If you look for it, I've got a sneaking suspicion... love actually is all around.

FRIDAY FAVE FLICKS

 It is time again for my personal favorite time of the week.....Friday Fave Flicks. Now I know that everyone is stuffed with stuffing and all plans for weight loss is pretty much scrapped but the best part of today is that the holiday movies are in full swing. In honor of such a time I thought that we should kick off the season with your five favorite holiday romances.....

As always I'll start...

1. Love Actually - Everything great Britain has to offer. If you haven't seen this movie I recommend it highly!!

2. Shop Around the Corner - The original "You've got Mail". James Stewart - nuff said.

3. Christmas in Connecticut - Old school sweet. I love cases of mistaken identity. 

4. White Christmas - Well.....there you are.

5. It's a Wonderful Life - Can't be a holiday list without it.












Well, this is the first of many holiday lists......have fun, and pass it on.

Well, it's not good, but it's a reason.

I can't give you a good reason why I went to see Surrogates. Bruce Willis maybe, I, Robot-esque maybe, I don't know. All are reasons, they just aren't good....

This had the potential to be a pretty neat movie. Had it been written correctly, it might have been interesting instead of convoluted.

Bruce Willis plays a FBI agent in a world that doesn't seem to need agents. He and his partner are sent out to investigate a murder... the first murder in close to ten years. The reason there haven't been any murders is because close to 98% of the world's population is living life through a life-like robot that is controlled remotely by their minds. The "surrogates" allow humans to do and act however they please with no consequences. If your surri gets shot, you repair it. Hit by a car, replace it. You spend your day in bed and send your surri out into the world to live your life. There is no sickness or disease because robots don't get sick, and you are hermetically sealed in your apartment/house where nothing can touch you.

I know what you are thinking... all you germophobes and hand sanitizer junkies out there. Gee, that sounds like a really great plan! No more flu.... no more people in the office hacking on me, "forgetting" to wash their hands after they potty... etc etc. But one interesting point that is raised in the movie is... how do you know who anyone really is? See, your "surri" doesn't have to look like you; in fact, Willis' partner is actually stunned to find out that he looks a lot like his surrogate. How do you know that your new best girlfriend to whom you are confiding all your secrets, isn't a teenage boy? Or that the man that you met in the bar is a butch gal looking for a good time? You think it's bad that you don't know who you are talking to on the internet? Imagine if you couldn't even trust your eyes.

There is also a small population that is fighting back. These people live on reservations and are called dregs. These people are violent, angry and hide behind religion (like a lot of so-called "religious" zealots). The dregs have been given a weapon that kills the surrogates AND the user.

So you see, no one is really right in this movie and it boils down to just a combination of Die Hard, The Matrix, I,Robot and Demolition Man all rolled into one movie. Sit down and watch all these movies in any particular order and you will know about as much as I do after watching just this one movie... and probably have more fun!

Thank you for making me a part of this!

This is my first Music Monday so....

Because all the really great and cheesy Christmas movies are on these next few weeks here is a song from one of my favorite. The Muppet's Christmas Carol is one of the finest Dickens re-tellings out there and as a child of the 80's I just can't get enough of the Muppets. I submit to you my favorite song from this movie....




Now that everyone is full of Christmas cheer (and perhaps wants to slit their wrists. :>) Join in the fun and visit  Keeping up with the Kellys to post your own Music Monday.

Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.

FRIDAY'S FAVE FLICKS

In honor of the 70th anniversary DVD release of Gone with the Wind, this weeks Friday's Fave Flicks presents your top five classic romances. Now to clarify, these don't have to be CLASSIC necessarily just romantic movies you can't get enough of. As always, I'll start us off...

1. An Affair to Remember - I will always love this movie. The chemistry between Grant and Kerr is just dreamy. It has been redone several times but this one is still the best in my book.

2. Out of Africa - Two words, Redford & Streep...nuff said

3. The Way We Were - This movie always make me cry...it is a sad commentary of what our world is coming to....

4. Casablanca - no explanation needed......

5. Titanic - I know this is over done and most people are tired of it but I just love it when he says "Want to go to a real party...."

Once again guys, I've showed you mine....now you show me yours. Let the games begin

You know, your mood swings are kinda giving me whiplash

In Hawaii, Aloha Friday is the day that they take it easy and look forward to the weekend. So I thought that on Fridays I would take it easy on posting, too. Therefore, I’ll ask a simple question for you to answer. Nothing that requires a lengthy response.

If you’d like to participate, just post your own question on your blog and leave your link on Kailani's blog. Don’t forget to visit the other participants! It’s a great way to make new bloggy friends!

I actually have 2 question....

While teaching Passover to 2nd and 3rd grades I mention God told the Israelites to kill the lamb at twilight. I then asked if they knew what "twilight" meant. "It's a book" one said....."I've seen that movie" another said.

Does this seem wrong to anyone else?

And in a recent radio interview Miley Cyrus was asked if she was going to see "Twilight". Her answer..."No, I have never read the books and have never seen nor will ever see the movie. I believe that Vampires are evil."

Way to take a stand there Miley....dancing on stage with a stripper pole and posing nude with Dad for Vanity Fair...OK. Vampires? Not OK.

Wrong?.....Anyone? ....Bueller?

The trouble with some people is they work too hard.

...and sometimes it just isn't the right fight.

As I may have already mention, I work in a library. What you may not know is that libraries are very controversial, especially to those who need a cause in their lives.

The above quote is from the movie The Way We Were. In this movie, Katie, is never happy unless she is working for a cause. This ultimately ends her marriage, but I digress....

One of the county libraries here in KY is facing a difficult problem involving the difference between censorship and civic responsibility. Two of the library employees were dismissed for removing a graphic novel from the shelves without permission and refusing it to patrons. They violated several privacy laws in doing this (looking up patron name, age, etc...) all in the name of child protection.

Now, this particular county is all up in arms and the library is being scrutinized for it's acquisition policy and how it is a danger to the community and the lives of their children. They want several adult books removed from the library because children can see them and check them out. The library stands behind it's policy that it is the parents, not the library, that should monitor what their child reads...this particular group disagrees.

So here is my question, dear readers, where do we draw the line? When does it turn from civic responsibility into censorship? Or is it all the same thing? Whose is ultimately responsible for our children?

Discuss.....

You make your point as delicately as ever, Mr. Pelt.

Thank You Very Much

FREE THERAPY! FREE THERAPY! That's right, Kmama is offering up some free therapy in her Thank You Very Much Thursday post. Who couldn't use some free therapy? I know I could. If you could as well, type up your thank you's, post 'em out on your blog, come on over to The Daily Dribbles and link up!

Here goes....

To my regional consultants, who blame everything on Frankfort state office. I would like to thank you for your insightfully clever emails that make everyone feel so warm and fuzzy inside. I know that it sometimes seems that we here in our ivory towers enact policies just to make your life more difficult...... but I promise we don't. Thanks again......

To 'traveling evangelists', who don't have churches of your own because you are so busy sticking your nose spreading the gospel to the masses. You make board meetings so much more fun and you hurt your cause more often than you help it...so thanks.

Wow...that really is therapeutic....

Wordless Wednesday - What movie?

And now for something completely different

I'm going to institute a new thing here on confessions...every Friday I'm going to ask the Five Favorite Flicks question. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to see if you can narrow down you faves in said category. So here goes....

Since today is Friday the 13th I thought we should kick off our Friday Fest with Five Favorite Fright Flicks. These can be anything that startled, scared or just generally creeped you out. I'm a person who is easily scared so no laughing at my top five because the generally public will most likely find them lame...but they scared me.

Secret Window - I can't look at a black wide brim hat the same

Psycho- A boy's best friend shouldn't be his mother...

Halloween- Yuck, William Shatner never looked so bad...or maybe he did?

Skeleton Key- Love that voodoo that you do so well

The Shining- and I thought I liked the mountains of Colorado

Alright guys...I've showed you mine. Now you show me yours!

Sound off....

Wordless Wednesday

On Wednesdays, I'm going to be checking your movie knowledge...just to see how smart you are. I will paste a picture below, dear readers, and I want you to tell me your best guess on the movie it is from....

I'll give you an easy one to start

Let the games begin.....

I will love you my whole life...You and no other

This is my cell phone id for my house. Since no one but Nicky calls me from there, I thought it was sweet. Nick's cell id is the dialog between Leia and Han about being a scoundrel...but that is a whole another post....

I'm a sucker for GOOD love stories..(Braveheart, Shakespeare in Love, Becoming Jane...etc.) So it really shouldn't have been a surprise that I enjoyed The Time Traveler's Wife, but it kind of was! I have been disappointed of late with the lack of "believable" romance in movies. I know, I know...time travel is not really what most people would call believable, but somehow it worked.

I have a theory..even if the story is not credible, as long as you have characters/actors that make you can care about them it will almost always work. That is what this story has going for it. Henry (Eric Bana)and Claire (Rachel McAdams) DeTamble are very much in love and not by any choice of their own. Claire meets Henry when she is six and he is thirty-six. Henry is a research librarian (like him already, right???) who has a genetic anomaly that allows him to travel to certain important times in his life. It is kind of hard to explain, but suffice it to say, unlike Dr. Sam Beckett, he can never change anything. No matter what he does or who he talks to, he has no control over the future. So his death is inevitable and unchangeable, but he sees it happening. Sometimes he shows up older with a little gray and sometimes he shows up younger with a little longer hair. On his wedding day, young Henry "leaps" out and is replaced by older Henry with graying temples and the reaction of the wedding guests is kinda cute.

This story is hard to sum up or explain without giving the whole movie away, but you see the difficulty that they face and the love it takes to overcome it all. So..... if you are in a mood for a nice cryfest, this is your movie.

Little side note, Eric Bana looks really good at any age!!

l don't read books, because if they're any good they'll make 'em into a miniseries.

...even if they aren't any good, they still make them into a movie.

I told myself a few years ago that I would NOT, under any circumstances, watch another Nicholas Sparks movie. I failed miserably....

Sunday evening I watched Nights in Rodanthe. It was like an accident I couldn't walk away from...I just sat there utterly transfixed. I write this, dear readers, as a time saving measure for you.

Let me begin by giving you a little tip....if you see Nicholas Sparks connected with any book, movie or miniseries remember this and you will be saved 120 minutes of your life. THEY DIE IN THE END!!! It doesn't matter what it is about, someone will die in a very tragic way just as they come out of a very dark period into the light of love. There...now you know.

"Nights" is no exception. I knew someone was going to die once they spent the better part of an hour building up the relationship into a love you cannot live with out. This movie stars Richard Gere and Diane Lane as two people who are escaping the current tragedy in their life (death and/or divorce) by hiding out on a beach. They are thrown together during a hurricane and love blossoms...

Gere leaves on some mission of mercy to be a doctor in some poverty stricken country and Lane goes home to her suburban life and they write dirty letters back and forth to each other. Soon she gets a letter telling her he will be coming home on such and such a date and she spends the rest of the movie preparing for his return....but...guess what....you guessed it. He never makes it home. Instead, his son shows up with a box to let her know that this is all that is left of him.

Now you know how every Nicholas Sparks book/movie ends ....consider this my public service announcement for the month.....

Chocolate coating makes it go down easier....

Babies are so much fun....I don't have any myself, this is just something I have heard.

I do have a beautiful niece, Emily, who is one of the most talented little gals I have known (bias of course). I love being in on the firsts for her and watching her learn. This isn't her first Halloween, but, it is the first that she is old enough to enjoy.

Saturday, I went over to Miss E's house and helped her (and her mother) make Halloween cookies. She is so big and works so diligently! It is such fun to watch. You can just see her brain moving and learning and it is so fascinating.

Here are a few pictures to to see how much fun we had.....