How to Lose Friends and Alienate People Certainly Will Not be Winning Many Friends

What can I say about this movie? Well not much really. It didn't leave much of an impression with me, or pretty much anyone in the theater I watched it in, all 10 people.

How to Lose Friends and Alienate People is based on the book of the same title by Toby Young. I read that book. I liked it very much. I had no doubts that I would also like the movie. I proved myself wrong.

The movie starts out showcasing Sidney Young, played by Simon Pegg, as a young boy who has always had a fascination with movie stars. His fascination transfers into his adult life and almost turns into a desperation. He finds himself consumed by the need to meet and mingle with stars all in the name of writing about them. He will do almost anything to get his foot in the door, or rather to the other side of that elusive velvet rope. No antics are barred, not crazy costumes and especially not pigs.

Eventually Sidney makes it and is off to New York City to write for Sharps Magazine, the movie's equivalent of Vogue, where he meets all types of fun and exciting New Yorkers. Some happen to be transvestites. Things are not going well at the magazine as all he ever seems to do is piss people off. He only has one person where he works that he can even remotely relate to and that is Alison Olsen, played by Kirsten Dunst. He quickly learns that his job will require a lot of kissing up to a lot of mindless people, which includes hot girls he wants to have sex with. In comes Sophie Maes, played by Megan Fox, very vacant up top but has plenty to make up for it everywhere else. Sidney is smitten and makes it almost his goal to get the girl.

Lots of fun ensues and at this point the movie actually starts livening up a little bit. We get to peer a little deeper into the characters and realize that not all of them are as unlikeable as we originally thought. Still not too likeable though.

The movie winds to a finish as Sidney ends up with his fancy dream job and his fancy dream girl, but for some odd reason realizes its not all that he thought it would be and he gives it all up, in huge style. He starts forging the path of his next stage in life. Fin.

All in all, the movie could have been worse. It could have been a lot better also. It was very slow moving from the beginning until about half-way through. Then once the pace picked up and an actually good story line was injected it seemed as though there wasn't enough time to really play it out. It was rushed and left me wanting more.

Like I said before, I read the book and I liked it a lot. The movie did not live up to the book. If you want my advice, just go buy the book. I'm sure you could find a good deal on amazon *wink wink* that may be even cheaper than the ticket. Book: A. Movie: C.

Yep, I definitely have a girl crush on Sarah Palin.

I can't help it! From the second I heard she was on McCain's ticket I was excited. I didn't know much about her but I did some quick research and decided that she was the girl for the job. But it wasn't until I heard her speak at the RNC that I knew it was love.

Of course, I'm using the phrase "girl crush" in the figurative sense. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, according to a lovely entry on Urban Dictionary, a girl crush can be defined as "Feelings of admiration and adoration which a girl has for another girl, without wanting to shag said girl. a nonsexual attraction, usually based on veneration at some level." That sums it up nicely. I'm crushing my ass off over here.

I am in such awe of this woman right now. Not only is she basically flawlessly beautiful, fashionable and obviously intelligent, she is achieved, articulate and has a fiery personality the likes of which are very hard to come by more than once in lifetime. Her speech at the RNC, left me with the impression that she is thoughtful and caring and really actually gives a hoot about her country and the citizens in it. Not only that but she also showed the world that she doesn't take crap. The media can dish it out all they want but they can expect her to fire right back, and yeah its probably going to sting a little.

I've been seeing Sarah being compared to Hillary Clinton so much over the last week. Democrats are fuming at this because in their mind their is no way Sarah could ever compare to Hillary. I actually agree with them. There is no comparison. They are two very different people who stand for two very different things. First off, Sarah did not earn her place in politics riding on the coat tails of her husband. Sarah earned her position by working her way through the ranks. Sarah Palin has offered real change to politics and public policy. What has Hillary done?? Sarah has time and time again proven that she is her own woman. Hillary has proven time and time again that she is a liberal play thing. Don't mistake me, I have the utmost respect for Ms. Clinton, I think she is a strong woman and congratulate her on all she has achieved, but I am also my own woman and will express my opinions as I see fit.

Nor is Sarah the "Anti-feminist" as I have seen so many say. She may not be a radical nut job who thinks you have to do certain things just like everyone else in a group that calls themselves "rebels", but she is a woman who has achieved and works hard and really loves what she does. She is a woman who sticks to her ideals and she inspires many to do the same. If that isn't feminist, I really don't know what is...

So for the time being my girl crush rages on. I will be keeping a close eye on the election and absolutely cannot wait for that V.P debate. Its going to be a good time for sure! I'm sure you will be seeing alot more politically geared blogs from me too, that's just how inspiring Ms. Palin is.

Pussycat Dolls: The Movie???

You've got to be kidding right? Apparently not according to Cineblend.com. Apparently the girls want to start spreading a positive message around for young women. Lets hope they can spread messages as easily as they can spread other stuff. No, I wasnt talking about their legs. I was talking about crabs.

All kidding aside, I actually kind of cant wait to see if this is true. I probably will see the movie if it comes out. By no means would I expect it to be good. But it might actually be somewhat entertaining. Kind of like a train wreck can be entertaining I guess.

Just Leave Sarah Palin alone already!

I know I normally ever blog about politics. It is way too serious of a subject for me to take on. And well, frankly, I dont really tend to get caught up in it too much. But I have a god-given right as an American citizen to voice my opinion so I'm going to do that. Please people stop the personal attacks on Sarah Palin.

Yes, she may not have the experience that you hope. She may not be the VP candidate that many Republicans were looking for. And well Liberals, you were going to bitch about anything anyway. But Palin does have a stunning track record, she has executive experience running a state and she is a woman who is doing all she can to make a difference in this world. That is alot more than most of the people sitting at home reading this can say.

I do not care that she called Hillary Clinton a whiner and then praised her when she was announced as a VP candidate. So what?? Since when has it become a crime to actually show respect for someone you dont always agree with? Most people are perfectly capable of not liking everything about a person but still being able to see past that and give them a nod on all the great accomplishments they have made. Its simply called respect and integrity and that is a sign of a good person.

She is not working for the oil companies as I have seen so many say. She put more taxes on profits made by oil companies. Believe it or not, that is a good thing. That takes billions of dollars out of the hands of those titans and gives it back to the American people. It also prevents price-gouging because what is the point of making all that money if that just means more will be taken away from you?

Her experience? She ran a state. Barack Obama votes. John McCain, yeah he votes too. As I see it she is the most experienced candidate in this entire race. She is not a corrupt official. She is under investigation for possibly having someone fired. She did not belong to a fanatical church, or make shady real estate deals with a convicted felon or take campaign donations and attend a candidate party at the house of a domestic terrorist. She may have used her power to have someone fired. Wow.

Flip-flopping on the bridge to nowhere? Since when is it a flip-flop to listen to the people you are representing? A good politician doesnt have to agree with the people all the time, a good politician has to serve the people all the time. This is a stellar example of serving her people.

And as for all the personal attacks on her being a bad mother. That is simply an absurd judgement. I have seen bad mothers. I have watched bad mothers beat their children and call them every name in the book. I have watched women who could barely afford to eat and feed the children they have now have unprotected sex time and time again and end up getting pregnant for the third, forth, fifth and beyond time. I have seen people selling drugs while their sons are sitting right next to them on the couch. I have seen the product of women addicted to drugs teaching their teenagers how to boot up. I have grown up with girls from fatherless homes who become starved for male attention and have to get A.I.D.S test by the time they are 16 from their promiscuity. If I have no right to judge these people, you have no right to judge Sarah Palin's choices to fly home and deliver her child.

I think that everyone needs to wake up here. No one even really knows where Palin stands on what is really important in this election, and that is the issues. No one even seems to care about this issues in this election. Most pick who they are voting for based on what color their skin is or how old they are or what party they are associated with and all the pretty things that come out of their mouth. As Americans, our responsibility is bigger than that. We need to choose wisely. Not listening to what is important and just judge how someone else is telling you to is never the wise choice.

The Effects of the Upcoming Football Season on Men and it’s Consequences on Women

Oh god here we go again. The start of the football season is just around the corner. And millions of American Women are letting out a disgruntled sigh. Don’t get me wrong I love football. It’s my favorite sport actually. But the brilliance of the game gets a little dulled when the men around you get stuck in the trance that leaves them incapable of any function besides yelling at the T.V. or arguing their friends over who was the greatest tight end of all time.

I was celebrating the holiday today at a delightful family picnic. Sounds fun, but I’m the only woman in my family, besides my mother of course. I spent the whole day listening to all the men in my family ramble on about football. Brett Favre this, Peyton Manning that. Gah, it was a nightmare. They seriously talked for just about 4 hours on who I going to win the Super bowl this year, why the Philadelphia Eagles fans are crazy, who was the wide receiver this year. What amazed me the most though was the phenomenon of men being able to remember who had the most interceptions in the 1994, but their lack of judgment of being able to remember their girlfriend’s birthday.
Good luck to all my fellow females out there who have the next 6 months to deal with all the males under the football trance.

The House Bunny: The Hook and the bait

My mother has always told me "Beauty without the brains, well its just a shiny hook without the bait. You may intrigue with your flicker and shine, you'll get a few pokes (pun totally intended)but people will lose interest when they realize there's nothing for them to take a bite of." Karen McCullah Lutz's and Kirsten Smith's mother's must have told them the same thing. This movie is my mother's wisdom on screen.

Shelley Darlingson, played by Anna Faris, is a 27 year old Playboy bunny living in the playboy mansion. The movie opens with an interesting back story of Shelley being raised in an orphanage, ugly and alone, until her early teens when she starts 'blooming" into a beautiful young woman and people being noticing her. This starts the trend for Shelley where she finds that being beautiful is all people care about so that is solely what she focuses on and her dream in life becomes being a playboy centerfold. However, at the hands of a jealous mean-spirited fellow bunny, she is thrown out of the mansion. She once again feels like an orphan and like she has lost the only family she has ever known. This is heightened when her cat, pooter, decides it is not coming with her as she leaves the mansion.

Beautiful and alone, she stumbles across a college town and a sorority house that "looks like a mini-mansion". She ventures inside only to realize that she is unwanted there. Then she comes to the Zeta house. A group of Seven misfit intellectual sorority girls who are in danger of losing their house because they cannot keep enough interest in the sorority to keep their charter. This is where Shelley steps in. The Zeta sisters are apprehensive at first because Shelley is so beautifully 'vapid' and they are definitely not. But the Zeta's must do what must be done so they bring Shelley on as house mother.

Fun, fun, fun ensues! Shelley teaches the girls how to be over-the-top beautiful, the girls try and teach Shelley things that are way out of her brain pan. Both are thankful for the transformations. But then the transformations start bringing conflict, and both parties realize that they cannot change who they really are. The sorority girls find themselves changing into the exact people that they once hated and Shelley realizes that she more or less looks foolish whenever trying to sound smart. Conflict ensues and feelings are hurt.

But then the Zeta girls realize that they can still be themselves while looking beautiful but not like a cookie cutter of a playmate. And Shelley realizes she can still be stunningly beautiful but that there is more to her than that. The girls end up becoming the next sensation on campus and even after failed attempts at sabotage by a rival sorority, they can make their goal of a 30 person pledge class and keep their house and their sisters. The girls have found their family and so has Shelley.

Although the movie does have some 'Oh my god, how brainless can these girls be!' moments, this movie is a riot. I laughed through the entire thing. the transformation of the Zeta girls was fantastically funny, mostly in a satirical way, but still very funny! The whole theater seemed to have a good time with this movie, as its so much funnier than the trailer can every tease you to think. The soundtrack was also fantastic and seemed to fit very well. I think I may actually buy it as there were alot of fun songs used in the movie.

I definitely feel this movie is worth going to see. Its a really fun experience and would be perfect for a night out with your girlfriends, as there is stuff in here all females can relate to. Unless your an uber-feminist. But most will relate and have an awesome time!

Ten great X-file "Shipper" Moments that will make your heart leap!

Well if you know me or anything about me, you know that I consider "The X-files" to be one of the best television shows that has ever graced the small screen. No, Wait. Make that DEFINITELY the best television show in the history of the world.

If you read my blog at all you also know that the movie, The X-files: I Want to Believe, did little to satiate the craving I had for more Mulder/Scully action since the show went off the air six years ago.

But alas, I still love the show and the characters and my biggest hope is for a third movie. Not only to satisfy my hankering for more x-ey fun, but also so that the "non-phile" general public can see what this franchise can really do.

To help tide me over until this happens I have been reliving the series at its best in my own mind. Most of you, even the sporadic viewer or anyone not having been setting up camp under a big ol rock through the mid through late 90's, know the basis of the show and the search for the truth, but its the relationship between Mulder and Scully that I always focus on more. Its that pining, angsty and maybe even forbidden tension between the two that have always drawn me in. It was something so beautiful and pure. Sometimes I think this show is the reason I am still single today, because I'm always looking for a love like that. But this isnt the Dr. Phil show so lets save that for another day.

So here they are. Ten shipper moments that will make your heart sing:

(these are in no particular order, they are impossible to rate best to worst in my mind)

10. Pusher.
Wow. This scene is fantastic! Mulder is dealing with a psychopath that has the ability to talk people into doing things. Things they would never do. This guy talks Mulder into playing a game of Russian Roulette which Mulder has no problem with. He points the gun to his own head and pulls the trigger without second though. Then the "pusher" wills him to point and shoot at Scully. You can see him fighting it with all this will. To think that he would shoot himself in a heartbeat and then use all his strength to save her. Thats amazing. He fights it long enough to tell her to run and she does. That scene always gets me.


9.The end of Never Again.
Scully gets back from an assignment in Philadelphia where she met Ed Jerse. This guy turned out to be a little nuts and had a tattoo that talked to him. Scully didnt know. She may or may not have had a little rendezvous with him, if you know what I mean, but she definitely spent the night. This ends up getting her into big trouble because Ed's tattoo tells him to kill her. He listens to it. Scully escapes but barely. Upon returning to the office, Mulder says to her "Is this all because I didnt get you a desk?". To which she replies "This is my life Mulder". He snaps back with "Yeah but its my.....". Then hangs his head. He loves her so much he cant even tell their two lives apart!


8.Hallway Scene in Memento Mori.
Scully has an inoperable cancer. Being the scientist that she is realizes this may be the end. Imagine her angst! Mulder rushes to the hospital upon realizing that Scullys bed is empty. You can see the panic on his face. Its great. She is in a friends room. Luckily, Scully is ok but her friend, who was also one of the women who was abducted by aliens, isnt. Scully is rather shook up that her friend didnt make it. She feels rather grim about life right then. Mulder tells her everything will be alright and that when they find out how she got the cancer and how to stop it that "the truth will save both of us". Then they hug and theres a forehead kiss. Its pretty great considering that Scully looks like crap. Thats love right there.

7.Scully's near death in Milagro
Scully meets a nice young man who once again leans towards the side of crazy. He is a writer and is borderline obsessed with her. Whatever he writes tends to come true and he is being investigated in a series of murders that he wrote about which turned out to have actually happened. He basically stalks Agent Scully and he begins to write a chapter of his book about her. Well he writes in the ending that she is going to be killed by this mysterious guy that rips your heart straight out of your chest. Mulder goes after the man to destroy his book in time to save Scully. The heart-ripper-outter shows up and starts to pull a whammy on her. The book is destroyed before he can succeed but Scully is unconscious. Mulder runs to her side. She comes to, scared shitless. And instantly grabs for Mulder. The desperation in her eyes is so intense and all she wants at that moment is to be held by Mulder. Awwwww!

6.The Hallway Scene in Fight the Future.
I know this is an obvious choice, but I dont like it for the near kiss occurrence that other fans do. The words of the exchange in the hallway is what gets me. Scully visits Mulder at his apartment to let him know she has just quit the FBI. She was going to be transferred to Salt Lake City and didnt see the point of going on with the bureau anymore. Mulder practically begs her to stay, telling her he doesnt want to do it without her anymore, he doesnt even know if he can. Oh the angst! Its perfect! Then comes the near kiss that is ruined by a bee. Stupid bees!

5.Scully's Car scene in The End.
Scully meets Mulder's ex and former partner (in both senses of the word) Diana 'frickface' Fowley and realizes that Mulder has been hiding this previous relationship with a former partner from her. She immediately seems threatened by Diana's mere presence and asks the Gunmen what the deal with her is. Frohike refers to Diana as "Mulder's former chickadee". Scully's not happy about that. But even more she is not happy about the way he seems to open up to Diana as opposed to herself. Lots of Scully angst here. She has news for Mulder and when she seeks him out she finds him in a room with Fowley holding hands and being all cutesy cutesy. Shes pissed. She just ignores them and keeps on walking. When she gets in her car, she sits there for a minute and looks more broken hearted than a little boy who's puppy was just run over by a semi. More Angsty goodness!

4.Sixth Extinction: Amor Fati.. Scully confronts that Fowley whore.
Oooh I love this scene. Fowley and the evil Cigarette smoking man have Mulder tucked away and are basically playing some very shady medical games with him that could lead to his death. Of course Scully already hates this bitch for.. well.. just being romantically connected to Mulder I guess. Scully's hate is well-directed because Fowley does know where Mulder is and Scully's mistrust in her turns out to be right. Scully stops her in the hall and calls Fowley out. Its fantastic! The only thing that could have made this scene better would have been a middle finger and a bitch slap. Thats why I would never make it into the FBI.

3.Sixth Extinction: Amor Fati, Mulders Apartment
I guess when Scully called out that skank it served two purposes.
1. Fowley eventually provided Scully with a keycard so she could go find Mulder and save him from imminent death.
2. Fowley providing that keycard was the cause of her own death when the syndicate found out Fowley betrayed them. YAY!!!
So Mulder is saved and at his apartment recovering from his impromptu brain surgery. Scully goes to deliver the news that Diana Fowley has been murdered. As much as she hated that bitch, she cries while telling Mulder. She cries because she doesnt want him hurt. If it were me I would be jumping up and down all like "I told you she was a dumb slut!". But alas Scully is a better woman than I.

2. How the Ghosts Stole Christmas. The ENTIRE episode
I love this episode for so many reasons. Psycho-babble is one of my most favorite things in the world! Basically Mulder and Scully spend Christmas Eve in a haunted house. Scully didnt want to be there but Mulder persuaded her. Yeah like that would be hard to do. Well these ghosts show face and basically just go on and on about how Scully would go to the end of the earth for Mulder and how Mulder is afraid to be alone and blah blah blah. T he ghosts get in their head and they end up shooting each other... but wait! Its only in their imagination.. thank god! Then they go home and exchange gifts all giddy and stuff. Very very cute!

1.This is not Happening. End Scene.
This has to be one of the most emotional moments in the entire series for me. Seriously, I have seen it probably about a hundred times and still tear up. Mulder has been abducted by aliens. Scully has been on a hunt for him. Her and the other FBI agents find a group of abductees that live in a camp and the leader claim to be able to 'heal' alien abductees who are returned dead. The FBI is investigating this camp and lo and behold a UFO arrives and drops off a dead Mulder. Scully goes on a tear to find the leader of the 'cult'. Just as she is nearing the room where she left him a bright light beams down and much chaos ensues. She opens the door to find that he is gone. Abducted. She just breaks down screaming "this is not happening!" Its all very sad. The angst is almost stifling.


So there ya go. Ten 'shipper' moments that will never be forgotten. At least by me. These are the memories that will hold me over until the next movie. Hopefully I dont have to wait until 2012.

Upon making this list I had at least 5 more moments pop into my head. I'm thinking maybe a part two.....