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1. Go to IMDB.com and look up a bunch of your favorite movies ( Read more... )

I saw There Will Be Blood tonight, and if I had to sum it up in one word, that would be it. Not BAD, necessarily, just a real struggle to get through. Slow and painful. Also the soundtrack was the worst thing ever. It's either silent or constant, tense, "omg, something terrible is going to happen ANY SECOND" music, even though pretty much nothing ( Read more... )

Because I am an uber-nerd, I make a list every year of all the books I read. Since many of you, my friends, also qualify as word nerds, I will post my list and resulting thoughts here for you to peruse. (Bold indicates a re-read.)
(P.S. Sorry there are no accent marks or umlauts over the authors' names when needed...I don't know how to do them on a ( Read more... )

If Elijah Wood


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Since a) vacations to the Midwest don't entail *doing* very much, and b) my father's a professional photographer, I didn't take a whole lot of pictures on our recent family vacay. That being said, I figured I'd post a few random ones for your enjoyment.

First stop was my dad's sister's place in Illinois. The younger boy cousins had fun jumping on ( Read more... )

On the way to church on Sunday, I subjected my little brother to the Hairspray movie soundtrack. He rolled his eyes, but remembering my earlier-in-the-week expressed wish to see the movie (not knowing that I'd seen it Friday night), he unbegrudgingly offered, "Well, if you can't find anyone to go with, I'll go see it with you." Now that's ( Read more... )

My friend Allison and I used to watch Gilmore Girls religiously together, until she moved. This year, she's worked every Tuesday night more or less, so she asked me to write a recap of the Gilmore Girls series finale. For those of you who have any interest in the show, I've posted it

Previously, on this season of Gilmore Girls: Christopher was a ( Read more... )

In a recent effort to draw a younger generation of visitors to the Lake District, Cumbria Tourism has released a new version of William Wordsworth's most famous poem, "I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud". The poem has been reworked and rewritten in a hip-hop style - complete with drum beat and quick-fire rhymes - in hopes the rap and accompanying video ( Read more... )

I have to say, I cannot understand the phenomenon that is Robin Thicke ( Read more... )