Showing posts with label good movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label good movies. Show all posts

Sunday, July 24, 2011

grab somebody sexy, tell 'em hey

warning: this post contains a plethora of explicatives.
cheers to the freakin weekend, i'll drink to that yeah yeah / with sober girls around me they be actin like theyre drunnkkkkk... like a G6 now now nowwww im feelin so fly like a G6 / because she moves her body like a cyclone / down like she supposed to be,
she gets down low for me,
Down like her temperature ’cause to me she zero degree.
She cold, overfreeze,
I got that girl from overseas
now she my miss America
now can i be her soldier please,
I’m fighting for this girl
I’m a battlefield of love,
Don’t it look like baby cupid sent his arrows from above
don’t you ever leave the side of me,
Indefinitely, not probably,
and honestly im down like the economy / girl, i know, mistakes were made between us two. and we showed our ass that night even said somethings weren't true / them baggy sweat pants and the Reeboks with the straps She turned around and gave that big booty a smack (hey) she hit the floor (she hit the floor) next thing you know shawty got low low low low low low lowwww / okay youre a goon, but whats a goon to a goblin? / in my rearview mirror is the motherfucking law, got two choices yall pull over the car or bounce on the devil, put the pedal to the floor. now i aint trying to see no highway chase with Jake, plus i got a few dollars i can fight the case so i pull over to the side of the road. i heard son, do you know what im stoppin you for? cause, im young and im black and my hat's real low. do i look like a mind reader, sir? i dont know. am i under arrest or should i guess some more? well you was doin 55 in a 54. license and registration and step outta the car, are you carrying a weapon on you i know a lot of you are. i aint steppin out of shit all my papers legit. well do you mind if i look around the car a little bit? well my glove compartment is locked so is the trunk and the back and i know my rights and you gonna need a warrant for that / grab somebody sexy tell 'em hey, give me everything tonight / listen to this track, bitch. girl, the way you're moving got me in a trance. DJ, turn me up. ladies, this your jam, cmon. imma sip moscato and you go loose them pants. imma throw this money while you do it with no hands, drop it to the floor i love the way your booty goo / that's when she said it, looked me dead in the face, asked cash or credit / she put that sugar on my tongue tongue yippy yippy yum yumm goodie goodie gum drop put me in a tongue lock / i'm about to take my key and stick in the ignition / i need Winn Dixie grocery bag full of money right now to the VIP section yeah yeah yeah / got rubber band banks in my pockets / i dont say hi, i say keys to the Benz /  wanna get you in the bath tub with the candle lit you give it up till they go out or we can do it on stage of the Ludacris concert / i'll slap you off that barstool there goes another lawsuit, leave handprints all across you, Good Lordy whoadie, you must be gone off that water bottle you want what you can't have, ooh girl that's too damn bad/ I got my swim trunks and my flippie-floppies I'm flipping burgers, you at Kinko's straight flipping copies / I'm riding on a dolphin, doing flips and shit, the dolphin's splashing, getting everybody all wet but this ain't Seaworld, this is real as it gets I'm on a boat, motherfucker, don't you ever forget I'm on a boat and it's going fast and I got a nautical themed pashmina afghan, I'm the king of the world on a boat like Leo. If you're on the shore, then you're sure not me-oh Get the fuck up, this boat is REAL!!! fuck land, I'm on a boat, motherfucker (motherfucker!) fuck trees, I climb buoys, motherfucker (motherfucker!) I'm on the deck with my boys, motherfucker (yeah) the boat engine make noise, motherfucker / excuse me, you're a hell of a guy you know i really got a thing for american guys / check my myspace and ive got a lot of friend requests, YES. / if you catch me at the border, i got visas in my name if you come around here, i make em all day ill get one done in a second if you wait sometimes i think sitting on trains, every stop i get to im clocking that game, everyone's a winner we make our own fame 

The premise of Limitless is the main character gets his hands on a drug that allows you to use all of your brain instead of just 20%. It got me thinking, if I could just have the 30% or so that is full of song lyrics back, I could really do some incredible things. Not just any lyrics, I'd like to keep a lot of the lyrics in my head, its the lyrics about bitches, going to the club, gettin drunk etc that I'd like to do away with. Today, I made a smart playlist of my top played rap music and realized how many songs I know every single word to. Words that I couldn't even type above because they're so raunchy and absurd. I've got to believe I could put the portion of memory that knows every word to 99 Problems, What's Your Fantasy and I'm On A Boat towards curing AIDS or helping fight hunger. Until such a drug becomes FDA approved, I suppose I'll still be able to bust out every word while dancing to it with a drink in my hand or while jamming with my windows rolled down. Highly recommend the movie though, it definitely gets you thinking.

Sunday, February 27, 2011

5 hours, 23 minutes, 56 seconds

My predictions for who will win and who should/who I want to win. There are differences here.
Best Actor- Colin Firth hands down, most amazing male lead actor role of the year. Absolutely amazing performance. James Franco would be my second choice. I really enjoyed 127 Hours and he is just plain beautiful. It would be nice to see a young actor win, but Colin Firth will most certainly be taking this one home and it's well deserved.
Best Actress- Natalie Portman is my prediction of the winner. I think she did a great job and I won't be disappointed if she wins. However, I thought the dance scenes were cheated due to her lack of rich dance experience. I'd love to see Nicole Kidman win just because I really, really, really loved her in Rabbit Hole (see my previous post).
Supporting Actress- Melissa Leo, no contest. She was simply incredible in The Fighter and deserves this by a landslide. Hailee Steinfield would be my back-up choice for a fifteen year old whose first film got her an Oscar nomination. I was disappointed to see Julianne Moore overlooked this year, I loved her in The Kids Are All Right and thought she was deserving of a nomination for either supporting or best. Too bad. I was also disappointed to see Mila Kunis without a nomination. Goodbye Jackie, hello hot, vivacious, talented ballerina.
Supporting Actor- Christian Bale. Another category where The Fighter blows all other competition out of the water. Second to Bale would be Geoffery Rush in The King's Speech or John Hawkes in Winter's Bone. Bale really impressed me and made The Fighter what it was.
Best Direction- David Fincher but close second preference would be Darron Aronofsky for Black Swan. My gut tells me this will be one of two categories that The Social Network has in the bag.
Cinematography- I'd kill to see Inception take this one home, but most likely we will see King's Speech or Black Swan.
Adapted Screenplay- Social Network
Original Screenplay- King's Speech
Best Picture- The King's Speech. This is what I want to win and what I think will win. I wouldn't be too surprised to see Black Swan win. But, if I had to say my favorite movie on the list, not going to lie, I think it was The Kids Are All Right.
I was disappointed in Winter's Bone and Blue Valentine.
True Grit was really fantastic. It will be sad to see it get overlooked, but other movies just overshadowed the Coen brothers this year.
All the other categories, I will predict but since I haven't seen all the nominees, I can't form a really solid opinion.
Animated- Toy Story 3 (of course)
Art Direction- King's Speech
Costume Design- The Tempest
Documentary- Inside Job
Film Editing- Fighter
Foreign Language- Biutful
Original Score- Social Network
Original Song- Toy Story

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Does it ever go away? No... it changes though.


it is rare to see grief accurately described. Rabbit Hole was excellent. Simply, beautifully done. Highly recommend.
To my human mind, it seems like some tramatic event such as losing a son, a mother, or a friend should on some level resemble riding a bike. I learned how to ride a bike because someone taught me how. He learned how because someone taught him. And once he had mastered it, many years later, Andres was at the right place at the right time and when I was ready to learn how to ride a bike, he taught me. He knew how, he had fallen and struggled with it at first I'm sure, but then, he knew how and could teach me. This is how I felt about loss for a long time. When Mom had cancer, I kept thinking, "If I could just talk to some other 18 year old out there who's mother has cancer." Or, "If there was just someone else who could relate to me" we could talk and I could experience some form of resolve.
Three years later, I remember sitting in a room in Cozumel with fifteen high school students who had just lost a dear friend to a car accident. One girl looked at me with tears in her eyes and said, "Didn't you have a best friend die? Can't you give me some advice?" And the answer for so long involved this bitterness of platitudes that just meant, 'no' without actually completely giving disappointment. But the answer is more like what she says to Nicole Kidman. The answer is not some teachable formula, as frustrating as that is. It never goes away. It is never "okay" like people use to tell me it would be but it does become bearable. A stranger told me less than a month after, that if I stopped waking up thinking those feelings would just be gone, then I would wake up someday and realized I had learned to manage. It simply, becomes your life. The loss becomes you...which is fine, actually. 
“Life isn’t defined by who you belong to or where you came from, by what you wished for or whom you’ve lost, but instead by the moments you spend getting from each of these places to the next.” –Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts

... the depth of the feeling [grief, loss] continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it, like a nicotine craving, I would discover that it hadn’t washed me away. after a while it was like an inside shower, washing off some of the rust and calcification in my pipes. it was like giving a dry garden a good watering. don't get me wrong: grief sucks; it really does. unfortunately, though, avoiding it robs us of life, of the now, of a sense of living spirit...a fixation can keep you nicely defined and give you the illusion that your life has not fallen apart. but since your life may indeed have fallen apart, the illusion won't hold up forever, and if you are lucky and brave, you will be willing to bear disillusion. you begin to cry and write and yell and then to keep on crying; and then, finally, grief ends up giving you the two best things: softness and illumination. -Anne Lamott