I'm Back!

And I'm guessing it's okay to say that, especially since I'm typing this.

A lot has changed since I last posted, some good and some bad. However, I will only focus on the good that came into my life. 

I have a boyfriend. FINALLY! after nearly two years of posting date after bad date I found him, and yes! I am in love. I honestly believe he is the best thing that has ever happened to me, especially since he came into my life during a time when I really needed something or someone to keep my mind away from the craziness I was going through. The past five months with him have truly been magical, and I can't wait to experience more with him. 

For the moment, I'll keep his name a secret. I have told him about my page, but I'm not sure how he feels about people he doesn't know knowing who he is. However, if I let you all know that his name starts with a "P" I'm sure he won't mind. Especially if I follow that sentence saying how wonderful, beautiful, talented, and funny he is. No he better not wouldn't mind at all!

I believe I mentioned before my hiatus that I started taking classes at Chicago's Second City Training Center. Well if I didn't, just know that I am, and at the moment I'm currently at the 4th level of the Writing program. The whole Second City class thing seems to confuse people so I'll break it down like this: 

• When you take classes at The Second City, you get to choose between the long list of classes that you want to take, and in my case I chose writing. It's what I'm good at and what I've always wanted to do, so writing it was. 
• You know how in high school and college years are broken into semesters, well that's kinda how The Second City is, it's broken down into 8 week semesters. 
• The Second City Training Center has 6 eight week semesters, and right now I'm in my 4th eight week semester, but instead of calling them semesters, their called levels. 
• So just to clarify: I AM IN WRITING LEVEL 4 AT THE SECOND CITY TRAINING CENTER. And it's fucking amazing. 

I really enjoy my classes, and the current group of people I work with. Their amazingly talented, and although it's hard to not get intimidated, I have to remind myself everyday that I'm doing this for a reason and that reason is to learn all that I can about the gift that I was given so I can compete with the best. And at the end of all of this, if I'm not the next Tina Fucking Fey...I'm shooting someone. No I'm NOT kidding. 

Like I said before, I'm not going to focus too much on the bad, but I just can't help but give an honorable mention to my piece of shit vehicle. It has broken down, once again, however this time it's just my muffler. I guess I'm okay with that being the only problem besides the other shit that's wrong with the car, but like I said I'm not going to focus on the negative. So I'm moving on. 

The other negative thing that got me down...Michael Fassbender is taken. Yes ladies my beloved man is officially off the market, but to be honest, I'm not worried. I know he will eventually come slinking back around me to tell me how beautiful I am. And if that doesn't happen, I'm sure Eric Northman will be single forever! But I'm joking of course, because I have my lovely Mr. "P".

Shame Review Coming Soon

But until then, the Michael Fassbender song:

December 2 is way too long of a wait

But this shit available now!

jacked from Simone

FINALLY!!! The Theatrical Trailer For Shame

This took entirely too long to come out. December is approaching to fucking slow. I can't wait!

No Dangerous Methods For Me

First of all I would like to say: AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! and WHAT THE FUCK!?!?!?!?!?!?! 

Seriously! For why can't things ever go my way for once? It's seriously like the gods of good times look down on me and laugh their asses off whenever I attempt to have just that.

For two weeks life has sucked for me. I reallyed need a pick me up, so I decided to check out what was going on with the Chicago International Film Festival. Ever since I moved back to Chicago, it had always been my intention to attend the film festival, but for some reason I was never able to go. So instead of waiting on people to go with me, I went on my own to go pick up tickets for Monday night's viewing of A Dangerous Method. I've mentioned before that I really wanted to see this movie. When I saw this I can honestly say this was the first time I smiled in two weeks. I felt lucky!

However, it was very unlucky for me that I was driving downtown right after work and couldn't find anywhere to park, so I had to park in the venue's expensive ass parking lot: $12 FOR 30 MINUTES! I reasoned by telling myself it was for a good cause. A Dangerous Method? Cronenberg, Mortensen, and Fassbender in one movie? I would have paid anything my account would have allowed me to pay on those tickets.

Alright, so here's what happened: I go to the venue, find the right line to purchase the tickets, tell the cashier what I want to see, when I want to see it, and how many people were coming with me (I was forcing my two of my favorite companions to see what I'm sure is a quality flick), and the cashier (in his  douchiest nicest possible voice) tells me that the show is all sold out. I freak out and tell him to check again. I know it was one of the most anticipated shows at the film festival, but I don't believe in "no", so I told him to check again. He did. There weren't anymore tickets available, and I swear that was the longest walk back to my car. I had my head down, arms swinging, and that lump in my throat started to get tighter and tighter. I was thisclose to crying. Then it dawned on me: I JUST SPENT $12 FOR 5 MINUTES OF PARKING...no fair!

Oh well! I know I'll see it eventually...

Dah-Roooooollllll

Everlasting obsession: Men with accents!

What The Hell Is This?

I woke up craving a little Viggo Mortensen in my life. I love him as an actor and he's not so bad to look at. So, needing a little Viggo every once in a while isn't a guilty pleasure it's a necessity. 

I went to Netflix in search of a good Viggo movie to get my day going, and one of the movies available for streaming was 28 Days. I'd never seen it, and I like Sandra Bullock. Everything seemed like win-win-win situation...boy was I wrong. 

First of all, it took way too long for Viggo to show up. The first 20 mins of the movie consisted of typical Sandra Bullock quirks and jokes that failed to amuse me at 6:30 in the morning. Then there was this guy in the movie that talked with the bottom row of his teeth...you know what I'm talking about! Don't pretend like you don't know about that ONE person you know that whenever they talk you can see the entire row of their bottom teeth, and the teeth be all yellow or crooked. Well, 28 Days had a guy just like that, and every time he spoke I saw the yellowness of the bottom row of his teeth. At first I thought he was just really into character, because it looked as if this guy hadn't flossed a day in his life. Then I thought about it, and I'm almost positive people are able to bring floss into rehab. Rehabilitation Centers might deprive you of a good time, but they're not going to force you into bad hygiene.

Then finally comes the scene where Sandra Bullock jumps her dumbass out of a window and fucks her leg up. I guess Viggo Mortensen is supposed to be the guy who saves her from herself. He's her great white Knight in blue jeans, and he looked damn good when he picked her up and carried her back into the rehab center.

In my honest opinion, that was the best part of the movie. I knew Bullock's character would see the light and stay sober. She's the protagonist and is supposed to be a source of inspiration for folk going through her fictional situation. But the one thing that I didn't see coming was the lack of Viggo in Sandra's sober life.

Why??????

After all the flirting, kissing, ball throwing, and bad Santa Cruz jokes, she doesn't end up with Viggo in the end. The movie ends with that goofy ass smile she always gives, I guess to indicate that things are all good and everything will be okay. But it's not okay without Viggo. In fact, you're even more fucked up without him.

I don't believe in computer violence, but this is one instance in which I wanted to throw my Toshiba out of the window. I quickly realized it wasn't Toshiba's fault so I calmed down. But for real Sandra...don't play with me! Don't promise me Viggo if you're not gonna fully deliver the Viggo! tease.

Pretty sure that it's obvious I'm not a fan of this movie. It's taken me 11 years to watch this movie and to be honest I could have waited a lifetime. However, I will get my Viggo fix soon (as well as my Fassbender's). David Cronenberg has heard my Viggo cries and decided to gratify my needs. 

This looks so good! 

Review: X-Men First Class *THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS*

It feels like it took me forever to see this movie, but it was so worth the wait. Like I do with every review, I'll tell you right now that I loved it. I loved the action. I loved the acting. I loved the characters. I loved this movie. 

Before I get into why I love this film, I have to give a little bit of the plot away. Erik Lehnsherr is going around the world killing people to avenge the death of his mother. On one of his missions he meets Charles Xavier, who tries his hardest to convince Erik to use his powers for good vs. his normal evil routine. Also during this time, two of the worlds most powerful superpowers are close to the edge of a nuclear war (read a history book if you don't know who these superpowers are!!!) and it is discovered that the instigator in the middle of it all is the same man (also a mutant) who murdered Erik's mother. The CIA recruits Erik and Charles who also recruit a young group of powerful mutants to aid in demolishing the pending nuclear war. Now the group consists of Havok, Mystique, Angel, Hank McCoy (who we all know turns out to be Beast), Banshee, and Darwin.

The story of First Class kind of strays away from majority of anything I've ever learned about the X-Men, but it was very entertaining. I was never once disappointed or bored with what I was watching, because the movie moved at a fast pace. There was only one moment that I felt I had been in the theater forever because so much had happened, but when I checked my phone only an hour had passed. That's how jam packed with action the movie is. 

Now onto the acting. How could I not mention Michael Fassbender? The man is a beast and I love him for it. It's kind of hard to believe that this time two years ago he was only known amongst Euro-indie heads and fangirls (like me because he's sooooo dreamy!), and now the whole world knows who he is. He made the character of Erik Lehnsherr his bitch and played it slightly better than Sir Ian McKellen...Yeah I said it!

Kevin Bacon is in this film too. That alone confirms my belief that bacon does in fact make everything better. Nuff said. 

Now on to the things that I did not like:

1. Professor Charles Xavier...what the hell is his problem? I have seriously been asking myself this question since I was five years old. Does he not see what the hell is going on? How many times does this fool have to get knocked in the head by the rock of human ignorance before he finally sees? I've always been more of a Magneto fan than a Professor X fan (for obvious reasons), so maybe that's why I can't understand why he is so willing to put his life on the line for mankind. Although the character was well played by James McAvoy, I began to get more and more irritated by him as a whole. For real dude? Bombs dude. BOMBS!!!
2. January Jones...They had this chick posted all over the place like she was going to be all up and through the movie, but she was maybe in it for all of 10 mins. That of which she did appear I wished she would have kept her mouth closed. Seriously! A model could have done her job and probably would have looked better and done a much better job than she did. Dry ass! LOL! But how the hell would I know? Whenever she was on screen all I kept looking at was that overly padded bra in 60s gear. I kept thinking about how she looked just like the fembots from the Austin Powers films. I just knew that crocked tooth bastard was going to pop out and ask her if she was randy and wanted to shag.
3. Rose Bryne...Another person that was poorly cast. I like Rose, but why was she there if they were going to stifle her for the complete second half of the movie. I totally forgot she was there until Professor X asked her a question while the X-Men were aboard a plane. I thought oh there she is...what's her name again? Totally forgettable. Such a shame, but for real...what was her character's name?
4. John F. Kennedy. Why the hell couldn't this man talk? Who the hell says "Cubar"? Boston accents. Ugh!

Aside from the last 4 flubs, this movie definitely isn't Wolverine. Far from it. I hope that this movie erases the memory of the last X-Men fuck up from people's minds. I also hope the loyal legion listens to me when I say go see this film. It's a good one. Trust me. You'll enjoy it and its cameos....

Well that's it. That's my conclusion. That's all I got. I wish I could come up with something more clever, but I've been up since 6am and my eyelids are getting heavy.

Yes ANOTHER Video

X-Men: First Class comes out next week, and I seriously cannot contain myself. I'm not sure what I will do to celebrate the release of this new X-Men film, but since I have the entire day of June 3rd off, I'm sure I'll think of something. 

Do the White Sox play that day?

Anyway, I was on the internet (kinda minding my own business) when a member of the loyal legion emailed me (thank you!) this video of the X-Men: First Class cast on the Today show. It's a cute little clip with Michael Fassbender mentioning that he wished he had a tail to hold his beverage while he typed on the computer. Although it didn't make much sense, I still giggled like a school girl.

I also learned that the film's premiere was held in NYC last night. Once I took a glimpse at the premiere photos, I noticed that the Fassbender looks like a huge douche with blonde hair and that damn cigarette. That was the moment my crush officially died.

Aside from losing a crush and finally being within a week of X-Men bliss, I got a chance to read some of the reviews about the film. Majority of them were positive, while some...not so flattering. However, I'm going to keep an open mind for the next week and not let those critics opinions influence me. I'm almost sure I'll see a film 10x better than that shit-fest X-Men Origins: Wolverine...God I hope so!

pic snatched from popsugar

Awwwwwwwwwwwwww

Also a nice plug for X-Men: First Class

I Tried To Avoid This Video

But he's just too damn cute. I definitely see myself becoming slightly obsessed. 

Swoon...


To avoid looking like a crazy person, I guess I'll throw in Mia's interview too.

Review: Jane Eyre

I hate when I read movie reviews and it takes the critic three paragraphs to explain to the reader that they loved a movie. So I'll start off by saying that I liked this movie.

I'm not going to lie, I seriously felt that this movie might actually be a waste of time and money; especially since I had attempted to read the book and fell into a deep slumber every time. I'm glad I stuck with my initial plan to see this movie on its opening weekend. I believe that if I had waited too long then the memory of what I had read would have left me, and I would have blindly gone into this experience...and I don't like to do that at all. 

Synopsis: Jane Eyre is basically the story of a young woman who had to struggle her entire life. She was orphaned at a young age, brought up by a bitch of an aunt, sent off to a shady ass boarding school for being "too difficult to manage"; then when she was too old to be there, she became the governess at some big ass house out in the middle of nowhere for a little girl that didn't know a word of English.

A real hard-knock life...

The one thing that I loved about the character of Jane Eyre (I also noticed this when I read the book) is that she never appeared to act as if she was a victim. She stood up for herself and hardly, if ever, cried over spilled milk. She was never the damsel. 

The actress that played Jane, Mia Wasikowska, was in a word: awesome. I loved her, and looked forward to seeing more of her whenever she left the screen.

Since seeing this movie this past Saturday, I took to seeing two of the many adaptations of this book. Although I love Samantha Morton (1997 adaptation) and the 1996 adaptation with Charlotte Gainsbourg and Anna Paquin, I must say that Wasikowska's version of Jane was more believable. Wasikowska's Jane was youthful in both age and looks, where the other women barely came close to looking the part. I don't think Samantha  Morton ever looked 19 years old even when she was 19 years old, but who can blame her for trying.

While living in that big ass house in the middle of nowhere, Jane meets the master of the house, Mr. Rochester. In the beginning, I'm sure the audience is not supposed to like him, but I immediately loved him...blame it on the casting. Michael Fassbender as Mr. Rochester is the only reason why I took my ass to the theater in the first place. The moment his face graced the screen, me and the other 20 women sitting in the theater gasped simultaneously. He is just...so beautiful, even though I'm almost sure Mr. Rochester is described as butt ass ugly in the book, but I'm not complaining.

Fassbender's portrayal of Mr. Rochester was very good. Compared to the other actors I've seen, the overacting and over brooding wasn't necessary, and he played the character true to his own original style. It was just right. 

However, there were some moments that had me thinking what the hell is going on. For example, the chemistry between Wasikowska and Fassbender never appeared. I was waiting for there to be an obvious spark, but nothing. The only moment that I felt that there was a little something between the two characters, was when Rochester creepily watched Jane sleep after she saved him from a fire. Then came that God awful marriage proposal...I'm not sure about my loyal legion, but if someone is head over heels in love with me and wants to marry me, he is going to have to do a little bit better than calling me a "strange and most unearthly thing" before he pops the question. I'm not fond of being called anything other than my name during a marriage proposal.

Like any other book turned movie, there are a lot of differences. There are a lot of characters and moments that I saw as crucial in the novel that weren't mentioned in the movie. However, to be honest, they weren't missed.

I wished the movie could have gone on a little longer, especially after I warmed up to the idea of Jane and Rochester being together, but a four hour movie would have been to much for some. 

Like I said before, I liked this movie. I will recommended it to people I know; the only downside is no one I know would want to see this movie. Damn you CGI, you have officially ruined the effect of word of mouth. 

Earworm Alert!

Well since Chicago's St. Patty's Parade is this Saturday and Michael Fassbender is something like an Irish dude, I guess that's a good enough reason to post this video. 

Michael Fassbender is Hot Guy Friday

There was once a time I used to be able to go over to Celebitchy, without being bombarded by Michael Fassbender news. Now it seems as though he's all Kaiser and the folk over there want to talk about.

I always find it funny when I talk about some cute actor to a friend, and they always reply who? That will probably never happen again thanks to Celebitchy. I could probably walk into any girl circle in Chicago, mention Michael Fassbender, and someone would mention Celebitchy's Hot Guy Friday, because of his ever present face on their "hot guy" list. I'm not mad, just amused.

I believe Celebitchy has taken the world's new obsession to the next level, while exposing me to other men they deem "hot".

Majority of the time, I flat out disagree with their choice of men. I will never see the appeal of half of those British dudes, especially Paul Bettany. 

What is wrong with his head? Seriously, I need to know.

Why am I posting this? I honestly had no idea until now. At first it was because my request to see Daniel Bruhl on the list has been denied two weeks in a row, while Michael's ass has been on the list ten times. Then I was just looking for something to do. Now I just know I'm procrastinating. It happens.

Michael Fassbender is Erik Lehnsherr

I was a little angry at myself for waking up so freaking early (5am), but I feel better now. I spent most of my time searching for new X-Men clips, pics, or something; then I came across this little gem. It's of Michael Fassbender commenting on the trailer for First Class, although I'm sure he was supposed to be doing promotion interviews for Jane Eyre (in select theaters March 11). 

Clearly no one wants to talk about this umpteenth Jane Eyre adaptation (I believe one came on PBS a few nights ago), but I'm glad he's FINALLY getting attention for something. 

It's about damn time!

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It's Finally Here!!!

I don't know about my loyal legion, but I have had the week from hell. It seemed like Friday would never get here, and here it is...I don't know what I was so anxious for. 

Regardless of this dumb week and the tomfoolery I had to put up with, things are starting to look up. The first official trailer for X-Men:First Class is here!!!

This trailer is already showing me everything I've always wanted to see from an X-Men film: What the hell is up with Magneto?

This feeling that I'm experiencing is unlike any other feeling I have ever had whenever I've watched the trailer for a future summer movie. I actually want to see more. 

I'm kinda upset that it's only 2/11/2011! Why is time messing with me?

Happy 300th Post!!!

Oh wow!!! I can't believe I have actually posted on this thing 300 times. Well since I hadn't even noticed, it has actually been 303, but I still can't believe it. 

I just recently "celebrated" my 1 year anniversary, so I'm not going to do too much "celebrating" now. I just want to thank the loyal legion for their support. I read the emails, and you all are just as crazy as I am. Thank you so much! It means a lot to me.

Well, I guess I'll celebrate 300 posts with 300 Spartans!

thanks again!

X-Men: First Class is looking better and better

Fassbender interview @celebitchy

pics snatched from MFTumblr

I Can't Wait For The Trailer

I don't know if I'm more excited to see a new X-Men film is coming out or Michael Fassbender, but I know both are pretty awesome.

I've already proclaimed my love for the Fassbender when I stated that I'm actually looking forward to seeing that guaranteed snoozefest Jane Eyre. I'm normally optimistic when I post movie trailers, but if the movie is anything like the book (which I'm pretty sure it is) then I know I'll be paying to see the inside of my eyelids. 

But as far as X-Men: First Class goes, I'm just hoping it isn't going to be anything like that piece of shit Wolverine. AHHHHHHH!!!! That movie made me sooooo mad, but I'm being optimistic (again) so I'm looking forward to seeing this one too. 

Apparently, the Fassbender is playing Magneto and James McAvoy (the dork in Wanted) is playing Professor Xavier. Others who are featured in this movie are Kevin Bacon (that dude with the game), Zoe Kravtiz (Denise and Lenny's daughter), and January Jones (the other one who showed up naked to The Golden Globes). 

Who are they playing? I don't know or care enough to post, but if you're really interested you can go here or here to find out.

I'm keeping it real dorky when it comes to X-Men! How can you not love them?

I couldn't think of a post title...

That Jane Eyre book was so freaking boring that I picked up another one. I'm kinda upset, because I thought that I would be able to actually sit down and get all intellectual, but forget that mess. That book is all kinds of over my head. Do I believe myself to be dumb? Nope! I believe the book to be full of unnecessary nothings about a schizo child in old school England. I'll just have to wait for the movie and figure things out then.

I'm currently re-reading The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan. I had the opportunity to read it before, but didn't . I'm not sure what happened, but when I was given the chance to read it again; I jumped at it. So far it's really good. I haven't been confused by anything yet. However, my only complaint is why in the hell are the chapters so freaking long? I swear each chapter is about 50 pages of the main character Ruth complaining about her living arrangements. Okay...Let's speed thing up Amy!

Other than reading books, I recently met a guy "Gordon". Well actually, I've kinda known Gordon for a while. He's a friend of a friend and I spent NYE with him. He is very sweet. I'm not sure where this is going, but so far it feels right. Although Gordon is not "Howard", I'm very comfortable and happy at the moment. 

Speaking of Howard, he's still in the picture. I hadn't spoken to or seen him in a while, but then there was yesterday. I had no idea what would happen when I saw him, but I didn't expect what happened to happen.  What happened between us (nothing private just weird and awkward), will stay between us. I'll just say I'm not sure what's going on.

I was a little concerned about what was going on with me talking to two different men at once, but when I put into consideration that I'm not sleeping with anyone, It's not very serious (yet), or that I'm not married; I no longer found anything wrong with the situation. It's innocent.

I'll continue to do what I'm doing until I make up my mind. Hopefully, it will happen before I finish reading my book...I'm only on chapter 2.