this is just wrong

Tcheers for tcheesy

book meme, yo

Edit: okay, my italics are coral for some unknown reason

These are the top 106 books most often marked as “unread” by LibraryThing’s users (as of today). Bold what you have read, italicize what you started but couldn’t finish, and strike through what you couldn’t stand:

And I have starred books I want to read.

*Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
*Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
*Life of Pi
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
*Moby Dick
*Ulysses
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel
War and Peace
*Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife
*The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
*The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
*American Gods
*Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
*A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
*The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible
*1984
Angels & Demons
*The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
*Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
*Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States: 1492-Present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
*A Short History of Nearly Everything
*Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers

wow I am a terrible book-finisher.

OMG FAVE BOOKS:

Cloud Atlas

The Poisonwood Bible

The Time Traveler’s Wife (if you do not cry you are a robot or maybe just an awful person)

The Catcher in the Rye

BOOKS THAT ARE TERRIBLE:

Frankenstein- jeez Frank why you gotta be such an emo

Watership Down- no good message in this book except rabbits need mental help

The Hobbit- why would you ever think this was a good idea for a book

APRIL 1865- NO WORDS ARE NEEDED EXCEPT THESE: LEARN TO USE PERIODS, JAY

Oh my god.

I’ve actually just realised

that these friends are amazing

and I’ll never see them again.

ILOVETHISMAN

YES I SAW HIM LAST NIGHT. He opened for Simon Amstell, and was abfab.

And then he has this post:

british vs. american senses of humor

“It’s a truism that British comedy is more complex, surreal and experimental than its slick American cousin, so a UK comedy audience keeps having to gauge the precise level of irony and political correctness.”- Nicholas Barber (The Independent) on watching Chris Rock at the O2 arena.

nicholas barber is a moron who needs someone to punch him in the face, pin him to the ground, and then poke him in the face for 2 hours with their index finger going “meow, meow, meow.” i’m actually getting pretty sick and bored and tired of pretentious moronic brits banging on about how brits have a much more sophisticated, clever, ironic, blah blah sense of humor than americans.

here’s the deal. there is no such thing as a british sense of humor, just as there is no such thing as an american sense of humor. show me one show in britain that is more “complex” (whatever the hell that means) than “the daily show,” or a brit talk show host better than letterman or conan and i’ll make you a smoothie, from scratch.

the difference lies not in supposed british or american senses of humor, but in individual senses of humor.

there are some comedians and shows that intentionally create uncomfortable scenes that make you cringe, feel awkward, etc., like jimmy carr, Alan Partridge, The Office to some extent, curb your enthusiasm, which some people love, and others don’t, its just a taste thing.

then there are there are those who like shows that are surreal, non-sensical, absurd, like harry hill, Seinfeld, Arrested Development, the Mighty Boosh, kids in the hall, Monty Python, etc., which i honestly can’t get enough of, i love em. again, just a taste thing.

this has nothing to do with british or american senses of humor, because such a thing, from experience, doesn’t fucking exist. please punch the next person in the face who says so. its getting tiring and annoying. i hate human beings. goodbye

TOO TRUE, MY BROTHA

Two weeks now

I feel so ungrateful for really really really wanting to move back to the US right now. Oh well.

TWO WEEKS It feels like forever! I still have like seven more exams, three of which are on Wednesday. Ah, but we go to Ireland next weekend. We went to London for the last time yesterday, and it was really sad! I’ve been so many times this year, but in half a month, it won’t be just a bus ride away. But DC will! WOOT WOOT

And I read the entire Twilight series in under 48 hours. YES I AM OBSESSED

But what can I say? THEY’RE SO GOOD Although, not sure I approve of Robert Pattinson as Edward. I always pictures Edward as blonde, even though he’s not even described that way in the book, but I dunno. I guess we’ll see how he turns out in December. And also, does anyone else think that Kirstin Stewart looks a bit odd? Like, her nose/eyes/mouth? haha all her facial features. I DUNNO OKAY but I think she’ll be pretty good.

AND OMG I SAW SIMON AMSTELL TONIGHT. And none of you know who he is, but he’s pretty much an amazing British comedian who is amazing. KYEAH.

BEA

May Playlist

What I’ve been listening to this month:

Wearing My Rolex- Wiley

Snakes on the Plane- Cobra Starship

Heaven on Earth- Britney Spears

Black and Gold- Sam Sparro

Propane Nightmares- Pendulum

Cry For You- September

That’s Not My Name- The Ting Tings

Wow- Kylie Minogue

Freaxx- Brokencyde

The City is at War- Cobra Starship

Check Yes Juliet- We The Kings

American Boy- Estelle feat. Kanye West

4 Minutes- Timbaland, Madonna, Justin Timberlake

Heartbreaker- Will I Am feat. Cheryl Cole

DANCE MUSIC

I went to a club on Wednesday night (called Thirst Lodge) for a U18 night. They do these every holiday/ half-term break, so I figured I should see what they’re like before leaving. I went with a few friends and ran into some people from my old school- awkward! It was really fun, considering I love techno music (laugh all you want) and extremely exhausting. Three hours of dancing will do that to you. It was like an Eastern dance mixed with a Sandy Hill mosh pit magnified. Meaning hot, dark, and very crowded. But fun! My nails had a UV top coat on them, so they glowed in the black light. Haha that was like the highlight of the night (pun intended cause I’m lame!).

SEE YOU IN VERY FEW DAYS

Dear God.

Observe these screenshots:

Jesus Christ guys. I mean, first of all, why am I related to the Ku Klux Klan? And THEN we have MoCo and Eastern right after this! This is hilarious. BTW, this is from The Washington Post. I was searching online and found it.

Sorry about not updating! I have half-term this week and next week my exams start. I have my art exam on my birthday, and then three weeks of waiting!

see you guys soon,

Beatrice

Damn them Beatles

Figured I should probably post something so you don’t think I’m dead or something.

Check this: http://stargods.org/BeatlesEvil.html

Bwahaha! My favorite part is “Every band that has made a pact with satan has had a member die.”

Ha! I would be a little worried if some band didn’t have a member die. You know, eternal life and everything not quite yet a normal occurrence. So that just made me lol.

AND ALSO I read an article today in one of the newspaper’s Sunday magazines about this dude. Doesn’t sound that exciting, but he DOESN’T BRUSH HIS TEETH unless he feels like it! Apparently, this could be every other day (gross to begin with) or EVERY SIX MONTHS.

AND HE WONDERS WHY HE DOESN’T HAVE A GIRLFRIEND.

Now, I knew that the British had some minor problems with hygiene, but this is just taking it beyond the limits. And he lives off of roadkill and foraged food. And bathes when he feels like it. Says he likes the coating of “healthy” dental plaque. This man is insane; someone call the nice men in the white jackets!

BUT WAIT THERE’S MORE Guess what? My birthday is the first day of exams this year. THAT SUCKS. Now have a photo:

Moi working on a shirt for a friend. It read: “it’s all good in the hood.” Pretty cool, I must admit. So in awe of the coolness, I made myself one that was like an inverse stencil reading “holla.” Made with metallic purple and mustard yellow paint. Pretty cool, dudes

I’ve Been Tagged

A) List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
B) Tag seven people to do the same.
C) Do not tag the person who tagged you or tag “whoever wants to do it.”

A)

1. I can’t bear people who mispronounce words. Like the word patent, as in shoes. People who say “pay-tent” kill me. Rather, I guess I should say I hate people who say things differently than I do.
2. I always put my iPod on hold. Seriously. When I’m listening to a song, I’ll press play and then put it on hold. Even if I’m going to change it two seconds later. OCD.
3. I obsessively check my email. This doesn’t mean I actually reply to anything, I just check to see if there’s anything new. And ditto with websites. I’ll check my, Clara’s, and Zach’s websites like twenty times a day. I know there’s not anything new (especially if I check you guys’s at like 10 AM), but I do it nonetheless.
4. I laugh when bad things happen.
5. Apparently, my “normal” face is one of disgust at everyone. A girl at Oxford High School told me that on the first day I came here, she thought I didn’t like her because I glared at her. Whoops! Gwyn tried to help me, but I ended up cracking up instead.
6. I hate it when I’m on a bus (or something), and people’s elbows and stuff are rubbing against me. Or when girls at school just lay their heads on my shoulder. Or like randomly go “Beatrice!!!” and hug me. Have I turned into a teddy bear without realizing it?? (yeah, yeah OCD whatever)
7. I can’t function on weekends or holidays until noon. Fo shizzle, my friends.

B) Umm everyone who I know with a website has been tagged. Do it again! Juuuuust kidding.

C) Why does this have its own section? THIS MAKES NO SENSE

Beatrice

P.S. I’ll update about Rome sometime.

P.P.S. Why has WordPress changed their tag system? Now you have to click ‘add’ every time you want a new one! BOOO

P.P.P.S OMG
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5AB7qL3volo&feature=use

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I would just like to start off by saying I appreciate the semicolon. Now, to carry on with today’s scheduled program…

There was a really pointless interesting article in the newspaper today about a boring heated debate going on right now in France concerning the semicolon. Apparently, people are coming to fists (haha just kidding) about whether or not the semicolon has purpose. I think it’s good, but apparently the influence of short, choppy, British sentences are causing French writers to abandon their traditional punctuation. I mean, come on, kids. My view on this: considering the fact that British youth appears to no longer be taught good writing skills, let alone valid punctuation, I sincerely doubt that England has any influence on French writers. I’ve found in my eons here that the girls at my school don’t even know how to use commas, inserting them in random places, but usually just leaving them out. My favorite example: The girl whose 1,000 word story had three periods in it. THREE. Count them, and weep!

I think this whole shebang should just be made into a movie. At least it would be more exciting.

EDIT:

WHY DO THEY LIKE THIS WOMAN

Personally, she really scares me. I mean, LOOK at her! Doesn’t she scare you, too? And puh-leez, “incredibly shrunken features?” We can only hope that soon includes her bosom.

EDIT AGAIN:

Eww have you seen Madonna’s new video for her single “4 Minutes?” Blegh. Hell, the woman’s 50! Get a fresh face, or at least don’t have her doing a striptease. Similar blegh to Britney’s “Piece of Me” video. The dress she wears in that one is positively scandalous! haha I sound like someone’s grandma.