"We need comedy to get rid of our desire to kill."
Holy crap my face hurt so hard after this show. I went with friends and family to see the wonderful Christopher Titus at Tommy T's. Since my husband and I saw him a few years ago, I don't need to gush some more about him. The bonus was getting to see his new wife as his opening act.I'm a regular listener of the Titus Podcast, so I know Bombshell Rae is funny, but it was great to see her perform solo instead of bounce off of Titus.
Even more incredible is that he went on for almost two hours and Rae told me after the show that he usually goes longer. That is unfair to other performers I may see. They can't live up to the quality of this man. If you have the chance to see him perform live, get your ass to the show.
Sunday, March 16, 2014
Thursday, March 06, 2014
February Movies and Book(s)
To back track I also watched by myself A.C.O.D. which was fine. My husband and I got through Don Jon(me), This Film is Not Yet Rated(him), Kick Ass 2(me), Dr. Horrible(me, I stole), and Wreck It Ralph(me). In the not counting list, we saw The Lego Movie and finished our LoTR winter watching spiced up with Rifftrax.
I think Ralph and Lego win that month.
Personally, I watched In a World, and The Heat. I declared Heat the week we watched Kick Ass 2, but the three hour thing sort of took it's toll and we had to shove some movies into another week. The point is we are averaging one movie a week. Watching The Heat was a little overboard for me since I was trying to use Redbox coupons before they expired. Damn right, I love free stuff.
For reading, I rushed through the inferior sequel Midnight in Austenland, and in an attempt to finish before it was borrowed, The Disaster Artist. My actual choice was Self-Inflicted Wounds by Aisha Tyler, and since it finally came in to the library, Paddle Your Own Canoe. Besides Austenland, these books all have really long ass names. I fully recommend Paddle to anyone who thinks like me.
Wow, it was a really rough, though short month, but I did my thing and we move on. By the way, technically Ralph was in March but I declared in February, so I put it here.
I think Ralph and Lego win that month.
Personally, I watched In a World, and The Heat. I declared Heat the week we watched Kick Ass 2, but the three hour thing sort of took it's toll and we had to shove some movies into another week. The point is we are averaging one movie a week. Watching The Heat was a little overboard for me since I was trying to use Redbox coupons before they expired. Damn right, I love free stuff.
For reading, I rushed through the inferior sequel Midnight in Austenland, and in an attempt to finish before it was borrowed, The Disaster Artist. My actual choice was Self-Inflicted Wounds by Aisha Tyler, and since it finally came in to the library, Paddle Your Own Canoe. Besides Austenland, these books all have really long ass names. I fully recommend Paddle to anyone who thinks like me.
Wow, it was a really rough, though short month, but I did my thing and we move on. By the way, technically Ralph was in March but I declared in February, so I put it here.
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Resolutions Are Hard
We have wavered back and forth. For the most part we are keeping up with watching movies, but due to some full weekend problems, we are making concessions. We saw the Lego Movie (oh, it was awesome!), but that didn't really count, but we're busy so it did....crap like that. Hell, we just watched Dr. Horrible for the first time and that sort of counts for me this week. Feels like cheating, and we probably are, but we've watched and now I can still get to bed at a decent hour. Once I'm done reading about it on the internet.
Sunday, February 09, 2014
Celebrity Sighting #420
At the end of SF Skecthfest and the Christmas presents from my husband, I got to sit in on a Benson Movie Interruption of Twilight: New Moon. It occured to me that I have never seen this movie without famous people talking over it.
The line in was ridiculous as was the line for the ladies room. While bonding over mutual Benson love with the girl in front of me, I see the man himself sneak through the lobby. I frantically tapped her on the shoulder and pointed as I saw him and Paul Scheer go through. Then I immediately apologized afterward and said I would not have done so if it were anything else. She quickly accepted and thanked me since she was focused on the line moving forward. The girl behind me claimed she saw Chris Hardwick and Janet Varney, but I dared not to dream. I did see Janet Varney upstairs chilling before the show and wanted to wave, but knew I was holding up people on the stairs so moved quickly.
When back in the balcony I excitedly heard the special guests announced: Paul Scheer, Rob Hubel, Chris Hardwick, and Tom Lennon. Oh happy day indeed. It was a fun show and I loved that my husband took me out. I love supporting my favorite podcasters and performers. I love laughing and sharing with like minded people. I did forget that this was a huge group of stoners and got annoyed with every inhale of cigarette and pot smoke. Well, can't have a perfect night.
Then again, as an "homage" to Taylor Lautner, Tom Lennon took his shirt off. How any people get to see that? Well, I Googled it and apparently anyone who Googles it can see it. But not in person so I win. And yes, I am aware that his IMDb picture features him pant-less. I still win. Actually we all win now.
The line in was ridiculous as was the line for the ladies room. While bonding over mutual Benson love with the girl in front of me, I see the man himself sneak through the lobby. I frantically tapped her on the shoulder and pointed as I saw him and Paul Scheer go through. Then I immediately apologized afterward and said I would not have done so if it were anything else. She quickly accepted and thanked me since she was focused on the line moving forward. The girl behind me claimed she saw Chris Hardwick and Janet Varney, but I dared not to dream. I did see Janet Varney upstairs chilling before the show and wanted to wave, but knew I was holding up people on the stairs so moved quickly.
When back in the balcony I excitedly heard the special guests announced: Paul Scheer, Rob Hubel, Chris Hardwick, and Tom Lennon. Oh happy day indeed. It was a fun show and I loved that my husband took me out. I love supporting my favorite podcasters and performers. I love laughing and sharing with like minded people. I did forget that this was a huge group of stoners and got annoyed with every inhale of cigarette and pot smoke. Well, can't have a perfect night.
Then again, as an "homage" to Taylor Lautner, Tom Lennon took his shirt off. How any people get to see that? Well, I Googled it and apparently anyone who Googles it can see it. But not in person so I win. And yes, I am aware that his IMDb picture features him pant-less. I still win. Actually we all win now.
Friday, January 31, 2014
Celebrity Sighting #Whaaaaaat? No......
I already got to gush over the Comedy Film Nerds when I saw them last August. For Christmas, my husband gave me an unlimited pass to SF Sketchfest. One of my choices was the CFN live podcast and it ruled. I listened to them announce their guest list on an earlier podcast and they said Mark Wahlberg. My instant reaction was "please don't be the real one.....please don't be the real one.....".
Oh yes, sports fans, after the show I got to meet fuckin Mahrk fuckin Wahlberg. I got to shake his hand, tell him I hoped the real one wasn't scheduled, and become very excited at the end of the show when Steven Seagal made a last minute special appearance. For those of you who do not know the talents of Dan Van Kirk, I strongly suggest you listen to Sklarbro County and take in all of this awesomness.
Yeah okay, but not quite who I wanted to meet.
Oh yes, sports fans, after the show I got to meet fuckin Mahrk fuckin Wahlberg. I got to shake his hand, tell him I hoped the real one wasn't scheduled, and become very excited at the end of the show when Steven Seagal made a last minute special appearance. For those of you who do not know the talents of Dan Van Kirk, I strongly suggest you listen to Sklarbro County and take in all of this awesomness.
You're welcome.
On a final note, I was a little embarrassed that I didn't know it was a wig.
January Movies & Book(s)
So after my disastrous choice my husband took week two. He thought we should watch It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. While I get that it's a classic and it is amazing that all of these actors were in one movie, I didn't enjoy as much as he wanted me to. I have this talent for fixating on one point and in this case I didn't enjoy people trying to screw each other over for the possibility of a fortune. In fact my observation was that the elbows and shoving and pointless greed can be see in footage of a Walmart on Black Friday.
Sadly, we let a week slide but got back on the wagon with The Wolverine. It was a more thoughtful superhero movie as most are trying to be, but to me not worthy to watch again. On a personal mission to see a movie a week on my own, I saw Austenland. Okay, I am falling victim to the Mormon girl porn. No touching, no kissing, just quietly falling in love and making sweeping declarations that will be rejected and misunderstood, but then ultimately redeemed. Yeah, watched it many times. Skipped to the parts that would give me lady, ummm, tingles(don't judge). Then in a fit of stupidity got the book.
Yes, the more you watch and the more you read, the more you see the cracks in the foundation and I'm starting to understand why this is a bad movie and a bad book. But like the men and their non-sexual guy porn, let this time wasting fun go on. I want to see bad true love bloom and win. Screw you certain parts of Love Actually.
I suppose that could count as my book for the month, but my official choice was Dear Mrs. Fitzsimmons, Tales of Redemption From an Irish Mailbox, by Greg Fitzsimmons. I will say that my experience with reading Carolla books, this is not just a rehash of radio bits. These are personal stories, some I've already heard and some that go deeper. I enjoyed it and it's well written, but I do not necessarily recommend it to the casual reader. I do recommended it to Fitzdog fans, but no need to, because they most likely have already read it.
Finally, my husband's second choice was Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. I was happy to have the story end at the end of the movie. No to be concluded in 2015 crap. Yes it was okay, but I'm tried of the action sequence, pause action sequence, ect. formula. I'll say that I came out watching this movie realzing that me and my husband have a bad habit of finishing a movie then abandoning each other for TV Tropes and Wikipedia to read more about the movie.
So, a mostly miss set of choices for January. My instainct to pick Oscar winners burned me in the beginning, so as you see I am treading lightly for now. I must declare soon. Don't want to get stuck in another three hour epic. Though I bet I'll laugh more during Hamlet. (To be fair, I'll just be thinking of Rosencarl and Guildenlenny.)
Nominated for one Oscar.
Yes, the more you watch and the more you read, the more you see the cracks in the foundation and I'm starting to understand why this is a bad movie and a bad book. But like the men and their non-sexual guy porn, let this time wasting fun go on. I want to see bad true love bloom and win. Screw you certain parts of Love Actually.
I suppose that could count as my book for the month, but my official choice was Dear Mrs. Fitzsimmons, Tales of Redemption From an Irish Mailbox, by Greg Fitzsimmons. I will say that my experience with reading Carolla books, this is not just a rehash of radio bits. These are personal stories, some I've already heard and some that go deeper. I enjoyed it and it's well written, but I do not necessarily recommend it to the casual reader. I do recommended it to Fitzdog fans, but no need to, because they most likely have already read it.
Finally, my husband's second choice was Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. I was happy to have the story end at the end of the movie. No to be concluded in 2015 crap. Yes it was okay, but I'm tried of the action sequence, pause action sequence, ect. formula. I'll say that I came out watching this movie realzing that me and my husband have a bad habit of finishing a movie then abandoning each other for TV Tropes and Wikipedia to read more about the movie.
So, a mostly miss set of choices for January. My instainct to pick Oscar winners burned me in the beginning, so as you see I am treading lightly for now. I must declare soon. Don't want to get stuck in another three hour epic. Though I bet I'll laugh more during Hamlet. (To be fair, I'll just be thinking of Rosencarl and Guildenlenny.)
Sunday, January 05, 2014
2014 Resolution
I blew my "Do not eat fast food" resolution on January 3rd but I still have hope that I will pull through with the resolution I made with my husband. We blew this challenge a while ago, but are at it again.
We will watch one movie a week together this year. Starting on Monday one of us gets the whole week to chose a movie that we will watch together. It must be one that at least one us us has not seen, and if we do not declare out choice by Saturday night, the other gets to steal. We flipped a coin and I got to chose first. I picked The Wolverine. I did not get to the Redbox in time so instead I picked up Django Unchained and This is the End with Django being my choice.
SIGH. Now that I have experienced Django, my soul needs to be scrubbed cleaned. I had to ask to pause it and get my self together a couple of times. It just felt so upsetting and I reached the point where I wonder if I need to see these types of movies. I don't see horror movies anymore because they upset me. I'm mostly not a fan of revenge movies because I tend not to be happy about the comeuppance so much as linger on the dark nature of humanity that feels they can wrong others in such a horrible way.
Noting my depression as the credits started, my husband quickly gave me a mulligan and let me claim This is the End as my pick for the week. And because people are not responsible with someone else's property, the disk skipped constantly one hour in and we could not finish. I called customer service as I didn't want to toss the disk back in the machine so someone else could get screwed. They flagged the disk and I think my duty has been done.
Week one is completed, but at what cost? I thought I would finally have an excuse to see There Will Be Blood and No Country For Old Men finally, but if the dramas are going to drag me down, I'm not sure I'll want to continue. I think resolutions are supposed to make you better, right? Well, I also promised myself a book a month. I could cancel this stuff out with books from my favorite comedians. I don't want to fall into the books like In Her Shoes. Sisters don't get along, like me and my sister, sound good. Wait mother committed suicide? Uggg, why must I have this compulsion to complete these books once I started?
We will watch one movie a week together this year. Starting on Monday one of us gets the whole week to chose a movie that we will watch together. It must be one that at least one us us has not seen, and if we do not declare out choice by Saturday night, the other gets to steal. We flipped a coin and I got to chose first. I picked The Wolverine. I did not get to the Redbox in time so instead I picked up Django Unchained and This is the End with Django being my choice.
SIGH. Now that I have experienced Django, my soul needs to be scrubbed cleaned. I had to ask to pause it and get my self together a couple of times. It just felt so upsetting and I reached the point where I wonder if I need to see these types of movies. I don't see horror movies anymore because they upset me. I'm mostly not a fan of revenge movies because I tend not to be happy about the comeuppance so much as linger on the dark nature of humanity that feels they can wrong others in such a horrible way.
Noting my depression as the credits started, my husband quickly gave me a mulligan and let me claim This is the End as my pick for the week. And because people are not responsible with someone else's property, the disk skipped constantly one hour in and we could not finish. I called customer service as I didn't want to toss the disk back in the machine so someone else could get screwed. They flagged the disk and I think my duty has been done.
Week one is completed, but at what cost? I thought I would finally have an excuse to see There Will Be Blood and No Country For Old Men finally, but if the dramas are going to drag me down, I'm not sure I'll want to continue. I think resolutions are supposed to make you better, right? Well, I also promised myself a book a month. I could cancel this stuff out with books from my favorite comedians. I don't want to fall into the books like In Her Shoes. Sisters don't get along, like me and my sister, sound good. Wait mother committed suicide? Uggg, why must I have this compulsion to complete these books once I started?
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