Showing posts with label eddie izzard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label eddie izzard. Show all posts

Thursday, January 7, 2010

"I'm a prostitute robot from the future!"

A career everyone should aspire to. Title is from 'Black Books', a really awesome British TV show. All 3 seasons are on Hulu and on Netflix, so there is no excuse for you not to see this show.

General Blogging
I need more money. It's as simple as that. I have to come up with $683 for my Math class this semester, because I'll be damned if I'm going to be any later in getting my Associate's Degree. I should have my Bachelor's Degree by now, damn it. I would, too, if my family had had enough money to let me go to school when I wanted to/should have, or if I'd have taken the time to get/do scholarships. It's all water under the bridge now, but it irritates me that I'm so behind everyone else as far as school goes. I know it could be worse; I could be taking one class every two semesters and not actually doing the work, but still.

In addition to the class fee, I need to pay bills. That's a fact of life, but there seems to be so MANY of them. Thankfully, only two of them are over $100 {not counting my credit card bill, which I can pay $50-$100 if I choose, fuck the $15 minimum}, so that's something that lets me breathe a little easier. The bad thing is that I make about...$400 a month at my job, not counting my annuity check I get every month, which brings it to about $500 a month.

Money sucks. Plain and simple.

News/Stuff About Celebrities and Movies/Music/TV Shows/etc.
Movie News:
-Casting for 'The Hobbit' has begun in New Zealand. No "big names are confirmed as yet. (Sorry.) Instead, the producers are starting small – hobbit-sized, in fact – as they work from the bottom up to gather the hundreds of extras that will be needed to populate Middle Earth once more."

I wonder how long it would take me to get a passport and visa to go and be an extra?

Actor News:
-According to Greg Grunberg in this article, 'Heroes' will return next season. “We will wrap it up properly in the next season and get to 100 episodes,” he maintains. “At least that’s what I would like to see happen. They take so much care in writing the show that I would hope we get the chance to end it right."

I know this might get me murdered by more than a few of my friends who like this show, or even get me a few weird looks, since I was all about this show at one point, but I am really glad it's going to end next season. I stopped watching halfway through season 3 since I disliked the direction it was going, and I felt a lot {almost all} of the characters were changing so radically, to the point where only Matt Parkman had any believable character growth/change. Also, I'm getting really sick of hearing about the show almost everywhere I turn.


Miscellany
Funny Picture(s) I've Found:

Always!



The Song Currently Stuck In My Head:
'French Navy' by Camera Obscura. One of my all time favourite songs.


Jackie Earle Haley:


Hot Guy Of the Day
Dylan Moran.

Despite my best efforts to resist and prove Ben wrong, I have to admit I have a thing for him now. Freaking Irish. Why do they have to be so HOT?!

Quote of the Day
-Manny: "You are a filth wizard. Friend only to the pig and the rat. Ugh. Look?" {he opens a pizza box}
-Bernard: "Pizza. I was going to warm it and eat it later. Everybody does that. That's normal. You are just looking for things to complain about."
-Manny: "And what are these?"
-Bernard: "...wasps."

Anything Else I Can Think Of
A Video You Need to See:
Just another reason why Eddie Izzard is amazing:

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

We're monkey monkee men, and we'll eat all your friends

We really will. Title is from the song 'Monkee Monkey Men' by Men Women & Children.

The Day So Far
I finished 'Six Feet Under' last night/early this morning, and cried my eyes out. One of the best and most depressing endings to any TV show I've ever seen.

I had a fudgesicle this morning for breakfast and may have sushi for lunch with my soon-to-be-ex roommate.

News/Stuff About Celebrities and Movies/Music/TV Shows/etc.
Movie You Should Be Excited About:
'Shutter Island'

Not the least because it's directed by Martin Scorsese, whom many consider to be one of the greatest directors alive, but because it has an amazing ensemble cast; Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ted Levine, Patricia Clarkson, Michelle Williams, Jackie Earle Haley, Ben Kingsley and Emily Mortimer. Plus, you know, the story is excellent. And anything with Jackie Earle Haley is a movie I can get behind, even if it's just for him.

Most Recent Movie I Have Seen In Theatres:
'The Hurt Locker'. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow, mastermind behind 'Near Dark', among other movies. It's an intense white-knuckler of a movie about a bomb squad in the chaos of the Iraq War. Starring one of my other favourite actors; Jeremy Renner, whom many may know from '28 Weeks Later', 'S.W.A.T', 'Dahmer' and 'The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford', was amazing in it, and I'm pleased to see him in more leading man roles. Plus, the rest of the cast, ones that you know and ones that come out of nowhere pretty much make the movie.

Grade: A-

Miscellany
I have finished 8 TV shows now, as you can see on the list to the right of this blog. The next one I watch will be either 'The Wire', 'Deadwood' or 'Lie to Me'.

Hot Guy of the Day
Chris Messina, whom I noticed on 'Six Feet Under'. He has some really sexy lips, and don't you just want to mess up that hair? :3 He's also in 'Julie & Julia', which I've been wanting to see and now I have another reason to.

Quote of the Day
"Yes, and the Crusades were, 'We kill you in the name of Jesus!'

'Wait, we have Jesus too! He's a prophet in our religion! We kill you in the name of Jesus!'

'Do you? Well, we kill you for your dark skin, for Jesus was a white man from Oxford!'

'No, he wasn't! He was from Judea! Dark-skinned man, such as we!'

'Look, it's just we've come all this way. Would you mind awfully if we hacked you to bits? Just for the press back home.'"- Eddie Izzard, 'Glorious'


Anything Else I Can Think Of
Band You Should Be Listening To:

Sleater-Kinney. Yes, I know they broke up in 2007, but their album 'The Woods' is raucous and beautiful in a way that you wouldn't think a girl band would be able to achieve, especially the first track on the album, The Fox. It makes you want to either get up and dance or mosh the fuck out of people.

I Want:
I've been looking for a bloody smiley-face pin, and cannot find it anywhere. You'd think it would have been the first thing made to promote the Watchmen movie, but, unfortunately not. :(