Friday, July 2, 2010

The People Everyone Should Want to Work With

Good natural talent is too hard to find now a days in movies. Especially when it comes to the summer blockbuster crowd. They seem to throw together movies just for the sake of exploiting peoples wallets. Anyways here is my list of actors/actresses which will never stop catching my interest.

Scarlett Johansson- While she may be a feast for the eyes she just seems like someone you could have a serious conversation with. Hello shes a die hard Guns n Roses fan and she enjoys cooking. Thats a healthy dose of normal compared to starlets who enjoy ridiculous diets and little dogs. So when I heard that Megan Fox complained that Johansson goes on talk shows and says every big word she knows. All I have to say is this. She wants to be more than a sex symbol and her big words translate to one thing shes smart and sexy. Wearing a 19 inch waisted corset doesnt draw interest to a movie, a girl who kicks ass and wears a leather suit does. Plus if you havent seen Scarlett in Lost in Translation do so now.

John Malkovich- Yes he always plays a special brand of sociopath but thats his niche and he plays it so well. I cant wait to see Red because of him. Plus I almost wanted to see Jonah Hex because of his turn as something Mr. Turnbull......thats an amazing actor.

Wallace Langham- A character actor who many peopl;e wouldnt know. Hes played almost everything. My favorite the extremely narcissistic and wounded David Hodges on CSI. Hes the trace technician and it way worth it to watch. However being interested in his acting has led me to watch the Larry Sander's show (full of dry wit humor) and several other movies. My favorite being Growing OP. He played a drug dealing father I crack up just thinking about it.

Ellen Page- Diablo Cody's writing made her the likable smart mouth teenager Juno and that role alone will make me forever love her. In absolutely anything. Which is why im excited that they are even in talks about giving her the lisbeth role for girl with the dragon tattoo.

Helen Mirren- A cute grandmother with a crazy wild side apparently. The woman has pictures out of her in a bikini and of her in a bathtub. Did I mention shes 60? I cant wait to see Red and Love Ranch because of her incredible sex appeal and way around humor.

Robert Downey Jr.- My celebrity crush of choice. If you havent seen the wet t shirt photo of him in Rolling Stone then find a copy pronto. I love his comeback and his whole backstory. Hes wounded and entirely open about it to boot. Iron man is a narcissistic a hole with a heart of gold. Who can resist that?

Woody Harrelson- I think half of this came from his role in Zombieland its to die for honestly. Hes a real pro environment pot smoking guy in real life which in itself is a character plus. Also he can play serious like in the Messenger. Maybe its his accent or his kind eyes but when he is on screen I cant help but watch his every move.

Adrien Brody- Cute Smile...cute face. Awesome actor which is shown from the Piano. Though i am under the impression that he can do anything. He was in the SCI-FI creep fest splice and he dons abs for a turn in the new predators that comes out next week. Is there anything he cant play? Hes my geek celebrity crush by the way.

Friday, June 4, 2010

Summer Movie List!

Before the summer movie phase kicks off I would like to publish my top list. With some descriptions as to why.

May 7 BABIES!: No I dont just want to see this because it looks other worldy cute. Im also interested with the babies from four corners of the world angle. That will most definately be an interesting cultural study in cuteness.

May 7 IRON MAN 2: Needless to say I saw this. However it is a must see for anyone looking for an action flick. Robert Downey Jr's incredible sense of humor, hotness and bravado as Tony Stark is worth it enough. Though the side characters almost steal the show. Mickey Rourke and Scarlet Johannessen. Awesome.

May 27 SEX AND THE CITY 2: The main reason I want to see this isnt because of the mature subject matter. I am more interested in what the hype is for sex and the city being the major feminine power film. It kinda brought back the idea that women in films can draw box office gold.

May 28 SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD: As a lover of both the zombie genre and the genius of George Romero need I even explain myself?

June 4 GET HIM TO THE GREEK: The comic genius of Russell Brand and Jonah Hill. Too good to pass up. Plus with Judd Apatow's writing there is really no way it can go wrong for me. I mean come on he re-invented the raunchy comedy of our age.

June 4 SPLICE: This movie looks ridiculous. A humanoid creature that is kind of a mixture of a flying thingy and a i dont even know. Basically human cloning is bad mmmkay? Apparently it can end with a new species and world destruction. So along with the scary effect of this movie we have some good old arguments over morality and the sciences.

June 11 THE A-TEAM: Groannn.....another 80's remake. Oh well its shaping up to be the next cliche action movie of the summer. Of course Im going. Everyone will be. Its like Transformers. I might be wrong so dont quote me on this.

June 11 JOAN RIVERS A PIECE OF WORK: At first I thought wow Joan Rivers is never going to go away? I swear the trailer nearly had me tearing up. For a woman with such a great sense of humor she is also incredibly self deprecating.

June 18 JONAH HEX: Grrrr after the whole Jennifer's body Megan Fox fiasco. She dare bring down Diablo Cody? Well shes got another thing coming. Only being casted as hot romantic interests. Cause im not going to Jonah Hex for her. Im going for the action and John Malkovich.

June 18: TOY STORY 3: I grew up with this. Plus its Pixar they win every year for the best animated feature. I think that is enough of a reason.

July 2 THE LAST AIRBENDER: This could go either ways since it is M. Night Shamalayn. Lady in the Water bad or bone chillingly good like Signs/ The Sixth Sense. I did like the show when it was around on Nikelodean though. Apa the big flying bison was my favorite.

July 9 COUNTDOWN TO ZERO: My movies tastes fluctuate kind of dramatically as you can see. I guess when I see this movie I will be in the mood for a documentary about how the world is going to end unless we fix the most impossible problem imaginable. Nuclear Warfare.

July 9 PREDATORS: Im a sucker for an alien or predator oriented movie. Something about the creepiness of a foreign jungle filled with skin peeling ugly monsters. Also Laurence Fishburne co-stars. Shout out to CSI right there.

July 16 INCEPTION: Lets see......Leonardo Di Caprio (Hot and a brilliant actor)+dream analyzing or traveling (One of my interests)+Ellen Page (A cute sarcastic fav of mine)=Inception. How can it go wrong? Did I mention the director is Christopher Nolan who also directed the latest batman. Jeez. Its designed for success.

July 23 DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS: Im a big fan of Paul Rudd. Whose comic delivery is a mixture of sweet and pathetic all the time. Plus steve carrell and him seem to have some good comic chemistry.

August 6 THE OTHER GUYS: Come on the guy who directed stepbrothers directed this. Its bound to be out of this world stupid but in the most hilarious way possible. Im interested to see how Mark Wahlberg handles a big comedic role. Also Samuel Jackson and the Rock costar by being what they are best. B.A!!!

August 13 THE EXPENDABLES: While I do believe that going to this movie with cause a testosterone explosion, it has a phenomenal cast to back it up. Its gonna be like a witty, wise guy, ultra manly explosion fest. Im interested in how it will play out. Boys and their wrestlers and guns.

August 13 SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD: Micheal cera is so cute he almost made Youth in Revolt funny. Which is saying something. Plus this looks to have the trippy actioness like a Burton film. Its the retro teen comedy drama of the future! haha or August 13.

August 27 PIRANNHA 3D: This is the kind of movie that you make fun of for the acting. The whole time thinking oh my gosh this is so silly! While in reality you secretly enjoy it but you dont know why. Its hard to explain but maybe its the watching dumb kids get eaten alive thats so great.

It seems like it is going to be a phenomenal summer for summer movies! Yay! There are a lot that are on my list obviously and i Intend to see them all. :)

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Another Random Observation

Outside of the music hallway is a bright patch of green grass. Of course the ugly brick isn’t much of a spectacle and neither is the car filled road/pavement. I was trying to get some homework done. Naturally with the heat filling my head I zoned out and began to watch the parade of people coming from the school doors.


It should be mentioned that it was in fact people watching and not creeping. There is a difference! Anyways the main people that use that doorway are the wacko music kids (I really love them) and teachers. I guess for me there really isn’t anything more fun than teacher watching. Occasionally said people can be perfect targets for anything from the fashion police to psychiatrists.

This is why I was fairly surprised when I saw teachers emerging who I had for class. Equipped with kind of chic tote bags and they were engaging in adult convos!

I think it is physically required that teachers have multiple personality disorder. This isn’t a bad thing for most of them. Unless their alter teaching ego is a very annoying thundercloud over my day. I like most of my teachers. This year anyways.

It just struck me as odd the different look these teachers had outside on their way home. I mean it could have been the sun because it is no secret that the inside of schools has the brightness of a basement. Some teachers even put colored or black paper over windows. What kind of a sense does that give students? It gives the impression of a darkness worshipping cult or an eccentric prison.

So with this weird sense I have come to the conclusion that while you can tell a lot about someone by the way they teach, a better indicator is what they look like leaving the school. Lets be honest some of them may hate the school as much as the average kid. Plus we kids need to give some teachers breaks. I was under the impression that if my least favorite teacher walked outside she would burst into flames like a vampire or a gremlin. While this is not necessarily true I still have my suspicions

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Yugioh Makes for Interesting Conversation

My prietenu (Romania for friend). Horatiu is one of my best friends. He also happens to be quite the oddball. It would take a whole novel for me to explain the many intricacies. This is not the point. The point is that when I’m with him I feel like a human being. For all the teenage girls out there you know what I mean. I don’t think the word objectify is even in his vocab.
Smack dab in the middle of the lunch room. Catching the stares of all who happened to walk by and the laughs too. We were playing Yugioh in a school setting. Social high school politics genocide.

However when you are around the people you love you really do stop to care. I wasn’t thinking about what that particularly tiny freshman was saying because I was too busy worrying about my red eyes dragon. You see Horatiu is a tremendous card player. The match was a little un-even. He ended up letting me win though in typical sly friend fashion. I mean I am the epitome of terrible at strategy games. When I collected Yugioh cards as a young girl I built my deck based on cuteness. Time wizard was always my favorite.

So in a way I think I passed a very secret and intimate test constructed by my Romanian buddy. It was almost like an initiation. Then I really started to enjoy myself. I was stumbling through trap card etiquette and attacking formation like a major beginner. He always cheered me on though and took care to stop and fix my many mistakes.

There I was laughing like a hyena when the group of kids tried un-successfully to insult us secretly. Upon my laughter Horatiu joined in taking a sigh of relief that I didn’t want to discard him like a 4 week old sandwich. I mean what do those kids have on us? 50 dollar shoes??? I value the friendships I make and how dare they try to get in on that. I was dueling for goodness sakes.

Through a simple card game I became better friends with a guy who I almost barely understand. He is meticulous and kind. Though he doesn’t quite know how to show it. Sure he hints to friendish commitment but for an open girl like me it often isn’t re-assuring. I am learning! I mean come on I used my red eyes dragon to wipe out his one monster thingy that kept summoning stuff from the graveyard. It’s not just game improvement its friend and character improvement.

Meat Jekyl 10x23

The final hour of the tenth season was jam packed with suspense and typical CSI-esque tricks.


The Case: DR JEKYL. The reclusive serial killer with a liking for the surgically weird. He almost treats the human body like some sick twisted artists canvas. Anyways part one of the finale ended with Haskall calling Langston and claiming that he knew exclusively who jekyl was. So in this weeks episode as Brass put it "They got him a limo like he was Paul Freakin McCaurtney". Most of the jekyl game of cat and mouse centered on Haskall and his physopathic whims. All of which included rare steak and a stripper. In turn he really didnt offer up anything but trouble. He never told them the restaurant where he initially met the Doctor but instead eluded to the surroundings. That small peice of could be a lie could be the truth info led the CSI's to a closed down italian restaurant. They were all dressed in black clothes with black shades, so they looked like some kind of SCI-FI secret police. On the wall of the food place was all of the previous victims who all seemed to be in a good business standing. The gray metallic human blood covered operating table in the back was even more interesting. Ok so he fit the serial killer persona officially now. Creepy place of origin...check. Connections to other serial killers...check. Finally a shy awkward look.....check. However Jekyl started to get very very cocky. First it was the package that was sent to Langston from his father who was dead. After close examination it was only his badge but it could have been oh so worse. Then came the meat which had eerie links to DaVinci and some type of vein surgery. This was the discovered mode of death. With a little tool the surgeon goes in through the groin (ouch) and draws clots out of a nasty vein. An examination of the meat (Hodges and Wendy) and IRS records led them to the final showdown arena, a high end eating establishment.

The Characters: For the average CSI fan this episode nearly brought out the tears and the old nail biting habit. I mean Nick seriously looked dead after Jekyl shot him with a really big nasty looking gun. Of course our beloved texan made it alive, I mean come on he was trapped in a box underground once for goodness sakes. Im still trying to figure out where the rumor came from that significant blood would be lost by Catherine. She was fine...the whole episode. The closest she came to danger was the old guy smoking a cigar who looked a bit greasy. Langston however looks dead. I say that without much emotion because honestly I dont think the writers would have chosen to kill him off at this point. Plus his contract has been reknewed for season 11. So um cliffhanger fail. While he wasnt in peril from a back wound I think he did some pretty out there investigating. CSI's are trained to notice details afterall but the kind of things that guy found out from the meat was astonishingly brilliant. Hodges and Wendy had some little moments. Ausiello the spoiler guru said we would know about their relationship. They seemed to be chill but dating thats a very big maybe. Im going to wait and see. Then there is Haskall who is needless to say creepy as anything. I love that actor because he really plays pyshcopath pretty phenomenallly.

Favorite Parts of the Episode:

Meat: Gotta hand it to Jekyl he was a clever creative guy

Food Scene: When it was all the victims through Jekyl's eyes. Bernard second victim fainted at the table. haha.

Haskall: With Brass hilarious. Drawing Langston on the computer haha. Just in general a creepy yet entertaining addition to the episode.

Hodges and Wendy: Breif and possible dating good enough for this die hard wedges fan.

Nick: Not only did he shoot Jekyl but he acted dead through the pain of a shotgun wound.

Cliffhanger: Hes ok. Still a clever way to end the episode.

Henry: Always cute and he seemed to be in this one a lot.

Brass One liners: He really hates criminals doesnt he?

I really enjoyed writing these reviews for all you CSI fans. :) Have a great summer.

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Loving TV more than a teenage boy.

No you see I just can’t love you. It would be impossible ya know? I mean you aren’t anything like David Hodges. Yes I know he is a fictional TV show character….but he is the man of my dreams.




There is epidemic sweeping through our youth. I would like to personally call it TV-character-insational-love-itis. Typically in young age dating is supposed to be a natural world ending drama fest. Now girls and some guys are getting their love fix from the TV. Yes that’s right at this very moment your son or daughter could be drooling for a completely made up persona. This is obviously affecting other aspects of their lives.



When it comes to dating, there are certain expectations one naturally has for the other sex. However when these expectations become identical to a person on TV….one should begin to worry. I mean how can I find the everyday David Hodges. The perfect mixture of all the right stuff to create the ultimate narcissist with a secret heart of gold. Mmmmm….damaged men *faints*.



If you ever happen to catch yourself comparing a dating prospect to a fictional character I think its time for a psychological evaluation. Being a fan girl= a lonely life filled with cats. This is the same thing I have observed with big vampire movie blockbusters and hot sweaty emotional singers in bands. Normal school boys just don’t measure up.



A really sweet guy won’t fare well in this environment. For example take Dr. House a relationship toxic man who seems a lot better than my first period AP Euro class pick of the litter. But why? Honestly it’s not the glitz of the TV because even when that man was hugging porcelain from a Vicodin habit….he was hot. David Hodges is a textbook example of narcissism, however if I ever happen to meet a fellow like that I almost can guarantee marriage.



Girls like me need to start lowering their standards. Let’s face it we can never get that bad boy full of problems persona. Something odd about me is that I like being pursued by damaged multi-layered older men. (Robert Downey Jr.) This makes me completely un-dateable. Young pubescent boys just have officially lost their charm. Time to plan the rest of my life around a Chinese take out menu and my mother.

Friday, April 16, 2010

Field Mice 10x18

So as a die hard wedges/labrat fan it is very obvious to see why I loved this episode so much. Every year these are the episodes with the most creativity and humor.


The Case: Hodges and Wendy lead three young explorer scouts on a field trip they will never forget. To challenge them Hodges finds an old case that had until this episode remained unsolved. After a fire at a group of apartment and the firefighter or should i say "evidence erradication team" cleared the scene a body of a young woman was found. The weird thing is she had no evidence of being burned even though she was right in the middle of an arson crime scene. Ultimately they end up putting themself in the CSI position and pulling through as far as solving the case goes. Turns out the russian woman died from a combination of drugs and alcohol, her one night stand put her in a packing box because he had to go to work. Well a little known fact about packing peanuts is that to be environmentally friendly they are made up of starch components. So after the guy left the girl in the box went up in the flames but didnt burn do to the insulation like properties of the packing peanuts. A sort of sub case occured when Nick began to investigate an outbreak of bacteria that was making the lvpd all throw up their guts. It provided some comic relief especially since they cop guy was such a bumbling idiot. Turns out his ex laced some cookies she made for him with the bacteria. In a twist of irony that particular cop was the only one who didnt get sick because of his post break-up diet minus sugary sweets.

The Characters: Of course this episode focused on Wendy and Hodges, but the other characters almost gave them a run for their money. Hodges seemed to really be coming around to the idea that he could have a meaningful relationship, to bad that moment came when he found out Henry was about to make a move. Thing is, Wendy couldnt stop her feelings for Hodges either. Both have tried so many times after all. In the end all went extremely well with a very passionate kiss...wendy practically launched herself at him. Now back to Henry who really came out of his shell in this episode. After apparently hanging out with Wendy he was head over heels. So what did he do? He asked Hodges permission in a hilariously awkward attempt to suck up. Later throughout the show, several bad things happened including car trouble, a GCMS hack and a sticky situation. At first there was no doubt in my mind that Hodges was the evil genius culprit. However the biggest twist of the entire episode was that Wendy was in fact the one behind the practical jokes. She really didnt like how Henry turned from a friend to a potential partner, this was obvious with her pained expression when he mentioned fancy dining and a suit. The french sentence afterwards didnt help. Sub character plots include a drunk cop Brass, Big bully cat lover Robbins and cheesy investigating of a crime by Hodges.



Favorite Parts of the Episode-There was no part I didnt Like!!!!

Henry: Back off man....Im a toxicologist!" Funniest thing ever.
Catherine Awkwardness: Her back and forth glances were perfect for the Wendy/Hodges scene.
THE KISS: need i explain why?
Flirting with DNA processes: Hodges initiated it, Wendy caught on and Catherine felt awkward lmao.
Lab Rat references: Mr. Blue Sky playing in the background, and the line "You always get something from Trace"
CSI Hodges: That scene with langston was creepily awesomely narcissistic.
Brass Drunk: That actor and humor are a very convincing mix.
Glue Puns: Langston can be funny! No one was more surprised than me.
Hodges Pout: That was just adorable.
Robbins: "Gimme your notes and GET OUT!" HAHAHA.
Guerrlmo and SuperDave: "DEADLY" I said it first.
Explorer Scouts: Catherine, Grissom and Warrick look a likes lol. creepy.