I'm baaaack!

Hey kiddos ^_^ I have returned from my arduous one week journey completely away from the world of LJ! O.O It was harrowing, and got quite hairy there at points, wasn't sure if I was gonna make it, but I survived and HERE I AM :D I missed you all greatly. I'm trying to catch up on things, but it's extremely difficult >.< I think I might need to do a flist purging... *nervous*

Anyway, I had a great time with my cousins and other family-type people. My mom and her two siblings were all together for the first time in a long while, so all the cousins got to be together and it was nice. There are, um, 8 of us. Gabriel and carmen, 10 and 8, Ellen, Marie, and Elizabeth, 9, 6, and 3, and me, Peter, and Meredith, 17 (almost 18! :P), 14, and 10. The younger kids really had a great time together. While we were in Detroit, we went to visit the Ford truck factory, the Rouge, and we walked around this catwalk over the assembly line and watched it in motion. It was very cool. We also went to the Detroit New Science center, which was neat if a little young for me. We saw an IMAX movie there on a DOME theater, which was awesome cause the screen is, well, a dome :P We saw Forces of Nature which was pretty neat. We also went swimming and stuff like that. It was a good time.

I made lots n lots of icons while I was gone, so I'll be posting those some time today or tomorrow ^_^ college looms ever nearer, and I'm nervous! I've been thinking about what I need to buy, and there's a lot, lol. Still haven't spoken to my roommate. Need to figure out my job, and all sorts of things like that. Also need to go get a cell phone :D:D:D I'm excited for that, even if I probably won't be using it much, since I, um, have phonephobia, lol. It will be nice to have and fun to play with though ^_^

I also won another award for my music video o.O At Ambition Awards I got Judge's choice... don't really know what that means, since it wasn't listed in her awards descriptions. Perhaps I didn't fit in any category, but she still liked my vid? lol. It was the first round of the awards, and really not many noms, so it's nothing huge. But still nice :) It did motivate me to work on my Faith video, which has been languishing on my comp for a full 4 months, or something like that. So I got almost an entire minute vidded one night, and im now at least two thirds finished! Yay! I think I might actually conceivably complete it at some point! :) I'm proud of what it is so far, and I adore Faith, so I owe it to her to finish it, haha.

For a teaser of my coming icons, see the one I'm using now... *dies* He's SO HOT. EYELINER. Guh.

Music!

I have two presents for you all.

First is the song from 513 ( Spoilers... )

And second is the Velvet Goldmine soundtrack, in two zipped files. I uploaded it for a friend, and thought I'd share. I think these are thanks to novafairy initially, yes? *glomps* Thanks love! ♥
Part 1
Part 2

Off to dinner with fam and godparents, yey :)

PS: OMG Ewan's next movie is an indie and his character is GAY! Score!!! He is far too kind to us. *loves all over him even more than usual!*

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person

Blah! I had a significant amount written and then it all got deleted. Wah.

Aaaanyways. So, I realized that my flist is getting obscenely unwieldy. Like, it's nearly impossible to keep up with on a day to day basis, and will certainly be impossible to follow when I get to college. So I decided to do a flist cut. I was going through the list, checking who on earth these people are, and gradually I realized that I recognized and knew most of the people on the list, and wanted to know what they had to say. The long and short of it is that I largely deleted comms and people who basically don't post at all. This doesn't do much for my flist, now does it? :P But maybe it will clear up some of the clutter. Hopefully. If anyone actually notices that I deleted them, and cares, I apologize, but it truly isn't anything personal.

Now that that's out of the way, a meme! This is the Three Things Meme, a pretty cool one IMO. I got tagged for it by either nebulein or novafairy, can't remember which.
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By the way, I have some slightly distressing news... the picture of Ewan in this icon, with the eyeliner? IT'S A MANIP! *shocked and dismayed* Sas mentioned that to me, but I was like psssh nooo, Ewan loves his eyeliner! And then I looked in my own userinfo and saw the image on one of my colorbars - WITHOUT EYELINER. *sniffles* I am sad. But! It's still true that Ewan loves his eyeliner, so it's okay. I guess.

I watched Hayden's interview with Jay Leno again today (Thanks steffi *hugs*) and he just just so damn ADORABLE! He's soft spoken, and not quite as comfortable with it all as Ewan, but that just makes him so cute. When he says that he and Ewan like to twirl their light sabers together, he gets this sneaky grin and totally knows what all the girls are squeeing about :D And he doesn't bother to make any disclamatory remarks! In my opinion, this is his way of subtly coming out, but only to the fangirls who would think of it that way :D:D:D

Now, am off to watch... either Velvet Goldmine. Or Life as a House. I have not decided. Or maybe I will make that icon post. Errr... conundrum! (OR GARDEN STATE, shit I love that movie) Uh bye. :P