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Friday, February 27, 2009

random post-college thought of the day

It's really hard living in a world where people haven't obsessively watched the same YouTube videos as you. Why does everyone look at me strange when I say, "mmm creamy" or "I want to meet that dad" or "That was acting, thank you"? And then you have to be like "Guys, you have to see this video" and then you show it to them and they're like "That was weird." And then you feel worse and can never say those weird things again. And then, they make you watch a video of a cat sneezing or something and you're like, "That's not the same thing. I can't obsessively make that adorable sneezing sound over and over every time I hear something remotely similar to it." And they're like "Yeah, but how cute is this cat?" What's up with that amiright?

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Do you ever sit at your computer and think about exercising so much that you're convinced you've done some and then realize an hour and a half later that you're still just sitting in a chair trying to decide which free yoga video to do?

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Hot tub time machine? This sounds amazing.

From Vulture:
John Cusack, Rob Corddry, and Craig Robinson have joined the cast of Hot Tub Time Machine, with Vulture buddy Clark Duke in negotiations to do the same. The movie revolves around a group of friends who return to a lodge where they partied in their youth, only to be shipped back to the year 1987 upon entering the titular hot-tub-time-machine hybrid. [HR]


Funny cast? Check
Time travel? Check
The '80s? Check
John Cusack in a hot tub? (Wait, is he still hot? Medium...) Super check!

I will be seeing this movie.

Monday, February 23, 2009

since when are mid-season replacement shows good?

There are way more good new TV shows on than there was in September. I'm actually already really into Dollhouse, Eastbound and Down, and United States of Tara. We'll see if any of them last, although I believe Tara's already been picked up for a second season.


Does anyone watch United States of Tara besides me? I'm kind of in love with Nate Corddry in it (lilbro of Rob and Studio60 regular). Adorkable.

what I liked (but mostly hated) about the Oscars

So I'm no Barry (who likes stuff) or Rachel (who hates stuff), but I did like/hate some stuff about the Oscars. It follows:

:)
-"The reader. I didn't see the reader." This was some neo-futurist crazy avant garde shit, but I loved it.
-Anne Hathaway singing
-that Pineapple Express montage where they laughed at The Reader and showed so many clips from "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" (the second best romantic comedy of the year after Wall-E)
-Jen Aniston & Jack Black sounding/looking bitter when they presented
-Sean Penn winning and his acceptance speech
-those little kids from Slumdog
-T. Feyzles as usual
-the commercial with Nora's dad
-John Legend singing the Wall-E song
-Ben Stiller as Jwa Feen, so good.
-whenever Japanese people accepted anything and said "Sank you." Adorable! Everyone watching with me was making fun of them for not knowing English, but I can't wait til they win a Japanese award and then they're all like "Ummmm arigato?" and all the Japanese people laugh at them. Oh, their day will come. Mark my words.

:(
-Ugggggghhhh it was so effing boring.
-how they cut from Aniston to Angelina TWICE. unnecessary.
-Beyonce
-that whole stupid musical thing with Zefron and Amanda Blaahhhhhfried
-Hugh Jackman is not funny
-how they had five past winners come out and as Rachel W. described it to me, "suck on the nominees' ****ies" (fun game of the day: guess which word goes in there) So unnecessary. Just show clips from the freakin' movies.
-no M.I.A. b/c she too busy having a bebe
-Did I mention how boring it was?
-how they felt the need to be like "Maybe young people will come if we invite Robert Pattinson and Hannah Montana." Those people do not need to be there. Instead of pandering to little kids, why don't you just make it not suck so the rest of us will watch it? Huh? Is that too much to ask?

Thursday, February 19, 2009

hopin' that you'll stick around



Even though this idea has been done to death by everyone from Paul Simon to They Might Be Giants, this may be my favorite Flight of the Conchords song/video clip of all time. From the Michel Gondry direction (lovin' those giant instruments) to the meta "Who organized all my ex-girlfriends into a choir and got them to sing?" to the melancholy lilt of that repeated line "Carol Brown just took a bus out of town...", it's all pretty stupendous. After kind of a mediocre first part of the season, it's nice to see FotC hit a high note again. This has just the right mix of pathos, quirkiness, and genuine hilarity (along with a song that's actually catchy yet complex) that made the first season worth watching.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

depressing realization of the day



I'm pretty sure 90% of the guys I've had crushes on look like at least one of the guys from The Lonely Island.

making it past valentine's day and rounding the bend towards springtime


the feminist blogosphere is so anti-He's Just Not That Into You and I am having trouble reconciling my feminist beliefs with my love of the book/movie/philosophy/lifestyle. for all its sexism and essentialism and heteronormativity and the general lameness i feel every time i proclaim my love for it, it's still em-freakin-powering, and it still changed my life.

something less dorky:
i had a lovely weekend with lovely people and re-acquainted myself with the great outdoors. within the span of a couple of hours, i lay in the snow and stared at hundreds of stars, drove by a dead deer and sat near a blazing fire in the fireplace. This was too much for my city brain to handle and it quickly exploded. I am now dead.

Thursday, February 12, 2009

:(

not having a good day... I never want to work in customer service. People yell at you for no reason.

What's getting me through the day:
-tracy morgan tonight
-he's just not that into you with the girls
-skiing/cooking/lounging in woodstock this weekend
-no work on monday!!!

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

I'm a sucker for this ish.

This article is kind of brilliant. The Observer's description of L'Homme Fatale fits in perfectly with my Spiderman/Seth Cohen theory of nerdy boys getting really hot girls nowadays and suddenly turning from self-deprecating to cocky. I have met so many of these LHFs and I'm happy that there's apparently even the slightest bit of backlash against it because now maybe there will be a return to authenticity in flirtation (jk that's never happened).

I should explain that the subject line refers to both me being a sucker for this type of guy and his oh-so-sensitive delivery as well as me being a sucker for pseudo-sociological blog posts and articles, especially ones about dating, relationships, or new types of guys & chicks AND especially ones that coin new terms ESPECIALLY when they're portmanteaus (which this one is not, but I'm just bringing this to people's attention in case they happen upon this kind of article and want to point them out to me).

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

nostalgia

Taking a sick day off work means an immediate trip back to the olden days. Maybe it's my mom bringing me chicken soup in bed or the fact that I watched a marathon of The OC on Soapnet or that my iTunes on random happened on "The Middle" by Jimmy Eat World, which was like my 10th grade anthem (judging myself as we speak). Either way, I'm suddenly nostalgic for a time when all problems could be solved with an iced coffee from that place next to Falafel Express or the walk home through Central Park.