This is ADORABLE.

this is so broken and weird and sweet and messed up

This isn't my story. It's my friend's story. Let's call her Marie. Now, Marie is by no means innocent in this story. She was at least a bystander for most of the shit that happened. But it's so horrific I'm going to share it anyway.

Yikes!!!!

That is beautiful.

Sadly, Bat Bat's adorable old dad had a stroke shortly after the incident (fuck, I almost had a stroke too, sorry guy). He stayed at his house out on an island for the next year before he passed away so I never saw him again. He did give me back an extra hundred dollars in my security deposit, though, so I think that…

I think she ended up getting sued instead. Turns out, she had distributed Emily's belongings between our neighbors' trash cans throughout the neighborhood. When the neighbors found them, they called the police because they were like "Hey, I definitely did not put these expensive textbooks and digital camera in here,…

At first I thought "spineless" meant invertebrate, which would have been a different kind of problematic living situation.

How did she not get arrested???

I lived in a semi-boarding house situation after moving to a new city for a semester program. The old man who owned the house was really nice and was around frequently. His son kept the house in good shape, but his daughter lived on the first floor in an only semi-separate apartment. It was the cheapest thing I could…

I don't believe you want to be flat on purpose.

All I can come up with is that if she's surrounded by people telling her it's awesome, then she can easily believe it's awesome? But wasn't she a folk singer in the past or something? With some exceptions, I think folk singers generally have to sing well. Or at least tunefully. So she may well know it's shit and not…

They can't think they sound good, can they? When she sings that "Fourth of July" line, she has to know, right?

In her (and your) defense, this seems like a difficult song to sing well. Her songs need to be like Moon River - written specifically for someone with a limited vocal range (in that case, Audrey Hepburn).

The yelling-as-singing trend needs to die a horrible death already. It is painful to listen to and there's no way it's not painful for the singer.

I watch this movie every time it's on. Can't love it enough. Ryan Reynolds needs to stick to comedy. "forgiveness......"

Really? I find her trying to hit the high notes painful to listen to

My ears must be broken. I didn't think Perry sounded all that bad in this as a live singer. I've heard a lot worse. A whole lot worse.

Huh? She's singing harmony, but her pitch sounds reasonably good.

Skip to 2:00. Makes Britney sound like Whitney Houston.