I went to the AMC Best Picture Showcase with Mr. D and Julie yesterday. 12 hours in the movie theater. On paper it sounds kind of daunting, but in reality it was a lot of fun. We watched all five of the movies that were nominated for best picture.
If I were the Academy I would totally give the award to Juno. Great characters, moving story, and boys running in short shorts. I’ve made this analogy before: Juno is the thinking man’s Napoleon Dynamite.
Leah: Yo Yo Yiggady Yo. Juno MacGuff: I’m at suicide risk. Leah: Juno? Juno MacGuff: No, it’s Morgan Freeman. Do you have any bones that need collecting? Leah: Only the one in my pants… Juno MacGuff: I’m pregnant. Leah: What? Honest to blog? Juno MacGuff: Yeah. Yeah, it’s Bleekers. Leah: It’s probably just a food baby. Did you have a big lunch? Juno MacGuff: No, this is not a food baby all right? I’ve taken like three pregnancy tests, and I’m forshizz up the spout. Leah: How did you even generate enough pee for three pregnancy tests? That’s amazing… Juno MacGuff: I don’t know, I drank like, ten tons of Sunny D… Anyway dude, I’m telling you I’m pregnant and you’re acting shockingly cavalier. Leah: Is this for real? Like, for real for real? Juno MacGuff: Unfortunately, yes. Leah: Oh my GOD. Oh shit! Phuket, Thailand! Juno MacGuff: There we go. That was kind of the emotion that I was searching for on the first take.
If my past picks tell you anything (I was all about Brokeback Mountain; I loved Little Miss Sunshine and Babel), Juno will probably not cut it…so I’m going to predict that No Country For Old Men will win the best picture Oscar. Anyone up for a friendly wager?
Before Atonement started I was ready to hate it, but ended up enjoying it a lot more than I had expected. I really loved Vanessa Redgrave’s performance…and even teared up a little. To me, Redgrave is such an elegant woman. One question my sister had about this movie: did Briony really have to keep the same hairstyle her entire life? Seriously, little Briony, teenager Briony, and older Briony all had that same haircut…how realistic was that?
The only nominated movie I didn’t enjoy 100% was There Will Be Blood. The story was solid, and I can see why it was nominated…I just have trouble enjoying movies that are all dusty and the characters have handlebar moustaches. Those are superficial criticisms…I know. But I am what I am.
Occasionally I’ll get teased when a friend realizes that I’ve got a collection of television theme songs on my iPod. So?
There are some really good theme songs of yesteryear that I don’t wish to forget any time soon. How many have you forgotten? Listen to these 15 theme songs, and tell me that it doesn’t throw you back to the 80s.
Keep track of how many you can correctly guess the name of the television show that it comes from. Click the link at the end of this post to see the correct answers. Share your score with me in the comments (honor system).
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After you’ve made your guesses CLICK HERE to see the answers.
My mom isn’t a wonderful cook…that’s no secret. She gets teased often in our house because she will have a recipe and at the last minute decide to alter it, and ultimately ruin the food.
Last night she was cooking potato soup, and the recipe called for 1/3 cup of flour, and 3 cups of milk. And my mom was doubling the recipe. I guess she looked at the recipe card cross-eyed or something because she thought it said 3 cups of flour…and she doubled that.
So instead of 2/3 cups of flour, my mom put in 6 cups of flour. 6 cups of flour.
We seriously could have taken the soup and rolled it into balls, baked it, and made potato biscuits.
We ended up trashing the soup and making pasta and salad.
Arizonans call the Department of Motor Vehicles the “Motor Vehicles Department.” Totally fucks with that place in my brain where acronyms are stored. For the past 20 years I’ve been calling the place where you get licensed and car registrations the DMV…and suddenly I have to start calling it the MVD?!?!
Well I went there yesterday, and registered my car and got an Arizona Driver License. You can see my California and my Arizona license off to the left there. I’ve lost a few pounds, huh? The California picture was taken in summer 2006–so not too long ago.
One thing that I really liked about the Arizona DMV…er MVD was that they give you everything right then and there. I paid to register my car, and the woman reached under her desk and gave me a new license plate. I took a photo for my new license, and the woman said, “give me 2 minutes to print it out.” In California you have to wait for everything to be mailed to you. They give you temporary everything…”Give it 6 weeks to arrive in the mail.”
So I think that my new plates and my new license make me an Arizonan. Officially.
I went to the AMC Best Picture Showcase with Mr. D and Julie yesterday. 12 hours in the movie theater. On paper it sounds kind of daunting, but in reality it was a lot of fun. We watched all five of the movies that were nominated for best picture.
Arizonans call the Department of Motor Vehicles the “Motor Vehicles Department.” Totally fucks with that place in my brain where acronyms are stored. For the past 20 years I’ve been calling the place where you get licensed and car registrations the DMV…and suddenly I have to start calling it the MVD?!?!
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