I just watched Grosee Point Blank and I think I might throwit up there along with some of my favorite movies ever for a few reasons.
#1- John Cusack is a badA. I love him. Also Joan Cusack is in this too and I always love it when they do movies together. It just warms my heart.
#2- It was a romantic comedy, sure, but it managed to not be a chick flick because there was a lot of shooting, blood, and explosions. In the last scene when my pal John was professing his love and determination to be better to Minne Driver (a scene that I typically hate in all romantic movies) he would take breaks and go shoot people. It made the conversationa little disjointed, but very enjoyable.
#3- The Violent Femmes, The Pixies and The Specials are all on the soundtrack. Thank goodness for ninties movies.
#4- Dan Aykroyd. Enough said.
Because there was a bit of swearing, it was rated R, but a couple weeks ago I watched Watchmen and it was also rated R, only there was much more swearing, much more graphic violence, and a highly uncomfortable sex, nay, intercourse, scene. Not to mention a nude blue man and his junk. There was no sex or nidity or even graphic anythng in Grosse Point Blank. I guess all rated R movies are not created equal.
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
California
This past weekend I took off to California with a girl from work, her boyfriend, one of her old friends from her mission, and a girl from her ward. I had never done anything like this before, but it was a blast! We drove to California on Thursday night, taking shifts as driver and shotgun.
On Friday, once we got to L.A., we played at Newport Beach all day long. I fell asleep on the beach and got really sunburnt. On my armpits! Who has ever gottn burned on their armpits? Well, it's a terrible experience. Friday night we went up to a state park and camped out where we got in trouble with a fire ranger girl (it was hilarius.
On Saturday we spent the whole day at Six Flags. A guy, Chad, that Lisa (my friend from work) knew showed up with a girl that he had gone to high school with. (She was super annoying, but nice, so I had to be nice to her.)It was a super fun, very exhausting day. That night we went to Chad's house and stayed with him and his parents. Their house was so nice and the backyard was just ridiculous. The next day was Sunday and we went with Chad to his singles' ward but left before the third block because we still had to go to our hotel and get other stuff done - or so we said; truthfully we just couldn't handle the single's there anymore.
On Sunday night we drove around Hollywood and saw Rodeo Drive and Hollywood Blvd and Sunset Blvd. DOwn Sunset we somehow got behind a van that said CORONER and we were all intrigued by it until we saw it turn down an alley that was filled with our cop cars. Fun stuff.
On Monday morning we woke up super early and went down to CBS Studios and attended a taping of The Price is Right. It was a lot different than you see on TV. The stage and auditorium were tiny and there were always at least twelve people on the stage just out of camera view. Rich Fields kinda seems like an egotistical d-bag, but that was just my opinion - I'm sure he is in fact a nice, nice man. (Ahem).
Then we made the drive back to Utah and got in just before 3 am. Lots of funny little things happened and I made new friends, but i wouldn't be able to do it any justice if I tried to descibe it at all, so suffice it to say, I had one of the best weekends of my life!
On Friday, once we got to L.A., we played at Newport Beach all day long. I fell asleep on the beach and got really sunburnt. On my armpits! Who has ever gottn burned on their armpits? Well, it's a terrible experience. Friday night we went up to a state park and camped out where we got in trouble with a fire ranger girl (it was hilarius.
On Saturday we spent the whole day at Six Flags. A guy, Chad, that Lisa (my friend from work) knew showed up with a girl that he had gone to high school with. (She was super annoying, but nice, so I had to be nice to her.)It was a super fun, very exhausting day. That night we went to Chad's house and stayed with him and his parents. Their house was so nice and the backyard was just ridiculous. The next day was Sunday and we went with Chad to his singles' ward but left before the third block because we still had to go to our hotel and get other stuff done - or so we said; truthfully we just couldn't handle the single's there anymore.
On Sunday night we drove around Hollywood and saw Rodeo Drive and Hollywood Blvd and Sunset Blvd. DOwn Sunset we somehow got behind a van that said CORONER and we were all intrigued by it until we saw it turn down an alley that was filled with our cop cars. Fun stuff.
On Monday morning we woke up super early and went down to CBS Studios and attended a taping of The Price is Right. It was a lot different than you see on TV. The stage and auditorium were tiny and there were always at least twelve people on the stage just out of camera view. Rich Fields kinda seems like an egotistical d-bag, but that was just my opinion - I'm sure he is in fact a nice, nice man. (Ahem).
Then we made the drive back to Utah and got in just before 3 am. Lots of funny little things happened and I made new friends, but i wouldn't be able to do it any justice if I tried to descibe it at all, so suffice it to say, I had one of the best weekends of my life!
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