Two weeks worth...sorry!
I think facebook was being silly on Sunday so I couldn't post my final picture there and then this week was crazy so I never got around to it.
The movies for the week are Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn, Taken, The Uninvited, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, The Hangover, and Suicide Club.
Last Week
On Monday we went to Red Robin where we were supposed to be celebrating our friend Tonda's graduation. She wasn't able to make it but we were starving so we ended up eating there anyway. Yummy mushroom swiss burger.
On Tuesday we went to another play at the Triad Stage, this time it was Tartuffe. We had sushi rolls at a new sushi place called Zen because they have half priced rolls on Tuesdays.
On Wednesday I was working at my assistantship because the Boys and Girls Club was closed. Right now I'm making fact sheets about different assessments that are available for use with adolescents who may be using substances.
On Thursday I discovered I had a carrot that looked like E.T.
On Friday after work I was eating some weirdo candy from Party City because it was discontinued. It was a sucker but it had a rabbit mouth and nose on the other end, like a pacifier, lol.
On Saturday we went to the Lazy 5 Ranch with some friends and drove around and fed animals. An emu tried to eat me.
On Sunday I straightened up the living room because we were having people over to watch the Transformers the next day.
This Week
On Monday we had people over to watch Transformers and I got some napkins for the occasion.
On Tuesday my graduate level class decided we needed to have Tacky Day, that explains the outfit. Someone also decided we needed to have a drumming circle, that explains the drum.
Wednesday was Trivia Night as usual. Curtis and I have never taken our picture together for the purposes of this photo thing so that's what we did.
On Thursday I took stock of our 4th of July party supplies.
On Friday I paid the water bill and wrote a Father's Day card.
On Saturday we went to a pool party for Holly's birthday.
And on Sunday after a long-ass day at PC I came home and wrote one of two papers that is due on Tuesday.
MOVIES
Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn (1987) - Stranded in a cabin in the woods, Ash (Bruce Campbell) and his girlfriend accidentally invoke a spell that causes the Evil Dead to rise and kill! As a lone man pitted against hordes of walking corpses, can Ash survive until the safety of sunrise? Director Sam Raimi's whip-crack direction and Campbell's comedic skills induce hair-raising fear and gales of laughter.
Pretty much the same as the first one, only with lots more spewing blood. I don't really understand why the director couldnt use footage from his own film and instead had to recreate the end of the first movie at the beginning of this one.
Taken (2008) - While vacationing with a friend in Paris, an American girl (Maggie Grace) is kidnapped by a gang of human traffickers intent on selling her into forced prostitution. Now, her father, Bryan (Liam Neeson), a former soldier, must pull out all the stops to save her. But with his best years possibly behind him, Bryan's task may be more than he can handle. Directed by Pierre Morel, this relentless action thriller also stars Famke Janssen.
This movie was pretty bad ass. I feel like there were a few stunts that I thought were really cool and then wondered why people hadn't thought of them before, hehe. I was pretty much sitting on the edge of my seat the whole time. It was very stressful. Oh and Famke Janssen's character was pretty much wearing the same shirt during the whole movie.
The Uninvited (2009) - Committed to a mental hospital after her mother's tragic death, teenager Anna (Emily Browning) discovers upon her release that her father (David Strathairn) plans to marry his deceased wife's former nurse, Rachael (Elizabeth Banks), a woman who may not have the best intentions. Foreboding warnings from her mother's ghost only cement Anna's suspicions in this remake of the 2003 Korean chiller Janghwa, Hongryeon.
I actually liked this movie. As usual, I get myself all worked up and think that a movie is going to be way more scary than it actually is. I definitely didn't see the ending coming and was actually getting mad and thinking that it was going to be another one of those scary movies that I hate. I can't explain why/how it ended up not being that type of scary movie because it will ruin it.
I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007) - Firefighters Chuck Ford (Adam Sandler) and Larry Allensworth (Kevin James) are guy's guys, loyal to the core -- which is why when widower Larry asks Chuck to pose as his gay lover so that he can get domestic partner benefits for his kids, his buddy agrees. Things get dicey, however, when a bureaucrat comes calling, and the boys are forced to present a picture of domestic bliss in this comedy co-starring Dan Aykroyd and Steve Buscemi.
I don't have anything profound to say about this movie. It was funny and just a good comedy. It's an Adam Sandler movie, that's really all there is to it.
The Hangover (2009) - When three friends (Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis and Bradley Cooper) finally come to after a raucous night of bachelor-party revelry, they find a baby in the closet and a tiger in the bathroom. But they can't seem to locate their best friend, Doug (Justin Bartha) -- who's supposed to be tying the knot. Launching a frantic search for Doug, the trio perseveres through a dandy hangover to try to make it to the church on time.
From the guys who did Old School but I didn't like Old School, I fell asleep watching that movie. It was quite entertaining but I have to be in the mood for one of these movies. I do think that the little Asian guy was over the top, I don't really like him.
Suicide Club (2002) - After 54 schoolgirls simultaneously jump in front of a train at Shinjuku Station in Tokyo, the city becomes plagued with "suicide clubs" -- groups of teens who get together and make plans to kill themselves. The police have little luck in deciphering the motivation of the youngsters, but they do keep finding a ribbon composed of bits of skin from all the previous suicides at each new death scene. Whoah!
I watched this movie because my friend Matt liked it and I will pretty much watch anything. It was very gory, lots of blood spewing. And it was confusing, I'm still not sure what was really going on. In the middle it reminded me of a Clockwork Orange for a minute but then it went in a totally different direction.
The movies for the week are Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn, Taken, The Uninvited, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, The Hangover, and Suicide Club.
Last Week
On Monday we went to Red Robin where we were supposed to be celebrating our friend Tonda's graduation. She wasn't able to make it but we were starving so we ended up eating there anyway. Yummy mushroom swiss burger.
On Tuesday we went to another play at the Triad Stage, this time it was Tartuffe. We had sushi rolls at a new sushi place called Zen because they have half priced rolls on Tuesdays.
On Wednesday I was working at my assistantship because the Boys and Girls Club was closed. Right now I'm making fact sheets about different assessments that are available for use with adolescents who may be using substances.
On Thursday I discovered I had a carrot that looked like E.T.
On Friday after work I was eating some weirdo candy from Party City because it was discontinued. It was a sucker but it had a rabbit mouth and nose on the other end, like a pacifier, lol.
On Saturday we went to the Lazy 5 Ranch with some friends and drove around and fed animals. An emu tried to eat me.
On Sunday I straightened up the living room because we were having people over to watch the Transformers the next day.
This Week
On Monday we had people over to watch Transformers and I got some napkins for the occasion.
On Tuesday my graduate level class decided we needed to have Tacky Day, that explains the outfit. Someone also decided we needed to have a drumming circle, that explains the drum.
Wednesday was Trivia Night as usual. Curtis and I have never taken our picture together for the purposes of this photo thing so that's what we did.
On Thursday I took stock of our 4th of July party supplies.
On Friday I paid the water bill and wrote a Father's Day card.
On Saturday we went to a pool party for Holly's birthday.
And on Sunday after a long-ass day at PC I came home and wrote one of two papers that is due on Tuesday.
MOVIES
Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn (1987) - Stranded in a cabin in the woods, Ash (Bruce Campbell) and his girlfriend accidentally invoke a spell that causes the Evil Dead to rise and kill! As a lone man pitted against hordes of walking corpses, can Ash survive until the safety of sunrise? Director Sam Raimi's whip-crack direction and Campbell's comedic skills induce hair-raising fear and gales of laughter.
Pretty much the same as the first one, only with lots more spewing blood. I don't really understand why the director couldnt use footage from his own film and instead had to recreate the end of the first movie at the beginning of this one.
Taken (2008) - While vacationing with a friend in Paris, an American girl (Maggie Grace) is kidnapped by a gang of human traffickers intent on selling her into forced prostitution. Now, her father, Bryan (Liam Neeson), a former soldier, must pull out all the stops to save her. But with his best years possibly behind him, Bryan's task may be more than he can handle. Directed by Pierre Morel, this relentless action thriller also stars Famke Janssen.
This movie was pretty bad ass. I feel like there were a few stunts that I thought were really cool and then wondered why people hadn't thought of them before, hehe. I was pretty much sitting on the edge of my seat the whole time. It was very stressful. Oh and Famke Janssen's character was pretty much wearing the same shirt during the whole movie.
The Uninvited (2009) - Committed to a mental hospital after her mother's tragic death, teenager Anna (Emily Browning) discovers upon her release that her father (David Strathairn) plans to marry his deceased wife's former nurse, Rachael (Elizabeth Banks), a woman who may not have the best intentions. Foreboding warnings from her mother's ghost only cement Anna's suspicions in this remake of the 2003 Korean chiller Janghwa, Hongryeon.
I actually liked this movie. As usual, I get myself all worked up and think that a movie is going to be way more scary than it actually is. I definitely didn't see the ending coming and was actually getting mad and thinking that it was going to be another one of those scary movies that I hate. I can't explain why/how it ended up not being that type of scary movie because it will ruin it.
I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007) - Firefighters Chuck Ford (Adam Sandler) and Larry Allensworth (Kevin James) are guy's guys, loyal to the core -- which is why when widower Larry asks Chuck to pose as his gay lover so that he can get domestic partner benefits for his kids, his buddy agrees. Things get dicey, however, when a bureaucrat comes calling, and the boys are forced to present a picture of domestic bliss in this comedy co-starring Dan Aykroyd and Steve Buscemi.
I don't have anything profound to say about this movie. It was funny and just a good comedy. It's an Adam Sandler movie, that's really all there is to it.
The Hangover (2009) - When three friends (Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis and Bradley Cooper) finally come to after a raucous night of bachelor-party revelry, they find a baby in the closet and a tiger in the bathroom. But they can't seem to locate their best friend, Doug (Justin Bartha) -- who's supposed to be tying the knot. Launching a frantic search for Doug, the trio perseveres through a dandy hangover to try to make it to the church on time.
From the guys who did Old School but I didn't like Old School, I fell asleep watching that movie. It was quite entertaining but I have to be in the mood for one of these movies. I do think that the little Asian guy was over the top, I don't really like him.
Suicide Club (2002) - After 54 schoolgirls simultaneously jump in front of a train at Shinjuku Station in Tokyo, the city becomes plagued with "suicide clubs" -- groups of teens who get together and make plans to kill themselves. The police have little luck in deciphering the motivation of the youngsters, but they do keep finding a ribbon composed of bits of skin from all the previous suicides at each new death scene. Whoah!
I watched this movie because my friend Matt liked it and I will pretty much watch anything. It was very gory, lots of blood spewing. And it was confusing, I'm still not sure what was really going on. In the middle it reminded me of a Clockwork Orange for a minute but then it went in a totally different direction.