I was just distracted by a Hunger Games commercial and I want to see the movie again! I heard that Zac Efron was a possibility for Finnick in Catching Fire. That would be so delightful! Also read that Ryan Kwanten would make a good choice. I can see that more than Zefron, but oh how I love Zac! I don't remember how old Finnick was in the book, but I pictured Cameron Matthison when I was reading.
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I'm hoping that you feel the same way.
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It's not a cry you hear at night.
Five things that automatically make you more attractive
Dancing, singing, or playing a musical instrument. Even if you can't sing or dance well, don't be afraid to do it anyway.
An accent
Babies or small children.
Reading
(How adorable is this photo?!)
Not having a phone attached to your hand.
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The tears come streaming down your face.
Mansfield Park
1999 3/5 -worth the watch
Frances O'Conner, Jonny Lee Miller, Alessandro Nivola, Embeth Davidtz
At 10, Fanny Price, a poor relation, goes to live at Mansfield Park, the estate of her aunt's husband, Sir Thomas. Clever, studious, and a writer with an ironic imagination and fine moral compass, she becomes especially close to Edmund, Thomas's younger son. Fanny is soon possessed of beauty as well as a keen mind and comes to the attention of a neighbor, Henry Crawford. Thomas promotes this match, but to his displeasure, Fanny has a mind of her own, asking Henry to prove himself worthy. As Edmund courts Henry's sister and as light shines on the link between Thomas's fortunes and New World slavery, Fanny must assess Henry's character and assert her heart as well as her wit.
Chasing Liberty
2004 2/5-nothing special
Mandy Moore, Mark Harmon, Matthew Goode, Jeremy Piven
Anna Foster has never had an ordinary life. At eighteen years old, she is the most protected girl in America; she is the First Daughter. Frustrated with her overprotective father, the President of the United States of America, Anna makes a deal with him: only two agents are allowed to guard her while she attends a concert in Prague. When her father backs out of his promise, Anna flies into a temper and goes on the run with Ben Calder, a handsome photographer she runs into outside of the music club. They travel together with the intention of going to the Love Parade in Berlin. Anna hasn't told Ben who she is but more importantly, Ben hasn't told her who he is. Under the orders of Anna's father, Ben is supposed to keep an eye on the rebellious girl but falling in love with her wasn't something he expected to do.
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He seemed like good up-standing young man, he really did. I respected him for lying to her about their kiss, for not sharing a bed, and for not taking advantage of her. There were plenty of times he could have told her the truth, I know because I said it out-loud at each occasion, but he didn't. So imagine my extreme disappintment when he told her how he felt and kissed her and slept with her without ever telling her the truth of who he was. The end drove me crazy as well, she went back to him with a grand gesture! Are you kidding me?! He should be the one with the gesture!
Stage Beauty
2004 4/5 -just wonderful
Claire Danes, Billy Crudup
Based in the 1660's of London's theatres, this film is about the rules of gender roles in theatre production, and means to change them for everyone's benefit. Ned Kynaston is the homosexual cross-dressing actor who has been playing female parts in plays for years, particularly Desdemona in Othello, he also has a close relationship with a male co-actor. One day however, the rules of only men playing women could change when aspiring actress Maria auditions as Kynaston's praised role, Desdemona, and soon enough, King Charles II decides to make the law that all female roles should be played only by women. Maria becomes a star, while Ned finds himself out of work. But after a while, Ned finds it in his nature to forgive Maria's aspiration, they may even fall in love, and Charles may proclaim women will be played by either gender.
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I thought this was a really beautiful film. It seemed very ahead of it's time; I wonder how audiences responded to it. If anyone even saw it. It was a powerful story about a man struggling with who and what he is. It is the only Netflix movie I kept an extra day to watch again.
Like Crazy
2011 2/5-nothing special
Anton Yelchin, Felicity Jones, Alex Kingston
Anna and Jacob fall instantly in love when they meet as students at an L.A. university. But Anna is British and when graduation approaches, Anna decides to stay and violate her student visa rather than returning to England. After a visit home, she is then unable to return to the United States. While fighting customs and immigration battles, Anna and Jacob must decide if their relationship is worth the distance and the hardship.
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Okay, they got married for all the wrong reasons. They loved each other, I have no doubt about that. They got married out of desperation. They did it on a whim and it was the wrong time to get married and the wrong way. Just a bad way to start a life together. There was a very abrupt ending to this movie, but I kind of liked it. There was no real resolution, it left you to decide how it ended.
Me ad Orson Welles
2008 1/5-bad
Zac Efron, Claire Danes, Christian McKay
In November 1937, high school student and aspiring thespian Richard Samuels takes a day trip into New York City. There, he meets and begins a casual friendship with Gretta Adler, their friendship based on a shared love and goal of a profession in the creative arts. But also on this trip, Richard stumbles across the Mercury Theatre and meets Orson Welles, who, based on an impromptu audition, offers Richard an acting job as Lucius in his modern retelling of Julius Caesar. Despite others with official roles, this production belongs to Welles, the unofficial/official dictator. In other words, whatever Welles wants, the cast and crew better deliver. Welles does not believe in conventions and will do whatever he wants...
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Every time I looked at Zac Efron, I would just lust after him.
I didn't like how Richard made the deal with Welles! After his high and mighty speech about morals and ethics and then just turns his back on that. I really didn't think he'd give in.
It's All About Love
2003 1/5-bad
Joaquin Phoenix, Claire Danes
It's All About Love is the story of two lovers and their attempts to save their relationship in a near-future world on the brink of cosmic collapse. John, and world-famous ice skating star, Elena, are about to sign divorce papers when they realise that, in spite of everything happening around them, their love is worth fighting for. It's All About Love is a fresh take on modern love and future life as two lovers struggle in a conspiracy of epic proportions.
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I did not understand one minute of this trippy movie.
HappyThankYouMorePlease
2010 2/5-nothing special
Josh Radnor, Michael Algeri, Malin Akerman, Kate Mara
Six New Yorkers juggle love, friendship, and the keenly challenging specter of adulthood. Sam Wexler is a struggling writer who's having a particularly bad day. When a young boy gets separated from his family on the subway, Sam makes the questionable decision to bring the child back to his apartment and thus begins a rewarding, yet complicated, friendship.
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I really liked Sam number two's persistance.
The Hunger Games
2012 4/5 -just wonderful
Jen Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth
In a dystopian future, the totalitarian nation of Panem is divided between 12 districts and the Capitol. Each year two young representatives from each district are selected by lottery to participate in The Hunger Games. Part entertainment, part brutal retribution for a past rebellion, the televised games are broadcast throughout Panem. The 24 participants are forced to eliminate their competitors while the citizens of Panem are required to watch. When 16-year-old Katniss's young sister, Prim, is selected as District 12's female representative, Katniss volunteers to take her place. She and her male counterpart Peeta, are pitted against bigger, stronger representatives who have trained for this their whole lives.
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Wow! This was a pretty great adaptation!
Spoilers?
I really liked that they showed the riots in District 11 after Rue was killed. Pretty emotional.
I did not like the dogs in the movie. They could have been terrifing if they stuck with the mutations that were in the book.
I thought the ending of the book and the ending of the movie were totally different! I didn't think it came off that it was all just a show for Katniss.
The movie was a lot different than I was expecting. It felt like this little indie film instead of the huge blockbuster that it is.
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I don't care if you call yourself the reaper.
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You are safe in my heart.
"It has been said that 'Titanic' is the third most widely recognized word in the world, following 'God' and 'Coca-Cola'."
100 years ago at 2:20 AM the RMS Titanic sank after colliding with an iceberg on her maiden voyage.
100 years ago at 2:20 AM the RMS Titanic sank after colliding with an iceberg on her maiden voyage.
I am very upset with myself because I missed the beginning of the Titanic mini-series on TV. The conclusion is on now and my dad can't understand why I can't watch it. He thinks it's pointless anyway because we all know how it ends.
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I've got a little something on my mind.
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I can be so mean when I wanna be.
I actually got tears in my eyes when I read that the fifth season of Fringe would be it's last. Every fan is super excited that we get a final season, and I am too. It's fantastic news that we get a proper ending to this amazing show, but all I can focus on is that it is going to end. It's so sad, I've never had such a strong reaction to a show's cancelattion. It's completely mind blowing to me that more people aren't watching this show and that it's actually costing the network money to keep this show going because of that. Fringe is by far the best show on television and it is my favorite show ever.
Thinking about The Hunger Games and Catching Fire.....I think Armie Hammer would make a dashing Finnick.
I am seriously disappointed in Kim Kardashian. I like the Kardashians and I hate it when people complain about them or make fun of them. Like it or not, they're better than you. If you could get rich from sitting on your ass and having it called a television show, you know you would do it. But I can not believe Kim is dating Kanye! Ew. First of all, what could Kim possibly see in that douchebag. Secondly, is there anyone who believes this is a real romance? Kim, sweetheart, he's using you. I know you wear your heart on your sleeve and you fall in love at the drop of a hat. We've all witnessed that big extravagant wedding. Just lift the hood off your eyes and realize that you deserve better than him.
I thought that Brad and Angelina weren't going to get married until everyone could get married. What happened to that?
Apparently people are mixing up the books Fifty Shades of Grey and Between Shades of Gray. One is an erotica fanfic about Bella and Edward, the other about a teenage girl taken from her home and forced into slave labor under Stalin's orders. Very easy to confuse the two.
I entered the book give away contests at teenreads.com. One prize is Bitterblue, which I very much want to read, and City of Lost Souls, which I will of course get to. I still have to read the fourth book in the series. The other prize is Breaking Beautiful, The Butterfly Clues, Crazy Dangerous, Unraveling, Purity, The Last Echo, and The Lucky One. I think the movie trailer looks good for The Lucky One, and I read The Body Finder and liked it so I can't see why I wouldn't continue it and eventually read The Last Echo. Most of those I've never even heard of, but a free book is a free book.
Thinking about The Hunger Games and Catching Fire.....I think Armie Hammer would make a dashing Finnick.
I am seriously disappointed in Kim Kardashian. I like the Kardashians and I hate it when people complain about them or make fun of them. Like it or not, they're better than you. If you could get rich from sitting on your ass and having it called a television show, you know you would do it. But I can not believe Kim is dating Kanye! Ew. First of all, what could Kim possibly see in that douchebag. Secondly, is there anyone who believes this is a real romance? Kim, sweetheart, he's using you. I know you wear your heart on your sleeve and you fall in love at the drop of a hat. We've all witnessed that big extravagant wedding. Just lift the hood off your eyes and realize that you deserve better than him.
I thought that Brad and Angelina weren't going to get married until everyone could get married. What happened to that?
Apparently people are mixing up the books Fifty Shades of Grey and Between Shades of Gray. One is an erotica fanfic about Bella and Edward, the other about a teenage girl taken from her home and forced into slave labor under Stalin's orders. Very easy to confuse the two.
I entered the book give away contests at teenreads.com. One prize is Bitterblue, which I very much want to read, and City of Lost Souls, which I will of course get to. I still have to read the fourth book in the series. The other prize is Breaking Beautiful, The Butterfly Clues, Crazy Dangerous, Unraveling, Purity, The Last Echo, and The Lucky One. I think the movie trailer looks good for The Lucky One, and I read The Body Finder and liked it so I can't see why I wouldn't continue it and eventually read The Last Echo. Most of those I've never even heard of, but a free book is a free book.
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We met on a rainy evening in the summertime.
The Art of Getting By
2011 2/5 - nothing special
Freddie Highmore, Emma Roberts, Rita Wilson
Believing the quote that you are born alone, die alone and everything else is an illusion, George doesn't see the point of life, school, or homework. Then he meets Sally and he now has a reason to go to school and make friends, even if he's not ready to admit to himself or to her that he likes her. The school's principal and art teacher introduce him to an alumni, and successful artist, Dustin, who can help guide George along life's path, but other distractions start surfacing, and George might not even be able to graduate from high school.
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Spoilers. Could anyone blame Emma Roberts for not wanting to date that mess of a boy? He couldn't even take care of himself, let alone anyone else. I admired him for stepping up when the time came though. Of course there was the art assignment that bothered me. He was supposed to paint something from his soul. I said that if he painted her I was going to throw up. Anyway, I did not like the Sally character. She seemed to be just flighty and mean and boring.
Bridesmaids
2011 1/5 - bad
Kristen Wigg, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrn, Melissa McCarthey
Annie's life is a mess. But when she finds out her lifetime best friend is engaged, she simply must serve as Lillian's maid of honor. Though lovelorn and broke, Annie bluffs her way through the expensive and bizarre rituals. With one chance to get it perfect, she'll show Lillian and her bridesmaids just how far you'll go for someone you love.
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What is everyone talking about? I don't even know why I watched this. I don't think I laughed once. The Irish cop was sweet. I liked him.
All Good Things
2010 2/5 - nothing special
Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst
A love story and murder mystery based on the most notorious unsolved murder case in New York history. The original screenplay uses newly discovered facts, court records and speculation as the foundation for a story of family, obsession, love and loss.
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Kirsten Dunst was very good in this movie. There was one scene, where he tells her that she would have made a wonderful mother, and her reaction was just perfect.
I heard Kiki say in an interview that while they were filming, the man this movie is based on would actually come to the set. Creeepy.
My Week with Marilyn
2011 3/5 - worth the watch
Michelle Williams, Eddie Redmayne, Kenneth Branagh
Sir Laurence Olivier is making a movie in London. Young Colin Clark, an eager film student, wants to be involved and he navigates himself a job on the set. When film star Marilyn Monroe arrives for the start of shooting, all of London is excited to see the blonde bombshell, while Olivier is struggling to meet her many demands and acting ineptness, and Colin is intrigued by her. Colin's intrigue is met when Marilyn invites him into her inner world where she struggles with her fame, her beauty and her desire to be a great actress.
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I was a little distracted through this whole movie just staring at Eddie Redmayne. It was a good movie. Michelle Williams was excellant. I never knew Marilyn Monroe was such a deeply sad person.
The Descendants
2011 2/5 - nothing special
George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Amara Miller, Nick Krause
With his wife Elizabeth on life support after a boating accident, Hawaiian land baron Matt King takes his daughters on a trip from Oahu to Kauai to confront the young real estate broker, who was having an affair with Elizabeth before her misfortune.
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I don't really get it. It wasn't a bad movie, but what's the big deal? I guess there are just a lot of times that I just don't get Oscar movies. That being said, Shailene Woodley was amazing and I can't believe she's wasting her talent on that mess of a tv show.
Martha Marcy Mae Marlene
2011 3/5 - worth watching
Elizabeth Olsen, Sarah Paulson, Hugh Dancy
Martha has run away from an abusive hippie-like cult where she was living as Marcy May for two years. She turns to her sister and brother-in-law who take her in and want to help her. The problem is Martha is having a hard time separating dreams from reality and when haunting memories of her past keep resurfacing, she may need more help than anyone is able to give her.
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I wasn't too into this one. I liked seeing a little bit from both sides, but I also would have liked to see her life before. What made her turn to these people? Her fear and paranoia that they found her was very interesting to watch.
The Young Victoria
2009 2/5 - nothing special
Emily Blunt, Ruperet Friend
Dominated by her possessive mother and her bullying consort, Conroy, since childhood, teen-aged Victoria refuses to allow them the power of acting as her regent in the last days of her uncle, William IV's rule. Her German cousin Albert is encouraged to court her for solely political motives but, following her accession at age eighteen, finds he is falling for her and is dismayed at her reliance on trusty premier Melbourne. Victoria is impressed by Albert's philanthropy which is akin to her own desire to help her subjects. However her loyalty to Melbourne, perceived as a self-seeker, almost causes a constitutional crisis and it is Albert who helps restore her self-confidence. She proposes and they marry, Albert proving himself not only a devoted spouse, prepared to take an assassin's bullet for her, but an agent of much-needed reform, finally endorsed by an admiring Melbourne
Ella Enchanted
2004 4/5 - just wonderful
Anne Hathaway, Hugh Dancy, Lucy Punch, Minnie Driver
Based on Gail Carson Levine's award winning novel, this is the story of Ella, a young woman who was given a "gift" of obedience by a fairy named Lucinda. Anything anyone tells her to do, she must obey. When her mother passes away, Ella is cared for by her thoughtless and greedy father who remarries a loathsome woman with two treacherous daughters.
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I really liked this movie! It was super cute! Even though it was a kid movie, it was really smart. I really liked the modern touches in this medieval world.
Vertigo
1958 2/5 - nothing special
James Stewart, Kim Novak
John "Scottie" Ferguson is a retired San Francisco police detective who suffers from acrophobia and Madeleine is the lady who leads him to high places. A wealthy shipbuilder who is an acquaintance from college days approaches Scottie and asks him to follow his beautiful wife, Madeleine. He fears she is going insane, maybe even contemplating suicide, because she believes she is possessed by a dead ancestor. Scottie is skeptical, but agrees after he sees the beautiful Madeleine.
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I wonder what Hitchcock movies were like in their day. When I saw Hitchcock in his little cameo that he does I realized that M. Night Shyamalan is trying to be the new Alfred Hitchcock. So I wonder if I had seen this movie at the time it was made, would it have been as mind blowing to me as Signs was? This movie was on cable, it started at 1:30 in the morning. I wonder if it would have been better in my opinion if I weren't just waiting for it to end so I could go to sleep.
In Time
2011 3/5 - worth watching
Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, Cillian Murphy
Welcome to a world where time has become the ultimate currency. You stop aging at 25, but there's a catch: you're genetically-engineered to live only one more year, unless you can buy your way out of it. The rich "earn" decades at a time (remaining at age 25), becoming essentially immortal, while the rest beg, borrow or steal enough hours to make it through the day. When a man from the wrong side of the tracks is falsely accused of murder, he is forced to go on the run with a beautiful hostage. Living minute to minute, the duo's love becomes a powerful tool in their war against the system.
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Spoilers. I liked this movie. A very interesting dystopian world. I really thought they were going to die at the end. They should have died, really.
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Guess mine is not the first heart broken.
Inspired by 'The Story of Us' by Taylor Swift
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Don't be a drag just be a queen.
Do you take part in standing ovations even if you are not sure why it's really happening, or would you feel self conscious being the only one sitting there?
Well I can't physically stand up, so I guess my answer has to be no. I do cheer louder than usual though.
When presented the option, do you go through the aisles at stores that have real-life people in them instead of the self-checkouts?
I go through the normal lines. I think it's easier and someone does it for you. I know people who use self checkouts though and they think that's easier. I guess it's just personal preference.
Would you like to be proposed to by someone on one knee?
If a man is going to propose to me, he had better get down on one knee.
If you HAD to get a tattoo, where and what would it be?I don't have a tattoo because I don't know what I would get. There's nothing I feel that strongly about or anything that is going to last. I'd like some kind of text, like Heath Ledger's tattoo, but I just don't know. I have no problem with tattoos, I'm not one of those people who thinks that you're ruining your body by marking it, I have just never really been inclined to get it done. Any way, I'd get it on my chest, just below my collar bone. I think that if you get a tattoo, it would be really stupid to get it in a place that wasn't visible. Like, what's the point?
Is it okay for guys to wear pink?
Absolutely! But not all guys can pull it off.
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Gracefully fall back in the arms of grace.
I don't like analyzing my dreams. It's making me feel like I'm subconsciously depressed. My dreams are telling me that I have a lot of repressed issues. At the same time I'm thinking it's all just bullshit because my frequent dreaming of Fringe and The Office isn't some deep psychological thing, I just watch too much tv.
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I was shaving and ran out of skintimate after one leg. I read somewhere that you can shave with your hair conditioner, so I gave it a try. I think it might have even been better than shaving cream. Always having to moisturize after shaving isn't an annoying thing or anything, but it felt like the conditioned leg had already been smothered in lotion. My skin just felt so much softer and smoother. Try it.
These survey people have been calling my house non-stop asking for my sister, but my sister is never home. So after the 80th time they called I just said that, yes, my name is Tracy. I was on the phone for twenty minutes talking to them. Then they said that they would mail me the rest of the survey, along with $5 for my help. They sent me this little booklet to fill out with like 100 pages, and a second booklet to record my tv watching for two weeks. The $5 was conveniently missing. I filled out the first booklet pretty quickly, and I'm starting my second week of writing down everything I watch on tv. I wonder what they're going to think when they see that I watched three hours of American Pickers in the middle of the afternoon, Giuliana and Bill that night, and an episode of American Dad at two in the morning.
I was shaving and ran out of skintimate after one leg. I read somewhere that you can shave with your hair conditioner, so I gave it a try. I think it might have even been better than shaving cream. Always having to moisturize after shaving isn't an annoying thing or anything, but it felt like the conditioned leg had already been smothered in lotion. My skin just felt so much softer and smoother. Try it.
These survey people have been calling my house non-stop asking for my sister, but my sister is never home. So after the 80th time they called I just said that, yes, my name is Tracy. I was on the phone for twenty minutes talking to them. Then they said that they would mail me the rest of the survey, along with $5 for my help. They sent me this little booklet to fill out with like 100 pages, and a second booklet to record my tv watching for two weeks. The $5 was conveniently missing. I filled out the first booklet pretty quickly, and I'm starting my second week of writing down everything I watch on tv. I wonder what they're going to think when they see that I watched three hours of American Pickers in the middle of the afternoon, Giuliana and Bill that night, and an episode of American Dad at two in the morning.
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I don't dream since I quit sleeping.
Inspired by 'Better Than Revenge' by Taylor Swift
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You know that I'm not that strong.
Inspired by 'Mean' by Taylor Swift
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I've learned to listen through silence.
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Only one good thing worth trying to be.
The Misconception: You are a rational, logical being who sees the world as it really is.
The Truth: You are as deluded as the rest of us, but that's OK, it keeps you sane.
Imagine a scientist deals four cards out in front of you. Unlike normal playing cards, these have single numbers on one side and single colors on the other. You see a three, eight, red, and brown. If a card has an even number on one side then it must be red on the opposite side. Which card or cards must you flip to prove this is true?
When psychologist Peter Watson conducted this experiment in 1977, less than 10% of people asked got the correct answer.
The only answer is to turn over both the eight and the brown cards. If the other side of the eight is red, you confirm what you were told, but not proven if it can be broken. If the brown card has an odd number you learn nothing, but if it has an even number you have falsified the claims of the psychologist.
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I wish you would take my radio to bathe with you, plugged in and ready to fall.
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collinsadventure, dystopia, love, mature, young adult
multiple reads, own, movie
5/5 - excellent
Could you survive on your own, in the wild, with everyone out to make sure you don't live to see the morning?
In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before-and survival.
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I had to re-read this before I saw the movie.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgeraldadult fiction, love, male protagonist, mature
own, movie
3/5 - worth the read
In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and his country's--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning--" Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream.
It's also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby's quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. "Her voice is full of money," Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel's more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy's patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties, and waits for her to appear. When she does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbor Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem.
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I didn't like Daisy, I thought she was very flighty. And Gatsby was just a sad, desperate man.
I feel like I have to say this is good because it's great American literature..blahblahblah...
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When I think of you I don't feel so alone.
Think about your dream home. Tell us -- where is it, what does it look like, and what's always stocked inside?
Isn't this what pinterest is for?
If asked to say grace or a similar prayer as a guest, would you? Or would you decline?
I would absolutely decline. I'm not what you would call religious, and I wouldn't be able to do that. Not to say that I don't have faith, I would of course bow my head and amen, but I'd skip being the one to say grace.
If you're playing cards with someone and they play the wrong card, and the catch themselves just as they show it, do you let them take it back?
Of course! It's just a game.
What’s your opinion on age differences in relationships?
Idk. It's kind of creepy if it's let's say 16 and 20, but that's on five years. If that five years was between 25 and 30 it's not bad. My aunt and uncle have twelve years between them. My 30 year old aunt went to my uncle's high school prom.
What is your favorite romance hero-type? Stereotype wise. Do you like the strong silent type or the brute macho man?
Strong and silent. Someone who only opens up to me, even if it does take some time to get through to him. Someone who let's me call him Matty when everyone else can only call him Matt.
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He walked up to me and he asked me if I wanted to dance.
A post of my recent purchases!
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I have a thing for cute little boxes. This new one makes four, I think. And the tiny tea pot is one of those ceramic crafts your supposed to paint, but I'm just leaving it as it is.
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The bottle was a clearance item, and oh so pretty. I just had to have it. The globe was a GoodWill purchase. At first I wanted to put black pearls or marbles in it, now I'm thinking feathers though. Maybe I'll just leave it as is though.
The scrapbook page display I thought was just adorable. I bought it for Grandma, thinking of Christmas. I contemplated getting more. For Grandma, Gram, Dad, AK, myself. Then I went back on that thought. I'm going to keep it in the back of my mind though. Right now, I'm just focusing on Grandma.
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Here's another GoodWill purchase. It's a lamp, there's a light bulb behind there. I don't plan to use it that way, I just wanted the fan. I have five, six included this, lamps in my bedroom; only one is plugged in.
I have a thing for cute little boxes. This new one makes four, I think. And the tiny tea pot is one of those ceramic crafts your supposed to paint, but I'm just leaving it as it is.
The bottle was a clearance item, and oh so pretty. I just had to have it. The globe was a GoodWill purchase. At first I wanted to put black pearls or marbles in it, now I'm thinking feathers though. Maybe I'll just leave it as is though.
The scrapbook page display I thought was just adorable. I bought it for Grandma, thinking of Christmas. I contemplated getting more. For Grandma, Gram, Dad, AK, myself. Then I went back on that thought. I'm going to keep it in the back of my mind though. Right now, I'm just focusing on Grandma.
Here's another GoodWill purchase. It's a lamp, there's a light bulb behind there. I don't plan to use it that way, I just wanted the fan. I have five, six included this, lamps in my bedroom; only one is plugged in.
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That music used to make me smile.
I would like to know how The Office is still on the air. I would really like to know what they're going to do next year. Rumor has it that no one has signed new contracts so that's curious. Another rumor; Paul Lieberstein is writing a spin off for Dwight. Mindy Kaling's new show has already been picked up by Fox, so that's one writer gone. If this Dwight thing is true, that is another writer gone and a main character. Now I know I said who would watch without Michael, but I do still occasionally catch an episode. But seriously (!) who would want to watch The Office, who would want to watch Jim without Dwight? And who would watch Dwight without Jim? You can't separate them! Honestly, are there any great Jim moments without Dwight (or Pam), are there any great Dwight moments without Jim. They're a package deal. You can't have one without the other!
I hear that a 10 Things I Hate About You sequel is being made. A sequel, not a remake. Is that really possible or necessary?
I was looking at this thing on ONTD about when current shows should have ended. Fringe made the list. They said that Fringe should have ended at the end of season three, when Peter disappeared. That would have been incredible! So so cool! I can say that now. If that had been the last episode, I (and every other fan) would have been seriously pissed. I actually do wish that any show on tv would have the courage to do something like that. How many shows leave a cliffhanger of the main character about to die? What if just one show actually killed them off. That would be epic.
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The Fringe finale was something. I knew Olivia would be killed, for some reason I knew that, I never expected Walter would shoot her! Point blank! Holy crap, that was intense!
I was watching Family Ties one afternoon, that is the only old school show I really enjoy. Anyway, they were having a lamaze class at their house and there was one young unwed mother to be. It was mentioned many times in the show by many characters that there was no husband. There was no daddy in the picture and that it was unusual and wrong and whatever. It made me think how it's so weird that it was so weird. How many times do you hear the story of unwed mothers. Fringe just ended with Olivia finding out she was pregnant, and even though she and Peter plan to have their future together they aren't married. Oh how times change.
I hear that a 10 Things I Hate About You sequel is being made. A sequel, not a remake. Is that really possible or necessary?
I was looking at this thing on ONTD about when current shows should have ended. Fringe made the list. They said that Fringe should have ended at the end of season three, when Peter disappeared. That would have been incredible! So so cool! I can say that now. If that had been the last episode, I (and every other fan) would have been seriously pissed. I actually do wish that any show on tv would have the courage to do something like that. How many shows leave a cliffhanger of the main character about to die? What if just one show actually killed them off. That would be epic.
The Fringe finale was something. I knew Olivia would be killed, for some reason I knew that, I never expected Walter would shoot her! Point blank! Holy crap, that was intense!
I was watching Family Ties one afternoon, that is the only old school show I really enjoy. Anyway, they were having a lamaze class at their house and there was one young unwed mother to be. It was mentioned many times in the show by many characters that there was no husband. There was no daddy in the picture and that it was unusual and wrong and whatever. It made me think how it's so weird that it was so weird. How many times do you hear the story of unwed mothers. Fringe just ended with Olivia finding out she was pregnant, and even though she and Peter plan to have their future together they aren't married. Oh how times change.
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Suddenly the world seems such a perfect place.
This guy is driving down this dark deserted road in the middle of the night and he hits a pig. He gets out of his car and the pig runs away. He calls his wife telling her he hit a pig and he doesn't know what to do. She tells him that if there isn't a farm house around and the pig ran away and there's no damage to the car, there's nothing he can do and he should just come home. Three days later he gets a ticket in the mail for hitting a farm animal. He's confused and doesn't understand how anyone knew about it. Well, the big squealed.
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