Tuesday, October 5, 2010
It's Not Delivery, it's 200 calorie frozen pizza.
I got Digiorno's 200 calorie pizza. It's not too bad. Just be sure to microwave it long enough for all of the flavor to die. It's also pretty filling as long as you drink a huge glass of water and a handful of nuts first. I give it a C.
Monday, October 4, 2010
Weekend movies.
This weekend we watched Paranormal Activity, Shutter Island and The Crazies.
We started with Paranormal Activity. I told my husband before the movie started I didn't think he would like it and I was absolutely right. He likes movies where stuff happens. He's not really concerned about the script or acting. He really just prefers running, punching, kicking and stuff that blows up. I'm simplifying a bit, he has some standards but he definitely has action movie lover leanings.
Here's a hint about movies like Paranormal Activity. It's one of those movies that pretends it is footage that is found "after the fact". The appeal of these movies is that the filmmakers fabricated a real-life setting and made some crazy situations to occur within them. The viewer gets a peeping tom view of "real people" in fucked up situations and that makes it seem like it's more plausible that it could happen to the viewer. The viewer always expects that will be great fun sort of voyeuristic. The problem with these movies for most scary moviegoers is that situations that are plausible aren't very scary to watch but are scary to experience and these movies don't recreate the feeling of a haunted house. The situations that viewers find scary in films are mostly suspenseful because the viewer really has no idea how the character is going to get out of some situation where said character is clearly doomed only to get out of it in an implausible nature that the viewer couldn't have thought of.
First of all in these after the fact movies, they aim to look like real life so the characters can't get in a bunch doomed situations until the very end of the movie where they are actually doomed. Until then the filmmaker has to keep the character fairly safe throughout the bulk of the movie because the situations have to be mostly believable. Which is the complaint that people have of these movies, nothing happens!
While nothing really happens until the film's end, I liked it.
It starts off sort of slow but I appreciated the plot development in the end. Katie and Micah did a good job of creating a couple that shared a life together and they displayed the emotions of their respective characters well. I thought the plot was interesting enough.
In order for people to enjoy this film one must let go of their expectations of what the trailer propagates and take it for what it is.
Second, we watched The Crazies. I can't tell you much because we didn't finish it. Neither of us liked it.
Basically the town goes crazy and starts killing everyone. I don't know how much of it we watched but it was too much.
It started off on the wrong foot. My first complaint is that pretty much as soon as the movie begins it goes right into the crazy. I would have liked to see how normal the town was before people started to go nuts, but it was just crazy things happening with no explanation. I wouldn't mind this except that I had no idea who the characters were thus I didn't care what was happening to them. The filmmakers did not create an identity to make the characters feel real to me.
It was kind of like when your friend comes to you and says they had the weirdest dream last night and you hope that it ends there but unfortunately they tell you what happened during the dream. And you don't care because the dream is about as far from reality as you can get but your friend thinks it is so interesting. So you just wait until they start talking and say, "Wow, that's crazy!" and hope that they don't quiz you about it later. Yeah it was like that, except no one in this movie was in my friend so I just turned it off.
The third movie we watched my my weekend favorite. We watched Shutter Island. I thought it was pretty good.
It is one of those movies where tragically nothing is ever what it seems. The movie was paced perfectly to keep me wondering and intrigued in all the right places.
We started with Paranormal Activity. I told my husband before the movie started I didn't think he would like it and I was absolutely right. He likes movies where stuff happens. He's not really concerned about the script or acting. He really just prefers running, punching, kicking and stuff that blows up. I'm simplifying a bit, he has some standards but he definitely has action movie lover leanings.
Here's a hint about movies like Paranormal Activity. It's one of those movies that pretends it is footage that is found "after the fact". The appeal of these movies is that the filmmakers fabricated a real-life setting and made some crazy situations to occur within them. The viewer gets a peeping tom view of "real people" in fucked up situations and that makes it seem like it's more plausible that it could happen to the viewer. The viewer always expects that will be great fun sort of voyeuristic. The problem with these movies for most scary moviegoers is that situations that are plausible aren't very scary to watch but are scary to experience and these movies don't recreate the feeling of a haunted house. The situations that viewers find scary in films are mostly suspenseful because the viewer really has no idea how the character is going to get out of some situation where said character is clearly doomed only to get out of it in an implausible nature that the viewer couldn't have thought of.
First of all in these after the fact movies, they aim to look like real life so the characters can't get in a bunch doomed situations until the very end of the movie where they are actually doomed. Until then the filmmaker has to keep the character fairly safe throughout the bulk of the movie because the situations have to be mostly believable. Which is the complaint that people have of these movies, nothing happens!
While nothing really happens until the film's end, I liked it.
It starts off sort of slow but I appreciated the plot development in the end. Katie and Micah did a good job of creating a couple that shared a life together and they displayed the emotions of their respective characters well. I thought the plot was interesting enough.
In order for people to enjoy this film one must let go of their expectations of what the trailer propagates and take it for what it is.
Second, we watched The Crazies. I can't tell you much because we didn't finish it. Neither of us liked it.
Basically the town goes crazy and starts killing everyone. I don't know how much of it we watched but it was too much.
It started off on the wrong foot. My first complaint is that pretty much as soon as the movie begins it goes right into the crazy. I would have liked to see how normal the town was before people started to go nuts, but it was just crazy things happening with no explanation. I wouldn't mind this except that I had no idea who the characters were thus I didn't care what was happening to them. The filmmakers did not create an identity to make the characters feel real to me.
It was kind of like when your friend comes to you and says they had the weirdest dream last night and you hope that it ends there but unfortunately they tell you what happened during the dream. And you don't care because the dream is about as far from reality as you can get but your friend thinks it is so interesting. So you just wait until they start talking and say, "Wow, that's crazy!" and hope that they don't quiz you about it later. Yeah it was like that, except no one in this movie was in my friend so I just turned it off.
The third movie we watched my my weekend favorite. We watched Shutter Island. I thought it was pretty good.
It is one of those movies where tragically nothing is ever what it seems. The movie was paced perfectly to keep me wondering and intrigued in all the right places.
Guffaw
Without the definition, the word 'guffaw' seems humanly impossible as it sounds like simultaneously vomiting and laughing. I would never want to do that.
Allergies?
I didn't realize that you can have allergies in the fall. I thought it was a spring thing. I mean sure you can have allergies anytime but it's way more trendy to have them in the spring. This must just be another exercise for my body to refuse to conform to acceptable body norms like "not perspiring even though I'm wearing prescription strength antiperspirant".
Friday, October 1, 2010
The Guilded Age
I have long been a nap time Nazi. I like to think (won't admit otherwise) that I am pretty easygoing about a great many things but nap time has never been one of them. When my son was a baby I would plan any and every day and event around being home at nap time. We weren't missing an afternoon nap to go to the zoo. Unless someone might die, we weren't going somewhere at 11:30 because nap time is at 12:00 and I can't risk him falling asleep in the car thirty minutes early. It would throw off our entire lives.
If I was trying to put him to sleep at the correct time and your voice projected too much I would come out and stare daggers at you. I was ultra sensitive to every single noise that was made during the falling asleep period of nap time.
My son was always tough to get to sleep through the night so it was really important to me to keep his sleeping body clock on schedule lest I go even more insane. I read that keeping your child awake all day can make the baby overtired and make it harder for he or she to fall asleep at bedtime. And man did that ever seem true.
So when my son in the past few months has been refusing to take naps I was at first worried. But I soon realized that he was now able to stay up all day get cranky at 6 and fall asleep early and stay asleep all night. It was like a party in my brain and I was actually invited. It was so awesome. I had hours and hours to me and my husband alone. Alone. With an adult! We said all kinds of things that you would never say in front of child like asshat and knob job. And we watched trash television. I felt just like when I was ten and would watch MTV with my fingers on the disney channel numbers in case my mom or dad walked in the room. Oh the debauchery.
I was naive to think it would last. Now he is old enough to not only skip his nap but also run all over the place at bedtime and giggle.
When I was a kid I always thought parents were just roadblocks to fun but those kids should know it is a two way street.
Now I'm all standing by the door and escorting him back to bed. Putting him in time out when he should be sleeping not running in and out of his room.
If I was trying to put him to sleep at the correct time and your voice projected too much I would come out and stare daggers at you. I was ultra sensitive to every single noise that was made during the falling asleep period of nap time.
My son was always tough to get to sleep through the night so it was really important to me to keep his sleeping body clock on schedule lest I go even more insane. I read that keeping your child awake all day can make the baby overtired and make it harder for he or she to fall asleep at bedtime. And man did that ever seem true.
So when my son in the past few months has been refusing to take naps I was at first worried. But I soon realized that he was now able to stay up all day get cranky at 6 and fall asleep early and stay asleep all night. It was like a party in my brain and I was actually invited. It was so awesome. I had hours and hours to me and my husband alone. Alone. With an adult! We said all kinds of things that you would never say in front of child like asshat and knob job. And we watched trash television. I felt just like when I was ten and would watch MTV with my fingers on the disney channel numbers in case my mom or dad walked in the room. Oh the debauchery.
I was naive to think it would last. Now he is old enough to not only skip his nap but also run all over the place at bedtime and giggle.
When I was a kid I always thought parents were just roadblocks to fun but those kids should know it is a two way street.
Now I'm all standing by the door and escorting him back to bed. Putting him in time out when he should be sleeping not running in and out of his room.
Two year old Caught white handed.
Me: Did you stick your hands into the paint?
Son: (with white paint on his fingers) No.
Me: I can see it on your hands. Let's go wash it off.
Son:(Running off) No, I'm just so busy.
Me: One, two...
Son: (With hands up in the air and a resigned tone.) OOOOOK, I give up.
Son: (with white paint on his fingers) No.
Me: I can see it on your hands. Let's go wash it off.
Son:(Running off) No, I'm just so busy.
Me: One, two...
Son: (With hands up in the air and a resigned tone.) OOOOOK, I give up.
What kind of a blog is this?
I want to write a blog that people are interested in but I have to be interested in it at the same time. The problem? I'm boooring. Seriously. You don't want me to blog about what's dear to my heart. It would turn into a huge blog smashed together with rants about my intense liberal views along with f list celebrity gossip. Then there would be posts where I mixed the two together and start complaining about paparazzi take photos of celebrity kids. It's just wrong!
Most importantly, if anyone ever did happen to google 'homeless bears eating other homeless bears for a nominal fee' and happened to stumble upon my obscure blog, I would want to entertain them. Regardless of the fact that they are sickos and not very bright. Seriously who would want to see a bear do that? And offering a bear U.S. dollars is totally barking up the wrong fee tree. Everyone knows the U.S. currency is down on it's luck at this point in time. My point is, I want to be an equal opportunity entertainer.
So my goals for this blog is to avoid talking about my politics, avoid talking about pop culture and maybe not complain about things. Maybe I'll do it anyway. We'll see.
Some of my favorite bloggers manage to write about absolutely nothing. Blogs about nothing! They should do a show about nothing. But that's already been done really well twice (Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm) and then really awful 726845689434 times (Living Lohan, etc). And then there were other ones that I loved that carved out a little niche, got a book deal and then figured they never had to blog again. Like fu penguin and Stuff White People Like. They were so good.
I think maybe I'll blog about the nothingness I do as a stay at home and various attempts and failures at crafting projects. But I'll try to make it better than it sounds.
Most importantly, if anyone ever did happen to google 'homeless bears eating other homeless bears for a nominal fee' and happened to stumble upon my obscure blog, I would want to entertain them. Regardless of the fact that they are sickos and not very bright. Seriously who would want to see a bear do that? And offering a bear U.S. dollars is totally barking up the wrong fee tree. Everyone knows the U.S. currency is down on it's luck at this point in time. My point is, I want to be an equal opportunity entertainer.
So my goals for this blog is to avoid talking about my politics, avoid talking about pop culture and maybe not complain about things. Maybe I'll do it anyway. We'll see.
Some of my favorite bloggers manage to write about absolutely nothing. Blogs about nothing! They should do a show about nothing. But that's already been done really well twice (Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm) and then really awful 726845689434 times (Living Lohan, etc). And then there were other ones that I loved that carved out a little niche, got a book deal and then figured they never had to blog again. Like fu penguin and Stuff White People Like. They were so good.
I think maybe I'll blog about the nothingness I do as a stay at home and various attempts and failures at crafting projects. But I'll try to make it better than it sounds.
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