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The fandoms, they're getting extensive. Soon I will have to make an ultimate website of doom to categorize them.






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(x-posted)

I'm not giving anything away when I say Heath Ledger's Joker is brilliant. I know other people were less impressed with the Dark Knight, but I adore that movie, because it filled the main tenant of my expectations: the Joker needed to be incredible, a villain for the ages. When faced with a well crafted villain, I am one of the ones sitting in the theatre barely paying attention to the protagonists because I'm waiting for each yummy little Joker moment.

What I love about Mr. Ledger's performance is how fresh and different it is- it has the best traditions of a complex villain, but it also has something new.

In addition to being totally psychotic, there's also a kind of neurosis to the Joker- even a slight nerdiness- he's a little too well spoken for someone whose ultimate goal is chaos, and there's a poetic and prophetic aspect about him. He's got this Alex DeLarge complex in his manifesto of chaos. His mannerisms give you the sense that even though he's trying to negotiate with the mobsters, he thinks their agenda is banal.

All these things combined make him just that much more disturbing. I love all of the little things that you almost miss, like his quip about how his suit isn't cheap, or the giggly little geek-boy- laughing-at-own-joke thing he does with his dog chasing cars metaphor. Or the "why so serious" monologue. The delivery of the lines "why so serious" is brilliant, because typed on the page, it's the same line repeated three times in a monologue, but the delivery of each "why so serious" means something entirely different.

From a directing or acting standpoint, I wonder about objectives- I mean, how do you direct that character?

Some of the things are obvious- the whole tongue thing makes sense, because when your mouth is cut you can't help but tongue it. Those kind of choices are my favourite- I like to give physical directions because they're actions, straight up facts that the actor can play without asking 'why'. It just becomes part of the character, self-evident. There were different facets of the Joker, but I just figured out the one that threw me for a loop. There are moments within a scene, or even within the same moment when the Joker goes from being gleeful, to angry, to patronizing.

The patronizing confused me for a moment, not because it didn't work- but because it did. Frequently, that tactic can come off as cardboardish, but I realized why the nasally voice and sarcasm worked for me. It reminded me exactly of one of the waitresses at work, who has a slightly nasally voice but also has this totally sarcastic, impatient way of dealing with dumb customers. The speaking slowly to stupid people tactic, "No, we don't have waffles. It says on the menu that we don't have waffles. No, we can't make an exception, because we don't have a waffle iron, moron."

So in a way, when he wants something from someone (besides to intimidate them) he has this bitchy customer service school of negotiation. I feel like I could call up Amazon.com and get the same kind of blah- but then throw in getting impaled in the head with a pencil, and it becomes something unique. Not to mention hilarious.

The Dark Knight is the kind of film that inspires me. I want to learn to approach writing characters and stories the same way I analyze them, because I know enough to see the craft and materials behind a character like the Joker. A character acted this well accomplishes what few actors can accomplish- the performance is like a rich desert. It plays like a symphony, and resonates with the viewer. That's the best storytelling.



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Full review to come after I see it again on Wednesday.

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Because August rules harder than you do.

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Cleaned out my gallery, everything there is still pretty halfassed, but I've improved. Plan on doing more. Eventually.

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FOR THE RECORD:
To any Sweeney Todd fans who are commenting out of the Johnny-Depp-Fanness of their hearts....go away. The movie is going to suck.

And don't bother arguing with me about it. I make movies.
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Second quarter starts in just over a few days. I'm appropriately excited and terrified.



Quotes of the month:

"Don't try to figure Sal out; you never will."
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"My Brief History of Movies book is like 3 inches thick!"
"You can only take 3 inches?. You should see a doctor about that."

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Hmm. ]]> *azurelacroix http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/9970830/ http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/9970830/ Mon, 04 Sep 2006 21:35:57 PDT [link]

You know you want it. ]]> *azurelacroix http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/9963632/ http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/9963632/ Mon, 04 Sep 2006 11:22:09 PDT
Someone give these girls a collective punching in the face. ]]> *azurelacroix http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/9417045/ http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/9417045/ Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:15:23 PDT Okay, so the actual getting in wasn't a huge achievement, but for a community college, Seattle Central has an AMAZING little film school.
And now it's all mine. I can't wait.

Presently the things I am juggling- work is the obvious one. Quiznos sandwich maker is a time consuming and demanding occupation, as you can imagine, although I've had rather more time off lately than I like, but Matt wants me to work for him today, so it pretty much covers the difference.

The priority after that of course is Allen Fitzpatrick's website. For those of you who don't know, this is the man who really honestly first got me into Sweeney Todd. He played the title role here in Seattle, and because I have absolutely no shame, I finally bothered to hunt him down online, found his appalling little website and emailed him. We've corresponded for awhile now, and I've since had the pleasure of seeing him in other roles and spending some time with him. Anyway, right now I'm working on a website showcasing his expansive career and present engagements, which is a large undertaking.

After that, I'm separating my time between managing _sweeneytodd, the lj community, the sweeney todd revival myspace, and then I plan to overhaul sweeneytoddonline.com, my website.

Art and fanfic and writings are somewhat of a low priority, sadly, but I plan to get some serious work done on the actor website of doom, and maybe get that out of the way. I've started with the media section, the largest section, so once I have that done, the rest should be a bit easier. ]]> *azurelacroix http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/9147034/ http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/9147034/ Thu, 22 Jun 2006 10:51:40 PDT
In other news, it's been widely broadcasted that Tim Burton and Johnny Depp are going to pair for Sweeney Todd. Which totally fucking sucks, 'cause Johnny Depp can't sing, and he certainly can't sing at baritone range. So the sweeney todd community is doing some shield banging. There are a couple of neophytes who seem to think Burton/Depp is a good idea, but I ask you- if the man can't sing, how can he act the role, when the acting is embedded entirely in the music?

After Auggie's suggestion, my vote goes to Gary Oldman. He's a badass actor and I think he's got it in his range. ]]> *azurelacroix http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/8957869/ http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/8957869/ Sat, 03 Jun 2006 09:26:53 PDT *azurelacroix http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/8085933/ http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/8085933/ Mon, 06 Mar 2006 16:30:28 PST [link]

I shall soon be acquiring bootlegs. Lots of bootlegs. ]]> *azurelacroix http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/7996649/ http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/7996649/ Sat, 25 Feb 2006 06:41:30 PST
[link] ]]> *azurelacroix http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/7799023/ http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/7799023/ Sat, 04 Feb 2006 11:33:52 PST 2)Crude: Can't describe liberals without using a derogatory term. When in doubt, will blatantly insult, malign and threaten.
3)Pseudointellectual: Can't write beyond an 8th grade reading level.
4)Unconstitutional: Thinks that having the NSA eavesdrop is absolutely alright, 'cause if we've got nothing to hide, we shouldn't care! (Abramoff much?)
5)Hypocrisy: Isn't actually a Republican in the strictest of terms, as generally will do anything the leadership wants including allowing the government to exert control over our lives and interfering in our business.
6)Freakishly Religious: Saw Passion of the Christ three times.
7)Simplistic: Can't grasp the complexity of situations and would rather be told which side is right and wrong.
8)Intolerant: Self explanatory.
9)Illiterate: Welcome to Mrs. Bush and my fellow astronauts!
10)Ignorant: Bush is the best leader we ever had!
11) Liar: Things are going just fine over there. Juuuust fine. We're winning, and we don't need no stinkin' body armour!


That being said, I never met a republican I liked. I probably never will. If you're a Republican, Garrison Keillor doesn't like you:


In This Article
Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts From the Heart of America
By Garrison Keillor

Something has gone seriously haywire with the Republican Party. Once, it was the party of pragmatic Main Street businessmen in steel-rimmed spectacles who decried profligacy and waste, were devoted to their communities and supported the sort of prosperity that raises all ships. They were good-hearted people who vanquished the gnarlier elements of their party, the paranoid Roosevelt-haters, the flat Earthers and Prohibitionists, the antipapist antiforeigner element. The genial Eisenhower was their man, a genuine American hero of D-Day, who made it OK for reasonable people to vote Republican. He brought the Korean War to a stalemate, produced the Interstate Highway System, declined to rescue the French colonial army in Vietnam, and gave us a period of peace and prosperity, in which (oddly) American arts and letters flourished and higher education burgeoned—and there was a degree of plain decency in the country. Fifties Republicans were giants compared to today’s. Richard Nixon was the last Republican leader to feel a Christian obligation toward the poor.

In the years between Nixon and Newt Gingrich, the party migrated southward down the Twisting Trail of Rhetoric and sneered at the idea of public service and became the Scourge of Liberalism, the Great Crusade Against the Sixties, the Death Star of Government, a gang of pirates that diverted and fascinated the media by their sheer chutzpah, such as the misty-eyed flag-waving of Ronald Reagan who, while George McGovern flew bombers in World War II, took a pass and made training films in Long Beach. The Nixon moderate vanished like the passenger pigeon, purged by a legion of angry white men who rose to power on pure punk politics. “Bipartisanship is another term of date rape,” says Grover Norquist, the Sid Vicious of the GOP. “I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.” The boy has Oedipal problems and government is his daddy.

The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians of convenience, freelance racists, misanthropic frat boys, shrieking midgets of AM radio, tax cheats, nihilists in golf pants, brownshirts in pinstripes, sweatshop tycoons, hacks, fakirs, aggressive dorks, Lamborghini libertarians, people who believe Neil Armstrong’s moonwalk was filmed in Roswell, New Mexico, little honkers out to diminish the rest of us, Newt’s evil spawn and their Etch-A-Sketch president, a dull and rigid man suspicious of the free flow of information and of secular institutions, whose philosophy is a jumble of badly sutured body parts trying to walk. Republicans: The No.1 reason the rest of the world thinks we’re deaf, dumb and dangerous.

Rich ironies abound! Lies pop up like toadstools in the forest! Wild swine crowd round the public trough! Outrageous gerrymandering! Pocket lining on a massive scale! Paid lobbyists sit in committee rooms and write legislation to alleviate the suffering of billionaires! Hypocrisies shine like cat turds in the moonlight! O Mark Twain, where art thou at this hour? Arise and behold the Gilded Age reincarnated gaudier than ever, upholding great wealth as the sure sign of Divine Grace.

Here in 2004, George W. Bush is running for reelection on a platform of tra... ]]> *azurelacroix http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/7790388/ http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/7790388/ Fri, 03 Feb 2006 13:16:41 PST [link]

Feel free to make any content suggestions, send me fanfic, fan art, wallpapers or goodies, or anything else you can think of. ]]> *azurelacroix http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/7699843/ http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/7699843/ Tue, 24 Jan 2006 21:58:21 PST <--moderator ]]> *azurelacroix http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/7662181/ http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/7662181/ Fri, 20 Jan 2006 22:25:46 PST Seats= $110.25
Getting spat on by Patti LuPone = Priceless. ]]> *azurelacroix http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/7547232/ http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/7547232/ Sun, 08 Jan 2006 17:31:33 PST Demon Barber of Fleet Street and Dr. Hannibal Lecter. ]]> *azurelacroix http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/6967633/ http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/6967633/ Sun, 06 Nov 2005 01:00:22 PST [link]
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It would follow suit, then, that use of Jark's coined term 'administration' would become even more applicable. It reminds me a certain other administration that we all know and love and are desperately waiting to end.

Angelo's recent change of the wikipedia entry is a bitch move. It is a sucker punch, designed to make him look better, or rather, designed to try and cover up the fact that was and is a useless tool in the creation of Deviantart in comparison to Jark and Matteo.

Angelo's recent relocation of Jark's entry to scraps so that it would not be as widely accessable is also a bitch move. All the staffers on this site claiming love and loyalty to Angelo clearly aren't too interested in the obvious moral dilemma which has been presented to them, which I find highly disturbing. But I suppose their positions make them feel 'powerful', and they find that more worthwhile than reacting with some semblence of conscience to these recent events. Nice going, guys.

Angelo is a capitalist, an unintelligent one when considering how he overlooked the fact that this is the internet, and therefore all of his foulplay will be broadcasted for public consumption. Me first, me first, me first.

And to everyone who would like to piss and moan about Jark or the way he worked with the community: you don't know anything. The reason I believe him is because he has laid out his case in a way that indicates proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Shut up already.

Angelo Sotira, you are a bitch. ]]> *azurelacroix http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/6785449/ http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/6785449/ Mon, 17 Oct 2005 18:13:06 PDT Vampire Series
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#5- [link] ]]> *azurelacroix http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/6766232/ http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/6766232/ Fri, 14 Oct 2005 12:38:39 PDT ]]> *azurelacroix http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/6671649/ http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/6671649/ Mon, 03 Oct 2005 18:28:54 PDT
Don't waste my time trying to retaliate. Either learn from my abusive critiques, or just cower and slither away. I don't have time to listen to your juvenile attempts at ego boosting. I don't care what you have to say, because I'm right and you're wrong. No amount of "does it make you feel better to-" or "you're a stupid bitch whore-" will change that fact. Don't even attempt to explain why I would be wrong, or better yet, attempt to insult me (this is not the goal of this exercise) because we all know that any disparaging remarks you might make about me would be entirely unfounded and would only serve to peel back more layers in the process of revealing you as the pathetic illiterate troglodyte that you are. Everything is a matter of opinion, which, as you will discover when you move through into the real world, means fuck all.

If you are reading this and believe that it may be directed at you, you are probably correct. Let me paraphrase one of my favourite slights: you are white trash. Trailer-camp, tornado bait, oxygen wasting white trash. Shut. Up.

I will do what I like, because you can't stop me.

Author's Note: If anyone attempts to embody the aforementioned qualities, they will be referred to this post so that I don't have to waste my precious time explaining it to them.
It's almost zen. Someday you'll get it. And if you don't, it's not my problem.


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In other news, I've been made director for Drama V, so this ought to be highly educational. I'm adapting a piece called 'Lost Boys' in the Book-It style, which ought to be very interesting. Book-it is basically where you tell the story the same way with narrative, but have the characters tell it. It's an interesting little collection of vignettes about private school boys playing in their own little world with nicknames like 'The Texan' and 'Ladykiller'. It ought to be really fun. There is one actor in my cast with whom I may have some trouble, but other than that, it should be alright. His deal is that he's a bit stuttery, but I'm hoping that's just a result of his not actually knowing his monologue. The rest of my cast is excellent. Since the adaptation process is collaberative, I told them to go home and mark down the sets of places/concepts/characters/purple passages. All of that I'm going to be doing myself later tonight anyway. I also bought Hannibal for ten bucks. *Yay*.

Silence of the Lambs is still better, though.

ps. Re: Gabriel. Drama is for the stage, and for the screen, not for the real world. So fuck off. ]]> *azurelacroix http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/6525379/ http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/6525379/ Sat, 17 Sep 2005 01:24:42 PDT You know what I think of you with your good bag and your cheap shoes? I think you're a rube. A well-scrubbed, hustling rube...with a little taste. Good nutrition has given you some length of bone, but you're not one generation away from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling? And that accent you're trying to so desperately to shed- pure West Virginia. What was your father, dear? Was he a coal miner? Did he stink of the lamp? And how quickly the boys found you. All those tedious sticky fumblings in the back seats of cars while you could only dream of getting out. Getting anywhere. Getting all the way to the F...B...I.
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Not to mention Suicide girls being a stupid concept in and of itself, not to mention the astoundingly purile name. Suicide, yay, so trendy. Fucking morons. Fuck you and everyone you know. And *fuck* whoever came up with that name. My father committed suicide last month and there wasn't anything fucking trendy about it.

In any case. It's annoying. Stop choosing fetish shots for daily deviations. Photographs shot by guys so guys can look at them. What happened to art? ]]> *azurelacroix http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/6399861/ http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/6399861/ Fri, 02 Sep 2005 18:08:32 PDT
Fortunately we managed to get my perscription for pain switched to hydrocodone, which actually allowed me to *sleep* today. I still feel like I've got gigantic kumkwats in my jaw, but I slept, and I'm not in overwhelming amounts of bloody pain. And I'm not thinking "what if I die of blood loss?"

This would've been a much more pleasant experience had I had the proper painkillers to begin with. The actual surgery was fun. The nitrous oxide is most awesome. I went to Thailand, and yet I could still tell they were jabbing needles into the back of my throat. I was about to start laughing. ]]> *azurelacroix http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/6209316/ http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/6209316/ Fri, 12 Aug 2005 16:32:06 PDT
I know I reported that his death was an accident: this was the story given out by my step mother to protect my younger sister, which I hope remains her only knowledge of how dad really died.

In truth, he killed himself. Suicide, as one must remind themselves time and time again, is the function of a mental disorder. I was fighting with him at the time, but we'd gotten over those things before. He'd lost his job, and when I think about it now, there were always signs that he wasn't quite on the same level as everyone else. There were also some grevious things that happened in his past that I never really knew about. I think by the end his sanity and judgement were slipping away. That's what his friends were telling me, in any case.

The funeral and the wake were both beautiful, but difficult. The priest said very nice words, but I assume that was his job. People I didn't know were there, and people I knew were there. People I wished weren't there attended, but what can you do. Bill and Linda, parents of my grown up cousins Scott and Aaron, invited Caeli and me to Vancouver Island, which is where we're probably going to go on Tuesday.

Right now, I'm either/or. The pain comes and goes, most sharply when I see somewhere that I know dad should be, like the fence outside the train station.

Right now, small simple things are good. Like hearing my neighbour, Chris, say in his thick Italian accent "I'ma sorra about your daddy".

Thank you again for all of your kind words and thoughts. It means the world. ]]> *azurelacroix http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/6137496/ http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/6137496/ Thu, 04 Aug 2005 23:50:25 PDT
Things were bad with him before, but now they're never going to be rectified. I loved my father. I want to talk to my sister, make sure she's okay. I don't know if Ella, my stepmother, is angry at me, or blames me. Apparently she's really messed up. I don't know how we'll be able to relate in this grief, but you know, that's alright. There might be a memorial service on monday, but nothing's confirmed. No one really knows what's going to happen. I'm going to Vancouver on Sunday.

This is the last reason I would've wanted to return there. I'll be staying with my best friend. Mom will be staying with us, too, at Camia's place, but she's going to stay out of the picture. She's sad for me, and that's good.

I'm in shock, and the grief hasn't quite hit me. It will, probably. I'm going out with friends tomorrow, thankfully one of them knows what I'm going through and will be there for me if/when I lose it. ]]> *azurelacroix http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/5937680/ http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/5937680/ Thu, 14 Jul 2005 22:53:53 PDT
It reminded me how disgusting it really is when someone abuses a position of power.

Well, now I'm a moderator of a 200+ member phan art club, and I enjoy it very much. I enjoy adding new members, I enjoy holding contests, writing out updates and putting on little tidbits for the members to enjoy. I admit, I enjoy having that power, too.

However, I don't think I would ever enjoy USING the power, because what that ultimately means is disciplining someone for breaking the club rules, or being generally disrespectful.

I hate all forms of injustice, but abuse of power is one of my top ones. When you break it down, you're no better than a schoolyard punk, pushing around all the little kids. So, I hereby pledge to take my duties seriously and not to abuse my power, because I know how injust it is, and how hurtful it can be. If you've ever got any problems or feel like I've treated you unfairly, please let me know.

-VDC ]]> *azurelacroix http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/5863611/ http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/5863611/ Thu, 07 Jul 2005 05:03:05 PDT
In other news. Don't fuck with me. I'm tired of it. And terrorists. Let's take the religion out of the religious fantatics, because they're not religious fantatics, they're just fanatics. Really fucking crazy fanatics. This is what happens when you marry your cousins.

I love Garrison Keillor.

by Garrison Keillor / In These Times

Something has gone seriously haywire with the Republican Party. Once, it was the party of pragmatic Main Street businessmen in steel-rimmed spectacles who decried profligacy and waste, were devoted to their communities and supported the sort of prosperity that raises all ships. They were good-hearted people who vanquished the gnarlier elements of their party, the paranoid Roosevelt-haters, the flat Earthers and Prohibitionists, the antipapist antiforeigner element. The genial Eisenhower was their man, a genuine American hero of D-Day, who made it OK for reasonable people to vote Republican. He brought the Korean War to a stalemate, produced the Interstate Highway System, declined to rescue the French colonial army in Vietnam, and gave us a period of peace and prosperity, in which (oddly) American arts and letters flourished and higher education burgeoned—and there was a degree of plain decency in the country. Fifties Republicans were giants compared to today’s. Richard Nixon was the last Republican leader to feel a Christian obligation toward the poor.

In the years between Nixon and Newt Gingrich, the party migrated southward down the Twisting Trail of Rhetoric and sneered at the idea of public service and became the Scourge of Liberalism, the Great Crusade Against the Sixties, the Death Star of Government, a gang of pirates that diverted and fascinated the media by their sheer chutzpah, such as the misty-eyed flag-waving of Ronald Reagan who, while George McGovern flew bombers in World War II, took a pass and made training films in Long Beach. The Nixon moderate vanished like the passenger pigeon, purged by a legion of angry white men who rose to power on pure punk politics. “Bipartisanship is another term of date rape,” says Grover Norquist, the Sid Vicious of the GOP. “I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.” The boy has Oedipal problems and government is his daddy.

The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians of convenience, freelance racists, misanthropic frat boys, shrieking midgets of AM radio, tax cheats, nihilists in golf pants, brownshirts in pinstripes, sweatshop tycoons, hacks, fakirs, aggressive dorks, Lamborghini libertarians, people who believe Neil Armstrong’s moonwalk was filmed in Roswell, New Mexico, little honkers out to diminish the rest of us, Newt’s evil spawn and their Etch-A-Sketch president, a dull and rigid man suspicious of the free flow of information and of secular institutions, whose philosophy is a jumble of badly sutured body parts trying to walk. Republicans: The No.1 reason the rest of the world thinks we’re deaf, dumb and dangerous.

Rich ironies abound! Lies pop up like toadstools in the forest! Wild swine crowd round the public trough! Outrageous gerrymandering! Pocket lining on a massive scale! Paid lobbyists sit in committee rooms and write legislation to alleviate the suffering of billionaires! Hypocrisies shine like cat turds in the moonlight! O Mark Twain, where art thou at this hour? Arise and behold the Gilded Age reincarnated gaudier than ever, upholding great wealth as the sure sign of Divine Grace.

Here in 2004, George W. Bush is running for reelection on a platform of tragedy—the single greatest failure of national defense in our history, the attacks of 9/11 in which 19 men with box cutters put this nation into a tailspin, a failure the details of which the White House fought to keep secret even as it ran the country into hock up to the hubcaps, thanks to generous tax cuts for the well-fixed, hoping to lead us into a box canyon of debt that will render government impotent, even as we engage in a war against a small country that was undertaken for the president’s personal satisfaction but sold to the American public on the basis of brazen misinformation, a war whose purpose is to distract us from an enormous transfer of wealth taking place in this country, flowing upward, and the deception is working beautifully.

The concentration of wealth and power in the hands of the few is the death knell of democracy. No republic in the history of humanity has survived this. The election of 2004 will say something about what happen... ]]> *azurelacroix http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/5523229/ http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/5523229/ Wed, 01 Jun 2005 16:19:24 PDT Phantom-of-DA-Opera club, I will not be submitting phanart to this account; you can find any phantom art in the club gallery.

Cheers! ]]> *azurelacroix http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/5279158/ http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/5279158/ Sat, 28 May 2005 20:14:35 PDT

...isn't that nuts? And thankyou so much for all the kudos to people who've given them.




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Well, maybe not, but it's quite a bit different from what you USUSALLY see on FF.NET

Anyway. You really should read it. I'm very very proud of it. And crazy mad Lathron Aniron will testify to that.

Neither Mask, But Foul, Nor Good Holy Vows

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]]> *azurelacroix http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/4630653/ http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/4630653/ Tue, 08 Mar 2005 23:35:47 PST Not that I would mind, but I have a feeling you might.



]]> *azurelacroix http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/4013878/ http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/4013878/ Tue, 07 Dec 2004 19:01:14 PST my journal ]]> *azurelacroix http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/3925514/ http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/3925514/ Fri, 26 Nov 2004 15:35:10 PST in die illa tremenda
quando coeli movendi sunt et terra,
dum veneris judicare saeculum per ignem.
Tremens factus sum ego et timeo,
dum discussion venerit atque venture ira:
quando coeli movendi sunt et terra. ]]> *azurelacroix http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/3776031/ http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/3776031/ Sun, 07 Nov 2004 11:56:17 PST
"I don't flirt," Achilles said.
"I forgot," said Petra. "You shoot first and then flirting isn't necessary."

“You were born in the wrong century, you could have made Thomas Aquinas tear out his hair. Nietzsche and Derrida would accuse you of obfuscation. Only the Inquisition would know what to do with you—toast you nice and brown.” -Bean ]]> *azurelacroix http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/3621159/ http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/3621159/ Mon, 18 Oct 2004 17:50:28 PDT
I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is
emulation, nor the musician's, which is fantastical,
nor the courtier's, which is proud, nor the
soldier's, which is ambitious, nor the lawyer's,
which is politic, nor the lady's, which is nice, nor
the lover's, which is all these: but it is a
melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples,
extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry's
contemplation of my travels, in which my often
rumination wraps me in a most humorous sadness.
As You Like It
Act VI scene i ]]> *azurelacroix http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/3620305/ http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/3620305/ Mon, 18 Oct 2004 16:10:29 PDT
That's kind of sad. Kids. Go outside, get laid. I don't care what you do, but get over it. You make computer nerds like me look bad with your overcompensation for an obvious lack of real life satisfaction. ]]> *azurelacroix http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/3618861/ http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/3618861/ Mon, 18 Oct 2004 13:16:42 PDT
In other news, today is a Jaques day. You know, the sardonic laconic doll from As You Like It.

No, you probably don't know. Today is an artistic temperament that is laconic and not really that angry...I wish I could bring myself to care more about these annoying little wannabe bitches who are going to try and mess with my life, but I find society is a little more directly affecting me at the moment. The spicy dark wood catina salsa music behind me is poetic right now, and it reminds me of Belize. You know about Belize, right?

No...probably not. But remember, when you're about to open your trap about my technicalities....don't. Try judging from the content, you nihilistic fucking whiners. You're worse than me, and that's unforgivable. ]]> *azurelacroix http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/3614840/ http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/3614840/ Sun, 17 Oct 2004 22:00:10 PDT
Normally I'd post this on said individual's website, but she doesn't seem like the person who would take the comments constructively, but for the record. If you're fucking ugly, don't post your goddamn naked picture on deviant art. ]]> *azurelacroix http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/3609558/ http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/3609558/ Sun, 17 Oct 2004 09:28:59 PDT
Envy me. He's beautiful. ]]> *azurelacroix http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/3550543/ http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/3550543/ Sat, 09 Oct 2004 14:29:22 PDT I'm seeing him again. Today. HAHAHAHA.
I fucking win, bitch.

*purr* ]]> *azurelacroix http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/3518761/ http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/3518761/ Tue, 05 Oct 2004 12:43:58 PDT *azurelacroix http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/3512642/ http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/3512642/ Mon, 04 Oct 2004 16:41:03 PDT
FINGERS: Victoria
CHIN: Vicwsblia
ONE FINGER WITH EYES CLOSED:Vivyoria
CHEEK: vcoisapaan
ELBOW: BGVFIFDYT6O0TRGFI8WS
LIPS: VICTORIA
PALM: vi8ct5o9riza
BACK OF HAND: (rf v8isdt5o9riaz
NOSE: FG8D5T0R49AQ (I fucking lose)
TONGUE: victorrria
-----------------DESCRIBE--------------- ---

-- YOUR HERITAGE: Italian/Scottish
-- THE SHOES YOU WORE TODAY: black leather heeled boots
-- YOUR EYES: brown
-- YOUR WEAKNESS: rage
-- YOUR FEARS: can't think of any
-- ONE THING YOU'D LIKE TO ACHIEVE: happiness
-----------------WHAT IS------------------

-- YOUR THOUGHTS FIRST WAKING UP: my fucking throat hurts.
-- THE FIRST FEATURE YOU NOTICE IN THE OPPOSITE SEX: cock.
-- THE FIRST FEATURE YOU NOTICE IN THE SAME SEX: love handles.
-- YOUR BEST PHYSICAL FEATURE: Probably my stomach.
-- YOUR BEDTIME: whenever
-- YOUR GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT: Don't know yet.
-- YOUR MOST MISSED MEMORY: kissing Benjamin.

-----------------YOU PREFER------------------

-- PEPSI OR COKE: Coke
-- MCDONALD'S OR BURGER KING: Neither. God.
-- SINGLE OR GROUP DATES: single.
-- ADIDAS OR NIKE: Adidas. But only because of Korn-- CHOCOLATE OR VANILLA: Chocolate
-- CAPPUCCINO OR COFFEE: Cappuccino.

-----------------DO YOU------------------

-- SMOKE: No.
-- CUSS: elaborately.
-- TAKE A SHOWER EVERYDAY: yes and no. I take baths.
-- HAVE A CRUSH(ES): yes.
-- WHO ARE THEY: Benny.
-- DO YOU THINK YOU'VE BEEN IN LOVE?: Yes.
-- WANT TO GO TO COLLEGE: Yeah.
-- LIKE HIGH SCHOOL: I'm bored. People are stupid.
-- WANT TO GET MARRIED: Don't know yet.
-- TYPE WITH YOUR FINGERS ON THE RIGHT KEYS: Who knows? I type too fast.
-- GET MOTION SICKNESS: No
-- THINK YOU'RE ATTRACTIVE: Yes. *attracts you* c'mere.
-- THINK YOU'RE A HEALTH FREAK: lord no.
-- GET ALONG WITH YOUR PARENTS: Sometimes.
-- LIKE THUNDERSTORMS: Sexy.
-- PLAY AN INSTRUMENT: No.
------------IN THE PAST MONTH DID:/:HAVE YOU--------------

-- DRANK ALCOHOL: yes.
-- SMOKE(D): no.
-- DONE A DRUG: no.
-- HAVE SEX: uhm..this is October? No.
-- MADE OUT: no.
-- GO ON A DATE: no.
-- GO TO THE MALL: I don't go to the fuckin mall.
-- EATEN SUSHI: No.
-- BEEN ON STAGE: Sort of.
-- BEEN DUMPED: No.
-- GONE SKATING: No.
-- MADE HOMEMADE COOKIES:No.
-- BEEN IN LOVE: Not sure.
-- DYED YOUR HAIR: Yes.
-- STOLEN ANYTHING: No.
-----------------HAVE YOU EVER------------------

-- FLOWN ON A PLANE: Yes.
-- MISSED SCHOOL BECAUSE IT WAS RAINING?: who the fuck agoraphobic wrote this survey?
-- TOLD A GUY/GIRL THAT YOU LIKED THEM?:Yes. I told them that I was going to fuck them dry, too.
-- CRIED DURING A MOVIE?: I cried during yesterday's baseball game (we'll miss you, Edgar)
-- EVER THOUGHT AN ANIMATED CHARACTER WAS HOT?: Malachite, remember, from Sailor Moon?
-- HAD AN IMAGINARY FRIEND: No.
-- BEEN ON STAGE?:Yes.
-- CUT YOUR HAIR: yeah.
-- HAD CRUSH ON A TEACHER?: I was seriously considering seducing the student teacher- and I think one of the subs wants me.
-- PLAYED A GAME THAT REQUIRED REMOVAL OF CLOTHING? Uhm.
-- BEEN TRASHED OR EXTREMELY INTOXICATED: but why is the rum gone?
-- BEEN CAUGHT "DOING SOMETHING": you mean, doing someone? No.
-- BEEN CALLED A TEASE: a filthy dirty tease.
-- GOTTEN BEATEN UP?: No.
-- BEEN IN A FIGHT: Yes.
-- SHOPLIFTED: Yup.

-----------------THE FUTURE------------------

-- AGE YOU HOPE TO BE MARRIED: 30
-- NUMBERS AND NAMES OF CHILDREN: I don't know.
-- DESCRIBE YOUR DREAM WEDDING: A few guests, a hot dress and a hot night in the Carribean (or Hawaii)
-- HOW DO YOU WANT TO DIE?: having sex.
-- WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?: Graphic designer/artist and a writer.
--WHAT COUNTRY WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO VISIT?: Italy. But right now? Canada. For obvious reasons.
-----------------OPPOSITE/SAME SEX------------------

-- BEST EYE COLOR: Blue/green draw. (gotta agree with Belgian here...)
-- BEST HAIR COLOR: Hm. Depends. Right now, reddish blonde.
-- SHORT OR LONG HAIR: Long enough to grab.
-- BEST HEIGHT: 5"11
-- BEST WEIGHT: 160-170
-- BEST FIRST DATE LOCATION: a bed with a nice view.
-- BEST FIRST KISS LOCATION: anywhere at all.
-----------------NUMBER OF-----------------

-- NUMBER OF BOYFRIENDS/GIRLFRIENDS YOU'VE HAD: oh, jesus. *counts* About seven.
-- NUMBER OF KISSES YOU'VE GIVEN: Don't count.
-- NUMBER OF... ]]> *azurelacroix http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/3476058/ http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/3476058/ Wed, 29 Sep 2004 19:41:50 PDT And everyone in it.

If you're in Burien. I hate you. Fuck you. Die. YAAARGH!

Just got off the phone with Benny....*purrrrrrrrrrrrrrs*


beautiful canadian boy with lovely eyes and blonde hair and muscles and ohmygod he is MINE ]]> *azurelacroix http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/3465064/ http://azurelacroix.deviantart.com/journal/3465064/ Tue, 28 Sep 2004 11:14:10 PDT
males, if you ever ask the question
'can we just be friends?'
expect an explicit and articulate 'fuck-you'.

So today I wallow and I skip school and spend a ludicrous amount of time in the bathtub, running a bar of jasmine soap over my skin again and again as if I can purify the misery from myself. In that moment, I'm soft and lonely, and I admit it to myself. Introspective moments, and yes, I do monitor myself, notice the things that make me happy and unhappy and 'you could never compare' and 'this is the sort of love I want' are things that make me very very unhappy.

I want my summer back, but for now, a warm bed and my cat and a good chickflick book will suffice. I wish my head would stop hurting, but it isn't likely. My jaw's tightened up and I can't get it to loosen.

Today I hate my best friend. I hate her desperation and her whorish attitude. I hate the way she's excommunicated me from her life, and I hate the way all her friends are male. I hate the way she's unhappy but she's too polite to admit it, and yet she doesn't have enough manners to keep her tongue out of the mouth of a boy who is not her boyfriend.

And today I hate Seth, only because he doesn't love me and never will. It's probably good. I don't think he could've made me happy, and I don't think he would've ever stopped abusing my affections and taking my respect for granted. I miss my melodramatic.com journal, but it's not up right now. ]]> *azurelacroix