Let's talk movies, shall we?

**Warning: this post was written incredibly early in the morning after being awake for nearly 24 hours. It may contain severe rambling and broken thoughts. You have been warned. **

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It is 4:30 in the morning. Why, you may ask, am I blogging? Well, why not? I'm certainly not sleeping. . .I have insomnia. Have I mentioned this? No? Well, I do. And it's lame.

I have been lying in bed for literally hours attempting to achieve peaceful slumber but instead, achieving nothing. Which is why I decided I may as well get up and find something to pass the time for awhile. So let's talk about movies. I L-O-V-E movies. I love going to movies, I love watching movies, I love basically everything about movies. I also love basically any kind of movie. Action, adventure, drama, romance, musical, comedy. The only kind of movie I really don't like are scary ones. Seriously. I am a total baby when it comes to scary movies. I can literally count on one hand the number of scary movies I have actually sat all the way through. I just can't handle them. Okay, now that I think about that a little more, that's not entirely true because I think Alfred Hitchcock is brilliant and I love his films, but other than that, I hate scary movies.

In spite of this absolute loathing of anything resembling a scary movie and the fact that I gett be way more terrified than I ought to be, tonight I watched a scary movie. All alone. In the dark.
Why? There are two basic reasons:

Reason number one: It was one in the morning, I was very awake and bored, and I discovered that the entire movie was on you tube (love that, by the way).

Reason number two: It had this kid in it:
Um, so confession: I love Shia Lebeouf. He makes me laugh, he's totally cute, he's great in everything I've ever seen him in, and I think that Even Stevens was one of the greatest shows on Disney, judge me if you will.

Point being, I watched Disturbia tonight.
Did you guys see that movie? It was basically creepy beyond all reason. No, really. It scared me. I had to watch something happy after I finished it because I was still creeped out. Which, by the way, is one of my pet peeves about scary movies. You spend two hours being totally scared and watching these characters you have come to like be chased by some crazy, deranged, psychotic murderer, and them bam - crisis averted, murderer/stalker/total creeper is dead. After forever of being totally tense, they give you like a maximum of two minutes of seeing the main characters happy and expect you to believe that the world really is good and safe and that they live happily ever after, and I can just turn out the light and go to sleep now. I think not.

That being said, as far as creepy movies go, I actually kind of liked this one. Sure, it had all the usual cliches, middle of the night chase, lightning storm, power outage, creepy music, dead bodies, etc. But it was still scary, but not so much so that it's going to keep me up at nights (though like it would really matter, I'll probably be up anyway). I think I would actually watch it again though. Someday. Preferably with the lights on. Also preferably watching it on my couch, holding the hand of some cute guy, rather than watching it on my laptop alone in my dark room trying not to wake my sleeping roommate.

Overall thoughts: pretty good, and if you like creepy movies, I definitely recommend it.

Hmmm, what other movies have I seen lately that I can ramble on about?

Julie and Julia



Last week my friend Kaila took me to see this, and I loved it. I thought it was adorable, though I have to admit that there were a couple of things that bothered me. For one, everyone constantly eating in the movie was kind of disgusting. Especially Amy Adams characters husband. It was pretty nasty, seriously. I have no problem watching people eat, it was just the ravenous way in which the characters were constantly consuming food in this film that was a little disturbing at times. And while Amy Adams was borderline creepy stalker at times and her haircut was pretty bad, I thought she was adorable, as always, and her clothes were amazing. Meryl Streep, on the other hand, was fantastic. If I hadn't known any better I would have thought that it was actually Julia Child, she seriously became her. It was unbelievable.

Overall thoughts: I loved it and I highly recommend it.


500 Days of Summer
Words cannot describe how much I loved this movie. It is cute, it is charming, it made me laugh out loud, it made me cry, it ended perfectly, Zooey Deschanel is fantastic and her clothes are adorable, the music all the way through is so great(gotta love The Smiths), it could very well be the perfect movie. . .except for one thing. Sad to say, there is quite a bit of smut in it. Much more than necessary, in fact. It definitely deserves its PG-13 rating, let's put it that way.

Overall thoughts: I totally loved it, but am unsure of how heartily I can recommend it.


Star Trek
I know this one has been out for awhile, but have you guys seen this?
Confessions of Alicia: I am totally a closet star trek fan. I know, right? Maybe I should be ashamed that my geeky side is showing? Oh well, it is 4:30 in the morning, who really cares? Up until this point in my life though, my theory on star trek has been that it is "Star Trek: The Next Generation" or nothing. I used to love that show, but had never had anything to do with star trek besides that until this movie came out.
That being said, I totally loved this movie. Seriously, I thought it was great. I may or may not have even seen it more than once. I liked it that much. What else can I tell you? It has action, adventure, romance, comedy, and is intense at times. And, despite what my mother may say on the matter, I think Spock is surprisingly handsome. I know, one minute I confess that I like star trek, the next I'm telling you a vulcan is handsome. Severe lack of sleep people, it does this to you. But seriously? Zachary Quinto, c'mon mom.
Maybe without the terrible haircut and creepy eyebrows?


Where was I going with this? Somehow lost my train of thought. . .

Overall thoughts: see it, its basically awesome.

Well, its after five now, I think I will try to sleep again. Wish me luck!

Coming up with a clever title: not as easy as you might think. . .

I'm back in the blogging world, and I've decided to change things up a bit.

For starters and a little update on my life, here are some of the random things my summer has consisted of:

• Finished up the semester and decided to not do summer school, but just work instead, not realizing how difficult that would prove to be.
  
• Moved out of the scary spider infested duplex into a beautiful condo around the corner.
  
• Looked for a job.
• Found a job doing custodial on campus.
• Passed out in front of the entire crew on my second day of said job.
• Scraped up my face, took an ambulance to the hospital.
• Was told it was a combination of stress, dehydration, and exhaustion. Awesome.
• Went home to reassure my mother that I really was fine.
  
• Bummed around with my family and friends for a week.
• Came back to Provo and played for the weekend with my sister Cassie who drove back with me.
  
• Looked for a new job after quiting the custodial job due to the total humiliation.
• Went to California for a fun-filled weekend, ended up doing nothing in California all weekend(it's a long story, you really don't want to know).
• Worked at the Stadium of Fire for July 4th (sadly, only a one day job).
• Continued looking for a job.
• Met up with my dear friend Kayley (one of the girls I went to Russia with and have not seen in years) and her husband Paul.
• Planned on meeting for lunch, ended up spending twelve hours together.
  
• Went home to AZ for three weeks:
• Nearly died from the heat,
• Chatted with my mom,
• Played with Linds and Chels,
• Was surprised with tickets to see Beauty and the Beast (thanks girls!),
  
• Held sweet little newborn Ruthie,
• Laughed with my brother,
• Played in the game room with my dad,
• Saw Wicked at Gammage,
  
• Went swimming,
• Bummed around with my sisters,
• Had my nails done by Annie about a million times,
• Visited with extended family at LJ's Pizza (my favorite),
• Turned 24 and was given Pushing Daisies season 2 and tickets to see Chicago (the band, not the play).
  
• Watched about a billion movies and relaxed.
• Nearly sang myself hoarse as I made the eleven hour drive back to Provo, looked for a job.
• Was visited by Hillary and James:
• Stayed up way too late every night talking and laughing,
• Went shopping all over Utah,
  
• Realized how much I have missed those two - love you guys!
• Looked for a job.
• Sat in absolute horror and tried my hardest not to giggle through the worst concert I have ever attended, but couldn't just leave because there were only like twenty people total there.
• Narrowly escaped being puked on by a poodle the size of a great dane. Still a little traumatized.
  
• Spent a few hours lying in a meadow in a sleeping bag up the canyon watching a meteor shower.
• Had the sprinklers come on and discovered how difficult it is to get out of a zipped up sleeping bag while trying to find your shoes, cell phone and keys, at the same time scrambling up a hill and attempting to avoid the jets of icy cold water while laughing and freezing.
  
• Continued looking for a job.
• Watched numerous lightning storms from my stoop, and was reminded of how much I love monsoon season.
• Registered for classes for the fall.
  
• Started packing to move(again).

That's all I can think of for now. The only other thing that comes to mind are the numerous drives up the canyon, movies, and excursions to my favorite Thai restaurant. Pretty boring, I know.

Speaking of drives up the canyon though, I took this picture this afternoon somewhere along one of my stops up the Provo canyon. I took it on my cell phone, so the quality is pretty bad, but it was a beautiful day and I was reminded of how much I love summers in Utah.


PS, while looking for the above picture on my phone, I came across this little beauty and thought I would share. This was taken while driving back this afternoon:




I know it's hard to see, but those are sheep. In the back of a truck. Cruising down the highway. Why? The world may never know. . .