Movies Self Most Enjoyed Watching in 2013

December 29, 2013 at 12:11 am (Links, Lists, Movies, Recommended, television)
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Totally self-indulgent post.  Self is not even going to bother to explain.

These are the movies self could stand to see multiple times.

They’re not the best movies of the year, just the ones whose world(s) she found herself wanting to return to, more than once (The list is in alphabetical order, not in order of preference):

  • American Hustle
  • Anchorman 2
  • Boy A (Cheating a bit, because self saw this one on Netflix.  But.  Andrew Garfield.  WOW.  People who know him only as the Hollywood-ized version of himself have no idea.  None.  And it is Too BAD.)
  • Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing
  • Kung Fu Divas (featuring Ai Ai de las Alas, Marian Rivera, and Roderick Paulate) — Saw this one in Bacolod!
  • Nebraska
  • Riddick
  • The Hobbit:  Desolation of Smaug
  • The Hunger Games:  Catching Fire
  • Warm Bodies

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Hope for 2014:  Self really, really hopes someone is making or has made a documentary of Typhoon Haiyan and the ongoing debacle in the Philippines.

Most Improved Show:  SNL

Most Surprisingly Sexy Show:  Sleepy Hollow (Just please never give Ichabod Crane a change of clothes.  Self would hate to see his affect dissolve once he gets around to dressing in jeans and T’s like a regular American dude)

Stay tuned, dear blog readers.  Stay tuned.

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Spotted in “Anchorman 2”

December 25, 2013 at 3:25 am (Eavesdropping, Links, Lists, Movies, Recommended, television)
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Borat * Doby the Shark * Christina Applegate * Will Ferrell * Paul Rudd * Steve Carell * Kristen Wiig * Liam Neeson * Kanye * Kirsten Dunst (as a beautiful goddess!) * an RV on cruise control * random comment about Filipinos * GNN (for Global News Network) * Marion Cotillard * Jim Carrey * Tina Fey/Amy Poehler * Vince Vaughn * precocious piano-playing kid

The funniest thing in Anchorman 2 (outside of Will Ferrell and Steve Carell) was a deliciously smarmy TV anchorman played by James Marsden.  Self isn’t a big Marsden fan, but she really liked his performance here.

This is not really a review of Anchorman 2.  If you liked the original movie, you will love this one.

Oh, and something else:  the way Kristen Wiig’s character and Steve Carell’s character drive an uptight newswoman almost crazy is 100% believable.  If someone who worked for you in an office screamed at maximum volume like that, would it qualify as abuse?  Do dear blog readers realize how difficult it would be to label — even describe — such behavior?  Therefore, it is brilliant.

On to Pajiba’s picks of the 5 Best Skits of SNL, which self read via Salon.com

Self loved the just-ended season of SNL.  She watched it (almost every Saturday) without fail (but still managed to miss Kerry Washington’s hosting gig, which apparently was the best episode of the season, according to Salon.com — go figure!)

She caught Ed Norton (meh) and John Goodman (more meh) and Jimmy Fallon last week (surprisingly meh) and Josh Hutcherson (adorable!).

She missed Miley Cyrus’s appearance.

The best SNL skit of the season was a pitch-perfect parody of Wes Anderson (during Ed Norton’s hosting gig), called “The Midnight Coterie of Sinister Intruders.”  Watch and be slayed, dear blog readers!  Self loved the way Ed Norton channeled Owen Wilson.  It wasn’t just the bleached blonde wig (although that was pretty fabulous).  It was the way Norton nailed the Owen Wilson drawl, the whole surfer-dude affect.

Stay tuned.

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Very Good Ideas for the Merry, Merry

December 3, 2013 at 5:15 am (Links, Movies, Recommended, television)
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Anchorman 2 is coming out soon! Love Ron Burgundy.

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Sad about Paul Walker.  Self has seen all six Fast and Furious movies.  She loved Paul Walker’s laid-back cool, with those Converse sneakers especially.

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Self will just come out and say it:  She loves the way so many reviewers come together to keep the Roger Ebert website alive.

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Signing off to watch “Sleepy Hollow.”  How dare that Headless Horseman brandish weaponry at the adorably tall, thin Ichabod Crane!  A pox on you, oh Headless Horseman!  May pustules erupt all over your skin!  May you grow a new head like a serpent! And may the Bog of Sleepy Hollow swallow you up — forevermore!

And please, “Sleepy Hollow” producers, stop showing flashbacks of John Cho with his head hanging off his shoulders — backwards.  It is a most hideous, nightmare-inducing image.

She loves the way Mison calls Abbie Mills “Lef-te-nant”!  She saw a picture of him in People Magazine — a very teensy picture.  She thinks he possibly looks better in extreme close-up.  Like, on an HD television screen.

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Self loves the huge pink-tinted glasses Sheila O’Malley wore on her latest blog post.  Sheila says:  “No way around it. These glasses help elevate the mood.  I like to wear them in a blasé manner out in public . . . “!

Oooh, self wants!  She wants!

If one cannot have pink-tinted glasses like Sheila O'Malley, one can still don Christmas headgear: guaranteed mood-lifter!

If one cannot have pink-tinted glasses like Sheila O’Malley, one can still don Christmas headgear: guaranteed mood-lifter!

Stay tuned, dear blog readers.  Stay tuned.

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New Mantra, For the Rest of 2012

August 12, 2012 at 5:32 am (Sayings)
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You can die from someone else’s misery.

You can die from someone else’s misery.

You can die from someone else’s misery.

Self will not die from someone else’s misery.

Self will not die from someone else’s misery.

Self will not die from someone else’s misery.

Quidditch team news:  Let’s see if self can do a quick scan of her memory.  Richard the Canadian is traveling (without leaving the confines of Canada).  Jenny the Oxford Professor and Poet is in Oxford (of course) as the term has begun.  Joan is being very industrious and writer-ly because she has not written.  Marylee is doing very intensive research for her novel in Paris (Would that self had done the same when she was in Paris, instead of wandering the city like a lonely waif, in search of that damn Louvre!  Which turned out to be as big as a Mountain!).  Allison is teaching a summer writing course in Oklahoma.  She sent a couple of pictures from her apartment, and it looked as if there were actually palm trees growing in the parking lot (of this place in Oklahoma), will wonders never cease?

Bella’s nails are growing awfully long.

Self really is developing quite a fascination with Tom Hardy.

The new Will Ferrell movie has a scene with 27 Filipino staff on a cruise liner.  One day, self must take a cruise for the purposes of interviewing the Filipino staff.  This is her firm resolution.

Stay tuned, dear blog readers.  Stay tuned.

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