A Cartoonish Life

Day 01- The best movie you saw during the last year -- Toy Story 3, hands down. It was the only movie I was really looking forward to seeing this summer. We'll see what comes out later on this year, but still not over the TS3 love.

Day 02 - The most underrated movie -- Grindhouse. (ESPECIALLY Planet Terror.) It was MEANT to be campy and gruesome. And people just didn't want to sit through a double feature. And Death Proof was pretty cool once you got past all the exposition that you normally get in a Tarantino film.

Day 03 - A movie that makes you really happy -- Enchanted. That movie was so freaking adorable. (I especially loved when Giselle was offered the apple martini and Robert said something along the lines of, "Wow, everyone likes to give you free stuff, huh?")

Day 04 - A movie that makes you sad -- Beaches. I think everyone knows why. I don't know anyone who doesn't cry buckets at the end of that movie. That, and Steel Magnolias.

Day 05 - Favorite love story in a movie -- It's going to sound so cliché, but Allie and Noah in The Notebook. To think that a love like that could survive after Allie's mother would object to her being with Noah and him writing her every day for a year and thinking she just gave up on him because she never responded....it's the stuff that makes for a really good movie. Good book, BETTER movie.

And I know everyone loves the "I WAITED FOR YOU FOR SEVEN YEARS!" part, but their fight towards the end is the best part in my honest opinion:

Day 06 - Favorite made for TV movie -- A while back...it wasn't VERY long back, though...ABC had aired this movie about Anne Frank with Ben Kingsley in it playing Otto Frank. It was a two-parter, and the entire last hour was shown commercial-free and with a mature content warning because it went into detail about how Anne and her family suffered in the concentration camps after they were caught. It wasn't the same thing as the movie with Millie Perkins, which was just the stage version as a movie. They put a lot of research into what was going on not just with Anne and her family and the Van Pels' and Mr. Pfeffer, but what Miep and her co-workers were having to deal with just trying to keep them hidden. I was VERY lucky that I found it on DVD; I paid a pretty penny for it, and I can't bring myself to sell it.

Day 07 - The most surprising plot twist or ending - Regina George posting her picture in the Burn Book and getting even with Cady in Mean Girls. It was a very underhanded thing to do, and I totally didn't see it coming when I first saw it, but it made sense.

...I always felt kind of bad for Regina George towards the end of Mean Girls. Yeah, she was an intimidating bitch, but did she really deserve what happened to her? I believe in karma, but wow. The girls that she thought were her friends (ESPECIALLY Cady) kind of stabbed her in the back, and she ended up getting severely injured in the end. NO one deserves that, I don't care HOW mean you are. And to think that Janis Ian was the one who masterminded all of that in the first place....who's truly the mean girl in all of that?

Day 08 - A movie that you’ve seen countless times - Obviously, The Rocky Horror Picture Show. (Go check out http://www.helpmemommy.com )

Day 09 - A movie with the best soundtrack - Detroit Rock City. Lots of awesome rock music from the 70s, mainly KISS.

Day 10 - Favorite classic movie - Probably Gone With the Wind. And I had never been able to sit down and watch the whole movie in one sitting until recently! (I would always watch the first hour and then have to do something, or I would come in when it was half over.) I still love it so freaking much. Especially when Rhett forces Scarlett to go to the birthday party and makes her wear that red dress, and he tells her something along the lines of, "Here, wear this, it'll suit the occasion" all snarky-like. Rhett was freaking awesome.

Day 11 - A movie that changed your opinion about something - Dogma. Here's the thing. I'm not a particularly religious person. I was raised Baptist as a kid, and I stopped going to church regularly after my church got a new clegyman because we (meaning my whole family) didn't agree with some of the things the new clergyman was preaching about in his sermons. It's not like I've turned my back on religion or Christianity or anything...it's just that I don't particularly agree with the idea of organized religion.

There's a part in Dogma when Bethany is talking with Rufus on the train about how Jesus doesn't like how we've taken something like Christianity and separated it into so many factions. And because of that, it causes so many scuffles and skirmishes between different religious groups. Hell, people go to wars over this kind of stuff. I can't remember the exact quote, but Rufus said something along the lines of "It's easier to have a good idea instead of a belief. You can change an idea, but changing a belief is trickier." And it just made me feel a little more secure in not wanting to go to church every week. I consider myself to be an independent worshipper. I mean, I know how to read, and I'm smart enough to read the Bible and interpret it for myself. I don't need to go to church every week and have some clergyman preach to me about how I'm going to hell and make me feel bad about myself.

Day 12 - A movie that you hate - The remake of The Stepford Wives. Hated it. HAAAAAAAAAAAAATED it. The original is tons of amazing, but the remake was just terrible. And it made no sense towards the end!

( ....I could do better. )

Day 01- The best movie you saw during the last year -- Toy Story 3, hands down. It was the only movie I was really looking forward to seeing this summer. We'll see what comes out later on this year, but still not over the TS3 love.

Day 02 - The most underrated movie -- Grindhouse. It was MEANT to be campy and gruesome. And people just didn't want to sit through a double feature. And Death Proof was pretty cool once you got past all the exposition that you normally get in a Tarantino film.

Day 03 - A movie that makes you really happy -- Enchanted. That movie was so freaking adorable.

Day 04 - A movie that makes you sad -- Beaches. I think everyone knows why.

Day 05 - Favorite love story in a movie -- It's going to sound so cliché, but Allie and Noah in The Notebook. To think that a love like that could survive after Allie's mother would object to her being with Noah and him writing her every day for a year and thinking she just gave up on him because she never responded....it's the stuff that makes for a really good movie. Good book, BETTER movie.

And I know everyone loves the "I WAITED FOR YOU FOR SEVEN YEARS!" part, but their fight towards the end is the best part in my honest opinion:

Day 06 - Favorite made for TV movie -- A while back...it wasn't VERY long back, though...ABC had aired this movie about Anne Frank with Ben Kingsley in it playing Otto Frank. It was a two-parter, and the entire last hour was shown commercial-free and with a mature content warning because it went into detail about how Anne and her family suffered in the concentration camps after they were caught. It wasn't the same thing as the movie with Millie Perkins, which was just the stage version as a movie. They put a lot of research into what was going on not just with Anne and her family and the Van Pels' and Mr. Pfeffer, but what Miep and her co-workers were having to deal with just trying to keep them hidden. I was VERY lucky that I found it on DVD; I paid a pretty penny for it, and I can't bring myself to sell it.

Day 07 - The most surprising plot twist or ending - Regina George posting her picture in the Burn Book and getting even with Cady in Mean Girls. It was a very underhanded thing to do, and I totally didn't see it coming when I first saw it, but it made sense.

...I always felt kind of bad for Regina George towards the end of Mean Girls. Yeah, she was an intimidating bitch, but did she really deserve what happened to her? I believe in karma, but wow. The girls that she thought were her friends (ESPECIALLY Cady) kind of stabbed her in the back, and she ended up getting severely injured in the end. NO one deserves that, I don't care HOW mean you are.

Day 08 - A movie that you’ve seen countless times - Obviously, The Rocky Horror Picture Show. (Go check out http://www.helpmemommy.com )

Day 09 - A movie with the best soundtrack - Detroit Rock City. Lots of awesome rock music from the 70s, mainly KISS.

Day 10 - Favorite classic movie - Probably Gone With the Wind. And I had never been able to sit down and watch the whole movie in one sitting until recently! I still love it so freaking much. Especially when Rhett forces Scarlett to go to the birthday party and makes her wear that red dress.

( I don't know nothin' about birthin' no babies! )

Day 01- The best movie you saw during the last year -- Toy Story 3, hands down. It was the only movie I was really looking forward to seeing this summer. We'll see what comes out later on this year, but still not over the TS3 love.

Day 02 - The most underrated movie -- Grindhouse. It was MEANT to be campy and gruesome. And people just didn't want to sit through a double feature. And Death Proof was pretty cool once you got past all the exposition that you normally get in a Tarantino film.

( I'm gonna eat your brains and gain your knowledge. )

You know what I'm talking about. The top three that you could sex up and have a free pass on if you have a BF/GF or are married.

Mine?

1. Christian Bale
2. Ewan McGregor
3. Seth MacFarlane

Because jadore_histoire did a Long Island one, so I found this:

48. Oil tanks are more common than trees in your neighborhood.
(Too true. Thank you, Hicks Gas.)

47. You don't know anything about farming...at least not legal farming.
(Nah, I'll ask my neighbors about legal farming.)

46. When you need to run out to the store, you go to Jewel.
(I go to Aldi's or County Market when I absolutely have to. I hate calling County Market "County Market," because it'll always be Wilco to me.)

45. You call the interstate the "tollroad."
(Doesn't everybody?)

44. You know what good pizza tastes like, and it's not Papa John's.
(Papa John's gives me bad heartburn.)

43. Running red lights is normal.
(To who? I don't.)

42. Midway is not an island, it's an airport.

41. You know the night sky is not black, it's orange!
(Only when you get near Gary and Hammond.)

40. You know roads are just a place for trains to park across.
(LOL @ this one.)

39. Only a true region rat can tell which town they are in at any given time.
(So true...)

38. You love Kohl's (the store).
(Not really.)

37. You measure distance in minutes instead of miles.
(Yup.)

36. You understand what the "lake-effect" is.
(Yes; it makes winters MUCH worse.)

35. You don't pronounce the "s" in Illinois and you get aggravated when people do.
(Yeah! And I don't even live in Illinois!)

34. "What's a sheriff?"
(LOL)

33. School isn't canceled unless there is at least 20 feet of snow on the ground.

32. You know more about what's going on in Illinois than Indiana.
(That's because Chicago newscasters don't show their NW Indiana demographic enough love.)

31. You don't drink soda, you drink pop.
(HELL YEAH.)

30. You don't consider pigs as being domestic pets.
(No, I consider them dinner.)

29. Your favorite holiday movie is "A Christmas Story."
(They just had "A Christmas Story"-fest in Hammond last weekend.)

28. You can see downtown Chicago from your neighborhood, yet it takes an hour to get there.
(It takes about two hours to get there from where I live.)

27. You think bridges were invented to cross railroad tracks, not rivers.
(Really?! Wow.)

26. You like White Castle.
(I get the craving for it every once in a while.)

25. Your bumper is rusted from road salt.
(Not yet, thank god.)

24. You know that country music sucks.
(I don't think it sucks, I'm just getting tired of Taylor Swift.)

23. Sometimes you forget that Indiana has a football team.
(The Colts. Eff the Bears; they've been disappointing us lately.)

22. You don't "cruise the strip."

21. You are skilled at lane changing and know that "all 5 lanes on I-80 were MEANT to be used!"
(So true...)

20. You can appreciate the humor of Mancow.
(Too bad he's not on Q101 anymore and now doing serious AM talk radio now.)

19. You know that beaches exist in places other than Florida and California.
(But I've only been to beaches in Florida!)

18. You always keep at least $5 in change in your car for tolls.
(I'm lucky if I can scrounge that much up.)

17. You think all amusement parks are called "Great America."
(No.)

16. You know that not all passenger trains are powered by steam.

15. Your neighborhood is a proposed third airport.

14. You know better than to light a match within 5 miles of the Little Calumet River.

13. What the hell is a Hardee's?
(They used to have one here in Lowell!)

12. You're not really a Hoosier.
(YES I AM.)

11. Even though you go to school three hours away, you still can't help but watch WGN news on cable every night.
(Every morning and night. I trust Tom Skilling's forecasts.)

10. You have motion sensor lights on your garage and house, but don't lock the doors of either of them.
(I lock 'em.)

9. You leave your car running in the parking lot at the store.
(I wouldn't dare do that; my car has auto-lock doors.)

8. You end sentences with unnecessary prepositions ("Where is my coat at?" or "I want to go with!")
(I've really been trying to watch that lately.)

7. You forget we even have a county fair.
(Kevin and I went this year, and I was very disappointed.)

6. Who needs a county fair anyway when there is August Fest?
(What's August Fest?)

5. There is only one LAKE, everything else is a pond.
(Yeah. CEDAR LAKE.)

4. Everyone else at the gas station is from Illinois.
(What's up with that?!)

3. The "northern lights" are the flames from Amoco's refinery.
(LAWL, so true...)

2. You think anything south of US-30 is Southern Indiana.
(Which is where I live!)

1. 588-2300-EMPIIIIIIIIIIRE!

First of all, it looks like Alice in Wonderland is winning my poll. I'll give it one more day before closing.

Second of all, here's a handwriting meme that light_inaugust did. I wasn't tagged, but I figured I'll do it anyway. ( Read more... )

"What Is Love?" by Haddaway on Mario Paint Composer. Brilliant.

http://thisiswhyyourefat.com/


I'm either getting sick looking at the food shown on here, or incredibly hungry. Bacon-topped poutine?! Junk food pizza?! It's Homer Simpson's dream website!