Really, though?

Yeah, so this week's Attack of the B Movies was just not the same. First we watched:

The Giant Gila Monster

Which starred that kid that played "Tweener" on Prison Break and that chick from Big Love...see them on the cover there? Well...the movie was okay I guess. John described it as 95% hokey folk story, 5% sci-fi. Maybe it's just because I wasn't feeling well last night that I just didn't enjoy it.

Oooohhh...scary! LOL

Then they did the whole trivia thing and I'm mad at John because he didn't even try to answer any of the questions so we didn't win anything this week.

The second movie was Gammera the Invincible

This...this...just. We didn't stay for the whole thing because I felt like dirt and John had already seen it anyway. There is a boy in this movie...who has a pet turtle and he loves his turtle and I just wanted to tell him that there is a statue in Worcester that was erected to commemorate just that kind of love.

Have you seen this statue? I just don't get it. I know it's not supposed to be filthy, but COME ON.

Here is Gammera:

Both his eyes were lazy, they kept rolling all over the place and I saw him breathe fire at one point. I'm not sure what else he could do. He was nice to the boy.

I have an infectious person.

Welllll, lucky me! I have somehow managed to catch a cold right at the start of my favorite time of year. The girl that sat next to me Friday night at the Weird Al concert is suspect! She was sniffling and blowing her nose and looking generally crappy all night and what do you know, now I am sick! I can't taste anything and I have to keep blowing my nose every 5 minutes or snot will run down my face. Real ATTRACTIVE, let me tell ya!

This better be gone and FAST because I have a very important birthday party to attend in October and I won't be able to go unless I am 100% healthy. I'm going to hunt that girl down and kick her ass if I'm still sick.

On the bright side, it's a sort of forced diet, right? I don't really feel like eating anything because everything tastes like air. I'm chugging water and vitamins and tea.

I'm nerdy in the extreme.

Yaaaaayyyyy! Tonight, John and I are going to see Weird Al at Foxwoods!

If you read regularly, you may remember that we saw Weird Al in the Spring at the Turning Stone Casino in NY. It was such an awesome and fun show and this one is going to be even better because I MUCH prefer the theater at Foxwoods to the other place. We have gone once before to the Fox Theater to see Collective Soul and I got almost the same exact seats for tonight. They are not down in the front, but there's really not a bad seat in the house. I am looking forward to lmao for a couple hours tonight. Weird Al is genius and he and his band are so musically gifted. I will try to get some good pics and/or video...depending on how security is. Hope no one sees me!

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Oh, so last night John and I went to Attack of the B Movies at Showcase North. I can't honestly tell you whether I've ever actually seen a real B movie before last night. First, we saw:

The Wasp Woman

which I actually kind of enjoyed. Some of the dialogue was funny just because the movie is 50 years old...and the "wasp woman" herself? Haha, this is the best picture I could find:

John liked the fact that she was very quick and agressive in her movements whenever she was the wasp. Very creepy.

In between the movies, a kid came in and asked some trivia questions and gave out prizes which turned out to be little halloween trinkets. I got a silver skull candle holder for answering "Boston" to the "Where was Susan Cabot (wasp woman herself) born?" I had read her imdb site that day so that's how I knew. John then won us this orange bat, house candle holder thingamajig for answering "Sputnik" to "What was the first satellite to orbit the earth?" Then the kid ran out of real questions and started asking sports stuff so he could give out the rest of the prizes. Boring.

After that, we watched:

Monster from Green Hell

which, if I'm honest I must tell you, sucked ASS.

It was a bunch of stock footage and people walking through what was supposed to be the African wilderness...and dying in ridiculous over-dramatic ways. Stop, drop everything, throw your arms up, look to the sky, gasp, fall over. I guess it was funny. Anyway, here's the monster:

tee-hee

Cheeeeez-tastic!

Kin

Yay! I got to see my little-little brother and little sister on Sunday. They are growing up so fast!! Julia is around 6 months now and she is so much more interactive than Mikey ever was. You could not get that boy to smile for anything! Still can't, as you'll see!

Pretty little Julia:

She decided to try and eat my hair...and let me tell you, the girl had a death grip!

I had fun, I don't smile like that much.

Mikey...well, he was typical Mikey. See:

He just wouldn't smile...

And I can't forget my handsome little brother James!

If anyone knows how to embed a video in a blog, let me know...because the Youtube embed code isn't working.

I got mad Microsoft skillz.

I'm in sort of a better mood now.

I was given a project earlier...nothing ridic, just had to take a section of a drawing and add new measurements to it. Don't ask me why they didn't just give it to the resident Mechanical Designer...that would have made more sense. Anyway, using a mix of MS Paint, MS Word & MS Publisher, I turned this:

into this:

Yay me, right? I mean, I know I'm no professional drafter or anything, but doesn't that look pretty sweet? You try getting all those lines and arrows to go exactly where you want them to go. It's a biotch.

I think we're going to the movies tonight. I'm addicted to the theater lately. I just like escaping reality for a while.

$%^&*()(*&^%$@$%^&

Gah! I'm so furious with work right now. I have so much !$%^ to do and more and more keeps coming up. Top that off with fluctuating hormones and I am ready to kill something. I can't even finish one damn thing without getting 3 more e-mails for new !$%^ to do!!!!!!!!!!!!

To quote the great Jason Mewes: "Fuck, fuck, fuck, mother-motherfuck, mother-motherfuck-fuck, motherfuck, motherfuck"

And that is how I feel about that.

I like fruit.

because it bruises easily.

I just hold on to nothing...to see how long nothing lasts...lalalaaaa

smishsmash

Strangely enough, this past weekend felt longer than last weekend which was 4 days.

Friday night, John and I met up with our friend Trish and her boyfriend Jim-Sun and we headed to Foxwoods at like midnight (or later). John and I each spent (and lost) $20 on slot machines and then we went and had Chinese food. I just got some chicken and veg which was tasty enough but mad expensive. John had General's (Tso, Tsu, Gau, take your pick) chicken and he also tried some cold spicy jellyfish. SICK! It looked like that goopy stuff they use to stick samples to magazines.

On Saturday, John and I had lupper at Longhorn before catching some movies. Okay, first of all let me say LOL @ Shoot 'Em Up.

This movie could not have been funnier. The moment I saw Clive Owen punch a carrot through the back of a guy's skull and say, "Eat your vegetables.", I was sold. John and I laughed AND groaned through this entire movie. The action and effects were terrific, but it was clearly a comedy...and they KNEW it. There's no way these guys would have thought they were making a serious action flick, no WAY.

Then we went and saw Tree Ten Ta Yumer

Yaaaay, this movie was good good goooood. My only critique would be for Christian to work on his subtle acting skillz. He is so good at conveying emotion when speaking but when he is quiet he sometimes gets this blank look on his face and it's lacking something. Maybe it's just part of his mystique.

Yesterday was spent at church, making jewelry and at church again. And, today work is ghey but we'll have fun at my mama's house tonight. I think I'm going to bring DDR and/or GH but don't believe anything I say because I change my mind constantly.

Anyone been to a "Rock & Shock Horror Convention" before? I'm wondering if it's worth going. There is one coming to the Centrum Centre (or DCU Center for you conformists) in October and I was thinking about picking up tickets. I figured, even if the whole thing sucks, at least I'll get to see Type O live. That's on my list of things to do before I die and I'm sure I could find a safe, non-moshing place to stand at the Centrum...unlike the Palladium. I really just want to watch them perform, I don't feel like fighting people.

Then there's the Trans-Siberian Orchestra in November...that's another show I'd like to see. Hmmm

Oh yeah, and I just have to go on the record once saying Britney SUCKS.

Just bored.

It's a quiet day at work today. The big boss was in Texas yesterday and he's currently on a plane en route to Hartford. I'm sure he'll be in as soon as it lands...and then the fun will end. It's just nice to be able to work in peace and at a comfortable pace sometimes rather than having a million things dropped on your desk and they all need to be done yesterday.

Tonight, John and I are going to Foxwoods with Trish and her boyfriend Jim-Sun (kindly referred to as "Sunny Jim" or "Ninja" by my hubby). We'll be leaving very late (11:00-ish), but it's cool, casinos are made to keep you awake. I don't plan on spending a whole lot of money, just enough to have a little fun. It's silly really, because I never win anything and I never even go with the thought of winning, it seems an impossibility. I have always wanted to try blackjack, but I'm so shy and I feel like everyone would be staring at me. Maybe I will suck it up and try tonight. I did play once at a casino in Oregon when I was 18 and did fairly well. No one ever asked to see my ID even though, at the time, you had to be 21 to be in there. Anything has to have better odds than a slot machine, right?

Can't wait to go see my boyfriend's movie this weekend...mmmMmmm...dirty Christian Bale on a horse!

Hm, looks like a division sign.

I had a great 4-day weekend. 4 is my favorite number, to the point of OCD, but I really don't care. 4 makes me happy, I do everything I can in fours. From my earliest memories, I have always counted 1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4 when doing things...so it's not like it's something I've developed as I got older and it's not like there's something wrong with me for it. I count my steps. I count things like food (macaroni noodles, pieces of meat I have cut, candy, pretzels, etc.). I patted John on the arm yesterday, 'pat, pat, pat' and I just had to reach back and pat him one more time so that it would be 4 times. We saw 4 movies yesterday. I line things up in fours, like pens or post-it notes or piles of paper at work. When I pull paper towels out of the holder in the bathroom to dry my hands, I pull 4, or if they are thin, I pull 8. Any multiple of 4 is good, but my favorite multiple is 16 (that's 4 x4...yay!) I like a lot of different music, but there is something calming to me about songs with 4/4 time signatures.

Anyway, the only bad thing that happened was on Monday, I dropped a sewing machine on the top of my foot. I was pulling some tennis rackets out of a bin in the closet and the machine had been sitting on the lid. So, when I yanked the rackets, the thing fell. I instantly sat crossed-legged on the floor and held my foot but it hurt so bad I thought (for some reason) that I needed to walk it off. I stood up and started to walk to the doorway and had to sit down again because the pain was INSANE. I did the rocking "ha-ha-ha-haoowwwww" thing for a bit. I thought I might have broken it, but it just seems to have bruised and is only sore when I walk.

We watched a bunch of movies this weekend...here is what I thought:

Superbad
A sick little flick about best friends on their way out of high school trying to become men before heading off to college. The two main characters are equal parts charming and filthy...if that's possible...and then there is their friend "McLovin" who befriends some cops and that whole situation provided plenty of laughs (Bill Hader is genius). This movie is highly quotable - I'd share some of the quotes, but there are pretty much none that are appropriate. If you are offended by potty humor, do NOT see this movie. I'm not going to lie, most of the time I was laughing and shocked at the same time from the things that were said. Laughing, nonetheless.

Sunshine
We wanted to see this when it was in the theater but we missed it, so John downloaded it and we watched it Monday night. The sun is dying, and they've taken a bomb the size of Manhattan that is supposed to jump-start the sun or something. They encounter all kinds of problems on the way there, everyone dies, but they save the sun. It was pretty, and suspenseful, and scary in bits, cliche in others. Overall, I liked it.

Halloween
Rob Zombie has done well. I read some not-so-good reviews online about this movie but I just don't agree with most of them. When I was a kid, around 10 years old, this was my absolute favorite type of movie: Bloody, gory, slasher, horror. So, I'd like to think I've seen enough of them judge. I just don't think the genre gets any respect from the critics no matter what, and that is lame. The kid that played young Michael Myers was decent, he at least looked like an evil little thing. The adult Michael...was HUGE...and that made him wicked scary. I especially liked when he ripped a woman's throat open with his hand. :) There weren't any dull moments and there was lots of blood...couldn't ask for much more from a horror film.

Balls of Fury
This was a movie about an underground ping pong tournament where the contestants played to the death. Need I say more? Oh, Christopher Walken is in it as some kind of dark master and I did LOL a few times. Still, what a waste of my life.

Death Sentence
Here is another one that has horrendous reviews online, but I can't figure out why. I hadn't heard anything about this movie or seen any previews so when John suggested we see it, I said sure. I figured he had looked it up and it must have seemed interesting. It's a story about a father seeking revenge on a gang member for killing his son. Kevin Bacon played the father and he was so badass. The whole revenge thing sprials out of control and there is a lot of blood and shooting and chasing. I was emotionally attached to the characters from about 10 minutes into the movie, so I was on the edge of my seat the whole time. It's a great action/drama/suspense movie.

Once
I love this movie! I am a sucker already for European singer-songwriter music so it's no surprise that I enjoyed this movie. It's a musical about two musicians who meet and make beautiful music in more ways than one. It's not your typical musical where people just burst out into song...it's much more like you're a fly on the wall watching people create. I'm definitely going to buy this one and I'll be listening to the soundtrack. If you can find it playing anywhere near you, go see it! Yay! Loves it! :)

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Movies I am excited to see:

3:10 to Yuma
Christian!!!!!!! Okay, I do love a good Christian Bale movie. Okay, well, I do love any Christian Bale movie, but this one looks pretty sweet. I mean, he rides a horse and gets dirty and has a beard and stuff.

Hahah. Okay, all fangirl-iness aside, I think it's going to be really good. Christian is always amazing, Russell Crowe usually delivers and there hasn't been a good Western in a while. I can't wait to see this Friday.

Eastern Promises
All I'm going to say is that I would pay non-matinee (and even Director's Hall prices) to see Viggo do this:

That is all.

Shoot 'Em Up
I loved Clive Owen in Children of Men (what a fantastic movie) and I've heard some really good things about this movie...I'll definitely be going to see it...hope it's good.

The Brave One
This one has Jodie Foster becoming a vigilante after her husband is murdered. Kind of Death Sentence-ish, only with a lady. I think it'll be good.

Resident Evil: Extinction
We will end up seeing this one for two reasons. 1. We have seen the other two and thought they were decent, so why not see the third. and 2. John's got a thing for Milla...whether he'll admit it or not.

That's all for now, folks!