tv shows and movies give me unrealistic expectations as to what new year's eve should be all about

2009 didn't bring a moment like this one . . . maybe next year.

anything can happen on halloween

I can't believe I almost forgot to post one of my favorite links ever in honor of Halloween!

To anyone who ever watched The Worst Witch as a child . . . prepare to never look at that movie the same way again.

r.i.p. jenna

With The Rocker's miserable box office failure (which I contributed to . . . sorry, Jenna), Rainn Wilson has announced that Jenna Fischer is now a zombie actress. Sadly, the kidnapping ordeal did not end as Rainn would have liked



and instead, "Kevin" buried 1/2 of JAM and it looks like Phyllis is going to be Rainn's next victim.



It's a sad story. Pam's memory will live on!

PS - There's no way that The Rocker was worse than Gigli!

free jenna now! (a/k/a the office "spoilers" a/k/a remember the time i met john krasinski?)

If Jenna Fischer doesn't get her peach smoothie because we gave $40 to "The House Bunny" at midnight last night instead of going to see "The Rocker", I will never forgive myself!

JOHN KRASINSKI INTERROGATION (from Watch with Kristin on E! Online)

Can we do anything to help Jenna?
Last I heard she was dead.

Oh, well that sort of puts a crimp in the future of Jim and Pam this season.
But Ali Larter has decided to do our show.

She’s going to be the new Pam?
Yeah, with a superpower. It’s going to be amazing. It’s going to be amazing!

That’s a huge twist.
So we should probably put together a memorial for Jenna. If you want to headline that...I’ll definitely speak at it, but I don’t have much time. Maybe I’ll just do a in-memoriam blog. “She was great.”

That would be very touching.
And then I’ll put together a clips package. Of my stuff, with maybe her in it, too.

Love him.

(because i can never get enough of this picture)

FREE JENNA NOW! Do your part! Because I'm sure not doing mine!

okay, this actually makes me kind of want to see the rocker

A personal message from Jenna's "friend", Rainn Wilson

in honor of the dark knight

and since I was appalled that Briton had never even heard of this movie, let alone seen it, I present to you the finest moment of Christian Bale's career.



God I love this movie, even though I guess there's a reason why Christian Bale doesn't talk about it . . . and it starts at 2:11 . . . hahaha

i want to marry ryan banks

Bradley Cooper + Jason Priestley + ABC Family = BEST MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE EVER! Sooooo excited that this movie's on TV right now for the first time in about three years.

thank you for saving my life

I had this really sad thought last night that I might be the only person in the world who liked the movie Lady in the Water.





I saw it in the movie theater the summer of 2006 when it came out - I don't see a lot of movies in theaters these days, but I've been an M. Night Shyamalan fan since I went with Missy and Abby to see The Sixth Sense on opening night, before anyone knew ANYTHING about what it was about or the twist or any of that good stuff. I saw all of his movies from that point on except for Unbreakable in theaters, and while I wasn't a huge fan of Signs or The Village, I enjoyed them enough for me to want to see Lady in the Water, which, after a second viewing last night, I'd say is my favorite of the set. And considering neither Bruce Willis nor Joaquin Phoenix was in it, that's saying a damn lot!

The thing is, I don't remember a whole lot about most of his other movies other than The Sixth Sense, each of which I only saw the one time. So maybe what struck me so much about this one, that I think made everyone that I re-watched it with last night HATE it, is that the whole premise is pretty ridiculous. Paul Giamatti is an apartment building superintendent who finds Bryce Dallas Howard swimming in the complex's pool after hours, and then comes to realize that she's actually a character in a bedtime story who is trying to get back home, but there are evil dog/wolf-like creatures lurking around trying to make sure that she doesn't get home. It sounds ridiculous.

And it is . . . but I feel like it knows it. As Paul Giamatti tries to help "Story" get home, he starts looking to the other tenants for help. One of the new tenants is a film critic, an "unlikeable side character", who provides commentary on the movie itself from inside it, which I found hilarious. The characters in this movie were necessarily more developed than the others - each had a role to serve and nobody was introduced just for the hell of it. It was funnier than I remembered Shyamalan's other movies being - I'm serious, this movie had a little bit of everything. It was funny, it was touching, it was suspenseful, it was RIDICULOUS . . . it was fantastic. I can't really further justify why I found it so awesome without giving stuff away, but I am fully prepared to defend this movie til my dying day.

I have yet to find anyone who likes this movie even half as much as I did, which kills me because I seriously loved everything about it, enough to go out and buy it. Did anyone who reads this like it? Have any of you even seen it? If you didn't like it, why didn't you like it? Enlighten me.

may peeps be with you

I figure it's been nine days and everyone who wanted to guess has by now. If you're still desperate for more trivia, go check out Briton's blog to see if you know any of his movie quotes! Unless you are Briton, in which case, you're out of luck. Movie quiz answers:

1 - Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (I'm actually really disappointed that nobody got this one - it was literally in my AIM profile from December 2002 until probably sometime in 2005)
2 - Clue
3 - Love Actually
4 - Wet Hot American Summer
5 - Playing by Heart
6 - Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
7 - Mafia
8 - Swingers
9 - Bridget Jones's Diary
10 - The Emperor's New Groove

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As my title alluded to, with Easter just around the corner, I couldn't resist sharing one of my all time favorite links: Peep Research. The whole website is pretty much amazing, but just to give you a little preview, it involves both



peep separation surgery


and



risk analysis

Truly funny stuff.

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Finally, in honor of Spring Break, which started at 10 tonight, and as promised a couple of weeks ago, I have a top ten [thirteen] list that dates back to 2003 from another college friend way more creative than me, this time, Melanie. Most of them are inside jokes, so don't be too disturbed ;)

Melanie's Top Thirteen Things For Me To Do To Keep Myself Entertained Over Spring Break

1. Throw bricks through Starbucks windows.
2. Go on a silly string rampage in Times Square.
3. Eat Marshmallow Fluff and pretend it's the real thing.
4. DANCE PARTY (with one fist in the air)!
5. Read stories to your mice. Animals like literature too.
6. Ignore the elephant that's hanging around. (So this one was just an inside joke in reference to the Miracle of 86 song, 'G Song', but believe it or not, it was actually feasible! Check it out):
   his name was Okonkwo . . . and you bet we ignored him
   
7. Throw things out your window and see if you can't hit someone on the crew team...1000 points a head, 10 million points for the captain.
8. Make squeakies and laughies!
9. Kick someone's pug as hard as you can while you're on a walk.
10. Try EVERY inedible thing on the Bubble Tea menu and see how sick you can get!
11. Introduce yourself to Officer O'Callaghan.
12. Peeps in the microwave...trust me, it's fun. (I took her up on this one too . . . this picture looks REALLY mean after that Peeps site above, but I figured why not share)
    
    
13. Take a fast-moving object to the face, and by the time you get out of the emergency room, break will already be over!

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And on that note . . . have a happy Easter, everyone!

don't quote me, boy, i ain't said . . .

So nearly everyone I know who keeps a blog on a site OTHER than blogger has done this little "name-that-movie" quiz thingy - I felt like maybe I should hop on the bandwagon.

1. Pick 10 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie. (or just remember them.)
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.

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1. "There is always hope."

2. "Well, you tell him it's not true!"
"It's not true."
"Is that true?"
"No, it's not true."
"Ha-hah! So it is true!"
"A double negative!"
"Double "negative"? You mean you have-- Photographs?"
"That sounds like a confession to me. In fact, the double negative has led to proof positive. I'm afraid you gave yourself away."
"Are you trying to make me look stupid in front of the other guests?"
"You don't need any help from me, sir." Clue (Christy)


3. "Well I just thought maybe the time had come to do something about it."
"Like what?"
"Invite him out for a drink and then after about twenty minutes casually drop into the conversation the fact that you'd like to marry him and have lots of sex and babies." Love Actually (Brandi)

4. "You taste like a burger. I don't like you anymore." Wet Hot American Summer (Melissa got it first, but Briton knew it too!)

5. "You can't treat people the way you treat them and then say something adorable like that."

6. "Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance, at least. You could lie there thinking, "Well. At least I'm not dead.'"

7. "I'm always going to be That Protestant Chick Who Never Killed Anybody!"

8. "I don't want you to be the guy in the PG-13 movie everyone's *really* hoping makes it happen. I want you to be like the guy in the rated R movie, you know, the guy you're not sure whether or not you like yet." Swingers (Briton)

9. "I mean there's been all these bloody hints and stuff, but has he ever actually stuck his fucking tongue down your fucking throat?" Bridget Jones's Diary (Rachel)

10. "Excellent. A few drops in his drink, and then I'll propose a toast, and he will be dead before dessert."
"Which is a real shame, because it's gonna be delicious."