Movies are...Unoriginal Sex Plots

What I'm Listening To: Us-Regina Spektor

Soon and very soon, movie theaters are going to start showing porn. I'm almost certain about this. My mother jokes that PG-13 is the new Rated R and I used to laugh at her, however I think that she may have a point. When the movie industry comes up with a movie like Black Swan (which was amazingly fabulous by the way) and then puts the two stars of that movie, Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis each in a movie where they have sex with their friends and supposedly have issues because of it, you know it's going downhill. No one seems to have original ideas anymore (except for Christopher Nolan-I'm biased-and a few others) and when you rehash books into movies and essentially ruin them as well as make an unoriginal plot for a movie that probably the only plus side to it will be that it shows gratuitous sex, it really speaks to how far you've come...or not at all. Personally, I don't think that Friends with Benefits or No Strings Attached are going to be amazing movies because I'm pretty sure 3/4 of the citizens in America have done the plot already and either did or didn't have the same issues. Or maybe people will relate to the movies because of this fact, I don't know. And apparently all we need to make a good movie is for some hot chick to take off a shirt and aggressively have sex with anyone, anything, or herself. However, an emphasis of how artistically and devastating and beautifully disturbed Black Swan is has to be reiterated. I smell mountains of awards.

I love a good action movie or the movies based off of Marvel Comic books, even though I haven't read the comic books. I look forward to seeing Stan Lee in all those cameos, it's like Where's Waldo, only it's Stan and you don't have to pick him out of a crowd of  a thousand other people that you could care less about. I think he deserves that star on the Walk of Fame for all his cameo work! And from my endless babbling about it, you've probably figured out that Inception is on my list of top movies of all time, right up there with Man on Fire and The Adventures of Robin Hood. I most likely give people too much credit by assuming that they don't want to watch mindless drivel. Don't get me wrong, sometimes you need to. You've had a hard day at work, your brain is mush, and you can't focus on anything except the most trivial. That's understandable.

In other news, Queensland Australia is drowning under water. It's crazy the amount of natural disasters that have happened in the past couple of years, and the fact that the world doesn't know/is not prepared to deal with it. But that's for another post.

Cooking Spree

What I'm Listening To: Fotografia-Nelly Furtado ft. Juanes

My second favorite movie is Man on Fire with Denzel Washington and Dakota Fanning. It's got everything--Spanish, bomb soundtrack, drama, torture, the Bible, revenge and awesome camera movement. It's literally a movie masterpiece. And no one can forget the acting, it's amazing. Unbelievably my dad had never watched it, so he was intrigued when he was supposed to be doing work. If you don't know what my favorite movie is, it's the Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 with Errol Flynn and Olivia de Haviland--that movie has everything a top-notch movie should (classics rule, Gone With the Wind with Scarlett and Rhett are CRAZY).


Anyway, today is about my baking skills. I've discovered that baking has been a latent talent for me and I seriously want to start cooking awesome things for myself. I literally made 12 dozen cookies yesterday for my co-workers at ICM. It was semi-brutal, but they loved it. I made two pans of double chocolate chip cookies from scratch and there were only six left for me to bring home. The gluten free sugar cookies were huge and everyone seemed to like them. Although I went half off of the recipe and half by what one woman said in the comments, the cookies came out exceptionally well. They really weren't bad, and were a nice alternative/change. But that Bob's Red Mill flour was super expensive, like $10. I feel sorry for people who are allergic to gluten not because they can't eat regularly, but because they're probably going broke trying to eat normally. One of my co-workers can't have gluten, so I decided to make them. The sugar cookies on the other hand, were a different story. They were still good, just super thick so next time I'll put milk in them. One of my co-workers called them naughty...


I'll have to make the double chocolate cookies again when I leave, but so far I'm focusing on doing my homework for my journalism internship class and finishing up the book. I wasn't even aware how close I was to being done so I am definitely excited. Even though I'm not going to finish in the time that I wanted to, I am still going to finish in the next 2-3 months, maybe even before then!