"i'd like to say hello and welcome you good day that is my name."

we can even go and take a walk or something like that or something like that.


oh hi.

it's me here for some late afternoon blogging. it's 5:31pm. wednesday afternoon. i didn't blog yesterday, i don't think. did i? no, i don't think so.

i watched movies yesterday! two of them! oooo let me tell you about it!!!!


- watched 'UP.' not to be confused with the George Clooney movie 'Up in the Air.' this is 'Up' the Pixar movie. i am going to be honest - i had absolutely no idea what this movie was about when i put it in my Netflix queue. i still had absolutely no idea what it was about when i pressed 'play' on the dvd menu yesterday. i simply rented it because everyone said it was awesome and it's probably going to win Best Animated Feature over (the other George Clooney movie) Fantastic Mr. Fox.

so, i watched Up.

and wow, i really liked it! within the first like, 15 minutes, i was crying.

here's the basic plot: in order to avoid moving to a retirement community, an old man ties a billion balloons to his house and sets sail to South America to fulfill a childhood dream of becoming an adventurer, and also in remembrance of his wife, who has recently passed away.

i really liked it. i thought it was going to turn stupid and silly when the talking dogs arrived on the scene. but, i stuck with it, and still really liked it.

yeah, i really liked it. i gave it four stars. really great music by Michael Giacchino. wow, i got his last name spelling right on the first try. i'm hoping he wins the Academy Award for best score. anybody know if he's going to be the musical director for the show?!?! he has been for the past couple years, i believe.

and i remember talking this past summer about how awesome it would be if he won an Academy Award and walked up from the orchestra pit. aw! that'd be so fun!! i think i was talking about if he won for Star Trek, though. because i also really liked that score. and he also does the music for the show Lost. he's a good composer. also did Cloverfield, whose soundtrack featured 'West Coast' by Coconut Records.

anyways. 'Up' was very good. and it's the first animated film to be nominated for Best Picture since..... Beauty and the Beast? which was the first.

i liked Beauty and the Beast better. there's really no animated film that can beat it.

that's true.

and, i did like Fantastic Mr. Fox better than Up. for the record. i think it was more beautiful. funnier. i mean, come on.

and frankly, i don't know if i think Up should be nominated in both categories. it's nominated for Best Animated Feature and for Best Picture.

i mean, the Best Animated category was introduced in 2001 to honor the animated films. so, when Beauty and the Beast was nominated, there wasn't even an animated category at all.

it seems that if an animated movie is worthy of being nominated for Best Picture, then it should not be nominated in the animated feature category.

but, i guess if it really is the best picture of the year, then it would make sense to be nominated in both.

same as like, if a foreign film was nominated for both Best Foreign Film and Best Picture.

but, that's why they have the foreign film category.

i guess they should become more specific about the Best Picture category. they should not be opening it up to become anyone's game. oh wait, they already have! ten nominees, don't forget.

OH THAT'S SUCH CRAP. i can't believe they're actually going through with it.

IF I BECAME PRESIDENT OF THE ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCES RIGHT NOW - i would do away with five of those movies. immediately. first order of business. i would sit in a private theater and watch all of them once through, and then watch all of them twice through, and then pick which are the five best.

- avatar
- the blind side
- district 9
- an education
- the hurt locker
- inglorious bastards
- precious
- a serious man
- up
- up in the air

i have no idea which i would keep.

probably Avatar. even though i haven't seen it. i mean, James Cameron totally invented the new cameras to make this movie. and he's been working on it for like, 10 years. ok, give him the nomination.

Up in the Air was good. but, i don't see why it's one of the Best Pictures. best sound nominee? yes. (which it isn't)

District 9? um, i don't know. i thought it was a lot better than i expected. and i thought it definitely had a great message of accepting people who are different than you. much like Beauty and the Beast.

i don't know.

i would probably have a new slot called "flashback nominee" which would feature a movie from past years that should have either been nominated, or should have won.

THE 2010 "FLASHBACK NOMINEE" FOR BEST PICTURE: Revolutionary Road.

and then i would rig the voting so Revolutionary Road would win.

yeah, that's what i would do. i would do like they did on Veronica Mars when they voted for class president or something. and Duncan won over that other girl because they mismatched the choices so you thought you were voting for that girl, when really you were voting for Duncan.

actually, i guess i'll have to come up with a different plan seeing as how i just explained it all to you.

i don't know. there weren't really any movies this year that i absolutely loved. i can't remember the last movie i rated five stars on Netflix. well, i just checked through my Netflix ratings. and the only new movie i saw in 2009 that i rated five stars was...... Fantastic Mr. Fox.

and there you have it.

even 17 Again only earned four stars. ZAC. i chose an animated George Clooney fox over real-life fox, Zac Efron. THAT'S how good Mr. Fox was.

maybe i'll ask the Oscar guy on Twitter what he thinks about the Best Animated category. if he thinks Mr. Fox can pull through. OOOOOOO I HOPE SO.

ok. this was not at all where i wanted this to go. i was just giving a movie review. and then got off topic.

if we stay off topic, i would like you to all know that i just added 'Darren Robinson' as my friend on facebook. he posted a thing on twitter that was like, "friend me on facebook if you want!" and i said, "okay, i want." so i did.

and, moving on...


the other movie i watched yesterday was

GRACE IS GONE. starring John Cusack. about a guy who's wife dies while in the Army over in Iraq and he can't find the way to tell his two daughters, so he takes them on a family roadtrip to an amusement park instead.

i thought it was alright. most of the movie they had John Cusack dressed like a serial killer, which really bothered me. and the two young girls were never wearing seatbelts in the car. that also really bothered me. why weren't they wearing seatbelts? and it was super obvious because they would change from the backseat to the frontseat and everything. i didn't like that.

the movie was okay. i gave it three stars.


what i'm really looking forward to is TOMORROW.

folks. i have big news. big, exciting news which i think might make my 2010 a lot better.

tomorrow, in the mail, i am getting disc one of season one, of....... THE O.C.

YES!!!! i am going to start watching The O.C. i only ever saw one episode while it was actually on television. and i really didn't care to watch it. but now i am older and wiser and i feel a tv show like The O.C. will fit perfectly into my life.

i am really, really, freaking excited.

BUT. i don't think i'll be able to make it to the post office tomorrow, which REALLY bums me out. i'll probably have to wait until friday.

i am working tomorrow at 11am, i think. and then probably (but maybe not...) straight through until 10pm. if i can find a free minute before 3:30 to make it to the post office - I WILL. but, i'm kind of not counting on it. bummer.

but i'm really excited. and i mailed back two movies today, which means that if i wake up and go to the post office on saturday morning - i could have a whole weekend of The O.C. a head of me.

and even better: i think there is someone named Julie on the show.

even better tv show news: i learned via @joejonas twitter that season 2 of JONAS started filming this week!!!!!!! oooohhhhhh boy i am so excited about this too.


ok, moving on.


i learned today that the hott drummer from Paper Tongues is named Jordan. i like that. i actually learned all of their names. ready? let's see if i can do it:

ASWAN = lead singer
JORDAN = hott drummer
DANNY = bass
CODY = keys
CLAYTON = keys

CRAP. i'm missing two of them. ooooo julie you can do this. ok, focus, focus..... there's another one that starts with a D....

DEVIN = guitar

and i think there's another J one.................. ah!!!

JOEY = guitar

YES!!!! i think i did it. shall we check?

YES!!! i got them all right. phew. and none of those guys are brothers. they are just bff.

i don't know why it's so hard for me to find out people's names in bands. it took me two months to figure out the names of the guys in Tally Hall and figure out who played what.

it even took me a really long time to figure out all of Rooney. all i knew were Robert and Taylor. for like, years.

anyways.

i started following Rob Cantor of Tally Hall on twitter yesterday and he posted some pictures of the tour with Rooney and Crash Kings, and one picture was called, "Jason Schwartzman playing drums for Rooney" and i immediately clicked on the link, and sure enough, it was Jason Schwartzman playing drums for Rooney. ON THE TOUR.

WWHHYYY couldn't that have happened in Boston?!?!

i also started following Joe from Tally Hall on twitter and his twitter is the best. it's a "dream/nightmare blog" where he tweets about either his dream or nightmare from the previous night. it's really funny.

hm. what else.

Ruby Tuesday ate a whole slice of turkey breast today. i bought some at the store because i wanted a sandwich. and she ate a whole slice that i gave to her in pieces. well, okay, i had a little piece too. but, she probably ate 3/4 of it. and then she fell asleep. and then i went to go make the sandwich and she immediately came running into the kitchen because she smelled the turkey. so, i gave her a piece of cheese instead. and she sniffed it on the ground and then looked up to me with sleepy eyes. she was like, "yeah, i know this isn't turkey."

it was sweet.

and then i made a sandwich and watched the season finale of Heroes. it was good, i guess. not really climatic. mainly because i didn't really understand why Samuel was the bad guy until very recently. he just didn't seem that bad. but yet everyone was fearing him and saying how bad he was. and i was just like, "but he's irish and hott....." i just didn't see it. but then i guess he really was bad.

and Sylar turned good? i don't know. i don't really know what Heroes is about anymore. kind of like Lost. but i still really enjoy Heroes anyways, whereas i struggled to get through one episode of Lost a few weeks ago.

ok. what else.

i've been sleeping a lot lately. like, 10 hours the past two nights. i think my week of getting up early has caught up to me.

uugghh i have to go to work in two hours.

i might paint my nails coral. like, bright coral. in honor of my birthday week. which starts tomorrow and goes until the end of the month.

one week from tomorrow is my birthday! i am going to be 24 years old. OLD.

here's what my horoscope for today said:

Like a compass, you know where your true north is. You know your purpose here.

that was my "shortened horoscope." but i read that and thought,

1. OMG COMPASS!!!!! i really need to get that tattoo....
2. when am i going to find out these things?

where is my true north? what is my purpose here? beats me. maybe it will come to me in a dream tonight. ooooo now there's pressure for me to have an epiphanic dream.

did i just make up that word? the adjective of 'epiphany?' is that right? hold on.

i think that's right. or, should i have said, "now there's pressure for me to have an epiphanous dream." ?? i don't know.

i've had a few awesome people ask me where i find my totes brillz horoscopes. and i find them, HERE:

totes brillz horoscopes.

on Yahoo. i think they have a really good astrology section. and make sure to read your Chinese Astrology too. that one is usually really good. (i am a tiger. and this is MY year.)

it's funny. because, this is also the year where Jupiter is moving through Pisces for most of the year, which is supposed to bring me happiness and optimism. and, this is also the year of the Tiger, which is supposed to make everything awesome for me as well.

i guess i'm not really feeling any of that good stuff yet.

and now i'm one year older.

let's stop talking about this.


if you've ever been to visit me here in Lebanon, NH, you might know that we have a total sketch movie theater on "Miracle Mile," on which there really is nothing miraculous.

this is the movie theater where the heat was broken in like, half the theaters for pretty much the whole month of December. and they tiny space heaters in the front of the auditoriums. it was lame.

this is also the theater that is in dire need of some new letters for their marquee out front. today, i drove by and looked at what was playing. i said to myself, "what is that movie 'Hunter' about?' i thought and thought. "it sounds like a movie possibly starring either Gerard Butler or Mark Wahlberg."

and then, i was almost home and i realized, it did not say, 'Hunter,' it said, 'Avatar.' THAT'S how bad their movie lettering is. let me try and recreate how the sign looked:

HVnTRR

no, this is not a joke. it looked pretty much like that, except the first R was backwards, which i cannot do on my laptop keys, i don't think.

they must have been completely out of letter A's, because they used an H, a lowercase n, and an R to try and get the look of an A.

i came home and immediately started trying to find a place to buy them a set of sign letters. it looks like i would need some information from them. like, what type of lettering they use. slide letters or snap letters. it looks like a set of letters runs from about $70-$90.

if i had an extra $100 to give away, i would probably buy them a set of letters. as a donation. because they are in dire need of it. and maybe someday soon, i will buy them those letters. if i wasn't trying to save up for a plane ticket to British Columbia, then i probably would.

oh, and student loans, too. oh, and there's car insurance. and my subscription to Entertainment Weekly which i just renewed.

HEY! here's something FREE that will brighten your mind and your day and heck, probably your whole WEEK!!!!!!

http://whoisthecalifornian.com/

remember when i was super promoting that show in Silverlake, California by the band The Californian? Darren's new band.

WELL. they are about to release their EP sometime not soon enough, and TODAY they released a track fully mixed and fully mastered. and it just so happens to be my favorite song of theirs that i've heard via their myspace.

SPIN ROUND. oh, this song is so good. i'm just about to start listening to it for the third time in a row. it's so great.

and next week, they're playing their second show at On the Rox, which i think is either above or below The Roxy. probably above since it's "on the rox." i'll fully promote that one when the time comes.

but for now! please go listen to that song. that one song. it's like, 3 minutes 38 seconds of your time.

just go to that link, and under the first blog post at the top of the page, there is a little silver bar with a "play" button on it. press that button. and prepare yourself for awesome.

i'll give you some time to prepare.


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okGO.

speaking of OKGO, has anyone else heard their most recent record? i hear it's total and complete amazingness. is this true? i've never really listened to them much. except for some of their songs. and that one time i saw them in concert. but, i will listen to this new record if it's that's awesome. which i hear it is.

ok. i think that's all. it's currently 7:19pm. i've pretty much been blogging straight through. except for those few times where i needed to go look things up online.

1. check the names of the paper tongues guys.
2. epiphanic
3. best picture info

alright, friends. i hope you are having lovely wednesdays. i'm having an alright one, i suppose. i think i'm going to go take a bath right now.

it's been kind of lame because the water temperature here can only be so hot because of the daycare regulations. which means that MY hot water can only be so hot. which means that sometimes it's not as hot as i would like it to be. which isn't very satisfying.

oh well.

there, i have at least written 3 minutes and 38 seconds of more blog so there's really no excuse for not going to that website and listening to Spin Round. it's so good, i promise. if you don't like the song, then leave me a comment saying, "ya know what, i didn't really like that song." and leave your name, and i will write an apologetic blog to you.

and i will follow through on that promise so that when i am running for office they can look back and say, "wow, she does follow through on her promises!"

AH HA!!!! my purpose in life!!!!!! maybe my true north is pointing to WASHINGTON, DC!!!!!

ugh i just had to kill a spider on my wall.

ok. i'm on my fifth time in a row listening to that song. maybe i'll change it to the National Anthem. then everyone would have to listen to it and have to learn all the words. great publicity, eh? who says there can only be one National Anthem? not me. i never said that.

we could turn it into a reality show! let the people choose the national anthem!! it is their song, after all. (but, i would really get the ultimate say.) or, i could just take a tip from, cough myself cough and rig the voting!!!!

i like that. i am going to like it when i am president. i think you will like it too. i guess i better stop talking about rigging the voting system, though. that will probably backfire.

anyways.

now i'm going to go. and now there's definitely been enough time for you to go listen to that song.

ok! love you. have a great evening. i'll talk to you again soon.



spin round three more times
open your eyes, tell me what you see.
everything you want looks just like everything you need.



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