Oh yeah and...

Cinema Paradiso
Slumdog Millionare
Decent (I almost had an anxiety attack watching this in an empty theatre)
The Visitor
Waltz With Bashir
Changeling
Iron Man
There Will be Blood
Eastern Promises
La Vie En Rose (Amazing, Marion Cotillard earned that Oscar)
The Savages
Into the Wild
Twister (Mind Goo)
Flawless


Ok that's it!

Great Movies

So a friend of mine who doesn't know much about films asked me to write a list for her of films and tv she should check out, so in no particular order here it is!


Breaking Bad (TV)
Weeds (TV)
Carnivàle (TV)
Frozen River
M
Dexter (TV)
Six Feet Under (TV)
Magnolia
Unfaithful
Bound
Secret Diary of a Call Girl (TV)
Escape from Suburbia
Henry Poole Is Here
The End of Suburbia
Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride
In America
Control Room
The Real Dirt on Farmer John
The Future of Food
Before Night Falls
Motorcycle Diaries
No Country For Old Men
The Big Lebowski
Infamous (Way better than Phillip Seymour Hoffman's Capote)
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Imaginary Heroes
Winter Passing
The Book of Daniel: The Series (Was canceled after 6 episodes, but those 6 were good)
Donnie Darko (DON'T GET THE DIRECTORS CUT, IT BLOWS!)
Aliens 1 & 2
Taxi to the Dark Side
Wanted (Totally stupid but kind of fun to watch if you need a stupid movie to relax your brain)
Dog Day Afternoon
American Psycho
Stranger than Fiction
Factory Girl
W. (More for Josh Brolin's performance than anything else. Thandie Newton reminded me of Martha Stewart)
Milk (Brolin didn't deserve a nomination for his performance.
Notes on a Scandal (Awesome soap opera trashieness!)
The Bridge (Not a great film but interesting to watch)
Huff (TV)
3-Iron (Amazing and Beautiful)
Radiant City (Kind of interesting but not amazing)
Californication (TV)
Persepolis
Detroit Rock City
The Lives of Others
King of California
Big Love (TV)
Charlie Wilson's War
James and the Giant Peach
Go
Showgirls
Hard Candy
The Business of Being Born
Wild Things
Resident Evil: Extinction
28 Days Later
To Die For
Water
Bad Education
Shadow of the Vampire
Nosferatu: Original Version (1929)
A Dirty Shame
The Prestige (Just for fun, Hugh Jackman doesn't completely suck for once)
Notorious C.H.O.
A Family Undertaking: POV
Apocalypto
Pan's Labyrinth
All That Jazz
Ghosts of Rwanda: Frontline
30 Days (TV)
Boogie Nights
Volver
Children of Men
Broadcast News
The Machinist
Network
The Corporation
Boys Don't Cry
Full Metal Jacket
Trainspotting
Y tu mamá también
Jesus Camp
Mommie Dearest
Diva
This Film Is Not Yet Rated
Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Illusionist
Stick It (Don't Judge Me!)
Little Miss Sunshine
Closer
Thank You for Smoking
City of God
Yo Soy Boricua, Pa'Que Tu Lo Sepas!


I think that's enough now.

I want the last two hours of my life back

Ugh. So Gina and I just watched 'Rachel Getting Married' and I was robbed!
Anne Hathaway was wonderful and deserved all her nominations, but she was the only saving grace of that film. This is definitely one of those films that feels like they're trying to be indie, with the obnoxious NYPD Blues shaky camera work and the awkward framing, that lends nothing to the film. About 10 minutes into the scene at the rehearsal dinner I said, "when is this god awful scene going to end!" That scene needed to be cut down to about 3 or 4 minutes and it would have been fine. It was like listing to someone read from their wedding guest book, only waaay worse.
The whole film reminded me of watching someone else's really well made home movies and them not getting the hint that I really rather not watch the fifth tape.
I was irritated by the way they styled Hathaway, they did the standard stereotypical, chop her hair off and give her an intentionally bad dye job, that'll make her look indie, and rough!
Give it a pass, and go watch something else.

With that, I recommend 'Breaking Bad.'

It's a great series with a surprising amount of depth. I have to say that my favorite scene out of the entire first season is the opening sequence of pilot episode. This show has great small subtle moments, and great cinematography.
Brian Craston is an actor I'd love to see transition into more television or film, he embodies the role of a sad beaten down shell of a man perfectly.
His character also gets to exact revenge in some really cool ways; apparently you can explode a douche bags car with a wet squeegee, I hope some day I'll get a chance to do that.


Oh ya, and Meth is wack kids!

My Dog shows me who's boss

My dog pooped in my slipper, and I think she enjoyed it. a little too much. Ok it wasn't in my slipper, but it was on my slipper and that's is just hostile! Just for the record if I ever poop on or around your favorite pair of slippers then you can be sure that you deserved it.

Also, I'm sick of the government, in the last two days I've had to go to the Social Security Office, the IRS and I did my FAFSA application. Apparently between me and my Mother we can come up with $11,254 to put toward college, great. Student loans here I come!
I know this is such a privileged child complaint but I feel singled out because my parents and I aren't failures. Both my parents have good jobs, they've never been drop outs, alcoholics or druggies, and they've never been in trouble with the law.
Basically becuase they worked hard their kid gets cut out of and free federal aid.
I know that my ability to find funding for college is a lot more likely than other people but in my short time working at the college I saw plenty of people come through our offices that did not deserve to get a free ride. It just irks me that when I turn 24 I'll magically qualify for free federal funding but right now I'm shit out of luck.

If there's anyone out there who would like to marry me so we both can qualify for financial aid then drop me a line.

Nick Cage pre-hair plugs...

"Put the bunny down..." Nuff Said!

Also The Rock was isn't half bad background noise whilst making a snot tissue mountain next to the couch.

Why I gave up on "The Big Turnoff: Confessions of a TV-Addicted Mom Trying to Raise a TV-Free Kid"

I'm a self-confessed tv junkie, and though I don't have any kids nor do I want any, I thought it might give me some perspective.

I love self-deprecating writers, Sandra Tsing Loh, Laurie Notaro, but this woman was the kind of person I can't stand, a totally self-absorbed yuppie with a half-arsed job, who is far too bored with herself. I kept reading through it and thinking, "she doesn't realize what a tool she is, oh my God she's awful!"

I don't think I made even made it to the half-way mark.



Now that I think about it I should trade that book in...

How I'd spend $1,000

I'm an American, credit card bills, I would put it toward that, or maybe moving, I guess it depends how awful the weather would be where I want to move to... Last I heard it was snowing there...