointed me, but then again, no one ever comments on my art. =D (I'm not complaining! I'm grateful for the page views that I get!)
My mom was teasing me when she saw my drawings of Cyan and Timothy. After telling me that they were good (she always does that. But I have learned that I cannot trust her opinion, as she once told me that.... Oh, dang, I must have deleted it from my dA gallery. Well, it was my first anime drawing, uber crappy), she commented that Cyan was "a cutie," then started teasing me for drawing cute boys. >_> I can't help it, okay?! -FLAIL-

Mmm... Okay, long enough post. Gonna go check the mail, maybe my Dear Reader CD came in! (Bought it on eBay for £3.88, and that's including shipping, people!)

Seventeen

My Inkheart Movie Review

I watched this movie, Inkheart, yesterday.
I actually enjoyed it, even though I was fully prepared to be disappointed.
There were a lot of points where the movie went off the track of the book, and most of these were completely unnecessary! Pretty much, the movie producers took the idea of the book, kept the plot path pretty much the same, but then rewrote everything else.
Example:
Rather than opening the movie with Meggie reading in her bedroom of their old farmhouse, storming outside, they opened it with Mo and Meggie at a bookstore, Mo looking for Inkheart.
They did this with most of the movie. I find it extremely frustrating. I would understand if they changed a scene that would be hard to film, but no! They just changed most of the movie, and in my opinion, some of the original scenes that would have been easier to film!

The Characters
I'm not going to go into how most of the characters looked nothing like I imagined them, because that's just my imagination versus many others.
But I will go into how some characters weren't anything like they were described in the book!
There are only three examples of this, and only one really good example.
1) Fahrid had long hair. In Inkspell, it stated that Fahrid had tried to grow his hair our like Dustfinger, but ended up cutting it even shorter than before.
2) Elenor was very thin. In Inkheart, a number of times they called her "fat," but that's a pretty weak argument so I'm not going to go into it any further.
3) Resa. This is what really annoyed me. In the movie she has short, blonde hair. In the book, it clearly states that she has dark hair, turned from blonde because of Capricorn's dark heart. I don't, however, remember exactly if her hair is short or long (though I always imagined it long).

I also hated how much of an idiot they made Fenoglio. "I'm sorry, I had to do this. But look, it's Basta!" He was laughing pretty much 24/7, unless I missed something! He was even laughing when he foolishly told Dustfinger about his death!
The best part of this movie, and Angel agrees, was Dustfinger.
We were both very disappointed that he only had his shirt off for about two seconds. XD (Which you can see here.)
I was also disappointed how the movie portrayed him. Yes, he was a bit selfish in the book, but he never would have just left Resa to defend for herself from Capricorn's men!
Or left Meggie and Fenoglio for death.
But Dustfinger has always been my favourite character, and I think the movie really would have sucked without him.
(I won't talk about why I love Dustinger, no worries. This post is getting long enough as it is. ;P)

Oh, yeah, and the end of the movie blowed.

Okay, so finally, I would give this movie a 7.5 out of 10, losing a lot of point due to inaccuracy.
But I would reccomend it to the next person. I quite enjoyed it.

So, it turns out that I sleepread.
That's right. I read in my sleep.
I knew my parents went wrong somewhere.

Okay, so lately I've been having troubles sleeping. Well, not sleeping exactly, more like... Not waking up at 5 am to open up the window that is dangerously located directly next to my bed, the window of which my mother constantly fears that I will one day roll out of.
And sometimes my mom will come into my room around that time and tell me something, and I will reply to her, and perhaps even hold a conversation, despite the fact that I am 98% asleep.
So last week I was lying in my bed, fast asleep, when my mother rudely intruded upon me. I awoke upon her arrival, and even when she asked me some very odd questions, I answered her as if they were completely normal.

"Have you been awake all night?" (Mom)
"Yeah." (Me)
"You should take *names a drug that I sometimes take to help me sleep*."
"No, it's too late. I have to take that earlier, it takes awhile to kick in."
"Well, try to get some sleep."
"Okay."

Now, when I look back on this memory, there is one strange thing I see (besides the fact that I held up a conversation as if I was wide awake): I was sitting up.

The next day I was talking to this mother-creature. I don't know how the topic came up, but we started talking about my complete lack of sleep.
"Wait... What are you talking about? You woke me up!" (Me)
"Huh? No, you said that you'd been up all night! You were reading when I walked in!" (Mom)
"No, I was sleeping!"
Both: "Wait... What?"

So the moral of this story is: if you ever see a weird Courtney-person on your doorstep at 5 o'clock in the morning, a screw driver in her hand, please kindly point her in the direction of the nearest bed or sofa and go back to sleep.