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I am not totally sure about this one, but it's the closest I've ever gotten to feeling that someone could be Wes.

First, an explanation: I have a problem recociling the image I have of Wes with any real person I know. The same goes or Hobbie or Face, so I'm constantly on the lookout. I picture Wes as a handsome man but not in the way that he would catch your eye right away or in an intimidatingly handsome way. It's more of the average looks with something you can't quite place that makes him special, that makes women fall for him and this is mainly attributed to his charm and looks.

When watching "Oz", one of the charactes, Ryan O'Reily, a con of Irish descent (Dean Winters) caught my eye and without really knowing why, I felt that he was somewhat likeI pictured Wes although O'Reily is not like Wes at all. First of all, he has Irish ancestors which Wes doesn't. O'Reily backstabs and manipulates and is always up to something which makes him a very cool character who rarely loses his temper and always has a plan. This doesn't sound like Wes at all. The only thing the two have in common is that they are homophobes, something I don't think O'Reily could ever overcome, though. Very much unlike Wes.

Because the characters are so different and although I like O'Reily he isn't very likable, it took me some time to make the connection. I think it helps that Winters steals the scenes he is in like I'd picture Wes to do. And he is fucking handsome.

Ich liebe AAA. Man kauft ihm einfach ab, dass er diesen nigerianischen Akzent hat und sein englischer Akzent ist nicht nur echt, sondern auch ...
Es ist so verstörend, dass er einen Moslem sieht, der betet, sich vor ihn stellt und den Hosenladen öffnet, aber es bleibt in Erinnerung.

Aber ich kann nicht aufhören mich in den Szenen in OZ, in denen er auftaucht, zu fragen, wie der bescheuerte Hut ihm nicht vom Kopf fällt. Auch dann nicht, wenn er D'Angelo oder sonst jemanden verschlägt.

Statt mich das zu fragen, poste ich ein Bild von diesem unglaublich blöden Hut, der irgendwie zur Person passt.

Adebisi beweist, dass auch Menschen mit blöden Hüten ernst genommen werden können.

Oh my fucking God.

This isn't an expression I use often. if I have to, I abbreviate it, but I just had to write it out. I just watched Desperate Housewives 410, "Something's Coming" and oh my non-existant God!

I actually care for Katherine although I still like Adam, after all it's Nathan Fillion, but I never thought I could ever like her. I changed my mind. Susan is acting like an adult for once and Mike is getting on my nerves, so the roles are kind of reversed. I didn't care about the obvious death that much, it was obviously a ploy to get rid of a character the staff didn't know how to get rid off in some other way. But it was very unrealistic.

The OMG-factor? The cliffhanger at the end. I am keeping this spoiler-free, so I'm not saying what happens, I didn't even mention names, but I was just sitting there, my mouth hung open and I was like, "I can't believe it, this can't possibly be happening." And what makes it worse is that it will take a while till I discover more about this all, about how this cliffhanger is resolved, because of the damn Writers' Guild strike. It is already threatening to destroy this season of Lost or at least cut it in half, now it's getting in the way of Heroes and Gossip Girl (which I am starting to like, episode 6 was awesome) and now the strike is doing this to Desperate Housewives! Dexter and Dirty Sexy Money seem to be unaffected.

Damn it, I want to know what happens, I want to know about the missing characters, The tornado ...

Current Mood: shocked

Unlike me, my sister is an avid reader. She says she has read about a dozen books in her life – an admirable quantity. So, a few months back, before going to Chile, I was listening to an episode of Poptopia where Paul French mentioned that Josh Schwartz, creator of The OC, one of my sister’s favorite TV shows, would be the executive producer of a new TV series based on a series of books called “Gossip Girl” and I was like, “No way! My sister has read all of the books that have come of these.” So, I told her and recently, when I finally discovered that it had actually started getting aired, I was enlisted to download the episodes for her. Yesterday, we watched the first one, today, she came to my room while I was reading Green Lantern and asked if I had time for her because she wanted to watch the second episode. So we laid in bed in front of my computer and watched the second episode that I had downloaded a few days before. Now she is totally curious to know how it will continue although there doesn’t seem to be one thing about it she wholly agreed with.

She doesn’t like the looks of characters, the exclusion of some, the way some things were changed. What made me happy about that though, was the fact that that proves how she can be a geek as well although her geekishness is focused on other areas. It’s like, no matter how good something is, a geek always finds stuff to complain about.

Me, not knowing the books, thought it was pretty okay. The characters don’t dress like normal teenagers, their style is VERY odd, but that is coming from me who thinks that there is nothing as comfortable as TCM bras, jeans and a simple tee or hoodie, nothing too complicated, nothing pink, nothing uncomfortable, nothing with laces and no strange hairstyles. Ponytails and my hair let down, and a messy knot / bun are the only hairstyles I think are really necessary. I am a simple person. And these rich upper East Side kids think VERY differently.

The characters are a bit too cliché, there is this young sick brother of one of the main characters, Serena, and when my sister and I first saw him, our reactions were “Draco” and “Tom Felton” respectively. Well, turns out we were wrong, but the guy looks a lot like Tom Felton.

The cell phones get on my nerve because you see every character using their cell phones at least once each episode. Especially in the first one, it was extremely overdone. There was this party and suddenly everyone attending the party pulls their cell phones out at the same time. And I thought the Chileans were obsessed with their cell phones.

Right now, I am watching Teen Titans. The first episode of the series. It’s almost done and not too complicated, but it’s cute and enjoyable. I still am a kid at heart and this is just cute. Who wouldn’t fall for a cute, nice Starfire saying, “I wish to initiate a group hug.” That is just too cute!

I still have many TV series to catch up to. I was so busy that I didn’t even watch the third season of Doctor Who yet. And there are still a few episodes of the last season of Desperate Housewives left, not to mention Heroes. But I’ll do it one by one. I have lots of time to distract myself till February when I will only be talking about Lost.

The second episode of Teen Titans is even cuter. The first ninety seconds have Dick and Kory sitting in a giant wheel talking with her being astonished about how the cotton candy vanishes in her mouth because the last time she ate cotton, it was white and didn’t taste very good. Kory’s naivety is sooo cute. I love it in the normal Teen Titans and here it’s cool, too. And Raven is fun, too, being the total opposite of Kory. “A giant chicken? I must be the luckiest girl in the world.”

“Come, friends, I shall thank you for my rescue by reciting the poem of gratitude – all 6000 verses.” Starfire is soooo cute. And her sister is hitting on Robin, it’s so funny how Starfire gets jealous and suddenly everyone is totally interested in her because she knows how to react to every team member. And I just feel so sorry for Kory because she is such a nice girl. She is just such a nice, funny character and her sister is such a bitch. In the end, everyone will notice how much they prefer Starfire and everything will be okay, but it’s nice to see how the story progresses. I don’t know if Starfire has a sister in the comics, but it doesn’t matter. It’s just a nice, cool show for kids … and others.

kid: “Hey, sweety, digging the scene?”
Kory: “I didn’t know we were supposed to bring shovels.”

Robin is the first to realize that Starfire is a lot cooler than her sister and it’s such a romantic little scene where they are sitting on the roof talking and Blackfire shows up wanting to know how she looks. “Pink”, Robin answers very stoically and wants her to go away as he is having a moment with Kory but she just takes his hand and drags him away, leaving poor Kory behind. I like how they have all these hints at Dick and Kory’s relationship in the comics in an innocent way.

“Goodbye, sister. Although you betrayed and attacked me, it was still very nice to see you.” That is so cute. Teen Titans are so, so, so cute!!

I like Robin and Kory in particular. But I would like to see other Titans, not just these five. What about Roy Harper / Speedy and Donna Troy / Wonder Girl? It would be cool to add them to the mix.

And as NaNo comes closer (still 17 days to go), I keep remembering more and more forgotten plots for storylines for that anthology I created the outline of my NaNo for originally. The one that returned to me right now is a quite interesting one in my opinion although I’m not sure how I would handle it nowadays. It’s a pretty mature theme for a fourteen year old girl to come up with, honestly. It’s not the biggest idea of the century, but just a story about two characters. Yes, another character piece like everything or almost everything I write.

Brazil is a country different from any other I know and proud of it.

It is a country where you can meet a girl who is a few years older than me and whose name is "Leidi Daiana". She was named after the late Lady Di and her mother doesn't seem to have understood that "Lady" was not a part of the woman's name. And as for spelling, nobody cares about that, anyway, right?

This is one example on Brazil's oddities. Another one is that they are not able to simply incorporate something into their culture, they have to make it their own. When American day-time soaps reached Brazil, the Brazilians decided that they needed their own tv series and they have very decent ones. A very famous one is "O Clone" that ran for about a year and a half (a long time for a Brazilian soap as they are produced with en ending already in mind and stuff). It got media attention fron all over the world and the rights to the love story between the rich industrialist Lucas and the muslim raised in Brazil Jade were bought by tv stations all over the world. In Brazil, each tv station you don't have to pay for puts out at least three different soaps a day, at least five days a week, usually six. The biggest station has six daily-running soaps, most of which can be watched every day but Sunday. They have made soaps their own product and even I, overly critical as I am, have to admit that they put out good stuff, the best being "O Clone" as cited above. They don't copy from American shows like Germany usually does, they come up with their own stories, usually set in Brazil and entertaining to watch. And they have an awful lot of talented actors, one of which has become famous internationally, Rodrigo Santoro.

Another example for how Brazilians incorporate foreign aspects into their culture so that sooner or later you actually forget that it once wasn't theirs is football. Brazil pwns football. Granted, they have their bad days (world cup 2006) but they are very good. My father once said that the Brazilian soccer players came up with totally new things to do with the ball, my mother likes to say that when they are a team and not playing "every man for himself", it's as if they are performing a perfectly rehearsed dance and nobody has ever been able to copy their style.

There are some examples where you can't help it but make fun of the Brazilian culture and its attempt to modify everything before adopting it into their culture. In Chile, I talked to a Brazilian guy who was into martial arts and there was a girl who knew a lot about that stuff as well and he kept trying to explain that what she called ju-jitsu wasn't exactly what he called ju-jitsu because when that sport came to Brazil, they changed it a bit to have it fit their purposes.

It's like translating books. You CAN'T just call Hufflepuff Hufflepuff. No, Lufa Lufa is the way to go. And while the members of the Weasley family are called Artur, Molly, Gui, Carlinhos, Percy, Frederico, Jorge, Rony and Gina. Harry's full name isn't Harry James Potter but Harry Tiago Potter (as his parents were Tiago and Lilían Potter). And when the translator isn't too happy with the source text, he has the option to just CHANGE the content of said part of the book, add a letter Hermione wrote to Harry and Ron at some point, cut and modify the Blacks' family tree. Oh yeah, Válter, Petúnia and Duda as well as Tía Guida (Aunt Marge) as well as quadribol (Quidditch), Grifinória, Corvinal and Sonserina are the other three Houses (besides Lufa Lufa). And a translation I like in particular is that it was chosen to name the Muggles "trouxas" which literally is a make-shift bag you out the most necessary things in before making a quick escape.

But this is not why I am writing all this. This is just to show that Brazilians are a bit different. And as I will now point out, they manage to get illegal things done legally.

A short story before getting to the meat: I was on the beach with my cousin and sister once and a guy who sold copies of DVDs and CDs walked up to us offering to sell us some (that's quite usual). My cousin asked him for the most recent CD of a famous Brazilian singer and he told us, "I'm sorry, I just sold my last copy to that policeman on the other side of the street."

As for the reason of this whole post: Today I was looking for a site where I could download Portuguese subtitles for the episodes of the third season of Lost for my grandma who is hooked on the series. I stumbled over a link to a SERIOUS website that was offering the third season of Lost on DVD already. Not copies, the original with all features, in English, Portuguese and Spanish with subtitles in these three languages and loads of additional stuff.

Now, I know that the third season of Lost will only be released on DVD in the US in December. I checked and in some other countries it is scheduled to be released on October and November, but apparently it has been out in Brazil for at least a few weeks now and I can't find any press releases on this subject and it just makes me laugh because this is so typical for Brazil, to release a highly anticipated DVD set before its official release date (there IS a law according to which nothing is allowed to be released in Brazil before it is released in its country of origin).

It just amuses me.

Today I've watched a couple more episodes of "Heroes" and after finding the first three or so ridiculous, I have to admit that I am slowly starting to enjoy it. The Tim Sale artwork probably helps because he is an amazing artist. And two male characters are quite handsome, so that's another good thing about it. Nikki still gets on my nerves as does Claire from time to time though not that much. It's mainly Nikki. And I have started liking Hiro. As

janetmacapointed out when I first wrote about "Heroes", there is something strangely likable to him although I haven't figured out what it is yet.

I have been thinking about Peter's powers and I am pretty sure that he is able to copy other peoples' powers like Mimic or Synch when they are around (I know, Mimic's powers have a few additional features, but he can also copy powers for a short time but needs to spend some time with the person if he wants to copy their powers permanently).

As for the actor who plays the part of Peter, I think his name is Milo Vintimiglia or something, I recall reading that he said he'd like to play Dick Grayson in the upcoming Titans movie and at first I was sceptical, having only seen him in a few episodes of "Gilmore Girls" (my sister used to watch it), but seeing him in another role, I keep thinking that he would probably be a cool Dick Grayson / Nightwing (yes, Nightwing, I don't want them to call him Robin).

OMFG! That is soooo cool. Not only that Nick Fury will be in "Iron Man" but also that Samuel L. Jackson is playing him because this is such a cool homage and kind of like full circle as Ultimate Fury was based on Jackson who is now taking over the part of Fury in a movie and I hope there will be a spin-off with him. I love Ultimate Fury, I think I like him better than 616 Fury who has been gone since Secret War ... This movie is going to be so awesome.

Picture of Jackson as Nick Fury. Looks slightly strange, but I don't care, it's nothing but a promo pic.

Ich ziehe Unfaelle zur Zeit magisch an, ich kann es nicht anders sagen. Dani und ich sind gerade von 2 Norte nach Hause gelaufen und wollten die Strasse ueberqueren als ein Colectivo in eine Micro gefahren ist. Es war voll hart, weil wir heute die ganze Zeit Scherze darueber gemacht haben, dass ich zur Zeit einfach nur Pech habe, weil mir heute in der Schule ein Fussball ins Gesicht geflogen ist, was ganz ehrlich gesagt nicht so angenehm war.

Heute war Anna Rohde und Krissies letzter vollstaendiger Tag in Chile und Krissie hat viel von der Zeit mit uns verbracht. Alexandra, Krissie, Niklas und ich sind nach der Schule Anna besuchen gegangen und haben mit Maxi und Muki gespielt, weil die Nana, eine von den beiden Susis, uns rausgeschmissen hat, was ueberhaupt nicht nett war.

Nahcdem wir ausgiebig mit den Hundebabies gespielt und viele Fotos gemacht haben, unter anderem von Maxi, Muki und unserem frisch ernannten Alphawolf Niklas, sind wir zur Plaza Vina gegangen und haben bei El Guatón zu viert zwei Chorillanas gegessen. Die Dinger schmecken einfach goettlich, auch wenn ich nichtmal die Haelfte schaffe, was aber nicht daran liegt, dass ich zu wenig esse wie meine Gastmutter mir so gerne vorwirft und worueber Niklas sich neuerdings gerne lustig macht. Der muss mal wieder intensiv gekitzelt werden, damit er weiss, dass es nciht seine Aufgabe ist zu versuchen mich zu erziehen und immer zu sagen, dass ich nie alles aufesse. Letzteres stimmt und ich glaube, er ist, weil er ein Jahr juenger ist als ich, einfach nur zu naiv um zu bemerken, dass es unmoegelich ist, mich zu erziehen. Ich bin kein Hund und sein Versuch mir zu erklaeren, dass ich Dani jedes Mal, wenn ich ihr im Schulhaus begegne, gruessen muss, war nicht sehr erfolgreich.

Ganz ehrlich gesagt tut Niklas mir ja Leid, weil er in etwa einer Woche nur noch mich hat und er ist so verzweifelt, dass er sich ueber meine Anwesenheit freut, was doch beweist, dass er krank ist.

In Spanisch sollten wir eine Beschreibung von jemand Beruehmtem schreiben. Meine Person war zwar beruehmt, aber leider hat keiner sie gekannt. Ich hatte ja zu Beginn Henry Ian Cusik nehmen wollen, dann Carlos Ruiz Zafón, aber irgendwie bin ich von beiden abgewichen, weil sie zu unbekannt waren und bin bei Ed Brubaker gelandet, den natuerlich auch keiner gekannt haette, wenn ich bei dem albernen Spiel, das wir gespielt haben, drangekommen waere, aber das ist zum Glueck ja nciht passiert.

Der erste Schultag nach den Ferien hat nicht nur dazu gefuehrt, dass ich mal haeufiger in den Unterricht gehe, sondern auch, dass ich mir sowas wie einen Stundenplan angelegt habe. Niklas und ich haben uns sorgfaeltig ausgesucht, in welche Fecher wir jeden Tag gehen wollen und haben sogar die Spanischgruppe gewechelt, weil wir der Meinung waren, dass unser Unterricht in der vierten Stunde besser ist als in der zweiten (eigentlich sollte man ja von der vierten in die zweiter wechselnwenn man fortgeschritten ist und nicht, weil einem der Stundenplan dann besser gefaellt). Jedenfalls ist es gut, dass Niklas und ich in fast allem ausser Oliven den gleichen Geschmack haben und die gleichen Faecher wie den Tod vermeiden wollen (hauptsaechlich Naturwissenschaften).

Nachmittags sind Alex, Anna, Krissie, Niklas und ich in den botanischen Garten gefahren, wo wir unter anderem festgestellt haben, dass wir kein Auto sind. Davor wollten Niklas und ich Alex beim Mittagessen fast umbringen, weil er es gewagt hat, Ian McKellens Namen falsch auszusprechen (I-an Mac Allen) und wir vergoettern McKellen beide, wenn auch nicht unbedingt wegen der gleichen Filme. Niklas sieht in ihm den perfekten Gandalf, ich den perfekten Magneto. Wir waren auch die einzigen am Tisch, die wussten, dass Sir Ian schwul ist, was Alex sehr erstaunt hat. Ich hab aus verschiedenen Gruenden nicht erwaehnt, dass das meine Meinung ueber ihn auch nicht aendert und dass ich ihn heiss finde. Die anderen haetten nur dumm geguckt, was verstaendlich ist ... na ja, nicht wirklich.

Ich habe zum zweiten Mal angefangen Faust zu lesen und bin jetzt (schon) auf Seite 18 bei Fausts langem Monolog darueber, dass er lernt und lernt und trotzdem nie alles wissen wird, was ihn ja bekanntlich sehr frustriert. Verglichen mit Schiller, der nicht unbedingt zu meinen Lieblingsdramenautoren gehoert, laesst sich Goethe richtig gut lesen, nicht nur, weil ich mir bei Fausts Monolog meinen Vater vorstelle, der es auswendig zitiert. Es ist einfach viel besser zu lesen, aber ich bin ja durch meinen Vater und dadurch, dass ich Schiller nicht mag, wahrscheinlich beeeinflussbar.

Vanessa und ich haben auch Postkarten an Herr Damson und Herr Drechsler geschrieben, wobei ich die an Herr Drechsler besser finde, weil ich Vanessa dazu ueberredet habe, hinzuzufuegen, dass wir die Spanischkenntnisse, die letztes Schuljahr dank Frau Schwarz geschaedigt wurden, wieder auf den Stand von der Zeit zu bringen bevor wir sie zum ersten Mal hatten, was Sarah und Niklas sehr lustig fanden. Vanessa meint, ich soll mir keine Sorgen machen, dass ich meine Gemeinheit verlieren koennte, weil das sogut wie unmoeglich ist, obwohl ich hier viel netter bin als normal.

Die Plaene mit Island werden konkreter: Vanessa darf auch mit, wenn sie will. Ich hab es auch meiner Mutter gesagt, die nicht ganz so begeistert davon war und gemeint hat, dass wir nochmal darueber reden, wenn ich wieder zu Hause bin.

Ich muss mir keine Sorgen mehr um Alejandro machen, er ist wieder da und er hat wieder eine neue Frisur. Jetzt sind die Rastas weg und er hat einen sehr, sehr, aber wirklich sehr kurzen Pferdeschwanz, wie die Chilenen sagen wuerden. Fuer Anna und Niklas, die ja die Details von Alejandros Verschwinden kennen, war es erstaunlich ihn wieder zu sehen, ich hatte schon geplant Dario zu entfuehren und Jaqueline zu schenken, damit sie ueber Alejandros Verschwinden hinwegkommt.

Dario hatte heute sein tolles Jack Daniels T-Shirt an, worauf er mich aufmerksam gemacht hat. Laut ihm hat er es wegen mir angezogen. Wie kommt es, dass sich so schnell rumgesprochen hat, was ich von Whisky halte.

Morgen gehen wir nach Concon, uebermorgen machen wir einen Ausflug. Nach Santiago. Es stimmt. Wir haben nur unterschlagen, dass wir dort nach Fantasilandia gehen ...