I Just realized the best thing ever...

EPIC TRIOS... Harry= Doctor, Hermione= Amy, Ron=Rory
Well, that was really nerdy...

I like movies

Um, so watching movies about writers makes me feel like a huge failure and I will thank my horrible guilt complex for making that make sense...
Or not.
Well a good movie to watch is Happythankyoumoreplease. Josh Radnor wrote, directed, and starred in it.  He's the guy who plays Ted in How I Met Your Mother. It's another one of those Garden State phenomenons where a comedian writes a hella fucking fanstatic serious movie.  Although I like Josh (yeah, we're totes on first name basis... in my mind) a lot more in HIMYM than I EVER liked Zach Braff as JD.  But I absolutely love Garden State and every time I see it I have to wonder aloud what the fuck Braff is doing as a comedian when he is infinitely better as a serious screen writer/ director.
I had a point when I started this rant...
RIGHT! So Happythankyoumoreplease is realistic and happy.  I won't say more because I think that if anybody actually reads this they should really really see it. And I hate spoilers, so I won't be responsible for them.  But see it. Or you could take Rotten Tomatoes' word for it, which gave it a 40% rating.  It's a free country after all.

Two of the best new Radiohead songs.

"Codex"

Sleight of hand
Jump off the end
Into a clear lake
No one around

Just dragonflies
Fantasize
No one gets hurt
You’ve done nothing wrong

Slide your hand
Jump off the end
The water's clear and innocent
The water's clear and innocent 

"Give Up The Ghost"

Don't hurt me
Don't hurt me
Don't hurt me

Gather up the lost and sold (Don't hurt me)

In your arms (Don't hurt me)
In your arms (Don't hurt me)

Gather up the pitiful (Don't hurt me)

In your arms (Don't hurt me)
In your arms (Don't hurt me)

What seems impossible (Don't hurt me)

In your arms (Don't hurt me)
In your arms (Don't hurt me)

I think I have had my fill (Don't hurt me)

In your arms (Don't hurt me)
In your arms (Don't hurt me)
In your arms (Don't hurt me)
In your arms (Don't hurt me)

I think I should give up the ghost (Don't hurt me)

In your arms (Don't hurt me)
In your arms (Don't hurt me)
In your arms (Don't hurt me)
In your arms (Don't hurt me) 

The Greatest Event of My Life

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part two comes out on July 15 of this year.
And I am SO FUCKING EXCITED!
I have a countdown for it and everything. (81 days 6 hours and 20 minutes)
And I just found a preview of the opening scene and it made me cry a little bit.

What Happened When I Finally Googled Myself

1. I had horrible taste in music in 2007
2. I was a really really slow runner
3. I have a mugglenet fanfiction account
4. There is a Brittish Emma who lives in London that likes shitty music, movies, and Tv

The first results to come up were actually me... which I find a little creepy.

How did I forget about this?

So I recently discovered another hilarious blog with pictures like Hyperbole-and-a-Half called Book of Adam.
He's funny.
I read a post about when he got Strep in college and remembered, 'Oh. Me too!'
Here is the link to that post.
I commented on it which turned out to be my personal story. Since I am lazy, I'm going to just copy and paste it here.

I had a bad case of strep this year too!

Since going to college, my immune system has been all, "Screw you and your record years of great health, Imma go on vacation!" So I have been sick at least 2 weeks out of every quarter, and I have only completed two.
So at the beginning of this recently completed winter quarter I got severe strep and missed the first week of class. After two days of crying every time I ate harsh cafeteria food, I finally went into the health center and sure enough: Strep.
So they prescribed me some antibiotics and painkillers.
Really strong painkillers.
Bedridden in a college dorm doesn't stop visitors so a parade of people would come by to see me in my worsened condition all wrapped tightly in my quilt.
And bat-shit loopy.
It soon became that people were coming around to see if I would do anything weird due to those painkillers.
My roommate's favorite incident is as follows.
All my friends are out of class and have dropped by to see me before dinner, after which they were all going to a basketball game. I wasn't too interesting laying on our tiny couch watching Arrested Development; but I'm told I had a creepy silent laughing fit and gave creaky-voiced compliments?
Anyways they have been gone for hours and I have just taken another dose of pain meds and I decided to climb in bed. However, bunk beds serve extreme obstacles to me, even in normal conditions. Especially since I don't have a ladder and must use my desk to get into my bed.
This is all I (barely) remember- putting soft music on and turning off the lights.
This is what I am told happened.
7:30?-Roomie receives a text with bad spelling that looks something like, 'song sooo goo yoi loks it.'
9:30-She and three of our guy friends get back from the game and she cracks the door first and to see if I'm in bed. I'm not. Instead, I am slumped against my bed, asleep, sitting on my desk with no pants on. I kind of wake from my stupor, yell at my computer for not playing some song and pass out again.
She tells me it took her a few minutes, a Modest Mouse song, and a cup of tea to convince me it was alright to climb clumsily into bed where I yet again passed right out.

The bane of my existence is

Painting my nails. God I hate it. Okay, but I also love it.

So I can sit there and paint a gorgeous scene on my stupid stubby fingernails so it looks something like this:


And I cackle with mad delight at my obvious artistic talent to rival that of Michelangelo because, hell, I'm just a genius...

Alright, that's a lie. My nails usually look more like this:

That drawing took me, like, twenty minutes. Whereas if I had one of those nice track pad things with the stylus pen I could have done a WAY better job (I drew a really cool tree with one once...).  But that is pretty much the extent of my actual artistic talent. I even had to Google pictures of hands to get an idea... then I realized I have two I could have just as easily looked at. I frustrate myself.
Sometimes I am not the quickest of wit.
By the way, my nails really are green but without purple dots.
Right. So I spend all this time trying really hard to get them all nice and pretty, take time to let them dry and everything!
Only to have them get scratched all to hell like the BMW of a company executive whose wife has just found him in the grips of something that couldn't even make it into the Kama Sutra with his 20-years-younger-than-her secretary and this wife has some pretty vicious keys:

 

Not a big deal right?
WRONG
I am a little OCD, I think, and the smallest imperfection on a thing that will be in my line of sight repeatedly for all my life (my hands) is ineffable. It is not allowed. Just... God... No.
So I usually take it off in the same day.
And I forget why I just don't bother painting them in the first place.

My Favorite Bands

I think it is about damn time that I wrote this down... So it is cemented in interwebz history for all time.
My two favorite bands are 1. Modest Mouse and 2. Cold War Kids.
Yeah it finally happened. Dave Matthews Band has been dropped to #3. I will talk about Dave for a minute though.
I grew up listening to Dave Matthews Band; at the height of their awesomeness (before Stand Up came out... worst album ever). When I think of my childhood it's soundtrack is Dave songs. I knew all the words to Crash before I knew anything about sex, which that song is totally about haha. But not only that, I know all the 'obscure' Dave songs and can imagine Tami blasting them through the window while we did yard work or in car rides to the lake. The first concert I went to was His annual visit to The Gorge. Their music is and will forever be a part of me.
However, people change, and so do tastes in music. In 2004 I heard Modest Mouse for the first time. I remember watching the music video for Float On on TV and thinking it was really clever and that the music was good. Then I discovered that Tami actually had the album. So I borrowed it and was sold. Modest Mouse quickly became some of the best music I had ever heard (because it is). Then Matt purchased The Moon and Antarctica (2000) and I heard Gravity Rides Everything. Favorite song. Favorite album. Favorite band.
So I slowly but surely reached out and found the rest of their music, including the EPs the latest of which is really awesome and I think it was a good comeback after We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank, which sucked.
In the spring of 2009 Nathan and I went to Death Cab for Cutie when they played at Gonzaga. I was really pumped for this because Death Cab is like #4 on my list. I even got to be up front for the concert which was totally awesome. They played Grapevine Fires, which is my favorite of theirs but we're not talking about DC4C. Anyways, the bands who opened for them were Ra Ra Riot and Cold War Kids. Before it started the people around us were mostly talking about them and I even heard a few say they were really there for these two bands. I brushed it off and just waited. So Ra Ra Riot played some of their more popular songs (of the like 10 they had at the time) like Dying is Fine. Cold War Kids played their set which was awesome and I actually found myself cheering pretty loud for them. Then Death Cab, which I thought was awesome. I was front row for Grapevine Fires, which is my favorite by them. I went away from the concert thinking that of the two openers, I'd like Ra Ra Riot better. So when I downloaded Cold War Kids last summer and really listened to them, I fell in love.

To sum it up: Top Three Favorite Bands
1. Modest Mouse
2. Cold War Kids
3. Dave Matthews Band