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I Want To Believe Derreck. 24. A Very Strange, Enchanted Boy. Romantic. Story Lover. Irregular. Trapped in a Glass Case of Emotion.

Here’s To Love - Ewan McGregor and Renee Zellweger
(From Down with Love)

I was reading this article on The Film Experience about Renee Zellweger’s EPIC monologue in Down with Love which also happened to include this delightful video. I forgot how much I adored this completely gratuitous musical number. So much fun and a great way to cap off a nice (and very underrated) movie.

One of my favorite things is the piano player (played by Marc Shaiman, a featured contributor of songs on NBC’s Smash and its fantastic  Bombshell cast album) who just seems so happy to be there. 

Posted May 21, 2013 at 11:53 pm 3 notes

#Ewan McGregor#Renee Zellweger#down with love#here's to love#marc shaiman#the film experience

Why are people talking about Megan Hilty’s weight?  Jesus died on the cross to give us Megan Hilty. Never forget that.

Why are people talking about Megan Hilty’s weight? 

Jesus died on the cross to give us Megan Hilty.

Never forget that.

Posted May 21, 2013 at 11:44 pm 33 notes

#smash#megan hilty#ivy lynn

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lustliesandlipstick:

Fantastic.

One of the best things i’ve ever seen on Tumblr.

(Source: confusababel)

Posted May 21, 2013 at 10:03 pm 111654 notes

#pictures#photography#art

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The crazy days, city lights. The way you’d play with me like a child.

Will you still love when i’m no longer young and beautiful?

(Source: dellrey)

Posted May 21, 2013 at 10:02 pm 17343 notes

#lana del rey#young and beautiful#The Great Gatsby

Book 8 of 2013: Life After Life by Kate Atkinson What if you could live again and again, until you got it right?  Ursula Todd is a peculiar case. Every time she dies, she is reborn again without any conscious memory of her previous life. Every time she is reborn, she gets a chance to right the wrongs and ultimately start anew. Sound interesting? Of course it does. That’s why i’m baffled that 70% of the novel is utterly boring and even more baffled that people are just raving about this book. By the end, i ultimately stopped caring about everything and just wanted to finish it. I also picked it up because there was a blurb from Gillian Flynn (author of Gone Girl which tied with Beautiful Ruins as my favorite book of 2012) raving about this book. Such an interesting concept is hardly used in a way that makes the mostly mundane story compelling. I’ll admit, there were some particular facets of the lives that Ursula lived that are quite involving, but mostly i found that I had to push myself to keep on reading.  Some lovely descriptions and sentences from the author but that does not make up for what I deem to be a complete waste of a good concept.  5/10.

Book 8 of 2013: Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? 


Ursula Todd is a peculiar case. Every time she dies, she is reborn again without any conscious memory of her previous life. Every time she is reborn, she gets a chance to right the wrongs and ultimately start anew.

Sound interesting? Of course it does. That’s why i’m baffled that 70% of the novel is utterly boring and even more baffled that people are just raving about this book. By the end, i ultimately stopped caring about everything and just wanted to finish it. I also picked it up because there was a blurb from Gillian Flynn (author of Gone Girl which tied with Beautiful Ruins as my favorite book of 2012) raving about this book.

Such an interesting concept is hardly used in a way that makes the mostly mundane story compelling. I’ll admit, there were some particular facets of the lives that Ursula lived that are quite involving, but mostly i found that I had to push myself to keep on reading. 

Some lovely descriptions and sentences from the author but that does not make up for what I deem to be a complete waste of a good concept. 

5/10.

Posted May 21, 2013 at 5:41 pm

#life after life#kate atkinson#gillian flynn#gone girl#books

Book 7 of 2013: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald I’ll admit, the only reason I decided to even pick this book up is because Baz Luhrmann was directing the movie. It was not on any reading list for college or high school. I finished the book about a month before the movie came out.  I found it to be “alright” even though it is a classic piece of literature. Some humorous moments like the car losing a tire after one of Gatsby parties, interesting characters like Daisy, Gatsby and Tom and some very affecting quotes and the symbol of “the green light”/hope but it just didn’t stay with me after I read it.  *shrug* I still think Daisy is a terrible person even though i fully understand her actions in the last chapters of the book. I’ll also admit that I had to read up on some of the symbols like the eyes of TJ Eckleberg when i finished reading it.  6.5/10.

Book 7 of 2013: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

I’ll admit, the only reason I decided to even pick this book up is because Baz Luhrmann was directing the movie. It was not on any reading list for college or high school. I finished the book about a month before the movie came out. 

I found it to be “alright” even though it is a classic piece of literature. Some humorous moments like the car losing a tire after one of Gatsby parties, interesting characters like Daisy, Gatsby and Tom and some very affecting quotes and the symbol of “the green light”/hope but it just didn’t stay with me after I read it. 

*shrug*

I still think Daisy is a terrible person even though i fully understand her actions in the last chapters of the book.

I’ll also admit that I had to read up on some of the symbols like the eyes of TJ Eckleberg when i finished reading it. 

6.5/10.

Posted May 21, 2013 at 5:29 pm 9 notes

#The Great Gatsby#books#f scott fitzgerald

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badtvblog:

Great Gatsby captioned exactly how it happened.

Posted May 21, 2013 at 5:08 pm 20709 notes

#jokes#The Great Gatsby#leonardo dicaprio#Tobey Maguire

“Because no one was here. Because *she’s* off on the casting couch and you’re…what does he tell everybody? That he was *at work?*”

—

Ten points to Betty for achieving the very tricky double verbal bitchslap. 

I know people hate Betty but i don’t. She went from being a subservient housewife to a man who lied and constantly cheated on her to a woman who lost the capacity to give a single shit about him (and especially his new wife) once her divorce was finalized. 

Cheers to Betty. 

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Posted May 20, 2013 at 1:13 am 26 notes

#betty draper#betty francis#mad men#January Jones#Don Draper

Reblogged from mostlynbc

“My pants should say Snickers on them, because they’re packed full of nuts and they always satisfy.”

- Girth Brooks

 

Posted May 19, 2013 at 12:42 am 19 notes

#ben affleck#snl#jokes

Warm Bodies - (2013) A bit late to the game in watching this, but it’s actually a pretty solid romzomcom. Love as a saving grace.  I can get on board with that. 

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Warm Bodies - (2013)

A bit late to the game in watching this, but it’s actually a pretty solid romzomcom.

Love as a saving grace. 

I can get on board with that. 

Posted May 18, 2013 at 2:43 am 81 notes

#warm bodies#zombies#mini-reviews#nicholas hoult#teresa palmer#movies