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QotD: Best. Villain. Ever.

The Phantom of the Opera (Full Screen Edition)

If you're looking for the best movie villain ever, just look at the Phantom. He's coolness personified! And he sings! How many non-animated villains can do that, I ask? And if you close your eyes, you can pretend he's really handsome, too.

Appearances aside, he's a genius. He trained Christine, built a comfy home in the sewers from scratch, rigged a lot of stuff in the opera house, is musically literate, is a fine hand with a lasso, etc etc. I know how everything seems strange in the movies ("so Madam Giry picked him up from nowhere and he learned everything by himself? And built his own underground-toilet-dump-slash-palace?") but it all makes sense in the book... well, mostly, anyway.

Other candidates for the Best Villain Ever award: Lion King's Scar, Anastacia's Rasputin aaaaand Gollum!

A Death in the Neighborhood

There's a local hospital for military personnel and their dependents than can be reached in a two-minute drive from my house. Apparently, a soldier's girlfriend climbed the water tank on the roof of the building and jumped after a spat with her boyfriend. It was even on the news.

I don't know how people can throw their lives away (no pun intended). :(

Hi, Reader.

Everyone's been talking about Vox lately and it got me wondering what all the fuss was about so I joined. Fast forward a week later — this seems like a good way as any to keep up with my friends (especially since I'm too lazy to log in to LJ nowadays) so I figured why the heck not. :)

I don't know what to use this account for, though. Maybe... er, recipes? :D