In the Buff

yeah … i got a job and it’s FINALS WEEK!! so i’ll be busy … too busy to make any real posts so sorry hold tight as soon as school’s done my blog’ll be sound as a pound and i’ll get back to writing reviews about movies people probably forgot about :)

My friend and I decided to watch this movie when our English teacher informed us that it featured a character obsessed with Led Zeppelin. Well, that was enough for us, being the die-hard Zeppelin fans as we are, so when my friend informed me she’d rented it, I was more than happy to sneak into her house and watch it while she wasn’t home (kidding. She was upstairs asleep, oblivious to my presence. That’s not illegal, right?).

The movie begins with an uptight mother Elaine Miller (Frances McDormand) hitting a rough patch with her kids. Her daughter, Anita (the adorable Zooey Deschanel), feels she’s being stifled and announces that she “fecking” hates her mother and is setting off to become a flight attendant so she can get the feck away from Mom. Anita leaves behind her record collection for her little bro, William (Patrick Fugit) who becomes obsessed with r&r (rock and roll) to the dismay of his mom, who tolerates it anyway because he’s the favorite (Aren’t all the youngest sons the favorites? I know my brother is).

So William decides to write rock and roll articles for the school paper and send them out to real publications. Finally, he’s noticed by Rolling Stone and asked to do a piece on the band Stillwater. He edges his way into their good graces by showing what a die-hard fan he is, and they grow to trust him, a journalist, of all people and pretty soon he’s on the road with the band getting into all kinds of hijinks.

As we venture through William’s “Amazing Journey,” we see Kate Hudson’s breasts and listen to five Zeppelin songs. It really distracted me from the movie because I had to squeal “likeeeee omg Led Zeppelin” (I thought they didn’t let people use their songs in movies? Probably because the awesomeness makes any movie pale in comparison). It’s a swirl of awkwardly sweet moments in William’s now-fabulous, but stressful, life.

Not to spoil the ending, but I loved it and hated it at the same time. It actually worked with the movie, but everything fell together way too perfectly. How annoying. Life never works out that way. And yet, I couldn’t help feeling the tiniest bit victorious for William when Russel (Billy Crudup) called Rolling Stone to inform them that everything William said in his article was 100% fact. 

You can tell this movie was either quite close to Director Cameron Crowe or just really easy to write, as it is semi-autobiographical. If you’re a rock fan, I would definitely check this out. Not just for the guy wearing Led Zeppelin shirts. But for the Led Zeppelin songs. Oh, and the movie. The movie was pretty good.  

Directed and written by Cameron Crowe.

Starring Patrick Fugit, Kate Hudson, Billy Crudup.

Rated R for language, drug content and brief nudity.

Running time: 122 minutes.

Still haven’t gotten around to writing my review … because writing reminds of school, and school reminds me that I have actual graded work I must write, and then I wail into my hands for ten minutes and scream “YOU’RE TEARING ME APART!” to no one in particular, then I sit down, put on The Doors, and write essays. Lots and lots of essays. When I’m done, all I feel like doing is watching Mob Wives because it requires absolutely no brain cells (school also makes me hate reading in this way). 

Kidding. About some of it. But you get the point. I still don’t have my Almost Famous review up and haven’t had anything in a while, but I haven’t abandoned my blog.

But I figure no one cares all that much so long as I reblog a funny gif, like so:

I love that gif so much … I don’t know if it’s even from an actual episode of Family Guy, it’s not from one I’ve ever seen.

oh and i’ll have a review for almost famous up sometime if I ever learn to write again and finish my mts and mts of schoolwork 

i need to watch kill bill again 

so i was looking for cute little sayings/pictures to get me to “believe in myself” on tumblr and i saw a bunch of upside-down crosses under the tag and wondered why they were under it. through a bit of research, i found that that’s supposed to be some kind of antichrist symbol (“believe in yourself, not god”).

but, um, wasn’t an upside cross St. Peter’s thing because he didnt wanna be crucified in the same way as christ, therefore making it quite … religious???

fail.  

Caught Cry-Baby on TV last night. Almost forgot how much I loved it! It’s wonderfully cheesy and campy, and despite some serious slips in logic (don’t ask me to name them, I can’t remember specifically) it makes me sad that I didn’t buy it when it was at the $5 bin a while back in Wal-CrapMart.

Also viewed: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, like two weeks ago, I adored it, and realized how many Nurse Ratchets I actually know in real life, professions varied, which scares the shit outta me -.-

And may I just state the obvious: Jack Nicholson is a really amazing actor. So is Robert De Niro, but I also watched Analyze This and though I like silly, stupid things, it wasn’t quite my brand of silly and stupid. Plus, Robert De Niro didn’t seem to be really on his game. Billy Crystal was pretty funny, though. 

The weirdest thing happened last night, too … my friend texted me and said she tried to watch Scarface but they’d taken it off Netflix Instant. And the reason that’s weird is because the day before I tried watching Scarface On Demand, and THEY’D taken it off too :o

Also: Clueless is such a great movie. It’s been on TV for the past two days and it’s made me verrrrrry happy.

So. If my babbling is through time to go party with the Mob Wives.