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Okay, this is without a doubt the best thing you are going to see all day. A prisonyard full of Phillipino convicts who have improbably learned the coreography for Michael Jackson's "Thriller". I'm telling you now: I am going to devote myself to learning this dance before I die. I don't care what it takes.

And a little off the subject: Are you watching Psych on USA? It is so good, so so funny. By far the best show we watched last week and that's saying something when it gets measured beside the new Doctor Who episodes. Friday nights rock!

Internet Therapy

I don't know why but just looking at pictures of idiot drivers on a website called You Park Like An Asshole makes me feel instantly better.

Father's Day Of The Future

Yes, I subscribe to US Weekly but no, it is not the only thing I read. But it's the US Weekly reader in me that loves this video. Maybe because they did such funny things with Suri and I can't help but love that kid. Funny funny.

1. Fuck 2. Yeah

I love it when you start wandering around through different sites on the internet and then one just leads to another and another down the rabbit hole. I recently found a ton of stuff I love just by doing that. Here's a good one: Que Sera Sera. When you go to the site now you can see "Text Messages Saved in My Phone, Vol. 6". Some of my favorites:

I am at a party and this dude named Tom is really into me. 2 yrs ago he added an H so now he is Thom. Is this what I deserve? Are you there god it’s me.

Oh fuck a party! It’s sweats and pizza nite.

Your friend is here! I haven’t cussed her out. Yet. (note: this was from me, to my mom)


and a link over to McSweeney's Lists (more on those later) yielded one of her funny contributions:

B A B Y N A M E S F O R
A N E X P E C T E D S I S T E R
S U G G E S T E D B Y
N A T H A N I E L W A T S O N ,
A G E S I X .

BY SARAH BROWN

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Pancake*
Hambone*
Skeleton*
Total Annihilation
Toto
Jimmy II
Anna
Hannah

* Name suggested earlier for Watson's brother Jimmy, twenty-one-months old.


You have to dig around a little on the site to get more material but fun if you have a little time to kill.

I'm McLovin It!

Like I have to tell you to go see Superbad. I know you are totally planning on it anyway.

More Cautionary Driving Tales

Another reason not to mix cocaine and automotive hijinks.

Mr. Darcy... Sigh.

At the risk of exposing my inner chick-flick watcher, I have to say that Pride and Prejudice is one of those movies I could watch a hundred times. Occasionally, HBO will start running it a bunch and Chris will just walk around the house going "Mr. Darcy!" in this ridiculous affected British accent and I feel like a horse's ass but I cannot get over this movie.

I didn't even really like Keira Knightley before I saw it. And looking at photos of Matthew McFayden that are not from the movie leaves me pretty cold. But those two as Darcy and Elizabeth... holy sexual chemistry! I think it's the way they have both managed to master the smoldering look. I still get goosebumps when Darcy walks towards her at the end and he's coming out of the morning fog and they just hold that shot forever. Can. Hardly. Breathe.

And a little aside gem (just because I am so ready for Pottermania) where somebody cut together clips of HP films and overdubbed it with the P&P trailer. I do not have the skills or the patience to do this but enjoy it all the same.

Beard Bonus: Chiwetel Edition

I adore Chiwetel Ejifor and I know you do too. He narrowly missed my Freebie Five but only because I couldn't find any really good pictures of him bearded. And would you know it, but Entertainment Weekly saw fit to publish this deliciousness when they did their newest Must List edition. I knew there was a reason I keep subscribing.

Awesome Chiwetel movies (no order):
Serenity
Children of Men
Love Actually
Tsunami: The Aftermath
Inside Man

Not Your Run-Of-The-Mill McMansion

Recently my dad made some offhand comment about how he likes to watch "Pimp My Ride" sometimes. I guess it's not really all that shocking but just the idea of my dad intentionally tuning into MTV to watch a show was about as improbable as me doing the same thing.

Let's just say it: MTV blows. We all know it and I am severely uninterested in watching tripe like "My Super Sweet 16" or "Cribs". Yet, one of my favorite directors has gone and done a sparkly "Cribs" spoof that is more enjoyable than any episode I have ever had the displeasure of watching. Michel Gondry can be counted on to make something decidedly different. Did you see The Science of Sleep? Not quite as mainstream as Eternal Sunshine but that extra freedom gave him a chance to really show his colors. So good. Please rent if you have not seen it yet.

Enjoy Gondry's Crib

Or Am I Just Tired?

Insanely insanely insanely good.

Now You Be A Good Frog And I'll Be A Good Person

The other night Chris turned on a movie on HBO that I would never watch on my own called "Drakmar: A Vassal's Journey." I was like, why did they make a movie about this kid's life? He's like a dozen geeks I used to know in school. It's about this 14-year-old kid named Colin who's kind of a social outcast who loves role-playing games and is heavily involved in this medieval ages group with his own master knight. Woah. We're not really ones to judge being that Chris is a D and D kid going way back and still even today.

But then the movie started to change a bit and opened up like a flower to show all these other things inside. And I realized that it's perfect to make a movie about this kid because he is so universal and his emotions tap into this deeper place where we put all the things that made us uncomfortable or unhappy about being a kid.

So if you get a chance, check it out. And super duper awesome bonus of amazing Greg Laswell song over end credits that completely has me obsessed. You're linked here to a trailer for all the movies from the same people who brought you Drakmar with a few moments from it at the end. I thought it was kind of fun and random all on its own.