assumptions and predictions about movies i haven’t seen: ‘the apartment’

30 Apr

Friends and loved ones agree that my only (one! singular!) flaw is that if you ask, “Oh, haven’t you seen [insert beloved classic film here]?” my answer is pretty much always no. (“Citizen Kane”? Nope!) Let’s blame it on growing up deep in a valley in the heart of Oregon, just like all my other quirks.

Everyone says learning doesn’t end when college does, so here goes an attempt to educate myself: Let’s watch some classic films, guys! And since you’ve already seen them, you don’t need me to tell you what they’re about. Instead, I’ll write my predicted plot synopsis and then we’ll all laugh about how incredibly wrong I am.

We present: VAGUE IMPRESSIONS, ASSUMPTIONS AND PREDICTIONS ABOUT FAMOUS MOVIES I HAVEN’T ACTUALLY SEEN Continue reading 

eight band names based on my rewatching of LOST

13 Mar

Rape Caves

Charlie’s Extra-Smooth Peanut Butter

Manifest

No More Warnings

Mystery Frickin’ Island

Abs

Charlie, I’ll Kill You Last

Sawyer v. Boar

inspired by episodes five through sixteen, season one

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the best line i’ve ever heard on a tv promo

6 Mar

“I can’t cage fight anymore.”

on the limits of motherhood

The honors go to you, newest season of Teen Mom!

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the two worst things about gilmore girls reruns on ABC family

6 Mar

1. They end. 

2. America’s Funniest Home Videos is on next.

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smells i smelled on the train today

27 Feb
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source: piccsy.com

a catalog of scents Continue reading 

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eternal sunshine: a love letter to parks and rec

25 Feb

It’s time to admit it: I don’t have a habit of picking the winning horse when it comes to TV shows.

More often than not, I “discover” masterpieces in the TV on DVD bargain bin. This led to many happy hours marathoning The O.C. and Friday Night Lights with a bag of popcorn (or we could just admit to ourselves that I’m from Oregon and acknowledge that it was dried fruit and Toby’s tofu pate I was scarfing) and many an eyeroll from my more pop-culture savvy friends (again, I’m from Oregon, so we all know that I didn’t meet those pop-culture savvy friends until college).

The problem was not that I wasn’t watching primetime. Yes, masterpieces like FNL and The O.C. escaped my attention during their initial airings, but for the most part, I was just watching the wrong stuff. Continue reading 

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book review: life of pi

17 Jan

A tiger and an Indian boy fall into a boat...

alternate title: tigers! what’s going on! tigers! what’s going…oh.

thoughts: In any kind of writing, you’re told that the most important parts of the piece are the beginning and the end. This definitely holds true for Yann Martel’s Man Booker Prize-winning Life of Pi.

The main character, Pi, is the Indian son of a zookeeper and an explorer of religions who identifies as Hindu, Christian and Muslim, all in one tidy 16-year-old package. When the shipping rig carrying Pi, his family and a number of zoo animals from India to Canada sinks, Pi’s polytheism and knowledge of zoo biology are vital to his survival.

For more than seven months, Pie inhabits a 26-foot lifeboat with an adult male Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, and lives to tell the tale to the book’s italicized narrator. Drama! Suspense! Sort of. Continue reading 

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