Share a story of a time you acted foolishly.
you know what? the sad thing is i act stupid every day. not on purpose, mind you... most of the time. some of the time. ok like, maybe half of a third of part of the time. anyhoo, i usually come in and do some thing weird for my staff so they don't continue to sit there and contemplate ways in which to h-bomb our agency. cuz they do that. seriously. they told me. tried to bring me into the fold. i regrettably declined. i do cartwheels to my office or sit under someone's desk and steal things from them while they're not looking. like that stapler that Lori just had. where'd it go? where'd it go? hahahaahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaacough. i will call them from my office and breathing heavily into the phone, knowing that they can hear me perfectly from where they sit and also have caller id. i sign their timesheets "Alex P. Keaton". if they answer the phone as i'm walking by, i disconnect the call. just *plink* and keep walking. hehehe ok i don't do that. but i want to.
usually if you say happy April Fool's day to me or play any sort of insipid prank or, you know, enjoy this day at all, i maim you. but this is actually pretty freaking funny.
unfortunately, i haven't had time to watch anything good (last month's Knight Rider remake does NOT count as good). so instead of ranting and raving and cursing about movies, i will rant and rave and curse about comic books. in my quest to read all things Deadpool, i've gotten up to #11 in his series and almost choked to death laughing while i read it.
basically, Wade and Blind Al get thrown back in time because Doorman (from the Great Lakes Avengers) activates his teleporter at the same time Deadpool does, both of them trying to save Blind Al. DP and Al are sent to the early days of Spiderman (circa 1967) and have a grand ole time futzing with the space/time continuum. Wade uses his image inducer to pose as Peter and makes up Al to look like Aunt May after they knock her unconscious and he sends Spidey on a wild goose chase in Jersey. In the present, Weasel works with the GLA to get them both back. hilarity ensues.
it's hysterical how they poke fun at the GLA and all of the Spidey cast. here. look. at. the. funny. fergit that. i know i'm not supposed to do this, but there are just too many funny pages. here's the whole thing. knock yourselves out.
see how i like to pretend someone is reading this. ha ha hardy har.
when i read something and really really really love it, i cast it. i have done this for as long as i can remember. this is why i want to be a casting director. it makes sense dunnit.
so i finished reading Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere and after the initial depression that seeps in when i finish a good book wore off and even though i know there's already been a tv miniseries of it made, i've cast most of the major parts for my pretend movie. will these people ever play these parts? prolly not. but something in me feels better by saying i want them too, so, here you go. humor me.
Richard Mayhew played by Cillian Murphy
Door played by Ellen Page
The Marquis de Carabas played by Will Smith
Hunter played by Gina Torres
Mr. Croup played by Kenneth Branagh
Mr. Vandemar played by Javier Bardem
or Vincent Cassel
Old Bailey played by Ian Holm
The Angel Islington played by Jason Lewis
Jessica played by Mia Kirshner
Serpentine played by Famke Janssen
Gary played by Robert Pattinson
The Earl of Earl's Court played by John Rhys-Davies
The Abbott (Black Friars) played by Doug Bradley
Hammersmith played by James Gandolfini
Lamia played by Monica Bellucci
Anesthesia played by Kristin Bell
and i want to give this guy a part but i don't know who i want him to be...
also, am i a dork for thinking this is full of radness? --> http://www.flatlandthemovie.com/
wow. this is unbelievable: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byford_Dolphin
after waiting almost two years for it to be released, i finally watched Sunshine the other day and have decided that it is one of my favorite movies. i love that you don't know what sort of space movie it is until the very end and even then it's a combination. everyone does a fantastic job acting in this film, but Chris Evans is damn fantastic. the flicks only shortfall is that the beginning, with the introduction of the crew members, is a little confusing but it seemed to me to be an editing issue rather than an acting issue. i love that there was in depth scientific research done so this film would be as viable as possible (i mean...for a sci fi flick. they're going to the SUN. shut up.). i love that there's a point in which you realize what's inevitable. i love that there are several different types of characters and none of them are doing what they're doing for the obvious reasons. i love that the surprises of this flick are like, "WHOA." surprises. i love that it's subtle and strong and really, really beautiful. it was everything i had hoped it would be. if you get a chance, see this movie.
that's all.
i downloaded Caligula because i wanted to watch pr0n without the guilt of watching pr0n. i was so all about that last night. i have a total soft spot for Malcolm McDowell. but this flick, damn. i could only make it through 40 minutes of it before giving up and going to bed. there's nekkid butt-writhing all over the place, yeah, so i got my pr0n, but the acting is horrendous. i wanted Malcolm dead ten minutes in. i was all, "oh, KILL that whiny bastard, Tiberius. kill him dead." because, seriously, he was whiny. i understand that he is supposed to be Very Young but so was Tut and i don't remember anything about him being a fucking brat. that's all subjective. still, it was annoying.
eventually i will muster the canastas and the time to watch the rest of it and hopefully it will get better further in. father in. um. whatever. later on in the movie. there.
i just had a bidding war on ebay for some fucking moon sand.
i'm going to crawl under my desk and take a nap but first i have to spin around in my chair a little bit.
wheeeeee
ok.
head. ache.
this was me like ten seconds ago.
how come people don't remember that anthony perkins was HAWT?
i feel like i'm made of dead.
all right. i admit it. i laughed. but still. why, god? why?---> http://www.alltrailers.net/meet-the-spartans.html
i have to pee. you needed to know that. ok. bye.
i did something incredibly stupid by watching The Pursuit of Happyness. twice i thought i was going to throw up because i just couldn't take all the emotion. there's a mantra that starts up about half way in; "please let something good happen. please let something good happen. please let something good happen."
that's a fantastic film. utterly and completely and you know what, Will Smith should have won the goddamn Oscar for that movie. but don't watch it if you aren't happy. it will make you kill yourself (or want to) through most of the film. it's just so very good. i'll probably write more about this when i feel less like taking a nap in a river.
i am always surprised at how well Sandra Bullock played a bitch in Crash.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=YD1LTa9J1DQ
been noticing a new trend with celebrities commercials. that's not so much a new thing, i mean, celebs and advertising go together like ice cream and cake but it's the low level of pretentiousness that's coming with these commercials that i think is new. who doesn't dig those Mac commercials with Justin Long? Michael Jordan, Kevin Bacon, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Joe Montana, Brett Favre all doing undies and jeans commercials and they just act like *who they are*. i like that there's no public persona in those commercials. it's just them. i like the voice over work a lot of really big name actors are doing. Julia Roberts for AOL. Queen Latifah for Pizza Hut. Matt Dillon for Pontiac. Gary Sinise for Cadillac. Christian Slater does commercials and narrates tv shows for Discovery and History channels. Gene Hackman for Lowe's. Keifer Sutherland for Verizon. Julianna Margolis for Pampers. etc. etc. i like that you don't see them and for a lot of those actors, you wouldn't even know it was them unless you were an uber movie freak like me. VO work isn't new to advertising either, but like i said, these stars aren't making a big deal out of it, they aren't The Voice Of... anything. and i dig that.
i watched House of 9 last night on Showtime Beyond, which is my new favorite channel because the flicks they show are odd, indie, and cool. it was a pretty good movie. not a great freaking OMG GO WATCH THAT movie like...uh... some movie i can't think of right now because i'm too busy laughing at the comments thread on IMDB about Nekromantik. but a good movie with pretty damn cool twist ending that i didn't see coming until *right* before it happened. Dennis Hopper's accent was horrible though. *punts him*
my home computer went into a coma this morning. it's vitals are stabilized but the outlook is pretty grim. last week, we agreed to have a 250gb external hard drive put in but it hasn't helped it's ailing health much. poor ol' Compy.
there's something wrong with me for thinking these are hysterically funny.
the other night i watched this flick. holy shiz what a weird ass movie. thing is, i totally loved it. if you have showtime, keep an eye out for it cuz i'm sure it will be on again (that is the way of cable). it's subtitled but that doesn't matter because the actors emote really well. by the end of the film there's so much intensity and electricity between them that it oozes off the screen at you. i totally didn't see where this movie was going either. i mean, i had an idea of how the characters would end up but the film went waaaaay beyond that. it was rad. those of you who can, should totally netflix it.
i watched The Lake House and got angry when i realized yes, they did do that, but then went back two days later and finished it to find that they took it all back, thereby creating plot holes the size of the planet Mercury.
it made me cry. 'course that's not hard. it's a cute movie. keanu's voice overs are absolutely horrible but his acting is very nice. there is a point when he actually gets emotional and it was totally realistic and believable. i almost shat myself.
sandra bullock, of course, is adorable and fantastic. though, i want to punch her every time she puts on a huge cardigan and walks around looking adorable and fantastic. (she does it in every single movie she's in. every. single. one. even Demolition Man.)
christopher plummer is a believable bastard.
that guy playing keanu's little brother wants to be james spader SO bad. can't blame him for that. Spader is the man.
