"We were in Greece, we danced, I was gay, and we were happy. I probably fathered your only daughter..."

So, the Oscars.

2012, big year for movies.

And of course, out of the nine up for best picture I've seen only one: "The Help".

Though hopefully by the end of the week we can make that two, I just got "Moneyball" through the library.

But still, that's PITIFUL!

I'm a movies and media junkie!

This whole working 40 hours a week thing is seriously killing my consistent-movie-going habit.

In case you weren't following my Facebook updates - Sketch and I had a running commentary and I posted pretty much anything and everything that came to mind within those 3 hours, - Here are my highlights:

-Good Commercials:
-Is it just me or do the shows "GCB", "Scandal", and "Missing" look extremely good and funny? I enjoy Kristin Chenoweth and Kerry Washington so I'll be adding those to my DVR. Plus Ashley Judd as a badass CIA Agent? I'm intrigued.
PS - I was informed that GCB stands for "Good Christian Bitches" in case you were wondering as I was. The series itself is based off of a book - I'm sorry I'm a Library Service Associate get used to it - by Kim Gatlin. They titled the TV show "Good Christian Bitches" after the book, then changed it to "Good Christian Belles" and then changed it again to just "GCB".

-100 year Titanic sinking anniverary is coming up in April so I was excited to see they're bringing the movie back to theaters, in 3D no less, that should be interesting.

-I lost count of how many Ellen JCP commercials came on, but I laughed at all of them.

-You should thank yourself for being awesome, Jeff Bridges. He narrated a Hyundai Oscar-themed commercial, thanking people.

Funny Presenters:
-Billy Crystal is classic, as always. I like that they included a clip from "When Harry Met Sally" in one of the montages. "I'll have what she's having." He always knew what to say when introducing the presenters, Natalie Portman included. "...and a murderous ballerina..." yes Billy, that's exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up.

-I really enjoyed the cheesy documentary commentary by Gwyneth and Robert Downey Jr., though I'm a big fan of each of them so having them reunited again was fantastic and I approve.

-How much leg does one really need to show while presenting an award for Best Adapted Screenplay? Really Angelina?
Though I did love IMMENSELY the Descendant's writer who did an impersonation of her stance. That was fantastic.
Maybe it's just because I'm Team Aniston. Even if I did enjoy "Mr. and Mrs. Smith". "Baby you couldn't find the button with both hands and a map."
Actually I like her much better with Justin Theroux anyway. SEAMUS!! "I'm gonna teach you and your friends about pain..."

I'm well aware you have no idea what I'm talking about, google it.

-Emma Stone's enthusiastic presentation and diss of Ben Stiller's past presentations. I remember the Avatar year, that was fantastic. Though what really made it great was when she started singing, invited Jonah Hill to dance with her and he totally turned her down. Burn.

-Sandra Bullock was glamorous as ever, but every time I saw her all I could think about was her on the Red Carpet talking to what's-her-name about the night being full of "sexy times" and then posing.

-Colin Firth's best actress addresses were fantastic.
"We were in Greece, we danced, I was gay, and we were happy. I probably fathered your only daughter..." to Meryl Streep
and then
about how Michelle Williams inspired him to be a better actor as he matured, "We can leave aside the fact that you were 12 and I was 35."

-Though my favorite highlight of the entire night has got to be the "Scorsese Shot" by Melissa McCarthy and Rose Byrne. Where they downed half a bottle of what looked like vodka. "Scorsese!!" It was ironic since Scuba Steve asked if there was some sort of Oscar's Drinking Game going on with our commentary just minutes before the shot happened.
Another thing I noticed with that one, I really enjoy when actor's speak and they have accents, but they're such good actors that you didn't know previously they had accents to begin with?! Like Rose Byrne, dude. I stopped typing when she spoke as it totally threw me off. Love it.

Miscellaneous:
-Don't you feel bad for that one acrobat that totally flew too far on that sitting in a circle and flipping around thing? But it was good, the rest was pretty impressive.

-After posting about the "The Shore" taking home the live action short film category, I followed it with the comment "crabs crabs crabs" since there was a crab in the preview. It's kind of a family inside joke about my nephew being scared of crabs when he was younger.
Anyway, so I said
"crabs crabs crabs"
and Sketch followed with
"I picked that movie! I was going to say I got that one but that would be awkward after your comment..."

-Love that Bret McKenzie won for best original song, "Flight of the Conchords" rocks.

-Bring on the dramatic music. I was sad they didn't throw in more dramatic music to kick people off the stage early from their speeches. Not that many were super long, but this year it was more like they just cut the mikes instead. Bummer.
Speeches to me are always so awkward, especially when more than one person goes to make a speech for the same award. It's like is it over? Nope, here's another person. Stop the applause! Cut the music! They're still going!

-Loved!! Christopher Guest's gang doing the screening review, that was FANTASTIC! In case you're not aware (and severely culture-deprived) the group of people who were commenting on "The Wizard of Oz" are all part of Christopher Guest's crew of actors that he puts all together in many movies such as "Waiting for Guffman", "Best in Show", "A Mighty Wind" and "For Your Consideration", though they were missing primo members Jane Lynch and Parker Posey.


While I was surprised by the amount of victories by "Hugo", I was glad that "The Artist" totally dominated on the awards front. It deserves it for being a pioneer and old-fashioned at the same time.

Since "The Help" was really the only movie I've saw out of the many mentioned - aside from "HP-7B", "Bridesmaids", and the Swedish version of "TGWTDT" - I appreciated Octavia Spencer taking the Best Supporting Actress category.
I enjoyed her speech as well, "I'm sorry, I'm freakin' out!"

Aside from "The Artist" I'm also adding "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy", "Albert Nobbs", "Hugo", and "My Week With Marilyn" (all based on books), to my list of movies-to-see.

I really have no desire to see "The Descendants" as it sounds completely depressing, and while I'm sure their adapted screenplay was great I'm still confused as to why "The Help" wasn't in that category. As it's based off a novel...

Meryl Streep's win for Best Actress was well-deserved, especially after being nominated more than anyone else in the history of the Oscars.


Songs of the night:

Both Oscar-themed as the nominees were hoping both of these titles happened:

"Say My Name" Destiny's Child

from back before it was just beyonce...go here: My Life in Closed Captions: "What's a Bieber?" - extended clips and a world of... for my full-fledge ramble-nation on that topic.

yes, a ramble-nation.

"Have Mercy" The Judds live in 1986

love them. i'm impressed that wynonna is able to make hand gestures and play guitar all at the same time.


And that was the Oscars. Other than that today the day was pretty much an average Sunday, though they let Slim Shady and I work together for the majority of the day which is like apocalypse 13 cause they never let us work together.

After work I stopped by the home library to drop stuff off for the Queen of Awesome and talk to Space Cadet as I never get to see them anymore, let alone at the same time.

Finished my homework, sent it in, and now I'm off to bed. Get to sleep in tomorrow morning, I'm THRILLED! Then I'm meeting up with Slim Shady for lunch and a movie - gonna see "This Means War", woohoo! before going in to work for 2 hours.

bridges were burned, now it's your turn to cry

Cars.

Geez.

They can parallel park themselves.

They can slow down if they sense something in front of them.

I give it ten years before they drive themselves completely.

Plug in the coordinants and take a nap.

Pretty sure that's what my brother does in the tractor.

Yes, a tractor.

That can steer itself.

Ridiculous.

But awesome.

Don't worry, I don't know where I was going with this or where it came from either.

Today was awesome.

Got to meet and work with the new old guy.

He's not old.

He just used to work there.

So he's both new and old.

Hence new old guy.

He's cool. I like him. We talked a lot about random stuff.

Day flew by pretty quickly.

Also made a lot of progress on my booklist on The Help. Read-a-like thing. If you liked The Help you'd like etc. etc.

Pretty much becoming an expert on all things Civil Rights Fiction.

Which, with the upcoming holiday, I seriously want to say I planned. Totally didn't even make the connection until the drive home tonight.

Oh. Yeah. MLK. Fitting.

Didn't plan that.

Maybe I can play it off like I did.

So I'll finish that Sunday and send it to our resident booklist genius aka Info-Man.

Maybe it was him planning this to go with the holiday.

Subliminal messaging.

Eh, whatever. I like it.

"Watching me like he's paranoid or watching me like he's checking me out?"
"What's the difference?"
"Well, usually the amount of time focused on my butt."
"He's paranoid. No offense."

I used to think NCIS Los Angeles was a dumb spinoff.

At times I still do.

"Can't a guy get some exercise?"
"Pilates is exercise. Beating the hell out of something is an agressive expression of male frustration."

But that's mostly just first season.

It picks up when Deeks joins the crew.

I'm giving it a shot.

Hoping to fall asleep sometime soon since I have to be up early.

For STOP class.

All day.

This is gonna bite the dust. Packing coffee and snacks.

Speaking of, I should go to bed.

Now.

Last time I had STOP class.

Yes, there was a last time. But it was like 5 years ago.

We had a cop as the teacher.

Candycanes kept me awake.

There's another Sketch and Edit dedicated to it.

I'll post it later after I fix it and it doesn't suck.

Songs You Know But Forgot You Knew Them:

"Cry Me a River" Justin Timberlake

what's with the anti-gravity?
although i think this is one of them that you remember but wish you didn't. cause it's catchy.

i do love the refrain. i found out from HIM!

I'm OUT!

I've liked you for a thousand years, a thousand years.

Yes, I continued to have moves like Jagger today.

I'm sure you were all wondering.

I moved from my predecessor's old desk to a desk of my own - for some reason I had two desks even though technically I had no desk at all. Which doesn't make sense, but it does make sense if I explain it correctly.

I wasn't assigned a desk - they just needed a place to put incoming supplies since I'm in charge of it, so it went to the desk it was going to before. Then Mentor cleaned off an area for me in a youth workroom so then I had that desk, but not really as it was never assigned.

Now it's assigned.

Sort of.

Superwoman is still figuring stuff out.

Doesn't matter, I don't really need a desk, I don't know that I'd actually sit at it and use it, I just need a place they can put the supplies that I will know to check so I can grab them and distribute them. It's easier than running up to 3rd floor all the time just to check.

Moving desks was just one of my off-desk hours, the other I spent cleaning up the YA area. Now all the shelves are edged nicely and the displays are full and in the right places with the right statuses...I give it about 12 more hours before it's back to destruction.

And I won't even be there to fix it, that's right! I'm at the home branch tomorrow! All day!! With the new new guy, who I guess is actually an new old guy since he worked there before but that was before my time. I have yet to meet him though I hear he's awesome.

It'll be cool going back and getting to work there again. Plus it'll be nice since it's a little slower there I can actually make progress on my The Help booklist. I've got my titles, now I just have to come up with short summaries to go along with them. Plus a main thing about the original book. Maybe throw in something about the movie. Who knows. I'll send it to Info-Man when I'm done, he's the genius with this stuff so he can fix it if it sucks. Which I don't think it will. I've got plenty to choose from. There's a serious amount of material on civil rights fiction - especially with the southern states.

I'm sorry, nerd moment.

Aside from that I talked to Sketch and we continued planning for Sketch and Edit's Excellent Adventure: Year One. We picked a weekend between our birthdays and a location halfway between our current locations to meet up, jam out, take pictures, troll the streets of whatever the name of the town is that we're staying in. And the countdown has begun. 22 days. Then it's on.

We are talking hotels, she found one that has a log cabin theme. Then there's one with a Victorian theme. Which led us to a discussion on whorehouses. Not sure why. Which led me to explaining the difference between a whorehouse and a whore's house. Cause you gotta have more than one living there to make it a whorehouse, right? Cause otherwise it's just a whore's house.

All the while avoiding the decision about choosing a room - which is what we do best. We're all about avoidance. I told her to pick whatever, I'm fine with it. She didn't like that.

So maybe I'll stick you guys with the choice.

What's the best option for a hotel in the middle of Iowa?

Log cabin theme?

Victorian theme?

Regular room?

See, a normal person would pick a regular room. Cause the others are weird.

And yes, we're weird but not that weird. We wouldn't stay in it cause we prefer it that way, we'd stay in it cause it's weird. And I could take pictures.

And we could make jokes about having cabin fever.

Or about whores in Victorian England.

So I'll send it your way.

What would you choose?

Quotes of the night:
"Do I have to write you something for your birthday?"
"That didn't make sense, but it did make sense."
see, i'm the writer she's the artist - hence sketch and edit - and i write her things and she draws me things. we might take the year off. not because we're lazy, okay, sometimes we're lazy, but mostly because we're busy.

"I'm leaving this conversation before I say something stupid and you make me sleep on the couch of a log-cabin-themed room."
and i tried. multiple times. yet ended up leaving the conversation after i said something stupid, which is kind of the norm for us.

Music Rec for the night:

Moves Like Jagger was stuck in my head ALL DAY! drove me nuts. yet it's still a good song. usually if something drives me nuts all day i end up hating it. hmmm.

"Scott Pilgrim" Plumtree

the song that inspired the book series title which then inspired the movie.
props to low budget 90's music in Canada. awesomeness. i keep rewinding it, at 1:48 it totally looks like Deb from Napoleon Dynamite. guess that's just a part of the awesome 90's fashion statements.
originally i thought she was singing a dozen years, but then when you watch the video she says a thousand. but it still sounds like a dozen.


OUT!

Oh, the poor tarp people. Ninjutsu!

Today's Highlights include:
-Worked 9-5, flew by

-Got to help train The New Guy. Which is his nickname for now. I'm stoked cause I'm no longer the newest hire at the desk. He's actually pretty wicked awesome. I love it cause we're able to have a completely adult conversation about libraries, serving the public, demographics, collection management, system changes, just everything professional and then we jump to "What would you do if you had 100 million dollars?" I said I wanted a big big screen TV, an extensive DVD collection and a comfortable chair. That was apparently too small. Little Shelver Boy says he'd level one of the buildings nearby and turn it into his own personal library. New Guy says he'd donate 10 million to the library - can't hurt with your taxes - to refurbish ours, then build a new one that's a big circle with glass windows. I said he had to throw in some greenery. And a nice parking lot. Or a parking garage.

-Heard back from the Library Goddess and Superwoman so plans will be implemented, we'll see what happens. Sophie's Choice here I come.

-Getting a gang together to go see The Help, I'm all for a good distraction.

-Went to my niece's soccer game, she rocked it scoring the ONLY GOAL with her left foot. Total pro.

-Decided to hit up a Saltdogs game on sort of a spur of the moment kind of thing and it was awesome! We had our usuals - my hotdogs and margarita, Oldest Sister had her nachos, dip-n-dots and Chelada, M had cheesefries and a pop then some dip-n-dots. We did miss out on the funnelcakes though. Saltdogs were dominating and every run scored meant music which meant dancing - cause you can't disrespect the dance - and Oldest Sister taping us do the Rush Hour dance, you know the one.

1:41-1:51 best part of the movie
Then the Pheasants - yes the Pheasants - tied us at 7 in the 4th and then it was like
Little sprinkle of rain.
...
More little sprinkles of rain.
...
Torrential downpour.
Seriously.
So we ran for cover, standing behind this tarp banner thing that blocked most of the wind and rain but had holes in it so the back of my legs were just soaked.
Wind was a tree breaker - as they'd say on Swamp People...(when the alligators would break the tree branch off in order to escape.) Cause there were branches all over the highway on the way home.
Total madhouse. I ran into the apartment, saving my ipod, phone, notebooks and all that. The best part was that the guys behind us were looking at the radar and said, "Oh yeah, it's gonna miss us." Then they left. Cheaters.
But the poor tarp people. Oh man. It took them like 20 minutes to get the thing unrolled.



Songs of the night: aka the ones I jammed out to on the rainy drive back home

"Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin'" Journey live in '79

pretty sure there's lipsyncing involved in this one.

"Tequila" The Champs

what are the words again?

"Ninjutsu!" TMNT version.

sorry, just had to.



Tomorrow's weird cause I get an actual lunch break. 12-2. Plus finding parking. But still, weird. I'll take it.

Me and my big fat cat are out of here. Gonna watch the new Warehouse - which I keep saying that I'm going to but never get to it - and crash. It looks kind of like a Halloween episode - which I guess, if you think about it, every episode could be a Halloween episode, but in this one they get sucked into this video game thing or something and they'll all in costume. And no, it's not gonna be like Tron. Or Tron Legacy. Cause they're awful. And Warehouse is awesome. Totally stoked, wore my Claudia shirt to work the other day but masked it with a dress shirt over the top. Rocked it.
More to come.