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Argh,

yuletide. I finished my story and uploaded it about fifteen minutes before deadline. :-/ I actually considered writing two stories for my recipient anyway, and then

schneestern got out her porn-fu while I was like, four hours away from deadline and I suddenly thought I should start another story for my recipient. THANKS JULES. Anyway, the porn story is not the story I uploaded, but I may very well finish it just in case my other one sucks. I can distract from the crappiness with PORN. Works every time.

So now I have like seven bajillion other stories I want to finish before Christmas, and pinch hits are going out tonight. Cue me, huddling in a blanket with seven half-drunk cups of coffee sitting around me and my fingers bleeding.

Um. Hmm. I watched 30 Days Of Night twice the other day, once by myself and once with my siblings, and I am definitely crushing a little on Melissa George.

Josh Hartnett was not too shabby himself. Ben Foster was, unfortunately, quite shabby and I would really like to see him in a role soon where he doesn't look like a total skeev/creep/psycho. And it was a pretty creepy movie, despite some fairly large plotholes/flaws.

I'm fairly sure I'm just going to go through a phase for every single person on Alias. I may have had a five-second fling with Michael Vartan the day before yesterday.

(Jennifer Garner looks mighty fine in these, too.)

That last one reminds me so much of this one of Jensen:

Or a mix of that one and this one:

There is a very good chance, however, that that's only because there is only so many ways to dress/pose pretty boys. HINT HINT MORE NAKED WOULD WORK.

Michael Vartan is one of those people that looks way better on camera than he does in pictures, I have to admit. He always looks really wooden/uncomfortable/awkward in pictures. :-/ Hence the not having very many I like.

Ok, yeah, I'll own up. I think Bradley Cooper is pretty freaking hot, too.

And I realize that I'm made of fail and missed both

angel_kathryn's and

psychotic_scam's birthdays. :( I hope you both had wonderful ones, and if there's anything I can do belatedly to make them better, let me know!

Also! I got cards from

vagrancy (eee! glittery penguins SO CUTE),

crazydelicious0 (French! and your handwriting is so PRETTY I am jealous!),

_onebreath (OMFG MICE IN MITTENS AND CAPS *DIES FROM THE CUTE*),

semirhage527 (GLITTER GLITTER GLITTER IT MAKES MY LIFE), and

pink_faerie81 (MORE GLITTER AND PINK AND REINDEER AND ROAD TRIP HOMG!) Seriously, so much glitter on my desk right now and I really couldn't be happier. :D Thank you, lovelies!

Oh, but as cool as your cards were, they don't match up to the TWO nearly identical cards I got from the John Edwards campaign. Sorry. (I KEED I KEED! Obvs.)

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I knowwwwwww! Sobble sobble, there are so many things I want to get done for people, and it's gonna take a lot longer than five days. :(

I thought there was a lot of potential for 30 Days of Night. I totally agree, it was very prettily shot and the atmosphere was fantastic, very oppressive, claustrophobic almost, and they got the sense of paranoia and frantic survival just right. But yes, the plot holes just detracted SO MUCH. I mean, these vampires were supposed to have been around for...hundreds? Thousands of years? I just don't buy that they wouldn't know how to round people up or keep an eye out. There were so many times that people went out with no cover and there were NO vampires around, despite the town being TINY and there being LOTS of vampires.

YOU SHOULD! Oh man, I totally know what you mean about not having time for another fandom, believe me, but it is SO worth it. David Anders! Being all British and sexy and evil! :D

My best friend's birthday is today, which is just a huge amount of added stress, since I had to organize the group-gifts we're all getting her, buy them, front everybody the cash I really need for christmas presents until the party (or in the case of some until whenever they'll manage to actually have any money), help her organize her party tonight and her party tomorrow.
That in addition to all the Christmas stress is why I am usually very annoyed during this week of the year :D

Exactly!!! I mean, they apparently never left any survivors in any of the other towns they raided before, so they must have some idea about what they're doing. But seriously, as you said, the town was TINY! In the 30 DAYS, they surely must have had time to you through all the houses once and check them, like they did in the beginning. And man, THE FOOD! They left the one source of food in the entire town unguarded (except for that creepy little kid-vampire).
I think the biggest problem with the story was the title and premise itself - 30 DAYS of night. It's just too long a time-span for them to realistically not be found(helloooo sentence structure). And I think the (really great) paranoia and gloom could have been (and had been, actually, since a lot of it already happened in that attic) built up in a shorter period of time.
Still, the fact that the movie was gorgeous, pretty well-acted and the atmosphere itself outweigh the plotholes for me in this case, even though they bother me a lot.

Being all British and sexy and evil!

Well hello there three words that can get interested in

anything

. :D Dammit. Well, I guess I could try and spent the strike-induced hiatus to watch it. I just need to get a hold of the episodes that doesn't include me spending tons and tons of money (and selling some of my vital organs first, since I don't have any actual money to spend) on dvds. :D *looks through d/l comms*

Oh man, that would definitely add the stress. :( I'm sorry, babycakes, that's gotta be rough. But you are such an awesome friend for not only doing that all for your friend, but helping your other friends out with the money and organizing. I aspire to be as good a friend as you!

YESSSSS. 30 days. I mean, really. AND WHAT WAS UP WITH THAT LITTLE KID VAMPIRE? Did they ever explain where she came from? It's kind of weird that she just popped up out of nowhere, right? And that she spoke English when apparently none of the other vampires did? She obviously didn't come from that town, and the vampires seemed pretty adamant about not turning anyone they fed off, so. WTF?

AHA! YES. Oh yes. :D Do you have an e-mail I can nab? I think I can help you out. :D

*lol* aw, thanks :) But it's really not as bad as it sounds, since she does the same thing for me before my birthday every year. It's sort of our unspoken clique-rule that the one closest to the birthday-person is responsible for the gift and help with the party, so she does mine, I do hers, we both kinda do Daniel's, and that covers it. ^^ Only really, the two of us usually end up organizing everybody's group-gifts, because most of our other friends are guys and guys can not be counted on to organize stuff like that if their life depended on it :D :D
With her it's just extra-stressy because her birthday has to be 4 damned days before christmas :D

I have no idea! It was so weird! I mean, they kinda half-turned a few people to use them as bait, maybe that's what happened to her? But did any of the survivors recognize her? No, right? Because then she obviously wasn't from the actual town. It could be that she was a part of the last town they had hit, but they really didn't seem like the type of vampires who'd turn some random kid and have it in their gang. So weird.

oooh. yes. ^^ subtlesarcasm[at]googlemail.com. Heee. Thank you in advance for any.. help. ^^

My sister's birthday is the 27th, so I definitely understand the Christmastime birthday stress. Luckily (haha this is going to sound so mean) she's the one sister I don't get along with very well, so it's not a lot of added stress anymore. That's cool that you guys all do so much for each other, though!

Totally weird. I kind of got the impression that that one guy, John Reese (?) was only accidentally turned, like while he was trying to save his wife, and the other guy got turned accidentally by the little girl, and that one girl they did use as bait wasn't turned at all, was she? I got the impression they were really against turning anyone else. She definitely could have been from one of their previous attacks, but I absolutely agree, they didn't seem like the type that would just randomly turn some kid to keep with them. I got the feeling from this movie that there were a lot of edits and deleted scenes, so maybe that's explained in one of them?

*e-mails!* :D

LOL I get the mean-ness though :D I have another friend from high school who's birthday is on the 22nd and one of my guyfriends (who I was severely crushing on once, but that's another story :D ) actually has his birthday on the 24th itself, and this year I kinda gradually lost contact to both of them. And while I think it's sad and I should really call them up and hang out with them more, this week I am SERIOUSLY glad I don't have to get them gifts and help with their parties, too :D :D :D

Yes, exactly. You're right, the one bait girl wasn't turned, and everybody else was kinda turned accidentally, without the vamps really knowing about/planning it. I really think I have to see the movie again :D But you're right, there were probably be a lot of deleted scenes. I hope they make it on the DVD, maybe that'll explain some of it. :) Ah, I need to watch/read more *good* Vampire stories. With Vampires that are not entirely made of cliches. :D I am still suffering from Twilight aftershock, even though I put myself through that book months ago. But now with me being a Rob Pattz fan and him being Edward, I'm being confronted with the twilight fandom all day long *hides* :D

\o/ *tacklehugs*

Yikes! What is with all the close-to-Christmas birthdays? My grandpa's is on the 20th and my aunt's is the 21st, too. I lucked out, though, because they're usually pretty cool about getting joint Christmas/birthday presents, and we don't usually do parties for anyone but the little kids in my family.

Haha, I think I only know this stuff because I watched it twice in one day. :D I'm almost tempted to watch it again because there is fic in my head that wants to be written. :D

Man, I love vampire stories, but yeah, there are some pretty terrible ones out there. :( I keep seeing so much stuff about Twilight that I'm tempted to snag the books and read them (I've actually heard a couple people say that they always pictured David Anders as Edward, which definitely helps lol) but I also hear pretty frequently that they're really terrible.

Seriously! All my friends were born in packs, it's not even funny. There are a few weeks throughout the year where I am even more broke than usual because suddenly it's everybody's birthday :D It makes the the rest of the year more relaxed, though :D

:D Yay. I thought about waiting until it's out on DVD, since it's pretty and it should be seen in good quality. But now you're making me want to watch it now. :D

Vampires have always been my favorite scary-creatures :D I went through a whole big Anne Rice /Lestat phase when I was... well I think it started when I was like 11 and lasted for an embarrassingly long time :D And it's been pretty much Vampires ever since, in every shape or form.
Oh god, Twilight is SO bad. It's fun to mock afterwards with people who recognize the badness, but getting through it was seriously painful. Literally. The writing style of Meyer just hurts. :D

*is expecting to get chased down with pitchforks and torches by any twilight fans around any minute now*

Yeah, I'm probably going to have to rewatch it now too. :D

Me too! Oh man, I did the same thing, probably right around the same age. :D I was SO freaking excited about seeing Interview With a Vampire, I literally stole it from a member of my family so I could watch it when I knew no one would let me. And then I ended up watching it like fifteen times in a week or something ridiculous. :D

Have you ever read anything of Poppy Z. Brite's? She has a few that deal with vampires, and they're all fairly graphic (and slashy) but I kind of adore them. And hmm, I'm trying to think of my favorite vampire movies. I have a soft spot for the Blade trilogy, not because they're any great feat of film, lol, but the fact that Stephen Dorff is a vampire in the first one, Norman Reedus is in the second one, and Ryan Reynolds and Dominic Purcell are in third one really cement my love for them.

I'm totally blanking on any other vampire movies I love, though. :-/

Haha, I might stay away from Twilight then, and wait for the movie. :D

LMAO OMG ME TOO! I got it and then watched it the night I got it. And then again right after it was over. And then again the next morning. And it kinda stayed like that for the next few days :D I had a whole little Tom Cruise obsession after that, too, which I entirely blame on Lestat. I can still pretty much quote the entire thing from memory now.

Oh, I heard about them, a friend of mine loves them, but I never got around to reading them yet. They've been on my amazon-shopping cart list for ages, though :D
*lol* I have to confess that I still haven't seen Blade 3, but the series does have the huge eye-candy bonus. :D I adore the Francis Ford Coppola Bram Stoker, but I'm having a really hard time thinking of others, too. There must be more. *ponders*

*lol* Well the mocking is really entertaining :D I think the movie may actually work much better for the story than the book does, because the thing that put me off the book the most was the dreadful writing style. It reads like bad fanfic. So maybe that won't be all that visible in the movie. And then the movie will just have a really annoying stupid female lead. And Rob Pattz. :D

:D :D :D I had a whole little Brad Pitt obsession right after watching it! And dude. I printed out a script of it. My siblings and I would act it out. It is scary and sad to admit now, but at the time, I was so obsessed with it it seemed the only logical thing to do. :D

You definitely should check them out if you get the chance, especially Lost Souls. A friend of mine,

dementedlove, turned me on to it a few years ago and I couldn't put it down.

I was never a big fan of the movie version of Bram Stoker, but I haven't actually seen it in a looong time, so I might need to re-watch it. OH! The Lost Boys! I can't believe that wasn't the first one that popped into my head, I adore that movie.

I'm kinda psyched about the movie, actually, I just read an overview of the books the other day and the story seems interesting, done right.

LOL That is so awesome :D I probably would have, too, but I had noone who was co-obsessed with the movie with me, so I had to geek around by myself :D

I'll get Lost Souls as soon as my Christmas-induced lack of money is over. :D

YES LOST BOYS OMG! How did I forget that one, so very very cool! I love the Bram Stoker movie, but that probably has a lot to do with the fact that I saw it for the first time at the height of my omg!vampire craze. :D

I think the movie actually has potential, too. The story, written by a better author, could have been pretty cool, so the movie is kind of the second chance for the material. ;)

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