I heard about this last week. Evidently, Miley Cyrus signed a seven-figure deal to publish a book about her life. Seven figures, is, what, like a million dollars?!? She's younger than me--it can't be a very long book. I think the video says it all.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Friday, April 25, 2008
We watched Romeo and Juliet, the one with Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes, today in English. It was more like a farce than an interpretation which made it incredibly entertaining and funny. Yeah, it was a funny tragedy. I need to put my comments somewhere, so here are 10 things that bothered me about R and J.
1. Speaking "Shakespearian" in modern-day California? It doesn't fit. They should have adapted the dialogue as well.
2. Capulet was portrayed as a do-as-I-say-or-else father instead of just one who wanted the best for his daughter.
3. The clothes were goofy.
4. The Friar Lawrence mail thing. I mean, just hours before Juliet wakes up, he decides to write Romeo another letter.
5. Friar Lawrence didn't show up in the tomb after Romeo died like he did in the play.
6. When Romeo goes to her room on their wedding night after the fight with Tybalt, Juliet takes off his shirt, sees the huge gashes in his side and arm, and doesn't ask what happened. She doesn't even look concerned. She knew Romeo killed Tybalt but she didn't know anything else about the fight. You'd think she'd want an explanation as to why her husband was bleeding, but instead, she's just like "okay, let's do this."
7. Juliet watches Romeo die and doesn't do anything, then she looks confused for a minute before she realizes he's dead.
8. Romeo doesn't notice that supposedly dead Juliet is awake and moving her hand toward his face. Uh, he was hugging her when she woke up and he didn't notice.
9. Romeo barely drinks the poison. He just kind of drops it and, what, does it splash into his mouth or something?
10. The ending doesn't show their parents "burying their strife" like the prologue promises. It just shows them putting R and J, who are definitely dead, in an ambulance. I don't think a hospital has any magical reviving potions, so what's an ambulance going to do?
This movie messed up a lot of stuff, but made the death story of R and J really funny, so I liked it. Mercutio as a drag queen was brilliant and for some reason everyone kept tripping over random objects and knocking things over, which was funny, too.
Here's the "balcony scene" or "the pool scene" in the movie. Romeo follows Juliet around the patio 3 inches away from her as she says her "Wherefore art thou Romeo?" speech and she doesn't notice. Then when he talks, she screams and pulls them both into the pool.
Then when the security guard came out, he didn't find it suspicious that Juliet was swimming in the pool by herself in the middle of the night in her party dress. Uh huh. The person who posted this on You Tube called it "touchingly romantic," but I thought it was funny, the first half at least. The making out in the pool thing was cute though.
1. Speaking "Shakespearian" in modern-day California? It doesn't fit. They should have adapted the dialogue as well.
2. Capulet was portrayed as a do-as-I-say-or-else father instead of just one who wanted the best for his daughter.
3. The clothes were goofy.
4. The Friar Lawrence mail thing. I mean, just hours before Juliet wakes up, he decides to write Romeo another letter.
5. Friar Lawrence didn't show up in the tomb after Romeo died like he did in the play.
6. When Romeo goes to her room on their wedding night after the fight with Tybalt, Juliet takes off his shirt, sees the huge gashes in his side and arm, and doesn't ask what happened. She doesn't even look concerned. She knew Romeo killed Tybalt but she didn't know anything else about the fight. You'd think she'd want an explanation as to why her husband was bleeding, but instead, she's just like "okay, let's do this."
7. Juliet watches Romeo die and doesn't do anything, then she looks confused for a minute before she realizes he's dead.
8. Romeo doesn't notice that supposedly dead Juliet is awake and moving her hand toward his face. Uh, he was hugging her when she woke up and he didn't notice.
9. Romeo barely drinks the poison. He just kind of drops it and, what, does it splash into his mouth or something?
10. The ending doesn't show their parents "burying their strife" like the prologue promises. It just shows them putting R and J, who are definitely dead, in an ambulance. I don't think a hospital has any magical reviving potions, so what's an ambulance going to do?
This movie messed up a lot of stuff, but made the death story of R and J really funny, so I liked it. Mercutio as a drag queen was brilliant and for some reason everyone kept tripping over random objects and knocking things over, which was funny, too.
Here's the "balcony scene" or "the pool scene" in the movie. Romeo follows Juliet around the patio 3 inches away from her as she says her "Wherefore art thou Romeo?" speech and she doesn't notice. Then when he talks, she screams and pulls them both into the pool.
Then when the security guard came out, he didn't find it suspicious that Juliet was swimming in the pool by herself in the middle of the night in her party dress. Uh huh. The person who posted this on You Tube called it "touchingly romantic," but I thought it was funny, the first half at least. The making out in the pool thing was cute though.
Friday, April 4, 2008
Go Rory, Go Rory.
Okay, you have to be really into the show to fully appreciate this scene and it's impossible to explain, but this guy pretty much messed up Rory's (this girl's) life for a while in this show and this phone call was like her getting back at him in a way. Again, you have to like the show to get it.
Monkey Monkey Underpants.
So my week was pretty good. I got a 93 on my genetics test in bio and definitely happy about it. Oh, and since so many people failed, he's letting us correct our mistakes for extra credit, so I may have a 95 after that.
We finished reading Romeo and Juliet in English the other day. I can rant for a century about that play but for the reader's digest version, Juliet is an idiot for drinking the potion, Romeo is an annoying whiner, and Friar Lawrence is almost entirely responsible for their death by concocting the ridiculous plan. I mean, he left self-admittedly suicidal Juliet alone with her dead husband and a knife. Gah that bugs me.
Even though this Gilmore Girls scene is from the disaster called season 7, the monkey monkey underpants rant is funny. I like episodes with Gigi, too. There aren't very many.
We finished reading Romeo and Juliet in English the other day. I can rant for a century about that play but for the reader's digest version, Juliet is an idiot for drinking the potion, Romeo is an annoying whiner, and Friar Lawrence is almost entirely responsible for their death by concocting the ridiculous plan. I mean, he left self-admittedly suicidal Juliet alone with her dead husband and a knife. Gah that bugs me.
Even though this Gilmore Girls scene is from the disaster called season 7, the monkey monkey underpants rant is funny. I like episodes with Gigi, too. There aren't very many.
Monday, March 24, 2008
Easter and Across the Universe
I watched Across the Universe this weekend. Great movie, one of the most creative ones I've seen in a long time.
^Bowling alley scene "I've Just Seen a Face" (the real song name) or I call it "Fallen." Love this one.
Happy Belated Easter to anyone who celebrates it! My Easter was a lot of fun. We made an Easter egg hunt for the little kids, then we let them re-hide the eggs for us. It's really cool to see how excited they were about it. Makes me remember how excited I used to get when I was young, how little things like that felt like magic.
Seriously, go watch Across the Universe and tell me it's not genius.
^Bowling alley scene "I've Just Seen a Face" (the real song name) or I call it "Fallen." Love this one.
Happy Belated Easter to anyone who celebrates it! My Easter was a lot of fun. We made an Easter egg hunt for the little kids, then we let them re-hide the eggs for us. It's really cool to see how excited they were about it. Makes me remember how excited I used to get when I was young, how little things like that felt like magic.
Seriously, go watch Across the Universe and tell me it's not genius.
Monday, March 10, 2008
More Gilmore Girls
Another Gilmore Girls clip. The funniest conversations on this show are at the "friday night dinners."
Sweet Niblets! My week has been boring.
Speaking of sweet niblets, I saw a Hannah Montana Magic 8 Ball in Toys R Us the other day. No, your not going blind. I really did say "Hannah Montana Macig 8 Ball." It's peppered with cutesy annoying phrases like "Sweet niblets, no!" and "spotlight on yes." There was a High School Musical one there, too, but the "sweet niblets, no" thing made this the highlight of my afternoon.
When I was about six, my dad would always paly this Dawson's Creek (ya know, the TV show) soundtrack CD in the car whenever we went to Disney World. I remember he used to play the same song over and over. I heard that song on the radio the other day and had a sudden urge to find the CD. I have no idea who bought it in the first place or why we had it (my parents didn't watch that show, and I thought it was a band until last year) I found it yesterday in the back of our old CD cabinet, kind of faded. Like the dork that I am, I imported it to my iPod. Hey, it's a childhood memory now.
One of my favorite clips from my favorite show ever, Gilmore Girls. Where did all the anvils go?
When I was about six, my dad would always paly this Dawson's Creek (ya know, the TV show) soundtrack CD in the car whenever we went to Disney World. I remember he used to play the same song over and over. I heard that song on the radio the other day and had a sudden urge to find the CD. I have no idea who bought it in the first place or why we had it (my parents didn't watch that show, and I thought it was a band until last year) I found it yesterday in the back of our old CD cabinet, kind of faded. Like the dork that I am, I imported it to my iPod. Hey, it's a childhood memory now.
One of my favorite clips from my favorite show ever, Gilmore Girls. Where did all the anvils go?
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