beware of sappiness

i wasn't feeling sappy until I listened to this song: "Love Song" by 311.  Somebody needs to make a G/CC amv to this.  Or we can just wait until Ilium becomes a big franchise, and then crazy fans will be able to dedicate it to Acmon and Andromache.  Ha ha.  I hope everyone knows I'm being sarcastic and not egotistical.

whenever I'm alone with you
you make me feel like I am home again
whenever I'm alone with you
you make me feel like I am whole again

whenever I'm alone with you
you make me feel like I am young again
whenever I'm alone with you
you make me feel like I am fun again

however far away
I will always love you
however long I stay
I will always love you
whatever words I say
I will always love you, I will always love you

whenever I'm alone with you
you make me feel like I am free again
whenever I'm alone with you
you make me feel like I am clean again

however far away
I will always love you
however long I stay
I will always love you
whatever words I say
I will always love you, I will always love you

so I woke up at 5 p.m. today.  My head feels like a swollen balloon.  I'm eating Ramen noodles.  I just sneezed all over my laptop monitor.  Last night I tossed and turned, coughing and hacking and unable to sleep, and then I finally went to sleep under the pretense that all I had to do was "answer" the "questions" that my "head" would "ask" me.  In other words, I was fucking delirious.  I am still pretty delirious, but all my suitemates except for the One who is Silent are out to dinner.  Early Bird actually showed compassion for me today - perhaps because she saw that I was putting dishes away - and invited me to go.  No such luck with Grendel's Mother, of course. 

So the plan for the rest of the night is to write Ilium.  I'd like to at least get to the part where Acmon is sent off to find Andromache.  I can't believe how good I am at drawing things out. 

finish what you start, young lady!

I can't leave things unfinished. 

Just for the hell of it, since I "reviewed" and rated Tree of Might, I have to do the others too - the ones that I've seen that is.  I'm not going to actually do a full-on play-by-play analysis, but I'll give my ratings.

1.  The Dead Zone
      Combat: 8 out of 10
      Dialogue:  7 out of 10
      Originality:  4 out of 10
      Overall:  6.3 out of 10

2.  The World's Strongest
      Combat:  6 out of 10
      Dialogue:  8 out of 10
      Originality:  7 out of 10
      Overall:  7 out of 10

4.  Lord Slug
      Combat:  8 out of 10
      Dialogue:  8 out of 10
      Originality:  3 out of 10
      Overall:  6.3 out of 10

5.  Cooler's Revenge
      Combat:  5 out of 10
      Dialogue:  3 out of 10
      Originality:  1 out of 10
      Overall:  3 out of 10 (yikes)

6.  The Return of Cooler
      Combat:  9 out of 10
      Dialogue:  8 out of 10
      Originality:  8 out of 10 (for sheer weirdness)
      Overall:  8.3 out of 10

The winner is, thus far, The Return of Cooler.  Maybe I'll review that one play-by-play... because I do love that movie.  The premise is really retarded and unoriginal, but it's like the creators just decided to smoke pot as they developed the plot line.  Kim calls this movie the "one where nobody does anything", and it truly wins for WTF-ness, which is why I gave it a high score with originality.  It reminds me of this one Sailor Moon comic that I read once that did not fit at all with the canon and featured giant spider-robots and some guy who kidnapped Sailor Moon and the other scouts had to prove that she meant something to them... I don't know, it was very bizarre, though not nearly as bizarre as the end of this one.  It's like it doesn't even try to make sense.  Yet strangely enough it's the one with the least inconsistencies with the canon.  I mean, it's possible that they go to New Namek at some point during the 3-years prior to the Androids and Cell, right?  Not exactly likely, but possible.