brothers

went to see "brothers" last night with high hopes... and was not disappointed. the movie was absolutely amazing. i've only cried in one other movie (pearl harbor). jake gyllenhal was gorgeous as usual, and tobey maguire (sp?) was soooo good. omg it just raised so many questions, and made you think about so much stuff.. i don't wanna give anything away, but seriously, go see it.

one thing i was surprised about: the ads made it really seem like it would be a love triangle thing. that was part of the movie, but really more of it was centered on tobey's PTSD, and how he was so affected by the war. obviously a very troubling and intense topic, but i really liked that the movie was more focused on that because it really is so damaging.

more gingerbread!

in other gingerbread news, i thought i'd post pics of the gingerbread house i made at college for halloween:

and the one i made at school for christmas:

obviously not my best work, as i have limited resources at school and have to use the graham-cracker technique. but cute nonetheless :)

ultimate gingerbread house website

i think i posted about this website last year, but it's worth it again.

love these!

obviously this one below is amazing, but most of this is fondant stuff. it looks great, but i still admire making all stuff with candy, etc.
another cute one:
of course, i will be making my own soon. i have elaborate plans :)

stay tuned for pics.

tim burton's alice in wonderland

i can't wait for the new alice in wonderland to come out! release date is march 5th. the pictures look amazing:

plus, so many great actors are in it. on another note, while i was looking at the actress who plays alice's page, it said she's going to be in a new "jane eyre" movie coming out in 2011. hopefully that'll be good, it's one of my favorite books.

sam worthington

so... despite the fact that i am not a teenage boy, i LOVED the movie avatar. and the main actor, sam worthington, is incredibly sexy:

tim burton exhibit at Moma

omg i wish i was in new york! they're having this tim burton exhibit at moma, with tons of his sketches, and old stuff.... so cool.

check out some of his work on the exhibit website.

amazing way to procrastinate

i don't know why i didn't discover sporble sooner! it's this really fun website where you can basically do tons of quizzes/family feud type list games. my favorite: list the top adults and kids halloween costumes.

sporcle.com

fun game

so this game, dino run, is pretty ghetto... reminds me of roller boy kind of. but i loved that.

anyways, it's pretty addicting.

play

Hiccuppie

really cute video bakerella had on her blog, based on the art by the artist (jessie oleson) who's merchandise i had a few posts back:

bakerella

i am obsessed with this blog bakerella. she has tons of adorable baked goods.

my fav by far (obviously as i'm obsessed with miniature stuff too) these little hamburgers and fries. the burger is brownie, with cupcake buns and then sugar cookie fries.

on the blog she has tons of these cake "pops" (like lollipops but little cake bites). here are some adorable mini wedding cake ones:

and some adorable cupcakes for the season:

enjoy the cuteness, check out the site

adorable cupcake stuff!

found this really cute site that sells some artist's cupcake drawings on different merchandise.

my fav, this little stuffed cupcake oranment or something

the site.

awesome baking site

found a really good site for all different kinds of recipes.

i really wanna try these bourbon balls:

bourbon ball recipe

and these rum balls:

rum ball recipe

don't they look good?!

check out the site:

joyofbaking.com

oh boy

"masturbating in public has never been easier!" - quote from the ad for this hilarious giant walking-sleepingbag/wierd snuggie

read more

appalling! but kinda funny

weird, weird, weird: this mother who still breastfeeds her 8 year old! best quote is when the girl says (in a British accent, no less), "it tastes better than mangoes. i'd rather have her milk than a million melons." WTF 

watch this crazyness 

teachers get sick from pot brownies bought at bake sale... hahaha

hahah hilarious 

read it. 

movies

funny people absolutely sucked. way too long, plus was not that funny.

ugly truth i actually enjoyed-- well done for a stupid comedy, ya know?

julie and julie i loved. heard some bad reviews from other people, but i really really liked it. i am a baking/cooking fiend myself so i suppose that makes sense. but i also really loved how there were two stories- so even if you got bored with one then you had this other story to follow.

currently working on finishing reading time traveler's wife so i can see the movie. unfortunately, heard from one of my friends it was not good, but i'm still excited to see it.

pumped for new moon to come out, and cloudy with a chance of meatballs, and where the wild things are!

lol clearly i have been catching up on my movie-watching this summer... didn't see any movies in theaters at school. 

500 days of summer

500 days of summer is definitely worth seeing. the story is awesome, the music is awesome, the actors are awesome... and just the way the movie is set up (moving back and forth in time, etc.) is awesome. go see it. now.

p.s. joseph gordan-levitt is my new major celebrity crush. 

help i'm bored

haha. random website. but kind of amusing 

helpineedhelp.com

love 30 rock.

ok, peeing my pants at 30 rock right now. in this one episode, tracy says that he went into school because his son left his "music stick" at home... his friends clarifies: "he means his flute."

...alright i thought it was funny. 

yes i'm a math geek....

...but this love poem from "harold and kumar escape from guantanamo bay" is adorable.

"i'm sure that i will always be

a lonely number like root three

the three is all that's good and right,

why must my three keep out of sight

beneath the vicious square root sign,

i wish instead i were a nine

for nine could thwart this evil trick,

with just some quick arithmetic

i know i'll never see the sun, as 1.7321

such is my reality, a sad irrationality

when hark! what is this i see,

another square root of a three

as quietly co-waltzing by,

together now we multiply

to form a number we prefer,

rejoicing as an integer

we break free from our mortal bonds 

with the wave of magic wands

our square root signs become unglued

your love for me has been renewed"

-kumar 

eminem storming off at vma's was staged! haha

"On Sunday night, when Sacha Baron Cohen's alter-ego Bruno descended from the rafters and landed fanny-first on Eminem's head, most folks figured that the rapper's rage was the real deal. Suckers! Not only was Eminem in on the joke, he and Baron Cohen rehearsed it to make sure it would all go according to plan."

hahah i find this hilarious. i legit thought eminem was wicked pissed. read the rest of the article here. 

cool website to get free mp3's!

you can make mp3's of youtube videos and download them to your comp!

http://listentoyoutube.com/

best website i've found in a long time

a blog all about awkward family photos.... love it. here's a sample (caption is, "the cling-ons"): 

check out the blog 

they sell caffeinated candy!

this site is awesome. it has cute office supply stuff, plus random other stuff. my favorite is the caffeinated candy as well as caffeinated lip balm and soap (apparently you can absorb caffeine through your skin!). 

check it out 

caffeinated lip balm ("Spazztick"):

may be my fav south park episode

this episode is absolutely hilarious. warning: lots of queefing. 

watch it

"hot girls in scary place"....stupidest show ever

just turned on the tv and there was this show on called "hot girls in scary places." it's basically this show where they put some hot girls in supposedly haunted places and watch them deal with it....i guess it's kinda funny to watch this girls who are of course so stupid because, i mean, there's no such thing as a smart hot girl, right? lol. wtf who thought of this show 

adorable adhesive frames and art

just bought this adorable set of sticker frames-- you basically stick them over pictures on your wall, and not only are they so cute, but are reusable, and won't damage the pictures or anything. they also sell adhesive art on the website. 

lavender makes boys grow man boobs...!

hilarious. 

apparently: "The lavender and tea tree oils found in some soaps, shampoos, hair gels and body lotions can produce enlarged breasts in boys, researchers report."

the poor kid! "4-year-old "who was using absolutely nothing on his skin except a lavender oil preparation that his mother had obtained from a homeopath. She used to rub it on his chest and body every night" because lavender, in complementary medicine circles, is said to have healing properties.

Several months after the boy stopped getting the 'healing balm', his breasts returned to normal."

the article says that apparently lavender has some similar qualities to female hormones... weird!

meteor that almost hit earth

i was getting my nails done the other day when i first heard on the news about the meteor that almost hit earth and destroyed it the other day.... i have since been trying to find out more about it but haven't been able to find articles more than a paragraph long about it. what's the deal? and also why did nobody tell people that this thing was coming if it was gonna potentially destroy us all? they must have detected it. but then again, maybe they didn't tell everyone on purpose, cuz i mean wtf would anyone do lol

confessions of a shopaholic movie: fail.

i think around eighth grade i discovered the shopaholic books (actually i remember quite vividly a fellow flautist in band telling me about it) and fell in love. the british humor is excellent, the story addicting. i went on from "confessions of a shopaholic" to enjoy "shopaholic takes manhattan," "shopaholic ties the knot," "shopaholic and sister," and "shopaholic and baby." all amazing.

naturally i was excited when i saw previews for a movie coming out based on the books. i was a little disappointed that the movie would not take place in london like the novel, and that the heroine was not british. but i went to see it anyway. MISTAKE. 

not only was the movie totally different from the book (as is usually this case with these things, i know), but instead of sly british humor that made the main character out to be an empowered woman despite her flaws, such as addiction to shopping, the movie only contained tackiness, patheticness (yes i am making that a word), and just depression-inducing consumerism and helpless woman characters. i do not know how these film makers were able to get their movie passed by the author of the novels. 

ugh!

f my life

hilarious website with FML stories. fmylife.com

one of my favs:

"Today, I heard my sister masturbating in her room. I took the dog around the block to get out of the house, and I came back to see her exiting her room....my electric tothbrush in her hand. FML"

fail blog

love failblog. 

"kid stoned on laughing gas" video

so funny... but also kind of sad, he seems really scared!

hackers post zombie warning signs

hackers (most likely "computer geniuses" from the university of texas nearby, according to the guys who had the keys to the signs) in austin changed road signs to warn of zombie attacks. hilarious. 

read. 

fun game

throw shoes at bush! 

start the fun

found on craigslist... hilarious

"To the woman that crapped in my car… (NE Portland) 

We met on Craigslist so I am hoping that this post finds you. I know that it could quite possibly be the most humiliating first date that you have ever been on, but I am willing to look past that. 

I thought we had chemistry sitting at McMenamins sharing that basket of Cajun Tots while drinking the Terminator Stout. I really felt like there was a connection there. I found you to be intelligent and witty and looked forward to further conversation with you. 

At some point in life, everyone has gambled on a fart and lost. It just happened to be on a first date in the passenger seat of my car. Please don’t feel bad. The package I sent you with Pepto the next day and the note that said “First dates are always a crap shoot. Call me” was meant to be funny, not offensive. 

I have gambled on a fart and lost on multiple occasions. The first time I did it was very memorable. It happened when I was five and sitting on my uncle's lap. I am lactose intolerant, but love cheese. I probably win 95% of the time, but I don't think anyone wins 100% of the time. That's why they call it "gambling". I'm the last person to judge you for crapping your pants. In fact, I am impressed by your boldness. The timing on the other hand, could have been a tad bit better...like when you're not sitting on a heated leather seat... 

What I am trying to say is that if you want to go out again, I would be more than happy to take you someplace where we can get a meal that is high in fiber and less taxing on the digestive tract. 

I await your call, 
Tad 

P.S. - If you shat yourself on purpose to end the evening early…Touché…"

hahhahah

joe biden's teeth!

look at joe's pearly whites. plus, submit a photo and get free gum! and look at weird people's photos, haha.

check it

baby tries to drink from a hose. adorable.

we may be living in a giant hologram ...

 according to this article,  

"'we are all living in a giant cosmic hologram.' ... The idea that we live in a hologram probably sounds absurd, but it is a natural extension of our best understanding of black holes, and something with a pretty firm theoretical footing. It has also been surprisingly helpful for physicists wrestling with theories of how the universe works at its most fundamental level. No one knows what it would mean for us if we really do live in a hologram, yet theorists have good reasons to believe that many aspects of the holographic principle are true."

pretty fucking crazy.

protecting young by shitting on predators

just watched this video where these birds protect their babies by basically bombing it with their poop. hahaha. 

wouldn't let me embed it but see it here. 

uh-oh...

apparently, 

"Three cups of brewed coffee a day 'triples risk of hallucinations'". 

shit. i usually average that... 

the article. 

spray paint perfume?

found out about this in lucky magazine. it's a perfume from barney's, that when you spray it comes out like spraypaint, but the color fades:

"Wode Paint perfume by Boudicca is a true revolution in fragrance. Paint contains a bright blue dye that showers the wearer with an azure mess when sprayed. Your clothes are not ruined, as the dye fades in a few minutes, just like the disappearing ink trick."

so weird. i dunno if i trust it to not get on clothes and stuff...

 see it on their website here. 

ahh!

so i went snowboarding over the weekend, and when i went to get on the chairlift one time, the seat was flipped up, and i ended up riding up the whole mountain with three other guys perched on a single metal bar. fucking scary.

and now my friend showed me this article, where the same thing happened to a guy at vail, but he ended up "dangling upside down, pantsless!" 

lol ok so it's kinda funny... but also terrifying especially cuz that could've happened to me!

awesome opportunity at urban outfitters

i was at urban outfitters in harvard square today, and they had this flyer up about a one-day-only job opportunity. apparently january 14th, they are hiring people, just for the day, to help with inventory. you also get a 40% discount off everything at the store-- pretty good. i would so do it but i'm gonna be back at school already. 

anyways, if your interested go to the store and tell them, or call-- the store said to ask for dave. 

great music finding site

in case anyone doesn't know about pandora, it is this amazing site where you can put in a song or artist you like, and it will generate music that you will probably also like, based on musical quality, instrumentation, genre, etc. 

check it out. 

cool food art

came across this awesome food art... they're so cool. slightly unappetizing, especially since there's a lot of brussel sprouts and mushrooms and foods like that in them, but still cool. 

my fav, yoshi: 

see more here. 

superb bird of paradise

naturally i found another crazy animal while watching planet earth with the fam. this is called the "superb bird of paradise." it does this crazy mating dance and fluffs it's feathers up.... my sisters and i think it looks like a weird digital computer face. lol. 

happy new year!

here's a new year's resolution generator to help come up with, well, interesting resolutions. my favorite that i got was "i will shout i love chocolate when i fuck"... lol

resolution generator