Probably One Of The Best Videos I've Seen All Year

There is too much win in this video to be expressed with words that I'm not even going to try.
But hey, who's excited about Fringe S4? I haven't seen it yet, but the preview looked awesome.
Oh, hello to my Russian reader (readers? I don't know)! Is it cold up there? The place where I live is still acting like summer (freakin' mosquitoes EVERYWHERE).

I'm Gonna Go And Fire It Up, Honey, Gonna Turn Back Time

I'm midway through season 2 of Fringe in an attempt to catch up before season 4 airs (I've already seen season 3) and while watching an episode called White Tulips I couldn't help but notice some glaring similarities to the rock opera Broken Bride, by Ludo. In Fringe, the main character is a professor who "rages against the constant C, the speed of light" (-Ludo) in order to save his fiancee from a car crash on an early afternoon in May ("Morning in May" is actually one of the titles of the songs). For a long time he is unsuccessful, always traveling to the wrong point in time (although the main character of Broken Bride travels to the Dinosaur Age and the Zombie Apocalypse instead of a train in Boston- whatever). Finally he manages to "get back to that morning in May." However, he knows he can't save her and, "As (she's) starting the car and (he's) tearing inside, (he) knocks on the window, (she stops) just in time... 'Baby, I thought I'd come along for the ride'" Admittedly, I wasn't crying at the end of White Tulips like I was during Broken Bride, but it's Ludo we're talking about.
I'm not accusing anyone of plagarism, in fact I was kind of excited to notice the similarities. If you're a Fringe fan, I definitely recommend listening to it- the songs are Broken Bride, Save Our City, Tonight's The Night, The Lamb and the Dragon, and Morning in May, and they're all amazing. I don't know if Ludo fans would appreciate the episode as much if they don't follow Fringe regularly (it's got some major plot points that may be confusing) but if anyone else noticed these similarities, do comment (I'm not the first one, either). In theory, I love hearing from you guys, although I don't have much experience in real life (#Guilttrip).
Well, that's all for now. Stay safe, don't do drugs, and enjoy your Septembers!

What's On Your Bookshelf?

One of the first things I do when at a person's house for the first time is to find and examine their bookshelf. If there is just one shelf of books in pristine, fresh-printed books, it's usually a safe bet that this person is either a Kindle or Nook person, or doesn't really read much. However, if the person is more like me, and their immense supply of books is falling off the shelves and onto the desk, dresser and bed, than this person is probably a bibliophile after my own heart.

Even more telling in some cases is the person's library shelf. The books and materials that they don't have the money or desire to buy, but still want to posses for a short time. At the moment, my library shelf contains two seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (I told you you I was going to become slightly obsessed), three Series Of Unfortunate Events books (a heavy dose of nostalgia- I'm re-discovering how hilarious and fascinating they are after being in love with them in first and second grade), two Scott Pilgrim graphic novels, a book of Neil Gaiman short stories, several sci-fi novels, three YA romance novels, a knitting book, and a non-fiction book about the periodic table of elements that I'm reading for fun. From this odd mixture one can tell I check out more books than I can read with a high-school student's schedule, and I have no idea what genre of book I prefer (actually, post-apocalypse dystopian or dark fantasy/humor but whatever- I read a ton of different of different books). Alternatively, my friend Meg currently has only one book out from the library- an anthology of four Shakespeare tragedies. Which means she's crazy smart, a nerd, and has a reasonable sense of how much a student can read in her free time.

What's on your library shelf?