So I haven't been taking in nearly as many movies as I used to whilest up in Oregon. I've been too busy with other stuff that I will update tomorrow or Wed, depending on my condition (getting wisdoms yanked out today... in 3hrs actually). Alas, I can say that I've introduced a handful of movies to my sister & mom(#2).
How To Train Your Dragon
Black Swan
Inception (heard of just never had watched)
Henry Poole Is Here (honestly one of my greatest random movie finds ever!)
Catfish (recommended to Meg and confirmed by me that it is a need to see for its concept)
This will conclude my beer induced M'Fuckin Monday update. I will now go grab my book and put on my docs so that I'm ready to be picked up and dropped off at my appt, I am pregaming because chances are I may take a nap beforehand.
So, Rose comes home today and puts on some music and I hear the Mortal Kombat theme in the mix! I get amped and find the soundtrack online and have been listening to it for the past hour at least. This got me in a comic kind of mood and I soon realized how many comic movies are coming out this year!!! Seriously am so excited, makes me remember when I was in 4th grade and I used to walk to the comic book store with my friend Jenna to get new cards, comics & (some) pogs. We would geek out and watch X-Men, trade cards, organize our binders (I still have all mine and will never part with them), it was just the best time ever!
X-Men
Thor
Captain America: The First Avenger
I kid you not, my eyes almost fell out of my head watching this. Looks brilliant!
So I'm going to be taking photos of some of my things and do an internet-sale. Must clean BUT I am yet again, distracted by the beauty of Mr Gosling.
Yes, I just let out a exaggerated exhale but it was definitely needed. Also, this made me laugh and I can't wait! Love Emma Stone, she's a riot, a doll and now one of the luckier girls to have walked earth. Great cast:
Now on to another handsome devil and a new movie that just premiered at Cannes:
From his description, the clip seems pretty accurate. I've read a few reviews and people were talking about how its kind of underwhelming and / or having a campy feel but Ryan states how REO Speedwagon was the reason this movie happened, so it fits. Check out this other clip that shows a bit of dialogue and some sweet tunes. I for one and pretty excited, I get kind of a grind house feel and am a sucker for any Gosling film as he's a great actor and well, a babe.
The Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes - Seriously gave me goosebumps, it looks so good. I'm stoked WETA worked on this and call me bias, but Draco is in it :) hehe
Cracks
Passion Play
Super 8
X-Men: First Class - So jazzed on the cast and it looks legit; fingers crossed. I actually get a little choked up watching the preview because X-Men was a huge part of my growing up and I just want the movie to be so good! I remember picking out a cast when I was in 4th grade for my ideal X-Men flick.
Make Believe (d) - Young Magicians
Dumbstruck (d) - Ventriloquist
The Beaver
The Silent House (f)
The Help
Dolphin Tale - I'm a sucker for childlike tearjerkers
Welcome to a new week & a new month. We ended April with the Royal Wedding & starting May with the death of Bin Laden! Take in a deep breath and smile.
Young@Heart (d)*- watch this and fall in love with old people!
Doctor Who * - I've never seen it, but it seems to be all the rage & is now on NetFlix
The Pixar Story (d) *
Vicki Christina Barcelona - took me a while, saw it, loved it
Pressure Cooker (d) *
Easy A *- I've seen it a few times and love it EVERY TIME! Her love of 80s movies <3
A whole week with no blogging and I can't even remember what I did. Theres a good sign, I forget unless I write it down and I'm only 28. Awesome. Anyhow, enjoy the one thing I have to give:
I have been slacking big time on my Monday prepping. I've just got projects thrown all over, I keep getting magazines in the mail so I get sucked into fashion for hrs at a time, trying to finish reading Water For Elephants so that I'm finally done with it and then of course the Giants.
Anyhow, I have been listening to oldies - they never get old :) haha.
The word megalomania:a mania for great or grandiose performance
Giants winning games
Teal / Mint
Being pleasantly surprised with Never Let Me Go. Now I'm curious about reading the book
Making lovely new friends via creative and fun online outlets
I'm quite pleased that I've continued working out daily
Pushing Daisies!!! I swear, its been 8 months since I finally watched the show after having heard about it for at least 2 years and I miss it all over again. I need to buy the seasons, sadly only 2.
Simply because I've been over obsessed with the Black Swan Soundtrack, I don't have much to offer this week on the musical side, so its mostly movies this week. But first, I would like to spread the good word and give you something that very well could help you with your day, week, life, whatever:
Then all I can say on a music standpoint is to add more of these guys to your library:
Clint Mansell
Janet Jackson
Jamiroquai
Sam Sparro - for the wife
xxo
PS:
Todays word is - Ruritanian \rur-uh-TAY-nee-un\ adjective: of, relating to, or having the characteristics of an imaginary place of high romance
Examples:
"The dancers are dressed in vaguely Ruritanian costumes, the men in military, the women in stiff tutus." -- From an article by John Rockwell in The New York Times, September 9, 2006
My lil' cousin Charlie is too damn cute: "At the bus stop this morning, Charlie asked me if his hair looked like Justin Beiber's. I told him he has his own unique style. But for the record, I have Charlie Fever!!!"
Todays M-W Word of the Day is: Osculate \AHSS-kyuh-layt\ verb: kiss
Lets go ahead and get the sad out of the way. I was informed via a friend via Facebook, that Maggie Mudd is closing their doors on April 3rd. Granted I haven't been in about a year, but this ice cream is amazing and vegan friendly, which is how I came to know of it, thanks to Chris. The article says that the location is bad and that their doors may return at a different spot later on but I think part of the reason its so likable is that its out there and I always enjoyed the hunt for a place to park, it made the reward of amazing ice cream that much better! The creamcicle milkshakes were to die for and their sundaes!!! MM, you will be missed.
Now to recover from that blow, I'd like to first bring up a movie that I'm super jazzed about seeing;
It looks gorgeous, the cinematography is going to be absolutely stunning coupled with amazing actors. Sean Penn is one of my most favorite actors, every movie he has done has got me emotionally charged; Dead Man Walking, I Am Sam, Mystic River, At Close Range:
When I saw Live To Tell as a kid, I was obsessed with seeing the movie and it wasn't til the last 8 years or so that I actually bought it and finally watched it, I definitely recommend it. But that's me getting off track, point is Sean Penn* is brilliant and I can't wait to see him in another movie. Yes, of course Brad is a fairly decent actor himself and not hard on the eyes so I guess I'm excited about him as well. Point is this movie is going to be one to see and talk about, you just get a soothing feeling watching the previews (at least I do) and it also makes me want to watch The Fountain lol, not that I need an excuse because I watch it like its my job as it is already. But the cinematography & the Tree of Life combo, yeah. This movie is probably going to be one of those I can watch non stop. Be excited, be be excited!
Another rad thing that actually happened last night was the second annual Runway To Green. A fundraiser with help of major designers that donates a portion of the proceeds to environmental organizations. I was seeing random tweets from Coco & Net-A-Porter about the auctions, specifically the front row seats to a Chanel show & meeting Karl and dinner with Harrison Ford (I'd be down Docta Jones!) Its a pretty rad thing, and you can now buy the runway looks on Net-A-Porter and help the cause(s).
Ok, in random web cruising I see a sidebar headline "Scarlett & Sean make it official..."! Wow, what? Ok, I don't dislike Scarlett Johanson, but this is just weird to me. Also the article I read said "Both are coming off unsuccessful marriages --to Ryan Reynolds and Robin Wright." I'm sorry, I thought Sean & Robin were quite successful with 14 years together, but that could just be me.
Last week consisted of an enormous amount of Mike Patton, which is never a bad thing. This week, I'm just doing a cluster fuck of stuff, no rhyme or reason.
30 Seconds To Mars - Hurricane (whole This Is War album is AMAZING)
Dirty Dancing OST - I've been dancing around the house for 3 days straight
The Commitments OST
Which will lead me into movies and my urging you to go see
The Commitments asap! It is one of the best movies you will ever see, I'm a huge fan of UK/Irish humor and film. Its a group of random folk who've been scouted out to start a band, and every character is a riot, my favorite has always been Deco. Now let me tell you how oblivious I was to exactly how amazing he is, the actor Andrew Strong was 16 when this film was made. The voice and attitude that comes out of this guy is unreal, I absolutely love it. So do yourself a solid and rent / buy / watch this movie.
The Young Ones - The whole series, brilliance. When I was little, this was one of my favorite shows to watch, and about 8 years ago my mom surprised me with the Every Stoopid Episode box set! Vyvyan was my favorite (huge crush) then Rick (who most will know as Fred), the cast in general is just hilarious.
Hanna is just going to be awesome, good cast, amazing soundtrack done entirely by The Chemical Brothers AND my inner turmoil trend, bleached brows. I had completely forgot about this until I saw a preview for it on tv about a week ago. Let me say that I'm THRILLED for this. Saoirse is such a good lil' actress, I just love her.
I have a hard time sticking to doing just ONE thing at a time, and when it comes to being on the computer 75% of the time I'll want to have a movie going. My problem with that is: I can never decide!
I want to watch whats on my Netflix queue
Too many foreign flix that I can't get around to, because I'll be occupied with editing photos, crocheting, blogging, something.
When I pick a documentary, I want to actually watch and pay attention
Sometimes I want to see whats new in theaters & I'll see if I can find it, therefor I hunt
Its just a pain because, if I haven't seen it, I want to give it a fair amount of attention and if I have seen it, that must mean I liked enough to want to watch it again therefore I get sucked into at least 3/4 of the film. SO, a couple years ago in my search of a random movie to watch I found this gem of a site, Listen To A Movie. I swear to you, this is a godsend for an indecisive person like myself. You have a decent amount of flix to pick from and when you pick one, a little player pops up.
Right now I happen to be listening to Toy Story (along with quoting most of it) and working on a beanie, all the while I am NOT being distracted by watching anything. I simply picked a favorite movie and the audio is entertaining me, alas I am a happy camper.
That'll be all for now, I actually may listen to Big Fish and crawl in bed shortly. If I keep Toy Story on, I'll just lay in bed quoting the whole thing when I could be drifting off into slumber thinking of young Edward Bloom :)
I was thinking about death and all. About seeing how you’re gonna die. I mean, on one hand, if dying was all you thought about, it could kind of screw you up. But it could kind of help you, couldn’t it? Because you’d know that everything else you can survive.
First, I'd like to sayHappy Birthday to Matthew Broderick &Jeffrey Lynn Johnston!
Shake it baby now!!
Keeping with the "M" theme, I'm going to start off with some Mike Patton. Even more specific, Mondo Cane. I have a thing for Mike, and last year I came upon this project he did with an orchestra and band singing Italian pop songs. I seriously can NOT get enough of it, I actually crave it.
With all this speak of MP, I think I'm going to dedicate the week to him and do a bit on one of his bands/projects each day :D I just got really excited!! I think you should be too and I'll take my thank you's in the form of high 5s and go ahead and say "Your Welcome!" now.
zuc zuc zuc zuc
I would swoon if I ever got to see this live, just melt. On top of having an awesome vocal range and being an incredible musical talent, the face attached to this man is great (wow, packed that sentence with compliments). Just watching his face when her performs is entertainment enough. There are points when he almost looks evil with his eyebrows and smile, then he'll let out that bellow "deep deep doooown" and its just great.
The fact that he did something different from what I'm used to hearing impresses me. I grew up loving Faith No More, then Mr Bungle, then Tomahawk, Lovage... etc., and now Mondo Cane. Whatever the man touches:
GOLD
I leave you now to let your ears fall in love with some I-talian pop. Good day to you.
