I’ve gone geek. June 13, 2009

     We just got back from our anniversary dinner date (Goodwood BBQ and Star Trek).

 

     Yum and yuh-huh-huh-huh-mmm.

  

     Never having been much of a fan of ANY of the Star Trek realms (except for Generations…  for some reason, I LOVED that movie!), I have to admit that my interest was peaked way back in January when I saw him in a Star Trek commercial:

(Oh, Sylar, you bad, bad man.)(Also, the casting director was PURE GENIUS.)

 

     Then I saw the trailer in April, and I told Kenny that I actually might consider seeing it.  Maybe even for our anniversary.

 

     I have seen a lot of really unpleasant movies in the name of our anniversary.  (Gladiator, anyone?)  Thank you, J.J. Abrams, for giving me a movie I could enjoy, even if my reasons were completely different from my husband’s.

 

(You’re welcome.)

 

 

     I have jumped into the cult of Trek with both feet. 

 

     Live long and prosper.       l\/l

Rejected. Buh-bye. June 12, 2009

I love this video.  I think I’ve watched it ten times, and I am still giggling about it.

 

Hers is the sort of experience that would happen to me.  I am famous for getting excited about something and having it blow up in my face.  (Or fold…  hee.)

 

Enjoy.

 

“I’m fi-duh. Fiiii-duh.” April 3, 2009

I have neglected everything this week.  Every single thing.

I am sick.  I put a “d” on the end of “fine”.

(Much to the chagrin of my husband, I do NOT have Monica’s raging libido.) 

 

 

Man, I miss Friends.

Breaking Dawn August 9, 2008

     I finished the book today…

 

     …the fourth and final book in the Twilight  vampire saga, all 754 pages of it.

 

     I had several reactions while reading the book,

The trouble with “Twilight”… May 2, 2008

    

***Public Service Announcement***

(The comments contain spoilers.  Read at your own risk.  Carry on.)

 

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     Okay, I must admit, there are a few of them.  Troubles.  Annoyances.  Frustrations.

 

     Now before all you Stephenie Meyer fans organize a protest outisde my front yard, let me clarify that they are MY problems, not hers.  Although she indirectly contributes to them, I will assume full responsibility.  I admit, I am only 314 pages into Twilight, but I am concerned about my reaction to this book.  I’m talking, fear-for-my-sanity concern about this novel, this fictionalized  story about two imagined characters who ARE. NOT. REAL.

 

A List of my favorite authors March 16, 2008

     I don’t profess to be a lover of deep, insightful literature.  I read for enjoyment, and I read often, so I prefer to read something light.

1. J.K. Rowling     (Harry Potter Series)
2. Janet Evanovich     (Stephanie Plum Series)
3. Mary Higgins Clark
4. Philippa Gregory     (loved The Other Boleyn Girl, but my favorite is the Wideacre trilogy)
5. Stephenie Meyer     (Twilight series)
6. Emily Watts
7. Anita Stansfield
8. Mary Jane (Behrends) Clark
9. Gerald Lund
10. Dean Hughes
11. S.M. Stirling     (Dies the Fire– incredible book!)
12. V.C. Andrews     (My Sweet Audrina…  carryover from my teenage days, I guess)
13. Danielle Steele     (same as above)
14. Kate White
15. James Patterson     (only I preferred him more when he didn’t use co-writers)

Movies We Love to Watch Together March 12, 2008

     So, I promise that this is the last movie-related post I’ll do for a while.  I wanted to leave my readers with one more glimpse into our movie-viewing habits.  This list is full of the movies we own that we watch the most often.  There are some that one of us likes more than the other, but it’s pretty fair to say that if we don’t have something DVR-ed, or we haven’t rented a new release from Hollywood Video, we’re watching one of these.

1. Forrest Gump     (This one has history– we saw it on our third date and as cheesy as it is, it’s “our” movie.)
2. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy     (The extended versions, of course!)
3. Mr. Holland’s Opus
4. Galaxy Quest
5. Evolution
6. Erin Brockovich
7. Field of Dreams
8. Elf     (I can watch this movie ANY month of the year!)
9. Bye Bye Love
10. The Birdcage
11. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
12. Deep Blue Sea
13. Duets
14. A Knight’s Tale
15. Moulin Rouge
16. Rent
17. A League of Their Own
18. O Brother Where Art Thou
19. Three Kings
20. The Man in the Iron Mask
21. The Princess Bride
22. Shallow Hal
23. The Wedding Singer
24. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
25. The Sound of Music
26. Independence Day
27. Heart and Souls
28. The Day After Tomorrow
29. Chances Are
30. Sneakers     (“Say ‘passport’.”)
31. Guarding Tess
32. The Rainmaker
33. Jurassic Park     (series…  Kenny was very specific about that.  I enjoy 1 immensely, and 2 and 3 were just *okay*.)
34. The Patriot
35. 10 Things I Hate About You
36. Goonies
37. Titanic
38. The Sixth Sense
39. Cars     (It’s Pixar, so it’s okay!  LOL)
40. Love, Actually
41. Kiss the Girls
42. Back to the Future     (series, although I’m more partial to 1 and 2)
43. The Mummy     (series, although again, just 1 for me)
44. The Holiday
45. Across the Universe
46. A Night At the Roxbury
47. Liar, Liar
48. Apollo 13
49. Oceans 11    (and 12 and 13)
50. Men in Black

     There are several more that I could have added, but we felt like 50 was pleeeeenty.  *grin*  Another point of (pathetic) interest?  We own all of the movies from our three lists.  And then some.  (Men should NEVER be allowed into Circuit City or onto Amazon.com or Columbia House unsupervised!)

     As I glanced through this list again, I realized that most of these were movies we saw before we had kids.  Maybe that’s why we enjoy them so much– it reminds us of a time that was less frenzied and more focused on the two of us.  Anyway, enjoy. 

     And as always, try to keep the giggles to a minimum.

Kenny’s Turn… The Movies HE Loves to Hate March 11, 2008

      Yesterday I posted about the movies my husband loves and I hate, so I thought it would only be fair to let him have his turn.  You’ll find his pathetic attempt below.  *wink*

1.  Clue
2. Miss Congeniality
3. Drop Dead Gorgeous
4. Disney movies     (Classic or new, if it has the castle and it’s not a Pixar cartoon, he’s out.)  More specifically, The Princess Diaries, High School Musical, The One and Only Genuine Original Family Band, The Parent Trap, etc.    He does love Mary Poppins and Pete’s Dragon, so maybe it’s just the movies with a girl theme?
5. Mean Girls     (although he DID buy it for me when it came out)
6. Addams Family
7. 13 Going on 30     (he bought me this one too)
8. Big Business
9. Bye Bye Birdie     (The Jason Alexander version)
10. Sister Act

     The funniest thing about this list is that my husband had to go stand at our movie collection to look through them (it was a stretch for him to come up with 10), and I was reminding him of titles I know he hates.  His criteria for judging which so-so movies made the list?  “If it was on right now, would I stop my Nintendo game to watch it?  I think not…  add it to the list.”

     It’s official!  I’ve turned him into a chick-flick guy!  *snort*

Top 20 Movies I Love to Hate March 10, 2008

     I asked my husband for a list idea, and this is what he came up with.  We are huge movie lovers at our house, although our tastes vary widely.  (Clearly, as you’re about to see.)  Now some of these movies I actually like (or liked);  my problems with them stem from the following reasons:   1) No matter the time or day, my husband manages to find ONE of these movies on cable, 2) he can repeat them verbatim, and 3) some of them were funny ONLY when he watched them with a group of his high school friends well past midnight.

1. High Fidelity *
2. Outside Providence *
3. Kill Bill (both volumes)
4. Dances With Wolves
5. Raising Arizona
6. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
7. Braveheart     (I loathe this movie with the heat of a thousand suns.)
8. Dune
9. Zombie movies– more specifically 28 Days, Dawn of the Dead, and any of the scores of zombie movies and/or remakes that have been released in the past 3 years.  Take your pick.  There are too many to count.
10. Kung Fu movies.  Jet Li, Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee…  Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon…  and some other one with beautiful cinematography.  They all just blend into the same movie with kicking and punching and subtitles.
11. Good Will Hunting     (Tecnhically a great movie, but the language makes me cringe.)
12. Grosse Pointe Blank
13. What About Bob
14. Groundhog Day
15. Vampire Movies– Interview With the Vampire, Van Helsing, From Dusk ‘Til Dawn, Underworld, Blade  (Can you tell that vampires scare the bejeezus out of me?)
16. It’s A Wonderful Life
17. Gladiator
18. Fight Club
19. Legend
20. Ladyhawke

* I have to admit, these movies have grown on me.  Once you get past the language, the characters are hi-freaking-larious.  The names Alec Baldwin calls his son in Outside Providence make me want to alternately hug his son and pee my pants in hysterics.  And Jack Black steals the movie in High Fidelity.  Ssssh…  don’t tell Kenny.

My Top 12 Television Shows (currently airing in prime-time) March 4, 2008

Most of these were affected by the writers’ strike, but all of them have aired at some time this 2007-2008 season. 

1.  Big Brother 9       (It’s a sickness.  I know.)

2.  American Idol       (I’m cheering for David Archuleta and Carly Smithson.)

3.  The Office       (“That’s what she said.”)

4.  Ugly Betty       (Did anyone else cry as hard as I did during the season premiere?  The ending was a killer!)

5.  Grey’s Anatomy     (I get tired of the whining, but I can’t tear myself away.  Lexi is my new favorite, and I think she should end up with George.)

6.  Heroes     (Great show.  Great cast.  Great story.  ‘Nuf said.)

7.  Lost     (The past two seasons haven’t been as good as the first one, but I keep tuning in to see what is going to happen next.  Every time I think I have it figured out, the storyline does an abrupt right turn and veers into a different direction.)

8.  Eli Stone     (I grew up with a guy who reminds me of Eli.  He’s even a lawyer.  The parallels are delicious.  Plus, any show that breaks out in George Michael production numbers deserves some attention.)

9.  Journeyman     (I enjoy the plotlines of this show, but the most intriguing aspect is how his wife deals with his jumping.  Not only is it a huge personal issue for her, but she is left to explain Dan’s absences and odd behavior to those in their circle.) 

10.  Bones     (I love the science aspect of this show, and it isn’t nearly as gory as CSI.  Plus, I want Bones and Booth to get together.) 

11.  Jericho     (I loved the premise of this show.  I’m so glad they brought it back.  It reminds me of the book Dies the Fire by S.M. Stirling.) 

12.  Cashmere Mafia     (Trashy TV at its finest.  It was good escapist fantasy.  I hope it comes back soon.)