"What's that, Bob?" "That's a list, Joe."

'Nuff said. (hee hee, i'm listening to Phantom of the Opera as i'm writing, and singing christine's lines--ugh, i hate her! how could she choose raoul over the phantom? how??? i mean, he's...dear god, he's him! how can she restist that amazing, beautiful voice? if he even sang one word to me, i'd melt, no questions asked.)

Sophia's Fav Song Quotes of All Time--the stuff in (parentheses) are my comments, bytheway.

• you remind me of the babe
• nothing sweet about me
• the world's a better place when it's upside down
• a smile's worth a hundred lies
• you tell your boyfriend, if he says he'd got beef, that i'm a vegetarian and i'm not f*cking scared of him
• if vision's the only validation, then most of my life isn't real!
• i want your leather-studded kiss on the sand
• will. i. am, drop the beat now!
• he had it coming, he had it coming, he only had himself to blame. if you'd a been there, if you'd a seen it, i bet you would've done the same! he had it coming, he had it coming, he took a flower in his prime. if you'd a been there, if you'd a heard it...it was a murder, but not a crime. (drama.)
• he ran into my knife. he ran into my knife five times!
• i know this pretty rave girl
• i've had the time of my life
• ponytail. (BWAHAHAHA SPOOF!)
• cuz i know i'm a thousand times more humble than thou art!
• so don't be vain, and don't be whiny, or my brother i might have to get midevil on you hiney!
• is he cheating, man i don't know, i'm lookin' round for something else to throw
• i need professional help
• can't sleep cuz my bed's on fire
• don't wanna smoke all those cigarettes no more
• billie jean is not my lover
• drink up me hearties, yo ho! (SWOON.)
• and i never cared for you
• poor little misunderstood baby, no one likes a sad face. but i can't imagine life without him, think i did have good days...
• i'm losing my favourite game
• erase and rewind
• my heart is black and my body is blue
• she looks like a model, except she's got a little more ass
• one night in bangkok and the world's your oyster, the bars are temples but the pearls ain't free. you'll find a god in every golden cloister, and if you're lucky than the god's a she. i can feel an angel sliding up to me
• i can feel the devil walking next to me
• the music of the night
• open up your mind and see like me, open up your plans and damn you're free
• it's our god forsaken right to be loved
• mean and my friends saw a playpus, me and my friends wrote a comic book, and guess how long it took, i can do anything i want cuz look
• me and my friends understand the future, i see the strings that control the system
• the phantom of the opera is there, inside my mind
• got my flippy-floppies
• got to be good-looking cuz you're so hard to see
• the city is at war, playtime for the young and rich
• i'm a 180 to the stereotype girls like staying home and being innocent
• shut up and drive
• sing, my angel! sing for me! (woops, i just melted.)
• is a mug of beer inside this Took!
• he dreams of the oscar, won't get it cuz he blows.
• never gonna leave my hometown
• she came back and burned the whole church down
• i'm the kind of girl your girl your mommy and your dad were afraid you'd grow up to be like
• gonna take a miracle to bring me back, and you're the one to blame
• we all live in a yellow submarine!
• faded pictures on the wall, it's like they talking to me
• that way when you play the game, baby you can never lose!
• somebody help me, she's taking my bank roll
• it makes you burn to learn i'm with another man
• but i'm the kind of the club, and i'm wearing a crown
• losing my memories, saving my face
• take it all or leave it alone
• some of them want to be abused
• got no money in my pocket, but i'm already here
• under pressure
• i love the sound of you walking away
• i don't wanna be a murderer
• psycho killer
• telling me these crazy things that i don't wanna hear
• cuz once a good girl goes bad, we gone forever
• posion paradise
• i'm a bitch, i'm a lover, i'm a child, i'm a mother
• i'm a tease, i'm a goddess on my knees
• i'm your angel under cover
• getting out of control, finally i can't take no more
• i am the mask you wear. it's me they hear.
• work it harder, make it better, do it faster, makes us stronger (that's what she said...)

Done, for now! (i'm still listening to the phantom--it's on replay! is it just me, or does his voice get more alluring with each listening? Oh, what I would give to hear him sing to me...)

A Professional Opinion on Death

Ready for a mildly Emo!Journal? Cuz I am!

Sophia's History of Death: In preschool, I was scared out of my unfashionably pink pants of dying, because I reasoned that when you died, you felt nothing at all, and that terrified me. Then Deke, my favorite guy from preschool, introduced me to the idea of reincarnation. I was doubtful at first. But when people started saying things like "You're so much like your grandmother, Despina!" and "You smell like Despina did before she died." I realized that not only was it true, but that I was the reincarnation of my grandmother. But in third grade I began reading ghost stories and greek myths, and began to ponder about the concept of ghosts. Eventually, I decided they didn't exist. Then in fourth grade, I saw a documentary about people's beliefs on heaven and hell, and I began to want desperately to believe in heaven. But I can't. I am seemingly physically and mentally unable to believe in heaven and hell. Very

strange.

Sophia's Thoughts on the Death Character: Meh. There is no person Death. However, there is a comic book character who is Death and I absolutely adore her! And here the lovely lady is:

FB Stuff

Okay, so I admit the stupid thing is useful. I mean, I've already "reconnected"--or whatever kids are callin' it these days--with all the old HP people, AND I got the joy of ignoring one of my enemies who tried to friend me (IN YOUR FACE, MARY!) and I get to bug Ben dearest. (Ben P., not Ben T. or M. Or the OTHER Ben P. Or...you know what, you get the point. Usually when I refer to any Ben, especially in the same sentence as the words "mascara boy", "making out", "girlfriends" or "lily", then I'm talking about Ben P. Capische?)

Plus the groups are funny! Half of them I can't join, of course, cuz If I'm in a group with any particularly nasty cuss in the title then my parents will find out and yell at me (which is totally hypocritical cuz Dad cusses 24/7 with every swear in the book!) so I'm pretty much banded from the funny ones--like the "how about a nice big cup of shut the f*** up?" which made me laugh out loud.

Hee hee.

Ha.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!

SUDDEN REALIZATION OF GREAT TRUTH.

Ohmygosh, I just figured out who I wanted the Phantom's voice to be! Okay, well, ya know what guy from the play Wicked--the guy who had an affair with the green girl's mom? The guy with the magic elixir that turned the little emerald-colored? Well, I distinctly remember this one line he said in the play--"Have another taste, my dear"--because he said it in such a beautiful, mischevious, swoon-worthy voice AND HE SHOULD TOTALLY HAVE BEEN THE PHANTOM.

Ho snap.

The Angel of Music...he's REALLY FLIPPIN' LOUD.

Hee hee, guess who saw Phantom of the Opera?

Bingo. ME.
My thoughts? Christine was wonderful. Very heroically brave, but also the damsel in distress--an angel with an edge of darkness.
The phantom...disappointed me. He was supposed to be darkly charming with the elegance of a killer and deadly grace. And most importantly, he was supposed to have a lethally seductive voice. Instead I saw a rather large man who was always either crying or screaming, had the voice of a banshee and was about as charming as elephant crap. Not. Great. He's supposed to look like this:
Yes, that is Gerard Butler, from the movie. (the Christine in the movie has the most gorgeous, clear voice--awesome.)

Raoul was also the opposite of what I suspected, but in a good way. I thought he'd be a stuffy, possessive jerk, but I was instead greeted by a sweet young man who...oh, foo, what I really want to say is that he was possessive, and maybe a tad of a jerk, but he was the opposite of stuffy--he was yummy. And that made it alllllll better!


But the best part of the whole thing was the effects--visually, the costumes were intricate and beautiful and the sets were detailed and perfect. Sound-wise, it was loud, dramatic and LOUD. Marvelously loud. BUM...BUM BUM BUM BUM BUUUUUUM... BUM BUM BUM... BUM BUM BUM BUM BUUUUUUUUM!
Hee hee.

Facebook.

Now I have one.

I guess Val won.

EEEHEEEEHEEEE! WHEEE YAY!

I emailed Jolly Jack! And he emailed back! That rhymes!

Me: Hey, just wanted to email you to say how wonderful you are, etc etc. You've probably heard it all already, so you know what I'm saying. Also, I love how many characters you make up, along with places, jobs, personalities...everything. You're like Tolkien--you've created your own world.

Would you do me a favor? I've always adored the names you've come up with, so would you invent one for an artistic, fantasy-loving daydreamer girl? She's a character of mine who I can never seem to find a name for.

Thanks!

PS: my friend, Batty, want me to tell you she loves SA (as do I) and she swears up and down she'll marry Pip someday.

Jolly Jack: Thanks :)

Always nice to hear that people are enjoying my work.

My advice for finding good names is to look in the same super secret codex I do: the Road Atlas :D
Place names always make really good character names.

- PMJ

Hee hee hee! *clutches email to chest and dances around in circles*

The Legend of the Selkie

I've been researching selkies lately, and this is what I've found:

Selkies are able to become human by taking off their seal skins, and can return to seal form by putting it back on. Stories concerning selkies are generally romantic tragedies. Sometimes the human will not know that their lover is a selkie, and wakes to find them gone. Other times the human will hide the selkie's skin, thus preventing them from returning to seal form. Male selkies are very handsome in their human form, and have great seduction powers over human women. They typically seek those who are dissatisfied with their romantic life. This includes married women waiting for their fishermen husbands. If a woman wishes to make contact with a selkie male, she has to go to a beach and shed seven tears into the sea.

If a man steals a female selkie's skin, she is in his power, to an extent, and she is forced to become his wife Female selkies are said to make excellent wives, but because their true home is the sea, they will often be seen gazing longingly at the ocean. If she finds her skin again, she will immediately return to her true home, and sometimes to her selkie husband, in the sea.

Sometimes, a selkie maiden is taken as a wife by a human man and she has several children by him. In these stories, it is one of her children who discovers her sealskin (often unwitting of its significance) and she soon returns to the sea. The selkie woman usually avoids seeing her human husband again but is sometimes shown visiting her children and playing with them in the waves.

The Collected Curios of a GENIUS.

Jolly Jack--an artist like no other. Seriously dudes, this guy is amazing! Yes, granted, he makes money mostly thru porn art, but the comic strip (called Sequential Art) he writes is great, his characters are imaginative, original and wonderful, he's funny, he's good at shading and coloring, and...wow. He's just all around RAD. (hee hee, hippie word! Pass the shrooms, bro!)

Footnote: For those of you that are wondering, no I DO NOT look at his...questionable stuff. Just the safe art. That's it.

My favorite characters of his aaaaaaare:

Sky, the treasure hunting cat who often finds herself in the classic rickety old bridge in the center of a tropical rainforest, bearing an ancient golden treasure worth millions, and being pursued by a clan of vicious and primitive natives. Cliche, yes, but Sky can pull it off.

Kat, the photographer kitty who rooms with Art and Pip. She's silly and sweet and tough, and a major fan of Johnny Depp, Tomb Raider, Streetfighter and Dungeons and Dragons. I LOVE HER.

Vanity Thorn, the gothic poet and college friend of Kat. Hee hee, she's SO AWESOME. Plus, she can talk to ghosts in this mysticly mystic way, and frequently mentions auras. ^w^

Jade/Amber/Violet, the ThinkTank squirrels, who are all simultaneously geniuses and idiots, and have a fondness for loose shirts and chocolate. They live with Art, Kat, Pip and Scarlet.

Huh. That list seemed longer in my head...

www.collectedcurios.com

www.jollyjack.deviantart.com

Girls Next Door and HYPHENS

Three words: Girls. Next. Door.
No, not the TV Show. No, not the ladies living next to you, darling reader. I'm talking about the comic by Pika la Cynique on Deviantart.
It's genius. Pure genius.
So here's the summary: Sarah from the Labyrinth and Christine from Phanton of the Opera are rooming together, and Jareth from the Labyrinth and Erik, the Phantom are right downstairs. Jareth's still a tight-pants-wearing, crystal-ball-spying, glitter-poofing perv. Erik is still a Chrisitine-obsessed, music-loving, Raoul-hating, evil-plotting stalker. Sarah is still a butt-kicking, goblin-chased, in-denial-of-her-feelings modern girl. Christine is still a corset-wearing, mirror-singing, old-fashioned, Raoul-dating, dramatic heroine.
(dear god, look at the number of hyphens I've used in those last few sentences.)
Also starring in GND are Az and Crowley, Sweeney Todd and Ms. Lovett, James Norrington, that French detective guy, Legolas and occasionally the Joker, Edward Cullen and Bella, Jack Sparrow and Elizabeth Swann (grr, I hate that stupid, stuck up, Mary Sue!), the Dread Bunny of Something Something and...uh...other people. Yeah. Oh, right--Toby and Edward Scissorhands! AHA--and someone named Door, with her boyfriend and baby-sitter-person! And...and...yeah.

Paradise...Complete with Cracky Comments, Context-less Images to Blow Your Mind Out, and Dick Grayson's Butt

For those of you that are comic book geeks, you probably realize what I'm talking about is Daily Scans--the bestest comic community ever to rear it's hilariously perverted head. (http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/)
Basically, it's an online place for geeks to post their favorite scenes and images. There is not a single Marvel character you will not find in Daily Scans.
So, the point of this post is for me to show you some of MY favorite comic moments...or I would, had Mummy dearest not taken away my computer, which is where I keep my folder of Daily Scans Stuff/Marvel/Comic Favs. (Currently I have ninja-ed my way onto Mum's computer without permission--I'm such a rebel--and I am using it as my replacement for my computer until I get mine back.)
So just wait. Hold tight. Don't move one inch and in a few days--or weeks--I will bring you a glorious bounty of strange, funny, geeky images. I promise on the Black Pearl.

Edit: Scratch that promise. Stupid formatting thing hates me--everything's either too small or too big.

...

That's what she said.

The Modern Way of Playing With Dolls

It's called TekTek--god knows why--and it's awesome. I love making little people!

...
That totally sound like a baby making type thing, didn't it.

Why am I Wearing the Cheshire's Grin, You Ask?

Because Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland movie was freaking AMAZING, that's why. Alice was perfect--pretty in a make-up-less way, constantly changing size and outfits, and spouting any curios poppycock that comes into her mind. The Mad Hatter was awesome, a maginificent hat maker, a good friend to Alice and the March Hare (who, by the way, was adorable in a wacko sort of way) and the Dormouse and the Cheshire Cat.

The Cheshire Cat was...was...wait, gimme a second, I need to find some good adjectives. Stunning. Marvelous. Sensational. Glorious. He was always twisting and spinning in the air and making himself disappear--"evaporating" he called it, and the word fits, because he always disappear in a wispy, smoky sort of way. And he was the ultimate Fat Cat: chubby, fluffy and huggable...with a sly grin, blue stripes and wide teal eyes. Perfect. (I mean, purrfect!) Plus, he was given more personality in this movie. He started out a sort of coward who hid behind his creepy grin, but redeemed himself when he saved the Hatter from being beheaded--and lemme tell ya, that was one awesome scene. In the Hatter's prison cell, the Cheshire Cat appeared, asking for the hat--which was awesome-looking, by the way--because the poor Hatter wouldn't be needing it anymore, and the Hatter said no, he loved his dear hat. So with one goodbye to the lovely hat, the Cat disappeared. But! When the Hatter was seconds away from death-by-beheadityness, his eyes flipped to the Cheshire's eyes--which was cool, but creepy, but COOL--and he evaporated...then the Cheshire Cat's head appeared in the air, grinning like the maniac he is, and wearing the hat.

SO. COOL.

Ooh, I forgot to tell you my two most prominent characteristics: comicgeekiness and the need to make lists to organize my life. Speeeeeeaking of which....

***Sophia's Favorite Characters of All Time List***

(not in order)

The Cheshire Cat (cat, wonderlander)

Jack Sparrow (human, pirate)

Nico Minoru/Sister Grimm (human, witch/superhero)

Molly Hayes/Princess Powerful (mutant, superhero)

Kitty Pryde/Shadowcat (mutant, superhero)

Connor Kent/Kon-el.Superboy (alien, superhero)

Draco Malfoy (human, wizard)

Blaise Zabini (human, wizard)

Fred Weasley (human, wizard/prank shop owner)

Stephanie Brown/Spoiler/Robin/Batgirl (human, superhero )

Selina Kyle/Catwoman (human, supervillain)

Cassandra Cain/Batgirl (human, superhero/assassin)

Harleen Quinzel/Harley Quinn (human, supervillain)

Pamela Isley/Poison Ivy (human/plant hybrid, supervillain)

Roiben Rath Rye (elf, warrior)

X-23/Laura Kinney (human/clone, super...something)

Dizzy (elephant, townsperson)

Maximum Ride (human/bird hybrid, survivor/world saver)

Fang (human/bird hybrid, survivor)

Mary Jane Watson (human, actress)

Will Turner (human, pirate/blacksmith)

Johnny Castle (human, dancer)

Legolas (elf, warrior)

Eowyn (human, warrior/princess)

Aragorn/Strider (human, ranger/king)

Morpheus (human, rebel)

Mouse (human, rebel)

Tank (human, rebel)

Switch (human, rebel)

Liane (elf, warrior/mage/princess)

Rachel (human, spaz/pirate)

Finn (human, dutchess)

Tony Stark/Iron Man (human, billionaire/superhero)

Raven (demon?, superhero)

Reginald/The Mad Hatter (human, hatter)

Fone Bone (bone, adventurer)

Smiley Bone (bone, adventurer)

Bartlebee (rat creature, rebel)

Grandma Ben (human, queen/warrior)

Chase Stein (human, superhero)

Gimli (dwarf, warrior)

Anna Bloom (human, crazy person)

Moira (human, gaian goth shop owner)

Vanessa (human, gaian salon owner)

Ophelia (human, psycho)

Artemis (goddess, huntress)

Percy Jackson (demigod, warrior/world saver)

Kat (cat, photographer)

Jade&Amer&Violet (squirrels, scientists)

Sarah Williams (human, conquerer or the Labyrinth)

Jareth (fey?, king of goblins)

James Norringotn (human, commodore)

Gertrude Yorkes (human, superhero)

June Oleander (human, pirate)

Penny (human/clone, military person)

Romeo (human, romantic)

Rachel Green (human, friend)

Phoebe Buffay (human, friend)

Severus Snape (human, wizard/teacher/spy)

Karen Starr/Kara Zor-L/Powergirl (alien, superhero)

Tristram (vampire, Mandragora)

Wade Wilson/Deadpool (human, mercenary)

Varden (human, theif)

Vanity Thorn (cat, writer)

More to be added!

First Post. Woo.

First post!
My name's Sophia--though I don't know why you'd care. I don't know why anyone would read this blog anyway, my life is as boring as...as something boring.
But I need somewhere to rant about life (and an excuse to not do the chores dearest mommy has assigned me--"Mom, I can't take out the trash, I'm writing.") so here I am. On Blogger. Writing my fifth blog. Heh heh, I will take over the world with these things!
So, yeah. I realize that that was a pretty crappy introductory post, but whatever--or as Severin would say, "wheva".