June 2007

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Hours wasted

June 13, 2007 in TV, movies | 1 comment

I’ve been home for that past week preforming my wifely duties. Leaving the coffee maker on, keeping the cupboard doors in the kitchen open, buying food I’m too lazy to cook and letting it rot. My husband is the luckiest man in the world.

I’ve been watching a lot of movies the past few days. Some good some bad. Strangely enough four of them were about crossing dressing. Tootsie, Mrs. Doubtfire, Victor Victoria, and She’s the Man. “Tootsie” was on TV at 3 in the morning and I have to watch it ever time it’s on TV. It’s one of those comfort movies for me. “Mrs. Doubtfire” I watched because I hadn’t seen it since it since I was ten. “Victor/Victoria” was also on TV late at night. Julie Andrews is also a comfort to me. There’s this movie she was in in the 60′s called Thoroughly Modern Millie which was an obsession of mine when I was little. I’ve seen that movie a hundred times. As a result I feel the need to watch things she’s in. I’ve even seen The Princess Diaries. Although not a hundred times. “She’s The Man” was recommend to me by this guy on the Internet. He said it was not as bad as it sounded, and that Amanda Bynes had really great comedic timing. I agree to some extent. It’s not AS bad as it sounds.. and Amanda Bynes does have talent.. but meh. It’s pretty bad. Other non cross dressing films I’ve seen the last few days. Pick Up Your Ears, War of The Roses, Desperate Hours, and Dirty Love. I had seen all but Dirty Love before. I was really excited about this movie because it was Jenny McCarthy and I love her and her fake boob, bleached blond, playboy playmate, burping and farting schtik. The movie was cute.. but she could have done so much more. Although the menstrual bleeding in the store, and the grabbing and shaking her vomit covered boobs was good too.

I love having a movie channel. I love the feeling of just randomly coming across a movie to watch at any time of the day. For some reason it gives me way more satisfaction then going to the movies or renting movies. It’s good when they are old movies too. at least 10 years.

Oh crap! I can’t believe I almost forgot to mention the movie I saw tonight. Call me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss. I love TV movies with all my heart, and this was ok. It was no Lifetime TV movie. I wounder if you can buy a box set of Lifetime TV movies. Oh my Gosh you can! Lifetime Movies. Baby for Sale looks really good.

Now I’m all misty eyed for the great Television shows I was raised on. Who’s the boss, Mr. Belvedere, Golden Girls. I’ve spent so much of my childhood watching TV. I’m like the real life Cable guy.

“There where Lesbians?”

June 4, 2007 in drinking, movies, people | No comments

I had a busy weekend. On Friday a whole group of us went out. #22 was in town and Perl has moved back so we painted the town red. Pink at least. We went to the established “old fogies” pub in town. It’s full of 40 to 60 year olds getting their drink on. We wanted a place without loud music and 18 year olds. After a few hours we moved on to the skanky dank pit that we inhabited every night during our early twenties. (I think I can say early twenties now that I’m 25.) As Perl said “returning to the scene of the crime.” The night was fun. There was an incident with a bald headed, lesbian, punk. She tried to make me her bitch. She surprised kissed me and then kept trying to hold my hand. I get the shivers just thinking about it. Nothing wrong with lesbians, but she was just not my type!

What’s up with Blackouts? Practically everyone I know has a blackout when they drink. I know that’s a sign of alcoholism, but can it be true that 80% of my friends are alcoholics?!? It’s never happened to me and I’m not what you would call a light drinker. Now a days’ I rarely drink, but back in the day… Maybe swede’s are more sensitive to alcohol, like other ethnic groups who lack certain enzymes involved in metabolizing alcohol in the liver. I guess my Italian genes are good for something. But the blackouts my friends experience are really starting to get on my nerves. I’m not concerned about their health or well being, but there are whole after parties were we have been sitting and talking for hours, that they don’t remember the next day! That’s just irritating! The first person I knew who had blackouts was an old boyfriend. I told him that it was a sign of alcoholism and that he should stop drinking. He got really pissy and we broke up. Apparently I’m a bitch. Whatever. I just remembered, the day after we went out one of the guys was saying he didn’t remember anything after we got to the second bar, and I told him he should stop drinking. Some things never change. Like my heartless accusations.

Saturday they were having a “Äckelfest” at the Roxy. A group of us went there to see “Vase de noces,” “One man and his pig.” There’s so much to be said about this film, and yet there’s nothing to say really. I understood the whole having babies with the pig, and killing the babies, and the pig killing herself, but after the first 15 minuets of the poop montage, I was lost for the next 15 minuets of it. Did they think the importance of the fecal eating would be lost if there was only a few minuets of it.. as apposed to 30! I do however agree with my one friend that said it was interesting the way they managed to have an emotion intermixed with disgusting images in almost every scene. Love/bestiality, fear/childbirth, anger/dead piglets, sadness/poop and so on and so on. I still prefer to be grossed out by a John Waters movie myself.

I think that’s about all I feel comfortable sharing for now. Today is the man’s birthday. As his present he gets to punch me in the ovaries.