A good way to organize makeup/brushes

I just wanted to show this on here. I bought this thing from Amazon a while ago, it's still on there.

I've depotted most of my eyeshadows and pressed my pigments and put them in palettes to make it easier on myself, so any of the extra ones that aren't in palettes fit perfectly in here. Along with eyeliners, mascaras, lip products, extra brushes.

I didn't want three movies, I wanted one movie

See this?

I had to buy a set of three movies in order to get the ONE I wanted (Dragonwyck). I've never heard of the other two and I don't have an interest in seeing them. I'm so frustrated by the fact that Dragonwyck isn't sold individually that I uploaded it on Viddler tonight because it's an amazing movie and people should be able to see it without having to buy movies they don't really want to see.

I just finished reading Dragonwyck by Anya Seton the other day. It was really, really good. Better than the movie. The story was changed quite a bit for the film, especially the ending. That doesn't take away from how beautiful the movie itself is though. I love black and white films and the use of shadow in them. And there's also the fact that Vincent Price is in it, which is the reason I watched Dragonwyck to begin with. I grew up watching his movies...I can't even remember a time when I didn't know who he was. He was so charismatic and handsome, and truly a fine actor. Dragonwyck is the perfect example of how talented he was.

My two loves. Together. Finally.

I don't know why I waited so long to buy this Hammett book. I love all his novels, and it's much easier to have a collection of them rather than individual books. Now I just need his Crime Stories collection (even though I already own a bunch of them because I have The Big Knockover).

These Library of America Books are amazing.

Edit: Bought these two as well. Told you these books are amazing. And if anyone's wondering why I don't have the LOA Chandler books...I don't really like his work, to be honest.

Slightly confused

I finished reading Dragonwyck by Anya Seton last night...I'd already seen the movie beforehand, I'm a fan of Vincent Price.

There's a character named Nicholas. It's not a secret that he turns his emotions and charm on and off whenever it benefits him to do so. His intentions are almost never pure, he seems incapable of caring about anyone, including his wife (Johanna OR Miranda, take your pick) and daughter. The only time he ever seems to care about Miranda's feelings is when he finds out she's going to have his son. Even then, he only makes sure she's happy because he wants an heir.

There are times when he'd be sweet and caring to Miranda, and when she'd reciprocate, he would laugh at her and instantly become cold. He did it only to humiliate her. He played with her emotions for his own amusement. She was a possession to him, there was never a moment from the time they got married when it seemed like he loved her.

This is consistent in his personality. He does not truly care about anyone. He is charismatic when he needs to be, and the second it no longer benefits him, he goes back to being cold and horrible.

The confusion comes from one part of the book, before Nicholas married Miranda. They went out for the day with Nicholas' daughter, and they were returning to Dragonwyck in a carriage. The farmers were revolting because they no longer wanted to pay rent to Nicholas (this takes place in 1844). They surrounded the carriage, took out a gun and fired a shot at it. At this point, Miranda throws herself at Nicholas, he embraces her and presses his lips against her hair. It almost seems as if he does have feelings for her, but as the rest of the book shows, he's incapable of feeling anything for anyone, and he certainly wouldn't have cared if she had been harmed.

It's a minor detail, but it still bothers me.

I could listen to him sing forever

This is how you waste hours and hours playing Minecraft

Digging your house out of the side of a mountain.

I couldn't wait until Thursday to show a picture of this

There's a huge tokidoki, E.L.F., MUFE review post that I'm aiming to get up here on Thursday. I want to wait until then so that I can also review the moisturizer I bought, and that will give me a week to use it and determine how well it works. So far, it's doing pretty well.

So, I bought a few things from tokidoki and I'm just...Oh my God. This eyeshadow. Look at this.

That is amazing. This eyeshadow is FILLED with glitter.

I couldn't get swatches of everything because my camera does not like to focus when it's really close up. But I did take pictures of everything, so those will be up.

Dead Space 2: Severed

I was really excited for this DLC because I loved Dead Space 2 so much...Way too much, actually. As you would see if you read all the posts in this folder. I waited for what felt like forever for it to be released, and then on the release date, I checked the PS Store obsessively to see if it had updated yet.

So I'm really sad to say that I'm less than impressed with it.

Severed involves characters from Dead Space: Extraction, and that may be part of the problem. I don't give a damn about them. At all. Live or die? What do I care? It also seems to take place after the events of Dead Space 2, since you find a tripod that Isaac has already killed and a battery inserted in the mine area.

I didn't pay much attention to the story while playing, but...Why was Lexine on the Sprawl? And the person who I'm assuming was her husband? I didn't finish playing Extraction because I got incredibly annoyed during a boss fight and never turned it back on. Were these people ALWAYS there? Because I see no reason as to why they'd have gone there after Isaac left...

And actually. (Spoilers.) Didn't Isaac kind of...Blow the Sprawl up when he destroyed the Marker? What the hell is the timeline between Dead Space 2 and Severed in that case? It's definitely after Isaac went through the mine area, but beyond that, I don't know. I'm very confused by the whole thing.

Some people will probably enjoy it, I just thought it was very dull. Not nearly as interesting as the main game was. Plus they added enemies (apparently from the first game, I don't even remember them) that are super fast and twitchy, which isn't an added challenge so much as it's an added annoyance.

You'll get about an hour out of Severed if it's a first playthrough. It has no replayability. No Power Node Doors. No suit upgrades. You start off with a Seeker Rifle and Pulse Rifle...I wasn't thrilled about that, I ended up respecing the Pulse Rifle and bought a Contact Beam. Then I said screw it and decided to use my Hand Cannon for the whole thing, because as I see it, I earned that damn thing and I'm allowed to use it if I want to.

The trophies are really easy to get. The only one that may be a little difficult is the one that requires you to knock a necromorph into a spinning blade. I had to restart several times to get that to work correctly.

I'm glad it's over. Now I can go back to multiplayer.

Has anyone played Prinny 2?

Because these yellow Succubi in Sakura Palace are annoying the hell out of me, and I cannot figure out how to kill them. And all GameFAQs says is, "Don't play Sakura Palace with eight or less hours left." Well...Too late for that.

I feel like...This game is a lot more difficult than the first one. I'm only on the third stage, and I've had trouble from the very start of the game. The bosses were pretty easy, but...I don't know. Sakura Palace makes me want to throw something.

Okay, Fox News

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/02/08/bulletstorm-worst-game-kids/

If parents see the ESRB rating and still allow their kids to play this game, that's their decision. It may be poor parenting, but regardless, it's their call.

But forget that for a moment. This article is discussing nine-year-olds playing Bulletstorm. They go on to say that the rating isn't enforced in stores (that's a lie, I got carded when I bought Silent Hill: Homecoming). May I ask why it would matter or not if the rating was enforced in this case? You're talking about a nine-year-old. They probably don't have $60 to spend on a video game, and even if they do, they can't get to a store to buy it by themselves. So again, whether the rating is enforced or not doesn't matter, because a parent would still have to bring their nine-year-old to the store to buy the game, and they would see the rating. If they still choose to buy it, that's a separate issue.

To say that video games lead to sexual assault is ridiculous. Most people play a video game and realize it's JUST a game. I've spent the past month playing Dead Space 2, but I'm not going out and severing people's limbs. Because people who are in their right mind don't do things like that. If someone plays a video game and decides to copy the actions from the game in real life, then there's a larger issue at hand.

Lara Logan was sexually assaulted in Egypt, and that's been all over the news and the internet. Does that mean if a child happens to see that, they're going to go out and assault someone? You see worse things on the news than you will in a video game. Things that ACTUALLY happened. Real life. Not fantasy.

I'm not saying that I think the material in Bulletstorm isn't questionable. And I won't be playing the game because it doesn't interest me. But seriously, it's time to come up with a better argument. Stop blaming video games for violent crimes. If someone is going to attack another person, it's not because they played a video game. It's because they're psychologically disturbed.

And this article just made me miss half of Community because I was so annoyed that I had to post about it here.

Dead Space 2 Hardcore? Pfft.

Seven deaths all together. The fifth death was the most annoying because I had already killed the final boss.

After I finish Dead Space 2 on Hardcore...

...I have this to look forward to.

Whoever decided on three saves for Hardcore...

...You're kind of a horrible person.

After a lottttttt of consideration, I decided to stick to the three guns I used the first three times I played through Dead Space 2. Plasma Cutter, Line Gun and Contact Beam. The Force Gun...Feels kind of strange to use. I don't like having to knock the enemies down with its primary fire and then kill them with its alt. The Contact Beam can do that just with its alt. And the Seeker Rifle isn't as useful later on when the elite necromorphs start showing up more often. Unfortunately, I won't get the Contact Beam in the beginning of the game. That makes things difficult.

I haven't decided on my first save yet. It's either going to be Chapter 6, right before that huge room where you're attacked by a Brute or...Chapter 7. Before you go flying into space and have to avoid a bunch of debris. Because I ALWAYS die there. And then I'll probably save before Chapter 10, and at the end of Chapter 13 in the area with the store and the workbench.

I've decided the only way I'll get through this is by listening to Britney Spears in the background. Sadly, it can't be too loud because I need to hear if those damn Stalkers are still wandering around. I hate those enemies. They're KIND of cute with the way they peak out around corners before they CHARGE at you, but yeah...I still effing hate them.

He should have been cast in the movie

I won't go on and on (again) about how perfect Hugh Panaro is. I've already done that.

You can find that picture (and others from Phantom's 23rd anniversary) here:
http://broadwayworld.com/article/Photo_Coverage_THE_PHANTOM_OF_THE_OPERA_Celebrates_23_Years_20110126

Has anyone else played Dead Space 2?

I'm just wondering how many other people had a delayed reaction to the beginning of the game that ended up causing them to die.

They're not screwing around. "Give them time to get used to the game? No way. Let's just throw EVERYTHING at them and surprise them by making them play in a STRAIGHTJACKET."

I love it. It's terrifying, but so worth it from what I've played so far.

My only small complaint is that it's very easy to miss when the chapter changes. I didn't realize chapter 1 was over until chapter 3. But actually...Maybe that's a good thing. It transitions smoothly instead of forcing Isaac to get on a tram between every chapter.

There was no way to narrow this list down

I love movies. Not in an "Oh, this is a great way to kill time!" kind of way. I love the stories. The cinematography. The acting. The soundtracks. All the hard work that goes into them. I love them for many different reasons. And because I find so much to love about the movies I enjoy, it's really difficult to narrow my favorites down to a Top Five list. I had trouble just getting it down to a Top Fifteen, to be honest.

I keep revisiting this topic

I love The Little Mermaid, it's my favorite Disney movie. So when I found out it was going to be on Broadway, I was really excited. (Until Broadway went on strike and I ended up missing the show because of it.)

I've said repeatedly that Sierra Boggess wasn't right for the part of Ariel when The Little Mermaid was still on Broadway. Most of that comes from the fact that I heard the demo album before the show's cast was even announced, and Kerry Butler recorded it. Kerry is, by far, my favorite stage actress. And her voice was so perfect for Ariel. As I've said a thousand times now, Sierra is much more suited for the role of Christine in Phantom of the Opera/Love Never Dies.

As many times as I've said this, I don't remember ever posting the songs for comparison. So here they are.

"Part of Your World" and "If Only" performed by Kerry Butler:

"Part of Your World" performed by Sierra Boggess:

"If Only" performed by Sierra Boggess:

Okay, Tim Gunn. You've really done it this time.

From page 84 (Rule 5: Get Inspired If It Kills You) of Gunn's Golden Rules

You can see why I was mad at my students who told me they couldn't find inspiration! I don't care if your list leans away from campy cult classics and period dramas toward, say, zombie movies or bromances or video games. Any genre, any film, any book can be the jumping-off point for amazing creative work. As long as we have Netflix, Turner Classic Movies, Amazon, YouTube, and bookstores, there is no excuse ever to lack inspiration.

I want to see all of that in the next season of Project Runway.

He's here to interrupt my currently scheduled reading

And I'm okay with that.

(And by "he," I mean Tim Gunn, not the raptor. I was reading Phantom of the Opera, but now it will have to wait.)

He's probably leaving tomorrow

And the battery in my camera is dead, so. Phone picture.

Cagney is going to miss him so much. :( He'll miss her, too. Since they started getting along, all he does is follow her around.