American Psycho (2000) Trivia:
In the DVD commentary, director Mary Harron says that during the first shower scene with Patrick Bateman, all of the women on set gathered around to watch Christian Bale wash himself.
Hah! Also, it is possible that I might spend way too much time reading movie trivia on IMDB.
Drinking Problem
It’s not what you think. This so-called “problem” is that to other people, I am an anomaly of a twenty-year old college student - I hardly drink. It’s not the whole moral high ground thing, but it’s because my body cannot physically handle a large dose of caffeine or juice, let alone hard liquor.
A large smoothie is enough to get me on a sugar high that rivals a night of drinking for others. You know how crazy Buster in Arrested Development gets from too much juice? (“We have unlimited juice? This party is going to be off the hook!” ) That’s me. Once at a camp, I drank 4 cups of instant coffee to stay awake for a movie marathon and I could not stop blabbering for most of the night. Consuming a large amount of caffeine invariably gives me a massive headache which I can only get rid off by sleeping, which kind of beats the point of drinking coffee in the first place. I am destined for a lifetime of being assigned to be the designated driver. I make no apologies for this, I only ask for a little compassion the next time you have a party or ask me out, and let me drop by a smoothie bar beforehand, and I promise I”ll get your drunk ass home safe.
House on a Rock at Rhode Island
A vintage, 103-year-old mansion in Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay.
more breathtaking pictures here
This is unbelievably beautiful.
Let the Right One In (2008)
I love this movie, but I don’t know what possessed me to watch it again tonight - a particularly creepy and stormy night - by myself. That hauntingly beautiful (and thoroughly disturbing) ending is going to be the image playing in my head right before I fall asleep.
Pocahontas (1995)
Pocahontas isn’t quite as much of a classic as Beauty and the Beast is, or as thoroughly enjoyable as The Lion King, but you have to admit that the Colours of the Wind scene is one of Disney’s most beautifully crafted animation sequences.
Some pursue happiness, others create it.
Do you have those dreams where you wake up and hope you're not crazy?
I just woke up from one where my leftover luncheon meat in the fridge turned into a zombie, and a 1998 version of Leonardo Dicaprio assisted me in fighting it (Uhh, so I just rewatched Titanic today. Sue me.)
Another zombie dream I’ve had before included me being locked in a room with a group of vigilante prostitutes, and after a bit of planning, we badassedly broke out of the room and went about killing the zombies with Milo (which, in this dreamworld, was the only thing that could beat them).
Star Trek (2009)
What am I doing on Halloween night? Just watching some space battle porn, that’s all.
Anastasia, 1997 (dir. Don Bluth & Gary Goldman)
So instead of working on my essay tonight, I had cereal and ice-cream for dinner and watched Anastasia, a decision that was totally worth it because I had almost forgotten how much I loved this movie as a kid. Sure, the story is a little formulaic, but Anastasia? Infinitely more kick-ass, feisty and sassy than any Disney Princess can claim to be. Plus Dimitri is way up there in my list of top childhood crushes.
Next up on my Childhood Movies to Watch list - The Land Before Time.
