Have you seen Heathers? When you’re craving that, Jawbreaker doesn’t do it. Compared to Mean Girls or other modern ilk? Yes, Jawbreaker is on par or better than those. To me! Plus to me Judy Greer is always Kitty from Arrested Development, maybe I couldn’t accept her as Fern/Violette. :P

So this summer I’ve taking PSYC 300A, and PSYC 300B which are stats courses, and GMST 454 which is a Cultural History of Vampires.

First semester:

HA 364: Documentary Film Studies

PSYC 365: Fundamentals of Clinical Psychology

SOCI 306: Crime and Deviance (this will be a cakewalk as I was working on a Criminology diploma at VIU before I transferred)

HIST 468: Pirates Since 1500

SOCI 210: Foundations of Sociological Theory (also cakewalk as I took this at VIU but it transferred as Social Inequality)

Second semester:

PSYC 315: Intro to Neuropsychology

PSYC 360: Psychological Disorders of Adulthood

PSYC 435C: Child Cognitive Development

PSY 366: Adolescent Development

WS 323: Medicalization of Sex

First semester I somehow have Tuesdays off? And second semester I only have 3 hours of class on Tu/W/Fri! Hopefully after the transferring and 6-class semester this year, this’ll seem easier.

So I joined the FUTURE (or the present) and signed up for my one month free trial of Netflix. After 4 days, I can say that it is both more and less glorious than I had anticipated. I spent HOURS anally rating every movie I had seen on the site in order to personalize my reccommendations, and even though I selected that I hate musicals, ALL MY RECCOMMENDATIONS ARE MUSICALS AND TEEN MOVIES. Can’t a girl like Heathers and Not Another Teen Movie as a fluke? 

I’ve mostly been watching TV (I’m rewatching Arrested Development, and I just started watching Mad Men) but hey! Let’s talk about movies. 

Mirror Mirror (2012): 1.5/10 - Let me preface: I really hate Julia Roberts. I really like living next to a second-run movie theatre that plays 4 dollar double features on Tuesdays. This was awful. The only good line was “Snow white’s gone!” “Did you check in the kitchen?” and the fact that one of the dwarves was named Napoleon. There, I just told you the bulk of the funny moments in the film. You’re welcome. 

Wrath of the Titans (2012): 1/10. This is the second movie I’ve walked out of in a theatre in my life. I forget what the first was, but I remember getting my money back. I saw the first one. I hated it. The only highlight was “release the Kracken!” in this one, at least in the first 45 minutes, there was no highlights. So much action, so little caring. 

Blubberella (2011): 0.5/10. I made it 20 minutes into this one. It’s about a 400lb half vampire half human who hunts Nazis. I am not easy to offend and I was wildly offended and unamused. It’s like a terrible high school play. Except offensive. And lower budget. Don’t be attracted by the premise. Just don’t. 

The Five Year Engagement (2012): 8.5/10. I really, really love Jason Segel.. in How I Met Your Mother. I really did not like Forgetting Sarah Marshall, nor I Love You Man. Maybe my expectations were rock bottom when going to this… but they were BLOWN. This is hilarious. I was laughing nearly the whole time. As a Psych major hopefully with grad school on my horizons, I have some qualms with the education level they were portraying the chick as but apart from that.. oh my god. Chris Pratt, aka Andy from Parks and Rec, was absolutely hilarious. I’m peeing a little just thinking back on Five-Year. Jason Segel is naked in this a lot. And charming. 

The Avengers (2012): 8.5/10. THORRRRRRRRRRRRRR. I LOVE THOR SO MUCH. ASGAARD AS I KNOW, IT’S TRUE LOVE. I’D LIKE TO GET LOKI WITH HIM. THORELY THAT COULD HAPPEN? Uhhh the first 60% of getting everyone together was not awesome. But then the last 40% of the movie was SO GOOD that I forgot all about the beginning dragging. I would tap Scarlett Johannsson if I were to tap a lady. THORRRRRRR. THORRRRRRRRRRRRR. 

Fahrenheit 451 (1966): 6/10. This wasn’t fair. This is tied for my very favourite book of all time so my expectations were ridiculous by the time I finally got around to watching it. Montag was ALL WRONG and I could not function past that. It was neato how they said the opening credits instead of having them on-screen becaue lol no reading but… no. If you haven’t read the book, this would probably be awesome. But if you haven’t read the book, you should just READ THE BOOK. 

Meet Joe Black (1998): 8/10. A friend pointed out I may have really liked Brad Pitt’s  Death/Joe Black because he was Thor-like in not understanding social convention on Earth. Plus y’know, Brad Pitt. The concept for this was neat, Anthony Hopkins was awesome, and the only real downer was the ending dragged. Jeffrey Tambor looks EXACTLY like Dr. Phil and it took me a long time to realize it was Jeffrey Tambor. Brad Pitt learns to eat peanut butter and there’s a long-time coming “death and taxes” joke. Worth the like 3 hours to come back around to that.  

After a shitty night at work, some people like to enjoy a glass of wine. Me? I like to stop at a convenience store to creep on the cute graveyard shift guy, buy 2 litres of milk and hit it. Hard. The milk, not the guy. I’M GONNA REGRET THIS BUT THE INSTANT GRATIFICATION IS SO GOOD. MILK, I HAVE SUCH UNREQUITED LOVE FOR YOU. 

endersgameblog:

Though Ender’s world is one worth saving, it sometimes comes with a price. The novel was amazingly prescient about a great many things: remote controlled drone wars, the internet, the influence of blogging, hand held computing tablets like the I-Pad, and of course, electronic surveillance…

I’m so excited I COULD JUST DIE. 

thealoneroom:

“God, Veronica, drool much?”

I know that feel.

alliartist:

eddietheyeti:

dwarfsareveryupsetting:

they are fucking goats

everyone look at the fucking goats

kids being kids

KIDS.

I see the baby goats at the petting zoo monthly, BUT THEY ARE ON BARKMULCH. I WANT MY BABY GOATS ON SLIPPERY LINOLEUM FOREVER. 

Another movie post. I’M SORRY, all I do lately is sit around watching movies wishing that I was getting shit done or making friends in this city or off being prolific and then I just watch more movies to make myself feel better.

Tiny Furniture (2010): 9/10. After two episodes of Girls on HBO, I feel like star/writer/director Lena Dunham lives in my brain, except that I wear more pants in public. Tiny Furniture is pretty much a prequel to Girls, or a test-drive of the same idea and even one of the same actors. Absolutely nothing happens in the movie. Lena’s character Aura is just the epitome of 22-year-old confusion and bad decisions and listlessness without it being hipster drivel. SHIT’S REAL, YO. 

Mr. Nobody (2009): 9/10. This is Jared Leto’s last movie before he devoted his life to 30 Seconds to Shitsack. Ironically, he goes to Mars in this movie. Maybe? It’s complicated. It has the weirdness of his Requiem for a Dream, but it’s kinda like the Butterfly Effect and Primer with a little Inception at the end? …So basically I’m confused but I think I liked it. There’s some classy french director and shit, and this movie was a box office fail with like a 40million dollar budget and 2 million made back AND I DON’T KNOW WHYYY. Also the 15-year-old version of Nemo Nobody reminds me of Conor Oberst so basically I was cougaring over a good third of the movie. 

Pump Up the Volume (1990): 8/10. Okay, so basically I just love early Christian Slater playing the same fucked up character. This combined with Heathers and True Romance is my holy trifecta (Chrome says that’s not a word, wtf). “I’m dedicating this unusual song to an unusual person who makes me feel kind’ve… unusual” OH SWOON. Okay, so funny story: for some reason for many years whenever I saw this at movie stores or saw it referenced, I thought it was a dance movie. So I may have spent the first half of the movie waiting for a dance off to go down. 

Jawbreaker (1999): 4.5/10. I heard somewhere that this was similar to Heathers which is def in my top 10 movies of all time, so maybe my expectations were a little high. This is a pretty shitty 90s teen comedy. It’s more Mean Girls than Heathers, and it stars Rose McGowan who I hated from Charmed, and Judy Greer… who I love in Arrested Development but therefore she’s only Kitty to me and it’s weird without her flashing me. 

The Grey (2011): 9.5/10. The trailer was a bit misdirecting and so while I walked in expecting Liam Neeson (who is forever Kinsey the sex psychologist to me, so it’s a little awkward) to be wrestling wolves and got an epic survival tale instead, it threw me but it was incredible. I could never watch it again because a lot of it is the surprise and it’s pretty gory (there’s spurting!) but I loved it. Minus the ending. I appreciate a good ambiguous ending on paper, but in the moment of watching a movie it fills me with a murderous rage to see the credits go up. Fun fact: No wolves where they filmed most of this movie! 

Tristan and Isolde (2006): 6.5/10. James Franco spends the last half of this movie with tears in his eyes, perpetually sulking and needing me to comfort him… no? Okay, so to be fair I’m not normally a fan of epic period piece romances (with the exception of the Kiera Knightly Pride and Prejudice version… Oh, Mr. Darcy!) and while I was totally getting sucked into the story for the first while, near the end their epic love started to drag a little and be super predictable and blah blah epic love affair. But James Franco, you beautiful beautiful well educated man candy. 

Eagle vs. Shark (2007): 7/10. I’m not actually really sure what I thought of this. Not much happens in it, and in a less endearing way than Tiny Furniture. Two incredibly awkward people are awkward and weird side by side and apparently that’s love. This stars Jermaine Clements and I’m not sure if it was filmed before Flight of the Concords or not, but he plays a pretty similar character, except more dressed like an eagle and less singing. This movie is kinda ridiculous and feels like it was just a really odd dream. 

American Reunion (2012): 5/10. This was a hard one to rank because in the general scheme of movies existing, a 5/10 is about right. But in the scheme of the American Pie franchise it’s at the same par as the ones that got released in theatres (…why yes, I did watch straight-to-DVD American Pie: Band Camp. Fuck off, you don’t know me!), maybe I’m not a big enough fan of the series though. The only person I was stoked on showing up again was Stifler’s mom, I could’ve gone a lifetime without seeing Jason Biggs’ penis smushed behind a clear pot lid. 

I’m trying to get into the habit of utilizing my tumblr/blogging so I figured I’d warm up by talking about a few movies I’ve seen recently instead of studying.

The Lucky One (2012) - 3/10. I just watched this tonight. I learnt that Zac Efron “likes to walk”, and thinks that you should be kissed “every day, every hour, every minute”. There’s a lot of songs about love and sun, and a lot of unintentional hilarity. It was awful, and the only time that Efron wasn’t wooden was a dancing scene. High School Musical is calling, they want you to get your head back in the game. 

Moon (2009) -9/10. I loved this. Sam Rockwell was amazing, there’s a cast of like 4, it’s like Castaway in space but 100x better than you would think that is. Also, I originally typed Casablanca… it’s nothing like Casablanca in space. 

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) - 2.5/10. I feel really, really, really bad ranking this below The Lucky One. I recognize that it is of higher caliber, of course! But I fell asleep FOUR times during this. Four. At some point I gave up figuring out what was happening and just watched the old dudes shuffle around the screen. There was a mole at some point? That’s about all I got. 

The Cabin in the Woods (2011) - 9.5/10. I went in confused to how a horror movie scored a 90%+ on Rotten Tomatoes, expecting it to be like a Cabin Fever or Wrong Turn (which I love dearly, but regardless!)… Joss Whedon is a god. It was like the Hunger Games (or Battle Royale, if you will…) bred with Wrong Turn, but then it turned out Wrong Turn wasn’t the real father. There’s an apocalypse. I don’t want to spoil it… but there should never be an apocalypse in a lost-in-the-woods horror flick. I love it. 

Safehouse (2012) - 3/10. This was a movie. It existed. I saw it. Ryan Reynolds and Denzel Washington were in it. They acted. There was some action. It has left no other trace on my memory. …It exists. It was adequate. I viewed it. 

The Artist (2011) - 10/10. This completely blew my already extremely high expectations from all the hype about it. I kept expecting the story to get dreary and depressing when the advent of “talkies” came around, but no. This stayed light and fluffy, the ending had amazing build-up and a fake-out… there was nothing that didn’t charm me.

Valentine’s Day (2010) - 4/10. I wrote an exam in the morning and decided to watch something light and fluffy to perk up from the bloodbath that the exam was. Plus y’know, I remembered that Bradley Cooper was in it and Bradley Cooper is the cure-all. This was awful. I don’t know why I try. I hated New Year’s Eve, I hate Love Actually, and this is obviously a bridge between the two. I CAN’T DO MOVIES LIKE THIS. I JUST CAN’T. SPOILER: ALL THE GOOD PEOPLE HAVE HAPPY ENDINGS AND THE BAD PEOPLE DON’T! THE END. 

Gattaca (1997) 7/10. This was pretty decent, I liked the concept: A dude who physically is nothing like the perfection of Jude Law and really likes space essentially borrows his genetic superior’s identity while Jude Law wheels around getting drunk and being attractive, gets mixed up in a murder, and there’s Uma Thurman. It’s hard to look over some of the small details, like scrubbing off ALL his dead skin every day to not leave DNA evidence around at work, but it’s definitely interesting. 

Friends with Kids (2011) - 9.5/10. I LOVED THIS SO MUCH. I may have watched it due to my undying love of Adam Scott (…well, as Ben from Parks and Rec. He doesn’t do it for me in Party Down or anything else really. And by anything else, I mean the only other thing I’ve seen him in: Piranhas 3D), but yes, a thousand times yes. Kinda When Harry Met Sally-esque, incredibly predictable ending, but the journey getting thurr is touching, there’s surprises, Megan Fox is somehow into Adam Scott…, and the cast is wonderful. Hello SNL alum. 

Away We Go (2009) - 7.5/10. I could watch Jim from the Office do anything. I refuse to believe there’s an actor behind him, Jim just secretly has a double life with Maya Rudolph as his lovely wife. Definitely formulaic, a little bit too hipster, but beautiful, tasteful, and everything about the Montreal portion of the film was handled so well. Though the DVD cover is a bit kitschy, I guess it does prepare you for the feel of the film. 

ihatebenedictcumberbatch:

my favorite folder is my “napoleon being sexy” folder 

Lately I’ve been wanting to go blonde. Maybe in then new year? 

canadian-problems:

submitted by tryrainonmyparade

this brings me back.

Customer: 18, right?

Me: What?

Customer: Are you 18 yet?

Me: Uh… 20. 

Customer: That’s great :D

that awkward moment when you’re simultaneously disgusted and also realizing that’s the most interest a guy has shown in you in months.