"It's the story of how George Clooney would rather float away into space and die than spend one more minute with a woman his own age."

Saturday:

Slept in. It was glorious. Then dinner with the parents, stopped by to see Grams, and unpacked the rest of my Christmas presents that Mom and Dad brought up.

After that it was all hockey. The boyfriend and I are on a roll. Every game we've gone to they've won in super close matches. Last night we played Fargo, won in a shootout, it was awesome. We were down to 3 players plus goalie in overtime when they were full force, I was crazy nervous. The game was great, except for the group of kids sitting next to us slamming chairs and screaming repeatedly. The mother was doing nothing to stop it. My thing is, if you're going to take a kid to a game then they should be old enough to understand it. Unless you're teaching them the game, like my brother takes my nephew to football games. That counts too. These kids had no interest in the game whatsoever and it was super obnoxious. But thankfully, we won so that cancelled it all out.

Oh and some guy proposed. Right after his girlfriend won a gift certificate to Super Saver. Though she seemed more excited about the gift certificate than the ring. There was no cheering at all, they just walked off afterward. Poor guy, I thought it was romantic.

Sunday: 
This morning was church, went out to eat with Oldest Sister and Bubby, then we came back and were lazy with the Globes and Olympic prep. I'm so excited for February, I'm such a nerd.

Notes from the Globes

Things I liked:
-Tina and Amy rocked it. I wish they would have been on stage even more. Their opening monologue was definitely my favorite part.

"Because this is Hollywood and if something kind of works then they'll just keep doing it until everyone hates it."

"Explosion at the Wig Factory" = alternate title for American Hustle

"It's the story of how George Clooney would rather float away into space and die than spend one more minute with a woman his own age."

"He lost 45 pounds, or what actresses call being in a movie."

"You may know Andy from his hit song I'm on a Boat which this year was adapted into the Tom Hanks' film Captain Phillips."

They had some great shoutouts. Poor Tam Honks. He just looked so confused every time he was on screen.

And Matt Damon. "It's me the Garbage Man." But they handled it very well.

Also, Randy. "Do you want to go live with your father?!" "I can't you won't tell me who it is!" Oh my god, I love Amy and Tiny's impressions, especially when she's on stage with Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon. "Her mother is the Closer!" Sosie looks a bit different than she did on The Closer.

-Julia Louis-Dreyfus switching sides mid-way through the show...and Reese Witherspoon's selfie cameo, that was great.

-J-Law made for a great start with best supporting actress - brutally honest as always. "I actually did watch all the movies that year - not all of them, but you know what I mean."

-Robert Downey Jr's speech. "Let's see how this plays out for me."

He was just one of the many Avengers that presented, also on stage were Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, and Mark Ruffalo. And I'm sure Scarlett was in the audience since Her was up for so many awards.

-Drunken Emma Thompson.

Snape tweeted "Is Professor Trelawney drunk?!" Loved it. He also commented on Emma Watson on stage. "10 Points for Gryffindor."

-Melissa McCarthy as Matt Damon. or Melissa McCarthy as anyone really.

-Michael Douglas to actual Matt Damon: "The only reason you're not here is I had more sequins."

-Alfonso Cuaron: "Thank you for not quitting when I said Sandra I'm going to give you herpes, when I really meant Sandra I'm going to give you an earpiece."

-Drew's "sh, I get sent out wrong, I'm sorry." Love that she got to announce best picture. Awesomeness.

-Cate Blanchett's speech was probably my favorite of all the acceptance speeches.

stick with it 'til the end.

-Matthew McConaughey 's "alright, alright, alright." I'd expect nothing less.

-Steve McQueen calling Sarah Paulson the Bette Davis of America.

Things I didn't like:
-What the hell was up with Jacqueline Bisset? It took 20 minutes for her to get to the stage and then another 30 for her to get off of it. Goes to show that even if you don't think you'll win you should still definitely write a speech. Good god, that was horrible.

-Shut up P-Diddy. No one wants to hear you talk in the background.

-Who would have thought that Bono would win a Golden Globe? Again?

-Brooklyn 99 beating out Big Bang Theory twice. Actor and Series. Really? I tried one episode and couldn't finish it. It was cute that it was Seth that announced it though. Go SNL.

-I get that you're stubborn, but Woody Allen, if they're giving you a lifetime achievement award like that one you should probably show up to give some sort of a speech. Diane was great though.

and that's all I got so on to the music.

Kickstart My Heart - Motley Crue


just one of many from the game last night. i love it.

and i'm out. legit pre-midnight. holy crap tag in use.

"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."

"It's not in your face it's in my hand."

Went to see Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows tonight.



Is was...

Well.

Different from what I was expecting.

And not bad different, just different. Dark but not too dark, intense but not overwhelmingly intense. Lots of comedy, well-written and acted.

I'd give it an 8/10 on the Scale of Awesome.

Just not as fantastic as the original, that one's hard to beat.

I did love Noomi Rapace, she was fantastic and it was good to see her do some comedy totally different from the Millennium Trilogy, plus Robert Downey Jr. is quickly rising to the top of my favorites list as well. And Stephen Fry as Mycroft, oh my god so funny.

Song of the night:

"Satisfaction" Rolling Stones

jam session

actually today i kept jumping back and forth between willie nelson and merle haggard, drove me nuts.

"If you've got the money honey I've got the time" "roaring engines heading somewhere in flight..."

Alright, I'm taking a posting hiatus for the weekend. Yay for Sketch and Edit's Excellent Adventure! Found some restaurants and all that, should be fun.

You guys deserve a weekend away from me anyway. Reading about my crazy must drive you there as well.

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?

This is a week of my favorite things Day Seven

Okay, right now, gotta say I'm loving Anne Hathaway. "You are the Wolve to my Rine." Not that I didn't already love her, she's actually kind of awesome. I already rambled about Get Smart on favorites day whatever...two? yeah, day two. Plus, James Franco in a dress? That was niiiice... BTW - loved their musical version of Harry Potter totally gonna find that on youtube later.
As you've probably guessed, yes I am watching the Oscars which is another one of my favorite things. I'm kind of an Awards Junkie so it's cool for Day 7 to fall on tonight. Not like I planned it that way, I'm not that smart.

And wow, day 7. I think I've gotten more hits this week than any other so that's big. There's people overseas reading about my obsessions. Madness. Sadly I'm glad it's day 7 because I have no idea what other topics I could cover. Fashion trends? I was big into tearaways for years. lots of tearaways and backwards hats. then dyed hair, which is still around. Catchphrases? there's too many of those. I could go all "Inside the Actor's Studio" on you and talk about my favorite swear word. Which I won't. Although I have been saying "Janet" a lot as I think it has artistic integrity. Hooray for Rocky Horror. I tried "oh pigeons" Mark, really I did. But I just can't pull it off like you.

As I'm running out of favorites, and time I'm just gonna throw some random ones out.

Number - 3
Food - Fajitas or Pizza
Color - Red
Nickname - CK or Red
Sport to play - Basketball
Sport to watch - Husker Football/Roller Derby cause yes it's a sport, especially if you're there live
Reality Show - Wipeout
College class - any English class really but mostly Fiction Writing just because the assignments were something I was doing anyway and my classmates and prof were hilarious. "The Gospel of Meaghan" anyone?
Oscar presenters tonight - Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law cause they're fantastic and Sherlock 2 comes out around Xmas! (add RDJ to my fave actors list btw)
Thing about Lincoln - things are open past 8, who knew?!
Afternoon activity - napping. or watching a movie. or napping while watching a movie.
Celebrity making a comeback - Gwyneth Paltrow, fave Glee ep this season (aside from Rocky Horror) was the Substitute so I'm stoked for her coming back and Anne Hathaway is joining the cast as well, woohoo!
Celebrity I wasn't a fan of at first but now I'm growing to love - Dana Delaney, did you see her in Castle? "What part of un-ass do you not understand?" stoked for her new series. yet another female ME I'm going to love. Claire WMC...Maura R&I...the ME from the Closer is kinda girly with his long hair, does he count? I do enjoy him. haha.
Quote - F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy." that I carry around in my back pocket cause I'm a nerd. That's followed closely by "Gazelle Swagger" which is a ZH original and more of a long story.
Icecream flavor - Mint chip...or sherbet but that's yogurt so it doesn't count
Cartoon growing up - Scooby Doo. or Garfield. I was also really big into That's So Raven. "Dancin' Iguana, Dancin' Iguana!" "Good evening good sir knight and...ugly hag?!"
Movie nominated for Best picture this year - King's Speech totally deserved all 12 noms but 4 wins will do.
Ipod app - Angry Birds. I'm hooked man.
Foreign language total jam out song - is a tie between "Dragostea Din Tei" aka the Numa Numa song or "Boten Anna" by Basshunter. Both are frequents on my ipod. I encourage you to check them both out. Fantastic. Actually Basshunter came out with an English version of BA called "Now You're Gone" but it's not as good.

okay i'm running out of things that aren't movies, music, tv, hobbies, books or whatever day six was, youtube. that's right. And yes some of the above are from those categories but what else am I gonna ramble about really?

And this is all starting to sound like a rambling oscar speech so I'm gonna stop before you all change the channel.
Quote of the day - "I have to be first!" said by The Hulk. but he wasn't green. he was just really really strong. and a bit scary. another long story. but still hilarious.


"It's not a secret. Why do you keep it? I'm just sitting on the shelf."


And ha! found it!

okay, second posting since first one is gone. this is different though, adding in The King's Speech but taking out The Social Network.
harry potter is definitely the best.

here's the original reversely screened which means it'll probably be gone in a few days.