The warm and fuzzies

There are some clips from movies that when I watch them I immediately feel good inside.

I hope these clips do the same for you.

Adam Brody

I just watched In The Land of Women. Well kind of, it was on the TV, and I was in the room most of the time. I enjoyed it much more this time around. And I started to wonder where is Adam Brody these days? I have always liked him, ever since his days as Dave Rygalski on Gilmore Girls.

Well I IMDB'd this fella, and he is rumored to be in the upcoming Justice League movie as The Flash/Barry Allen. That should be interesting.

Also, Ginnifer Goodwin is at the end of this movie! I had forgotten that. I enjoy her as well. Isn't interesting how everyone is talking about her now, and I haven't heard about Mr. Brody in ages? My how the tables have turned.

Such Great Heights

I was writing a paper last night and had my iTunes on shuffle and the first song to come on was the Such Great Heights cover by Iron and Wine. I don't think I will ever get tired of this song. I think every cover I heard I have liked, but Iron and Wine might be my favorite.

Garden State can be kind of tiresome now, but when it came out that movie and soundtrack were pretty amazing.

My friend Jonathan sent me this sweet animated short, and I fell in love. So simple, and so great.

Gigantic

So I was watching Lifetime Movie Network (because I love me some fine cinema) and I saw the last half of a commercial for another new Zooey Deschanel movie!!! I was walking out the door, but I had to know more. Thankfully I possess an iPhone and was able to watch the trailer on my commute, Zooey is incredibly adorable in everything she does.

I am also really enjoying the fact John Goodman and Ed Asner are in this flick.

Where The Wild Things Are

I could just watch this trailer all day long.

Added bonus the screen play is by Dave Eggers.

Milk + I Love You Man

This was a peculiar weekend for me, I saw two movies, in the theaters. I love movies, but I rarely end up going to see them in the theaters. It is a combination of factors really. Movie tickets are $12 which just seems ludicrous to me, I am a little lazy, and movie theater crowds often annoy me. This weekend though I sucked it up and went to see two fantastic movies.

First I saw Milk when I had some free time downtown on Saturday. It was amazing, it was inspiring and heartbreaking at the same time.

Then I saw I Love You, Man last night. I had been anticipating this movie for quite some time. Paul Rudd and Jason Segel are two of my favorite guys, and it was amazing to see Paul Rudd in such a large lead role. As you guys know, I love Paul Rudd. The movie did not let me down when little bit, my brother wrote me this message after he saw it:

I want to be like Paul Rudd when I grow up, but taller.

Go see I Love You, Man.

500 Days of Summer

You guys have probably seen this all over the interweb already, but like Paige I couldn't resist posting it myself.

I love Zooey.

Funny People

Have you heard of Funny People? The new Adam Sandler/Judd Apatow project? If you have not I feel sorry for you. Watch the trailer and enjoy.

I have my ways, and have been privied to some lines of the script, and they are amazing. I was standing in a crowded elevator laughing to myself, but I didn't care because it was so funny.

At the end of the trailer when the guys are at the canyon, notice Jason Schwartzmans shirt. Yah, thats an Oregon Track Club shirt, what what Eugene!

Pop Culture is my Calling

As I mentioned a couple days  ago I am really into pop culture. To illustrate to you how true this is, let me tell you about the papers I have written since coming to Parsons. Last semester I wrote a paper about Batman, and how Gotham city is essentially NYC. If you want to argue that Gotham is Chicago, I will debate you to the death. In my last few papers for my global issues classes I have managed to reference both Seinfeld and Michael Jordan. 

My favorite paper though was my paper on the Evolution of the Nerd. Essentially my paper illustrated how the Nerd has evolved from Socially unacceptable to hearthrob over the past 50 30-50 years, and that also the Nerd is the predecessor to the hipster. My paper covered Richie Cunningham, Louis Skolnick, and Seth Cohen. Then concluded with a bit about hipsters and using the hipster olympics as my main source. If you have not seen the hipster olympics, watch it now, do it. I even embedded it in this post for your convenience.

Benny and Joon

Friday night I tried to go see He's Just Not That Into You, but since I forgot I live in New York and you have to buy tickets for Friday night waaaay in advance, so instead my brother, our friend Annie, and I rented Benny and Joon, and it was incredibly delightful.

Charlie's Angels

So I was watching Charlie's Angels, and Drew Barrymore is just a little time capsule of 1999/2000 in this movie. Watch the trailer and see the wonderful hair trends she sports, like the really intense sporadic curls, and the crimped hair. Not too mention her romance with Tom Green.

Also, the opening montage scene of this movie is pretty spectacular, and Bill Murray is Bosley, love. Oh and Luke Wilson is in it. AND All the Small Things by Blink-182 is the closing credits song!

For those of you girls that were in middle school/high school when this movie came out, did you throw up your hands in the air when independent woman played at your school dances. I sure did.

I Love You, Man

Let's just say I am excited for this film. Why you ask? Paul Rudd, Jason Segel, Rashida Jone, Andy Samberg, J.K. Simmons.....

17 Again

So I don't particular want to be seventeen again considering that that was only three years ago, but I am actually intrigued by this new film starring Zac Efron. As you may remember from yesterday, I am not his biggest fan, I actually enjoy him in this trailer.

And when looking into this film I found this little newsbit on IMDB:

Daughter Licks Mann's Face To Get Close To Efron

23 March 2008 6:18 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Leslie Mann's daughter was so excited her mother had a kissing scene with Zac Efron in upcoming movie Seventeen Again, she licked the actress' face when she got home from work.

Mann, who is married to director Judd Apatow and is best known for her roles in The 40 Year Old Virgin and Knocked Up, plays Efron's wife in the new film.

And her 10-year-old daughter Maude was desperate to get a taste of the High School Musical hunk.

Mann, 35, says, "My daughter Maude, who's 10, is in love with Zac Efron and I just did a movie with him called Seventeen Again where he plays a grown man in a 17-year-old's body. And he plays my husband, so we got to kiss, which was very exciting for Maude.

"When I got home from work after doing the kissing scene, she ran up to me and licked my face because she wanted to taste Zac Efron's spit.

"Zac is 20 by the way, he's not 17, so it's not as creepy."

Mann adds, "I always thought it was creepy when older movie actors would have really young love interests. I always thought that was really gross.

"But now I totally get it."

Things I miss

So I was watching ABC Family, as most 20 year olds do, and a disney movie came on. Specifically, "Cars" and instead of seeing the opening logo that you see above I saw some horrible digitized version of it. It made me so sad. Everyone seems to be doing things digital just because they can. I yearn for cartoons that actually look like they were drawn, those were and still are the best. 

I'm dreaming of a White Christmas

Every year my family watches White Christmas together. I can't wait to watch it every year. Bing Crosby singing White Christmas gets me in the holiday spirit every time.

As if

I love Clueless. I am always amazed when people from my generation have never seen it. It like totally defines the 90's.

I had the VHS version of Clueless and at the end was this music video by Supergrass. You may recognize the song from the movie. It is grand, and I have come to realize so is Supergrass.

Mary Poppins

I love love love this Mary Poppins. I want it so badly, but apparently that is not a possibility. I can't wait to see what else My Paper Crane will do!

From My Paper Crane found via Craftzine.

Happy Halloween!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

The fact that Halloween is on Friday this year is amazing. My two friends and I are going to be Powerpuff Girls tonight, we wikipediad them, and it pretty much describes are friendship. Of course including the super powers. I am going to be the green one.

Also the Village Halloween Parade is apparently recreating the parade scene from Ferris Bueller. CANNOT WAIT!

Segue

I noticed my last post segued me nicely into talking about another Wes Anderson film. I saw "Bottle Rocket" the other night. This is Wes Anderson's first film, and though I had heard lots about it I had never had the chance to see it. I am happy to say I really liked it. There isn't really a point, and you kind of leave it thinking random, but I felt the same with "Burn After Reading" and loved that. So if you like Wes Andersons films, I highly recommend tracking down a copy of "Bottle Rocket" and having an enjoyable 1 1/2 hrs.

P.S. If you have seen this, Kumar is pretty much my new favorite person.

P.P.S. I know this was made in 1996, but I am disappointed with the poster artwork.