The things we Google...

Posted: Friday, January 21, 2011 by A. in
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Rocket science

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Rocket science is the study of rockets, most frequently studied in the discipline of aerospace engineering and related fields.

Rocket science may also refer to:
  • a complex or difficult mental exercise or field or study, used frequently in an ironic sense to suggest that a task should be easy or simple because it is not rocket science

6:00am

Posted: Thursday, January 20, 2011 by A. in
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"I've learned so much about myself in the last few hours. I've updated my facebook profile accordingly."

Dream Sequence

Posted: Wednesday, January 5, 2011 by A. in Labels:
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Babies Gallore!

 Both of these dreams occurred back to back on morning of January 5th 2011.

DREAM #1:

I am at Ash and Pat's place. This must be in the future as they have a set of 1 year old triplets. I am sorry to say but these were very ugly babies. They looked like little old unshaven men. Squinty eyed and squishy cheeked. They have asked Ami and I to babysit. I didn't feel comfortable because for some reason I feel like these babies are evil.

Ami isn't helping me because she is on the computer doing dirty cyber things with Andrew and another chick named Bianca. I'm not going to lie, I may have peaked around the corner to see what they were doing...

Anyway, these babies were getting into everything. I was trying very hard to keep up with them but I was failing miserably. I gathered them all up and we were standing at the top of the stairs. There was a baby gate but it didnt seem to matter because one of the babies pushed me through it and I tumbled down the stairs.

There I was laying there, staring up at their evil old mannish grins. Suddenly one baby threw himself down the stairs. the other two smiled and I knew they were getting ready to do the same. I screamed "NOOOOOOOOOOO!" but it was too late, the other two came tumbling down. I knew that this was their plan to get Ami and I in trouble. I couldn't let them get away with it. So I crawled my way up the stairs screaming for Ami. Finally she came to my aid. She looked down at the bloodied limp baby bodies at the bottom of the stairs and screamed out "gahh! what did you do?!"

Ami helped me up the stairs. As I searched for a phone to call 911, Ami got on the computer and went to a site called 911 online. It made us answer 73 multiple choice questions before telling us that our best option would be to call 911. Ami laughed. I didn't think is was very funny. My main concern was not getting Ash and Pat mad at us. But it was too late. We hear the car door.

Ash and Pat come in and Ami and I try to explain. They look down and see their poor children dead at the bottom of the stairs. I close my eyes and wait for Ash to smack me. Except she starts laughing. I open my eyes to see both Pat and Ash cracking up. "What the hell?" I ask. "What?" Ash said "You thought this was our first set of kids?!" "Yeah" Pat added, "We accidentally kill our kids all the time. Now Ami, show me a pic of this Bianca Chick"

Ash put her arm around me and told me it was okay. "I know what will cheer you up" she said, "I'll show you where we hide the bodies!"

END.

DREAM #2:

So for some reason it is the early 1900's and Andrea, Ryan, Nick, Ami and I are in an old wagon being pulled by horses. It is winter and it is freezing. We believe Andrea is going into labor but she seems okay for now. However, Ami has contracted some bizarre disease and her eyes have started to bleed.

Our wagon gets stuck in the snow and we are forced to walk. I don't even think we have an actual destination but Ryan seems to know where he is going and we all trust him. Suddenly Andrea falls to the ground. Nick yells "This is it!" and whips out his rubber gloves.

With Ryan and Nick managing the child birth, I turn around to check on Ami, but she is gone. There is a trail of blood going behind some trees. I follow it slowly and cautiously. I call out softly "Ames, you okay?". The only thing I hear are Andrea's blood curdling birthing screams. As I come around a group of trees, the blood trail stops. I can't see anything other than white as the wind picks up. I turn to go back and hear a crack from above. I look up to see Ami in the tree, her face has bent completely out of shape and is covered in blood. She growls at me and jumps down. Now I am the one letting out the blood curdling scream.

Ryan comes running as Nick has his hands full of baby and placenta and Andrea wasn't going anywhere. He sees ami attacking me and throws her off. But Ami is oddly strong. She throws Ryan up against a tree and looks at him like she is about to rape him. She bites him hard in the thigh. I run at Ami and stab her through the eye with a sharp dentistry tool I found in my pocket. She is dead and her bottle fizzles away as though it had just been covered in acid. Ryan isn't looking too good.

We re-join the others. Nick uses my dentistry tool to cut the umbilical cord and hands the baby to Ryan. He gathers up all the gross flesh matter that came out of Andrea because he says we can use it as bait to trap animals later. Ryan says we can just eat it ourselves. Either way, fleshy matter in tow, we continue on our journey.

Several hours later Ryan is looking pretty rough, so is Andrea. We thought it was from giving birth but then her eyes started to bleed like Ami's. I wonder if it had anything to do with not properly sterilizing that dentistry tool? Oh well, that'll teach you to let Nick birth your baby in a snowstorm in the early 1900's. Anyway, after a while Nick and I notice that Andrea and Ryan are no longer behind us. We look back and sort of see them rolling around in the snow. It looks like they are making out hardcore. We walk back to them to tell them to knock it off and that we have to keep moving. As it turns out, they were not making out, but rather eating each other alive. The baby lays in the snow next to them screaming. We grab her and start to run.

Finally we reach a town. We dont have any money or skills, other than the ability to stab people and deliver babies. Nick decides to spread the word that the baby was an immaculate conception, so immaculate that it left no marks on me and that he was the miracle baby delivery god. This allowed us to open up a business. I ran a store up front where I sold memorabilia such as the placenta and the dentistry tool and the shoppers could get their picture taken with God's baby girl. Nick delivered babies in the back and got to play with vaginas all day long.

Livin' the dream! Oh and I don't know why, but we named the baby Sollaria... I've never heard of that before.

END.

2010: A Revelation - 2011: A Resolution

Posted: Thursday, December 30, 2010 by A. in
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We are two days away from a new year...

Looking back on this past year I can honestly say that I have accomplished a great deal and put myself on the right track to achieving some of the goals on my career path; however, these accomplishments were not really enjoyed. I experienced a lot of difficulty in my personal life.

I have been so terribly unhappy when I should have been ecstatic. I changed. I used to be happy, and fun and positive... I think. This past year something died inside me and I have felt like a careless robot, just going through the motions day after day. The only feelings I had really felt were fear and disappointment. I was tired of it, so I did something about it. I turned my life upside down and inside out. I realized I cannot fix everything that is broken. I'm not a robot. The only thing that I can fix is myself, and so the healing process began.

 Two months later, two days before 2011, I sit before you oh wise computer machine, and vow to you my new years resolution: Live.

I will be me and not apologize for it anymore. I will go on the adventures that I want to go on and experience new and wonderful things. I will push forward with my career. I will laugh with my friends. I will find new ways to enjoy time with my family. I will start new traditions. I will take good care of myself and others that are important to me. I allow myself to feel  - both good and bad. I will love and I will allow myself to be loved in return.

It's starting already, I feel the spark deep inside of me - watch me turn it into a fire. 

Crafty Times...

Posted: Sunday, November 14, 2010 by A. in
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Here are some photos of some of my sculptures. I figured I hadn't updated in a while so I might as well...












Impatient.

Posted: Wednesday, October 6, 2010 by A. in
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I hate waiting. Waiting causes me to be bored and boredom leads to me being unhappy. Unfortunately life is filled with waiting, and now that we are approaching winter it just gets worse.

At Work:
Waiting for scripts
Waiting for confirmations
Waiting for approvals
Waiting for booking sheets
Waiting for deal points
Waiting to go home
Waiting for this show to end
Waiting for the next show to start

At Home:
Waiting for dinner
Waiting till the last minute so we don't pack things we might need to use before we head home for the weekend
Waiting for friends and family to confirm plans
Waiting for Carey to get responses on his work
Waiting for Carey to give me responses to my questions
Waiting for Thursdays plans
Waiting for Fridays plans
Waiting for Saturdays plans
Waiting for Sundays plans
Waiting for Mondays plans

Back to work:
Repeat all
Waiting for the weekend

Overall:
Waiting for my allergy shots to come in
Waiting for Halloween
Waiting for Birthdays
Waiting for Christmas
Waiting for the next career move
Waiting to move into a bigger place
Waiting for Summer
Waiting to move forward or move on

These are all the things I am waiting for yet I don't just sit and wait. I do things to pass the time, to drive things forward, to make it more rewarding when it comes.

I don't like to wait. Ask people and they will tell you that I get bored and anxious and start to have mood swings. I like to takes steps to make things happen, move on to the next thing. I get very impatient with people who aren't like that, the people who just sit and wait. Waiting feels lazy. Life is too short. If you wait too long you might miss something.

Yet here I am, wasting precious moments blogging about waiting, and why? Because my hands are tied and I can't make my next move till others make theirs. So I need something to do while I wait.

My thoughts on Fall TV and what I think you should see...

Posted: Tuesday, October 5, 2010 by A. in
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A few weeks ago, while having dinner at my grandparents house, my mother asked me what new television shows would I recommend to her this season. Obviously she had asked the right person, but at the time I was kind of blanking. I had only checked out a few by that point and it had only been one week into premieres. I was not confident enough in my own future with these shows, let alone confident enough to recommend them.

Throughout the summer I had watched trailers and sneak peeks for many new shows. Anything that sparked my interest was added to my sidereel tracker. These are the shows that were at the top of my list and after 2-4 episodes I now feel comfortable deciding what their future will be with my calendar. Some of the shows I am about to discuss are actually ones that I have followed for several years. A new season is a new slate, and the first few episodes can easily persuade me to postpone my viewings or quit altogether.

Sunday

If you watched the last season then you definitely tuned back in for season 5 of DEXTER. The highly acclaimed 4th season was almost undeniably the best season to date. John Lithgow frightened us to our very core, so much so we threw awards statues at him in self defense. The finale left us in a cold, dark place that had us wondering if we would ever see light again. Okay, you can probably sense that I am being a little over dramatic. I am basing that last part on the comments that flooded facebook within seconds of the end credits. Personally, and not to give anything away, I was quite pleased with where the story went and I was filled with hope for the story arch this next season would bring. Well it has arrived, I have watched two episodes and I am going to insist that fans continue to follow it. You might as well strap in because even though we are off to the usual slow start, it is compelling enough to keep you along for the ride.

If you came into our apartment you would know right away that we have been anticipating the arrival of BOARDWALK EMPIRE for a very long time. God forbid we only have one piece of poster art for each Scorsese film. I have actually given away Taxi Driver posters because we do not need, let alone have room for, 6 or 7 of them... Anyway, Carey wants to bare Martin Scorsese's children, and I just downright love HBO. We were not at all disappointed. This show is fantastic. It looks incredible, the writing is genius - and I say this in reference to Michael K. Williams' scene this past week in which he still speaks like he's in B-Mo and I questioned this for the time period. I was having a real hard time getting past this, I was no longer listening to what he was saying. Carey tried to apply the reasoning that "Omar" transcends time. Then Steve Buscemi cleared it all up for me in one line that allowed me to laugh it off and focus on the scene again. The cast is a joy to watch. I am really excited for the rest of the season and I think it may be my favorite new show.

Monday

If you have been following HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER this whole time then you are obviously invested in finding out who the hell married Ted and had Bob Saget's children. If you haven't been following then you probably have no idea what I am talking about and your life will continue unaltered and lacking a bit of flare. This show is not always amazing and a lot of episodes may seem rather pointless - but if you have a group of friends who are dear to your heart, and your little group is made unique by it's own ridiculous language, rules, crazy stories and inside jokes - then you will be able to appreciate the genius beneath the surface. I think this show is hilarious and so much of the nonsense discussed has at one point come out of my mouth when no one was listening. If you follow you can continue because it's the same ol' antics with the promise of getting some answers this season. If you don't follow but would like to, please start from the beginning.

Side note: There is nothing I love more than writers who will put something that is almost meaningless in one episode and then 3 seasons later remind you of it and use it to drive the story. How I Met Your Mother does this quite often. Seinfeld used it in a running joke capacity. Either way it is something I really appreciate as a viewer.

90210 - I do not recommend this show. I love it and I hate myself for it and I wish that feeling on no one. There is nothing unique or special about it. It is exactly what you think it is - don't let it suck you in. On another note it showcases a lot of young Canadian talent...which is really why I watch it... do you buy that?

I love Laura Linney. I always have. She is not a high profile celebrity. She is usually the dominant female in a male driven film. She is subtle and funny and makes you feel right at home. THE BIG C is about a woman living with cancer. It is very very funny, and I imagine this can be a hard sell to some. I am really enjoying this series and I am very curious to see where is goes at the conclusion of it's first season. Also starring Oliver Pratt, whom I also adore, and has Idris Elba and Gabourey Sidibe recurring. I am not so fond of Gabourey. She reads very green, for obvious reasons. She seems to have  gotten better in the last couple of episodes... at best her inexperience is no longer dominating her scenes. It has not been very promoted from what I have seen, so I wonder how many people actually know that it is on. I say watch it.

Tuesday

The GLEE club is back and I'm starting to think that their placing at regionals was deserved. Is that a spoiler alert? Oh well. I loved this show when it debuted and continued to love it until it's hiatus. Then it came back and disappointed me. The rest of the season was hit or miss with me and hitting those notes is a pretty important thing on this show. It seems to be doing well with it's other viewers but for me, I don't know. I will keep watching it, and I recommend at least the first half of season 1 (the finale was pretty good too). But I will have to keep you posted on this. Also, it is really bothering me that their other dancer guy is gone. It is really annoying to just watch the one dude dance all the time.

We wanted to check out RAISING HOPE based solely on one thing - Garret Dillahunt. When you do that you are pretty much going in blind. He is not the star of the show, but it is okay because the rest of the cast isn't bad. This show is very cute and if you liked My Name is Earl then you will probably appreciate this show's aesthetics and vibe. 

THE GOOD WIFE (Season 2) - The main character's name is Alicia. I instantly feel like I am appreciated when I watch this show. How ridiculous is that? I like this show. Do I think Juliana Margulies deserved any awards? No. But I do think it is meatier than your average courtroom drama. It is well written and is executive produced by Ridley and Tony Scott. It's here to stay. If you like courtroom dramas, political scandals and affairs then you will probably really enjoy this one. I hope she goes crazy and kills everyone. It hasn't happened yet but I will wait.

This show is about...well exactly what the title says - PARENTHOOD (Season 2). If you are a fan of Ron Howard's work than this is an instant win for you. It's about you, your kids, your parents, your generations, your everyday lives. It's not much more complicated than that. It's recommended for those who have thick enough skin to withstand a good heart-warming without potentially exploding. I personally watch it for the acting, with a cast like this you can't not be curious.

Wednesday

Everyone's favorite new show is MODERN FAMILY. If you didn't catch it last season then you must be curious as to why it cleaned up at the Emmy's. Check it out. Strong recommendation for this show and for Phil Dunphy for father of the year.

If you watched the Emmy's you may have been one of the many viewers wondering why, during the Bruce Springsteen opening number, did they not pull Courtney Cox on stage? I can't answer this. Probably because they didn't think she was there. COUGAR TOWN is easily lost in the shuffle because it is not very good. It takes the dynamic of How I Met your Mother and adds in a little Desperate Housewives. This show will not appeal to everyone which is why I don't recommend it to everyone. I watch it for some of the silliness that I also get from How I Met Your Mother. If you don't like silly then you will hate this. 

Side Note: Cougar Town introduced us to a new game which we have found ourselves playing on Facebook - Movie Mash Up:

Synopsis: Barbara fights for her life against corpses as they rise from their graves, graves like the one Sean Penn is fearing as he faces his last days on death row. "Their coming to get you Barbara...you too Sean"

Answer: Night of the Living Dead Man Walking.

Thursday

Obviously GREY'S ANATOMY is on my list. I was hanging on by a thread through seasons 5 and 6. I could have dropped it at any time. But I am very glad I didn't. I absolutely loved the finale last season and I am determined to see this next one through. I recommend seasons 1-3 for sure if you are a Grey's noob. If you were a fan and went your separate ways, come on back and see it through. You know you want to.

PRIVATE PRACTICE - Drop it. I love Addison, I followed her to L.A., I was with her through all the crap and now I've had enough. I don't recommend it. 

If you have been a fan of THE OFFICE from the beginning then you will continue on for now. Will you continue once Steve Carrell departs? That I do not know. I like The Office, I recommend it, but I don't judge you if you want to jump ship.

Friday Night Death Slot

As a fan of NYPD Blue, I approach all cop dramas with caution. There are so many on and it is overwhelming and sometimes quite annoying. Carey has written a cop drama and honestly I laid into it pretty hard. I tore those first few drafts apart with the same hard criticism I give to all other cop shows. That is what I was expecting to do this week when we watched the first three episodes of BLUE BLOODS - previously known round these parts as "Reagan's Law" - But I was pleasantly surprised. I quite liked this show. Now I dont know if that had anything to do with my expectations being lowered by the epic failing of Detroit 1-8-7, but I am sticking with it. Donny Wahlberg is impressive - I often forget that he was in Band of Brothers (only because there were so many characters and they were all phenomenal). Three generations of cops in the same family, fighting crime in NYC. It feels like it's been done before but give it a shot because it is actually quite enjoyable. I opt to move it from the death slot and give it a nice spot of 10pm on Mondays (replacing Chase).

Side Note: Carey took the criticism well and cut a lot of the crap and added more quality. He now has two episodes of MEASURE OF MEN written and has a solid arch outlined for the rest of the season. It is very well done and I am extremely proud of him. It will not be another run of the mill cop drama.

Honorable Mention goes to MIKE & MOLLY - an overweight cop meets an overweight teacher at an Over-eaters Anonymous meeting and they fall in love. It's funny and adorable and was picked up for a second season. It does not fall as a high priority for me but I enjoyed it and will probably watch it casually.

Move bitch get out da way: OUTLAW - Sorry Jimmy, you tried, I know you did. You are just not strong enough to hold a show on your own and unfortunately that is what you are doing because everyone else is lackluster. So you had a good run on Season 3 of Dexter. It's over. Maybe if you're lucky they can give you a guest spot on Blue Bloods, I'm sure Nick Turturro would be happy to see a familiar face.

DETROIT 1-8-7 I almost don't even want to talk about it. Seriously? You can't try to be The Wire and at the same time treat your audience like idiots. We don't need basic terms explained to us. We get it. Move on with the story. Of course the new cop gets shot on his first day at the same time his phone rings to tell him his wife is in labor. That last scene was all you had going for you and it wasn't enough. Please kill James McDaniels off so that he can also join the cast of Blue Bloods and not have to go down with your sinking ship. PEACE OUT.

I'm am still very much looking forward to THE WALKING DEAD which premieres on Halloween and also the HBO series LUCK which will premiere next year and is written by David Milch.

So that's it. Stay tuned, or don't, it's up to you...