And Some Crafty Stuff...and chatter

Gardeny crafty: made labels for the veggies out of a "Simply Limeade" bottle, then duct taped them to bamboo sticks. Not sure the tape will hold up but didn't really have another option right now.

Knitting: the HP shawl is on the back burner, i think I will start on it again soon. I have been knitting dishcloths 'cause they are easy and mindless.

Painting: I am actually painting something. Granted it's on a canvas about 2"x2",but painting nonetheless. If I finish it, I will post a pic.

Baking: I made banana bread waffles. Which is to say, I made banana bread batter, and then cooked it in a waffle iron ( not a Belgian one.) They are tasty and good, and easy to toast. I would recommend this, it's yummy and different, not a muffin and not a loaf. However, since one waffle is about a 1/2 cup of batter, I don;t recommend them AS waffles, for, you know, breakfast. That would be like eating a stack of large muffins! ugh. Needs no butter or syrup though i think it would be really good with ice cream...


I saw Pirates of the Caribbean on Friday. If you can do it, I recommend going to their late show opening weekend. Then you get to see the movie early, but no one likes the late show so it's not crowded. I saw Shrek this way too, highly enjoyable, if you don;t mind being up late anyway, Pirates is 3 hours or close to it, I got out at 2:30 am! eek.
Anyway, I liked it, it was fun.
I also saw night in the museum last night as a rental on the advice of several people. I don;t care for Ben Stiller much anymore, same old schlock. But people would say , oh but this is different, or you work in a museum, it's funny! (from other museum people.) Well, it was ok. It's a very fancy museum to only have two staff people and one security guard...=P and Capuchin monkeys are NOT FROM AFRICA, they are from SOUTH AMERICA!! How do they DO this stuff?! And get away with it? IT"S ABOUT A MUSEUM! Good gravy, if we had an exhibit about the Serengeti, and put capuchin monkeys in it, we would lose some creditability or something. It's almost as bad as calling apes monkeys.. ARARARAR... The monkey was obviously a key player but a chimp would work as well...that's why PIRATES had parrots and monkeys, they are from the new world and all trendy and stuff.. arrrrg. OHhhhhhh god did that bother me. =P It shouldn't, its a Hollywood silly comedy movie. but it DOES.
But it was ok.

Movies for Geeks Like Me

Why is Clare Danes riding a unicorn? Read more and find out! (this still is from Stardust.)
For what ever reason, suddenly the studio big budget movies this year look more than promising. The summer movie season, usually rife with action movies, all effects, little plot, and featuring "major male action movie star here" are almost all geek movies...
Yes, yes! We have a few excellent looking action movies here; Spidy 3 , Fantastic 4 (well, it might be good.But since it's a comic movie, any press is good press!), and then there is Transformers and Pirates of the Caribbean , and Harry Potter , and Shrek the Third (Hey, it was very action packed and it's ALL special effects..) all of these are action movies, rife with special effects and oh, major movie stars.

There is also the Bourne Ultimatum, Live Free or Die Hard, Oceans 13 and Rush Hour 3. Now, these last movies are what the summer is usually FULL of, and many are usually NEW. Now we have the old guard of action heroes in their death throes trying to live the glory of the 90's action movie that just may have been killed by Armageddon.

This summer we have a lot 3's and 4's and some 2's. Serial movies. The difference is, the latter movies mentioned above, are the movies of yesterday. The geeks have inherited the cineplex! Thank you Peter Jackman! Oh, thank you to the bottom of my little fan girl heart. The biggest movies of the summer are all comic book movies, movies based on the best children's book series EVER (and no, that is NOT Narnia, no offense Narnia.), and a children's' tv show from the 80's. HUWHA?! Bruce Willis has a run for his macho money.

Not only that, serial movies used to suck, after two it was, like, why is this in a theater? Why was this not straight to video?? But now..man, I hope there is a Shrek 4. Although I don't hope there is a 4th Pirates.

And there are more..MORE you say?!
Yeah, there are the movies that aren't serials. And NONE of them are macho action flicks.
Stardust , based on a graphic novel by Neil Gaiman with a stellar cast.
Ratatouille by Pixar and who dosn;t love Pixar in spite of themselves.
Knocked Up looks inappropriately Hilarious.
Evan Almighty (arguably a serial as it's a spin off from Bruce Almighty) looks totally worth seeing.
A remake of Hairspray that looks really good. And there are not enough musicals. There aren't!!(Sweeney Todd!!! ooo! Can't wait..Look at the cast! Look at the Director, Snape? Giles? Captain Jack? Saurman(Or King Haggard and I like to remember him), Wormtail? The Corpse Bride? and oh god, Borat?!And a guy named Jayne? (not the Jayne we know and love.but still.) how can you lose, I mean, really now. )
The Simpson Movie, I need not say more.
Paprika the next big Anime
Waitress
Once
And then there will be the indies and the stuff I haven't heard about yet.



And, then there are the movies that will suck. Besides Rush Hour 3 and Live Free or Die hard. (I haven't seen any of the Ocean's or Bourne movies, they may very well be good. Ocean's 13 looks funny enough to make me want to find out.)
And these movies are
Surf's up (enough with the penguins...although, it's a kids movie.. it looks cute..I am sure it will be a hit. I am just more than a little sick of penguins. I would rather it have been a spin off of Little Nemo with the turtle.)
Licence to Wed
Good Luck Chuck
Aqua Teen Hunger Force ( oh come on..)
and sadly, as we all know 28 Weeks Later.
More may join this list as they come out and are seen for what they really are.

I have seen Spiky 3 and Shrek 3, and I can recommend them both. Spidy should end with this movie, it is a good ride, it's fun, well made etc, but it's a bit complicated and it's trying to do too much in it's 2 1/2 hr run. But it was still fun.
Shrek on the other hand, man, it was great. SO GREAT. I need to buy these movies. GO see Shrek!
Out of all these flicks this summer, in order of excitement, here is my list of hopeful bests:
Harry Potter! DUH!
Stardust
Transformers (Oh, man, seeing Optimus Prime for the first time in the trailer was magic! But..this one could be a big fat bomb.)
Pirates
Paprika
Simpsons
Ratatouille
Hairspray
Knocked Up
Evan Almighty
And a lot of them are, get this..KIDS movies. Family movies! What?! Stuff with a pg-13 rating ro less dominating the theater?!
And this is just the summer, oh, this fall and winter looks equally promising, ending with The Golden Compass...
To day, we take over the movies, tomorrow THE WORLD!!! MAUAHAHAHhahahAHAHHAHAHAHAhahahahahhah....!
YaY Geekdom!
And for all you Naruto Fans (Matt this means you) the Naruto Movie will be playing here and there soon, which means it may get a wider realeas this summer too.