Since graduating college last year, I’ve found my time being almost completely consumed with my jobs and portfolio work that I just don’t have the time to update all 3 of my blogs.  That’s right, you heard me, 3 blogs.  I had weighed my options, and instead of this blog and one of my other blogs (the blog dedicated to my Personal Project/Senior Film, Khepri) sitting unused and unloved, it was best just to put them out of their misery and move all their previous updates (and new updates) to my main art blog.  And let’s be honest, I barely updated this sucker in the first place.  It’s just easier for me to concern myself with just one at this current point in time.

Don’t worry, you’ll still get all your Ranting Fangirlisms that you know and love, just under a different banner, and hopefully, once I’m able to move out of my parents place and am no longer hassled about my portfolio work I may be able to update a little more regularly.  Only time will tell.

So without further adieu, at around midnight tomorrow night, bot Ranting of a Fangirl and @RantingFangirl will be deactivated permanently.  It was fun while it lasted.

But yeah, working full time at the moment at the mall to help save money for the inevitable scenario of moving out of my parents place and getting myself my own car that isn’t a zombie and can be trusted over long distances, as well as try and get a more powerful work computer built.  As for free time, that is either swallowed up by my friends or by my antisocial self sitting in my room, dinking around on the internet or listening to music.

But don’t worry.  The old Ranting Fangirl you know and love is back with mare rants, more reviews, and  just more plain awesomeness.  After tonights showing of Conan…

Movies I need to see:

Where The Wild Things Are

A Christmas Carol

Horton Hears A Who (Yup, I still haven’t seen it)

Cirque du Freak’s Vampire’s Apprentice

Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs

G.I. Joe (I’m curious)

Watchmen (Yup, read the comic, still haven’t seen the movie)

The Fantastic Mr. Fox

Disney’s Alice in Wonderland

Astro Boy

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

TMNT

Movies I need to own:

Star Trek

Up

9

Inglorious Bastards

Snow White and the Seven Dwarves

The Little Mermaid

Alice in Wonderland

Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist

Things I Need To Read:

Invincible (comic book)

Power Girl (comic book)

Teen Titans (comic book)

The Murder of King Tut by James Patterson

The Frankenstein series part 2 and 3 by Dean Koontz

Bonk!: The Curious Coupling of Sex and Science by Mary Roach

Stiff: The Curious Life of Cadavers by Mary Roach

Transformers: Animated The Arrival (comic book)

Prodigal Son is a different look at the story of Frankenstein. Book one of the (so far) three part series deals with the usual introduction of the characters and story. It follows a mysterious man by the name of Deucalion, a New Orleans homicide detective Carson ‘O Connor and her partner, Michael Maddison. Strange occurrences in the city of New Orleans bring the trio together to investigate a string of gruesome murders, most of which are connected to a wealthy philanthropist, Victor Helios.

The book itself is entertaining. Though slow through the first part of the book, with the usual introduction of the characters, there is a sense of mystery that keeps one curious enough to keep reading. Once the book gets going, it’s a more steady pace, even with a few fast paced scenes. It has peaked enough interest for me to invest in the next book of the series.

Now the next book I read, The Lost Symbol was an excellent read. Intriguing from the first chapter, it’s a fast paced book filled with a ton of twists and turns. Like its predecessors, it focuses on the beloiefs of God, but it does not focus on the Illumanati or the Knights Templar. Instead it focuses on the society of the Masons here in America, taking a look into their secret rituals and the basis of their society.

Like its predecessors, I throughly enjoyed my experience with this book. It also opened my eyes to the scientific studies this book introduced at the same time was extremely mentally engaging. I’m very much looking forward to the movie of this book, as well as any sequel Mr. Brown is planning.

Yup, after several months of barely doing anything with this blog, I’m finally forcing myself to sit down and write a few entries. (Not wanting to do homework helps too) Somethings have obviously changed since my last full blown entry, such as the Ranting of a Fangirl’s domain switch. The old domain is now my personal art site. (Feel free to check it out, I do commissions [link]) Also the addition of the blogs Twitter account (RantingFangirl). And to be frank, that all I’ve had the motivation to do the past several months, besides the obviously little quips I’ve posted.

Summer had not been friendly to me, artistically speaking. I don’t know, there’s just something about being back home in Omaha for the summer that just keeps me from having the motivation to just sit and write/draw something. Having my soul sucked out almost daily in the world of retail didn’t really help either. Don’t get me wrong, I liked my job enough, just in the end, it was very physically and mentally draining.

Though this summer wasn’t a total loss. Got to see some awesome movies this summer (Reviews may pop up later) and I was able to sit and do some drawings, the line art of which is posted on my personal art site. Summer was also a good chance to get my nerd on, so to speak. My movie collection has grown considerably since I returned home. I was also finally given the chance to sit and level my undead fire mage on World of Warcraft. I had gotten a trail account over a year ago, but due to financial constraints, I wasn’t able to upgrade to a full account until the beginning of this past summer. I was even able to upgrade to Burning Crusade thanks to the generosity of a friend, as well as creating two new characters, a female Tauren Druid who specs in restoration, and a female Blood Elf hunter, both on Thunderlord server. I am seriously considering moving my mage from her current home on Rivendare server, but I would like a steady job before I do that.

Either way, the lack of artistic motivation contrasts greatly with the summer of my youth. Days spent galavanting with friends, free from the confines of the hallways of my school, free to endeavor on any artistic venture I wanted to beings I had all the time in the world. No more. Now my summers consist of me working part time in a grocery store while my spare time is spent hanging out with friends I haven’t seen for several months. Summer also consists of giving up the freedoms I had back in college. Hanging out with friends my father would have otherwise disapproved of, staying out as late as I wanted, or otherwise making my own decisions about my life. Coming home, all that goes away. I am expected home every night by one in the morning, and a lot of my decision making is still filtered by the decisions my parents make for me. To be honest, the only reasons I willing make the four hour plane ride from Savannah to Omaha biannual basis is to see my mother, see my Nebraska friends, to work (I’m guaranteed a job in Omaha, I haven’t had any luck in Savannah) and most importantly, I have access to my car. Otherwise, I’m happiest away.

I have found my zen in Savannah, I feel more at home here. Omaha just honestly no longer feels like home, but a place I am required to live at for four months out of the year. To be honest, I’m surprised I was able to get myself to drawn anything this summer. I guess it was that little nagging voice in the back of my head, saying that if I didn’t do something creative, I would go crazy. So some drawings got done, yet I just did not have the time nor the drive to color them.

Bottom line: I was ready to go back to Savannah. I missed my school friends, I missed the daily walks through the squares, I even miss the insane amounts of schoolwork. I’m done with Nebraska, and I’m ready to move on. Graduation at the end of the year will not come fast enough for me.

The creator of this video takes sound bytes from different movies, animated or live action, and makes different electronic sounding music using them.  He has several music videos made as well, using footage from the movies he uses.  This one here is my favorite:

You can check out the creators other works here:

www.myspace.com/pogotracks

www.last.fm/music/Pogo

Cartoon Network Gambles on Live Action

You know CN, I don’t take back anything I said a few posts ago. (see “RIP TFA”).  Make some decent shows, or bring back Transformers: Animated (A girl can dream can’t she?), or bring back some other fantastic shows you decided to throw away, then maybe we’ll talk.