d00d, i am so0o full.

Happy Thanksgiving (aka the worst american holiday)!

I don't like turkey or cranberry sauce, or mashed sweet potatoes, or green bean casserole, but I still ate too much. Maybe I'm just a 'thanksgiving scrooge,' but i think everyone can agree that 'the first thanksgiving' is a bunch of bull, and the 'pilgrims' ended up 'pillaging' the native americans, and bringing them european diseases......thats so not chill.


OH SHIIT. THE HUNGER GAMES.
(sorry for all-caps, i am really excited for this movie...but i am worried it will not be satisfying. like all book-turned-movie movies, it will probably not be nearly as good as the books. but at least the author of the books was the screenwriter for the movie)
They have already announced that the second film will come out in 2012, so I guess the first one is expected to be well received (there are actually some very good actors in it!).

If you haven't seen it yet, here is the first official trailer: 

*I keep trying to watch it again, looking for anything that I missed, but I don't think there is anything else to see, its too short.

The previous sneek-peek:

poetic dreams

I went to my town's Used Book Fair, it was wonderful. The best deal was $8 for a large paper-shopping-bag full of books. I bought 15: 3 fictions novels, 4 books on psychology/dreaming (including The Interpretation of Dreams-Freud), aswell as, Brave New World, Studies in Zen, and a few more that looked interesting.

I haven't started any of them yet, but just being at the Used Book Fair made me want to become an avid reader, maybe even librarian...That happened to me last time I went to the library (to return a book). I put the book in the outside slot for returns, but I still felt compeled to go inside.

I wasn't really looking for anything, so I started with non-fiction, and then looked through every single bookshelf untill I got to graphic novels. I don't know why I decided to do that, it must have taken an hour...but it was plesant, and quite, and insightful.

Anyway, I left with 4 books (3 poetry collections, and a Paulo Coelho book). I finished Xaipe, by E.E. Cummings, late last night. I have never read any of his poetry before, I really love his use of (these) and other punctuation. He also spells and splits up words; some of the words didn't make sense untill I said them aloud in my head. There are several of his poems (in Xaipe) that I identify with, but here is the first one that i really liked, the 6th poem in the book:

dying is fine) but Death

?o

baby

i

wouldn't like

Death if Death

were

good:for

when(instead of stopping to think)you

begin to feel of it,dying

's miraculous

why?be

cause dying is

perfectly natural;perfectly

putting

it mildly lively(but

Death

is strictly

scientific

& artificial &

evil & legal)

we thank thee

god

almighty for dying

(forgive us,o life!the sin of Death

team peeta

The Hunger Games is one of my guilty pleasures. Not gunna lie, I loved those books. Now I can't wait for the movie; I keep checking the movie website  to see who has recently been cast, or if there is any new info. Its a little embarrassing, but I am definetly going to be one of those girls that go in costume to see one of the first showings!
The newest news is that Lenny Kravitz has been cast as Cinna. Not what I expected, but ok!

Have you read The Hunger Games?
Is it a 'guilty pleasure' or are you a 'die-hard fan'?
Which book was your favorite?
Are you excited for the movie?
Are you 'team Peeta' or 'team Gale'?

I am most definetly 'team Peeta'....and I think Catching Fire is the best. Mockingjay was so depressing.

I feel infinite.

I just started reading "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chobsky. I don't know why I waited untill now to read it. Friends have always told me I would like it, I love it. I don't read that much, but I had to take this book everywhere with me today, and I can't wait to finish it. I am reading it for a book report project in AP Psychology, the project is to relate the novel to psychology or something like that...

What I like about it so far is that I can relate to the characters, I think Charlie (the narrator) is experiencing/thinking/questioning a lot of the same things I have. I also have friends that remind me of the other characters, and makes it seem realistic. A lot of them are depressed or having trouble. I have been there, I know what it feels like, I've have seen many others deal with it aswell. I really 'get' this book, and I definetly recommend it. Probably, if you liked "The Catcher in the Rye" then you'll love this book because Charlie reads it in the story.

There was one part in the book that really spoke to me. It was about feeling 'infinite'--when everything just feels right. I know what it feels like, I think I've tried to discribe it as 'feeling free', but 'infinite' works better. I crave to feel that way right now, hanging around close friends, listening to music with comfortable silence, and just sharing the moment/feeling the love.

This is the main character's favorite song, it means a lot to him. I 'get' that.



**Other books I have recently started or finished:
On the Road-Jack Keroac (started months ago, but I cant find it now...)
Shoplifting From American Apparel-Tao Lin (finished last week)
The Kite Runner (reading it for English class)
The Omnivore's Dilemma (finished last month)

**Books I hope to read over the summer (but most likely won't get to):
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
EEEEE EEE EEEE-Tao Lin
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy-Tao Lin
Life of Pi
Ishamel
The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test
House of Leaves
Extremely Loud and Increadibly Close?

Any suggestions on what else I should read?