amy loves books

this was not a very good book

But evidently, Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson wanted to play dress up. And, really, who wouldn't?

vote vote vote, everybody vote - unless you are a felon, 'cause felons can't vote

So, who would you vote for if you had to base your vote solely on the candidate's favorite movies from their Facebook page?

Candidate A:
Marie, The Hunt for Red October, Die Hard 2, Days of Thunder, In the Line of Fire

Candidate B:
Casablanca, Godfather I & II, Lawrence of Arabia and
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Candidate C:
The Godfather, Casablanca, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Citizen Kane

Candidate D:
Viva Zapata, Letters From Iwo Jima, Some Like It Hot

Candidate E:
The Lives of Others, The Wind That Shakes the Barley, action movies, suspense movies

Candidate F:
Sicko - Michael Moore

Candidate G:
Shawshank Redemption

Or would you go for one of the three candidates that were just too cool (or perhaps boring) to list favorite movies?

Candidate H - is just too busy saving the whole darn world to read books or watch movies - in fact - they'd like you to know that they write their own books.

Candidate I - does not watch movies but says Huck Finn is one of their favorite books and uses a sentence fragment to explain that they are fixing failing schools.

Candidate J - they've got nothing to say. You can tell they don't want to be on Facebook at all.

just waiting for that nation-wide distribution.

mmmm. pancakes.

(via. boing boing)

go green

Are there really girls that show up at the recycling dumpster between 11-12:00 waring a dress and pilling it up because they like to have fun?

Somebody sure hopes there are.

magic

and we were so lucky to grow up in a time when they still sat us all on the floor and showed us films of reel-to-reel projectors in school. i honestly do not know who i would be if i had not seen some of the things i saw sitting cross-legged on the blue school carpet.

the best.

It may be too much to hope that the entire movie will be a homage, but this traileris reason enough to finally show my son Brazil. I only wish I had a big screen.

I really liked Juno

Since I have no movie-watching buddy, I'm still trying to get to where I don't hate seeing movies alone -
but I loved this even though I had to see it all by myself.

It's my favorite currently-out-thing I've seen so far, and the soundtrack is nifty.

hooray!

Last year, we bought the kids the great, transcendent, classic Christmas film Santa Conquers the Martians on DVD from the dollar bins at Target.

It's hard to say what the best thing about the film is - but the theme song is up there. Lucky for you, dear readers, Senor Tonto has covered the song as a little extra-special holiday treat.

Enjoy!!!

merry little christmas

there is a light and it never goes out