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Twilight: New Moon... a review.
lol anthy
[info]engelmech
As most people with half a brain know, Twilight is a steaming pile of worm loaded shit, but ladies and gents, I really had no idea just how BIG a pile of steaming, worm loaded shit twilight is.

I am now sure of two things. Rose, you are a masochist, and a good portion of the american, and probably european and japanese public need to be euthanized. STAT.

God, where do I even begin. I expected to see New Moon, and walk away with about 68 new horrible cheesy one liners, and several belly laughs. It was all that and more, folks. I have enough venom for this series to melt the entire country of Brazil.

The "plot" of the movie (I really do use the word plot VERY loosely) is Bella and Edward are dating, but then he breaks up with her and moves away for "her own safety". Then she spends the rest of the movie (about 85% of it)...
-sitting in a chair being inconsolably sad
-giving the constantly shirtless (not even fucking kidding, he DOES NOT wear a shirt, except when he sleeps) native american friend blue balls
-sending HUNDREDS of emails to Edwards sister, that don't actually send
-having SCREAMING FITS while she sleeps. As if she was once anally and orally raped by a pride of lions, and she's having night terrors because of it. Not. Even. Exaggerating.

Ok, so backtracking a bit to the inconsolably sad part. They show her sitting in a chair looking out a window for four months. FOUR MONTHS. Then when her dad says her behavior is disturbing, and suggests that she should go back to live with her mother, she insists that she MUST stay, even though Edward isn't coming back. So to show she's still capable of being a human being (that's a fucking stretch) she goes to a movie with one of her horrible vapid friends that she hasn't talked to for months. After the movie, she encounters a group of bikers that tried to rape her ass in the first movie, and as she approaches them, a cheesy vision of Edward pops up and tells her to turn back. Long story short, she finds that every time she does something really reckless, visions of Edward appear and tell her not to do them. So she decides that doing reckless things is awesome because it's the only way she can see her pasty beloved fucknut. Along the way, Bella starts spending a lot of time with Jacob, the aforementioned shirtless native american/werewolf... not because she actually wants to spend time with a friend, but because he can repair some junk motorcycles she bought, so that she can ride them really fast, therefore doing something reckless, so Edward can appear and tell her not to do it. Yeah.

Now, I almost like the character Jacob. He's one of the few characters that isn't fucking miserable all the time, and he's one of the only characters that has hobbies and interesting attributes. And he's not covered in gross white powder. Unfortunately, he, of course has a giant boner for Bella, which must mean he's ultimately stupid because there is nothing NOTHING NOTHING likable about Bella fucking Swan.

In fact, let me take a break from summarizing this riveting plot to explain Bella. She is the most objectionable fictional character I have ever encountered. She is never happy, the closest she might get to happy is mildly content, and this isn't often. She has zero hobbies, no quirks, nothing that makes her unique or interesting in the least. She is not a nice person, or fun to be around, in fact Bella pretty much spends all of her time brooding, complaining, and treating everyone around her like they are shit stuck on the bottom of her shoe, especially people who, for some reason, really care about her (like her poor dad). People like Bella in realworldland are thought of, and rightly so, as stuck up bitches who bring everyone down. People like Bella in StephanieMeyersland are loved by everyone, like a fucking queen. What. Even Bella seems to know what a piece of shit she is, because she really just has zero self worth.

So I guess it makes sense that someone like her falls for an equally miserable self hating fucker like Edward. Because Bella is just such a helpless, stupid, clumsy bint, Edward needs to orchestrate her life for her, because she doesn't have a mind of her own protect her. I might have a SCRAP of respect for this movie if the relationship between Edward and Bella was in any way believable, but I get NO sense that there is any love between them. Edward is attracted to her, because her blood is apparently delicious. I get that, sure... sort of... in a way where when I say attraction I mean maybe he should just eat her. Bella's attraction seems to be based on the fact that "he's so beautiful", and therefore she's weirdly hypnotized by him. That's exactly what it feels like, it's like the most unnatural, unaffectionate attraction that ever was. Even when they kiss, it's like Edward just wants to eat her, but he can't because he's too Mormon emo, and Bella just needs SOMETHING to define her life. It's really terrible.

So... thankfully there's really not much else about the actual "plot" of this movie to explain. Bella's unreasonably emo, Edwards gone for the most part, Jacob wants in her pants, but Bella wont even kiss the poor fucker because he's not white she's just so in love with Edward, but still wants to keep Jacob around to shower her in adoration. By the way, she only starts to be kinda sorta attracted to him when he reveals his rippling pecks to her, and she says (I FUCKING QUOTE) 'Wow... you're kind of beautiful'. Yeah, you're not the shallowest bitch to ever grace the earth or anything.

During the last 30 minutes some semblance of plot emerges when Bella dives dramatically into the ocean in a not really suicide attempt, and Edward sees this with his psychic vampire vision, and thinks shes dead, which he... kind of "confirms" when he calls Bella's house while Jacob is there, and Jacobs picks up and says they're all prepping for a funeral (of some other character). Edward decides that he can't live in a world without his beloved dumbass, and wants to commit suicide via public sparkling. I guess Eddy's in Italy with a bunch of foppish Italian vampires who are actually sort of cool because they don't really give a shit about people beyond food (you know, the way vampires SHOULD be?) and they'll kill him if he reveals that he's a vampire or some shit. So Edwards sister tells Bella she needs to scoot over to Italy to show him she's not dead before she does this. Some shit happens, they live, blah blah blah.

So, my ultimate nutshell thoughts of the movie (series, for that matter) is that in twilightland, women dont matter beyond the man they associate themselves with, and it's ok for men to emotionally and physically abuse their woman as long as they love them. It's also ok to treat everyone who cares about you outside of your sig. other like total dogshit, because you "love" your sig. other too much to care about anyone else. The twilight series, as I hear it, only gets MORE bigoted, sexist, and idiotic as it goes. What disturbs me the most about this series is how many people, especially young kids love the characters in it. People think this is ok. As if kids aren't fucked up enough, there's now one more goddamn thing out there leading them to believe that things that are completely wrong, and behaving like a fuck are acceptable. I think anyone who likes twilight legit should feel bad about it. Even people who like it as a guilty pleasure, and know it's bad, I would question, because there is absolutely nothing redeeming about twilight. In fact, when it's not being morally objectionable, or unbelievably stupid, it's boring as fuck. There are more little things about this movie that I could pick apart because they bother me so damn much, but this is already pretty tl;dr, so I will leave it off with this...

WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU TWITARDS AAAAHHH.

Edit: Actually, I think I will pick it apart more, because it enrages me so. I'll just try to keep it shortish, in a list format

-Did I mention Bella is a creepy stalker? No? Well she is. I'm convinced that she's actually incapable of feeling love, and believes that unhealthy obsession is love.
-Um... the werewolves are all native americans. As if to say native americans are literally animals. What the fuck is up with that? They also dont wear anything but cutoff jeans, as if to emphasize this.
-NO SEX TILL MARRIAGE LOL
-The token girlfriend/wife of the leader of the werewolves has a face that is half covered in ragged scars. Why? Because werewolves apparently get roid rage, and her boyfriend got really angry with her once, werewolfed it up, and disfigured her. She's still with him because she just loves him so much. It doesn't matter that he FUCKING DISFIGURED HER OUT OF ANGER.
-There's a scene where Bella and Jacob are discussing Jacob being a werewolf. Bella tells him to "just stop it, because it's unnatural" Jacob says he can't help it, he was born that way. Maybe you have to hear it with your own ears, but goddamn if it didn't read to me like a thinly veiled anti-gay comment.
-At the end of the movie Jacob, Edward, and Bella are hangin out, Edward is thanking Jacob for taking care of his property woman while he was gone, and Jacob goes onto tell Edward what he can and cant do with Bella. Bella, of course behaves as if this is totally cool. I mean shit, she doesn't have any thoughts on how other people can treat her, right?
-The way Bella treats her Dad REALLY bothers me. He's the only character I have any empathy for, because he treats her with love and respect, deals with her stupid melodramatic bullshit with utmost sensitivity, and generally bends over backwards for her, and she just does not give a shit about him, like she just couldn't be bothered because he's so insignificant to this fucking vampire she met a year ago. Maybe it's because I love and respect my parents, but I really REALLY object to glamourizing this behavior. Jesus fucking christ.

There's probably more, but my brain is broken as it is.

PUH-PUH-PUH-POKA FAEC
Tas
[info]engelmech
Ok, so I guess I really like Lady Gaga now. Lord help my musical taste, I think Im secretly a gay man.

getting back up
Tas
[info]engelmech
You know, I really need to do something with all this free time I have when I'm not painting or obsessively job searching. As much as I love Fallout, I feel like getting up and playing it until noon or later just... feels kinda losery at the end of the day.

Anytime I look at anything art-related, I feel kind of weirdly guilty. I've been resolving to practice more figure drawing, but I haven't been actually doing much. I could totally be doing that now, and maybe JUST MAYBE starting on one of my comic ideas. At least I would feel like I've actually accomplished something at the end of the day outside of leveling my FO character. It's a good thing I'm not into something like WoW, or else I might actually start growing a beard on my neck, and cheeto crumbs from my chest.

Yeah... I gotta just draw more.

Everything has a price
lol anthy
[info]engelmech
So for lack of better things to watch on daytime television, 'history' channel it was. Sometimes they have decent, legit stuff on, and I thought today would be one of those days, as it was a program on archeologist's work. They pulled the bait and switch on me, and started talking about the crystal skulls, and how THEY'VE BEEN MADE MY ALIENS (because those silly brown people just couldn't have made them, no way), and other such nonsense. Of course the funniest, most tragic, most fucking retarded bit was how one of them is owned by some couple of of fuck nuts in California, who insisted that the skull told them it's name was Max e_e. Apparently year ago their daughter was dying of bone cancer, and they were staying with a Lama to try and help her get better. To quote from this page here: (http://www.salosounds.com/max.html)

After studying in India, Norbu Chen, a powerful healer of the Tibetan sect of Red Hat Lamas, traveled to Guatemala where he studied with the Mayan priests. It was here he came into the presence of MAX. Chen was given this precious artifact when he left the Mayans so he could use it in his journey as a healer.

JoAnn Parks met the Lama through their family medical doctor when her twelve-year-old daughter was dying of bone cancer. JoAnn ended up working for the Lama for many years. Before Norbu died, he gave the cherished crystal skull to her with no explanation but that someday they would know what the crystal skull was all about.


And what was it all about? You guessed it, charging stupid people cash to see the skull and listen to them talk. Here's some lovely price quotes :D

Private 1/2 hour meetings with Max are $50.
Shared 1/2 meetings are $35 each person.
Saturday Lecture January 16, 2010 7:00pm $25
Joann only takes cash and has no visa, no checks.
OH! OH! She does souvenirs too!
Joann will also bring small crystal skulls for sale, they range in price from $15 to $45 or so. She only takes cash, no visa, no checks.

Im not sure what burns me more, the fact that there's one more god damn con artist out there preying on not only stupid people, but sick people, and people who have lost loved ones, it burns me that one of the rarest pieces of history out there is allowed to be owned by pieces of shit like this and isn't in a museum, or better yet repatriated to Guatemala. Yeah, I know, supposedly it was a gift to the Lama originally, but it was given to him for the sake of spiritual healing. I don't really buy into that sorta thing personally, but he wasn't charging people for a cheap show and tacky mini statues.

(no subject)
Tas
[info]engelmech
My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul
engelmech goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as Utena.
blindflower gives you 1 red lemon-flavoured gummy bats.
chibaraki gives you 6 light yellow evil-flavoured pieces of bubblegum.
davef85 gives you 13 orange tropical-flavoured pieces of chewing gum.
jentai tricks you! You lose 4 pieces of candy!
lilyellowflower tricks you! You get a wad of paper.
moon_hubris tricks you! You lose 6 pieces of candy!
mr_shin gives you 4 red-orange cinnamon-flavoured nuggets.
nightmarenurse gives you 1 light blue cherry-flavoured wafers.
paperbot gives you 10 light orange root beer-flavoured gummy bats.
radiotrash gives you 1 pink licorice-flavoured jawbreakers.
engelmech ends up with 26 pieces of candy, and a wad of paper.
Go trick-or-treating! Username:
Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern.

momoko
Tas
[info]engelmech


Momoko! I've had her laying around for a while, so I finally decided to repaint her the other day. She came out pretty alright, I might try and sell her, lord knows I could use the cash.

job stuff
Tas
[info]engelmech
Curse the holiday weekend, I'm waiting to hear back from a printshop in Warwick, and more importantly HASBROOOOOOOO. I got a call on Thursday from a staffing agency that I guess I applied to Hasbro through (the listing didn't say who it was for). I was kinda nervous because I've applied to so many jobs I had no idea who this staffing agency was calling for at first. The agent seemed to like my portfolio, and he said his manager (who it has to go through before it goes to the Hasbro hiring manager) really loved it, so fingers crossed. The Hasbro thing is for a 5 month assignment (temp job), but It would look really fantastic on my resume, and there's a chance they would keep me.

(no subject)
Tas
[info]engelmech
Picture copied from [info]windsinger's LJ:



New head from DiM by [info]windsinger! I think it's got a ton of character , so you should go git somma dat.

Oh god, another request for beta testing
Tas
[info]engelmech
Hey guys, I PROMISE, this will be the last time I do this for a while, but I'd reeeeally appreciate it if a few of you could take a few minutes to beta test my portfolio site. http://ripinthesky.net/

Only because I tried a few new things like frames, lightbox gallery, etc, and I have a few concerns. The one major one is do any of you guys have issues with some of the wider portfolio pieces when it pops up in the right frame? It looks fine on my wide screen, but Im worried it'll look dumb in a res like 1024x768. I guess Im counting on that res to be a little passé these days? Also, fyi, it looks best in firefox, good in Opera, and dumb in IE, but I dont care about IE anymore, fuck IE.

Comment away, I appreciate it a lot :>

Oh, also, the resume page isnt up yet, but when it is, it'll likely be a direct download link to a pdf file.

*EDIT* Frames ditched, gallery works a lot better now
*EDIT2* Couldn't sleep, resume added, typos fixed, silly picture of me now links to my email, (non site related) Aquent information updated, and agent contacted, WOO~ 8D

woooo!
Tas
[info]engelmech
sweet, my doll site is finally done! Well, done enough that I feel confident to list it as a portfolio piece. And I made sure its all IE friendly (IE is such an asshole). Now I just have to get working on my mom's portfolio site, so I can add that too.


FART!
Tas
[info]engelmech

Triton's Youngest
by *EngelMech on deviantART
Also new DA 8D

open
Tas
[info]engelmech
Opened up shop today, as of now 2 slots are left

commissions
Tas
[info]engelmech
Hey guys, heads up, Ill be opening commission slots this week. Im only opening 5 slots, so that rounds are easier for me to handle, and I can get everyone's stuff in and out faster.

sales
Tas
[info]engelmech
Hey guys, Im selling some dolls, and a DH outfit

MNF Rheia
http://www.denofangels.com/forums/showthread.php?t=322835

Luts Zuzu Delf Persi
http://www.denofangels.com/forums/showthread.php?t=322837

Dollheart Demeter dress set
http://www.denofangels.com/forums/showthread.php?t=322838

holy crap!
Tas
[info]engelmech
I just saw Mega64 on a TV commercial for gametap! Crazy, man :O

Are you fucking SERIOUS?
Tas
[info]engelmech
I just need to convince myself that this doll http://www.denofangels.com/forums/showthread.php?t=283363 is too babyfaced to be Alex. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

Sale!
Tas
[info]engelmech
Tonners having a big ass sale, and since I get emails, I saw that their Poison Ivy doll was only $50, because its the end of the edition. I HAD to. I would have liked to get Harley Quinn too, since she's $50 as well, but I shouldnt be spoilin' myself that bad.


The outfit is a liiiiittle cheesy, but I dont care, still awesome :3

Doll things
Tas
[info]engelmech
So I've been pittling around with the idea of selling the Lishe, and getting a new Alex. Fact is, theres several things that have been bugging me about her. Her body was never a good poser, its pretty, but it's a pain in the ass. Her facial proportions... I dunno, I'd just like them to be a touch less anime, a little more balanced. I'd like her to be a little taller in comparison to Tatsuya too, the Lishe is REALLY short next to him,and it makes it really hard to pose them together. Trouble is I've never really found a good replacement (but then I never really look that hard e_e). I have a few canidates, but due to a shortage of owner pictures, Im really not sure.

Im pretty sweet on SDF Annette, and I love the SDF girl body (I expecially love the fact that I do believe she'd fit into SD16 girl clothes). If anything, I'd wish that her face was a little longer.

The other reason why I havent put her up for sale right now is because I know selling a year old CP girl is going to be tough. I'd like to get $400 for her, I think thats fair considering she has a faceup, and torso blushing, but who knows.

Anyway, anyone have any ideas for this face?
Photobucket

Nabbed from Truepixie's LJ
Tas
[info]engelmech
This is a very good read for the womenfolk
http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2009/08/terrible-bargain-we-have-regretfully.html

Mimichan!
Tas
[info]engelmech
Thank you Mr Bowb <33


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