Shows I Need to Start Watching

Dexter

Chuck


Samantha Who?


How I Met Your Mother


Gossip Girl


Entourage


And I guess, MAYBE, I'll start watching House, M.D.


Anybody have any of those on DVD that you'd be willing to let me borrow?

More friends with blogs!!!

My friends Matt & Mandy also have blogs!!

I love it!!!

Click here for Mandy's
Click here for Matt's

Jaye has a blog

I just found out that my friend Jaye (remember, the one that looks like the guy in Chronicles of Narnia) has a blog.

You should check it out because he rocks.

Also, my favorite thing so far on the page is this video of Johnny Cash's God's Gonna Cut You Down. Click this link to watch it!!

Funny YouTube Videos

I can't believe I hadn't seen these before tonight!!


The Evil Look



He's Gonna Kick MY ass?



Sneezing Panda

TV Squad Retro Week - Buffy/Angel

TVSquad has been hosting a Buffy/Angel Retro Squad week. There are my favorite posts they've done on it...

Hush
Oz: Sometimes furry, always quotable
Buffy online trivia quizzes
Six Degrees of the Hellmouth
The Philosophy of Buffy's Hair
Five Buffy/Angel Spinoffs

Let's Discuss

Image is from the Time Magazine article

Possibly one of the more controversial posts I have ever done, but I really am interested in your opinion. I'm not interested in an argument, more just seeing where everyone stands.

Please read this article from Time Magazine about Gloucester High's Pregnancy Boom. Evidently in the last year, a large number of girls - all under the age of 16 - made a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together. The school nurse administered 150 pregnancy tests within a very short period and the school, understandably, started to make an effort to see what was going on and what they could do.

The article brings up several issues that I find very interesting and worth discussion:

1. The influence of movies like Juno and Knocked Up on young teens. Do they glamorize young, unwed pregnancy?
2. The influence of US jobs moving overseas. How much does it really affect a city and community when jobs that used to be provided to members of the community are suddenly outsourced overseas?
3. Birth control for teenagers. Should schools be able to provide birth control with or without parental consent? Should schools be able to provide birth control at all?



What do you think?

I apologize

There's actually been a lot going on lately in my head and in my life and thus my blog has suffered. I haven't blogged much in the last couple of weeks.

I'll make it up to you, I promise!

The Dark Knight Countdown - Caine Frightened of Joker

Michael Caine, who plays Alfred in Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, believes that Heath Ledger's Joker was much more frightening than Jack Nicholson's Joker. While filming a scene in which the Joker visits Wayne Manor, Caine had never met Ledger before, so when Ledger arrived and performed he gave Caine such a fright he forgot his lines.

[from IMDB]

3 weeks to The Dark Knight!!
July 18, 2008!

Top Ten Unanswered Questions from LOST

These are in no particular order.

1. What's with Walt? What is the extent of his power, why does he have power?

2. Who are 'Adam and Eve' (found in the cave in season one)? Why did they die, and why are they in the cave?

3. Why is Sayid working for Ben in the future?

4. Why doesn't Richard age? How old is he really?

5. Why did Libby sell Desmond the boat, and why is she the patient in a psych ward?

6. What's with the 4 toed statue?

7. What is the smoke monster? Is it controlled or does it act on it's own sometimes?

8. Why does the Island heal some people and let other's die?

9. Whats up with Christian? Why is Claire willingly following him?

10.Why did Locke die and why did he take on the name Jeremy Bentham before he died?

What are your thoughts/ questions?

The Dark Knight Rolling Stone Review

The excitement that was building already has just pretty much exploded in my brain. haha. But seriously. I haven't been this excited about seeing a movie in a really long time!!

Read this Rolling Stone review and then go buy your tickets to The Dark Knight's midnight showing at a theater near you!!

"The haunting and visionary Dark Knight soars on the wings of untamed imagination."
-Peter Travers for Rolling Stone

DVD Releases 6/24/2008

Whoops, I didn't have them ready at noon!!

10,000 BC


The Spiderwick Chronicles


Definitely, Maybe


In Bruges


Charlie Bartlett

Apple Trailers

Apple Trailers is one of my new favorite things. I'd watched trailers on it before, but I've just recently really understood its full potential.

Check these out:

My Best Friends Girl
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Boy A
Finding Amanda
War, Inc.

The Dark Knight Countdown - Heath's Final Completed Appearance

Heath Ledger's performance in The Dark Knight is his final completed appearance in a film.

He was filming The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus when he died.


Christopher Nolan (director of The Dark Knight) wrote a tribute to Heath for Newsweek.

4 weeks to The Dark Knight!!
July 18, 2008!

Lost Thursdays

Sorry I missed last week's Lost Thursdays!! Again the information was taken from lostpedia.com

Here are some interesting books that have played a minor role in LOST.

The Chronicles of Narnia:


Could Charlotte Staples Lewis be a reference to Clive Staples Lewis?
Keep in mind that Narnia is a magically place where time passes more quickly than people are used to.

O Pioneers! (Willa Cather)



The two main characters in this novel are Alexandria a strong, independent resourceful girl, and her eventual husband Karl (spelled Carl in the book)

Slaughterhouse V (Kurt Vonnegut)



Desmond becoming "unstuck in time" is similar to the experience of Billy Pilgrim in the novel. Both men are in the military and experience ridicule because of their experiences.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (L. Frank Baum)



In the book, Dorthy Gale's uncle is named Henry (presumably Henry Gale). In LOST, Henry Gale arrived on the island through a hot air balloon ( in the book, the wizard arrived in Oz using the same method). Also, the episode "The man behind the curtain" is a reference to the wizard, and of course Season 4's finale entitled "There's no Place Like Home" is a famous quote from the book.



Sawyer has been noted to read the following books:
Watership Down
A Wrinkle In Town
Of Mice and Men
The Fountainhead
Are you there God, it's me, Margaret
Julius Caeser
Lord of the Flies, and more...

To Celebrate the Big New York Trip

Lets have a look at the World Famous Deserts sold at Serendipity III in NYC

Above is the Frrozen Haute Chocolate sold for a whopping $25,000.The delicacy is made from a blend of 28 rare cocoas from around the world and contains five grams of edible 23-karat gold and is served in a crystal goblet (imported from Rome) which is also lined with edible gold. It is topped with whipped cream, more gold sprinkles, and a side of La Madeline au Truffle from Knipschildt Chocolatier, which sells for $2,600 a pound. There are also take home goodies that come with the treat, such as an 18K gold bracelet with a carat's worth of diamonds that rests at the base of the goblet and a gold spoon set with white and chocolate-colored diamonds.

Also found at Serendipity III is the Golden Opulance Sundae

Currently holding the world record for most expensive treat, it starts with 5 scoops of vanilla ice cream made from Tahitian Vanilla beans and Madagascar Vanilla, and it's and cover them in 23k edible gold leaf. The world's most expensive chocolate, Amedei Porceleana and chunks of the rarest Chuao Chocolate top the icecream. On top of that, the sundae contains Parisian candied fruit, gold dragets, truffles and Marzipan Cherries. Then a bit of Grand Passion Caviar is placed in a small bowl on top. The frozen treat is served in a baccarat Harcourt crystal with an 18k gold spoon.

New in Theaters 6/20/2008

Get Smart

The Love Guru


Kit Kittredge: An American Girl


Brick Lane

New on DVD 6/17/2008

Jericho - Season 2

Californication - Season 1


Fool's Gold


ER - Season 9


Be Kind Rewind

The Happening Movie Review

First, let me start by saying that I love M. Night Shyamalan. I think he is different and unique in a way that always allows me to take something from all his movies that I love. Even if they aren't my favorite movies of all time, I always leave them having enjoyed the movie and picked out lots of things that I liked.

I read about this movie and his thought process behind it before I went to see it. I always like to see where he was coming from. For me, there were several things mentioned on the front page of the website that stuck out to me as interesting and appealing: 1 - the idea of "have we gone too far as humans," what if nature develops a survival mechanism at the same time that we lose our survival mechanism; 2 - this loss of our survival mechanism, the idea of it is pretty terrifying, if we lose this innate desire to stay alive and instead go to the opposite extreme immediately; 3 - the way that the movie (and all of his movies really) focus on the relationship between people and the struggle as humans that we have to just maintain a balance with each other. I just liked the ideas behind everything and was interested in the way he would do it.

The movie did not disappoint me. I am a huge fan of Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel going back to The Basketball Diaries, Fear and The Big Hit for Wahlberg and Almost Famous and The Good Girl for Deschanel. I've been following both of them from the beginning. Although I have heard arguments that Mark Wahlberg cannot play the science teacher as well as he can play the bad ass, I still maintain that he was wonderful in this movie. He does tend to have an almost cheesy aura to him when he's playing the nice guy (see RockStar, Fear - the beginning of it, The Big Hit, I Heart Huckabees) but I still think he can pull off anything. And not just because he looks like that. As far as storyline and development of the movie goes, I thought it was fabulous. It's risky territory to make your bad guys "nature" or "the plants" but Shyamalan pulled it off in a genuine way where I was never thinking, "omg this is so ridiculous." And the movie is at its core about the way that we as humans have become a threat to the planet, but also about how we overcome and rise up in the midst of tragedy. One of my favorite scenes was where Alma (Deschanel) was watching Elliot and Jess (Wahlberg and Ashlyn Sanchez) mourn. I cried probably 5 times in this movie. But it was also a bad day for me, so maybe that's why I cried. haha

Either way, I highly recommend the movie, but go into it with an open mind.

The Dark Knight Countdown - Heath's Influence

Heath Ledger said he was inspired by the characters of

A Clockwork Orange's Alex


and Sid Vicious


when preparing for his role as The Joker.

5 weeks to The Dark Knight!!
July 18, 2008!

I Heart New York

I'M GOING TO NEW YORK!!!!! I've never been and I've always wanted to go and I finally got an opportunity!!!!

There's good news and bad news...good news is: I'M GOING TO NEW YORK!! (As you already know now) bad news is...I leave the night of the Breaking Dawn party!! So I won't be at Barnes & Noble like I previously said I would! But YOU still need to be there!!

Yay New York!!!!!
August 1 - August 4. Woo hoo!!