Snow Cake has just about everything I like in a movie: good cast/acting, strangeness, made up games and words, nice soundtrack. That makes it my favorite movie of December 2006. Or maybe even...of the second half of the year.
The movie stars Alan Rickman, Sigourney Weaver and Carie-Anne Moss. Basically (taken from imdb), it is a drama focused on the friendship between a high-functioning autistic woman (Weaver) and a man (Rickman) who is traumatized after a fatal car accident (which killed the dauther of weaver - he had given her a lift). Carie-Anne Moss lady is a neighbor.
One of my favorite parts was "Comic Book Scrabble". You can use any word you want or make one up. Kaboom, Shazaam, or whatever you like. However, you must be able to give an example of how to use the word in a sentence. They came up with two great words: Yaamool and Dazlious.
I don't wanna go too into the movie...it'll ruin it for you. Both my friend and I felt some form of inner glee after watching it. When it comes out on dvd I'll definitely get it.
If you wanna flip through some clips though, youtube has a bunch.
Now...some other movies.
-There was a preview for a movie about the lady who wrote the peter rabbit books. it looks awesome. Will see.
-I saw Eragon yesterday...meh. I think I may be tired of the mandatory english accents for people in fantasy movies and how they have to speak some other language (like elvish) to do magical spells...as well as dragons. It ends up being this repetitive thing where a boy discovers something, he doesn't know what it is. He decides to investigate. Then he finds out the world is in trouble and he's been chosen to save it. He doesn't want to, but he must accept his fate because everyone is willing to die for him and need him to restore peace in the lands. He decides, okay, I'll do it, and also saves some pretty lady who doesn't fight very well (wants to meet at some later date to have some fun :P), and defeats the evil ones. The End.
I think the only series of fantasy movies I'll keep up with is Harry Potter because it's fun and more imaginative/childlike (the main characters are youngin's after all)...most enchanting :).
Merry Christmas people who read my blog :D
My celebrations commence tomorrow with extended family. I've decided to make 1 pineapple cake and 1 chocolate cake. What's best is they're both vegan...this means I don't have to take lactaid. I already made the pineapple cake once as a test...dad, mom, friend, friend's mom and another friend all agree it's awesome. I may just bake everything vegan now :D
Anyways, as for the title of this post, paw was kind enough to introduce me to the new single by Patrick Wolf. It's incredibly catchy and happy. I encourage you to listen to it as well :D.
My celebrations commence tomorrow with extended family. I've decided to make 1 pineapple cake and 1 chocolate cake. What's best is they're both vegan...this means I don't have to take lactaid. I already made the pineapple cake once as a test...dad, mom, friend, friend's mom and another friend all agree it's awesome. I may just bake everything vegan now :D
Anyways, as for the title of this post, paw was kind enough to introduce me to the new single by Patrick Wolf. It's incredibly catchy and happy. I encourage you to listen to it as well :D.
This is what you come up with when you discuss the possibility of blind people being able to hunt in texas with a friend. Firstly, at the end of the article, it mentions Cheney accidently shooting his friend while hunting for quail. He's not blind, imagine what they'll do :o.
Second - I don't like hunting for sport. I understand if people are actually eating the animals...but hunting just for fun is not cool...not to mention there's meat in grocery stores.
So, I told my friend "I don't understand, it's like you and I are having a snowball fight, and then a cow decides to shoot us just for fun".
him: "lol, dont ask me, i dont get it either.. and most definitely don't want to be shot by a cow..."
me: "yeah I'm imagining this rampaging cow..."
him: "with a crossbow...on a tree shooting hunters"
alright, good stuff. That explains the cow on the tree.
Now for pizza.
I had two finals in two days, mind boggle, completely saturated. Need some time to empty it of previous course content and prepare it for the upcoming finals next week. So, my friend and I decide we should meet, drink tea and eat foodies. What? We decided to make pizza from scratch. He made the dough this morning (1.5 cups whole wheat flour, 1/2 cup water, 1 tablespoon olive oil, 1 pouch of yeast, knead it 5 mins, let it sit for at least one hour, roll it out, awesomeness in a ball).
What did we put on it? Onions, mushrooms, pineapples, olives, gouda cheese and tofu (we cut it in thin slices, put a mixture of soy sauce, worchestershire sauce (whatever it's called), liquid smoke and black pepper on it...then baked it for 20 mins on 375 F. It was crispy and awesome...kinda tasted like bacon o_O), and we also put this kinda ketchup chili sauce on the actual crust. We baked that for 20 mins on 400 F.
It was a pretty much improvised recipe apart from the crust. It turned out great though...absolutely yummy. Crust was just right. It even tastes good kinda cold...and we didn't smother it in cheese too.
Anyways, so he walked me to the metro later...and he was saying bye bye...and I was saying "indeed, we did some great pizza..." and then he's giving me this kinda gun shot wink thing, then I said "shooting" instead of "making" when I saw his hand gesture. This resulted in much laughter and then remembered the evil rampaging cow who hides in the tree shooting humans, now with pizza as ammo.
My ms paint skills are not super awesome, but I think that cow looks angry.
Right now, I'm hoping that the cow shoots the people who made the FIVE arcade fire shows sell out in less than a day at 3 selling spots + admission.com. They will probably come again, but it's insane.
Anyways, I must go.
You guys should eat our pizza if only because pineapples rule the fruit kingdom. They even have spiky crowns.
So, I'm checking meteomedia.com this morning...checking out the weather.
...UN DEBUT DE DECEMBRE TOURMENTE...UNE INTENSE DEPRESSION PROVENANT DU SUD DES GRANDS-LACS REMONTERA VERS LA NOUVELLE-ANGLETERRE CE SOIR.
It's so dramatic, it's awesome. haha. So yeah, November has been pretty nice to us Montrealers...even yesterday, it was 15 degrees C, a little rain, but tolerable. My russian teacher said it's the day before december and it's so warm, no snow. (btw, in russian class yesterday, we had to sing O Christmas Tree in russian. Much fun was had. We all sucked)
HAHA, well, now...switch to december. BAM. Freezing rain warnings...snow in the next few days, and temperatures dropping below zero. Just like that. I just hope that the McGill students on Dr. Penfield don't experience a similar slippery fate, like they did last year...with the firetrucks and ladders.
I'm hoping for some nice winter nights, with snow and such. Walk around in a park where the lights shimmer on the snow :D
So, now that leads me to "Songs for Christmas". Paw is awesome for telling me about it...because I bought it soon after. It's Christmas 5 eps made by Sufjan Stevens. He recorded one every years, starting from 2001, with the exception of 2004 when he was working on Illinois.
The songs are incredibly catchy and happy.
One of the best lines from the song "Get behind me Santa!" Is "you move so fast boy, like a psychopathic color tv" <- referring to santa. Other fave songs so far are: Sister Winter Come thou fount of every blessing Once in Royal David's City Christmas in July Star of Wonder Holy, Holy, Holy If you'd like to hear the stuff, all of the cd's are streaming here
Only 25 days till xmas, which means no school...decorating someone's tree, getting a santa hat, awesome foodies, general chilling...and whatever else people do at xmas.
Well, it's school time. 2nd to last day of classes!
Lataaaaaaaaaa
...UN DEBUT DE DECEMBRE TOURMENTE...UNE INTENSE DEPRESSION PROVENANT DU SUD DES GRANDS-LACS REMONTERA VERS LA NOUVELLE-ANGLETERRE CE SOIR.
It's so dramatic, it's awesome. haha. So yeah, November has been pretty nice to us Montrealers...even yesterday, it was 15 degrees C, a little rain, but tolerable. My russian teacher said it's the day before december and it's so warm, no snow. (btw, in russian class yesterday, we had to sing O Christmas Tree in russian. Much fun was had. We all sucked)
HAHA, well, now...switch to december. BAM. Freezing rain warnings...snow in the next few days, and temperatures dropping below zero. Just like that. I just hope that the McGill students on Dr. Penfield don't experience a similar slippery fate, like they did last year...with the firetrucks and ladders.
I'm hoping for some nice winter nights, with snow and such. Walk around in a park where the lights shimmer on the snow :D
So, now that leads me to "Songs for Christmas". Paw is awesome for telling me about it...because I bought it soon after. It's Christmas 5 eps made by Sufjan Stevens. He recorded one every years, starting from 2001, with the exception of 2004 when he was working on Illinois.
The songs are incredibly catchy and happy.
One of the best lines from the song "Get behind me Santa!" Is "you move so fast boy, like a psychopathic color tv" <- referring to santa. Other fave songs so far are: Sister Winter Come thou fount of every blessing Once in Royal David's City Christmas in July Star of Wonder Holy, Holy, Holy If you'd like to hear the stuff, all of the cd's are streaming here
Only 25 days till xmas, which means no school...decorating someone's tree, getting a santa hat, awesome foodies, general chilling...and whatever else people do at xmas.
Well, it's school time. 2nd to last day of classes!
Lataaaaaaaaaa
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