dudes, you're on your own!

I only went in for 2 hours but it still felt like an eternity.

Don't know why, must have been just one of those days.

Sleeping in was nice. Got up around 11, made some lunch and watched Grimm.

Which is good cause Once Upon a Time season one came in for me today at the library.

After a few episodes I went in, then out to dinner with Oldest Sister for her birthday - we hit up an Indian joint. I have a box of leftovers that I of course left in her fridge. We went over there after dinner to watch the Avenger's blooper reel.

I own it but have yet to open the box.

Then came the joy that is homework. Finished one assignment and posted to some discussion boards. Only one more assignment that's not due until Friday and I'm gold.

Now I'm watching Castle. Dude, it's Jacobi! Totally screamed. I'm sure my neighbors were less than enthused. Carter jumped.

Sadly it wasn't as pathetic as the scream that came immediately following my recognition of Paula Newsome on Bones. Which was literally a split second before she slammed the blinds shut. Meaning I saw her eyes and that was all.

Did I mention I was a nerd?

If you have no idea who I'm talking about go to 0:37 here:

She's been in all the census commercials too and she plays Vance's wife on NCIS.

but it still comes back to Women's Murder Club.

Speaking of, official start date anniversary is coming up. I have Sketch's giant artwork hanging on my door to remind me. It's pretty sweet, pretty sure I posted it at one point or another though I'll repost it on actual date.

Yes, I'm aware this is totally lame.

I did enjoy dinner with Oldest Sister, talked a lot about dating and all that. Apparently Squirt has a new boyfriend and she's in high school so it's so the drama.

But that's all I got for the day.

Back to an all day shift tomorrow so I should crash soon.

Only 11:40 but I'm zonked. Hopefully will able to stay conscious until the end of Castle.



i especially love 1:00-1:07

"again my name is ronald, total eclipse of the heart."

maybe i should hold off posting for another 3 minutes and it'll be a real 11:50.

except I'd never remember cause about 90% say it's 11:50 and it's a bunch of crap.

cause it's way after but i still want it listed as today's.

eh.

posting now, sleeping after.

I'm going through the big D and don't mean Dallas.

Aww Avengers, you only get better the second time around. And knowing me there will probably be a third time around before it leaves theaters.

Stoked to see they're making an Iron Man 3, Thor 2, Captain America 2 and really, if they made another Hulk with Mark Ruffalo I'd probably be stoked for that too. He made the character likeable, which is more than I can say for the previous actors.

I'd be up for a Hawkeye/Black Widow movie as well... that'd be great.

So, I actually pulled out my Word of the Day on multiple occasions today. Though my favorite was at the very end of the day when I explained it to a coworker and my Boss's Boss's Boss - who I didn't even see - stops walking, turns around and says "what?!"

Love it.

Gammerstang, a tall awkward woman. We got plenty of those.

Dig it.

But that means tomorrow's Word of the Day has gotta be even better.

Ooooo, let's give this one a shot: "Crapulous" a literary word meaning relating to drunkenness or the drinking of alcohol. Like the related adjective "crapulent" and noun "crapulence" it comes from a Latin word meaning "inebriation" itself based on a Greek word meaning "drunken headache."

I like it already. Sounds like something my sisters would say.

Not that I'll be able to use it at work tomorrow since I will be training kids on Summer Reading stuff, but perhaps in the afternoon during our camp meeting.

Yes, the first (well second) official Camp J 2012 meeting in all its glory.

Actually it'll probably be us sitting around a table eating pizza and drinking pop. Which is our usual routine. But I'm headed out early so Obi-Wan and me can mock up some application forms with Pastor. Then we can show them at the meeting and perhaps stuff a few and send them on their merry ways.

Then Sunday I'm off all day, morning is Squirt's graduation, after that I'm headed out to the Camp J open house where they're showing off the new building. I get to take pictures and put them on the website.

Which is down at the moment.

But that's both a long story and not our fault. So let's leave it at that.

Facebook, I'll upload them on Facebook.

Aww camp, turns my world upside down for about four months a year but it's worth it every time. Plus we have our golfing adventure immediately following it so that's a reward enough.

Though I did go all giddy little schoolgirl about it to Superwoman today.

K, I'm going through the rest of these quick cause I got a big and early day tomorrow. Gotta konk out soon.

Things Overheard at the Library makes today's Quote of the Day:
-"She stole my Breasts!"
Sometimes you just don't want to know.

More Songs You Know But Forgot You Knew Them:

Mark Chesnutt.

Country star man, what happened to him? He was great!

Going Through the Big D

i got the jeep, she got the palace...

"It's a Little Too Late"

i enjoy that the fish is still on the hook and everything.

Seriously, whatever happened to that dude?

I love 90's country, that's when I actually listened to it. I don't really anymore, though I do like the Pistol Annies and The Wreckers. Will look more into 90's country, maybe I'll make you suffer through a week of it, haven't had one of those in a while.

Alright, and she's out. Summer Reading training in the morning, camp meeting after that, then lots and lots of other camp stuff after that.

"Make a move, Reindeer Games."

Tonight is all about The Avengers.

Tomorrow I'll cover the season finales of The Voice and Castle.

If you don't want to know what happens THEN DON'T READ THIS.

Hit up "The Avengers" last night with The Boyfriend.

It was epic.

9/10 on the Scale of Awesome.

Comedy + Action = definitely going to see it again.

3D made it even better.

And it had Skywalker Sound. So you could literally close your eyes out of context and mistake it for Star Wars.

Lots of laser guns and space ships.

But it was a good mix of humor and action, not an over-abundance of humor to distract from the action, but lots of key moments and good one-liners.

Coulson: "I watched you while you were sleeping. I mean, I was present when you were unconscious... from the ice."


Coulson: "He's like a Stephen Hawking." *Captain America confused* "He's like a really smart person." 


I was proud of Coulson. He had a really central role to the movie which makes me want to read up on the history of the character. Especially since he was the one that really brought them together. But it's interesting to re-watch some of the prequels and see his cameos in each.

And I like that he turns all fangirls on Captain America with the trading cards.

Captain America: "There's only one God, ma'am, and I'm pretty sure he doesn't dress like that."


Chris Evans was great as Captain America. It's amusing to think that he's actually another superhero in the Marvel Universe as well since he was Johnny Storm in "Fantastic Four". Which wasn't as good as these last few Marvel movies, but still worth watching for any Marvel fan.

I read an article - recommended to me by the Awesome Aide - in Entertainment Weekly about the Avengers. The interviewer was with the entire cast while they were like eating and playing with their action figures and I think Joss or Chris Evans mentioned that this movie was supposed to take place only three weeks after Captain America: First Avenger.

So he's still in that old-fashioned soldier mentality, calling people ma'am and sir.

Hasn't been tainted by modern times.

Yet totally excited he understood the flying monkeys reference.

It's cute.

But manly.

So not cute, let's go with polite.

or Clean Cut.

How's that?

Cut to the trailer.



Iron Man: "Let's do a headcount. Your brother - the demigod - a super soldier - a living legend who lives up to the legend - a man with breathtaking anger management issues, a couple of master assassins, and you, big fella, have managed to piss off every single one of 'em."

Like I said.

Epic.

Robert Downey Jr. steals every scene he's in. I'm wondering how much of his lines were scripted and how many were ad-libbed. He's good with that.

Iron Man: "You have reached the life model decoy of Tony Stark, please leave a message." 
Coulson: "This is urgent." 
Iron Man: "Then leave it urgently." 

Iron Man: "Phil? Um, his first name is Agent." 

Iron Man: "Make a move, Reindeer Games."

Iron Man: "Please tell me nobody kissed me."

Iron Man: "You ever tried shawarma? ... I don't know what it is but I wanna try it." 

Was stoked to see Pepper Potts made an appearance.

Iron Man: "I'm going to pay for that comment about percentages in some subtle way later, aren't I?"
Pepper: "Not gonna be that subtle."

Iron Man: "I thought we were having a moment."
Pepper: "I was having twelve percent of a moment."

I love the two of them together, Downey Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow.

Two of my favorite people, their bickering just works, you know?

Yep, I think Iron Man is my favorite out of the whole gang, and I owe that entirely to Robert Downey Jr.

Not that the other super heroes aren't great. Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff aka Black Widow comes in as a close second, but there's something about Downey Jr's snarky, compulsive, charming personality that gets to me.

Iron Man: "Doth mother know you wear-eth her drapes?"

I love the technology aspect of his character.

And I really want a Jarvis.

Iron Man: "Jarvis, you ever hear of the tale of Jonah?"
Jarvis: "Uh, I wouldn't consider him as a role model."

Actually there were a lot of, "I want one of those" moments.

Anyway, looking at superhero powers, you'd think I would want to be like Thor with the hammer and the lightning, or Captain America with the shield and super strength, right?

Nope, Iron Man is my favorite. Which is amusing because before the movies I knew absolutely nothing about him.

Or really any of the Avengers aside from Captain America.

And Thor.

But a different kind of Thor.

Whilst being pretty much the same kind of Thor.

Originally I was completely lost as to how he fit in with them as he's not exactly from earth.

But with this storyline it fits.

I was just sad that Natalie Portman couldn't make a cameo.

Oh well, I'll just have to stay tuned for Thor 2.

Chris Hemsworth was excellent as Thor.

Hulk: "That guy's brain is a bag full of cats. You can smell crazy on him."
...
Thor: "He's my brother."
Black Widow: "He killed 80 people in two days."
Thor: "He's adopted."

Definitely showed how he was right for the role. I read that it pretty much came down to him, his brother and some other dude. Though his brother did end up with "The Hunger Games" so I'm guessing it wasn't a total loss for him.

They look majorly alike, check this:


The one member of the Avengers that I wasn't really attached to that I'm still on the edge about is The Hulk.

I just don't get him.

I blame the past couple of movies.

They weren't great.

Though Mark Ruffalo did do a fantastic job with the character. Maybe they'll make a new one with him in it. According to John Boy they have to make a new movie with the heroes every so many years so the rights to the characters don't expire.

Anyway, with the Hulk it was mostly science stuff, but he brought out some good reaction one-liners.

Iron Man: "You really have got a lid on it, haven't you? What's your secret? Mellow jazz? Bongo drums? Huge bag of weed?"

Worker: "You did scare the hell out of some pigeons though...Big and green and buckass nude."

Him punching Thor was a major highlight. Or his smashing of Loki.

Hulk: "Puny god."

Moving on to the lesser known characters.

Black Widow: "Like Budapest all over again." 
Hawkeye: "You and I remember Budapest very differently." 

I love Natasha Romanoff. Scarlett Johansson kicked some serious butt as Black Widow. And Jeremy Renner was so great, literally SO GREAT as Hawkeye. Their back and forth was fantastic.

They're really the only ones you don't know much about going in aside from Nick Fury. With Hawkeye you're a little wary at first, especially since he was going to shoot an arrow at Thor when he came back for his hammer, and then Loki turns him evil right at the start, but you're still rooting for him.

And with Black Widow as an assassin you wonder what her life had been life, before Stark Technologies.

Loved her opening with the interrogation whilst tied to a chair.

Reminded me of Dylan in Charlie's Angels.

Samuel L. Jackson was Nick Fury the ultimate spy with the eye patch and cool leather jacket.

Fury: "Ant. Boot." 

Iron Man: "How does Fury even see these?"
Agent Hill: "He turns."
Iron Man: "Exhausting."

I'm sorry, but whenever I see him in that eyepatch all I can think of is, "Sir, I'm gonna have to ask you to exit the donut!"

I was really impressed with Tom Hiddleston as the bad guy.

Captain America: "What's the matter, scared of a little lightning?"
Loki: "I'm not overly fond of what follows."

They said that he hated that helmet, so he channeled his rage into his acting.

Worked wonders.

Loki is an excellent villain to fit with the storyline. I've been reading up on the mythology, cause I'm kind of a mythology nerd. He was always the trickster so it's interesting to interpret it this way.

For me, not surprisingly, the movie basically came down to the characters and their relationship with each other. Every good movie has to have characters that are able to go back and forth and that it be believable.

Captain America: "Are you nuts?"
Iron Man: "Jury's out." 

So I liked that they didn't get along right away cause if they did it wouldn't have been believable.

Loki: "I have an army." 
Iron Man: "We have a hulk." 

Iron Man: "I'm bringing the party to you." 
Black Widow: "I-I don't see how that's a party." 

Iron Man: "Better clench up, Legolas." 

Captain America: "And Hulk?" *turns* "Smash." 

It's the back and forth that makes the movie.

Loved the scene after the credits.

Complete silence but completely worth it to see them eating and the people in the background cleaning up.

Hilarious.

Looking forward to the sequel.

I mean, with a huge blockbuster like this you know it's coming.

Or leaving us with that ending is just mean.


Alright, all for tonight. Got a music rec for you, then I'm out.


"Say So" Allen Stone


listen to this one and not love it immediately. i dare you. impossible, it's fantastic.

to learn more about him watch this:





Coulson: "So that's what it does."


Iron Man: "...and then shawarma after."

Oh, Lordy. The Nerd Days are here.

So I'm watching Thor. And loving it. 8/10 on the Scale of Awesome

And checking out all the Avengers stuff.

And it's making me think about the awesome upcoming movie.



May 4th, 2012 by the way.

And think about the characters and movies.

I'm debating.

Pretty sure Iron Man is my favorite. Robert Downey Jr. is fastly rising to the top of my list of favorite actors with his awesomeness as Iron Man and Sherlock Holmes. Plus it has both Gwyneth and Scarlett Johansson. So you get both Iron Man and Black Widow - which sounds more like a bad chick's name to me, but maybe that's just me. She is kind of a badass - and then Rhodey, I did like Terrance Howard better, but Don Cheadle will do. But the comedy is so great in those movies, mixed in with all the action and the stunts and Jon Favreau is just fantastic. I loved him in the Replacements, I still love him now as a director. 10/10 on the Scale of Awesome.

So I think that's my number one.

Number two would be Captain America. Great movie, storyline and effects. Actually just bought that one, and I haven't bought a lot of movies lately. I blame that on the library and their holds system. 8/10 on the Scale of Awesome. Sad ending. But I guess it works as a segue into the new movie. I was really really impressed by the effects that made him look completely scrawny and weak in the beginning of the movie. That was impressive to see the changeover after all the injections and stuff.

Which makes Thor number three. I didn't really know that much about the Thor storyline until I saw the movie. He's kind of "one of these things is not like the other" as he's an actual god, and not actually from earth. But when you put it into the storyline where Loki is the bad guy and it's aliens taking over earth, then it kind of makes sense that he's there. I do enjoy both Kat Dennings and Natalie Portman in this one. I just find it humorous that all of Kat Dennings characters are all so similar. It's kind of like Max Black on 2 Broke Girls is the epitomy of them all. So that's fantastic.

Ohh, Loki. What did you do?

Who's left? Oh, right.

Bruce Banner. Gotta say, honestly, never really been a fan of The Hulk. I mean, he's big and he's green and he breaks stuff. Right. Got it. Move on.

But see, the thing is, who the hell is Hawkeye? Why doesn't he have his own movie? The Hulk got 2! Iron Man is getting a third. I mean, he's in Thor. And you get to see him with his bow and arrow, but it's like for 2 minutes and then he's gone. And he's already working for the government at that point.

And Nick Fury, I'm super curious about his character. I mean, I could break down and actually pick up a comic book. I'm sure I'd hear certain members of my coworkers cheer when I do it. It's not like I'm against them. I'll read them. I just don't know where to start.

I read John Boy's comics that he creates himself. Cause he's awesome like that.

Anyway, I'm just super pumped for The Avengers. It's gonna be epic. And packed with crazy nerds everywhere.

Interestingly enough, Cobie Smulders is in it - aka Robin from How I Met Your Mother - so that's gonna be interesting. She plays this boss person chick who was the leader of SHIELD or becomes the leader at one point or something. I don't know. Like I said, I should just read the comics.

dude, I want one of those spins you around and shoots you through space really fast things! Can I put that on my Christmas list?


Alright, back to the movie. This will be second time watching it total, but it's good because I'm noticing things that I didn't notice before.

Just one more thing.

...do they really need to remake Spiderman? Seriously? Wasn't the musical enough?