You know when you watch a movie or a show with another person - and they've seen it before - and you haven't.  Sometimes that other person will overrun you in such a way that you feel none of the experience is new or special.  They've already thought it, seen it, loved it, obssessed over it and you basically end up wishing you hadn't seen it?  Is that just me who sometimes gets that feeling?  Well, I do.  And it's probably got a lot to do with my pride or something.  And I have to make sure I don't do it to others too when I watch films that I've seen and they haven't. 

Well, sometimes, you watch a show with someone who's seen it before - and you don't feel any of that.  They are quietly grinning next to you, and you're just glad they're there.  Glad they've seen it before, but are watching it again with you.  I realized this morning I have one of those people in my life.  And I think I'll keep him around for a while.  He's better than anyone I know at letting people be and enjoy.  Something about his presense just makes people comfortable and confident.  Gosh, his girlfriend must be super lucky.  And you can say I'm biased, but if you've met him you won't.


**Confession: I was doing the obnoxious "What's  happening? Wait - what is in the newspaper?! Are we going to find out?!" for a lot of the first episode.  I'm pretty sure he didn't love it.  And I can't blame him, because I hate when people do that to me.  Ask the question that they're obviously not supposed to know the answer to yet... and if I have the answer from having seen the movie, they will soon enough too.

"What's in the paper?"
"I don't know."
"Are we ever going to find out!?"
"Nope."
"What?! How annoying is that!!?"
"So annoying."
"Are you lying?"
"Absolutely."
"Gah!"

This isn't me.  But I know this person.  And I think they are (all) funny.

December is going to be like Christmas for lit nerds!  (oh wait.)

(see what I did there?)


Seriously though, The Great Gatsby and Les Miserables will be hitting theatres - two fantastic novels, discovering two of my favorite time periods!!

Gatsby has an incredible cast, one of my favorite directors, and the sound track sounds awesome if I can judge by this one song.  My first impression is Million Dollar Hotel + The Dark Knight + Classic Literature.  And I must say, I like it.



Then, it's the musical film version of Les Mis that all of our hopes are riding on.  Do us proud.  Please.

Oh December, how we are waiting for you in all our literary frenzies.  I think I'll go listen to Flapper Girl now.  I feel like diamonds and gin, red wine and cannons. (No sense? Kind of. But there's a few of you that are saying, That's exactly right. That's exactly how I feel too.  And to you, I raise my ebenezer.)

The concert photos below made me think of 10 Things I Hate About You, for some reason.  That was one of my favorite movies in high school.  In college, I wrote a final essay for my Senior Capstone Shakespeare class on the film as an adapatation of The Taming of the Shrew.  Turns out, it's brilliant.  After reading the play several times over, and watching every film adaptation I could find of it over the years, I discovered just how clever the writers of the film were being - the way they'd changed and graphed characters and plot, and why in relation to our culture.  I found clever hidden games they were playing, knowing 98% of their audience never would notice or care. 

All that said, it has me thinking of some of my favorite films over the years. 

Milo & Otis
Turner & Hooch
All Dogs Go To Heaven
The Little Princess
The Great Mouse Detective
The Secret Garden
E.T.
Beauty & The Beast
Aladdin
10 Things I Hate About You
Save The Last Dance
The Notebook
Garden State
Moulin Rouge

.... blanking on most.  What were yours...? The ones you'd watch over and over as a kid, or in highschool. I've made a point to buy most of mine over the past few years.

Shows I didn't love? The ones that when I'd walk into Elise's house and see her cuddled up on the couch with a bag of popcorn watching, I'd dart back out into the sunshine?  Anne of Green Gables and Polyanna.

PS - I'm pretty sure "Itchy" is the reason I still like stinky dogs - like I assume the worse they smell, the sweeter they must really be-  and "Charlie" is why I like trouble makers.  Dangit. 

Also, the most common thing I think I hear when falling in and out of dreams "You can never come back..."  and the line I've sung most times in my head out of nowhere, "Let's make music together.  Let's make sweet harmony." 

Childrens movies.  They can ruin you from the age of three.  Put you on the trajectory to "WEIRD". Watch out.

Actor. Born Pierce Brendan Brosnan on May 16, 1953, in Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland. After an unsettled childhood, he moved to London, where he joined an experimental theater group and studied at the Drama Centre. After several stage roles in London, he moved to Los Angeles, where he was offered the lead in the detective series Remington Steele, which debuted in 1982. He won over American television audiences with his good looks and charm. They tuned in to catch the show??s latest mystery and watch the sparks fly between the two lead characters played by Brosnan and his co-star Stephanie Zimbalist. Offered the role of the famous fictional British spy, James Bond, in 1986, Brosnan tried to get out of his contract for the show, but failed. The series ended the next year.

After Remington Steele, Brosnan acted in several television and film projects, including the television miniseries Around the World in 80 Days (1989), and the hit comedy film Mrs. Doubtfire (1993). In 1995, Brosnan finally took on the legendary film role of James Bond in Goldeneye, following in the footsteps of such actors as Sean Connery and Roger Moore. He played Bond three more times: Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), The World is Not Enough (1999), and Die Another Day (2002). In 2006, Daniel Craig took over the part for the remake of the first Bond picture, Casino Royale.
Besides playing the smooth, but deadly superspy, Brosnan has tackled numerous dramatic and comedic roles, including The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) with Rene Russo, Laws of Attraction (2004) with Julianne Moore, and The Matador (2005) with Greg Kinnear. He is also reportedly slated to appear in a sequel to the comedy smash Mrs. Doubtfire.

Brosnan has been married twice. His first marriage to actress Cassandra Harris lasted from 1980 until her death in 1991. Brosnan adopted her two children Charlotte and Christopher and the couple had a son, Sean. In 2001, he married Keely Shaye. They have two children together, Paris and Dylan.
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"This is your one opportunity to do something that no one has ever done before and that no one will copy throughout human existence. And if nothing else, you will be remembered as the one guy who ever did this. This one thing."

          -"Sam," from one of my favorite films. :)

New Hunger Games Trailer

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Obssessing much? Yes, yes I am. 

Just spent a little time on the official Hunger Games Movie website.

The world will be watching.  Will you?  Read them.  Now. 

On second thought, perhaps take a nap first, because you may not be sleeping for a while.

I am calling it at 51 days. 
I have already requested the next day off... for Rose & Jeff's wedding of course. 
And also because I plan to be out until the early morning the night before. 
That is right - The Hunger Games are nearly here.  If you haven't read them yet, you'll want to.  I can't wait to be sipping ridiculous amounts of coffee in line with Morgan, Esther and so many others.

I've been looking forward to it for months, but I had no idea the dangers that were in store for us all.  After reading this article on Busy Bee Lauren (thank you Kimmers for sending it my way), I'm realizing we are going to need these 51 days to create a strategy.  Obstacles we are going to need to overcome:

1. Select the ideal theatre - we need to consider screen size and competitors (mass size).  We are going to want a good theatre, but also one where we have a  good chance of getting GREAT seats and hopefully one that has less of the teen audience.  We also need to consider getting home after I suppose.  My vote so far though is downtown.  I know at least Esther and I could get there super early to begin saving seats, and parents are far less likely to be dropping off their children at the front door of the downtown theatre than all the Bellevue/ Woodinville/ Redmond/ Alderwood theatres we'd usually pick first.

2. We need to actually BUY tickets to the midnight showing.  Anyone know when these go on sale?

3.  Prepare our silver parachutes (I like what I read on Busy Bee Lauren's page... I will in fact be preparing something clever and delicious to hide in all our purses or simply entertain us for the copious hours in line.)

4.  Read the book.  I'll make it clear: if you haven't read the book, you're not invited.  You can see it with whoever or whenever, but we've made a pact.  We are only seeing it with people who have read it.  But don't worry, you still have time.  51 days to be exact.

P.S.  Please don't screw this up, Hollywood. : /  

*chills!*

Kim and Linda -
(and all you others)

I finally saw Midnight in Paris this weekend.  I'd been wanting the right atmosphere for watching it.  I'd wanted to go see it at one of the old theatres around, like the Guild.  And when it left theatres, I figured I'd missed that chance.  Then this Saturday, Kristin and I were out just us two (as we do every year for her birthday) and near Queen Anne.  We looked up the movies playing at Uptown and to my great surprise (and joy!), Midnight in Paris was showing!  It was perfect.  And I loved getting to see it with my sis (though I'm not as sure she loved it - liked it, but not loved it).  Anyways, I thought of both of you, as both of you had been in complete shock when I told you I hadn't seen it yet.  :)
(And oh yes, I'll be buying it.  1920's, travels abroad, and literary heroes?  Why yes.)

Next up: Amazing Grace. ;)

love her.

Emma Stone.

I've made some bad decisions in my life.  Choosing to watch The Time Traveller's Wife, today, I count among them.  Four red teary eyes and two sniffling noses and I remember why I've owned it well over a year and have never watched it.  Oh goodness that book tore me apart a couple summers ago.  And today, the movie just ripped those healed seems right on open again.