It looks like a napkin or a table runner.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Oscars 2011
Friday, February 25, 2011
Oscar Picks 2011!
I'm preparing for my Annual Oscar Party!! It's low-key this year, but I'm still really excited! I think I'm most excited about James Franco & Anne Hathaway hosting! It's going to be a great show! Obviously some of these are just major guesses, but here are my Oscar picks this year:
Actor in a Leading Role: Colin Firth, The King's Speech
Actor in a Supporting Role: Christian Bale, The Fighter
Actress in a Leading Role: Natalie Portman, Black Swan
Actress in a Supporting Role: Melissa Leo, The Fighter
Animated Feature Film: Toy Story 3
Art Direction: Inception
Cinematography: Black Swan
Costume Design: Alice in Wonderland
Directing: The Social Network
Documentary (Feature): Inside Job
Documentary (Short Subject): Strangers No More
Film Editing: The Social Network
Foreign Language Film: Biutiful
Makeup: The Wolfman
Music (Original Score): Inception
Music (Original Song): "We Belong Together" (from Toy Story 3)
Best Picture: The Social Network
Short Film (Animated): The Gruffalo
Short Film (Live Action): Wish 143
Sound Editing: Inception
Sound Mixing: True Grit
Visual Effects: Alice in Wonderland
Writing (Adapted Screenplay): The Social Network
Writing (Original Screenplay): The Kids Are All Right
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
I Am Number Four
I really had very little interest in seeing this movie.
Then I found out Dianna Agron is in the movie. And I love Glee. Then I found out she's dating the dude in the movie. Then I saw him on Ellen. Then I saw this trailer with the Adele song "Rolling in the Deep."
Now I really want to see it! And I think my breaking point was the song in the trailer! That just shows you how much music does for me. I love that song.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
The Hunger Games Fantasy Casting
Twenty-four are forced to enter. Only the winner survives.
In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. Each year, the districts are forced by the Capitol to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the Hunger Games, a brutal and terrifying fight to the death – televised for all of Panem to see.
Survival is second nature for sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who struggles to feed her mother and younger sister by secretly hunting and gathering beyond the fences of District 12. When Katniss steps in to take the place of her sister in the Hunger Games, she knows it may be her death sentence. If she is to survive, she must weigh survival against humanity and life against love.
Lionsgate has acquired the rights to the movie adaptation of the books and they recently announced a release date of March 23, 2012! No casting decisions have been announced, so I decided to do my own fantasy casting. I've never done one of these before and I'm only doing the main characters because doing these things really stresses me out! I have such a hard time picking just one person for each role. I did Katniss, Peeta, Gale, Haymitch, Cinna, President Snow & Effie.
All character descriptions are taken from Wikipedia.
Katniss Everdeen: Katniss is sixteen years old and is described as having long, black hair, usually in a braid, gray eyes, and olive skin. She is small in stature and light for her age, being one of the smallest tributes in her games, but due to her outdoor life, she is strong for her size. Collins has described Katniss as being an independent survivalist, lethal, but good at thinking outside the box.
My pick: Emily Browning
Strangely enough, she was also my original pick for Bella in Twilight. She'll have to get a tan, but I think she could totally pull off the hardcore, but fairly naive thing.
Peeta Mellark: Peeta has blue eyes, and is described by Katniss as being "medium height, stocky build, blond hair that falls in waves over his forehead." Peeta thinks very well on his feet and has a very likable personality and a flair for showmanship.
Strangely enough, she was also my original pick for Bella in Twilight. She'll have to get a tan, but I think she could totally pull off the hardcore, but fairly naive thing.
Peeta Mellark: Peeta has blue eyes, and is described by Katniss as being "medium height, stocky build, blond hair that falls in waves over his forehead." Peeta thinks very well on his feet and has a very likable personality and a flair for showmanship.
He was who I pictured through the whole book. I know he's not "stocky," but he could gain some weight. I love him in Weeds & I loved him being so cute in It's Complicated & I just think he'd do really great!
Gale Hawthorne: Gale has the common look in District 12: black hair, olive skin, and gray eyes. When he first met Katniss at the age of fourteen he was already over six feet tall. He is described as being very handsome and masculine. Gale is good at keeping things under control and does not get angry very often, though he often rants and mimicks the Capitol.Katniss describes him as "a rebel since birth".
He plays Tyler on Vampire Diaries & I love Vampire Diaries!! I just think he'd do good for this part, too. Seeing him be the werewolf on Vampire Diaries shows that he can be more strong & defiant, plus he could definitely be all angry at the Capitol. He's been pretty broody on the show.
Haymitch Abernathy: Haymitch is described as a "paunchy, middle-aged man." He is often not sober due to his drinking problem. Haymitch's most notable trait were his grey eyes, and black hair as almost every member of the Seam. Haymitch can sometimes be extremely rude when he is intoxicated. However, he displays much kindness and honesty toward Katniss, and often tells her exactly what might happen without worrying about scaring her. He is often used as a comic relief in a way with his sarcasm.
Just read that description again & I feel like I need no further explanation as to why I see Joaquin for this part. He's perfect!
Cinna: Most people who live in the Capitol follow very absurd fashion trends. This is not the case for Cinna, who normally wore simple black clothing. His one strange fashion choice was gold eyeliner, which brings out the gold flecks in his green eyes. Other then that, Cinna looked very normal, with close cropped natural dark brown hair. Cinna is described as being a very sweet, lovely, enigmatic person who takes pride in his work. He is also a very caring person. (Description from The Hunger Games wiki)
He is just different enough to be from the Capitol, but just normal enough to be as kind as they describe him. He's clearly intelligent & after Wanted, I think he definitely has that strong quality that Cinna shows in later books. I think he'd be really fun in this part!
President Snow: The main antagonist of the series, President Snow is the extremely evil ruler of the Capitol and all of Panem. Though laid back, he is full of sadistic thoughts. President Snow is described as having very puffy lips which was most likely from an appearance altering operation that is very popular in the Capitol. Katniss describes him as exuding a smell of blood and roses.
He would completely creep me out in this role! He's got that fake nice thing going on - remember him in Home Alone 2 or Annie?? He's also totally creepy & he's got not super tiny lips like some of the other people I've seen suggested. He could pull this off in a wonderfully awful way!
Effie Trinket: Effie has bright pink hair, speculated to be a wig - as she gives speeches, she constantly has to get it under control. She is very strict about manners and is always punctual.
Think The Devil Wears Prada mixed with pink hair. I love it!
Here's my favorite site right now with some casting picks! I found some inspiration on there & chose others on my own. Several of them I just had in my mind throughout the books!
Who are your casting pics??
Sunday, January 16, 2011
BIG LOVE!!!
Although I will be watching the Golden Globes tonight, I'm also DVRing the Big Love Season 5 premiere!!!! I'll be watching that with Lewis tomorrow night! We are big fans of Big Love! I'm excited and nervous about this last season!! I've heard they've got some major things in store for us loyal viewers!
At the end of Season 4, Bill won a position as a Utah state senator and then came out publicly with his wives as a polygamist!! Adaleen set fire to JJ's fertility clinic with JJ & his wife inside! We also know that she's pregnant with JJ's inbred eugenics-produced baby.
Drama, drama, drama!
Will you be watching this season of Big Love??
Golden Globes 2011!
My DVR is set to record all the fabulous pre-show, red carpet & awards festivities! I am SUPER excited that Ricky Gervais is hosting again this year! I loved him last year! I think he's hilarious!
The strange thing about this year is that it's the first year in a long time that I've seen a very small number of the nominated films over all the categories.
Click here for the full list of nominees.
Here are the movies I've seen:
Inception
Love and Other Drugs
Easy A
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
The Town
How to Train Your Dragon
That's not many considering there are a lot nominated for different things.
The shows I watch that are nominated are:
House
The Big Bang Theory
Glee
Modern Family
United States of Tara
The Office
That's it!! So obviously those are the movies and tv shows as well as actors involved that I am rooting for!
Who are you rooting for?
Thursday, December 23, 2010
2011 Movies!!
I love movies!!! I've been very happy with my Blockbuster online subscription. We've got so many great movies waiting in our Queue! Here are a few I'm excited about seeing in 2011!
I read this book earlier this year and it was just fabulous. I thought their choices of Robert Pattinson & Christoph Waltz were perfect! Reese Witherspoon was the only one I didn't picture like that, but she's such a great actress, I think she can do anything!
Lewis and I love all the Fast & Furious movies! We would see this even if it looked awful - but thank goodness it doesn't!! I'm excited that everyone is back in this one!
Jake Gyllenhaal is one of my faves. This looks pretty good! It definitely seems different to me, although it reminded Lewis of Quantum Leap. I've never seen that.
Kinda worried this one isn't gonna be good because the trailer has been out forever, but the movie isn't coming out until March 2011. I'm still gonna see it because I like Vanessa Hudgens & Mary-Kate Olsen.
I've mentioned this one before, but Lewis & I are both really pumped about it!! Girl power. LOL
Monday, November 22, 2010
Saturday, November 20, 2010
I heart Amazon
Anybody wanna buy me an early Christmas gift??
Most of the shows I want on DVD are on sale right now on Amazon!!!
You could buy gifts for less than $30 & I'd think you spent $50! LOL
I'm only kidding, but those are still great deals on Amazon right now! Check them out!!
Monday, October 18, 2010
TV Update!!!!
Here's where I'm at right now in my shows:
I am definitely not on board with keeping couples apart in the TV shows. I'm really annoyed with it right now.
Grey's Anatomy - Seriously - Lexie & Sloan need to be together. Like yesterday.
Bones - There was a point where you should've finally gotten Bones & Booth together & that point was at the very latest sometime last season. Now you haven't done it & my husband will no longer watch your show with me. Jerks. I am holding on, but it's not really worth it.
90210 - Liam & Annie need to stop all this annoying back & forth "we like each other & then we don't" kind of junk.
Some things I'm happy with right now:
House & Cuddy are doing good. Relatively.
Elena & Stefan are staying strong in Vampire Diaries.
Meredith & Derek as well as Owen & Cristina are staying together.
Also, I love Mondo on Project Runway. He needs to win. Bad.
One thing I'm not okay with: political commercials. I have the weeks leading up to an election. Makes me want to throw things at the TV.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Fall Shows Premiere 2010 - Week 2
Last week The Ellen Degeneres show premiered & I loved seeing Katy Perry, Justin Timberlake, Mary-Kate & Ashley & Ben Affleck!! I missed Ellen this summer! In the 90210 premiere, I was really ready for Annie & Liam to get together & I'm kinda annoyed that they didn't. I don't enjoy the whole situation with Naomi for several reasons. Overall, though it was good. Gossip Girl was good, I just hate this Dan/Georgina/baby thing. Ick.
On Tuesday there was One Tree Hill, Life Unexpected & Parenthood! One Tree Hill was okay, but I'm still not 100% convinced that it's good that they are having another season. I hope it gets better. Next week is another of the episodes where they have someone in a coma or dead but they're walking around like they're all good. We've seen this with Keith & Karen & Lucas already before. We'll see how that goes. Life Unexpected was great! I surprisingly didn't see the Lux & her teacher thing coming. I want Cate & Baze to be together & I'm sort-of ok with Lux & Bug breaking up. Parenthood was pretty good. I just really like that show & I can't explain exactly why. It makes me happy!
This week is a big week for tv premieres! These shows are premiering:
Monday
House
How I Met Your Mother
The Event
Castle
Tuesday
Glee
Raising Hope
Wednesday
Modern Family
Cougar Town
Thursday
Bones
The Big Bang Theory
$#*! My Dad Says
Grey's Anatomy
The Office
Saturday
Saturday Night Life
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Favorite Music Videos 2010
Watching the VMA's is making me think about music videos this year. There have only been a couple of music videos that stuck out to me this year & that's probably because the first 2 weeks after Isis was born, I left the TV on AMTV2 all night, so videos were always playing when I woke up to feed Isis. Those were some rough nights with my baby blues & just being exhausted, but these videos made me feel better somehow! Now I think they'll always remind me of those nights with Isis & while at the time they were rough, looking back on it is great for me because they were my first days with my baby girl!
Owl City
Paramore
Kings of Leon
Fall Shows Premiere Week 2010 - Week 1
Last week Vampire Diaries Season 2 premiered on the CW. Hellcats and Nikita also had their series premieres on the CW! Vampire Diaries rocked my socks off! It was absolutely amazing - probably my favorite show on TV right now. Diana & I are now having Thursday night pajama parties watching it together at her house! Hellcats was ok. It wasn't my favorite & I'm giving it one more week. Nikita, on the other hand, didn't even last 10 minutes for me. I hated it from the very beginning. It will not be added as a permanent addition to my DVR.
This coming week these shows premiere:
Monday:
The Ellen Degeneres Show
90210
Gossip Girl
Tuesday:
One Tree Hill
Life Unexpected
Parenthood
None of them are new series for me, so I'm pretty pumped about all of them!
Monday, August 30, 2010
Saddest character death
30 Days of Television - Day #30
I made it through the meme!!! Here are my 5 saddest character deaths.
Buffy on Buffy the Vampire Slayer
I mean, come on. It's Buffy & she died! And we didn't know at the time that they were going to move the show to UPN so not only the viewers, but also the people who made the show thought this was the series finale! It was super sad.
Libby on Lost
We all thought that Hurley finally had a woman who loved him, so he'd have a girlfriend!! I'm pretty sure most people connected to that because Hurley is just so sweet! But then she gets accidentally shot by Michael & I cried.
Denny Duquette on Grey's Anatomy
I also included this scene in the best scene ever category. It was just heartbreaking! Denny was so lovable & such a great character on the show! I love that he's been back a few times, too. Jeffrey Dean Morgan is just awesome.
Joyce on Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Her actual death is shown at the end of I Was Made to Love You, but The Body is all about the death. Besides being super sad, I think that is one of the best episodes made on Buffy because it was just so different & so emotional. No music, lots of long takes. It was just really captivating.
Keith on One Tree Hill
I cannot even tell you how much I cried the first time I saw this episode. It was unbelievable. It really was shocking to me! We all still miss Uncle Keith!!
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Fall 2010 TV Premiere Dates
These are the shows that I watch, so it's not a full list. I've included links to the pages with all the network premiere dates as well so you can go find your favorite shows that I don't watch.
These are in order of premiere dates so that you know what's coming first!
Wednesday, September 8
Hellcats (CW) - New Show!! - 9:00pm
Thursday, September 9
The Vampire Diaries (CW) - 8:00pm
Nikita (CW) - New Show!! - 9:00pm
Monday, September 13
The Ellen Degeneres Show - 4:00pm
90210 (CW) - 8:00pm
Gossip Girl (CW) - 9:00pm
Tuesday, September 14
One Tree Hill (CW) - 8:00pm
Life Unexpected (CW) - 9:00pm
Parenthood (NBC) - 10:00pm
Monday, September 20
House (FOX) - 8:00pm
How I Met Your Mother (CBS) - 8:00pm
The Event (NBC) - New Show!! - 9:00pm
Castle (ABC) - 10:00pm
Tuesday, September 21
Glee (FOX) - 8:00pm
Raising Hope (FOX) - New Show!! - 9:00pm
Wednesday, September 22
Modern Family (ABC) - 9:00pm
Cougar Town (ABC) - 9:30pm
Thursday, September 23
Bones (FOX) - 8:00pm
The Big Bang Theory (CBS) - 8:00pm
$#*! My Dad Says (CBS) - New Show!! - 8:30pm
Grey's Anatomy (ABC) - 9:00pm
The Office (NBC) - 9:00pm
Saturday, September 25
Saturday Night Live (NBC) - 11:30pm
Tuesday, September 28
No Ordinary Family (ABC) - New Show!! - 8:00pm
Current TV show obsession
30 Days of Television - Day #29
There are a lot of shows that I watch regularly right now. But there are only 3 that I really think I could categorize as a current obsession.
This show makes me giddy.
I am a young adult vampire fan. No True Blood for me. This completely satisfies my TV vampire interest.
This show is hilarious. I laugh out loud at something in literally every episode & I can watch them over & over. I never get sick of them.
Saturday, August 28, 2010
First TV Show Obsession
30 Days of Television - Day #28
I think this was the first...
I LOVED this. I remember I was super excited before it even started & I watched it from the very first episode. I loved Dawson & Joey. I loved that her name was Joey. I thought it was so cool that she climbed in his window. It was all just super fun! I kinda fell off the bandwagon after a few seasons, though. I never was on board with the Pacey & Joey thing & I never saw the last couple of seasons. I really do need to pick it back up. I keep saying that!!
Friday, August 27, 2010
Best Pilot Episode
30 Days of Television - Day #27
I'm making this short & sweet because my life is overwhelming me right now! haha!
These are the pilot episodes that had me hooked into the shows immediately.
(Again, obviously add Friends & Buffy to all my lists like this.)
Thursday, August 26, 2010
OMG WTF? Season finale
30 Days of Television - Day #26
Vampire Diaries - Season 1
I freaked out when Elena was Katherine & Damon kissed her & she chopped off the dude's fingers, etc. It was just all crazy.
Big Love - Season 4
Bill wins the election & comes out as a polygamist. J.J. is doing all kinds of crazy in-vitro inbreeding craziness & Adaleen sets fire to his fertility clinic office. Oh my gosh.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 2
Buffy kills Angel right after his soul is restored. Then she leaves. We all cry & wonder what will happen the next season.
Gossip Girl - Season 3
Chuck was shot!!
Friends - Season 4
Ross says Rachel in his vows at his wedding to Emily. OMG
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