Filed under: Lizstomania | Tags: friends, Lists, movie, Price is Right, relax, school, slacking, snacks, snow day
After three delays, mere teasers from my college, I finally got a snow day. Let’s be honest, everyone loves a day off from school, especially when you go to a “pay more, go less” kind of school.
But I’ve had a lifetime of snow days. That’s a long time to figure out what makes a great snow day. Obviously, the fact that any day of school is cancelled is both a wonder and a miracle. I can’t help but love it.
These kids have it allllll right.
But to have a stand out, amazing snow day, you have to have all of the following. And I mean ALL.
- The Price is Right. Just like any sick day, you gotta catch the Price Is Right in the morning. I love that tacky music and the glitter and lights. I love the pricing games and the new cars and the abundance of fashion faux pas. It is entirely necessary to any great snow day.
- Freshly baked cookies. Making the batter from scratch adds bonus points, but honestly, any type of warm, made-since-you-woke-up-this-morning type of cookie qualifies. Everyone needs cookies on a snow day. My personal favorite would have to be a chocolate chipper, made by yours truly.
- A movie you have watched at least four times. It could use another watching. You know you love it. It’s always entertaining. Watch it again. You have a few hours to kill, anyway. Movies that make my list include Good Fellas, Ocean’s 11, Austin Powers, and most Disney Pixar films.
- Random visitor. You can’t be alone on your snowed in afternoon. It just never happens that way. The more surprising and random the visitor, the better. Is it a cousin who is on a roadtrip through town? A good friend with funky vintage work out suits? Gramma? All I have to say is ‘get it on!!!!!!!’ Those are exactly the strange visitors you need on a good snow day. (Note: The best of visitors bring their ipods and sleds for dance parties and outdoor adventures.)
- Naptime. The Snow day nap is almost as crucial as the Thanksgiving Day nap. If you are in rare form, you can probably catch up on at least three hours of sleep during said nap. If you are a pro, you will fall asleep after gorging yourself on cookies while watching your old favorite movie, right after the Price is Right. Naps are God’s way of saying “You know what, you haven’t worked very hard today. But don’t worry about it. Everyone deserves to feel lazy sometimes.”
I was served breakfast by a woman with an uncanny resemblance to the child catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Is it a sign? Who knows.
Filed under: Rants & Ridiculousness, Uncategorized | Tags: failure, Get Him to the Greek, Jonah Hill, movie, P Diddy, Rant, review, Russell Brand, trailer
At the last minute, I decided to go see Get Him to the Greek.
My expectations were high. Jonah Hill is a riot, that rock star (played by Russell Brand) looked wacky, and P. Diddy is the ultimate twist of strange. (Anyone who can bitch about pie at four in the morning is probably worth listening to.) In short, even beyond the actors, Get Him to the Greek had all the elements that a funny movie needs to be funny.
But when it came down to it, all those elements did not add up to anything funny or memorable.
P. Diddy seemed like he was just buggin’ out the whole time. He was doing blow, or something to that effect.
Jonah Hill got rapped up in the romance aspect of the whole movie. (Frankly, the romance ties could’ve been removed entirely, and there would be significant improvement.)
Russell Brand was weird, but not necessarily weird enough.
The plot really lacked. Beyond the partying, there really wasn’t much.
I was thoroughly disappointed.
I thought this was going to be better than Superbad, if not the new Superbad! But it wasn’t. It wasn’t at all. Maybe Superbad can’t be replaced. But even so, Get Him to the Greek was still a let down. I had high hopes.
This movie was a C plus, at best.
Why are trailers false time after time? And why do I always buy the crap they sling at me?
Anyone for a Jeffrey?
