"I need Japanese steel..."

When I was younger:

(I think I was a 16 years old senior in high school) I wanted to be a sniper for the United States Secret Service. Watching Kill Bill on tv right now makes me wonder what would have happened if I followed that dream.

He needs me///

Punch-Drunk-Love is on tv... I love that movie so much. Maybe its just because of the colors and music... <3 This is all.

One of my favorite lines from a movie:
B: I'm lookin' at your face and I just wanna smash it. I just wanna fuckin' smash it with a sledgehammer and squeeze it. You're so pretty.
L: I want to chew your face, and I want to scoop out your eyes and I want to eat them and chew them and suck on them.

So,

before I go to sleep...


We saw 'Angels & Demons' and
I loved it.

Good night.

TaTa

Off to see Crank with Paul!

Make your way up to the stars, It's there where you belong///

Song of the Day: Editors> You Are Fading


Another gorgeous day on St. George. I love having a big window near my computer. I can look out into the neighborhood lined with Pine, Oak & Maple trees. Its a good feeling inside. I was thinking about crocheting that new green bag while watching Slumdog Millionaire on the couch with the cats while Paul is at Sac State for his Saturday class.

I then saw this picture and I couldn't help myself from laughing. What a hobo! I think that made my day better seeing that photo.

blerg.

Dear God,

I can't believe that I actually watched a Lifetime movie this afternoon. God, save me. Oh yeah, Sizzler is like the shit.

The end.

If you spend some more time I guarantee you will find she's not me///

Song of the Day: Madonna> She's Not Me


So, instead of seeing "Watchmen" last night, we decided to watch some movies that Paul had downloaded a long time ago and haven't watched (the PS3 has a wifi connection so we can stream movies from Paul's computer in the bedroom to the living room where the PS3 is). One of those movies was called "Death Race"...

We came to this conclusion:

Death Race is a race version of the classic movie Shawshank Redemption

I like the movie. It was decent. I love action movies. And Jason Statham. The end. So unrealistic but entertaining.

Always stealing other peoples ideas.

Score!

Dear Slumdog Millionaire,


Congrats on winning all 4 of the Golden Globe nominations (especially the Best Picture one). No one else deserved it more.


-Amanda

Birthday Update!

I am off to take a shower in a bit but I wanted to recap on Birthday '08:

-Paul got me Little Big Planet for the PS3... It was soooo fun! Sack Boy is so cute!
-Had birthday lunch at work w/ Dr D and Sara @ Lucca's... Got $500 bonus from Dr including a cute leather cat coin purse and a bronze leaf necklace and cat butt magnets.

-Paul took me to see "Slumdog Millionaire" at the Tower Theater. It is now one of my favorite movies of the year. I hope it wins
-We went to Rick's Dessert Diner off K Street for some early birthday cake and coffee.

-Paul took me out to Lucca's again for diner.
-Went to an art gallery since it was 2nd Saturday.
-Went to Safeway to get some munchies and a birthday bottle of Skyy vodka!

I wonder why I'm so caught off guard when we kiss... I'd rather live my life in regret then do this///

Song of the day: Jimmy Eat World> Disintegration


I have thought long a hard what to write about my latest movie experience yesterday afternoon. I am lucky to have seen a lot of really good movies this year (Be Kind Rewind, Burn After Reading, Cloverfield, Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, Iron Man, Kung Fu Panda, Tropic Thunder, Pineapple Express, The Dark Knight, Role Models). It helps that I have a great boyfriend who has good taste in music and movies. There have been some movies that I weren't too sure about which I ended up loving so much (like Burn After Reading), but still, the movies haven't been any lower then I expected. That was until yesterday.

I admit that I saw Twilight yesterday. The only reason why I got into the book was because of my co-worker, Sara. I love her to death. When she started to read the Twilight books (technically, I have only read book 1 and I am currently on New Moon, book 2), she told me how good they were and that I should give them a read sometime. Being that I was going to school with 2 hard classes at the time, I didn't have too much time to add another reading material to my ever growing list of books. I put it on the back burner of my world till about a month ago. I ended up dropping a real hard math class and had some time free to finally get to that book. I started it earlier this month and I managed to finish the book the day before the movie came out. Paul had promised me that he would see the movie with me if I had finished the book before the movie movie came out. I did win the bet, but I came to the conclusion that he wouldn't like to be stuck in a teenage movie for about 2 hours. I decided to go at it alone and have a day out to myself at the matinée showing. I figured that if I didn't like the movie, it would be better to spend $7 as apposed to $10 and having Paul not be into the movie as well.

My goodness. I wanted to like the movie so much and so badly. I couldn't do it. I figured that it wouldn't be as I imagined it because of its PG-13 rating... But it was just so bad on so many levels.

Things I hated/ were appalled by:

• The cutting of important scenes and parts from the book. There was one part in which Edward tells Bella why he has been avoiding her, which happened over the course of few weeks and in the movie, it was like 2 days. The other scene I was upset about was at the end in which Edward takes Bella to the prom. In the book, Alice helps Bella get ready by doing her hair, letting her borrow her dress and heels... Oh yeah, that part was missing including her heel (she had a walking cast on her other foot) which was replaced by a freaking Converse Chuck Taylor.

• Carlisle's history was completely left out!!!

• The families history was left out too! Seriously.

• The "animal" attacks never happened in the book (I think I would remember such an event as people being killed randomly) & totally threw me off track.

• The acting was horrid. Oh my goodness, I know that the characters are young adults, but they could have put more feeling into their performance. Bella was so dry and dull, nothing like the book portrays her. Edward was too full of himself, which I understand is partly done to keep Bella away from him. The dad (Charlie Swan) was entertaining. He was a dull character too but he played a Dad who hasn't been in his child's life and the performance seemed to fit that ideal.

• The soundtrack sucked. Of all the songs in the whole world, the list they presented the world was pathetic. I could come up with something better then what came out. I am so influenced by music, and there are others that could have been added that would have made a better impact then what actually was.

• They spliced scenes and put them in different orders. In the book, Edward meets Bella's dad before he takes her to meet his family... In the movie, Edward takes her to meet the family first and then he meets Charlie.

• The "special effects" were bad. Like painfully bad. The part with Edward running was funny for the wrong reasons. & the 'Meadow Scene' was a joke when Edward was 'glistening & sparkling'.

• The following scenes lacked important info :La Push, The Cullen House, The Prom, The Hotel, The Airport, The Meadow, The Hospital.

• One of the most important lines in the book was missing completely: When Alice says the following to Bella when James is coming after her:

It’s been almost a century that Edward’s been alone. Now he’s found you. You can’t see the changes that we see, we who have been with him for so long. Do you think any of us want to look into his eyes for the next hundred years if he loses you?"

Anyways, Other then that, I gave it a 2 of 5 "stars". It could have been so much better


In other news, I got my eyebrows waxed again @ Macy's, new nail polish @ Hot Topic (which I went in to see Nancy & bitch to her about the movie too) and new mascara (red) @ Ulta. I need to work on the speech for tomorrow. I know I will suck when I present it.

There is something I see in you... It might kill me; I want it to be true///

Song of the day: Paramore> Decode


So, I think I will see the movie by myself. I haven't been to a movie alone in such a long time. I think it will be good to get out of the house and let Paul do his own thing and me to do my own as well.

3 weeks to the day before I turn 25. I feel like such a child sometimes tho. *sigh*

Breath out so I can breathe you in... Hold you in///

Song of the day: Foo Fighters> Everlong



The end to another day. Thank goddness. I am glad that it is finally fall and not summer. Don't get me wrong, I love the things that come with the summer seasons; like swimming, day light that never seems to go away, bbq-ing every night that we can. I am just not a fan of the hot days and I really am happy. Soon, it will be the holidays and then time for a new year of things.

And today it just hit me that in about 2 months I will be 25. Yeah. To be honest, I don't feel like I am any certain age. I just feel like me. Soon I will be at my quarter life. Gasp.

Project Runway is on. I haven't seen LL Cool J in the longest time. Paul kept joking that LL would probably make his abs make a guest appearance. I hope Kenley goes home. She is so effing rude and a one trick pony.

[edit] OHMYFUCKINGGAWD... The decided to keep fucking Kenley! I was so ready to punch a whole in the TV. If that bitch makes it to the final 3, I will punch my self in the stomach. Fo reals, yo.

[edit again] The Karate Kid is on (actually its The Karate Kid 2) and I am wanting a Cobra Kai tee shirt. I think the thought of watching this movie gets me happy and thinking about Halloween also. Snaps, Mr. Miyagi is from Okinawa Japan.

from the ipod touch...

I tell you, I am so in love with this damn iPod thing. I am going to have to get one of these sooner rather then later.

Paul bought "planet earth" on blu ray and we are watching it right now. I am taken back by how awesome the video quality is. And seeing the animals makes

me a happy bear.

Ugh. Stupid t-mobile... I cant do my 365 till their server comes back online. In the mean time, I'm watching Be Kind Rewind with Paul and finishing my plastic bag.

Dragon Warrior

OMG, Kung Fu Panda was awesome!!!


More in the morning.

In a room without a window in the corner I found truth///

Iron Man was awesome. O.M.F.G



PS: The song "Shadowplay" by The Killers was originally done by Joy Division... Its added to my cover song list.

& over & again///

So,

One of the cds in the office amongst the 4 80's compilations (those cheesy Modern Rock ones) is a compilation cd of some songs from the 1970's (which I love cause my parents listened to that stuff when I was a kid), it has the song "Kiss You All Over" by a band named Exile... When ever I hear that song, I think of the movie Happy Gilmore when Adam Sandler is singing into the intercom... I just have that picture in my head when I hear the chorus. Stupid movie makes me smile all the time.

Dork.