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Hey, Interns.
I’ve been workin’ hard at not workin’ at all in my lovely week long vacation in good old Los Angeles. It’s been fun and exciting and tiring and excellent.
Fun has been had by all parties and I will soon get around to sharing photos and the like.
The past few days have been filled with friends and family in full holiday frenzy and I’ve definitely been enjoying myself.
I’ve been able to see a few movies that have been on my list and must share little snippets of their goodness with you.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street- This was my dad’s pick for a good, wholesome, family fun flick and being that my family tends to have a general appreciation for both Tim Burton and Johnny Depp, it seemed to be a win-win for all parties involved. I thought this film was a lot of fun. Not having known the story of the original play, or any of the music, I was spellbound by Burton’s as always creepy attention to aesthetic details. Depp is phenomenally hilarious and, intriguing and Helena Bonham Carter is a psychotic riot. I was a big fan of this flick, and that’s coming from the girl who would rather do A LOT of things before she watched a musical. However, those who aren’t fans of Burton, Depp or musicals beware. If you’re not already a fan of Burton and his cinematic stylings, beware. This might be one excruciating blood bath for those who aren’t already on board.
Hot Rod- Holy crap. You dogged this one in theaters, didn’t you? Don’t worry, I did, too and so did the rest of America and I’m kicking myself for it. Seriously, Hot Rod is one of the most absurdly funny movies I’ve ever seen. At times reminding me of Napoleon Dynamite with a moped and others of a really fantastic SNL sketch (go figure), this movie had everyone in my family in stitches over the funny. Andy Samberg is hilarious and I’m pretty sure I’m in love with Bill Hader. I can’t even really describe the movie in a way that’s going to make you want to see it, but the selling point is that if you’re a fan of Samberg and his SNL Digital Short antics (and really, how are you not?), you absolutely must check out this movie. As in, right now.
Juno- LOVED IT! It’s brutally honest and smart, but equally hilarious and sweet. Ellen Page plays quick-witted-16-and-prego-by-George-Michael-Bluth, Juno. Quick witted and adorable, Juno is the coolest 16 going on 35 year old you could ever imagine knowing. After a late-night armchair encounter with her best friend Paulie (Michael Cera), she finds out she’s been accidentally sperminated through a series of pregnancy tests sold to her by Rainn Wilson. Young Juno faces all the challenges of her teen pregnancy, adoption versus abortion, telling her folks the news and eating obscene amounts of food from her school cafeteria, with grace and hilarity and more often than not proves to be one of the only adults on the screen. Her quick wit and smarts on everything from classic punk rock to history makes her easy to fall in love with and adore. Jenny Garner and Jason Bateman play the potential adoptive parents (Vanessa and Mark Loring) and the relationship that blossoms between the Lorings and Juno adds a deeper shade to this otherwise sweet and quirky comedy. All parties involved, well done. Juno delivers on all fronts and truly should not be missed.
Mr. Bean’s Holiday-Paulie Shore and Mr. Bean are my two greatest guilty pleasures when it comes to movies. I am very well aware of the arguments that people have against both of these gentlemen, but truly cannot help but enjoy myself immensely whenever they’re on the screen. Katrine and I have a special bond when it comes to Rowan Atkinson playing Mr. Bean, or any stupid comedic character, and promised that we’d watch this summer’s Bean installment together upon our next reunion. Well, we did and it was hilarious and incredibly entertaining (for us). So, if you like Mr. Bean, do check out this film. If not, don’t, you probably wouldn’t get it anyway 
Friends!!
On this 24th day of December when only the brave venture to the malls and the strong survive the parking lots, I wanted to say that I hope you all find yourselves at home, traveling safely to whereve this place may be, and enjoy those you love most of all.
Los Angeles is being very good to me and I am having the absolute time of times with my friends and family. Photos/stories/movie reviews/Largo gushing coming soon.
(This post is dedicated to Mike “With Fist” Smalls.)
Mike, I was going to give you your strike update, but what you need to know is that it’s still going on and not too much good news has been coming out of it. They were close, but then everything collapsed. Of course. So we’re still waiting and waiting to see what’s going to happen. Hopefully good things. I do think that Leno, O’Brien, Letterman and Kimmel are going back to their nightly gigs after the new year, but that’s all I got for ya, Killer.
This, however, amuses me on this chilly December morning.
Britney Spears’ younger sister Jamie Lynn Spears has announced in OK! Magazine that she is pregnant. Meanwhile her mom Lynn Spears’ book on Christian parenting, due in Spring 2008, has been indefinitely delayed.
Wha-ha-ha-hammy!!!!
And. Alec Baldwin, you, Sir, are great.
Sick of the same old cheesy e-cards? You really should check these out. And laugh and enjoy and send.
(Also, I’ve pretty much narrowed down my top five albums of 2007! Stay tuned!)
I never get to watch that much superfluous TV.
But tonight I am tuned in to Vh1 to watch What Perez Sez. BUT! I love Vh1 because this January they’re starting Scott Baio is 46 and Pregnant! I TRULY, DEEPLY, PASSIONATELY do not like Scott Baio. But I got sick and odd pleasure from the few episodes of Scott Baio is 45 and Single that I did see. Mainly because he’s just a total jerk and it was massively entertaining. Guys, if The Office isn’t back, we’re seriously going to dive head first into Scott Baio Reality Television. And it’s going to be evil, torturous, and spectacularly awful.
This is one of the best written articles ever. And it makes me twenty times more excited that I am seeing F.H. Jon Brion in no time at all.
This is my favorite part in the history of favorite parts, ever:
“In a town that has over-commercialized nearly everything that made it so wonderful in the first place, it’s comforting to know that there’s still a place out there that remembers where its true meaning lies.”
After Thursday night’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann, I was pretty sure that I was in love with Mr. Olbermann, again. Mainly because of the video contained in this link. I’m asking you, nay, begging you to watch it. Keith’s “Special Comments” are always intelligent, inspiring, passionate and everything we need to hear at that moment in time. This one is the best one I’ve ever seen, and that’s no lie.
But then, last night, as if it was some sort of signal to me that he and I are in fact meant to be, he did a “Special COME ON” about the return of my favorite family, The Bluths, not to my living room, but in fact to a movie theater near me. Seriously, watch this video. RIGHT NOW!
Keith! Baby! It’s meant to be! We’ll totally invite our friends, The Bluths.
COME ON!
From playing this. All day. And then, go apply for jobs at Dunder Mifflin. And date/marry/be seriously emotionally involved with Jim Halpert.
One of the greatest television shows ever made is Arrested Development. And no one watched it (including me, until it came to DVD) so it didn’t stay on the air long at all. But it’s brilliant and hilarious and I am actually glad that it’s not on the air right now because with the WGA strike, my heart couldn’t handle more loss.
But! Michael and George Michael Bluth (Jason Bateman [who I would have NO PROBLEMS marrying right here, right now] and Michael Cera [who I could also without question marry]) are back in action in the new comedy due out this winter, Juno (Also starring Jenny Garner and Ellen Page!).
And if that doesn’t get you excited enough, watch these two interviews with Bateman and Cera. And laugh. And cry. The movie looks adorable and hilarious and after this I’m definitely counting down the minutes until…
You can go see the movie for free!!!!! It’s going to nearly every city I can think that I have friends living in, so go! Check it out! For no dollars!
That’s better than a corn dog with all the crucifixins.
I think I’m especially fascinated by this because I’ve been on this crazy Jurassic Park kick recently and spend half my day with an Allosaurus skeleton, but still, check it out!!!
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