Today is the day!

I am ready to go with a monster of a head/face ache and I am exhausted. Great way to start a trip, yes? Oh yeah! -_- zzzzzzzz

The Lorax

I went to watch The Lorax with my mom on Monday. My sister invited me to go with her and mom, but my sister ended up having to work. But I still took my mom to the movies to watch The Lorax. I live under a rock and had no idea The Lorax was even in theaters! Thanks Sylvia for the movie tickets and letting me have some nice quality time with mom.

Anyone who knows my mom or about my mom, knows she loves her garden. Those damn roses!!!! As a kid, she would have us go out and help pull weeds. I HATE(D) pulling weeds. I purposefully find apartments with little to no yard OR with a gardener included. Don't get me wrong I will be the first one to play in a pit of mud or a sand box but I hate pulling weeds. I also hate tending to plants. I do NOT have a green thumb. I kill things. But last year I was given a plant, a coleus to be precise. Well it's still alive but it looks terrible, I was unaware of how to trim it. So it looks like a very tall green stick with a few leaves at the top. I want to start over withit but I am afraid of killing it. This Christmas I was given a Cypress tree, it's still a sapling and alive. (I think my husband is to thank for keeping my plants alive.)

Dead Leaves

Movie night with the mister consisted of an odd anime that I randomly chose from Netflix. I will admit that the tiny synopsis given on Netflix and the picture prompted me to watch it. I suggest watching it, I would assume if watched in a theater it would give some people motion sickness. It is so frenetic, I suggest watching it twice to catch what you may have missed the first time. Check it out:

Movie I missed and need to own.

Starman
I had not seen the movie since I was a child and I remember liking the movie very much. I decided to get in on Netflix, I was pretty bummed out when I got the DVD and it had a crack close to the center. Luckily it did not cause problems with the playback of the movie. But it did make me realize that I should own Starman. I like it more so now than I did as a child. If you have not seen it give it a try.

Movie Suggestion of the Week

We Are The Strange


This movie according to IMDB sounds almost boring:

Two outcasts fight for survival in a sinister fantasy world. Their lives are constantly in jeopardy after they’re caught in the middle of a deadly battle between bizarre monsters on their way to the ice cream shop.

The movie boasts an 8-bit sound track, some of the animation is done in Mario Paint and even a Japanese style mecha-fight! The subtitle selection for this movie also includes L337 and Nadsat. If you are a video game/anime fan you will like the little homages to old school shit like Ninja Scroll and Moon Patrol.

For you adventurous and open-minded, take the time to see the movie. Take a gander at the trailer for it:

Water Babies

Had to take a trip down Memory Lane.... and Memory Lane dropped off Water Babies at my front steps. I have not watched Water Babies since I was a little kid and I had to watch it again. It's still pretty awesome I think.

Last night I watched:

If you want a smart comedy, not lame mindless dribble, I suggest you watch The Trotsky.

It's about a teen that thinks he is the reincarnation of Leon Trotsky. It is intelligently funny and cute. Jay Baruchel did an excellent job as the lead in this movie. Now, go watch it!

Metropia

Watch it!

Being a fan of both Alexander Skarsgard and Juliet Lewis, I figured I would see how they fair at voice acting. I was really impressed. If you like trippy movies and cool animation I advise this movie.

"Someone is listening to your thoughts."

Tokyo Godfathers

Tokyo Godfathers is pretty damn awesome. Don’t let the fact that it is subbed and not dubbed dissuade you from watching a really well made anime. The plot is awesome and the animation is good too.

Summer Wars

Summer Wars=bad ass movie.

Everyone should watch it…. twice!

Gama-chan!

My gama-chan came in the mail today. Woohoo! Now I have something to keep my Earth monies in.

AND…. I got all three volumes of Sol Bianca: The Legacy. I have my watching cut out for me: Transformers: The Movie (animated old school version), Blood +, Sol Bianca AND Naruto. I won’t be leaving home for a while mom.

I recommend you watch these....

• The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

Everyone should watch it. Really, it's cute, the music is pretty bad ass and I liked the story line. I almost wish I knew what she becomes when she grows up..... and when they meet again.

• Tekkon Kinkreet

One of these days I wanna cosplay as White.. cause White has all the coolest hats! Not to mention a bazillion watches.... Watch this!

Do you like claymation?

Everyone should watch this... it's funny and sad and totally cute. Even though Harvie gets dealt a shitty hand in life he still looks on the bright side. I recommend you rent this DVD.... Harvie Krumpet is about 20 something minutes long but you can also check out some of Adam Elliot's other shorts in the special features. You can also stream it from Netflix but then you would miss out on the extra shorts. Do it, watch it!

What movie did we watch last night?

The Mummy an' the Armadillo

Netflix says:

It was a dark and stormy night along Route 66. But when Sarah (Clare Kramer) makes a pit stop at a ramshackle cafe, what she finds inside is anything but cliche. Housing a mini-museum of oddities -- including a mummified human being and a stuffed armadillo -- the eatery also holds secrets that Sarah's visit seems destined to unlock. The ensemble supporting cast includes Lori Heuring, Busy Philipps, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe and Johnathon Schaech.

The synopsis led me to believe this movie was going to be something else.... and I also found out it was originally a stage play. I liked the movie, but I would rather have watched it as a play. In a play you can actually enjoy a wide view setting instead of watching the zoomed in faces of actresses trying to look 'worried' and licking/biting their lips.

The horror/terror element wasn't derived from bloody guts but the history of the characters is terrible as you find out more and more about the individual characters in the movie. This movie seriously looks closely into the madness of a family and the hard work that goes into keeping family secrets a secret.

If you don't mind watching a movie that is heavy with dialog, filmed in the diner for 95 percent of the time and lots of close up face shots, go for it. The movie does a good job of showing dysfunctional family dynamics.

Any suggestions for my next movie night?

In the last week I have:

• Finished up 2 hats I have been knitting. I am going to give these away as gifts, to who I dunno. I am not too keen on being perceptive about what people like in terms of style and color. So I am not sure who to give the knitted hats to. The other hat is basically the same thing as below but in opposing colors (blue hat and pink heart).

• I started on two scarves one of them is a drop stitch scarf and the other is a simple garter stitch scarf. The drop stitch one I was going to make for myself but the colors are all wrong for me but it's so pretty and soooo soft! So now I have to figure out who, that would appreciate it , I should gift it to. :/ Decisions, decisions...... The other scarf is a simple garter stitch and I want to make a pocket on one end to hold like either a phone a small wallet or ID/credit card. Plus I want to add knitted hearts to it. I have my mind on the person I want to gift it to but maybe the colors won't work for her? I don't know. I guess I can make it and if she doesn't like it I can regift it to someone who does or just wait till February and someone could use it as a Valentine gift? Here is what the drop stitch one looks like so far:

• I recently found out that the manga site I used to use to read Naruto no longer has Naruto there for me to read :( Sad days! Oh well, I did get Volume 11 of Shippuden to appease my thirst for Naruto. Now I just have to wait for Volume 12.

• Last night I finished the animated series Gungrave. It was a sad ending for me and I am really going to miss the silly end credits and the, what we have coined, 'Gungrave Run'.

• Tomorrow I plan on starting the Gurren Lagann series, it's fairly short so I need to shop around for another series I want to get into that is available on Netflix.

• I have game night coming up and I haven't decided if it will be a night of team playing Super Mario 3 or if it will end up being Apples to Apples.... I meant to get my game last night but I was so tired after working the VTC store I just had a shower, got in my jammies and vegged out to knitting and anime. I know right, how exciting! (Grandma status these days!)

• So my plans for the rest of the week include: trying to finish the scarves I started, working at VTC, having sibling time, game night, Gurren Lagann marathon, get some much needed rest, find new musics, get some laundry done, maybe take the doggies to the dog park if not maybe the school again, finding some new hat and scarf patters so I can make more goodies for friends.

Sick Little Obsession

Has anyone ever watched the movie May? If you haven't I suggest it, basically she becomes obsessed with certain people based on what she finds attractive on them. Well anyways, here I am sitting here thinking about hands... yes, hands. For as long as I can remember I always liked looking at hands. Dirty finger nails are gross, long finger nails on boys are gross, nail bitten fingers are gross. However, I am not just obsessed with how nasty some hands are.... I am obsessed with hands in general.

Horrible Horrible

First and foremost, this is just writing to get things off my chest. Plus everyone has strange little thoughts from time to time especially during times of crisis. So last night I had one of those, cry myself to sleep nights. Those nights where you feel defeated about everything and you just want to crawl into a hole and die. And of course you hear people chime in with, "Only selfish people check out early." Well in my thoughts, it's those people who say that who are the ones that are selfish. I mean really if someone is that depressed and over it and it's agony to wake up and continue everyday. Why would you want to keep someone in that type of daily torture? Because you are selfish! Because if they are gone it would bother YOU... because it would in turn make YOU feel bad. But really when someone is scrapin' rock bottom, reprimanding someone about how selfish they are being does NOT, I repeat, does NOT help. I mean come on, let's all kick the depressed person while they are down!

Wall-E

I am gonna watch this and all the special features after I finish up with laundry. So after I got home I tried to watch Wall-E but my attempt failed, the movie skips sporadically the first 20 minutes and then randomly from time to time after that.... it sucks. So I took it back to Target and the same happens with it. So I am going to try it later on my computer to see if maybe my player is getting too old to play stupid Disney 'don't steal my movie by ripping' shit on it. Stupid dvds and their stupidness!