{"id":381,"date":"2007-04-26T22:52:08","date_gmt":"2007-04-27T05:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/26\/unrelated-thoughts\/"},"modified":"2020-10-09T07:27:40","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T14:27:40","slug":"unrelated-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/unrelated-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Unrelated Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>There is a bird outside, perhaps a mockingbird given the variety in his\/her song, that is singing away like it&#8217;s the first day of spring.  Except it&#8217;s midnight.  Could someone please tell him to go to sleep so I can?  Otherwise, I would BE asleep instead of down here writing a post.<\/li>\n<li>I didn&#8217;t blog the <i>American Idol<\/i> results because I forgot it was a two-hour show so I was fifteen minutes late and didn&#8217;t feel like rewinding and didn&#8217;t feel like blogging from the middle, and didn&#8217;t really have that much to say about it anyway.  Il Divo is cute.  Kelly Clarkson is awesome.  Jack Black rocks and Ben Stiller&#8230;doesn&#8217;t.  Yay for 70 million votes and at least 30 million dollars donated.  The surprise duet between Celine Dion and creepy holographic Elvis was lame.  And making Jordin wait all the way to the end and think she&#8217;d been eliminated only to eliminate nobody?  Mean.  I mean, I&#8217;m glad nobody was eliminated, ESPECIALLY Jordin.  But I felt tricked (both by the Elvis thing and the no elimination thing), and that didn&#8217;t make me happy.<\/li>\n<li><i>Hot Fuzz<\/i> is incredibly good.  GO SEE IT NOW.  If you like a) cop movies and\/or b) British comedy you will love it.  And who doesn&#8217;t love at least one of those two things?  I&#8217;m not even kidding.  I haven&#8217;t laughed that hard since&#8230;okay, well I laughed that hard when I was just watching videos on Comedy Central.com.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of which, note to self: Do not go on Comedy Central.com and expect to watch only one video.  It doesn&#8217;t work that way.  I say an hour and a half later.<\/li>\n<li><i>Avenue Montaigne<\/i> is not quite as good as <i>Hot Fuzz<\/i>, and in a very much different way&#8211;French instead of British, for one thing, and quietly sweet instead of raucously funny and action-packed.  But if you love Paris and ensemble casts, then you might like <i>Avenue Montaigne<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li>Everyone seems to think I&#8217;m a masochist for taking summer classes.  But everyone I know here is taking summer classes, we&#8217;re all taking the same summer classes, and in my summer classes I get to read Woolf and Lawrence, and then learn French!  And do it with cool, smart people!  So it&#8217;s going to be awesome.  Plus, I&#8217;m going to host movie-watching night every week, which will be awesome on even more levels (not the least of which will be motivation to keep my apartment clean).<\/li>\n<li>St. Louis people, strong-arm the theatre managers there to make sure they&#8217;re playing <i>Black Book<\/i> and <i>Waitress<\/i> during the two and a half week window I&#8217;m home in the middle of May.  If I miss those two (especially <i>Waitress<\/i>), I&#8217;ll be pouty all summer.<\/li>\n<li>Have you guys seen the Ford Edge commercials directed by David Mamet?  They&#8217;re the ones with the two guys who talk about the Edge being faster than a BMW and quieter than a Lexus?  They&#8217;ve been running during <i>American Idol<\/i> pretty regularly, so you probably have.  Anyway, I&#8217;m going to adopt the &#8220;True story? True story.&#8221;  It&#8217;ll replace the <i>Grey&#8217;s Anatomy<\/i> &#8220;Seriously? Seriously.&#8221;  This is the plan.  However, <i>Grey&#8217;s<\/i> &#8220;seriouslys&#8221; have been in my vocabulary for like two years now, so switching might be more difficult than I foresee.<\/li>\n<li>Each bullet point is getting randomer and weirder.  Perhaps it&#8217;s time to try sleep again.  If the darned bird has realized that it&#8217;s FREAKIN&#8217; MIDNIGHT and has also gone to sleep.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a bird outside, perhaps a mockingbird given the variety in his\/her song, that is singing away like it&#8217;s the first day of spring. Except it&#8217;s midnight. Could someone please tell him to go to sleep so I can? Otherwise, I would BE asleep instead of down here writing a post. 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