March is over & it's time for another post devoted to the movies I enjoyed watching, books I enjoyed reading & books I decided I want to read sometime in the future.
Past posts - February 2012 / January 2012
THE BOOKS I READ & ENJOYED - On Writing by Stephen King / The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson / Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson / Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson / Terrible, Horrible Edie by E.C. Spykman / Nicholas by René Goscinny
THE BOOKS I DISCOVERED THIS MONTH & AIM TO SOMEDAY ENJOY -... Virgina Wolf by Kyo Maclear, illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault
What I Wore Today by Gemma Correll
Humphry Slocombe Ice Cream Book / Waffles: Fun Recipes for Every Meal / Sweet Cream and Sugar Cones: 90 Recipes for Making Your Own Ice Cream and Frozen Treats from Bi-Rite Creamery
Photobooth Dogs by Cameron Woo / The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888 - 1978 / American Photobooth by Nakki Goranin
Up & Down New York by Tony Sarg / Martin Pebble by Jean-Jacques Sempé
WHAT I WATCHED & ENJOYED THIS MONTH -
.... and Finding Nemo. I cried during the intro when Marlin's wife gets eaten. Pixar movies = always hitting you hard emotionally within the first few minutes. Finding Nemo gets a few tears but Up! Full on sobs.
Now, movies I saw in the theater....
Wanderlust. I'm a Wet Hot American Summer person, so I go see all the movies by those guys. Yeah, Wanderlust didn't get the greatest reviews, but parts of it were super-hilarious. & the scene with Paul Rudd talking to himself in the mirror made me cry almost as much as Up did (but obviously in a totally different fashion).
Jeff Who Lives at Home. It's funny, throughout the whole movie I sided with Jason Segel's character (Jeff).... cheering him on: "You follow your destiny, Jeff! Don't let your brother get you down! Stalk various Kevin's - it's fine! Borderline adorable even!". Meanwhile, I'm in the midst of rewatching Lost with people who have never seen it before and thus in the midst of hardcore John Locke loathing. "Loathing / unadulterated loathing" - Wicked style. He's probably my least favorite fictional character EVER (although I'm also slowly making my way through Dawson's Creek in my quest to watch all the high school shows I didn't watch during high school, and man oh man do I have some major rage issues stemming from Dawson behavior. And Joey behavior. And Gram's "Oh Jennifer"'s.)
Watching Lost a few days after I saw Jeff Who Lives at Home I realized that I was being hypocritical: despising John Locke for the same behavior that I found endearing in Jeff.
"It's my destiny, Jack" - DIE JOHN LOCKE.
"It's my destiny, Pat" - OH JEFF LET ME GIVE YOU A HUG.
Oh well.
Oh well.
Finally, I saw The Hunger Games. I started to write a paragraph here with my thoughts, but that paragraph turned into like SIX paragraphs... so I'm going to paste them down in the comment section. If you want to read them, you can. But I'm not going to force my Hunger Games ramblings on you. In short - I liked it.
