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i'm getting my wisdom teeth out next tuesday, not looking forward to that, especially since it's going to cost me $1146 because i've already used some of my dental benefit for this year. :-(
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i want to know why it took away my apostrophes!
so let's see what happened this week. not much...curtis didn't get home til late most nights because of spring fling so i got to rent a bunch of movies that I wanted to watch. i finally got my bike tires inflated. i had to take my bike to the gas station (in pieces...like i took the front wheel one day to make sure that there wasn't something wrong with the tires and then took the other part of the bike the next day) to inflate the tires. now i need to get a bike rack. at the moment i have to take the front wheel off every time i want to take my bike somewhere and then put it together to ride it and then take it back apart to put it back in the car. right now my front wheel and my helmet are just getting carted around in my trunk and i just take the rest of the bike inside when i get home. so i went to the bike trail on saturday and let me tell you....it is not nearly as flat as it seems when you are walking. i thought i was going to die.... and my bike tried to kill me three times...first my kickstand was all bent out of shape so my pedal kept hitting it, then my bike chain got stuck, and then it fell off the gears (it fell the f*** off! :-P). so when it fell off i was in the middle of going up a huge hill that i didnt even know existed because it was farther down the trail then we've walked. so i had to ask a random guy running by to show me how to put the chain back on. and there happened to be a little kid standing there on the trail looking at a snapping turtle that had crawled out of the lake and up the hill near the trail. i touched it on it's shell (to demonstrate that it wouldnt bite you if you did that) and it almost bit me, i've never seen a turtle move that fast. after that it got pissed and walked back down to the lake. i stood there talking to the little kid for a while and then we were both ready to leave and as i was riding down the hill he yells, "maybe you can come back later!" aww, how cute.
so the movies for this week were The Incredibly True Adventure of 2 Girls in Love, The Holiday, The Flower of My Secret, Young Adam, and Goldfish Memory. I also finished watching the first disc of Undeclared. And I say again...fox is dumb for cancelling that show. a funny thing is that there is a whole thread on the imdb board for undeclared of people complaining about how two of the episodes are the same...uh duh...one is an alternate version.
The Incredibly True Adventure of 2 Girls in Love 1995 - It happens every day! Two very different teenage girls (as different as, well, white and black) find themselves falling in love with each other. One is rich, demure and African-American; the other a hell-raising Caucasian tomboy who pumps her own gas. Stars Laurel Holloman and Nicole Parker.
It was very cute. I've wanted to see this movie for a long time. Back when I worked at Library Media there was a class on GLBT entertainment and it was on reserve and it was the professor's private copy which meant I couldn't take it home ever and I didn't really like watching movies in the library. The ending was completely crazy and hilarious.
The Holiday 2006 - Stuck in a vicious cycle of dead-end relationships with two-timing men, Los Angeles resident Amanda ( Cameron Diaz) and Londoner Iris ( Kate Winslet) decide to swap homes -- paving the way for romances they never imagined possible. This charming comedy from writer-director Nancy Meyers features an all-star cast, including Jude Law, Jack Black, Edward Burns and Rufus Sewell .
This movie was fantastic! Of course it wouldn't have been as good if Cameron Diaz and Jack Black were paired together because I don't really like them. Cameron was still slightly annoying but Jack was actually likeable. Kate Winslet is awesome and I love her. And Jude Law is hot (I figured I might as well say something about each of them). I was going back and forth between smiling like an idiot because it was so damn cute and having tears in my eyes (both happy and sad). There's a very funny "impromptu" cameo by Dustin Hoffman.
The Flower of My Secret 1996 - Popular romance novelist Leo ( Marisa Paredes) takes a job at a newspaper under a pseudonym in this bittersweet film from Pedro Almodovar. Fed up with writing meaningless books and on the verge of splitting with her husband ( Imanol Arias), Leo banishes her overwhelming depression by pretending to be Amanda Gris. She's hired by newspaperman Ángel ( Juan Echanove), who's unaware of her true identity and assigns her to review her own romance novel.
I've got all the Almodovar movies that are available through netflix on my list and this was the one I decided to watch this week. After I finished the movie I was still kind of confused about the title...I'm still thinking that maybe it's a Spanish proverb or something and it just doesn't translate exactly. But I'm guessing that once you reveal the "flower of a secret" then there's not really a secret anymore, that the secret has blossomed and become known to others. It was a pretty good movie...everyone in the story had a secret or another nature that they don't let anyone know about. There was lots of imagery to go along with this like multiple images reflecting in windows and mirrors that are split and so they distort the reflections.
Young Adam 2004 - A young drifter named Joe ( Ewan McGregor) finds work on a barge that travels between Glasgow and Edinburgh and is owned by Les and Ella Gault ( Peter Mullan and Tilda Swinton ). When the corpse of a young woman is found floating in the river, police have some leads -- but is Joe really telling all he knows? Making things even messier is the unspoken attraction that develops between Joe and Ella in the barge's claustrophobic confines.
so i've become quite a diehard ewan mcgregor film (and no, not just because he likes to get naked in his films). so i'm trying to see everything that he's been in. well this is one that i could have done without seeing, well besides the naked part. it was very boring in between sex scenes - most of which were very disturbing. i remember having read an interview where he was talking about this movie because people seemed so taken aback by the nature of the sex. he was saying something about how he thought it was realistic and that's how things are a lot of the time. well i dont know about that, it seemed pretty disturbing and un-normal to me. ewan's character was pretty much a horny bastard who didn't care who he hurt and how many lives he ruined.
Goldfish Memory 2003 - In this comedy set in contemporary Dublin, Clara ( Fiona O'Shaughnessy ) is stunned when she finds her boyfriend kissing someone else ( Fiona Glascott), setting in motion a string of romantic mishaps for the heartbroken woman and several other lovelorn characters. Marriage, casual encounters and everything in between are explored by this group of relationship-challenged people who ultimately just want the same thing: someone to call their own.
this was a random pick, i needed one more movie and i just picked one at random. it was pretty cute. though the whole goldfish was a bit of an overkill. the movie was only 88 minutes and there were goldfish everywhere, the characters had goldfish, there were goldfish at the bar, one guy had a goldfish shower curtain, and one of the men was using the "goldfish memory" thing as a part of his deal when he picked up girls.
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i want to know why it took away my apostrophes!
so let's see what happened this week. not much...curtis didn't get home til late most nights because of spring fling so i got to rent a bunch of movies that I wanted to watch. i finally got my bike tires inflated. i had to take my bike to the gas station (in pieces...like i took the front wheel one day to make sure that there wasn't something wrong with the tires and then took the other part of the bike the next day) to inflate the tires. now i need to get a bike rack. at the moment i have to take the front wheel off every time i want to take my bike somewhere and then put it together to ride it and then take it back apart to put it back in the car. right now my front wheel and my helmet are just getting carted around in my trunk and i just take the rest of the bike inside when i get home. so i went to the bike trail on saturday and let me tell you....it is not nearly as flat as it seems when you are walking. i thought i was going to die.... and my bike tried to kill me three times...first my kickstand was all bent out of shape so my pedal kept hitting it, then my bike chain got stuck, and then it fell off the gears (it fell the f*** off! :-P). so when it fell off i was in the middle of going up a huge hill that i didnt even know existed because it was farther down the trail then we've walked. so i had to ask a random guy running by to show me how to put the chain back on. and there happened to be a little kid standing there on the trail looking at a snapping turtle that had crawled out of the lake and up the hill near the trail. i touched it on it's shell (to demonstrate that it wouldnt bite you if you did that) and it almost bit me, i've never seen a turtle move that fast. after that it got pissed and walked back down to the lake. i stood there talking to the little kid for a while and then we were both ready to leave and as i was riding down the hill he yells, "maybe you can come back later!" aww, how cute.
so the movies for this week were The Incredibly True Adventure of 2 Girls in Love, The Holiday, The Flower of My Secret, Young Adam, and Goldfish Memory. I also finished watching the first disc of Undeclared. And I say again...fox is dumb for cancelling that show. a funny thing is that there is a whole thread on the imdb board for undeclared of people complaining about how two of the episodes are the same...uh duh...one is an alternate version.
The Incredibly True Adventure of 2 Girls in Love 1995 - It happens every day! Two very different teenage girls (as different as, well, white and black) find themselves falling in love with each other. One is rich, demure and African-American; the other a hell-raising Caucasian tomboy who pumps her own gas. Stars Laurel Holloman and Nicole Parker.
It was very cute. I've wanted to see this movie for a long time. Back when I worked at Library Media there was a class on GLBT entertainment and it was on reserve and it was the professor's private copy which meant I couldn't take it home ever and I didn't really like watching movies in the library. The ending was completely crazy and hilarious.
The Holiday 2006 - Stuck in a vicious cycle of dead-end relationships with two-timing men, Los Angeles resident Amanda ( Cameron Diaz) and Londoner Iris ( Kate Winslet) decide to swap homes -- paving the way for romances they never imagined possible. This charming comedy from writer-director Nancy Meyers features an all-star cast, including Jude Law, Jack Black, Edward Burns and Rufus Sewell .
This movie was fantastic! Of course it wouldn't have been as good if Cameron Diaz and Jack Black were paired together because I don't really like them. Cameron was still slightly annoying but Jack was actually likeable. Kate Winslet is awesome and I love her. And Jude Law is hot (I figured I might as well say something about each of them). I was going back and forth between smiling like an idiot because it was so damn cute and having tears in my eyes (both happy and sad). There's a very funny "impromptu" cameo by Dustin Hoffman.
The Flower of My Secret 1996 - Popular romance novelist Leo ( Marisa Paredes) takes a job at a newspaper under a pseudonym in this bittersweet film from Pedro Almodovar. Fed up with writing meaningless books and on the verge of splitting with her husband ( Imanol Arias), Leo banishes her overwhelming depression by pretending to be Amanda Gris. She's hired by newspaperman Ángel ( Juan Echanove), who's unaware of her true identity and assigns her to review her own romance novel.
I've got all the Almodovar movies that are available through netflix on my list and this was the one I decided to watch this week. After I finished the movie I was still kind of confused about the title...I'm still thinking that maybe it's a Spanish proverb or something and it just doesn't translate exactly. But I'm guessing that once you reveal the "flower of a secret" then there's not really a secret anymore, that the secret has blossomed and become known to others. It was a pretty good movie...everyone in the story had a secret or another nature that they don't let anyone know about. There was lots of imagery to go along with this like multiple images reflecting in windows and mirrors that are split and so they distort the reflections.
Young Adam 2004 - A young drifter named Joe ( Ewan McGregor) finds work on a barge that travels between Glasgow and Edinburgh and is owned by Les and Ella Gault ( Peter Mullan and Tilda Swinton ). When the corpse of a young woman is found floating in the river, police have some leads -- but is Joe really telling all he knows? Making things even messier is the unspoken attraction that develops between Joe and Ella in the barge's claustrophobic confines.
so i've become quite a diehard ewan mcgregor film (and no, not just because he likes to get naked in his films). so i'm trying to see everything that he's been in. well this is one that i could have done without seeing, well besides the naked part. it was very boring in between sex scenes - most of which were very disturbing. i remember having read an interview where he was talking about this movie because people seemed so taken aback by the nature of the sex. he was saying something about how he thought it was realistic and that's how things are a lot of the time. well i dont know about that, it seemed pretty disturbing and un-normal to me. ewan's character was pretty much a horny bastard who didn't care who he hurt and how many lives he ruined.
Goldfish Memory 2003 - In this comedy set in contemporary Dublin, Clara ( Fiona O'Shaughnessy ) is stunned when she finds her boyfriend kissing someone else ( Fiona Glascott), setting in motion a string of romantic mishaps for the heartbroken woman and several other lovelorn characters. Marriage, casual encounters and everything in between are explored by this group of relationship-challenged people who ultimately just want the same thing: someone to call their own.
this was a random pick, i needed one more movie and i just picked one at random. it was pretty cute. though the whole goldfish was a bit of an overkill. the movie was only 88 minutes and there were goldfish everywhere, the characters had goldfish, there were goldfish at the bar, one guy had a goldfish shower curtain, and one of the men was using the "goldfish memory" thing as a part of his deal when he picked up girls.