The Greatest Thing You’ll Ever Learn is Just to Love…

…And Be Loved in Return

-Christian (Ewan McGregor), “Moulin Rouge!”

Yeah. I just totally cried watching that movie.

And not that anyone’s noticed, but I haven’t blogged in forever due to my current babysitting job. It sucks. You see, I’m not too fond of children, but all children like me, so they always want to talk to me about pokemon or hanner montanner and I’m just like:

“Yeah ok, go away now.”

And one of the children I’m babysitting is my cousin, who is the brattiest, snobbiest little girl I’ve ever met. I get paid $100 a week, but watching her… sometimes it’s not even worth it… She pisses me off to the point where I have to constantly leave the room and text Nosukii, saying:

“God, I want to smack that kid”

Nosukii: “Then do it!!!!”

But I can’t or i’ll get in trouble. So I just settle for telling her she’s spoiled, to which she always replies “And you’re not so ha!” and then she runs away.

Also, I often forget that there are certain things you can’t say to children, such as “STFU”, which I yelled and then covered it up. Good thing kids are so gullible.

Also (this one’s really bad), My little cousin’s friend was holding a fairy wand thingy, and she said “This is so long and smooth!!”

And I (having the mind of Michael Scott from The Office) laughed really hard and said (more to myself than anyone else) “THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID!!”

All the children in the room looked at me and said (with big innocent eyes) “What did you say mina?”

I sputtererd around a bit and then came up with the brilliant excuse of “I didn’t say anything.” God I’m smooth

God. If I have kids, I’m gonna be the worst mother ever.

Okay, back to Moulin Rouge. That movie is fantastic. The imagery, music and eveything was “spectacular spectacular”. The basic plot follows the stiry of a writer, who has this crazy fascination with love, he thinks it’s wonderful and beautiful, despite the fact that he has never been in love..

But then..

he sees her…

Satine…

the most beautiful woman ever..

who just happens to be a showgirl/whore, but ignore that…

and he falls madly in love within 3 minutes. Yeah, I thought that was a little weird.

But I’m not going to spoil anything, so I’ll just focus on the music.

There really isn’t an Original soundtrack, as most of the songs are composed of many lyrics from other songs, or just songs that have been made famous by others…

Like when they played “The show must go on” (Straight forom Queen!!!! I was so fangirling) when (SPOILER) Satine was dying, but she still forced herself to perform (parellels with Freddie, anyone?)

Other music included was “My Song” by Elton John, “Heroes” by David Bowie (I love David Bowie), “I will Always Love You” by Whitney Houston, and “Smells Like Teen Spirit” By Nirvana (Nirvana FTW), and “Like a Virgin” and “Material Girl” by Madonna.

I guess I”ll post a scene from Moulin Rogue, which has most the songs previously mentioned:

This, by the way, is called “Elephant Love Song”

If you don’t watch the whole thing, skip to the about 2:50. That’s where it gets really pretty…

God. LOVE that movie. I’ve always been a big fan of musicals, but this one was so different and vibrant. I love all the clothing and architechure of that time.

That’s probably why I like Panic at the Disco so much. It’s like Glam Rock. Only there to look pretty, how well they sing can be debated.

Except David Bowie. He can sing. And dance. If you watch the “Danicing in the Street” music video (a duet with Mick Jagger!!) You’ll see what I mean.

And in the movie, they played this one song and I was singing to it, but I didn’t know where I heard it, and I asked my mom and she said it was a tango/remix version of “El Tango De Roxanne” by The Poilice (who my mom is a huge fan of)! I actually like it better than the original! 

I think this is now one of my favorite movies. Definatly my favorite musical, and I know musicals (well, mostly movie musicals) In my opinion, it beats out Grease, Hairspray, Wicked (which was great, but in a different way), Singing in the Rain, and maybe even *gasp* Chicago.

It’s that good.

Perfect date movie, has romance, singing, the guy who plays Obi Wan Kenobi, a midget, a whore, and romance.

And I watched it with my mother. Date movie with my mother. God I’m a loser.

It’s times like these I really wish I had more female friends I could watch movies with. I mean, I’ve got Nosukii, but still…

CHANGE OF SUBECT-CHANGE OF SUBJECT-CHANGE OF SUBJECT

I’ve been really pissy lately becaus when I went to the dentist last week, what does the Japanese prick tell me?

“Oh? Did I write down you could get your braces off? I meant you could get your rubber bands off!!”

Mina: “…what. the. hell”

Mr. Miyamoto: “But look at the bright side: You’ll get them off for sure in September 8th, just before school starts!”

Mina: “…I start school on the 4th.”

Mr. Miyamoto: “…oh. I’m so sorry” [hands mina a toothbrush] “Well, take care of them until we get your metal retainers made.”

METAL RETAINERS?

MORE METAL IN MY GODDAMN MOUTH?

I was so hating the world at that moment, and all the orthodontists in it.

And then what do I find out? I was supposed to get plastic retainers, but my mom told the dentist to just stick with metal ones as they are about $100 cheaper.

WOW. Gee thanks mom. I sound so spoiled, but really, I’ve been told the past two years i would get nice clear retainers, and then what happens? Poof… All hope of never having metal in my mouth is gone…

After that my mom promised me I could get clear retainers next year, of course I’m not holding her to it, because this isn’t the first time she’s done something like this.

And then, to put the icing on the craptastic cake fillled with disappointment that is my life, I still had to get my braces rewired.

Oh wait, the cherry on the cake:

I look into the mirror and…

…my new braces are even bigger than the last ones, because the dentist didn’t use rubber bands, he just used wire. God my luck is crap.

And that was a week ago, and my teeth still hurt.

On a happier note, I have become addicted to Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

Which is weird, because I hate most games with mario in them, and I didn’t like the previous Smash Bros. games. But this one is actully fun.

And it has Hot Twilight Princess Link.

They should make a game with the hottest video game characters ever. Starting with:

1. Hot Link from Twilight Princess

2. Prince of Persia from (duh) Prince of Persia

3. Pit from Brawl (or the original one from Kid Icarus, but he was funny looking in pixels…)

4. Liu Kang from the Mortal Combat Series (preferably armegeddon)

5. Meta Knight!!! (just kidding about that one, but he is a pretty good fighter in brawl, unlike stupid Lucas, that kid can’t do crap)

and that’s all I have so far.

Ciao