Listen Up

This day will be a day to be marked in the history books. Why, you ask? Well boys and girls, our boy Darren Criss is going on Tour!!

That's right. You heard me. DC is going on a summer tour && is coming out with a solo album. Could life get any better? I think not. :D

The Boy Who Lived...

So in my ILS 275 class this week, we are discussing fan culture and what better fan culture to discuss than that of Harry Potter? In my opinion, there is none better.

So I decided to compile a list of all of the Harry Potter fandom related things I could think of and as you can tell by the posting time that this sort of kept me up one night because I just kept thinking of more amazing things that Potterheads do.

So here it is:

1) Midnight Premieres: Books and movies

2) The Harry Potter Theme Park

3) The Harry Potter Exhibition

4) The Harry Potter Tribute Art Exhibition

5) The Harry Potter Alliance 

6) Leakycon

7) Pottermore

8) Merchandise

9) Parodies: A Very Potter Musical, A Very Potter Sequel, A Very Potter Senior Year, Potter Puppet Pals

10) Fanfiction

11) Tattoos

12) Tumblr blogs dedicated to Harry Potter. (There are way too many to mention so I only linked one) My own Tumblr blog isn't solely dedicated to Harry Potter but I post tons about it and the background is HP related.

12) The books have been translated into at least 67 different languages

13) Live stream of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2 from London so everyone around the world could be a part of it.

14) Lord Voldemort Twitter Feed

15) Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry Facebook page

16) Harry Potter Wikipedia page

So that's the Harry Potter fandom for you. Keep it up Potterheads. :D

You Beautiful Badass

So I've been recently obsessing over that perfection that is Tom Hiddleston. He is by far that coolest person ever. I know I say that about a lot of people but that's just because there are so many awesome people out there that I could only hope to be in the same breathing space with.

But honestly, I need to take this time to dedicate a post to Tom because he is quite legendary. He is hilarious, a phenomenal actor, humble as can be, so appreciative of what he's doing and the fact that he gets to do it, very invested in helping others (in fact he has done Live Below the Line meaning that he has lived on 5 pounds a day (He talks about it at around 2:20)--not sure what that is in dollars--in order to "raise awareness and compassion for those 1 billion children and their mothers and fathers who live for that every single day of their lives without a choice"), he is beyond handsome and knows how to look dapper as shit without even trying. He is seriously a beautiful bad ass. :D

Even though Tom won Best Villain at the MTV Movie Awards, he is clearly a hero in our hearts. I just love his speech. I've watched it about 10 times now. I can't even stand how cool and awesome he is. And you gotta love that accent.

Thor: The Dark World comes out November 8th. Get ready for some more Loki badassery. :D

God Save thee Tumblr

Gosh, I just went on an awesome Tumblr spree and I am so happy and giddy right now that I can't even stand it.

Those days of lent must have been the saddest days of my life by far. Seriously, Tumblr makes me so happy that I owe it so much. I'm even smirking right now as I'm writing this and thinking about Tumblr.

If you all don't have Tumblr you should totally get one. It's a pretty simple and easy way to, oh I don't know,...complete your life.

Go ahead. Complete your life.

It'll be worth it. :D

Light Em Up...I'm on Fire

So it's always nice to see bands making a come back after they've been off the scene for a while and Fall Out Boy is definetely making a come back with their new song My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up) which is a phenomenal song with some incredibly high notes. I'm amazed every time I hear the song at the fact that the lead singer can hit those notes at all. Now I don't normally listen to Fall Out Boy (which would explain why I almost wrote Linkin Park and don't actually know the lead singers name--of either bands) but that's not to say that they don't have good music. In fact, I just hear other songs instead of theirs. Also I guess I just get my punk/rock/alternative bands mixed up. I always for some reason think that Linkin Park sings Apologize which in fact they do not--One Republic does (who I fucking love beyond belief btdubs)--and maybe that's because I saw a music video or a live performance of the song Apologize and immediately thought that it sounded like Linkin Park (maybe I thought that the lead singer of One Republic looked like the Linkin Park guy because because at the time I wasn't really aware of One Republic) and just always thought that that's who sang it and that's stuck with me for years. And I actually can't think of any Linkin Park songs off the top of my head which probably goes to show how little I know about Linkin Park in the first place. Now wait...who sings Boulevard of Broken Dreams?....I totally just had to look that up (which is pretty sad considering that used to be my jam)and had a dumb blonde moment (apologies to any blondes or people who are dumb who may be offended by that statement or its combination of groups of people) when it said that Green Day sings that. Whatever, I clearly get my bands mixed up sometimes.

Anyway the point of this post was not to go off on a rant about how I can't tell the difference between certain songs/bands/band names. It was to talk about how awesome the new Fall Out Boy song is (which is pretty awesome).

So here's the music video if you haven't already seen it featuring 2 Chains.

Huzzah!

I can't believe I didn't post about this yesterday!!

LENT IS OVER!! Tumblr is back in my life once again.

However, 40+ days has changed things a bit. Tumblr is not as it used to be but I guess I'll just have to get back into the swing of things. Once I start using it more often everything will feel better. Giving it up, however, was good for me. I learned that I don't need all of these things to make me happy. I just need other things as well. Lolz.

I know it's late but also Happy Easter and happy April! :D