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I really didn’t like the novel, Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist which I read for a class. It had too many sexual antics for my taste, and it really bugs me that approximately 50% (I’m pulling this statistic out of thin air) of YA books are set in New York City – it seems really disproportionate.
But I have a great love for Michael Cera, and this trailer is well done, so I’ll probably see the movie anyway. Who knows, if they leave out one particular scene in a hotel by the ice machine, I might really like it.
[OFFICIAL] Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist movie trailer
Tonight is a Johnny Cash concert!?! Do you really think that’s an acceptable alternative?
You know I’ll always love you Masterpiece Theatre, but please, try to do better in the future.
Thank you.
I’m not really as up-to-date with movies as I used to be, but I recently got both Sydney White and Bridge to Terabithia from Netflix and I was surprised to find how much I loved them both!
As for Bridge to Terabithia, I was appalled by the trailers for this movie, as it looked like a realistic little story about two friends making up a world of their imagination in the backwoods had been turned into a fantasy CGI nightmare. Turns out the showed every bit of the CGI in the trailer, and the majority of the movie was exactly what I would have hoped. I read that Dakota Fanning turned down the part of Leslie Burke, and while I like her fine, I’m quite glad the AnnaSophia Robb who is growing on my at an alarming rate.
Look at this completely awesome staircase/bookcase! Looks kinda steep, but otherwise, perfect.
“When Leonie and Rhodri added the upstairs, the architect proposed a handsome and clever book-lined staircase to house their formidable combined libraries in one streamlined space. “It’s just brilliant because the way it’s conceived, you can walk by it and not even notice it,” Leonie says. “So it’s like this fabulous surprise.”
Click on the photo for more pictures of this apartment…
I started attending a water aerobics class at the YMCA with my mom. I decided to go just to be supportive to her and have some good mother/daughter bonding time. Wouldn’t you know, I’m addicted now? I really do love it. Everything they say about the benefits of exercising in water are true. It simultaneously makes your cardio workout easier (no impact) and harder (constant resistance), and on top of that, you can’t really tell that you’re sweating! Also, I like to pretend that this will lead to a late, great synchronized swimming career for me. Then again, I’m pretty sure they don’t allow floatation belts in the Olympics.
I know my blog’s been very boring of late, but that’s mostly due to the fact that so am I. I moved home just before Christmas having almost lost my mind over finishing a very challenging semester, winding up a job that I’d been at for three years (sadly, by far my longest stint), and of course, regular holiday stress. I’m still running down to the basement daily to dig things out of boxes since my bedroom has been a storage receptacle for years, and thus, needs to be cleaned out before I can really move in, which I’ve had plenty of time to do, and yet, have not. And now my last semester at Rutgers starts tomorrow, my student teaching position has not yet been approved, I need to find another one in an elementary school, and very importantly, I need to find a job. I need to find the highest paying part-time job I can with night hours. Other than working the graveyard shift at my local Mobil-Mart, does anyone have any ideas? Oh yeah, to throw into the mix, I’m sharing a car with my sister because neither one of us can afford our own, so can I add to the order of a high-paying but not actually difficult part-time job that I can do at night that it also be in a convenient location? Let me know what you come up with, thanks!
We had peppermint ice cream last week at my sister’s birthday, and we decided we like it. So another sister decided to serve it at her son’s first birthday party last night. Problem being that peppermint ice cream is a seasonal flavor, and our local grocery store was already out of it. Yesterday my mother and I decided to try to find some for her while she was at work, so after calling a few places, we drove to a local dairy which had some home-made peppermint ice cream. We bough 3 or 4 pints and I called and left a message for my sister that we had found the ice cream, and would bring it to the party that night. I was well satisfied with our cleverness and went to the gym. Upon my return, I saw had a message that my sister had found peppermint ice cream at another store and had bought a quart for the party and a quart to give it us. I went to tell my mom that we didn’t need to bring the ice cream to the party and learned that while I had been at the gym she had gone to another store and found peppermint ice cream there as well and bought two quarts (one for the party, one for us). So now, we have a lot of peppermint ice cream. Be sure to drop by if you’d like some.
My friend asked me the other day if I’d heard anything about Jonathan Crombie (Gilbert from Anne of Green Gables fame) playing Man in Chair in The Drowsy Chaperone, and I said “oh no, I get The Drowsy Chaperone newsletter, I’d surely know if he’d been in the show.” Then I had a sickening feeling as I remembered how I’d rather cavalierly deleted one or two of those email newsletters without really reading them. Sure enough, I checked the trusty IBDB the next day, and found to my great dismay and regret that yes, I did miss my chance to see the wonderful, Canadian Jonathan Crombie in person in such a wonderful show, and could even have, perhaps (swoon), gotten his autograph (and said something very embarrassing and stupid I’m sure) at the stage door!! It almost seems fitting that on the heels of such horrible news, I check out Playbill.com today to find that The Drowsy Chaperone is closing at the end of the year. It’s a sad day my friends. A very sad day.
Ok, I’ve been remiss in my Dark Materials obsession duties. For anyone that doubts for a second that I went to the midnight (12:01am) screening Thursday night (technically Friday morning Dec. 7), oh ye of little faith. Of course I was there. I actually went to an 8pm showing of Juno while I waited, and loved it, but darn it all, that movie is only 98 minutes. I wandered the movie theatre, made a few calls, then went to the bathroom before the long haul of staking my claim for The Golden Compass. In the bathroom I saw a hand dryer so amazing, I felt the need to share it with you. It makes me wonder if I have an unhealthy interest in hand dryers, but this one was seriously cool and very effective. I figure I’ll wait and see, if I feel compelled to take a picture of a third hand dryer, I’ll ditch the whole librarian thing and start working on my coffee table book of Hand Dryers Across America.
As for the movie, I don’t really have too much to say. The movie’s beautiful, I definitely want to see it again. I think the casting was great and yet, somehow the movie didn’t capture “it.” I’m not sure if no movie could, or if this movie couldn’t, but for whatever reason, the greatness of the book doesn’t translate. And something I will blame completely on Chris Weitz is the ending. It stinks. Royally. It’s a total let-down, and it’s BORING. And it came after only two hours – I know my audience at least could have easily, even happily stayed for another half hour, and if they were hell-bent on not giving us the real ending (which is the OPPOSITE of boring), they could have at least added some more fun stuff in the middle. Anyhoo, this review pretty much sums it up to me. Like I said, I enjoyed the movie, I’ll mostly likely see it again, even own it, but I won’t be that sad if they don’t make the other two movies, and I’m sure as shootin’ glad the movie wasn’t my first exposure to this story.
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