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Category Archives: movies
Jun11
Not much new…
…but the next few weeks will be hectic. Bri and Sean need to pick out their clothes for Karin and Michael’s wedding in NYC on the 23rd. I still can’t believe we’re going! The Tony Awards were on last night and made me hope to see the Broadway district even saying ‘I’m going to wet my pants’ when I see it-I hope not though!
I did some weeding yesterday, even in the veggie patch. Bri doesn’t know how lucky he is. We are using mulch and the hoe just got the ones sprouting up in a pinch. I think the particular weeds we get like harder soil and the dirt now is soft. The plants seem to like it. I’m big on mounding dirt around plants to give them root support too. I also need to plant a few more seeds. I hope I can get around to this sometime during this week between my hair appt, clothes shopping, the dentist, etc.
I’m waiting on the air conditioner repairman-again. Bri said there was a big pool of water under the unit there in the basement last night, big enough for the wet vac. I hope he shows up soon as because of this second visit, I have to postpone seeing mom.
Sean rented an interesting movie called ‘Fast Food Nation’. Don’t think I’ll be eating a hamburger anytime soon. There were some graphic scenes in the slaughterhouse. I know, the hamburger doesn’t appear magically on the sesame seed bun! But, it makes you think. I seem to need protein like red meat. Just warning you, some scenes I couldn’t look at.
So if you don’t see me here, I’m busy. I may even stitch a little graduation design for my nephew Patrick-getting the colors out for that. I wanted to do it for all the kids and he’s #3 out of 5.
Mar9
What the hey?
Sean rented a bunch of movies to celebrate his official start of spring break. I said, go ahead and get ‘Borat’ as I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. There was a certain much talked about scene involving nakedness and it was rather lewd-or just plain gross and we must admit, a little comical.
I think the concept of a foreigner coming to the good old USA has been done before (Moscow on the Hudson with Robin Williams?). This had its funny moments and the critics liked it. Sasha Baron Cohen (I think of the little ice skater all the time when I see his name), is one peculiar fellow. At first when he was making the tv circuits for the movie promo, I thought he was the real deal, that he was like Borat, he was that good. Then I found out he was a British comic who does a number of characters. How he acted and what he said at the awards show (he won a Golden Globe!) was a little disrespectful to everyone listening. I am pretty sure he and his girlfriend mouthed the words F U when the camera came on them at the Academy Awards. Hey Sasha, maybe this is your 15 minutes of fame and do you want to be remembered as a jerk?
Don’t get me wrong, I love British humor-have been a fan of Monty Python’s for ages. I don’t remember any of them acting that way in public and they all kept a pretty low key persona.
The movie was funny-one of the best parts-when he walked into a Christian revival meeting and said he wanted to be saved. He then asked the minister if Jesus loved his brother down to his neighbor who he hated. He said that no one loved his neighbor even ‘Mister’ Jesus.
Feb26
The Oscars…borefest
I got to go to the Academy Awards!
Recap in a few lines-
Loved Gwyneth Paltrow’s salmon/clay colored gown. I would wear it-the top part is way too small for me (so is the bottom, but I like it!)
Yeah-Alan Arkin won for Little Miss Sunshine even though he played a stiff in part of the movie. Rent it, you’ll see!
Recognition again for An Inconvenient Truth the documentary ‘starring’ former VP Al Gore. Melissa Etheridge won for best song for this same documentary.
Recognition for Martin Scorsese for best director and the movie The Departed (which Sean just rented and I didn’t finish watching) won for Best Picture.
I want to see The Queen because of Helen Mirren (who won Best Actress).
Best costumes-Marie Antoinette!
Woo-hoo for Jennifer Hudson who won best supporting actress for Dream Girls. She was a vote off on American Idol once! I need to see this movie too.
I can’t forget to mention about James Taylor singing the nominated song from Cars–Our Town-very short performance.
Ellen DeGeneres-did the best she could. Seems to me she wasn’t in her element-a smaller crowd is better for her and not of her peers. I changed my previous opinion after I saw her cry about her hosting the Academy Awards on her show today.
Feb25
Look ma, it’s snowing again!
Thought I’d pop on here to write a post, but the regular log on page for wordpress was MIA. I had to say I wanted to post a comment to a WP post that did appear and that’s how I logged on in a round-about way!
And it is snowing again with probably an episode of ice, like 11 days ago. Luckily, we finally got our Valentine’s din din last night. The restaurant we like is never crowded on Saturday nights and they have good food. I had my usual Kennett mushroom burger. We made a mistake of getting nachos which killed our appetites for our burgers and shrimp dish(<—Sean). The nachos had a tart bbq sauce mixed in with the meat sauce, so good. Sean took a photo of Bri and me, a tradition it seems to becoming each year. He needs to transfer it to the computer.
Brian and I went to the grocery store afterwards, another place that wasn’t crowded. We heard that this store is closing and moving. I can tell their inventory is lower. I kept checking for MSG and even the Gorton’s fishsticks had it. I am going to turn over a new leaf by cooking more from scratch. I do most of the time anyway. Rachael Ray had a yummy looking cod cooked in a pouch with olives, onions, fennel and garlic) on 30 minute meals today. It is Lent after all.
Sean and I rented three movies. One is playing now that I rented for Brian-The US vs. John Lennon. Sean rented ‘The Departed’. I started to watch it with him Friday night and told him I wasn’t interested in seeing the rest of it last night. Too much cursing, beating, killing, etc. Topnotch actors like DiCaprio, Nicholson, Sheen, Damon and Wahlberg and it’s up for Best Picture.
I rented ‘Marie Antoinette’. I enjoyed the scenery and the costumes. The plot was pretty lame. And why didn’t Kirsten Dunst (MA) and Jason Schwartzman (King Louis) at least have some kind of an accent for being Austrian and French? They sounded like kids from southern California. And the choice of music in most of the movie was odd. I guess Sofia Coppola was doing her own ‘thang’.
Have a nice Sunday. It’s pot roast night, so I’ll pop that in the oven soon.
Jan10
The Illusionist
It’s not often we see a movie on it’s release date to DVD. Sean is still off on winter break, so we’ve been watching a lot of movies. We finished ‘Thank you for smoking’ (not bad) this afternoon and he got ‘The Illusionist’ when he went to Blockbuster. I like period piece movies as it is. Edward Norton was striking as Eisenheim, but something about him was reminding me of one of our dentists (I have that procedure in the back of my mind). There’s a twist that made both Sean and I go ‘ohhh’. So we recommend it and give it an ‘A’.One movie we would say not to waste your time on is ‘Lady in the Water’. There’s some stinky water there-no understandable plot and weird characters. I’m surprised at M. Night!
Jan1
An Inconvenient Truth
Now that another new year is under way, I want to tell you all to rent the documentary DVD by former VP Al Gore. It’s really important because global warning isn’t going to go away but only get worse. Just look at the weather we are having. It’s in the 50s in January here! Hurricane Katrina was a result of global warming. In fact the earth hasn’t been this warm in 650,000 years and is only getting warmer! If Greenland ‘goes away’ many places will be flooded out. I didn’t like the fact that the Netherlands was used in two incidences-the Greenland problem and in an example of insects that hatch too soon and the birds can’t feed their young (as I have friends who live there).
What can we do? Rally for environmentally safe vehicles for one thing. The future is in our hands!
Visit the website
I mentioned the above on MySpace and you can add a link to Amazon to buy the documentary. Over 300 people there gave high praise to it! Someone said people got up and applauded at the end of it in the theater.
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May12
Titanic exhibit
Costumes worn by Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio in the 1997 movie ‘Titanic’. 
Apr23
Clothes sorters
Geez Louise! Even my son and I have too many clothes. I guess we take after a certain lady who isn’t talking to me. I needed to get some things together for our Florida trip in a few weeks. I had bought a few new things, but I wanted some ‘kick around’ shorts and tees that are all ready ‘broken in’. For Christmas I bought Space bags and managed to get a big plastic bin worth of clothes into about 4 of them. I gave Sean the bin and a jumbo space bag for his stuff. He is as bad as me! His bed was piled high with clothes, mostly from his favorite store Old Navy. We decided to donate about 2 huge bags of clothes to the Goodwill (there’s another bag in the van). I am pretty happy with what I have to take. I have to try on shorts (which I hate, I found knee length polyester skirts that look so much better on me). I guess I’ll have to look through Brian’s clothes next because knowing him he will wait until the last moment.
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So we watched Sideways last night and this morning. There was a shocker ‘copulating’ scene and full frontal nudity of a couple of bit actors (just to warn you). Sean saw that and I think he was quite surprised. If you over look those few scenes, it was a pretty decent movie. I think it won the Golden Globe this year as best movie comedy. Paul Giamatti was excellent. Hard to believe he played an orangutan in the remake of ‘The Planet of the Apes’.
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I am pleased with how the yard clean up is going. I am moving a few plants around that were looking sad in their present location. The plants are Japanese iris that were in front of the driveway and some lilies that were under the Japanese maple in the front yard. They were reaching so much for the sun they were legging and not doing anything. Brian dug them up the other evening and just being placed in a pot they look more perky. Some of my lawn decorations got broken or are faded. I had a fairy garden and some of my wee folk look a wee bit pale. I want to find some miniatures for the fairy garden. Last year the impatiens took over. Maybe there are mini-impatiens! I’ll have to look around and I am getting that itch to check out some garden centers.
Apr13
Wayward Whale on the Delaware River
As of yesterday (when he was first spotted), a 10-12 foot white Beluga whale has been swimming around in the Delaware River near Trenton. They say to get where he is, he had to swim by Wilmington and Philly. It’s a big deal around these parts and he made the news. They think he is headed south which would be good as he’s headed toward the ocean. If he doesn’t seem to be getting the idea about heading out to sea, guess he will get some help. Thanks to our local affiliate WPVI tv for the following map and photo of our new friend.
4-14
On ‘The Daily Show’ (I watch the repeat from the night before the next morning), Jon Stewart mentioned that the Beluga was near his hometown of Trenton (I didn’t know this). He said the only reason anyone would go near Trenton is for condoms and cheap champagne-so you know what he said the whale was headed in that direction for-well… he said ‘a blow hole dance’.
I happened to watch the DVD of ‘Shark Tales’ last night. Talk about a tie-in to this current event! It was really a funny movie with Will Smith (another local boy) as the voice of Oscar the main ‘fish’ character.
Collages & Creative Goodness 