One of my favorite scenes is from When Harry Met Sally when the old married couples describe how they met. The one that sticks with me is the old man who says that he saw his wife in a crowded cafeteria, told his friend that he had seen his future wife and married her two weeks later.
I know that movie is supposed to explore the eternal question can men and women every be friends? Hemingway says no; Nora Ephron says...no. But I think the real question it asks is whether or not how you meet will determine the longevity of the relationship. If you don't have a meet/ cute is there anything to go from?
But in the age of the interet are were ever going to meet cute again? I mean telling people that Dr. Phil matched the two of you up is never going to sound good.
Monday, May 14, 2007
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Graduation
One year ago today, I graduated from college. Since then:
1) I started a new job, which ended up sucking big time.
2) I had to pack up my apartment and find a new place to live in two weeks.
3) I had to put all my stuff in storage and live with my grandparents. I was commuting 1.5 hours each day.
4) I moved into my new apartment, which is still totally awesome.
5) I got left behind as my family went to the French Riviera. Still not forgiving them for that one.
6) I quit my job. I highly recommend doing this.
7) I started a new far more awesome job!
8) I turned 22.
9) My good friend died. I really miss her, and it makes me really sad that I'll never see her again.
I've been out of high school for five years! A part of me still feels likes it's there.
1) I started a new job, which ended up sucking big time.
2) I had to pack up my apartment and find a new place to live in two weeks.
3) I had to put all my stuff in storage and live with my grandparents. I was commuting 1.5 hours each day.
4) I moved into my new apartment, which is still totally awesome.
5) I got left behind as my family went to the French Riviera. Still not forgiving them for that one.
6) I quit my job. I highly recommend doing this.
7) I started a new far more awesome job!
8) I turned 22.
9) My good friend died. I really miss her, and it makes me really sad that I'll never see her again.
I've been out of high school for five years! A part of me still feels likes it's there.
Tuesday, May 08, 2007
Always
There's two very important things to know about me:
1) I grew up in New Jersey.
2) I spent huge swaths of my childhood sneaking MTV (I wasn't allowed to watch it) when my parents weren't around or at friends' houses.
When I think back to that time, I think of this:
It's everything a music video should be and more.
1) I grew up in New Jersey.
2) I spent huge swaths of my childhood sneaking MTV (I wasn't allowed to watch it) when my parents weren't around or at friends' houses.
When I think back to that time, I think of this:
It's everything a music video should be and more.
Wednesday, May 02, 2007
Worst. Movie. Ever
I watch a lot of bad tv. I've asked, "Ohmigod, did you see I Love New York last night?" to many times ony to be met by blank stares. But on Monday I think I may have seen the bottom of the abyss. I came home from work, and collapsed on the couch. Too exhausted to change the channel, I was accosted by Undiscovered a movie staring Ashlee Simpson and bizarrely Carrie Fisher.
I missed the first half hour, and thank god for that. I mean, when I saw the trailers for it last spring, I knew it was wasn't good, but I had no idea it was this bad. It has all the hallmarks of a truly bad film: trite dialogue, two dimensional characters and incomprehensible pacing. Unfortunately, it doesn't have any of the enthusiasm of say, Carlito's Way. What this movie does have is Simpsons. It was produced by Joe "Pa" Simpson as a vehicle for Ashlee Simpson. Ash plays the semi-lesbionic Clea who is friends with Brier, a model. Brier, is played by Pell James, and I am shocked to learn that she has continued to get acting jobs after this film came out.
Carrie Fisher plays Brier's agent/manager/ surrogate mother. It's at this point that I guess I should mention, most of the dialogue was extremely garbled. I felt like the movie was either in a foreign language or I was just trying to decipher scenes by going on facial expressions. When you consider the caliber of acting, that wasn't much. I'm not sure in exactly what capacity Carrie is connected to Brier, and I believe several other salient plot points may have escaped my attention.
When I turned the movie on, Brier and Luke were falling for each other. Unfortunately, Luke played by Steven Strait, is totally unconvincing as anything other than a Chelsea rent boy. To show her appreciation, Brier gets Luke a record deal. Which in my opion is kinda overdoing it for the second date. Stalker much? But it's not all rainbows and kittens for our young lovebirds. See, both Briar and Luke have baggage. Briar's comes in the form of Mick a possibly British, oily, aging rock star, who flys cross-country to stalk her at the batting cages. No seriously, that's where she likes to hang out. And at the trapeze school.
Luke has Josie, played by Shannyn Sossamon, best known for naming her child Audio Science. To portray Josie, it seems like Shannyn woke up one morning, decided she was Al Pacino and took a bunch of quaaludes.
Luke also manages to blow the record deal, and go into hiding in his apartment. Where none of his friends think to look for him. Brier decides to move back to New York, because it's real and edgy, and nobody in LA understand her deep and artistic soul.
Mercifully it's almost the end of the movie and time for the big showcase. Carrie show's up with her ex-husband, none other than RoboCop's Peter Weller. RoboCop is supposedly some kind of legend in the music industry.
After Luke and Clea sing their absolutely dreadful songs, it's time for Robocop to drive Brier to her flight to New York. Luke decides it's his turn to be scary stalker and gets his brother to drive him to the airport. His brother, Euan, is probably the creepiest part of the movie, and this is a movie with Pa Simpson involved. See, Euan likes to dress up like a reject from Sly and the Family Stone and give off a Chester the Molester vibe. I haven't mentioned him yet, because he hasn't been important to the plot. But he is useful for driving Luke to the airport in his VW van (great for both 60s wannabe rockstars and your neighborhood sex offender.) I think he also deals weed on the side, because at the airport he gives Luke a whole wad of cash to buy his plane ticket with. After getting through security with the help of RoboCop, Luke is ready to declare his love for Brier...by asking the flight attendant to throw a dirty glove at her. They are about to make out in the galley, when they are interrupted by RoboCop who delivers a lecture on the profitabilty of music publishing. The movie ends with Brier and Luke frolicking in the surf in Jamaica.
And everyone gets a record deal.
Undiscovered is playing on TMC all this week and next, so please go watch it. I want everyone to suffer like I have.
I missed the first half hour, and thank god for that. I mean, when I saw the trailers for it last spring, I knew it was wasn't good, but I had no idea it was this bad. It has all the hallmarks of a truly bad film: trite dialogue, two dimensional characters and incomprehensible pacing. Unfortunately, it doesn't have any of the enthusiasm of say, Carlito's Way. What this movie does have is Simpsons. It was produced by Joe "Pa" Simpson as a vehicle for Ashlee Simpson. Ash plays the semi-lesbionic Clea who is friends with Brier, a model. Brier, is played by Pell James, and I am shocked to learn that she has continued to get acting jobs after this film came out.
Carrie Fisher plays Brier's agent/manager/ surrogate mother. It's at this point that I guess I should mention, most of the dialogue was extremely garbled. I felt like the movie was either in a foreign language or I was just trying to decipher scenes by going on facial expressions. When you consider the caliber of acting, that wasn't much. I'm not sure in exactly what capacity Carrie is connected to Brier, and I believe several other salient plot points may have escaped my attention.
When I turned the movie on, Brier and Luke were falling for each other. Unfortunately, Luke played by Steven Strait, is totally unconvincing as anything other than a Chelsea rent boy. To show her appreciation, Brier gets Luke a record deal. Which in my opion is kinda overdoing it for the second date. Stalker much? But it's not all rainbows and kittens for our young lovebirds. See, both Briar and Luke have baggage. Briar's comes in the form of Mick a possibly British, oily, aging rock star, who flys cross-country to stalk her at the batting cages. No seriously, that's where she likes to hang out. And at the trapeze school.
Luke has Josie, played by Shannyn Sossamon, best known for naming her child Audio Science. To portray Josie, it seems like Shannyn woke up one morning, decided she was Al Pacino and took a bunch of quaaludes.
Luke also manages to blow the record deal, and go into hiding in his apartment. Where none of his friends think to look for him. Brier decides to move back to New York, because it's real and edgy, and nobody in LA understand her deep and artistic soul.
Mercifully it's almost the end of the movie and time for the big showcase. Carrie show's up with her ex-husband, none other than RoboCop's Peter Weller. RoboCop is supposedly some kind of legend in the music industry.
After Luke and Clea sing their absolutely dreadful songs, it's time for Robocop to drive Brier to her flight to New York. Luke decides it's his turn to be scary stalker and gets his brother to drive him to the airport. His brother, Euan, is probably the creepiest part of the movie, and this is a movie with Pa Simpson involved. See, Euan likes to dress up like a reject from Sly and the Family Stone and give off a Chester the Molester vibe. I haven't mentioned him yet, because he hasn't been important to the plot. But he is useful for driving Luke to the airport in his VW van (great for both 60s wannabe rockstars and your neighborhood sex offender.) I think he also deals weed on the side, because at the airport he gives Luke a whole wad of cash to buy his plane ticket with. After getting through security with the help of RoboCop, Luke is ready to declare his love for Brier...by asking the flight attendant to throw a dirty glove at her. They are about to make out in the galley, when they are interrupted by RoboCop who delivers a lecture on the profitabilty of music publishing. The movie ends with Brier and Luke frolicking in the surf in Jamaica.
And everyone gets a record deal.
Undiscovered is playing on TMC all this week and next, so please go watch it. I want everyone to suffer like I have.
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