I saw the trailer for this on a movie site nearly a year ago, and I’ve been looking forward to watching it ever since. Beyond Zach Galifianakis’ character George Washington Winsterhammerman struggling to tear apart a roll of paper towels and dreaming of being George Washington, I didn’t know what to expect.
The film is set in a near, dystopian future where the the masses work for the Jeffers Corporation, everyone greets each other with a Jeffer’s salute (pictured above), and people everywhere are exploding. Literally.
The entire time I was watching it, I couldn’t help but compare it to Brazil and Stranger Than Fiction. Sam Lowry in the former also has strange, liberating dreams while living and working in a very bureaucratic society, and Harold Crick in the latter also has to reexamine his empty, meaningless life when he learns of his imminent death. While I enjoyed Visioneers and the scene with the roll of paper towels, I wish it had been more like either the more fantastical Brazil or the more character driven Stranger than Fiction. (more…)
The whispered conversation I had in the third row of the movie theater (the place was that packed) while getting sour stomach on peanut M&Ms and super salty popcorn. Oh, and two large root beers.
Me: I want to do that. (Cook every recipe in Mastering the Art of French Cooking.)
J: No you don’t.
Me: Yes I do! I want to cook like that!
J: You don’t have time.
Me: I’ll skip the beef jellos!
After seeing Julie & Julia , I’m anxious to cook, to write, to find something to dooooo. Meryl Streep made me love Julia Child, need to debone a duck, and hanker to murder lobsters. Having scavenged the internet for clips of Julia’s show, I wonder just how many people have fallen in love with her joie de vivre. I don’t think Meryl Streep improved on that woman’s wonderful persona one bit. She simply embodied it perfectly.
Many people have written that the Julie Powell portion of the movie was the film’s weaker half. Though I agree, because I don’t know who could have competed with Julia Child, I think the Julie parts of the script were almost there. (more…)
After making my little brother Charlie a Mad Men character, I mistakenly emailed this image to another Charlie in my family, Grandpa Chuck.
Realizing my mistake, I immediately emailed Grandpa Chuck again:
Oops. Meant to send this to the littlest Charlie. It’s him in the 60s!
~Sarah
Its OK, I was better than the “Mad men” in the 60’s.
Gramp
So something like that? (more…)
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The first thing I noticed when I started playing Sims 3 was that you could create blue, green, and red Sims. I promptly created the Anaconda family with a green father and blue daughter, helped them navigate their way through their careers in journalism and rock n’ roll respectively, and peopled a gigantic house with blue and green babies. Now, I loved these characters, and I did my best to help them live fulfilled lives. But then the save file got corrupted, and I realized my blue sim, Yolanda Anaconda, was never going to be Rock Star unless I planned on playing for 36 hours straight. After considering this option for a day or two, I said screw it. What’s the point? Where does hard work in life get you anyway? I’ll tell you, with a brood of blue and green ingrates that you have to potty train and clean up after.
That’s when I created Lucifer, the handsome red devil you see now. (more…)
