Ca-cawwwwww

I saw "Black Swan" last night with my cousins.

I was stressed out for like, 3 hours after seeing it. I wasn't scared at all during the movie, I was just seriously stressed out. I think the perfectionist in me was especially terrified, as the picking at skin around fingernails is maybe something I do--what if it's a gateway behavior?! What if I turn into a psychologically tortured, cake-refusing, infantilized, barfing, skin-scratching prima ballerina?! It could happen. It's a fine line between functioning perfectionism and psycho, you guys.

Video Crack

As I watch TV while waiting to go out for the evening, I realize that there are certain movies that, if broacasted, I cannot not watch. Now, this is in no way a list of my favorite movies. These are just movies that are on TV all the time that I love coming across while channel flipping. Here is a list of movies that captivate me every time they're on, even if I just caught a showing of it two days before:

1. Clueless.
2. Titanic.
3. Rudy.
4. Bridget Jones' Diary.
5. Witness.
6. Grease 2
7. You've Got Mail.
8. The Parent Trap (Hayley Mills or LiLo).
9. Jumanji.
10. I Know What You Did Last Summer (parts I and II).

Best in Show

Cara had tix to the Rose City Classic Dog Show, so she, Emily, and I made our way to the Expo center for some doggie-style action...heh heh heh. And of course, we spent the entire time oohing and ahhing over puppies and quoting our favorite lines from the classic film, Best in Show

Here are some choice moments

"Where's the busy bee??????????"

"God loves a terrier"

"Harlan Pepper, if you don't stop namin' nuts..."

And, drum roll please, my family's favorite moment from Best in Show

"We could talk or not talk forever, and still find things to not talk about".

HOT DATE

I had a super hot date with MSem tonight. She took me to see this gem:

And if that wasn't one of the best f-ing movies I've seen on the big screen in awhile, well then...I must be a 13 year old girl.

Srsly pals, there was some hot vampire-on-human, werewolf-on-human, vampire-on-werewolf action going on (in a chaste, Morman way, at least). And parts of it were actually quite suspenseful! And I didn't totally hate K.Stew, and R.Patz didn't look too smelly and hobo-esque. But, best of all, despite making me feel like a HUGE COUGAR, was this gentleman, er, boy:
Shit, I didn't even want R.Patz and his sparkly skin to return to the screen once I saw this underage werewolf. Me likey.

Howsomeever, I am annoyed with one thing. Now I can't get this tune out of my head:

PS. Apologies for The Sims animation video. IDK. I couldn't find the actual song sans creepy animation on youtube or hulu. This was the least offensive version. Blerg.

Things I Like #11

Scary (but kinda corny) Shit

Unemployment has made me a fan of Discovery Channel's A Haunting. If you've never seen it, and you've prolly not as it's on at 11am-3pm MTWTHF, it's a show that re-enacts TRUE HAUNTINGS. Usually they're American, but sometimes they jump the pond and do haunted british pubs and manor houses and Shakespearean theaters (bad accents abound).

Sometimes the re-enactments are so bad that you don't believe that the stories are real. Sometimes you REALLY believe the stories. Especially when they turn out to be NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED AS TRUE, and validated by major motion picture companies producing the stories as full length feature films. Such is the case with,

A HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Haunting_in_Connecticut#Specials
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Haunting_in_Connecticut

Scary shit incidents:
house used to be a mortuary where the mortician conducted rituals with their dead bodies. fuck.

mom mops floor, mop water turns into blood.

cancer-fighting teenage son becomes possessed by the spirits of the dead people who were mutilated by the mortician.

family members don't believe him because they think he's hallucinating off his cancer drugs.

family members do believe him when they start to see a man in a pin striped suit lurking in their rooms. AGHHH. This part isn't shown in the legit movie, but according to wikipedia, is what happened in real life and is what is depicted in the Discovery Channel episode. So naturally this is the version I choose to believe.

other really gross stuff involving decaying flesh and voodoo.

Please watch these so you can freak the geek out with me when I recount the story to you on some night that I get too drunk. Because you know NoPants and I will get vodka-ed up and blerg on and on about episodes of A Haunting, and then you'll just feel awkward without your own A Haunting episode to describe. So really I'm posting these for your own sake and cultural adeptity (adeptness?).

Felix Felicis

Midnight showing of HARRY POTTER!

Harry on felix felicis = a Harry I'd hang out with.

Furthermore, the only movie that I've seen in a theater in which I felt more stressed out was Titanic. The faux-horcrux locket retrieval is tense, man.

Films

Netflix has these crazy categories that supposedly match your movie-watching interests. The best ones that have been popping up for me are "Romantic Foreign Revenge Movies", "Goofy Comedies Featuring a Strong Female Lead", and "Critically Acclaimed Suspenseful Movies from the 1980s". Do you think they could fit another adjective into any of those?! More importantly, are these some form of Netflix Rorschach Test? Is my subconscious revealed through these excruciatingly detailed film categories? Probs.

Nice Stuff from Late January-Early February

I've been busy the last few weeks, and here are the activities I want to give a shout-out to:

The Siena study abroad photography show
Getting funding for Italian Club
Italian conversation group
Housewarming parties
Meeting with Signore Giuseppe
Shopping
MLK weekend
Meeting Rick Steves for the 2nd time
Happy hours (and hours, and hours)
Hanging out in Chardin and making a dinosaur-land scene
Watching one of my best friends kick ass in a rowing competition
Learning to make Panini on my Foreman Grill
Cleaning my room
Making Elephant Ears using tortillas
Going to the Frye
THE INAGURATION/drinking champagne at 9am on a Tuesday and then giving a presentation on Indian politics at 10am
Celebrating Kelsey's 22nd birthday by dressing up as a jungle creature
Brunches
Dinners
Reuninting with Kat
Getting 8 hours of sleep
A couple of great new YouTube videos
Drinking an entire bottle of red wine while watching "The Dutchess"
Doing Crossword puzzles
Compleating my "25 things" survey on Facebook

Yes, all in all, it's been a good few weeks! Jan and Feb are so gray and gloomy that it's easy to forget all the fun things that happen at the start of the quarter. Yay for the start of the quarter, boo for the middle of the quarter, and I hope the end comes soon!

Hotties of the Late '50s

I just finished watching "Gigi" on AMC, which happens to be one of my favorites. I don't know what it says about me that I find misogynistic leading men from 1950s musicals to be the epitome of romance, but there you have it.

Gaston:



Freddy:



I don't even like musicals, but after I listen to these two bad boys in their top hats and tails, I am ready to buy myself a ballgown and burst into song.