( Cut for girly TMI ... ish? )

mantic_angel has shared a link to a video that's supposed to demonstrate to English-speaking people what it's like to hear English when you don't speak the language:

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I think this video will give some people insight into what it's like to be the other, which is great. As for me, like many of the people who commented I had the experience of feeling as though I ought to have been able to understand what was being said. However, this isn't all that different from my usual experience listening to songs that really are in English. Learning the words of a song, even if it's a favorite, is a painstaking process for me, because it requires me to find the lyrics and read along while listening. And finding a song I like using lyrics is often impossible, because quite often I can't understand a single word. I suspect this has everything to do with my APD.

I had no inclination to see Avatar, but I ended up there.

TOTALLY glad that I did. Granted, it was like Dances With Wolves-- IN SPACE, and things were very cardboard, but the VISUALS. Man.

Also the glasses made me feel like Noah Bennet.

Current Mood: giddy

I am watching Farscape. This is probably going to be about as coherent as when I started watching Due South, only hopefully this time my mom won't start watching with me and not let me do my little notes. My awesome, awesome notes.

(They are not that awesome.) I guess they are probably spoilery, but so far only very vaguely.

( Farscape 1.1: Premiere )

This video was posted to Questioning Transphobia (which is available as a syndicated feed through LiveJournal). It's so incredibly moving that I had to share it here:

Fight against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity

The Magic is back!, 11 December 2009

I felt like a little kid again seeing The Princess and the Frog; apparently so did most of the theater, as the crowd seemed to be generally from 8-30 years old. From the second I walked in, I realized this was a movie that was going to span groups(and it did, in the end). The other adults in line with me split almost evenly with tickets for this versus Invictus.

The animation is gorgeous, the characters are absolutely unique and took me by surprise, and even the parts in trailers that I thought were going to be awful turned out to be brilliant when put into the context of the rest of the film. I haven't enjoyed Disney this much since Mulan(and vaguely, Brother Bear). The music also seems to permeate the movie; many people that review and find something wrong, find so much song and dance to be odd- but what they don't realize is that the movie itself was always intending to play off of the Jazz era it is set in. If you love music, however, you'll love this even more. The music is what gives all the more charm to it, and it pays off.

The only reason that I am giving this a nine of ten is because I try to never give movies a ten unless it literally changed my life somehow. This came close, though- I was having so many flashbacks to my childhood during the Disney Renaissance. It was nostalgic for me, above all, and classic Disney animation that I will probably end up spending more money on when such moments roll around. I am most certainly going to find the soundtrack, because the music just made it so alive.

Don't be misled by the word cartoon- this is a movie for everyone.

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I Actually made an IMDB review! Go me.

As said above, it was great.

Louis and Doc F were the shit, guys. I need an icon of one of them omfg. I think Louis. >.> He cracked me the fuck up.

Current Mood: excited