it's all uncharted (ten on tuesday)

Yay for another Ten on Tuesday! Link up over at Chelsea's blog. Fun times =)

1. If you could watch only one movie for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Transformers or the new Star Trek. I'm also a huge fan of Love Actually and The Notebook. Ugh, can't I just pick one movie to watch from each genre? I'll go with Transformers.

2. Let’s say someone wrote a screenplay about you; what actor/actress would you choose to play you and why?
This is hard, because as an actress, I'd like to play myself in a movie. But, I probably wouldn't be very good as myself and that's not the question. I love Natalie Portman, but I don't know that she's the right choice, either. I would say either Alicia Witt (Urban Legend -- what a horribly wonderful movie. Did you know Jared Leto was in that movie?! Me neither, til just now,) or Laura Prepon (That 70's Show.)

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3. What’s the first movie you remember seeing in theaters?
My mom says the first movie she took me to was The Little Mermaid, but the first one I really remember seeing was As Good as it Gets. We had to leave because my sister got motion sick part of the way through.

4. Did you ever make out at the back of a movie theater in middle school/high school?
Not really. We weren't rich kids. If we were paying for a movie, we were gonna watch the movie! Plus, who goes to see a movie you don't really want to see?

5. Are you a Netflix-er, Blockbuster-er or a Redbox-er? (Or none of the above?)
Not really any of them. While we were staying with my Dad in Tallahassee on the road trip, we did Redbox with my sister. I tend to just...uhm..."borrow" movies. Yeah, that's it. Borrow them. Or we see them in theatres, if we're really that into it.

6. Name one actor/actress who you would give anything to have a dinner date with.
I would love to sit down with Anthony Hopkins, for the sake of the art of acting. But I'm also partial to James McAvoy, from a purely shallow standpoint ;)

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7. What’s the worst movie you’ve ever seen?
Uhm, Drag Me to Hell? I hate horror comedy. I've seen lots of bad horror movies, though. That's what happens when you watch lots and lots of horror movies. It's Alive (the remake) was one of the worst movies ever. EVER.

8. Do you sneak snacks into the theater when you go?
Sometimes. Movie theatres are expensive.

9. Movie theater popcorn: love or hate it?
Don't care either way. I love the movie theatre butter, but it's horribe and greasy. I'm not hugely into popcorn, in general, but it's nice sometimes.

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Mmm, butter-flavored syrup topping. Delish.

10. What is the all-time best Disney movie in your opinion?
The Lion King. I used to have the whole movie memorized. Not just the songs, the movie. But the songs are awesome, too.



64 and Sunny

Today it looked like this:

 

It never really got above 65, but it was pretty warm in the sun. All I had on was jeans and a t-shirt, but sitting in direct sunlight I got hot after a while. Not hot enough to move (because I'm actually a lizard and I get my energy from direct sunlight,) but hot. I dropped Nate off at work, went to the drug store to get him some cough drops and Zicam, dropped those back off to him at work and went to wander around. I hit up Bed, Beth and Beyond, Nordstrom Rack and H&M quickly before wandering down to the water. Everyone was out and about, plus it's the SakuraCon this weekend, so the streets were kind of congested, but I managed to find a small open area next to Anthony's at Pier 66 to sit and stare out at the water. Since I brought my Kindle, I read for a while, too.

For dinner, we got some delicious appetizers at Noc Noc, a really cool bar with a crazy gothic atmosphere. Then we came home and watched a HORRIBLE movie, Night of the Demons. It was kind of a remake of a bad 80's movie that Nate had seen when he was younger. It was neither scary nor sexy, despite all the slutty Halloween costumes. It was just...bad.

I didn't drink enough water while I was walking around and sitting in the sun, so I'm feeling a little dehydrated. It's unfortunate because I'm tired but I'm not sleepy, since we didn't get up until almost noon, so I'm watching 16 and Pregnant. Television at its finest. Oh yeah.

-C

'long as the room keeps singing

Alternately Titled: I may have watched the entirety of an awards show for the first time in my life last night.

(But that one doesn't roll off the tongue as easily.)

So I've dicovered two things:

1) I could get used to this Cinnamon Roll oatmeal and peanut butter thing. Who KNEW. Then again, peanut butter can make just about anything better.

2) Awards shows are much more entertaining and inviting when they don't keep you up until MIDNIGHT on a Sunday. The West Coast has got it right -- let's start the Oscars at 5:30PM! They're over by 9PM, and you still have time to finish drying that last load of laundry. It's incredible.

So we watched the entirety of the Oscar last night! I'm not much one for fashion, but I hated Jennifer Hudson's dress (weird boobage issues,) and loved that you saw Anne Hathaway walk in wearing an awesome red dress and immediately thereafter saw her on stage in a black and cream one with creepy crazy feathers all up ins. Maybe there weren't feathers, but the dress did make her look a million miles wide, which is a ridiculous statement in and of itself. So there.

Also, James Franco is constantly high. Did anyone else catch his strangely loopy interview with that woman I've never seen before in my life Robin Roberts before the show? He just laughed, the whole time. What's so funny, creeper? (Ok, the fact that he's a creeper doesn't stop him from being attractive, and I understand that. But...creeper.)

In other news, who knew Zachary Levi could sing? Actually, probably everyone except me, since probably everyone and their mother has seen Tangled. Which I probably will watch at some point, even though Mandy Moore's singing completely turns me off (I don't mind her acting, really.)

And maybe it's just me, but when is the rest of the world going to realize that we're just indulging Gwyneth Paltrow's fantasy of becoming a country singer? Granted, she can kind of sing. But as much as I don't love country, the country songs I know and like feature one of two kinds of voices: sweet and sultry or large and in charge -- and kudos to the singers who can do both. Gwyneth...does really have either. Her voice is just there. And I don't connect with her lyrics or her stage presence. Isn't it strange how someone can be a formidable presence in one artform and not even capture your attention in another? Seriously, that's why we even have "triple threats." True ones are few and far between. Let's demand some real singers up in here, y'all.

Speaking of country songs, I justed discovered this Leann Rimes song, and I kind of like it. And by kind of, I really mean I like it a lot.

(Nate liked the little wrist-flicking dance towards the end.)

Also, watch Peter Hollen's new video! (I find the turn around on this song kind of sickeningly fast.) And if you haven't watch his other a cappella covers, you should do that, too. He's my a cappella friend by six degrees of Kevin Bacon separation. Plus, you may have seen him on that little show called The Sing-Off on NBC. Yeah.

There's a 50% chance of rain or snow all day today, but right now, there's actually blue sky outside. Plus, it's Jeans Week at work, which makes my life. Or at least my week. I'd rather be in jeans than anything else.

What did you think of the Oscars? Did you watch the whole thing?

-C



larger than life

I took a small hiatus from writing things this weekend to actually hang out with people! This a very exciting development in my life here in Seattle.

Friday night, Nate and I went out to buy some things we'd been eyeing at Express, because they are having an extra 40% off clearance sale at the moment, and wound up get 6 items for about $70 (a major steal!) Then, we went to dinner at The Taphouse Grill. It's kind of in a touristy part of town, but they have, like, over 140 beers, plus really good food, so we decided to go back, instead of trying to find someplace new. When we got home, we watch The Grudge 2, which is possibly the worst movie I've ever seen. Ever. No really, it's horrible. We contemplated turning it off halfway through.

It was my best friend's birthday on Friday, so on Saturday, we made plans to go to the Science Center around noon. Well, we are all lazy bums, so I think I left my house to walk to her house around 11:30 (it's like a 40 minute walk,) and then when I got there, she was still cleaning and her roommate was still showering, so we didn't leave until after 12:30. Then, Nate wound up not having to work, so we had to wait for him to meet us at the Space Needle (which didn't take very long, it was pretty much perfect timing.) He also got some pretty cool pictures on the walk over.

 Then, we sat and ate a little snack at the cafe after waiting in line to get in the Science Center complex. So I think we actually started looking at the exhibits around 1:30? Which turned out to be fine, because while the buildings themselves were very nice, the exhibits were kind of...outdated. I mean, they had a sign that said a fossil was 'something you dug up.' (This was then a running joke for the rest of the visit.) And they kept calling all the dinosaurs in the prehistoric section "weird," which kind of irks me, because OF COURSE they're weird, they're dinosaurs, but really, shouldn't you be teaching kids to be interested by "weird" things, and not just teaching them to call them "weird" because they're different?

In any case, some of the kids exhibits, about how things work, were very cool. They had a "shadow wall," where you stand in a dark room against a reflective wall and they have a really bright flash on an audible timer, so that after the flash goes off, you can see your "shadow" left on the wall. It was fun standing in crazy poses and see what the shadow looked like! I also always enjoy the sections where they show you how hard your heart works, how hard you have to pedal a bike to burn so many calories in an hour, etc. They had one test where you had to pitch match, and even in the crazy kid loudness of museum, I matched the tones almost perfectly. Yay for being a trained musician! The middle of the complex, which was all outdoors, was interesting, also. They had several structures that (we think) are just meant to be artistic, along with some water areas, some of which were interactive. We didn't get shoot anything with the water pistols though, because we are nice and don't shove little children out of the way...usually.

After we wore ourselves out walking around for a couple hours, we went back and had a nice dinner, cheesecake and ice cream for dessert, and watched some Mystery Science Theatre 3000. I was so tired from walking and not eating enough (or probably drinking enough water,) that I went to bed at 10:30/11:00 and slept through all the way until 10am the next morning (at which point I not longer felt like I was getting sick, so I really think it was just the no water thing.)

Sunday, the boy and I went grocery shopping (which kind of turned into wandering around Target,) but first we stopped at IHOP for delicious breakfast. Our usual: a spinach and mushroom omelette (the real version, not the simple and fit version) with strawberry banana pancakes, hashbrowns and four strips of bacon. We downed it in about 10 minutes (we may have gotten up at 10, and waited until 1:30 to eat, so we were kind of hungry.) We figured it out, and the whole meal was about 2000 calories. So we figured that was breakfast and lunch, so we didn't feel so bad about demolishing 1000 calories each in such a short amount of time.

After Target, we wound up at Forever21, Express and Payless looking for a new all-purpose purse for me. My red one, from H&M, is starting to finally just fall completely apart, so it's really probably time for a new one. Unfortunately, everything that is out right now is kind of boring, and either black, tan or beige. I found an ok purple one at Payless, but I like to really love my bags, especially since I tend to only carry one all the time. So I may have to wait until Spring lines come out for some brighter colors. While we were at Payless, my trusty sneakers finally bit the dust. I was taking them off to try on a pair of boots, and the shoe completely separated from the sole. Sad day.



Sunday night was full of laundry and me whining because I was so. very. tired (which was apparently just hunger, even though I consumed 1000 calories earlier that day.) This morning, I took some time and participated in TPTP, which I ignored on Friday, because I'm a bum.

This green sweater has rabbit HAIR in it. Not fur, hair.

It kind skeeves me out, but I really like the sweater. And the color. And it was on clearance for $10, so I guess I'll deal.

-C