Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Rest of April Movies (Sort of) and Lack of Book

I cracked and wanted to continue Sherlock. My husband, on the other hand, picked Lethal Weapon. No book. I need to say good bye to this month. Then again, I may claim a movie from last week and watch during this week. That's what happened with Lethal Weapon. We will see.

Friday, April 18, 2014

My List of Five, Version 4.0

Holy crap, I haven't updated this in years. I can't be stuck with some of these guys. Then again, I guess there is no shame in some of my choices. I guess I'm only confident in two or three and then feel like I'm settling for the rest. Now I'm watching Sherlock and think "Well, if I choose one and then it turn out the other one is better....." then I'm screwed. (Yes, I am officially trying to declare if I will have a crush on Sherlock or Holmes.)  I really take this not important and never going to matter list seriously. So in an attempt to stop fretting, I'm just going to update and move on. And hope I don't run into Martin Freeman in a coffee shop anytime soon.

1) Chris Evans
2) Joseph Gordon-Levitt
3) Chris Pratt
4) Karl Urban
5) Adam Scott

March & April (so far) Movies and Bo....

I didn't read anything in March. I have Angels and Demons just waiting for me to get started, but I just can't pull the trigger. So I'll use my surplus from the earlier months to get to my twelve this year average. In fact I'll do the same for April because it is busy times right now. 

All of the movies I've seen are stating to blur and I will need forgiveness as I state this from March up to today. In response to Wreck it Ralph, the husband chose Who Framed Roger Rabbit. I decided that we needed to be depressed and bored so I picked No Country ForOld Men after we watched Gravity that didn't count since we borrowed it from friends. He went on a 90's action kick so he chose JurassicPark. I went Hobbit 2 then he followed with Speed. I get why Jurassic Park and Speed were popular at the time, but of course in certain ways, they do not hold up. For last week, I cheated and said I wanted to watch Sherlock. I know it's TV, but it's an hour and a half per episode TV and we watched all of Season 1 (or Series 1) so it is my choice and I stand by it. 

I will say that of the three most recent versions of Sherlock Holmes in media, Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman have the best sexual chemistry. (Apologies to Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law, but not to Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu.)That catches us up to this week, and he has one more day to declare. 

On my own I watched Pitch Perfect to rinse the taste of Javier Bardem out of my mouth, then Thor 2 and Hunger Games 2 so I could finally listen to the spoiler episodes of Comedy FilmNerds. And if we are accurate, I got to listen to and see parts of Frozen while eating my nieces. I have to see it all in a child free environment soon. And get me a plush Sven. So cute. 

Feeeewwwww. I guess now I can go back to enjoying my Good Friday. Or back to my being solemn and dignified.

Saturday, April 05, 2014

Dora Made Me Dumb

I know I'm not the target audience, but holy crap, watching Dora made the experience of babysitting my nieces stretch for eternity. I did, however come out of it with an observation. The horrible making the children scream "Swiper, no swiping!" three times to get him to stop seems like the way to train a new generation of children to have the OCD of Sheldon Copper and his Knock, Knock, Knock, Penny.

Your choice on which is more annoying.

 My money is on Dora.

And after writing this, I had this scene jump into my head. You're welcome.