a cool halloweenish short film

this seems appropriate today. not to mention: ILOVEIT.

hope everyone had a successful halloween! what a cool holiday.

we can't decide what to be for halloween

we had some fun playing dress-up tonight.

invisible goldfish

my big sister kylie lives directly across the street from me. 90 steps from her front door to mine. 

which is AWESOME. she's nice to have around.

we have made thursday nights into fun-sister-bonding-eating-justdancing-watchingmovies-nights.

yesterday was in-n-out, the october tradition: corpse bride, and frankenweenie.

guys. frankenweenie.

i command you to go see it. today. skip school. skip work. whatever. 

it was so good. just go watch it.

i went in expecting a pretty good halloween movie.

but it is a FANTASTIC all-the-time movie. well done, tim burton.

i will own frankenweenie the day it comes out. 

and i will probably be watching it and quoting it as much as i do fantastic mr. fox

(that's big, people).

spooky scary

one of my favorite 30 rock moments. and it's halloween-themed! 

because it's october now

i saw this halloween-ish jack black/will ferrell/jason segel disney ad recently and i fell in love with it.
i want to go to disneyland and ride the haunted mansion ride a few times now. that's all.
(this disney ad campaign is awesome.)

happy october

yesterday we stopped at fish lake on our way home from cedar city (where we watched two really amazing plays). i've been to fish lake about 20 times in my life, but always in the summer. it's beautiful in the fall too.

i'm starting to get this urge to make a lot of fall-inspired art. if only i had the time to cut out a lot of tiny pieces of orange paper and cardboard and glue them together. consequently, i'll probably just be posting a lot of fall-inspired art created by other people on my blog. i'm also wanting to watch every halloween movie. and go see the dancing skeleton.

completely separate from that: i have this really wise professor. wiser than dumbledore, i daresay. i always leave his class with my mind going 1000 miles per hour (and going loudly,  i might add). i have never thought so hard about life and humanity and literature and films and my own behavior and attitudes and beliefs before taking that class. it's causing me to examine everything i do and read and view and observe and create. and it can be exhausting. and totally humbling at the same time. now just articulating all my thoughts into words...

that was a lot of words for only one picture. if you made it through the whole thing, i commend you.

bye bye october

why are dancing skeletons so hilarious to me? i don't know. but this sign truly is one of my favorite things about october.

see ya next year, dancing skeleton...

happy halloweeeeeeeen

saturday: sweet dance party.

watched the last episode of friends and cried a little bit.

sunday: carved pumpkins with the family.

paid danny a visit. (yay!)

watched nightmare before christmas.

monday: worked and schooled. and ate candy. almond jooooooys.

halloween weekend was a good one.

happy halloween eve

corpse bride

my halloween tradition.

kylie and i watched it last night.

you asked for it

a few of you tagged me. so here it is: 1 - when i was three i used to introduce myself by saying "hi, i'm lisa and i'm six." 2 - i love enya. freaking love that crap. she speaks to me. 3 - i can mimic accents pretty well. my janice impression is especially good. 4 - i want to be a pilot when i grow up. but my eyesight isn't good enough. so i'm going to make movies instead. 5 - i love documentaries. even the ones most people fall asleep during in u.s. history. i love all the documentaries. i'm a big nerd. 6 - about 7/10 times, i can listen to the score of a movie and know who composed it just by the sound of it. it's a pretty useless skill. 7 - i remember people's birthdays. if you tell me when your birthday is, i'll remember it.

goodness

maybe i'm in such a great mood because i slept in till exactly 11:11 this morning. or because this wintery weather is totally speaking to me. rain rain rain + cold that makes my nose pink. i'm such a winter kid. or maybe it's a good day because i wore my leather jacket today. or because i got a letter in the mail from evan. he is funny. or because i finally saw this with danny last night and remembered that i have a really huge thing for the starks. and for danny. or because my oldest friend/basically brother found out he'll be serving the lord for two years in the land of lionel messi and the tango.

i don't know. it's just a pretty good day today.

fall almost.

it's a good day when it's finally cool enough outside to wear your moccasins.

reasons to love fall

cardigans.

peaches.

drinking soup out of a mug.

fingerless gloves.

harry potter 7 comes out.

lisa mitchell.

pumpkins.

chilly mornings.

shakespeare fall season.

plaid flannel shirts.

halloween.

apples.

boots.

thanksgiving break.

looking at the leaves changing on the mountains.

chuck season 4 starts.

reading on a blanket in the yard.

cool breezes.

Kind of a big fall person...