Two More Down...

Capote - If you have read In Cold Blood I say watch the movie. Phillip Seymour Hoffman does an EXCELLENT job portraying Truman Capote, but it takes place while he is writing the book and I think if you are not familiar with the book you may feel a little left out of the movie. It's a great portrayal of how selfish/self-centered Capote was and how he realizes how that selfishness was used to get what he wanted, but actually tormented him and in some ways destroyed him from writing again. Very interesting.

Family Stone - This is Stepmom meets Steel Magnolias which to me means a good movie for the holidays. It's not cinematic genius, but it's enjoyable, mostly lighthearted and a nice change of pace from everything else that is out there right now. My brother hated it as did the people behind us, but for a fun movie experience with snacks I say go. It does get a little slow, and if you're saving money for Munich and/or Match Point I say you can catch it on video and it won't be a huge loss.

C=A
FS=A-/B+

Tomorrow will be filled with the Giants game and maybe Munich tomorrow night. Hopefully another two on xmas finished off with the perfect amount of chinese food. Hail to the jewish movie holiday weekend.

One more note. As for the NYC transit strike, I'm glad it's over, but I have to admit it was kinda nice to see two major thoroughfare's closed off with people riding their bikes, rollerblading, walking, etc. It felt like a nice little community until my friend's bike got stolen..fucking humanity. Fucking Roger Toussant...but I digress.

If you celebrate xmas=merry xmas. If you don't enjoy the weekend of chinese food, movies and 24 hours of a christmas story on TBS....favorite line...guys guys I'm stuck, don't leave me here, guys guys, c'mon guys!!!

Let the Movie Madness Begin!

Now that I have a little break it's time to start catching up on movies. Here's the list in no particular order:

Munich
Good Night Good Luck
Syriana
Capote
Transamerica
Family Stone
Rumor Has it (although getting very bad reviews)
Pride and Prejudice (chick flick - good reviews)
Kong
Memoirs of a Geisha
History of Violence (only because it's getting so much acclaim)

Movies to Rent:

Murderball
40 year old virgin
War of the Worlds
Batman Begins

Today I started the marathon off and saw Brokeback Mountain followed by Harry Potter. Both entertaining, both not worth the hype especially Brokeback. It sort of feel about Brokeback as I did about Cold Mountain...too long...too slow...nice story....catch it on HBO or whatever. Tomorrow thinking about Pride and Prejudice followed by the sneak into Syriana. Last week I saw Rent and Walk the Line. LOVED Rent. Always love the music and liked the show so to me this was great and it actually made the story better seeing it all playing out on the big screen. Walk the Line...acting good, story eh. Here's the deal with these musician films I'll sum it up. Man becomes famous almost by accident, gets married, goes on the road, does drugs, marriage goes bad, there's trouble, musician redeems himself all is good in the world. Felt like I'd seen the story before and it was also a little to slow. ALthough I did come home and download four new Johnny Cash songs onto the Ipod.

Feel free to throw out any recommendations...music/tv/film/books etc.

How I Met Your Mother

It's nice to have a new show to watch when everything else is repeats. This show is funny. I love that Barney had the super psyched mix and the mix theory. Everytime I heard Shot to the heart I laughed out loud. This episode wasn't as funny as episodes past but still very enjoyable.

30 minutes until the Gauntlett II...

Speaking of the LORD...

THANK the lord that the Weavers didn't win. First of all, how many times can one family pray throughout the race AND thank the lord for the taxi driver Ted who didn't really know where he was going and in fact was praying himself. The Weavers were so incredibly annoying, and I'm not sure why this changed in family edition but why did Rolly do all the road blocks? Isn't there some rule that no one person can do more than however many. That kid did them all. And the fact that they were going to give up and not search for the clue in the stadium just proves they shouldn't have won. I mean you have a 1 in 3 chance to win a million dollars so what do you do...go to sleep. I wouldn't be surprised if some behind the scene camera man made them continue looking. Thank god they didn't win. And did you hear their b.s. when they came in third?! Of course they thanked the lord again and said it wasn't about the money it was about the lord...yeah that's what it was all about. Why were they so concerned about the other racers..THIS IS A RACE. Suck it up, you are not there to make friends. And clearly even if it came down to the wire they wouldn't have won the GEOGRAPHY puzzle. They didn't even know Pennsylvania was a state and they thought Lake Pontrachain was a great lake, I mean they were sunk on that task.

Speaking of the geography task for the first time in this whole race I was stressed out! I don't even know if I could have done that as quick (of course it was edited so it could have taken hours.)

Spoiler Alert



Then when the Linz's crossed the finish line, I was super psyched. They were my team. I loved the whole brother taking care of sister dynamic. Plus the boys were so goofy and that one was downright ridiculous but they were all so cool and fun to watch. Did you see the little blond tike hug them at the end. It was so nice to see all those familiar faces well up at the end. Of course the funniest thing is that they are all in their race garb as if they have to maintain their roles. It's like when the President does his State of the Union and calls out people in the audience and they have to be dressed in their role. The americorps volunteers always get fucked. They have to be on national television getting recognized in their sweatsuits....anyway I digress.

A lot of the stops were lame as usual on this race, but my one question is when you have to run up the stairs or down the hill or whatever just send the fastest person and get that person to run back. Why tire everyone out. There must be some sort of rule or something, b/c I just don't understand it.

Well now we have to wait until February where we return to basics. At least we'll have Scrubs to fill in starting January 3rd....

I'm Back...!

FirstI would like to thank Breanna for her concern. Secondly I would like to apologize for my absense. For those of you who don't know I am going back to school to get my masters degree. The last few weeks since thanksgiving have been crazy as I had to get all my projects done for the end of the semester. Plus I went to Jamaica for thanksgiving which didn't help matters. But, don't worry my study breaks were made up of watching television so I'm all caught up, just didn't have time to write about it....so now let's get to it:

Sunday Night's:

Desperate Housewives - First of all thank god that George is dead. That could have been the worse plotline ever. Now let's just get rid of the kid in the basement and maybe we'll get back to normal. I don't care about that story, don't care that he killed someone, don't care that he likes ice cream. Maybe they'll start to get back to basics, although now that Zach is back maybe they'll just keep rehashing the same story over and over. Right now the show is getting a big fast C-/D+. I watch it hoping something will happen that will be interesting. For me I'm only midly interested in what Andrew is going to do, only because they have had that teaser out for a year!

Grey's Anatomy - LOVE this show. George couldn't be more awesome and the fact that the "nazi" is now preggers and bosses around her unborn child is too funny. From the leaches on the guy's face to the boy who didn't believe in Santa the cases are great and again you would think we would have covered everything with ER, but no, we haven't. I'm actually sad for Addison now that Derek told her he loved Meredith, now it's just sad. I want Alex to tell Izzi what he has been going through and maybe they'll start talking again, or maybe she and George will hook it up and that will be hilarious and awkward. I really hope Christina and Burke stay together and maybe we can see a little of Izzi's family which we haven't yet. It would also be funny to see Christina's mom with George's dad, but that just won't happen!

Curb Your Enthusiasm - I have to say this season, not that good. The season finale--zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. It was too long and not that funny. Very disappointing!

Monday Night's:

How I Met Your Mother - I missed the last episode before it went on hiatus which is slightly annoying. Hopefully I will catch it over the hiatus. I'm giving this show best new sitcom award for fall 2005 season.

Kitchen Confidential - It's getting cancelled, I'm slowly tearing myself away. See ya!

Real World/Road Rules; Gauntlett II - Who are all these people and where is my boyfriend Johnny Mosely. This new host is clearly reading off cue cards and he is awful, potentially one too many falls off the ol' BMX racer. It's always a little hard to follow at the beginning anyway, but thankfully Beth and Katie are on the show and the killer mormon. They will make up for the lack of Tonya, Veronica, Coral and of course The Miz.

Tuesday Night's:

My Name is Earl - Actually this might be the funniest new show on television. If you are not watching this it is awesome. When Crab Man and Joy were getting married and they did the montage of Earl and Crabman's relationship..hilarious.."hey crabman, hey earl." This is white trash at its best.

The Amazingly Boring Race - Still boring, but tomorrow night is the finale. Hoping for the Linz's to win, they probably won't. The producers will probably fix it again ala bring plane back to gate and allow the weavers to win to demonstrate how they overcame such odds. What odds though, people don't like them. This is a race why do you care what people think?! You are just annoying!

Boston Legal - This show is out of control. It's funny, but ridiculous. It's as if once again David E. Kelly has decided that he has won the requisite Emmy's and now nothing is sacred. His storyline's don't even make sense and they without a doubt cross the line of believable. Ally McBeal here we come.

Real World - All I have to say is if you didn't see the Reunion episode find it, TiVo it. It doesn't matter if you didn't watch all season it could be the funniest one ever. Literally I was multitasking and I stopped what I was doing. Never have I seen so much yelling on a reunion show, it was awesome.

Wednesday Night's:

Lost - I have to say I lost a little interest in the show for a while. I still loved it, but I thought it was getting a little boring as we got caught up with the tailies. I'd like to see more about Rose and her husband and of course about Libby since she is probably an Other. Hopefully one of these days the wheelchair mystery will be revealed. Now that both camps are together I think the show will get interesting again. Although I did hear the monster is coming back and I'm not a big fan! Unfortunately we won't see this show until mid-January.

Veronica Mars - Thank god wallace is back. I missed him, although is that girlfriend of his going to be back too. And the baby...yikers. So the question is for those of you who saw the alternate ending are we to assume that Meg just died from her wounds or that she was killed? If you didn't know she was going to die from that ending you knew she was going to die with the "if anything ever happens to me...speech." And what happened with her parents locking the kid up in the closet? Are we over that? So now there will be some sort of baby fight? Also what's going on with Keith and Wallace's mom are they definitely over, never to speak again? So clearly Duncan and Veronica will break up. Will we see Logan's father out of jail? I would like one or two mysteries solved soon as we learn about the bus crash. There is a little too much going on!

Alias - Now that's it moved to Wednesday's....still have no idea with Prophet Five is. I think I'm glad this is the last season. I mean I love it and all but the stories are getting repetitive. I hear we see all the old characters in the finale. That will be something to look forward too.

Thursday Night's:

The O.C. - The show is in a huge slump. Nothing is really going on except "who will get into Brown..." who cares! The Johnny/Ryan/Marissa triange a snoozer...I think we need to see Ryan's illegitimate baby show up about now. Or maybe what's his face from season one.."Welcome to the o.c. biatch." We need some action, some comedy enough of the melodrama that's isn't.

Reunion - CANCELLED!! Couldn't be more annoying. So do I keep watching it? Do I give it up now? What do I do? All I know that between this and North Shore I need to stay away from show's that Jenna's in. Im going to keep watching. I mean now that Craig is like the 100th person on television to really walk but be faking in a wheelchair I need to see how that happened.

Everwood - Also a great show, although I missed the last 10 minutes this week. I'm a little sad that Delia is getting all grown up though. I would like to see more Andy and Nina and I'm glad that Hannah didn't really leave. I was definiately dooped on that one. Do you think her and Bright had the sex in the shower? As a side note..freakin' earl. Last week he had some sort of monologue that summed up one of my papers exactly..see TV really does help us learn.

ER - For those of you who dont' watch..which is everyone..Abby's preggers, Abby's preggers...that's all!

So now we are in xmas hiatus and a new crop of shows are coming in January. Haven't read that much about them, but will definately be checking them out. At this rate shows that could be dropped - DH, O.C, BL, making room for more.

I have a cold so I'm off to snuggle under the blanket and of course watch more t.v.