I got this from Facebook, but I wasn't tagged... I just felt like doing it.

Think of 15 films that had such a profound effect on you they changed your life or the way you looked at it. They sucked you in and took you over for days, weeks, months, years. These are the films that you can use to identify time, places, people, emotions. These are the films that shaped your world. When you finish, tag 15 others, including me. Make sure you copy and paste this part so they know the drill. Get the idea now? Good. Tag, you're it!

1. Paradise Now
2. The City of Lost Children
3. Rabbit Proof Fence
4. Water
5. Joyeux Noel
6. Malcolm X
7. Auntie Mame
8. Metropolis
9. The Lives of Others
10. City Lights
11. La Cage Aux Folles (When I was younger I had a much higher tolerance for old movies with subtitles than the average kid. This is one of the many movies my mom made me watch as part of my early film education and I loved it.)
12. Better Off Dead
13. Harriet the Spy (I would say that both the book and the movie had a huge impact on me when I was younger, probably more than any other book or movie ever.)
14. Spirited Away
15. Mary Poppins
Bonus:
16. Cooley High
17. Death Race 2000
18. Dawn of the Dead (1978)

If you know anything about me you have to know that I loooove movies. This was kinda tough for me.

I'm Sick!!!

and it hasn't been fun.  I've been in bed for the past three days and I've only left the house once.  I've watched seasons 1&2 of Project Runway and now I'm on season 3 of Sex and the City.  I'm beyond bored and miserable.  Fortunately the worst part is over though.  Yesterday I slept most of the day and kept getting the chills and then hot flashes lol and my whole body hurt.  It sucked.  

Survey Time!! Woo!

001. Real name → Etenesh Brown
002. Nickname(s)→ Anna (if I don't know you and you ask my name... Try to pronounce Etenesh.  yeah)
003. Zodiac sign → Capricorn
004. Male or female → Female
005. Elementary → JB Fisher Elementary
006. Middle School – Binford Middle
007. High School (Full) – Appomattox Regional Governor’s School for the Arts and Technology
008. Gym or Outside – Walking around Richmond for hours
009. Favorite Hobby – watching movies, reading... boring stuff
010. Any Degrees? – 2: nope
011. Currently in a Relationship? – No
012. Phone or Camera → cameraphone
013. Health freak → nope
014. Drink or Smoke? → Drink
015. Do you have a crush on someone? → Yes
016. Eat or Drink → drink... I'm ALWAYS thirsty
017. Piercings → the usual... 4 in my ears
018. Tattoos → nope

HAVE YOU EVER?
019. Been in an airplane→ yes
020. Been in a relationship → yes, though they weren’t serious
021. Been in a car accident → yes
022. Been in a fist fight → yes

FIRSTS:
023. First piercing → Ears
024. First best friend → um I think Lindsey in elementary school
025. First award → Perfect Attendance in kindergarten & 1st grade
026. First crush -> Brandon Bagby in 3rd grade

LASTS:
029. Last person you talked to → my mom
030. Last person you texted → Jason
031. Last person you watched a movie with → myself
032. Last food you ate → ice cream
033. Last movie you watched → The Lives of Others
034. Last song you listened to → Right as Rain by Adele
035. Last thing you bought → rat food for Padme
036. Last person you hugged → umm 

FAVES:
037. Food → most things with tofu
038. Drink → water
039. Clothing → jeans and a shirt and my all black chucks
040. Book → N/A
041. Music → N/A
042. Flower → N/A
043. Color → green
044. Movie → The City of Lost Children
045. Positions → 
046. Subjects → Film, Religious Studies

IN 2008 (fill in the x's) ..... I
047. [x] danced
048. [x]celebrated Halloween (I was a hockey mom!!!)
049. [ ] had your heart broken
050. [x] went over the minutes on your cell phone
051. [x]someone questioned your sexual orientation
052. [ ]came out of the closet
053. [ ] gotten pregnant
054. [ ]had an abortion
055. [x]done something you've regretted.
056. [ ] broke a promise (to myself)
057. [x] hid a secret
058. [ ] pretended to be happy
059. [x] met someone who changed your life
060. [x] pretended to be sick
061. [ ] left the country
062. [ ] tried something you normally wouldn't try and liked it
063. [x] cried over the silliest thing
064. [x] ran a mile
065. [ ] went to the beach with your best friend(s)
066. [x] stay single a whole year

CURRENTLY:
067. Eating → nothing
068. Drinking → water
069. I'm about to → post this
070. Listening to → Fujiya & Miyagi
071. Plans for today → Going to Uno's and then to see Madea Goes to Jail w/Alisha & my mommy
072. Waiting for → KDO to start

YOUR FUTURE:
073. Want kids? → Don't know...
074. Want to get married? → Meh
075. Careers in mind → Meh

WHICH IS BETTER WITH GIRL/BOY?
076. Lips or eyes → eyes
077. Shorter or taller? → taller
078. Romantic or spontaneous → both
079. Nice stomach or nice arms→ arms
080. Sensitive or loud → both
081. Hook-up or relationship → hmm
082. Trouble-maker or hesitant → trouble maker

HAVE YOU EVER:
083. Lost glasses/contacts → yes
084. Ran away from home → no
085. Hold a gun/knife for self defense → no
086. Killed somebody → no
087. Broken someone's heart → no
088. Been arrested → no
089. Cried when someone died → yes

DO YOU BELIEVE IN:
090. Yourself → yes
091. Miracles → no
092. Love at first sight → no
093. Heaven → no
094. Santa Claus → I wish I still did
095. Sex on the first date → 
096. Kiss on the first date → yes

ANSWER TRUTHFULLY:
097. Is there one person you want to be with right now? → yes
098. Are you seriously happy with where you are in life? → no
099. Do you believe in God → no
100. Post as "100 Truths." --> meh

"Don't like his baggy jeans, but I'm a like what's underneath" February 09's Playlist

Finished my February playlist and I'm quite happy with it. These are all songs I really can't get enough of right now and as a whole they totally work for the crazy cold one minute/hot the next weather we're having here.

It's a little annoying that Blogger won't let me copy/paste things into my post. I don't know if I'm just retarded, if Blogger doesn't like Mac/Safari, or Blogger is just a little dumb. This is the reason that my playlist appears to your right instead of in this post. I gotta learn how to use this thing.

Edit:
Ok, so I was right. Blogger doesn't like Safari or Opera. Guess I just have to use Firefox whenever I want to update this thing.

February

I'm a little confused here

because I don't know which direction to take this blog.  I don't really know on what I should focus this thing.  I've had a livejournal for the past 6 years and for some reason I left it.  I went on hiatus and got a Blogger account.  I guess the reason is that when you've been somewhere for a long time and you have people who have been there with you just as long, they start to think they know who you are and what to expect.  I guess I just wanted to get away from that and start over.  Eventually there I stayed away from topics like religion, fashion, and books focusing more on music and politics I guess.  I did post a few poems there too, which was nice.  I don't know.  I mean, one of my old friends from school has an account here and I was going to add her, but all she talked about was god and being a Christian.  I mean, I have no problem with that; it's her blog, but I'm pretty sure she wouldn't be okay with me being atheist and I'm really not a fan of rocking the boat I share with my friends... more than likely the whole thing will tip over and we'll both fall in.  Did I take that metaphor too far?  It's possible.  

I like the idea of having a place where you can talk about your religion (or lack thereof), but I don't want to be the preachy atheist.  I mean, that's just not good for business.  I don't really want to talk about fashion either because I just follow it without implementing it in my personal life.  I don't know what I'm going to do, but until recently I never thought about writing from an atheist perspective.  "Atheist activism", if you will, is actually very important to me.  And by atheist activism I mean just trying to open people's eyes to what it really means to be atheist and fighting discrimination (believe it or not atheists DO experience discrimination even though it isn't nearly as big an issue as racial, sexual orientation, and gender discrimination).  I do feel strongly about separation of church and state, but there are things in the country and in the world that are more important than a bible verse inscribed on the wall of a court house.  Don't get me wrong, I do agree with those groups that fight for more separation, but I fight harder for other causes right now.  

Well, since I just kind of went off on a mini rant, I think I've found my blog focus.  Yay!

Ooh, I'm also writing about music, veganism, books, and my life and all that so Yay! to that too :)