New life goal: Open a roller disco with Tommy Lee Jones

So I recently watched Xanadu for the very first time. And let me say, Xanadu was a movie unlike any I had seen before. There was an animated sequence, an all-neon alternate universe, Swan from The Warriors in incredibly small shorts, and lots and lots of roller disco. All I can say is... Wow.

I also went to see No Country for Old Men, which was incredible. What an intense movie. Every muscle in my body was tense. After we got out of the theater, my stomach was in knots. I almost couldn't eat my Denny's. Almost. No, it was a friggin great movie. And I've decided that Tommy Lee Jones has a beautiful face. His wrinkles are so intricate and deep; he is so interesting to look at. And he's a good actor to boot.

So I am really really stressed out. I'm getting to the point in the semester when I want to light myself on fire. I've got a helluva lot to do and next to no motivation to do it. Also, I'm starting to panic about student teaching. It is going to suck, especially the two weeks I have to sit in my site teacher's classroom all day without taking over the class. I've got to be there teacher contract hours! Ug. I think observations are mostly just a waste of my time. I just hate this all so much, I almost can't begin to describe it. And PS, certain members of the blogging community, trite and semi-assish comments about it really do not help. This is a seriously scary thing and a big deal. So don't be a DB about it. And if you don't know what that means, ask Danny.

Anyway, I hope its all worth it. I'm at threat level midnight.

Foxy

I thought this was kinda awesome. Check it out. Its a cute little fox that represents my soul.

Done!

So I finished my test ! Yay! So now I'm going to play a game. I found this list on some web site. There were originally 100 questions, but I eliminated the ones for which I did not have the correct cultural capital. Enjoy, and feel free to play along, if you dare.

If you had to choose:

1. Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly? Gene Kelly, I reckon
2. The Great Gatsby or The Sun Also Rises? The Sun Also Rises, without a doubt. See my reasoning here.
3. Count Basie or Duke Ellington? Duke Ellington!
4. Cats or dogs? Cats, most definitely.
5. Matisse or Picasso? Picasso
6. Yeats or Eliot? Eliot! But of course.
7. Buster Keaton or Charlie Chaplin? Umm, I am not sure on this one.
8. The Who or the Stones? The Who! Without a doubt. The Stones are okay, but the Who are monumentally awesome. And if you disagree, I will fight you.
9. Trollope or Dickens? Dickens
10. Billie Holiday or Ella Fitzgerald? Billie Holiday is incredible. I choose her.
11. Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy? I have yet to read books by either of these authors, but will leave it in in the hopes of getting Alex's answer.
12. Hot dogs or hamburgers? Hamburgers. Hog dogs are nasty unless completely hidden by chili and cheese.
13. Letterman or Leno? Letterman! Leno's a bastard. And Conan above all.
14. Wilco or Cat Power? I haven't listened to a lot of Wilco, but I know people crap their pants for them. I'll say Cat Power.
15. Grace Kelly or Marilyn Monroe? Marilyn Monroe, because I love Some Like it Hot and the Seven-Year Itch. A whole heap.
16. Bill Monroe or Johnny Cash? Please people, gimme Johnny Cash any day of the week.
17. Robert Mitchum or Marlon Brando? I haven't seen any of Robert Mitchum's movies. But I'm not the biggest Brando fan. I call this, a draw.
18. Vermeer or Rembrandt? Since I just watched Girl With a Pearl Earring, I'll say Vermeer.
19. Grosse Pointe Blank or High Fidelity? Oh man, Grosse Point Blank! High Fidelity is an awesome book that just didn't quite come together perfectly in movie form. Bur Grosse Point Blank is flat-out awesome.
20. Comedy or tragedy? Comedy. Especially when it comes to Shakespeare, for me.
21. Fall or spring? Fall. Halloween and Thanksgiving rock.
22. The Sopranos or The Simpsons? The Simpsons. I've never watched the Sopranos, but have heard how much certain people hated the ending.
23. Rodgers and Hart or Gershwin and Gershwin? Gershwin and Gershwin by a nose... Summertime, and the livin is easy...
24. Joseph Conrad or Henry James? Conrad! All the way. The horror!
25. Sunset or sunrise? Sunset. Who the hell likes mornings enough to say sunrise?
26. Johnny Mercer or Cole Porter? Johnny Mercer, for Moon River.
27. Mac or PC? I'm liking the Macs, to be honest. If I had the money, I'd get me one.
28. New York or Los Angeles? Hmmm, I dunno about this one. I've only been to New York once, so I'm probably not the best judge. I'll say Los Angeles, to represent on the West side.
29. Stax or Motown? Stax, for Booker T. and the MGs.
30. Van Gogh or Gauguin? I dunno Gauguin, but I am fond of Van Gogh.
31. Steely Dan or Elvis Costello? I have to say, I really like Steely Dan.
32. Reading a blog or reading a magazine? I love both and do them equally. But for the sake of choosing, reading a magazine.
33. Chinatown or Bonnie and Clyde? Bonnie and Clyde
34. Ghost World or Election? Ghost World is awesome! Election is hard to watch. Definitely Ghost World for me.
35. Daffy Duck or Bugs Bunny? Daffy Duck.
36. Modernism or postmodernism? Postmodernism! Which is all I've thought about for the last two days. Pastiche and play for me, baby.
37. Batman or Spider-Man? Is this even a question in someone's mind. Spider-Man is a little bee-yotch. Batman!
38. Jane Austen or Virginia Woolf? Jane Austen, of course. I am female, after all.
39. The Honeymooners or The Dick Van Dyke Show? Dick Van Dyke. I've actually seen a surprising amount of episodes of this one.
40. Out of the Past or Double Indemnity? I dunno the first one, but Double Indemnity is really really awesome.
41. Blue or green? Blue, like Blue Velvet. Or Blue Eyes. Or Blue Bonnet, my favorite buttery spread.
42. A Midsummer Night’s Dream or As You Like It? Hmm, I liked both, but A Midsummer Night's Dream takes the cake on this one.
43. Ballet or opera? Neither. Because I'd rather go to the movies.
44. Film or live theater? Hmm, I really like seeing plays, but there's no place I'd rather be than the movies.
45. Acoustic or electric? Electric and kickass for me. Always.
46. The Music Man or Oklahoma? The Music Man. The Think System is so funny. And Oklahoma has that trippy dream in the middle.
47. Sushi, yes or no? Yes! But not the cheap stuff.
48. Tennessee Williams or Edward Albee? Tennessee Williams. I friggin love Streetcar Named Desire. Stella!
49. Frank Lloyd Wright or Mies van der Rohe? Lloyd Wright. Mies and Gropius and all them can go to hell. But not really.
50. Diana Krall or Norah Jones? Norah Jones.
51. Watercolor or pastel? Um, watercolor how bout.
52. Crunchy or smooth peanut butter? It depends on what I'm eating it on. But in general, I'd say smooth.
53. Willa Cather or Theodore Dreiser? Willa Cather. I'm reading My Antonia right now, and its pretty awesome.
54. The Fifties or the Twenties? Tough. I like both a great deal. Maybe the fifties.
55. Huckleberry Finn or Moby-Dick? Is there a soul on this earth that likes Moby-Dick? Huckleberry Finn all the way, because it is awesome.
56. Thomas Mann or James Joyce? Joyce.
57. Emily Dickinson or Walt Whitman? Tough again. I'd say Whitman. I'll have to find this awesome quote I read by him. To be continued.
58. Abraham Lincoln or Winston Churchill? I dunno. Lincoln.
59. Italian or French cooking? Italian. Even when I was in Italy and France, Italian all the way!
60. Anchovies, yes or no? No, sorry. They're too salty for me.
61. Short novels or long ones? Long and intricate ones. The more story the better if its good writing.
62. Swing or bebop? Um, swing. Even though I've always wanted to call people boppers like in The Warriors.

The end! Someday I'd like to add on some of my own, but this has already taken too long. Maybe later, folks.

Too busy to blog

I've got a friggin huge take-home test due tomorrow. It is for my theory class and involves terms like dromology, chronopolitics, and phrenology. And it sucks a lot. I will return later...

Until then, here's a sweet picture to bolster morale:

3 Things I Like Today.

#1: Orgiastic french fry commercials. I've seen one for Arctic Circle and one for Training Table. You know, when the fries are all close-up and it looks like someone is tossing them together sexily? Nice!

#2: This picture, in all its cat-with-a-gun glory!


Wow! Someone I know posted a picture of a cat on my myspace that I think is supposed to be funny. I like this better.

#3: My gentleman lover. Today I got asked to see a picture of Alex and me together. And I totally didn't have any on my blog or anything. So here's a pretty awesome picture of me and Alex in Disneyland.

Happy Tuesday.

Top Five Movie Music Moments

So I am halfway finished with a paper, so I thought I would take a break in order to post an awe-inspiring list! I've been thinking about my favorite music moments in movies, and I've got an awesome list of my favorites. Now, as a rule, I eliminated songs from movie musicals (thus excluding Cannibal! The Musical, Team America, etc.). I also wanted songs that are in the movie proper, not credits songs (eliminating 8 Mile, The Breakfast Club, 9 to 5). Notable mentions go to Anchorman with "Afternoon Delight", Office Space with that "Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster" song, Breakfast at Tiffany's "Moon River", and many more. So without further ado, here's my top five movie music moments:

5: Shaun of the Dead, "Don't Stop Me Now"--Queen

This is probably the awesomest way to beat down a zombie ever. In time to an awesome Queen song. What a great movie, aye? And this scene is definitely my fave. Awesome song, awesome movie, awesome scene.

4: Reservoir Dogs, "Stuck in the Middle With You"--Stealer's Wheel

This is the scariest thing ever. The dance, the ear! If I'm ever with you and this song comes on the radio, ask me nicely to do my reinactment of this scene. I do a mighty fine Mr. Blonde.

3: Lost in Translation, "Just Like Honey"--The Jesus and Mary Chain

Now, I almost gave this spot to Bill Murray singing "More Than This," which is one of my favorite songs and is perfect in the context of the film, but the end shot, with the whisper in the ear and this song in the background, is just so incredible. Perfection.

2: Almost Famous, "Tiny Dancer"--Elton John

There's something about the group sing-along in the bus that kills me. I really love this song, especially after this movie. It makes me want to bond with musicians on a tour bus in a non-sexual way.

1: Fight Club, "Where is My Mind?"--The Pixies
Holy cow. What a friggin' perfect way to end this movie. And a perfect song to boot. It speaks to the film's major themes of the movie, which sets my little English-lovin' heart aflutter. Awesome!

Anyone else have a favorite movie music moment?

TV Time

So I just read that we can watch new "webisodes" of Lost starting Monday on abc.com. Which is awesome. I have to say, I'm still pretty bummed that BSG got the can until friggin' April, but Lost is (almost) as good. In other television news, I'm also pretty stoked about Project Runway finally starting up again soon. You can say it's lame or whatever, but that show is so addicting. And I started watching Gilmore Girls on DVD. Jury's still out on that one I really like the characters, but don't like the situations. Too cutesy for me. But their dialogue cracks me up.

Also, I'm pretty much lovin' this season of The Office. Some of my favorite moments thus far: Michael "declaring" bankruptcy, the whole time Jim and Pam went to Dwight's farm, Merideth getting hit by Michael, and Andy singing (with backup) to Angela "Take a Chance on Me." Awesome. I have to say, I miss the hour-long episodes. The thirty-minute ones seem really short now. Also, I miss getting the shows on itunes. I hate the nbc player; half of the time it refuses to work for me. And yes, it's personal. Just waiting for hulu, I'm really hoping it's going to be awesome.

And for those of you not yet excited for hulu, here's a sweet episode of The Office from their website. That's right, a full episode. On my blog! Its the advertisement one, which is pretty awesome. Enjoy!

Pork 'n' Beans...

So this is probably the scariest picture I've ever seen. I found it at this cool website that sells vintage art prints, and I kinda want to buy it to hang up in my house. I just don't think I'm that brave though.

Also, my last poll ended with tied results for Freddy and "Other." That poll sucked. I'm currently thinking of a new one to blow people's minds.

One last thing: I found this article that "debunks the rom-com happily-ever-after myth." The author writes realistic endings for some popular romantic comedies. And its pretty much awesome. Read it here, fools.