Tuesday, March 1, 2011

nooc oscar night 2011: costume contest!


dress up as your favorite oscar character!

dragon trainers!





give these girls a hand...


har har...


there's a snake in my boot!


friend request...


confirm friend request!

(susan, you came as a fb friend, right? :)

helena hair...


helena style!

(helena/joanna won the costume contest...hooray for crazy!)

swanie awesomeness...



work it...


weren't those costumes the best?
serious work went into some of them!

i love these girls for being goofy with me
(some of them have been goofy with me since middle school...
some of them are newer to the goofiness...mine anyway :)

hooray for dress-up!

oh no!
wait!
hey!

who let that psycho in?


there's always one (or two) at every party...
eek!

:)

my best picture rankings....

127 Hours
The King’s Speech
True Grit
Inception
Winter’s Bone
Toy Story 3
The Social Network
The Fighter
The Kids are All Right
Black Swan

seriously hard to do!
they were all so great
(hence the nominations :)

i simply adore the movies!
:)

Friday, February 25, 2011

oscar party: best picture menu...

(just off the top of my head)

THE KING'S SPEECH: tea

THE FIGHTER: beer

TRUE GRIT: ummmm, grits?

127 HOURS: half a bottle of water

TOY STORY 3: 2 potatoes & a tortilla

BLUE VALENTINE: cigarettes & a big old jar of dashed hopes

THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT: just regular old food

WINTER'S BONE: squirrel & meth

BLACK SWAN: pink frosted cake or nothing (to represent ballet starvation)

THE SOCIAL NETWORK: beer, cocktails, sushi & pot

INCEPTION: something that just LOOKS like food but is really your deepest fears...

looks like we will be drunk, high & really depressed...

(oh & also puking)

hooray, oscars!

i may have to go in a more representative direction...

:)

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

nooc: week eight, justin bieber never say never

tuesday february 22
10pm
valley river

i think this is one of the best ideas yet!
i loooove seeing all of the best picture nominees
don't get me wrong
but they are all quite intense & deep.
so a perfect little bookend to this nooc season
seems like the fluffiest movie available
(especially because the awards are on sunday night
so taking a breather seems just right)
plus i really have heard that this is a good movie
plus, plus, we might get to dance a bit!
yes!
i love to dance
even if it's just in my seat...

i can definitely see this becoming a tradition...

& another thing!
i was thinking that maybe i would start doing a
once a month nooc meet-up...
if we work it just right
by the time the nominees come out we
may have already seen the
ones that are on dvd...
or maybe we will just have seen 12 movies...
& is there one little thing wrong with that?
:)

if you don't decide to join us
for the biebster
remember the big show is on sunday night @ 5 pacific,
red carpet @ 3 pacific...
i think i will start watching at 4 or so...
although miss m does love a pretty dress!
maybe we will start a mini oscar tradition :)

i'll be here on monday with an observation or two...
i must say i am super excited!

love view...
:)

Friday, February 18, 2011

true grit...



disclaimer:
i'm tired.
& i won't ever admit that
it might be because i get up at 5:15am
three days a week
& for the past 7 weeks i've been
up until 1am every tuesday...
never admit it
because i love watching all of these movies...
never admit it because it is pretty worth it...
never
ever
admit it...
but it's true...

ps i fell asleep for about 5 minutes during true grit...
gasp.
but when i woke up i was totally
refreshed & ready for the second half...

so
a western huh?
not exactly at the top of my list...

until:
a gravel mouthed
one eyed
messy
gruff
jeff bridges...

until:
dialog with no contractions...

Mattie Ross: If I had killed Chaney, I would not be in this fix; but my gun misfired.
Lucky Ned Pepper: [Chuckling] They will do it. It will embarrass you every time. Most girls like to play pretties, but you like guns do you?
Mattie Ross: I do not care a thing about guns, if I did, I would have one that worked.

until:
barry pepper
looking mighty scary
but also mighty awesome
until:
the poster
(well, i already did like that)


until:
i got past my jason borne-itis
(expecting him to start killing someone with a
cup of water & butter knife)
& just let matt damon play laboeuf...

my favorite from him:
'a saucy line will not get far with me'
(can't wait to use that on miss m :)

& until
until
until:
miss hailee steinfeld...
she's just incredible...

i really hope she wins best supporting actress...

& i can't find any pictures of the dresses
& coats that she wears in the beginning
but they are gorgeous!
plain & muted but gorgeous...

& now we just need to talk about those braids!
to die for.
almost always perfect
& so thick they could have used them to rope cattle...


i was thinking about cutting my hair
but now i'm rethinking it...
because of a 14 year old girl.
in a western.
set in the 1800's.

on second thought...
(or is that 3rd thought?)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

& check out this little cowgirl:

okay
so
you might think that joanna & i had been friends for years
but you would be wrong.
we casually knew each other through our friend angie
& then i posted this night owl idea on fb
& she said 'count me in!'
she has been to every one except 'black swan'
(the only one when i actually needed someone to cling to...
probably ended up right in the long run :)
so i was really starting to like her...
& then she showed up to 'true grit' in a cowboy hat...

& now i love her.
:)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

this tuesday is our last movie night!
& i was hoping that 'rabbit hole' would
be showing around here
but it's not...
so....
justin beiber: never say never 3D it is!

i really do want to see that...
after all of these serious movies
i could use a little 'baby, baby, baby, oh!'
& at the 10pm showing i bet we could get up & dance!
who's in?

i'll let you know...
love view...
:)

blue valentine...


disclaimer:
this is gonna be a short one...

okay
so
wherever i go
i bring my notebook with me
just in case i hear or see or think up
something.
so of course this includes the movies...
& the poor friends who sit by me...
they have to endure my little 'scritch, scritch, scritch'
every once in a while...
some of the movies have filled an entire page
(the social network)
for 'blue valentine' about 10 minutes in i wrote
'really uncomfortable'
& then about halfway through
joanna said
'this is really uncomfortable'
so i think that's my review:
really uncomfortable.

so let's look at some pictures...


this one isn't actually even a scene in the movie
but i love the polaroid aspect...


this isn't in the movie either...
at a premiere i imagine
but don't they look kennedy-esque?


though i'm pretty sure jfk would have shaved before a premiere...

michelle williams & ryan gosling
are both really incredible actors
& i think it's a compliment to them that
the movie was so uncomfortable...
the life they were living was not comfortable
the things they were going through were not comfortable...

it was good...
but uncomfortable :)

Monday, February 14, 2011

nooc: week seven, true grit


tuesday, february 15
10:35 pm
valley river, stadium 15

i'm kind-of excited to see true grit...
never thought i'd say that about a western!
also because it's my last best picture nominee to see!
feeling proud, i must say :)
& also also, i love the poster...
so cool & old timey...

hope to see you there!
love view..
:)