Monday, January 29, 2007

And so it begins...

We nearly achieved our movie-per-day goal, and now it's January 30th and the inevitable has happened.

Welcome, Spring semester 2007. The good news is that this is Tara's last semester. The bad news is that all of Septemeber 2007 through May 2008 I'm on my fucking own.

wooo hooo.

Thursday, January 18, 2007

Movie 17

Walk The Line - ****stars

Both lead roles were SUPERBLY performed. I love Johnny Cash, so it was extra easy to watch.

We only need to double up one more day and we'll be right on target for our little project. We win.

I also started reading Branded Nation today. Oh, and I'm almost done with the church newsletter. Quite productive, I've been.

Movie 16

Today we watched Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.

Yet another step on the journey to completing the Show Tara Star Wars journey.

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Movies we have on board

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
Memoirs of a Geisha
King Kong
Walk the Line
Munich
Amelie
Ice Harvest

All of this free time is AMAZING and ending in less than two weeks. :(

Movie 15

24 - *****five stars

Technically, this should count as a movie, because it was four hours worth of 24, and you can buy it for $10 at Target as though it's a film.

And it's January 17 and I have 16 movies to go. And it's football season, so we lost last Sunday and this upcoming Sunday to playoffs. Totally worth it though for the AWESOME game this past Sunday.

Movie 14

Born Into Brothels - *****FIVE STARS.

Devastating. Stunning. Amazing. Overwhelming. Beautiful. Hopeful and hopeless all at once.

Heartbreaking.

Movie 13

Star Wars: A New Hope (Episode IV)

It has been my greatest shame for seven years that Tara has never seen the Star Wars trilogy. By February 1st that will change, and we are 1/3 of the way there!

Four stars, for all of it's bad goodness!

"Movie" 4 through 12

beginning, middle and end of FIREFLY, complete.

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

"Movie" 3

Firefly (Pilot episode)

Hey, if Tara and I are going to get through this 31 movies in January thing, starting and watching a full season of Firefly is going to have to count. Especially when there are four hours of 24 next week. Four. Hours. F.O.U.R. I can't wait!

Movie 2

The Devil Wears Prada - **1/2 stars

Funny, but I fell asleep for 60% of it in the middle. Anne Hathaway is enviable, and Meryl Streep is always good. I'd watch the blooper reel again.

Movie 1

Goldfinger - ***three stars

The usual cheesiness one can expect from James Bond, with good action and a nice tank scene involving a tank. Could have used more cool toys, but wins bonus points for the femme fatale being named Xenia Onatop.

Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Image: Aunt Tara with HarrisonBoo in my favorite picture from XMas


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Image: Finals was exhausting for Bob, too


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Image: Our living room during finals


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I'm out from under it

Aside from obsessively checking for my grades on Umass' website, I am DONE. For three blissful weeks there is NOTHING but work and home and sleep and FREE TIME. FREE TIME?! What the heck is that?

Christmas with the Hoopers was AWESOME and Vermont/New Year's with the Lindroses was also great.

Now Tara and I are working on a different plan called: One Movie per Night in January. So far we are failing miserably because it's January 3rd and we haven't watched anything yet, but dagnabbit we're going to start tonight, and I am pledging to write about everything we see.

Sunday, December 10, 2006

International House of Nasty

OMG. Our house is a disaster. We have been living at the UMass library and there are Finals Piles everywhere. The cats are having fun walking around the stacks (and stacks and stacks) of things, but we are barely able to navigate them.

22 things left on Tara's list.

6 left on mine, and four days.

OMG. It's SO CLOSE. 16 pages of my 18-20 page history paper are DONE.

ROCK IT.

Thursday, December 07, 2006

To do - ba-dow!

Life is just a series of numbers. Right now my numbers are:

Things left on To Do list: 10
Days in which those 10 things must be accomplished: 7
Number of presentations left: 1 (Tuesday)
Number of papers due : 1
Number of pages in said paper: 18-20
Number of hours left to work on presentation: less than 1
Number of days I have off from work in a row so I can work on my paper: 4
Concerns I have about getting my shit done: 0
Enthusiasm I have about having to do a single ounce more of work, out of 10: 0
Leaps of joy I will do when I finish this paper: 114
Days early I think my history paper will be completed before deadline: 2
Number of times in college I finished any single paper early: 0

Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Image: Beach!


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Image: Flowers in Provincetown


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