Movie of the Week: The Dark Knight: The IMAX Experience

(that's 4/5th)

I guess I'll finally get to this. I'll try not to spend too much time on this because there's already been a shitload of things written about it.

Is it the best comic book movie ever? Yes, sorta. I'd say it's the best one for adults. There is something aesthetically pleasing to the kid in me about movies like Superman II, Spider-Man 2 and X2: X-Men United in that they exist in complete fantasy worlds and appeal to kid and teens. The Dark Knight was made with the conceit that "Let's pretend that Bruce Wayne actually existed and that there was a terrorist that wore makeup." This was like Heat with a cape. The Dark Knight is a comic book movie in the way that Road to Perdition and A History of Violence were comic book movies.

Spoilers below

What I Loved:

• Heath Ledger as The Joker. Believe the hype. As a guy who can say he's seen 80% of the movies Heath Ledger has been in, even I didn't think he had this in him. To get a full range of what we lost with Ledger's death, compare Ennis De Mar from Brokeback Mountain to The Joker.
• Gary Oldman as James Gordon. Talk about range. It's already been established what a great actor Gary Oldman is but it's rare to see him do such restrained work. It's a shame that his performance is getting lost behind all the (well-deserved) praise Ledger's Joker is getting
• Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Dent. Eckhart is one of my favorite actors and he sold the transition of the "White Knight" to Two-Face. Especially the scenes in the hospital with Gordon and Joker
• The characterization of the Joker and Two-Face. The Joker is a pull from Alan Moore and Brian Bolland's The Killing Joke where The Joker is convinced that all it would take is one bad day to make someone lose it like him (and Batman) Harvey Dent is pulled from Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale's The Long Halloween where the only killings Two-Face does are to the people he feels are responsible for his situation. Also that's where the idea of Harvey Dent, Gordon and Batman working together on cases came from. Since these are two of my all-time favorite Batman stories, I was quite pleased.
  
• Maggie Gyllenthal did what she could with what little she was given but she made me care about her fate. I doubt Katie Holmes could have pulled off her last scene over the phone with Harvey.
• Batman as a detective. I'm glad they didn't just have Batman figuring stuff out by looking at like he's Monk.
  
• The IMAX shots. Holy shit. When you see the picture fill up the entire IMAX screen for the first time, you will be taken aback.
• I'm glad Two-Face wasn't the main villain. The way this universe that Nolan has created works, it's not like Harvey Dent was going to start gathering henchmen and start to rob banks.
  

What I Didn't Like:

• Bale's Batman voice. It works when he's only saying one or two lines but when he's having full conversations with The Joker, Gordon or Harvey, he starts to sound ridiculous. I know everyone can't be Kevin Conroy but if there is one thing Michael Keaton had over fellow Batmen is his voice didn't sound silly.
• Speeches. There were too many speeches driving home the themes of the movie

What Made Me Think:

• Batman sure causes a lot of property damage when he hits the street. I'm not the only one who thinks so. I hope Bruce Wayne is somehow paying for all of this.
  

Who's Gonna Save My Soul Now?

• MTV
• Music Videos
• MTV Shows
• Entertainment News

Watchmen Trailer

Bad Form!*

I get what they are trying to say with the cover.

And if you actually read the articles in that issue of The New Yorker it makes sense.

But most people are just going to see the cover and that's why it doesn't work..

Because The New Yorker doesn't put copy on its covers (a simple line like "Scare Tactics: How the GOP is painting Obama" would have quelled this entire controversy), the image has to explain itself and it doesn't. It just looks like an offensive, out of context caricature of Barack and Michelle Obama.

* Captain Hook from Hook

Movie of the Week: Hellboy II: The Golden Army

And the summer of good comic book movies continues.

This must have been a cross between director Guillermo Del Toro clearing his mental sketch pad from Pan's Labyrinth and warming up for The Hobbit. The imagination in Hellboy II makes the first movie look like a straight to video affair. The collection of creatures throughout the whole movie - especially the scene in the Troll Market - was probably the greatest collection of random creatures since the Cantina in Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope.

Ron Perlman is more comfortable as Hellboy this time and Selma Blair as Liz Sherman didn't bother me so much this time (I still think she can't act). The evolution of their relationship with each other and the outside world really carries this movie. Seth McFarlane as the voice of Johann Kraus almost stole the movie though.

Movie Characters I Want To Date: Laura

Since I’m not dating real people, I came up with this idea a couple of days ago. I think I’ll make this an ongoing thing that I’ll fall back on when I have nothing to blog about. This has nothing to do with the attractiveness of the actress playing the role (although it’s a movie so, odds are, they’re attractive). Certain elements of the character appeals to me romantically and sets unrealistic standards for real people who don’t have the benefit of rewrites.

Character: Laura

Film: High Fidelity

Actress: Iben Hjejle

Attractive Qualities: Rob describes her best: "Top five things I miss about Laura. One; sense of humor. Very dry, but it can also be warm and forgiving. And she's got one of the best all time laughs in the history of all time laughs, she laughs with her entire body. Two; she's got character...She's loyal and honest, and she doesn't even take it out on people when she's having a bad day. That's character...Three; I miss her smell, and the way she tastes. It's a mystery of human chemistry and I don't understand it, some people, as far as their senses are concerned, just feel like home. [Four;] I really dig how she walks around. It's like she doesn't care how she looks or what she projects and it's not that she doesn't care it's just, she's not affected I guess, and that gives her grace. And five; she does this thing in bed when she can't get to sleep, she kinda half moans and then rubs her feet together an equal number of times... it just kills me. Believe me, I mean, I could do a top five things about her that drive me crazy but it's just your garden variety women you know, schizo stuff and that's the kind of thing that got me here."

Lists: Favorite Movie From Every Year You've Been Alive

You know I had to do it after the music one.

This one was harder as it took me a day to pick out various movies from every year and a few days afterwords to narrow it down to one. 1985 was particularly difficult.

1977: Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope
1978: Superman: The Movie
1979: The Muppet Movie
1980: The Empire Strikes Back
1981: Superman II*
1982: Rocky III
1983: A Christmas Story
1984: The Karate Kid
1985: Back to the Future
1986: Aliens
1987: The Princess Bride
1988: Die Hard
1989: Say Anything...
1990: Quick Change
1991: Terminator 2 : Judgment Day
1992: Unforgiven
1993: Groundhog Day
1994: The Lion King
1995: Before Sunrise
1996: Trainspotting
1997: Chasing Amy
1998: Elizabeth
1999: Fight Club
2000: High Fidelity
2001: Hedwig and the Angry Inch
2002: Raising Victor Vargas
2003: Finding Nemo
2004: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2005: Brokeback Mountain
2006: Children of Men
2007: Lars and the Real Girl
2008 (so far): WALL·E

* I cheated a little because it came out in Australia in 1980 but in the US in 1981 so I didn't have to chose between my favorite Star Wars movie and my favorite Superman movie.

100 Facts About Sean, Vol. 3, Fact #65

I told Sheila she could pick one of the recent 100 Facts About Sean and I would expound upon it and she chose this one:

65. One day, two friends and I went on a shoplifting spree throughout Broadway Mall leaving with at least $200 worth of bounty

Here's what happened:

When I was 15-16 years old, I was a frequent purchaser of cassette tapes. I would take my allowance and by a new album at Record Town at Broadway Mall in Hicksville.

Now I wasn't a thief per se but I was a very curious person. One day in the summer, while I was looking at the cassette tape section, for the first time, I noticed the little metal security strip on the cassette. I wondered if I pulled it off, would I be able to walk out the store? So I bought one cheap cassette and pulled the security strip off another --all prepared to be like "Oh, I forgot I had this" if I got caught. I walked through the security spot in the doorway, held my breath and...nothing.

Now, I many not have been a thief or a delinquent (a matter of fact I was very nerdy) but I hung out with a lot of people who imagined they were. I grew up in Westbury Hills, a quiet little suburb with a bunch of kids who tried to act hard despite the fact that their parents were middle-class, they lived in nice houses and they went to Catholic/Lutheran School for the most part (although most of them got kicked out of those schools for indulging in hood fantasies).

Anyway, I excitedly rode my bike back home to share my new found discovery with my friends. The only ones I could find was my friends Nick (Fun Fact: At 12 years old, he backed his uncle's car over his little sister. She ended up with cuts and scratches over her face) and Kenny (Fun Fact: If you made him laugh too much, he'd piss himself). Nick was all too excited to try this out and Kenny was always along for the ride. So, we got a duffel bag and went back to the mall.

We hit every store we could find that a) had their items protected with the easily removable sticker and b) had idiot employees. By the time it was 5 PM, we had filled up the entire duffel bag. We rode back to my friend Jeff's house where all my friends were hanging out and showed them our bounty. I can't remember everything we took exactly but here's what I can remember:

• Wayne's World on VHS
• A pair of Oakland Raiders boxers that were too big for all three of us
• 25-40 cassette tape albums and singles

I'm sure shoplifting increased substantially that summer because word of our actions and how we did it made it throughout our little suburb. People would periodically show me stuff they stole like "It worked, Sean!"

When I got home, I had to tell my brother to pretend that all my stuff. he was quite proud (Fun Fact: My brother got caught stealing at Tower Records, driven home by the police and was given the biggest beating either of us had ever received in the smallest room in the house...the downstairs bathroom).

I would periodically steal cassette tapes but my reign of terror was brought to an end when I got caught stealing an 8 pack of AA batteries for my friend Jen from this bootleg version of CVS in Broadway Mall. I had actually made it out the store and was 5 feet from exiting the mall when the store manager caught up to me and dragged me back. He threatened to call my parents but they weren't home (I had made it a rule not to steal things when my parents were home just in case of such an emergency). Instead, he took my picture with a Polaroid and banned me from the store. My friend Andrew never let me forget this anytime we went to the mall: "Hey, let's go in here and get some candy. Oh wait, nevermind. Sean's BANNED! HAHAHAH!" He made that jokes for years.

Movie of the Week: WALL*E

Fucking awesome.

Upon first viewing, it is up with my top two Pixar flicks, The Incredibles and Finding Nemo. Who knows what happens when I own this gem.

WALL*E has replaced Dory from Finding Nemo as my favorite animated character ever created. The fact that WALL*E and EVE displayed more personality through expressions and limited vocabulary than most characters in live-action movies is amazing and kinda depressing.

I could probably go on all day about how great this movie is. I just want to know who are the souless human beings who gave this movie a bad review to only give it 97% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Lists: Favorite Album From Every Year You've Been Alive

(I wish I originally thought of this but I didn't)

List your favorite record from every year you’ve been alive.

You can do it based purely on hindsight, or you can do it by listing the answer you would’ve given in that year (assuming you were aware of pop music at the time).

1977: Exodus - Bob Marley and the Wailers
1978: Here My Dear - Marvin Gaye
1979: Off the Wall - Michael Jackson
1980: Hotter than July - Stevie Wonder
1981: Controversy - Prince
1982: Thriller – Michael Jackson
1983: Madonna – Madonna
1984: Purple Rain - Prince and the Revolution
1985: Diamond Life - Sade
1986: Slippery When Wet - Bon Jovi
1987: Sign O' The Times - Prince
1988: The Great Adventures of Slick Rick - Slick Rick
1989: Disintegration - The Cure
1990: People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm - A Tribe Called Quest
1991: The Low End Theory - A Tribe Called Quest
1992: Love Deluxe - Sade
1993: Midnight Marauders - A Tribe Called Quest
1994: Illmatic - Nas
1995: Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morissette
1996: Reasonable Doubt - Jay-Z
1997: OK Computer - Radiohead
1998: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill - Lauryn Hill
1999: Bitter - Me'shell Ndegeocello
2000: Voodoo - D'Angelo
2001: The Blueprint - Jay-Z
2002: About a Boy soundtrack - Badly Drawn Boy
2003: Speakerboxxx/The Love Below - Outkast
2004: More Adventurous - Rilo Kiley
2005: Late Registration - Kanye West
2006: Rabbit Fur Coat - Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins
2007: In Rainbows - Radiohead
2008 (so far): Third - Portishead

Ok, this was really fucking hard. Especially 1991-1997. I had to settle on picking on what was my favorite album ignoring albums that were clearly superior.

I was going to do a movie list but I don't think I have it in me. This list took up most of my day and I'm really heartbroken about some of the cuts I had to make.

If you want to try it, my best advice is to use Wikipedia which lists every album released by year.

31 Today

31 Today
by Aimee Mann

Thirty-one today
What a thing to say
Drinking Guinness in the afternoon
Taking shelter in the black cocoon

I thought my life would be different somehow
I thought my life would be better by now
I thought my life would be different somehow
I thought my life would be better by now
But it's not, and I don't know where to turn

Called some guy I knew
Had a drink or two
And we fumbled as the day grew dark
I pretended that I felt a spark

I thought my life would be different somehow
I thought my life would be better by now
I thought my life would be different somehow
I thought my life would be better by now
But it's not, and I don't know where to turn
No, it's not, and I don't know where to turn
No, it's not, and I don't know where to turn

Easter comes and goes
Maybe Jesus knows
So you roll on with the best you can
Getting loaded, watching CNN

I thought my life would be different somehow
I thought my life would be better by now
I thought my life would be different somehow
I thought my life would be better by now
But it's not, and I don't know where to turn
No, it's not, and I don't know where to turn
No, it's not, and I don't know where to turn
No, it's not, and I don't know

Don't let the cuteness fool you

So I offered to watch my friends' kitten, Lennon*, while they went away on their honeymoon for two weeks.

Seemed simple enough.

Because she's still sort of a kitten, I was too paranoid to just leave it to its own devices at night so I decided to stay at my friends' apartment while I'm watching her.

The first night was fine aside from her desire to claw her way up my leg...while I'm wearing shorts.

The next morning though...

I fell asleep without closing the bedroom door and I was awoken at 4:30 AM to Lennon crawling all over my face and nibbling my fingers.

Tuesday morning, it was 3:50 AM.

If I close the door, she cries all morning and I'm not used to her enough to drown it out.

I should be careful what favors I promise to people.

* "Lennon" is named after my friend's favorite footballer, Aaron Lennon, of the Tottenham Hotspurs.

Yet Another 100 Facts* About Sean

In honor of yet another birthday, I've decided to take a crack at revealing 100 more random items about yours truly. Hopefully, I won't repeat myself from my first two efforts (Parts 1 & 2). If I do, let me know and I'll come up with a new one (Update: the ones in red are replacement facts):

1. The last birthday party my parents threw was when I was 10 years old. My cousins all brought me fireworks for my birthday, which I wasn't allowed to light. Dicks
2. The first DVD I bought was Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
3. I can't help but cry through Björk's screaming and crying towards the end of Dancer in the Dark
4. I've only had one non-funeral related trip to Jamaica
5. I didn't miss a day of school until 8th grade.
   
6. In nursery school, the teachers had made each of us little trucks made out of construction paper with our names written on it. Mine had "Shawn" instead of "Sean" written on it. I cried beyond the point of consolation
7. Whenever I knew I was going to get spanked after parent/teacher conferences, I had two strategies: a) stay in my mother's room watching soap hiding under her protection or b) getting under the covers and using my comforter as cover while pretending to get hit
8. My brother and I figured out every hiding spot for our Christmas presents. It got so bad that we were playing with our new toys during the day and would put them back before my parents got home from work. It kinda took the fun out of Christmas in hindsight
9. I was a latchkey kid from 4th grade on
10. My favorite baseball player growing up was Don Mattingly
11. Things I used to have posters of in my room: John Starks Dunk over Micheal Jordan (a.k.a. "The Dunk"), The Punisher, Wolverine, Spider-Man, Sade (taken from my brother), 1996 World Series Champion New York Yankees
12. I was in the National Honor Society in high school...barely
13. How I knew Girlfriend #1 and I were done. Before she went away for the summer, I went with her and her family while she bought shit and got her hair done. While she was in the chair, I gave her my Casio organizer because she wanted to write me a little note that I wasn't supposed to read until she left. Of course, I read it as soon as I got home and it was innocent enough. I later noticed she deleted all the anniversary reminders from the month she left until the end of the year (I was a weirdo and had all the monthly anniversaries up to a full year). Ruined my whole summer. We "broke up" after she got back
14. To this day, I've never asked her about it
15. The name "Melanism" came from a band I saw in NYU called "Melanin 2000"
16. I'm a Democrat
17. I still haven't had a check-up or physical
18. For almost six months, I would meet friends in front of the Wetlands on Tuesday night, drive to Philadelphia for Black Lily, leave around 1-1:30 AM, drop everyone off and then go to work the next day
19. In high school, I let three kids copy off me for the Chemistry Regents exam. I had a 95% going into the test. I was in the front and everyone behind me passed my answers back. I got a 70%. The kid directly behind me got a 66%. The rest failed and had to go to summer school. Oops
20. My first official date with Girlfriend #2 was a double date with her younger sister and her boyfriend to go see Kids.
    
21. I thought Mister Rogers was creepy
22. The reason I'm such an early bird: my father kept all his suits for work in my closet and he would come into my room at 5:45 AM to get dressed every morning. He wasn't exactly ninja-like plus the closet door got stuck alot so you had to pull really hard to open and made a loud noise when it did open. A few years of this and waking up at 6 AM was the norm
23. I have a name I want to name a girl if I ever have a daughter but at this rate, it might end up being the name of one of the future pets-as-a-supplement-for-human-relationships I get (regardless, I'm not telling)
24. I was kinda disappointed when I met someone with that name (middle name though)
    
25. The motivating factor behind any career achievement at my current place of employment is: "How far can I get in this place without having to take the writing test?"
    
26. The original point of this blog (actually my blog predates the term "blog") was to share my opinion about movies without having to repeat myself. Not much has changed
27. I slept with a night light a lot longer than I'm willing to admit on this list
28. I used to eat Luden's Wild Cherry Throat Drops like they were Skittles. I had a serious addiction to them in high school
29. I've been wearing glasses since Kindergarten
30. I'm still paying off my student loans
31. I think I've said 'I love you' first in all my relationships (GFs 1-3: please feel free to refute)
32. My middle name is "Andre" (Hey, some people don't know that)
33. I hate people who get on the subway before most of the people on the car get out
34. I've only had to go to the hospital twice: 1) Stomach pains from eating too many greasy foods in one day when I was in grade school and 2) Severe sprained ankle from kickball last year
    
35. I have a small birthmark on my right tricep. I think it looks like a dog or a rabbit
36. I prefer being cold over being hot because you can dress for being too cold
37. Every stage of my life, I have a new person I consider my "best friend" (the feeling isn't always mutual)
38. My father also ruined cereal for me. As mentioned in #22, my father used to get dressed at 5:45 AM and leave at 6:05 AM. He would fix me a bowl of Frosted Flakes cereal before he left and by the time I got downstairs, it was really soggy but my mother made me eat it. I didn't have cereal again until I was in college
39. Eric is my oldest friend as I've known him since first grade
40. No one ever thinks I am as old as I actually am
41. I have never been to a professional or college football game
42. I can't say that "I can't cook" because I haven't really tried
43. I kinda suck at Guitar Hero-related games despite the fact that I own a number of them
44. I don't like having company because then no one knows how messy my apartment really is
45. The only class I ever got an F in was Religion. My mother laughed when I showed her. Her response (paraphrased): "What's there to fail: God. Jesus. Holy Spirit?"
46. I can't sing but this does fact does not keep me away from karaoke mics
47. 8 times out of 10, I will arrive early to any party or gathering unless I'm coming from another party (which I probably arrived early to)
    
48. I think the reason I eat and drink so fast was that was the only way to escape the dinner table and inquiries about homework (that I wasn't doing) when I was growing up
49. I can listen to sad music all day long
50. Despite being an A/B+ student for my entire grade school life, it took me four and a half years to get Student of the Month at St. Brigid's. When I asked why I hadn't gotten it, a teacher told me I questioned my teachers too much during class
51. My favorite video game of all time is Final Fantasy VII. I once spent 10-12 straight hours in college sitting in front of the TV playing that while my roommate/suitemates went out to class
52. I used to have a huge crush on this girl in high school but she liked one of my best friends. I wanted him to ask her to the prom which he wouldn't because I liked her. He wanted me to ask her which I didn't because I knew she liked him. She ended up going to the prom with this d-bag who shared the limo with us making us both wish we had asked her
53. I can't function during the work day if I don't have some sort of breakfast
    
54. I try to eat dinner before 8 PM. I don't know when that started
55. I have little-to-no willpower when it comes to rejecting food (or booze)
56. Open bars are my kryptonite
57. I want to own or run a bar, lounge or diner. Not because I have any interest in any of these types of establishments. I just want to work at a place that I can listen (and make other people listen to) music I want to hear
58. I think I spend at least $150 dollars on comic books a month
    
59. If I spent as much money on clothes as I did DVDs and comics, I would be quite stylish
60. I fooled around with Girlfriend #1 more after we broke up than when we were together
61. As a child, I used to fluctuate between sleeping with the door open or close. The argument I made to myself was "Would I rather see whatever was coming down the hallway to get me or would I rather hear them open door and pretend to be asleep?" I think I settled on the latter
    
62. When I went to see Monty Python's Spamalot with some friends, imagine my surprise when i saw the girl who I went to NYU senior formal with and who ditched me for her friends afterwards on stage
63. I drool in my sleep a little. A lot if I'm sick
64. I never had an answer to the question, "What do you want to be when you grow up?"
65. One day, two friends and I went on a shoplifting spree throughout Broadway Mall leaving with at least $200 worth of bounty
66. I used to try and write hip-hop verses in high school. They were all laughably bad
67. As much as I love them, no piece of art (TV, comics, movies, paintings, etc.) has ever changed my life
68. I'm always afraid of missing the last step when I go down a long flight of stairs
69. I get nervous when too many people pay attention to what I am doing
70. I learned wrestling was fake a little later than I am willing to admit on this list
71. 90% of my Facebook status messages are from books, movies or songs I just listened to at the time of posting
72. I'm currently harboring 4-5 crushes. They range from "fleeting" to "mildly debilitating"
    
73. The first R-rated movie I snuck into was Alien 3
74. After I watched my brother's tape of Private School, I started calling his friends "douchebag" whenever they called. I was probably 8 or 9 years old
75. I've never come into a job drunk. Partially tipsy twice
76. When I buy TV shows on DVD, it's moreso to lend out to get additional people hooked on said TV show then for my own personal viewing pleasure
77. Unless you bludgeon me over the head with it, I'm generally oblivious to people showing romantic interest in me
78. I'm 5'9"
79. I didn't start drinking coffee until I started working here six years ago
80. In college, my roommate, Pierre, and I watched The Tick on FOX Saturday morning cartoons religiously. No matter what we were doing or where we were, we were in front of the TV at 11 AM
81. I've had a cell phone since I was 21
82. I don't use more than 25-35 talk minutes on my cell phone a month. When Lost or 24 is on, it goes up to an hour
83. I used to hide the lunches my father made me that I didn't want (he used to make me HAMBURGERS and put that in my lunch bag...WTF?) behind my bookcase. One day, I forgot and my mother found a rotten bag of food while she was cleaning my room
84. The first time I puked as a toddler was in kindergarten. After eating one of those soggy bowls of cereal (#38), I got on the bus and the driver strapped us all in. I started to feel sick but couldn't get free from seat beat. I puked all over myself. The bus driver was running late so let me ride the entire way covered in soggy Frosted Flakes vomit and cleaned me off when we got to school
85. The first movies we got when my parents bought a VCR were Raiders of the Lost Ark and Purple Rain
86. I learned how to dub movies when I was 12. I used to rent 3-4 movies a week from Blockbuster Video and make copies for my brother and his friends
87. The last movie I saw at the Westbury Drive-In before they shut it down was There's Something About Mary
88. I've never been on a pre-relationship "date" (and by "date", I mean asking a girl out to dinner or a movie with the intention of wooing her AND she knows it's a date)
89. My being single has more to do with my shyness than I lead people to believe
90. My father used to academically compare me unfavorably to my classmates which made me want to try less
91. I did better in the verbal section of my SAT and my GRE but both times my score was below 1,000. (I can't remember the exact score for either)
92. I have no problem having the same meal over and over again for lunch or dinner.
93. I was in the General Studies Program for my freshman and sophomore years of NYU (for those of us who weren't quite up the NYU standards)
94. For many years of my grade school and high school years, I would never look at myself directly in the mirror for self-conscious-about-my appearance reasons. I would take off my glasses first or always look at myself from some sort of angle
95. I prefer the right side of the bed
96. I used to drink Welch's grape soda all the time. Now I only drink Diet Coke or Coke Zero
97. Anytime I do laundry on the weekend, 9 1/2 times out of 10, I will end up taking a nap for at least an hour. I can't explain it
98. I hate calling people in my office. I'd rather talk to them face to face. If that's not possible, e-mail. The phone is a last resort
    
99. It is understood amongst my family that at any holiday dinner (Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, etc.), I have first dibs on chicken and/or turkey legs. It has been tradition since I was a little kid
100. I'm not that into big breasts

Now everyone knows 300 more things about me than I do about them...

Happy Birthday to me (on July 4th)!

* These aren't really "facts" as much as tidbits or stories you didn't know about me

Movie Characters I Want To Date: Boof

Since I’m not dating real people, I came up with this idea a couple of days ago. I think I’ll make this an ongoing thing that I’ll fall back on when I have nothing to blog about. This has nothing to do with the attractiveness of the actress playing the role (although it’s a movie so, odds are, they’re attractive). Certain elements of the character appeals to me romantically and sets unrealistic standards for real people who don’t have the benefit of rewrites.

Character: Lisa 'Boof' Marconi

Film: Teen Wolf

Actress: Susan Ursitti

Attractive Qualities: Boof is the perfect embodiment of that girl was like your best friend but was not-so-secretly in love with you (I say "not-so-secretly" because everyone knows it but you...at least consciously). Does she make you feel guilty about liking other people? Nope. Does she even talk to you about and actively help you try to get with people that you want to get with? She knows you'll come around someday. That what you two could have would rival anything you had with middling little crushes...Until you actually get together and it's a mess and you realize that you should have stayed friends after all but now it's too late. But hey, why focus on the negative?