Austenland

Ok, so I just watched this movie a week ago or so for the first time, and then watched it yet again 3 days later! It intrigued me, and I needed to see it a second time. So, this movie is about a women who is OBSESSED with everything Jane Austen has written, and she watches all the movie renditions of the books and even memorizes portions of the books. She discovers this place in England called Austenland where you can pay to have an "Austen Experience" by dressing up like people in those times and behaving and speaking like them. So, being Austen's biggest fan, she of course, has to go. She spends her life savings on it after seeing that her life is not what she wants it to be at all. When she gets there, she finds that she has paid for the cheapest package there is, while the other two ladies paid for the premium package, and so she will be excluded from parts of the trip. She is also promised that the experience includes romance with one of the actors. So as she goes about the experience, it seems to be all about finding out whose intentions are real and whose are not.

It is a movie that makes fun of the Austen movies while being exactly like one at the same time, so it is entertaining. After watching this movie though, I felt odd. I really couldn't put my finger on exactly what I was feeling, but it was a very odd feeling. Maybe it just had to do with the fact that I didn't follow it very well, or maybe it has to do with my past being a little like her experience in which she cannot tell when the man's intentions are actually real or not, and being played in that sense. Maybe it was because I tend to imagine myself in those situations and I know that if I were in that situation that the same thing would have happened to me..I don't know, it was weird. The second time I watched it, the movie over all made sense and I felt better about it, but that odd feeling was still there inside me... I really can't figure it out. But, while I'm trying to figure it out, I'll just enjoy the movie and its storyline. I really do like it, and it hooked me in and I had to keep watching. Chick flicks with a nonsensical romance always get me ;)

Hold It Against Me

I saw this cover of this Britney Spears song 3 years ago when it first came out. I had never heard the song before, and I had never heard of Sam Tsui either. Now, I've heard a lot of Sam's covers and I have heard the Britney Spears version. I like the way he sings this wayyyyyyyyy better than the actual version. I love the melodic surprises, and his improvisations. Other than that though, I don't tend to like his versions over the other ones. I think that he can sing a lot of the songs that are sung by women with his higher voice range, but I don't like his versions that are normally sung by men. Sadly, it's true. But this is one of my favorite covers of any song ever, so please, enjoy!!!

Pinterest

I love Pinterest. While it is much fun to just browse around ad look at cute pictures, I use it most for new recipes. I really don't like to cook, but that's the beauty of Pinterest, you find simple meals that make cooking super duper easy. They also have a lot of wonderful dessert recipes. Mmmm! I love desserts. So much! I just found this new page that has a list of 50 different Oreo desserts. So bad for you, but I tend not to care about that even though I should... I love sugary, chocolatey, fattening things. It's totally wonderful. I love baking sugary things a lot. Pinterest fuels my baking and making desserts. Probably a bad thing, but I love it :)

Yet Another Guilty Pleasure

Ok, so I just saw this on Facebook, and I'm super duper excited!!!

http://www.smosh.com/smosh-pit/articles/pokemon-animated-series-coming-netflix

The Pokemon animated series is coming to Netflix!! Woohoo!! I'm so excited that I just can't hide it!!
Honestly, I'm not really into Anime, but it's Pokemon! It's my childhood!

Another reason I love to watch it so much because it makes the world of Pokemon that much closer to reality, where you see those Pokemon you collected and had cards for and how they act in real life! I wish Pokemon were real, then I'd actually know what I'd do with my life!! Lol. Anyway, I'm super excited, and you should be too!!

Honda 2014 Big Game: #hugfest

So, there were a lot of good Super Bowl commercials this
year, but I wanted to share one that I really liked. It had a good
message, and just the right amount of funny. Plus, it gets your
attention because it's Bruce Willis, and it is a very prosocial message.


And then, there's Fred Armisen. For those who don't know him, he's a very
funny guy from SNL. He's great. Anyway, I love this commercial. Hope you
enjoy!

30 Rock

30 Rock!

I have really gotten into this show since I can watch Netflix at work and I needed new stuff to watch. It is sooooo funny! I just love the stories and the characters, and their weird and random personalities.    

For those who haven't seen the show, it is about Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) who is the head writer for a comedy show on NBC. Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin) is their new executive boss who decides to mentor Liz Lemon.
Tracy Jordan and Jenna Maroney are the actors on the show, and are both a little narcissistic. Jenna is a firm believer in special treatment for actors and is constantly acting out to get attention. Tracy is a millionaire because of the many movies he has been in and more.

                                                                   Some of the cast

One of my favorite parts of this show? It is written by Tina Fey herself. She is one of the funniest people I can think of. I love every movie with her in it. She has a mostly clean sense of humor that is sometime the most random. That's what makes her awesome.

Liz Lemon is a woman whose life is in total chaos. She has to deal with the crazy actors, her writing staff, and then everything in her personal life. Every man that they introduce on the show for her has some kind of fault and ultimately ends in disappointment, (which is a part I'm not overly fond of). She has an interesting relationship with her boss/mentor where their personal lives often end up being the main talking topic and he will fix all her problems and she will give horribly bad advice that he will ignore. She is in love with food, and that is her longest loving relationship and she knows it will never leave her. She is hilarious.

                                                                    Kenneth

Now this goofy looking guy is Kenneth. He is in the NBC page program, and just loves television. He loves to serve. He will do anyone's bidding, and is proud to go get their lunches, and be yelled at when it's wrong, he loves it. He is the most positive person on Earth, and sometimes it irritates people, and other times, he inspires them. He also doesn't believe in getting anything without earning it.

Best thing about this guy? (Jack McBrayer) He is the voice of Fix-it-Felix from Wreck-it Ralph!! It is so cool to actually see the voice of Felix as a person on a show and not doing voice overs. That's one of my favorite things you see, seeing the people who voice my favorite characters talking in real life. I want to see if their voice is just like that, or if it's not, I like seeing them do the voice. Like King Candy in Wreck-it Ralph. Alan Tudyk is amazing.

Anyway, this is one of my favorite shows, and I love it. :) I hope you watch it and enjoy it too.

Guilty Pleasures

So.... I have a guilty pleasure when it comes to TV shows... I watch The Bachelor and The Bachelorette. I know, I know, it sounds bad, but I just love all the drama! At least it's not soap operas right? I don't know if that's any worse... I love getting into the show and picking my favorite people for the contenders and analyzing things here and there. This time around I have made a list of all the girls and their ages and qualities and sorted them in ranking order of who I like best. And it changes every week, because more and more qualities of the girls will come out. 

Any way, this is the first season they've had a Latino Bachelor, and the women are loving it! Here is Juan Pablo:

Not gonna lie, he is attractive, and he is also really sweet. He has a daughter, and he is trying to set a good example for her (the best example he can while being on a show dating multiple women..) 

I just love the ooey gooey drama that goes on in the house, and who does he like and why, and the romance, and all that jazz

So that's my guilty pleasure. What's yours?