the movie of friday night lights is just not as good as the tv show. maybe i should try to book next. the movie takes place in 1988, which means ugly hair. and, the coach is mean and not with a heart of gold. it's a true story, so at the end they talk about what happened to the kids, which is not that depressing. but, just not as good.
on a football note, i was at the bar eating wings today and tom brady kept coming on the screen walking across the field in a blue velvet suit. it was so hot. that guy's a stone fox.
Monday, November 30, 2009
Friday, November 27, 2009
foxes and guns and art, oh man
so, i finally saw fantastic mr fox and it was like dreams of wes anderson movies coming true. it was really clever and labeled a lot like the tennenbaums and good coloring and great adorable characters. jason schwartzman annoys me lately even though he was pretty much the only good thing about funny people and he was really awesome in this so i don't know what my problem is. anyway, my favorite parts were the closeups of characters and how the faces moved. it's exciting to see some stop motion. i'm gonna go see it again on $5 tuesday and i expect to love it even more!
i've also been on a mission to get back into art. so there's this lovely series on instant netflix, a pbs show, called art21. i recommend giving it yr eye time. in the beginning they have celebrity introducing and narrating, and they usually cover about three artists a show, and there's a theme, like fantasy or place. stuff like that. anyway at some point they ditch the celebrities which i like better because there's no cheesy stagey intro with the celebrity sitting somewhere reading something canned about art. it's people you know and maybe don't know. i watched a few this morning after waking up way way earling and cleaning and having TG dinner for breakfast. fantasy is a good one. it starts off with jeff coons but i had to FF through his part once it became shot upon shot of legions of art students sitting in front of macs with him talking about making art over it. he did say that he's trying to draw people in, which made me like his art more. i'm so cynical, i thought it was all irony, all the time. also, i'm not sure which theme carrie mae weems is on, but she's a really intense, beautiful amazing person. she talked about recreating sixities photos (like the one of the vietnamese dude getting shot?) with students and that was a great one to see. somewhere near portland some gallery or museum is showing kara walker's animation. i can't wait to go check it out.
and then today i watched a pretty bad barbara stanwyck movie at my friend edie's. she has a projector and she painted a big white block on her brown wall so it's great to watch movies there. the movie was called forty guns and i had the problem with black and white movies where all the men look the same until about a half hour in. it was really confusing anyway- too many characters and a pretty thin story. so, barbara stanwyck is a ranch tycoon, they call her the high ridin lady with a whip. she runs a tight ship. she employs tons of people who she eats dinner with at a huge table that must seat about 40 people, all dudes besides her, in her big fancy house on the ranch. the best moment was during dinner, her big crush (a dude who used to be a top gun in the west but then went straight to become a us marshall and get some morals) comes in and she says, "Boys, give us a minute." so there's this scene where all these dudes get up from the dinner table. it was pretty badass. but then, again with the getting lame, love makes her a total wuss and she admits tax evasion and loses her ranch but gets the man. it didn't seem worth it to me.
i think i'm gonna watch more art 21.
i've also been on a mission to get back into art. so there's this lovely series on instant netflix, a pbs show, called art21. i recommend giving it yr eye time. in the beginning they have celebrity introducing and narrating, and they usually cover about three artists a show, and there's a theme, like fantasy or place. stuff like that. anyway at some point they ditch the celebrities which i like better because there's no cheesy stagey intro with the celebrity sitting somewhere reading something canned about art. it's people you know and maybe don't know. i watched a few this morning after waking up way way earling and cleaning and having TG dinner for breakfast. fantasy is a good one. it starts off with jeff coons but i had to FF through his part once it became shot upon shot of legions of art students sitting in front of macs with him talking about making art over it. he did say that he's trying to draw people in, which made me like his art more. i'm so cynical, i thought it was all irony, all the time. also, i'm not sure which theme carrie mae weems is on, but she's a really intense, beautiful amazing person. she talked about recreating sixities photos (like the one of the vietnamese dude getting shot?) with students and that was a great one to see. somewhere near portland some gallery or museum is showing kara walker's animation. i can't wait to go check it out.
and then today i watched a pretty bad barbara stanwyck movie at my friend edie's. she has a projector and she painted a big white block on her brown wall so it's great to watch movies there. the movie was called forty guns and i had the problem with black and white movies where all the men look the same until about a half hour in. it was really confusing anyway- too many characters and a pretty thin story. so, barbara stanwyck is a ranch tycoon, they call her the high ridin lady with a whip. she runs a tight ship. she employs tons of people who she eats dinner with at a huge table that must seat about 40 people, all dudes besides her, in her big fancy house on the ranch. the best moment was during dinner, her big crush (a dude who used to be a top gun in the west but then went straight to become a us marshall and get some morals) comes in and she says, "Boys, give us a minute." so there's this scene where all these dudes get up from the dinner table. it was pretty badass. but then, again with the getting lame, love makes her a total wuss and she admits tax evasion and loses her ranch but gets the man. it didn't seem worth it to me.
i think i'm gonna watch more art 21.
Monday, November 23, 2009
rob-o-rama
liz and i really got it done yesterday by going to a matinee of the new twilight movie, new moon, at our adorable local theater. i was only a little excited for it, but it was pretty great. what made it even better is audience hooting and hollering when the boys came on screen. the first time edward is shown, it's this slow motion walk towards the camera and at one point he looks a little shy about the (mostly adult) women in the audience cheering him on. and i was warned in an NPR review that there would be appreciation when jacob takes off his shirt the first time, but it still made me smile.
the movie kept moving. new moon is my least favorite because a lot of the book is bella being really sad because edward said he didn't love her and he'd never see her again. but, of course he was lying and just trying to protect her. my favorite part of the twilight books is that bella has this big love (edward) and this other guy (jacob) who she loves but isn't in love with her. but, she wonders if she could be and jacob really wants her to be. i feel like the love but not in love theme is a good one and i like it explored.
after, we watched how to be, which is an indie robert patterson (edward) movie. i think that when i put in on the netflix list, i didn't even know it was him, but maybe not. rob is a depressed kid in a quarter life crisis with shitty, busy parents and stupid friends not giving him any help. he buys a self help book and gives the author a ton of money to follow him around and fix him. bad news, nothing fixes him. but, it was pretty funny although silly.
i also finished the first season of monarch of the glenn. it's a bbc series about a london restaurant guy who is too cute for words. he's also the laaard of a castle and estate in scotland, but has run away from it and is now forced to live there and try to get the family out of debt. it's maybe too cheesy sometimes, but pretty good and plenty of kilts, which i love.
the movie kept moving. new moon is my least favorite because a lot of the book is bella being really sad because edward said he didn't love her and he'd never see her again. but, of course he was lying and just trying to protect her. my favorite part of the twilight books is that bella has this big love (edward) and this other guy (jacob) who she loves but isn't in love with her. but, she wonders if she could be and jacob really wants her to be. i feel like the love but not in love theme is a good one and i like it explored.
after, we watched how to be, which is an indie robert patterson (edward) movie. i think that when i put in on the netflix list, i didn't even know it was him, but maybe not. rob is a depressed kid in a quarter life crisis with shitty, busy parents and stupid friends not giving him any help. he buys a self help book and gives the author a ton of money to follow him around and fix him. bad news, nothing fixes him. but, it was pretty funny although silly.
i also finished the first season of monarch of the glenn. it's a bbc series about a london restaurant guy who is too cute for words. he's also the laaard of a castle and estate in scotland, but has run away from it and is now forced to live there and try to get the family out of debt. it's maybe too cheesy sometimes, but pretty good and plenty of kilts, which i love.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
three movie day
after seeing where the wild things are, liz and i wanted more and we started with Far From the Madding Crowd (1967). Netflix got me to get this one. i don't even know why it was recommended to me, but i really love terence stamp and on the cover he looked really hot when he was young, so i went for it. it's 2 hours and 45 minutes, which is crazy. there's an intermission, and the movie could have been done there, but it wasn't. but, it was good and interesting and kept moving. it's about a woman (julie christie) who inherits a her uncle's giant, british farm and runs it herself. there are three men who love her: the foxy shepard who proposed to her before she got her farm and is a kind, good man, the older man married to his farm next door until he laid eyes on her, and the slimball solider who was raised on the farm she now owns. she marries the solider even though she knows he's no good because she really, really loves him.
the action was good and the men are good looking, which surprised me because it's the 60s, but i didn't like that she was strong, independent and funny, but lost that all when she feel in love. lame.
then, we moved on to the namesake (2006) which i got because the preview looked good and i just love love love kal penn. it's the story of two arranged marriage indian parents and their american kids. it's the story of kal penn becoming comfortable with his indianness, but also of his mother finding her way. it was too slow for me sometimes, but liz said maybe because it was the third movie of the day. kal penn playing a 18-year-old for a few scene was worth it for me.
the action was good and the men are good looking, which surprised me because it's the 60s, but i didn't like that she was strong, independent and funny, but lost that all when she feel in love. lame.
then, we moved on to the namesake (2006) which i got because the preview looked good and i just love love love kal penn. it's the story of two arranged marriage indian parents and their american kids. it's the story of kal penn becoming comfortable with his indianness, but also of his mother finding her way. it was too slow for me sometimes, but liz said maybe because it was the third movie of the day. kal penn playing a 18-year-old for a few scene was worth it for me.
wild thing
so, when it comes down to writing, i feel like i wouldn't remember all the reason i liked where the wild things are, but here goes.
1. the sets: how awesome was that fort? and the sea and desert? even the suburban neighborhood felt right to me.
2. catherine keener: i loved that she was a good mom. that when she asked max to tell her a story, she was paying attention and typing it up. i thought she was working, but she was listening.
3. that kid: max (real and character name) is just so great to look at. and he's brave in a way i'm not, which is nice.
4. recurring topics: i loved that the wild things would talk about things in max's life. like when one of them talked about teeth and max had told that story about teeth. and how judith yelled at him about yelling at her when he's king and she should be able to do anything and he should just agree and let her do anything she wanted. it was a little crazy when max's mom yelled at him, but also understandable.
5. camera angles: like when max would go into tunnels and how the night and day looked. it was just thought out and perfect.
5.6: that the soundtrack was all crazy songs that i don't know. the preview had this great arcade fire song, but i felt good that the soundtrack was all new and almost not words. sometimes hearing a song i love takes me out of the movie. liz pointed out that the wild things live in a world not our own and it was nice that it wasn't music in our world.
6. i guess mostly i loved that the monsters are all part of each of us. and how you can't only listen to just one and you can't make all of them happy. i've felt better after fucking up my friendship with hannah and it made me think about how sometimes it's nice to explode. it's nice to lash out and hurt someone, even though i didn't do it on purpose. and, to me, that was the theme of the movie. that lashing out and acting crazy is a part of all of us and it can't be ignored all the time, but you also can't act that way all the time.
i don't really know the book, but that's what i got from the movie. i feel like the characters developed because i know them all already. but also that it's true that being a part of a family is hard sometimes, but it's worth it.
1. the sets: how awesome was that fort? and the sea and desert? even the suburban neighborhood felt right to me.
2. catherine keener: i loved that she was a good mom. that when she asked max to tell her a story, she was paying attention and typing it up. i thought she was working, but she was listening.
3. that kid: max (real and character name) is just so great to look at. and he's brave in a way i'm not, which is nice.
4. recurring topics: i loved that the wild things would talk about things in max's life. like when one of them talked about teeth and max had told that story about teeth. and how judith yelled at him about yelling at her when he's king and she should be able to do anything and he should just agree and let her do anything she wanted. it was a little crazy when max's mom yelled at him, but also understandable.
5. camera angles: like when max would go into tunnels and how the night and day looked. it was just thought out and perfect.
5.6: that the soundtrack was all crazy songs that i don't know. the preview had this great arcade fire song, but i felt good that the soundtrack was all new and almost not words. sometimes hearing a song i love takes me out of the movie. liz pointed out that the wild things live in a world not our own and it was nice that it wasn't music in our world.
6. i guess mostly i loved that the monsters are all part of each of us. and how you can't only listen to just one and you can't make all of them happy. i've felt better after fucking up my friendship with hannah and it made me think about how sometimes it's nice to explode. it's nice to lash out and hurt someone, even though i didn't do it on purpose. and, to me, that was the theme of the movie. that lashing out and acting crazy is a part of all of us and it can't be ignored all the time, but you also can't act that way all the time.
i don't really know the book, but that's what i got from the movie. i feel like the characters developed because i know them all already. but also that it's true that being a part of a family is hard sometimes, but it's worth it.
Monday, November 16, 2009
I love sad, I know I do
So, here is a story of filmlove death.
I watched Twin Peaks all the way through and was pretty nonplussed. Then WTWTA disillusioned me so I vowed to rewatch Magnolia.
I watched Magnolia a few nights ago and-- maybe first I should say that the summer I lived at Albert's house in Buffalo and waitressed at a Mexican restaurant, I put Magnolia on every morning while I drank coffee and chainsmoked and puttered around, just as background audio/visual, I could never get enough, was pretty obsessed, talked about it a lot, etc blah blah-- but this time it drove me up the walls of our living room. I couldn't stand the bleakness and the melodrama and it all seemed pretty pointless: why make a movie this unrelentingly sad? And that event disturbs me because I know I love this movie. Or did? I know tastes change but, well, I dunno, it weirds me out to feel so blech and yech about something I was a big fat advocate of, even if it's just a cultural product. Can you think of any you once loved so much but rewatched and stopped loving as much?
One thing that can really take the bummer off of anything, though, is Home Movies. God knew what he was doing when he made that show, I'll tell you hwhat.
I watched Twin Peaks all the way through and was pretty nonplussed. Then WTWTA disillusioned me so I vowed to rewatch Magnolia.
I watched Magnolia a few nights ago and-- maybe first I should say that the summer I lived at Albert's house in Buffalo and waitressed at a Mexican restaurant, I put Magnolia on every morning while I drank coffee and chainsmoked and puttered around, just as background audio/visual, I could never get enough, was pretty obsessed, talked about it a lot, etc blah blah-- but this time it drove me up the walls of our living room. I couldn't stand the bleakness and the melodrama and it all seemed pretty pointless: why make a movie this unrelentingly sad? And that event disturbs me because I know I love this movie. Or did? I know tastes change but, well, I dunno, it weirds me out to feel so blech and yech about something I was a big fat advocate of, even if it's just a cultural product. Can you think of any you once loved so much but rewatched and stopped loving as much?
One thing that can really take the bummer off of anything, though, is Home Movies. God knew what he was doing when he made that show, I'll tell you hwhat.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
this is serious
it never stops. i'm always always watching something. yesterday we had a big day long rainstorm so today i got out to the rocky part of the coast and watched the ocean get big and fierce and scary and all crash up on rocks. then i went to walmart and watched a lot of tv commercials in the aisles.
but before all that, on friday night, i watched a serious man. again with the sucking at talking about things i really like. overall, though, it was dark and funny and excellent. probably my favorite movie this year so far. you know, it's about a nice but maybe meak physics professor and his crummy life, and his being jewish is a big part of it. the kids are really great, especially the son, and the wife's friend looks like a taller, fatter allen ginsberg. and lots of rabbis, and religion's and people's kind but useless advice to someone in a shitstorm. and natural disaster and funny strange parts. man vs man, self, kids, wife, nature, students and all that jazz. plus it's all 60s suburban minneapolis-- so cute! also! a brother who drains a cyst on his neck a lot. and some jefferson airplane and pot. i just really liked it.
also now the twin peaks festival is over. and good riddance. i've moved on to cartoons. do you like king of the hill? the first season is some of the best stuff. i have to watch some of the critic and some home movies. i also rented creature comforts, by the wallace and gromit dude(s) i think. this is the one where they take interviews with people all over america and then use that as audio and the visual is some animals. does that make sense? it's great. here's some:
but before all that, on friday night, i watched a serious man. again with the sucking at talking about things i really like. overall, though, it was dark and funny and excellent. probably my favorite movie this year so far. you know, it's about a nice but maybe meak physics professor and his crummy life, and his being jewish is a big part of it. the kids are really great, especially the son, and the wife's friend looks like a taller, fatter allen ginsberg. and lots of rabbis, and religion's and people's kind but useless advice to someone in a shitstorm. and natural disaster and funny strange parts. man vs man, self, kids, wife, nature, students and all that jazz. plus it's all 60s suburban minneapolis-- so cute! also! a brother who drains a cyst on his neck a lot. and some jefferson airplane and pot. i just really liked it.
also now the twin peaks festival is over. and good riddance. i've moved on to cartoons. do you like king of the hill? the first season is some of the best stuff. i have to watch some of the critic and some home movies. i also rented creature comforts, by the wallace and gromit dude(s) i think. this is the one where they take interviews with people all over america and then use that as audio and the visual is some animals. does that make sense? it's great. here's some:
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
ski masquerade
so, i decided i want to start wearing a ski mask. i don't like the wind on my face. i hate it.
speaking of hating it, i am totally amazed at how great office killer, directorial debut of the cindy sherman, was! have you seen it? it came out in 1997, and it's out on dvd. killer (haha, pun not intended, although it is fitting, which i guess that's what a pun is, right?) cast: molly ringwald, jeanne triplethorn (love her), carol kane (love, love, love her), chris from the sopranos, and some good people whose names i don't know. the whole thing is just perfectly designed, colored like a polaroid, flickering flourescent lights, an office setting like probably what offices were 20 or 30 or 40 years ago. i can only speculate since i've just been an office bee for just maybe 10. carol kane is the villain, and she's so whacko! sometimes she looks like the mother from 6 feet under but with drawn on eyebrows. she totally slaughters it. the rest of the cast is great, i guess i just keep saying the same thing over and over again. it's hard for me to write about things i just love, and especially fresh love, maybe. which doesn't make this blog too hard, it makes it a good exercise. i have a lot to get better at, and talking about movies or tv shows i love seems like a good start. so! also, some good cats and nails being pulled off fingers!
speaking of hating it, i am totally amazed at how great office killer, directorial debut of the cindy sherman, was! have you seen it? it came out in 1997, and it's out on dvd. killer (haha, pun not intended, although it is fitting, which i guess that's what a pun is, right?) cast: molly ringwald, jeanne triplethorn (love her), carol kane (love, love, love her), chris from the sopranos, and some good people whose names i don't know. the whole thing is just perfectly designed, colored like a polaroid, flickering flourescent lights, an office setting like probably what offices were 20 or 30 or 40 years ago. i can only speculate since i've just been an office bee for just maybe 10. carol kane is the villain, and she's so whacko! sometimes she looks like the mother from 6 feet under but with drawn on eyebrows. she totally slaughters it. the rest of the cast is great, i guess i just keep saying the same thing over and over again. it's hard for me to write about things i just love, and especially fresh love, maybe. which doesn't make this blog too hard, it makes it a good exercise. i have a lot to get better at, and talking about movies or tv shows i love seems like a good start. so! also, some good cats and nails being pulled off fingers!
Monday, November 9, 2009
it's grim, fay grim
so, i haven't started the second season of friday night lights. i watched the first in two days. two sunny, warm, beautiful days, by the way. but, i'm forcing myself to take a little break and i know that's for the best.
i did watch fay grim (2006) today. it's the sequel to henry fool. henry fool was the first hal hartley movie i saw and it made me love hal hartley. plus, it's very epic. fay grim was pretty good. things sure happened, but it's hard to talk about what happened. it's funny because people keep falling a little in love with fay and she likes it. it's also funny because i'm sure that hal hartley didn't have any of it in mind when he wrote the first movie. it's nice he took something and reinvented it.
the movie is shot at an angle a lot, which i didn't like. i was laying down and sleepy, so in some ways i couldn't tell if it was the movie or the angle of my head that was off, but i feel like that's a lame thing to do. at least it's lame to do all the time.
i did watch fay grim (2006) today. it's the sequel to henry fool. henry fool was the first hal hartley movie i saw and it made me love hal hartley. plus, it's very epic. fay grim was pretty good. things sure happened, but it's hard to talk about what happened. it's funny because people keep falling a little in love with fay and she likes it. it's also funny because i'm sure that hal hartley didn't have any of it in mind when he wrote the first movie. it's nice he took something and reinvented it.
the movie is shot at an angle a lot, which i didn't like. i was laying down and sleepy, so in some ways i couldn't tell if it was the movie or the angle of my head that was off, but i feel like that's a lame thing to do. at least it's lame to do all the time.
Sunday, November 8, 2009
total win(s)
it's almost 1pm and already it's been a marathon movie day. i woke up sunrise early, opened my laptop and went straight to netflix instant before the crust was even out of my eyes. it's a killer beautiful sunny warm day, so i should be outside, but yesterday i was hiking and outdoor shit like that, and i had a deeply terrible dream where an ex-boyfriend died and i had to go through all of his stuff and read all this horrible stuff he wrote about me, ugh, it was so sad and weird. so, movies are good bad dream cures for me. by the way, i got a little guff at the videostore yesterday for having netflix. i explained "i need tv" and even though i'm not sure that flew, it made me feel more righteous about it. enough about me, right?
well, so first off i finished you're gonna miss me, which i fell asleep to last nitey nite. i love it of course. roky erikson sure can sing, and although his mother was a narcissist, i did feel sorry for her when she told the judge she thinks roky should do yoga instead of taking medicine, because i want to believe stuff like that works better than drugs but a dude like that dude and his messy life, it's a tough call. speaking of call, i missed your call yesterday so i need to call you to hear about this fuckup business.
next i watched 30 century man, the one about scott walker. he's a crooner, alright, and i love that thurston moore has a perfect attendance record when it comes to being on these rockumentaries. johnny marr is in this one, too. and of course, scott walker is prettty great, and i always enjoy watching musicians gush about one great musician, so it was a total win.
after that i watched about 30 seconds each of gigantic (with paul dano and zooey deschanel) and then palindromes. i had to shut off gigantic because you know how sometimes the volume on netflix instant is just too too low? i thought i might like it though. paul dano is a mattress salesman who wants to adopt a baby from China and zd plays the classic quirky girl, but also john goodman plays her dad and lester from the wire is dano's boss. maybe some other time. and palindromes i had to shut off because no matter what i do, i hate todd solodnz. just can't do it with that guy, you know?
last but not least, we have the cake eaters, the directorial debut of mary stuart masterson, who's in one of my favorite ever movies: fried green tomatoes. classic small town indie character study family drama, with the girl from twilight and a bunch of other people. i have to say, it was everything i wanted it to be: sleepy acoustic sdtrk, old people having extramarital affairs, a lunch lady dude and a high school girl with a degenerative muscular disease having a devirginizing affair, prodigal-son-back-home-from-nyc-after-his-mom-died-type stuff, and adults learning to let go. plus some art. oh! i almost forgot about the terrible tattoos! a few characters have some pretty bad tattoos. not incredibly bad, but quietly bad.
well, so first off i finished you're gonna miss me, which i fell asleep to last nitey nite. i love it of course. roky erikson sure can sing, and although his mother was a narcissist, i did feel sorry for her when she told the judge she thinks roky should do yoga instead of taking medicine, because i want to believe stuff like that works better than drugs but a dude like that dude and his messy life, it's a tough call. speaking of call, i missed your call yesterday so i need to call you to hear about this fuckup business.
next i watched 30 century man, the one about scott walker. he's a crooner, alright, and i love that thurston moore has a perfect attendance record when it comes to being on these rockumentaries. johnny marr is in this one, too. and of course, scott walker is prettty great, and i always enjoy watching musicians gush about one great musician, so it was a total win.
after that i watched about 30 seconds each of gigantic (with paul dano and zooey deschanel) and then palindromes. i had to shut off gigantic because you know how sometimes the volume on netflix instant is just too too low? i thought i might like it though. paul dano is a mattress salesman who wants to adopt a baby from China and zd plays the classic quirky girl, but also john goodman plays her dad and lester from the wire is dano's boss. maybe some other time. and palindromes i had to shut off because no matter what i do, i hate todd solodnz. just can't do it with that guy, you know?
last but not least, we have the cake eaters, the directorial debut of mary stuart masterson, who's in one of my favorite ever movies: fried green tomatoes. classic small town indie character study family drama, with the girl from twilight and a bunch of other people. i have to say, it was everything i wanted it to be: sleepy acoustic sdtrk, old people having extramarital affairs, a lunch lady dude and a high school girl with a degenerative muscular disease having a devirginizing affair, prodigal-son-back-home-from-nyc-after-his-mom-died-type stuff, and adults learning to let go. plus some art. oh! i almost forgot about the terrible tattoos! a few characters have some pretty bad tattoos. not incredibly bad, but quietly bad.
burning bridges, taking names
so, after totally fucking up yesterday, i laid in bed and watched 7 episodes of friday night lights. and i'm pretty hooked. there are so many cute boys on it. first off, the coach is a fox. he did an arch on gray's anatomy where he played a bossy asshole and he was fox then. and, of course all the high school boys. oh baby. it makes me a little sorry that i didn't play team sports. that i never had that family around me and that pressure to do well. i think that choir was like that and we were a great choir, so that helps.
movies, 21 and blades of glory. 21 is about MIT card counters. it wasn't that great, but since i'm a rock star at community college, i can really relate to those MIT kids.
blades of glory made me laugh out loud a couple times, but i wasn't bored. will ferrel's kind of good looking with long brown hair. strange.
movies, 21 and blades of glory. 21 is about MIT card counters. it wasn't that great, but since i'm a rock star at community college, i can really relate to those MIT kids.
blades of glory made me laugh out loud a couple times, but i wasn't bored. will ferrel's kind of good looking with long brown hair. strange.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
time of the season
Something about November is always a little weirdy in my life. Whatever, maybe I'm just a baby, but if things are gonna get weird in a year, it'll usually get weird in November. So, that's why I'm glad I went to see Where the Wild Things Are in November and not in October or December. I may not have been prepared. I saw it at the Somerville Theatre, I didn't even know they showed movies, I'm so out of touch. Remember we saw the magnetic fields there? Man, if it weren't for you, there are so many good good things I wouldn't have done. But anyway, I hated it. I wonder if you've seen it and how you feel about it, and I don't want to ruin it for you, but really there's not much to ruin. I just mean, it seems like the kind of movie people are either hardwired to like or not like, and no amount of someone telling them about it will change that. Writing all that, though, I'm starting to not want to say more. Let's just say that although I generally like Spike Jones, I wish Wes Anderson made it instead. I think it needed more hardcore hipster quirk and less depressing dialogue. And more Catherine Keener, but I guess that can't be helped with the story and all. When was the last time I was so disappointed by a movie? Maybe it's the high expectations that are screwing me over. I just kept wanting to leave the theatre, like, get away from the movie. What I really want is to talk to someone who loved it so I can ask them why and maybe get in touch with something redeeming about it. I also want to watch some of my classic favorites (I keep thinking of Magnolia) and try to figure out why I like them so much and how movies I love develop characters in subtle, acceptable ways so I can find the deficit in this movie. Sounds like a lot of homework for hating one movie, huh?
I also caught up on the office today and it's not making me laugh. Neither is 30 rock. Has my heart grown cold? Well, I have a lot of questions today.
I also caught up on the office today and it's not making me laugh. Neither is 30 rock. Has my heart grown cold? Well, I have a lot of questions today.
broken heart and broken head
my sister didn't get promoted and for some reason it's really bumming me out. maybe because i'm totally unsuccessful in most things so i look to her to be the success. and i'm still sick with a monster headache and a shitty cough.
so, that just means that for monday and tuesday i just watched crap on tv. also, i haven't gotten the new netflix movies yet and i watched all of the old ones over the weekend. the biggest loser was awesome, of course, and the woman that totally sucked got kicked off so it was a great day.
and there's this channel ion, does everyone have that? anyway, it shows reruns and movies and two hours for ghost whisperer, which i've avoided, but i did get sucked into two hours of criminal minds yesterday. this show is interesting to me because it'd mysteries and because it has the Alaskan intern from the life aquatic and he's adorable. he was in 500 days of summer and i couldn't figure out what he was from. he has this great voice that's sort of biting. like it has a hard edge or something. he has maybe two lines in the life aquatic, so you can't tell from that. but maybe watch a little criminal minds and let me know.
so, that just means that for monday and tuesday i just watched crap on tv. also, i haven't gotten the new netflix movies yet and i watched all of the old ones over the weekend. the biggest loser was awesome, of course, and the woman that totally sucked got kicked off so it was a great day.
and there's this channel ion, does everyone have that? anyway, it shows reruns and movies and two hours for ghost whisperer, which i've avoided, but i did get sucked into two hours of criminal minds yesterday. this show is interesting to me because it'd mysteries and because it has the Alaskan intern from the life aquatic and he's adorable. he was in 500 days of summer and i couldn't figure out what he was from. he has this great voice that's sort of biting. like it has a hard edge or something. he has maybe two lines in the life aquatic, so you can't tell from that. but maybe watch a little criminal minds and let me know.
Monday, November 2, 2009
every night is friday night
Whelp, I'm finally all caught up with Friday Night Lights on instant. I was thinking about it, and I think what you might need is some Tim Riggins. I think you should check it out just for Tim Riggins. He's a pretty like a girl, superhot, mess of a drunk, high school football player, just about as TV texas as anyone could be, and I think you need some. Go for it.
Anyway, FNL is alright. The third season gets kind of whacky cos everyone's trying to figure out how to go to college, or art school (that was the quarterback, nice touch) and some people flip houses, or move to nyc to become a sports agent at 19 to live closer to their son and girlfriend in jersey and live a full life, or get fired and get moved to another high school. There's lots of parent-child and parent-parent bonding and someone even calls CPS on a shitty, overbearing dad. Good stuff. What I said about the coach's wife going batshit, well, she becomes the principal of the school, after being the guidance counseler, and her life is just hell hell hell and she's kind of a bitch but she's really close with the slut who has an affair with the nerd because she, the wife principal, believes the slut should be the first girl in slut's family to go to college and so the slut gets really motivated after her rodeo boyfriend turns out to be a gambler and eventually gets into the state school of her dreams and overall it's a great story arc.
But now I'm officially done. The 4th season can go get screwed.
Anyway, FNL is alright. The third season gets kind of whacky cos everyone's trying to figure out how to go to college, or art school (that was the quarterback, nice touch) and some people flip houses, or move to nyc to become a sports agent at 19 to live closer to their son and girlfriend in jersey and live a full life, or get fired and get moved to another high school. There's lots of parent-child and parent-parent bonding and someone even calls CPS on a shitty, overbearing dad. Good stuff. What I said about the coach's wife going batshit, well, she becomes the principal of the school, after being the guidance counseler, and her life is just hell hell hell and she's kind of a bitch but she's really close with the slut who has an affair with the nerd because she, the wife principal, believes the slut should be the first girl in slut's family to go to college and so the slut gets really motivated after her rodeo boyfriend turns out to be a gambler and eventually gets into the state school of her dreams and overall it's a great story arc.
But now I'm officially done. The 4th season can go get screwed.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
you give me fever
ok, not you as much as the world. my fever only lasted one day, which means it might not be the swine flu. but i'm hoping it was because i don't want to be sick twice.
anyway, i used my halloween sick day to watch two movies, some mad men season two and the third season of 30 rock.
liz and i started off with Push (2009) and sci-fi, superpower, action-thriller that some preview sold me on a while ago. it's about a parallel world where some people have different powers like future seeing (watchers), mind control (pushers), changing the appearance of objects (shifters, healing (stitches) and so on. i'm kind of a sucker for those kinds of movies. this one's set in china, which helps and there are these two super hip, side-burned twins badies who can scream really loudly that are hard not to love. dakota fanning's in it and that's the first whole movie i've seen with her. i watched some of man on fire in the kz, not that good. the ending was really opened ended, but i don't think it did that well, so i'm not sure it's going to continue.
then i watched the good shepard (2006) which i think got on my list because i love lee pace and wanted more after the fall (2006), which is kind of great, but the way. the good shepard is not that great. it's a kind of slow CIA thriller set in the 40s through 60s. as so many things set in that time period, mad men included, this movie was pretty much about being unhappy with the life you have and not taking the power to change it. matt damen is a Yale then CIA guy who hardly talks, is respected and marries angelina jolie instead of the cute, deaf girl he loves because she's pregnant. lee pace is a total ass in it and not around much. it was one of the movies that was confusing because of the lingo and complicated plot with a lot of men in the same haircut. but, it's mostly confusing because i'm not interested in the outcome enough to pay really close attention.
so, i guess over all i'm saying that you should watch the fall.
anyway, i used my halloween sick day to watch two movies, some mad men season two and the third season of 30 rock.
liz and i started off with Push (2009) and sci-fi, superpower, action-thriller that some preview sold me on a while ago. it's about a parallel world where some people have different powers like future seeing (watchers), mind control (pushers), changing the appearance of objects (shifters, healing (stitches) and so on. i'm kind of a sucker for those kinds of movies. this one's set in china, which helps and there are these two super hip, side-burned twins badies who can scream really loudly that are hard not to love. dakota fanning's in it and that's the first whole movie i've seen with her. i watched some of man on fire in the kz, not that good. the ending was really opened ended, but i don't think it did that well, so i'm not sure it's going to continue.
then i watched the good shepard (2006) which i think got on my list because i love lee pace and wanted more after the fall (2006), which is kind of great, but the way. the good shepard is not that great. it's a kind of slow CIA thriller set in the 40s through 60s. as so many things set in that time period, mad men included, this movie was pretty much about being unhappy with the life you have and not taking the power to change it. matt damen is a Yale then CIA guy who hardly talks, is respected and marries angelina jolie instead of the cute, deaf girl he loves because she's pregnant. lee pace is a total ass in it and not around much. it was one of the movies that was confusing because of the lingo and complicated plot with a lot of men in the same haircut. but, it's mostly confusing because i'm not interested in the outcome enough to pay really close attention.
so, i guess over all i'm saying that you should watch the fall.
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