Tears of a Clown

Of course I was devastated by the news that Robin Williams died. I am reliving it as podcasts that were taped when the news broke are now being released. I don't want to get into it because, as is life, we move on and new things happen. I remember when I was in high school and sitting on the phone as my best friend cried over the death of Chris Farley. I just went to her daughter's third birthday party. Make note that while many people can have kids in high school and that could just be a whopping four years ago, that was, in fact, back in 1997.

Fortunately for me, I live in northern California and get to mourn the loss of many bottle of wine as the earth shook the Napa Valley. I got to wake up to at least of ten seconds of "what the hell?" And then, since no major damage was done, I moved on and had to be reminded at work there was a damn earthquake just yesterday morning. So this month will see an increase of  sales of everything Robin William related and if people are feeling silly, a jump in YouTube views of this.

 

I'm pretty sure she wasn't singing about plate tectonics.

Childlike Excuses

I recently recommended The Lego Movie to one of my coworkers. Because she has a soul, she loved it and now understand why her nephew sings "Everything is awesome!" I needed this win because earlier this month I babysat my two and six year old nieces. The two year old passed out in the first ten minutes and the six year old was using every excuse imaginable to avoid watching.

Even before we got to that point I would tell her it was great, but she would insist that she didn't want to watch it. As the day went on she told me that she wasn't really "into" movies. Then she mentioned that since she watched a lot of movies on the road on the way back from Disneyland, so she was burned out on watching things. Then she mentioned that the color on the TV was looking a little odd earlier and she was worried that watching more TV would make it worse so we should leave it off. Then she mentioned that she saw part of it at her friend's house before and didn't like it.

Being the "adult" of the situation, I said she didn't have to watch, but we would still have it on.When it was over, she told me that she didn't like it. Then kept asking me question like "what's the guy in orange named again?"

After the third round of how she didn't like it, I wanted to smack her, but I also realized that I used to lie my ass off when I was trying to avoid things I didn't want to do. Specifically, I remember in the fourth grade, we had to make up a commercial and act it out on camera. When we had to watch all of them, I would fake a stomach ache when mine came on. I faked a lot of stomach aches when something was on TV I didn't want to see.

I may also be annoyed at the situation since I bought the damn DVD in preparation for her loving it. And in two minutes that cover was thrashed. The bright side is that my sister really wanted to watch it. Man, I watch her kids and she get a bonus DVD. I'm really bad at favors.

Happy 4th!

He got me back.

The Power of Suggestion

I was in a bathroom and glanced at the tampon dispenser and saw someone had left a tampon by it. Just a tiny thing and BAM, the song from an In Living Color parody commercial about tampons was in my head. The background music I heard when I was a little girl and it was there. I know I watched this show a lot, but this borderline sad. Oh well. Such is my crazy brain.

Man, I love DAG.

May Movie...Nope Resolution Dead

While I did read Shrinkage as I mentioned in the last post, my husband and I are officially spent on the movie resolution. Yes, it IS very hard to watch one movie a week. And we have some big changes and events coming up, so our time is allocated towards ignoring these big changes. We'll see what happens when things calm down, but for now, we'll just watch movies for fun and not obligation. Feeewwww. That feels good.

Celebrity Sighting #Lederhosen

My husband and I went to go see Adam Carolla at the Palace of Fine Arts last weekend. Bald Bryan's book Shrinkage is out and I was looking forward to showing up in my Film Vault t-shirt and hoodie and get my book signed. Sadly, they had to catch a flight and did not stay to meet the crowd. 

But because I can't read a map, I didn't realize that our seats weren't very close to an exit, but instead isolated us right next to the sound equipment. Where the sound engineer and other crew were. So I am sitting right next to sound engineer Mike Dawson. I also hear a familiar voice talking shop behind me and I ask if he's Gary. Yes, he was. Yep. I got to throw my praise and get a picture with Dawson and Gary (ahem, Carolla nickname omitted) Smith. 

Say hi to Stew Hendershot and Carl Thompson.

This is another reason I am happy that I contributed to the Ear Buds documentary. There is a relationship that exists when you spend hours listening to podcasts, even if it is one sided. People, get in on this awesomeness.

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.