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Saturday, July 26, 2008

summah movie spectacular... and a bleeding heart



This video for Gnarls Barkley's "Who's Gonna Save Your Soul?" is a little bit scary, but Jorma Taccone is adorable. An accurate representation of how it feels to get dumped, I suppose except for the whole heart carrying a little tiny stalk of broccoli and singing like a creepy version of California Raisins.

This summer is the first time I've ever been totally caught up in terms of watching movies as they come out and being able to talk about them instead of just putting my fingers in my ears and going "lalalala" because having people tell me the ending before I've seen it is my pet peeve. This summer is also the most hyped-up movie summer EVER. It's like a movie can't come out without every critic and their mom just jerking off all over the reel. The Dark Knight and Wall-E both managed to crack IMDB's top 10 films of all time list days before they were even released. What the eff does that even mean?

Summer movies in the order from best to worst (imho):
The Dark Knight
Wall-E
Iron Man
The Wackness
Wanted
Mamma Mia (so terrible)

Hilariously, this is also the order in terms of how much I paid for them. The Dark Knight was IMAX and I had to buy ahead, so that's 18 bucks. Wall-E was 12 and Iron Man was 10 'cause I saw it in Boston. Then, the last three were all free b/c I have awesome friends with ill connections. So I guess you get what you pay for.

Saturday, July 19, 2008

i learned the word "ennui" from clarissa explains it all

[[And Then You Kissed Me ~ The Cardigans]]

love, you're news to me. you're a little bit more than i thought you'd be

Post-college life is a lot like pre-college life. Somehow after eight years of learning how not to alienate people, I am still sitting on my bed calling up everyone I know at ten o'clock on a Saturday night. The problem in the past has been not being old enough to go to bars. Now I have the ID, but not the money and my friends are summering in the cape... well, not exactly, but they ain't here.

ah, melancholy. if only there was fun to be had every night. if only i lived in un dormitorio with 1001 dalmatians to entertain me til the stars go blue.

movies i've recently re-watched and decided are actually even more phenomnom than i remembered them being:
dirty dancing, fight club

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

a midsummer night's post

[[Who'd Have Known~ Lily Allen]]

tomorrow i start my post-college interning life. which i suppose is pretty similar to during-college interning except without health insurance.

i like the use of "paper planes" in the pineapple express trailer. that is the perfect song for the trailer and i applaud whoever decided that.

today, i went to michael ian black's book signing. literally everything that comes out of his mouth is hilarious. i was dying. as were about 90 skinny hipster girls in big black glasses and urban outfitters dresses. they were all up in his junk. one girl raised her hand and was like, "so how long is your wife out of town?" weird.

my new favorite quote: "directive." ~ eve (from wall-e)
comment on wall-e without mentioning anything else amazingly awesome or slightly disappointing about the movie: was anybody else weirded out that wall-e kept calling eve Eva? If someone were really trying to impress me with their adorable foibles, the least they could do is get my name right.

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

i list therefore i am

i saw a guy on the street today wearing a shirt that said "Don't waste your youth growing up."

other things I saw on the street today:
-akiva from the lonely island riding his bike and looking perturbed
-dean edwards (formely of snl, now of those cards that people in times square show you to try to get you to do their comedy show deal)
-a guy who had this piercing that came out of his chin and went down like a devil goatee except MADE OF METAL. badass!

things i am excited about:


Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
reasons why it is going to be both the nerdiest thing ever and the dearest thing to my heart ever:
-JOSS MFING WHEDON
-neil patrick harris
-that guy from the big bang theory who also played the guy who did al pacino impressions on studio 60 on the sunset strip
-the words "sing-along" and "blog"
-the intentional awkwardness at the end of this preview
-people whose names are "Dr. ____" but they're not really doctors (examples: Dr. Demento, Dr. Octopus, Dr. Strangelove)

Saturday, July 5, 2008

what i lack in patriotism i make up for in irony


I didn't take this, but let's just pretend I did.

Went out to Queens to watch the fireworks with friends yesterday. Within the past week, I had had two conversations (one with my friend Alex and one with my stepdad) about how America's kind of fucked (I am using kind of in the way I often do to mean really). So I suppose some of this sentiment was still bubbling up within me when I turn to my friend on a very public and crowded pier and say: "I suppose this almost makes up for the war on Iraq."

Other things my obnoxious over-educated friends and I said during the 4th of July Fireworks (and may I remind you we were SURROUNDED by people):
Eric: OOOOOHH! AAAAAAHH! EEEEEEEEE!! OHHHHHHH! AYYYYYY!

Nick: This all kind of reminds me of the Egyptian myth of creation in which that god ejaculates.

Haruko: Is anyone else getting really turned on by this?
Me: I'm pretty sure Eric has had a constant erection throughout the whole thing.
Teddy: I really wish I weren't standing in front of him for this.

Me (being a spoken word poet): Independence Day/More like Dependence Day/Dependence on oil/Makes my blood boil/So while the fireworks are flying/People are crying/And dying...
Teddy: Are you making this up as you go?

Eric (guessing which color will be next): Red! Yellow! White! Red! Blue! Blue! I'm starting to see a pattern here.

Nick: So I'm thinking of working at an NGO...
Me: In the words of Jimmy Eat World, Nick, "Just watch the fireworks."
Haruko: "Here... you can be anything..."

Eric: (to a stranger, supposedly attempting to be under his breath) Put your umbrella down, you stupid whore!!
::Woman puts her umbrella down::
Eric: Oh, fuck, she heard me (He ducks down.) I'm so sorry. You can put your umbrella back, ma'am.

Eric & Haruko: USA! USA!
Nick: UAE! UAE!
Katie: USSR!

Me: This can't be good for the environment.

Despite the fact that we are all assholes who can't appreciate beauty, we managed to have a pretty good time. Eric & Teddy had been there for hours and hours with a Nalgene of wine and a jar of peanut butter mixed with jam. Afterwards, Eric and I shared a bucket of wings at a BBQ/sushi place with "LIVE AMERICAN MUSIC" and pitchers of Bud Light. (Spencer would want me to say we drank Buds Light.) So I guess we kind of had an "America FUCK YEAH!" night anyway, despite our attempts towards detachment and ruining other people's nights. God bless us, everyone.

Friday, July 4, 2008

belated blogging

I know I haven't blogged for a while. Although it's not like I have anything else to do. My mom thinks I only blog when I have important things ::cough cough thesis:: to do, but isn't finding a job kind of important? Maybe it's more like urgent things.

The rest of my LA trip was phenomenal. We went to see a comedy show at the Improv, ate more In-N-Out, networked with Harvardwood people, snuck into Universal Studios, and watched a sneak preview of Wanted. Now real life begins, I suppose. Kind of.

For my birthday, we picnic-ed in the Shakespeare garden and then took advantage of the Wednesday 50cent beer special at Bourbon St. I had a really good time and got to wear two tiaras, which if you didn't know, is better than one tiara.

I kind of like posting trailers here and this one is one that you probably haven't seen yet:


I like movies about time travel. Or that just generally fuck with time. But I'm calling it right now-- the guy behind the bandages is a past or future version of the main character. Mark my words.