Love the movie meme! Gakked from shangri__la and queen_haq.

Pick your top 20 movies and post their movie posters.

My list will probably surprise no one and I’m just doing based on the movies I own because I love a lot of films and I’ll never remember the ones I haven’t been able to find/can’t afford.

( Under the cut )

Gakked from penelope78!

When you see this, post in your own journal with your favourite quote from "The Princess Bride." Preferably not "As you wish" or the Inigo Montoya speech.

Ah! There's so many!!!! I picked this one:

Fezzik: We face each other as God intended. Sportsmanlike. No tricks, no weapons, skill against skill alone.
Man in Black: You mean, you'll put down your rock and I'll put down my sword, and we'll try and kill each other like civilized people?
Fezzik: [brandishing rock] I could kill you now.
Man in Black: I think the odds are slightly in your favor at hand fighting.
Fezzik: It's not my fault being the biggest and the strongest. I don't even exercise.

Snagged form moirariordan because it looked interesting. I'm tagging seluciav, martinigirl, ladygloria, akathesia and amaliak.

_ Pick your birth month.
_ Strike out anything that doesn't apply to you.
_ Bold (or italicize) the five-ten that best apply to you.
_ Copy to your own journal, with all twelve months under a lj-cut.
_ Tag 5 people from your friends list.

FEBRUARY: Abstract thoughts. Loves reality and abstract. Intelligent and clever. Changing personality. Attractive. Sexy. Temperamental. Quiet, shy and humble. Honest and loyal. Determined to reach goals. Loves freedom. Rebellious when restricted. Loves aggressiveness. Too sensitive and easily hurt. Gets angry really easily but does not show it. Dislikes unnecessary things. Loves making friends but rarely shows it. Daring and stubborn. Ambitious. Realizes dreams and hopes. Sharp. Loves entertainment and leisure. Romantic on the inside not outside. Superstitious and ludicrous. Spendthrift. Tries to learn to show emotions.

( Other Months )

Barking my head off at the moment, which is distracting me from watching the Eric scene over and over again. Mmmm, Eric.

Too bad all signs point that he won't get the girl, but that's okay, more Eric for me :) *pets* I will make some Eric icons because it's wrong I made Bill/Sookie icons and haven't made some Eric yet.

True Blood finally freakin downloaded. That was like watching paint dry. But in good news the second episode downloaded before the first episode so I can watch them together now, which has been recommended to me by people in the know. ;)

Snagged from the lovely lama_not_llama

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next seven sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.


The prize of that victory was freedom. The Persian prince Cyrus has earlier congratulated his greek mercenaries on their freedom and the strength they derive from it, when explaining why he recruited them
(1.7). Xenophon himself calls on the soldiers to shun a life of ease and luxury and 'these fine great women, the wives and daughters of the Medes and Persians', lest they should be weakened in their determination to win their way home (III.2). The contrast of Greek (later Roman and European) masculinity with oriental servitude, effeminancy and luxury was later to become familiar in a literature that stretched from the Odyssey's tale of the lotus-eaters, through Roman denunciations of Antony's enslavement to an Egyptian queen and Marlowe's 'pampered jades of Asia', to Tennyson and Kingsley's reworking of the theme in the context of later European imperialism.

In Xenophon's story the reference to freedom is more than rhetoric. When the mercenaries lose their employer with the death of Cyrus and later lose their original commander to Persian treachery and are faced with the alternatives of surrender or the long march home - over a thousand miles, without bases, supplies, or cavalry - they behave like Greeks: that is, they deliberate and debate and come to a collective decision and elect new commanders. This army has been called 'a polity on the move'.

From page 56 of "A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the 20th Century" by John Burrow.

I suppose it's a good thing, I was flicking through the book last night and now I look like a high brow reader even though that's probably the furthest thing from the truth lately. It's the only history book I own, other than some military books. lol

Stealing a meme from amaliak because it looked fun.

Look at your LJ userpics list. If you have fewer than 50 icons, pick every fifth one. If you have between fifty and seventy-five icons, pick every seventh one. If you have over seventy-five icons, pick every tenth one. If you have fewer than ten, pick all of 'em. List them on your LJ, and tell everyone exactly why you have it, why it's interesting to you, what significance does it have.

( Icon meme )

I wanted to amend the meme for those interested. This happens to me a lot so I'd like to see if a couple of more people do this meme. I'm adding this: post five icons that you've had stored for a long time but have never used on your lj and might never use on your lj in the future. Why have you kept them? What do they represent? Why wouldn't you use them?

( Lonely, lonely, unused icons. )

Film meme gakked from seluciav. I didn't realize I'd have to think quite so much. Dang my rusty brain.

( Movie Favourites Meme )

I thought I'd seen way too many of these until I got to the bottom of the list. I can't believe Donnie Darko didn't make the list. Nor did Walk the LIne. And an Evil Dead movie did. The mind. It boggles. Did people vote for this or did they just choose? Because...hmmm. Gakked from bunney.

Here's Entertainment Weekly's list of the top movies of the last 25 years. Go through their list and BOLD the ones you have seen and underline the ones you own on video or DVD.

( Movie list )

Gakked this meme from freneticfloetry :) I was bored enough to do it and as usual it was cathartic :)

List six ships you like. Number them from 1 to 6.

01} Sark/Sydney (Alias)
02} Hyde/Jackie (That 70s Show)
03} Logan/Meg (Veronica Mars)
04} Draco/Hermione (Harry Potter)
05} Max/Alec (Dark Angel)
06} Michael/Liz (Roswell)

List three ships that you used to like, but not anymore. Number them from 7 to 9.
07} Veronica/Logan (Veronica Mars)
08} Rory/Logan (Gilmore Girls)
09} Angelus/Willow (Buffy)

List three ships that you don't like. Number them from 10 to 12.
10} Veronica/Piz (Veronica Mars)
11} Max/Liz (Roswell)
12} Mick/Beth (Moonlight)

List two ships that you're curious about, but don't quite ship. Number them from 13 to 14.
13} Barney/Robin (How I Met Your Mother)
14} Holly/Jack (Canal Road)

( Don't peek at the questions til you've filled out above )

Gakked from seluciav because it looked like fun.

1. My username is "PolarThestral" because …

Oh boy. I actually don't like it and haven't liked it since I made it, yet I keep using it. Why? It's too confusing to change all the time. It's a conjunction of two usernames. I used to call myself ThestralFoal in HP-Land (for a very short period) and I was always PolarTruckin in Roswell because those were my two major ships (well, not always but most of the time). I took two terms relevant to my two - at the time - biggest fandoms and promised myself I wouldn't have separate names in multiple fandoms any more. That was confusing to myself.

I regret it now, especially since I was more involved in VM than I was in either Roswell or HP. I think about changing it to something more relevant to myself outside of fandom but then I have to take the time to explain that to everyone. CAN'T BE BOTHERED. :)

2. My name is "Belinda" because…

Er...that's my name. I also can't be bothered making up a pseudonym and there's no interesting story, as far as I know, behind why my parents called me that. The only thing that's slightly interesting about "Belinda" is that I was used to looking up the name and being told it means "Beautiful" with Italian origins. One time I looked it up in a Chineese dictionary and read that it means "Giant Snake" (as in dragon). Literally, minus my middle name, I was "Giant Snake Ugly Head". Wow. Lovely. I've never lived that down.


3. My journal is titled "Substantial Myth" because...

It's a phrase I used on my old Ezboard where I invited people to post in multiples fandoms I liked. I originally made my LJ account to post updates of the fics I'd posted in a large database of recs I used to have on the board. When Ezboard crashed, however, I lost a lot of those recs and broke the habit of posting so many recs in multiple fandoms.

I named the board "Substantial Myth" because it's my concept of what I've always wanted to write. A fictional, or mythical, story that is so enduring that it becomes substantial in someone's life. I suppose you could call it one of my goals and it's always there as a reminder.


4. My journal is subtitled "...reality can only be escaped in the detailed dream..." because...

That's my oblique explanation of the title phrase above.

5. My friends page is called Friends because...

That's what they are! Heh. I didn't realize I could change the subtitle when it's not a paid account...


6. My default userpic is “Flip Out? Hey, it's me” featuring Majandra Delfino because…

Hmm. I guess, it was more appropriate to be used often than any of the others that I uploaded last time. I don't feel any particular appreciation of Majandra over other actresses. I think I uploaded it because I noticed I tend to only post when something strange, annoying or aggravating happens to me. I largely use this space to vent and I can sound like a sarcastic nutcase when I do it. At least I know that about myself ;)

A couple of people on my FList did this and it looked interesting. Now I just think it's eerie....


My Personality