“You can’t stop an avalanche as it races down the hill…”

“You can try to stop the seasons, girl, but you know you never will. And you can try to stop my dancing feet but I just cannot stand still. ‘Cause the world keeps spinning ’round and ’round and my heart’s keeping time to the speed of the sound. I was lost till I heard the drums then I found my way. ‘Cause you can’t stop the beat.”

I cannot get enough of the Hairspray DVD! I loved the musical on stage and now I love the movie. I know every lyric by heart and I love having it to watch over and over. This evening, instead of doing much needed cleaning and cooking, I watched some bonus features and then the director’s commentary which also had Nikki Blonsky (Tracy) on it. Very enjoyable. I then tried learning the Payton Place at Midnight dance that one of the features tries to teach you. I used to be good at learning choreography. Now, eh not so much. It was fun though! I bet I looked like an idiot.

Of course, the bad news is that by taking two hours to watch all of this, I am now way behind on cleaning and cooking which means I do not have time to go downtown tomorrow morning and get my Mass. license. I’ve lived here as a full-time resident for over two years and am still using my Ohio ID. Urgh, I’ll get to it at some point. Maybe Wednesday? Oye.

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Go Colts! (what?!!!!)

And so it has come to this. The fate of the Cleveland Browns rests in tonight’s game: the Indianapolis Colts against the Tennessee Titans. If the Colts win, the Browns are in the playoffs (!!!). If the Titans win, the Browns are not in the playoffs :::cries::: You’d think it’d be simple for the Colts to win. Trouble is, most of their starters won’t be playing very long, including Peyton Manning. The Titans are playing for their season. You do the math.

Yes, I am rooting for the Colts to win. I want the Browns in the playoffs…as long as they don’t play New England. Then I have a problem. So….

GO COLTS!

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Well, I was afraid of this

http://darkufo.blogspot.com/2007/12/lost-fans-look-out-for-that-cliffhanger.html

Lost is coming back January 31st. 8 new episodes will be shown in a row. The season was supposed to be 16 episodes. This from Damon Lindelof, head person on Lost, confirms my worst fears: there is a cliffhanger at the end of episode 8. This could potentially be very, very bad if the strike isn’t over by the time episode 8 airs (I’m thinking that would be sometime in March). Still excited, but very anxious as well.

Perhaps I need to do a sister blog, devoted to my ramblings on Lost? I’m thinking I’ll have quite a few things to say about it. Hmmm….

EDITED TO ADD: I’m officially putting myself on spoiler shut down for the upcoming season. I just read something that, while very interesting, might have been a little too much information for me. I know who’s getting flashbacks/flash forwards in the next eight episodes. I don’t know if they are flashbacks or flashforwards. TWOP forums have those answers for those of you who want to know. I’m done as of now.

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Oh how I miss “Arrested Development”

Youtube has some really funny interviews with Jason Bateman and Michael Cera from the movie Juno. Here’s a link to my favorite one. Jason Bateman is a sick, sick man. I love him.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=peoxJMJwcpI&feature=related

from http://www.michaelcera.com/

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Jon Stewart on “The Simpsons” January 6th

I’m sure you all have already heard about this. Hooray for Jon Stewart! I find his gray hair very amusing. It was nice that they gave him so much of it as a cartoon character.

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Lovin’ It!

I stayed in bed today until 1pm and am still in my pj’s. I plan on watching a lot of Lost today and doing some cooking.

I love being on vacation! 🙂

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AH YEAH!!!!!!

16-0

‘nough said.

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Howdy

Yeah, I’m back home now. I hope all of you reading this had a nice Christmas. Mine was…okay. It was nice to be with Mom and Ruth and I guess, in a way, it was nice to see my aunt, uncles, cousins, and grandparents. In a way. Mostly, the four days spent driving to Ohio, visiting and then driving back were like something out of a cheesy holiday movie – without much of the sentimental part wrapped in. My family is not sentimental, or emotional, or that kind in many respects as well. Most of them are so wrapped up in their own shortcomings and hardships to care about what anyone else is doing. My 14 year old and 11 year old cousins got yelled at a lot for simply being young boys and most of our family basically ignored the three of us for the entire two days we visited. And by visited, I mean sat – ALL DAY! We did nothing but go to lunch and dinner. Other than that, we sat in the living room, watching silly Animal Planet shows or making hurtful conversation about the latest family member to move out of the room. Add that to the 16+ hours it took to drive there and the 19 hours it took to get back and it was your basic nightmare of a trip. Like I said though, it was nice to be with my mom and Ruth. I hadn’t been back to Ohio in two years and hadn’t seen my grandparents in longer, but I think I’m all set for quite a while. That was just painful. Plus, I’m pretty sure the cruddy little thing I got from my grandmother was regifted. Oh well.

I had a nice time in Provincetown the last couple days though. It was very relaxed and quiet, though Mom and I went to see two movies. I saw Juno again, which I liked even better the second time, and I Am Legend which scared the crap out of me. That was a really freaky, creepy movie but I like it a lot. I’ve always loved Will Smith. I had to yell at a snarky little teenage boy in the theater who was being completely obnoxious, but other than that it was a very a good movie. It was nice to see Newton and Sophie again. Both were very affectionate and kept sitting on my feet. 🙂

Now I’m back in Boston. I’m looking forward to having these few days off to just catch up on errands, cleaning, and rest. Though I haven’t been to work since January 20th, I have to say that I don’t feel incredibly relaxed. Riding in a car all day to sit all day visiting with stressful relatives takes a lot out of you. I feel even worse for the people who drove (they wouldn’t let me drive at all, which I 100% understand and agree with).

I’m looking ahead now to 2008. I have a whole laundry list of resolutions and things I want to try to accomplish in the new year. That post will come later on. For now, GO PATRIOTS!!!!

EDITED TO ADD: I forgot to mention what I got for Christmas.  I got: the Shimmy & Shake edition of the Hairspray DVD, the third Pirates DVD, a really cool book all about the TV show Lost that describes basically everything you’d ever want to know, Back to Bacharach – the newest Michael Ball CD which I’ve listened to a few times already and I love it, and the newest Michael Ball concert DVD. I’ve watched it once through and it is really good (as always). The highlight for me is his verison of the Amy Winehouse song “Rehab” because it is really funny to see him sing a song like that and I love the song to pieces. I got some bath stuff from my uncle and aunt. My phone died on Christmas Eve, so a new one was a present to myself. Best part was that I went for such a simplistic, cheap phone that it was completely free! WOOT! I got exactly what I had asked for – the Michael CD and DVD. I made it easy this year 🙂 To be fair, those are imported from England so they are more expensive than a normal CD and DVD.

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Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas! I hope you all have a wonderful holiday. I’ll be back in a week. 🙂 EDITED TO ADD: On my way to the Opera House this morning, I walked by Dennis Leary on the street! He looked at me weird cause I was drinking an iced coffee or I didn’t acknowledge him as famous, but still, that was pretty cool. First time in 6.5 years living here I’ve run into a celebrity on the street.

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“No one’s gonna harm you, not while I’m around”

Excellent Stephen Sondheim interview about the movie adaptation of his masterpiece Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

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