Today I had a movie day. It was supposed to be rainy outside all day and I never see any movies anymore, so I decided to go see a couple movies I’ve been wanting to see.
First, tbf and I went and saw Couples Retreat after meeting up with his brother-in-law for brunch. The movie was cute. It never made me laugh out loud, but lets be honest, not much (on tv or in movies) makes me laugh out loud. I thought it was cute and would definitely watch it again. I enjoyed the cast full of familiar faces, although I didn’t buy Kristen Davis’s character’s (Lucy) relationship with her husband and what came of it in the end. In the end, I definitely enjoyed this movie and wished I had seen it second.
Then I did a bad thing. For the first time ever I snuck into a movie!
However, I saw the Invention of Lying second, and I don’t think I would have stuck around to see a second movie if I had seen this one first. A few weeks ago, Ellen had Jennifer Garner on her show promoting this movie. I a. developed a giant girl crush on Jennifer Garner, and b. decided this movie sounded so funny. Then she had Jason Bateman on to promote the movie as well. Ironically, he was in both of the movies I saw today. The idea of the movie sounds cute. No one in the world has even thought to lie and can’t conceive of it, but the main character, Mark Bellison – played by Ricky Gervais – manages to lie to his mother as she is dying to comfort her about the afterlife. I promise, I didn’t just ruin the movie. He then realizes what he can get out of lying to people and basically makes himself rich and powerful to get the girl, Jennifer Garner, who is not interested in him. It ends in a cute way, but overall, I was disappointed and didn’t find this movie to be as good as I was expecting. It seemed to be express someone’s opinion and dislike of religion and seemed to have too many untertones to me. Too bad — it seemed to have potential.
Unlike everyone else I know, I did not go anywhere or do anything for Labor Day weekend. It was kind of nice to sleep in and relax. It seemed like all the othe cable channels got together and decided to have a Julie Roberts weekend party. This weekend I watched:
Monday: Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge and get Grimaldi’s with Jill
Tuesday: Sit n Knit Meetup. I am making this:
Wednesday: 3 different Happy Hours/Parties for work
Thursday: Going away party for one of my colleagues who is moving to Chicago.
Friday: Kings of Leon concert at the Today Show
Saturday: 2 birthday parties and a wedding that I’m not going to be able to make it to (I’m really sad about that).
I WANT her stomach in this video. I have always wanted her stomach in this video. This song always makes me work just a little harder when I’m working out.
Here’s a cool invite to go along with the one I posted a few days ago and also to go with the stop motion film “Deadline” that I posted. Via Michael (thank you), a very cool wedding invite:
So Tim Burton is creating a new Alice In Wonderland through his vision. Complete with Johnny Depp. They make a crazy, but great team. I LOVE these pics that have been released.
Tonight’s show was SO good! I really how liked how it was all about story lines and not so much about them being doctors. I mean, obviously it was, but some shows are more about surgeries than stories and tonight was not. I knew that TR Knight and Katherine Heigl were leaving the show, and I knew Izzy was going to die tonight, but it was still sad. I still cried.
I didn’t get the 007 reference that George used to tell Meredith who he was. I don’t remember that ever being in the show, but who knows, I’ve been watching this for what, 4? 5 years now? Crazy. Either way, I did NOT see that coming! I just figured George would join the army and go off to Iraq with the possibility of the character returning at some point in the future.
Derek and Meredith’s “wedding” was cute and it fits them, but I thought it was disappointing. Put life ahead of work, just go to the stupid court house. I do love that Christina is finally becoming a human though.
Arizona’s speech to Callie about the army made me cry. The whole stupid show made me cry, but I couldn’t help but cry when they actually showed a positive perspective about joining the army on the show – so many people are so against it all and I definitely feel like there is a negative connotation when people talk about “serving the country” although it’s masked by the patriotism people feel they are supposed to show – the majority of people are too PC to openly admit opposition to the army and if they do, they oppose the war, not the individuals. I don’t see the separation.
I guess the only real questions I have are what happens with Bailey? Does someone talk her into doing pedes or is that the end of it? What does Alex do? Does he stay in the program? What happens with McDreamy and Little Grey? Do they stay together? They’re my fav right now.
Friday, tbf and I went to the Oprah show. His sister works there and got us tickets. It was a show without guests in the studio which was a little weird.
When you get there, you go through a line where you check your coat (anything you take in the studio besides a purse you have to wear – can’t hold – and you can’t take it off). Then you go through a purse check where they go through and basically take out anything electronic and anything you could possible write on or with. They took my book, my DS…everything. They check it and you get it back when you leave the show. Next, you go into a waiting area and sit and talk until they are ready to seat you for the show. They call all the people who are sitting in the floor seats individually and before everyone “else.” The floor seats had a much, much higher concentration of black people/women than the rest of the audience, which the majority of was white.
I think I signed something that says I can’t talk about the show, so I won’t – but I will say all the guests were all “on” via Skype. (I think it’s really amusing that Skype is so big as of late – I learned about it fall of 2005.) The guest also had pretty depressing stories. There wasn’t much that was “inspiring” or “uplifting” about the show. At one point during a “commercial break,” she turned to the audience and said something to the effect of, “I’m so glad the world is so screwed up or I wouldn’t have a job.”
Afterward, Oprah was very talkative. There was some woman who was like worshiping her and kept telling her how she [Oprah] has made it ok for her [the woman] to be a black woman in society and be strong. She kept saying, “Like, you’re Oprah,” and “Don’t you know who you are?” These people worshiped her – very weird. Then there was a girl who stood up and was telling Oprah that she wanted to be her. Oprah said, “but you can’t be me, cause I am. You should be the best you.” She went on to ask her what she wanted to do with her life (she was 23) and the girl told her broadcasting. So Oprah asked what she was doing now and the girl said she was working in engineering. From there, Oprah sort of picked on her about the whole career thing and how she doesn’t think the girl actually wants to be in broadcasting or she would be doing everything she could to be there. She was like picking on her, but at the same time, clearly trying to get her to open her eyes and really figure things out. She then took pictures with the two woman and it was over. Back out to get the contents of my purse and my coat.
All in all it was a really cool experience to get to see how it’s all done and see what all the show entails. I enjoyed myself and would definitely go again. I’m sure that the experience is totally different with a guest physically on the show as well.
Oh, one thing I forgot: At some point during the taping, Oprah said she thinks Michelle Obama is the most qualified person to be the first lady, ever. Really Oprah, ever? Wouldn’t that really have been Martha Washington?
