Alice

So--- last night Jesse and I watched Alice In Wonderland as part of our "watching all our dvds" thing. It was annoying to say the least. The one we have is the TV version that was on NBC. Its one redeeming factor was the cast. Whoopi as Chesshire Cat, Martin Short as The Mad Hatter, Ben Kingsley as the Caterpillar, Hagrid and Norm from Cheers as Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and many others.

Over the past few years, I've run into "Alice" several times and every time I encounter her, I'm just not that into her. I tried to read Through the Looking Glass- fail. I tried to listen to it on tape- fail. I tried to read the script that Patrick gave me as a recommendation for the BBMS show- fail. I'm trying to get all excited about the Tim Burton film, but I really just like the cast, again.

I think one of my big problems is illogical absurdity. I'm just not smart enough to get a lot of it. I'm a rules and lines girl. You'd think as an actor I'd be all creative and quirky, but no. I need lists and handwashing. I'm also really lazy... which leads to me not wanting to go into what Lewis Caroll's little-girl-loving mind. Does ayone else struggle with this classic like I do?

Our next dvd is America's Sweethearts... maybe there's a REASON we haven't watched some of these!

QVC Sucker

Hi, my name is BootyDo and I'm a TV shopoholic.

I swear that I am victim to nearly anything that is sold on TV. I love infomercials and have no problem watching QVC for hours on end. Here is my latest dufus purchase: http://tinyurl.com/les5yw

Really, it's just a matter of "hey, it worked for that fatass, so why not me?" So, in 3-5 business days I will receive this miracle package and transform my lard ass into this:

Here's what I'm going to be sad about. I love my veluptuous breasts. I'm sure they'll shrink down to normal size when I start looking less like a humpback whale. Sad.

DVD #7

Today Jesse and I began a new adventure into our DVD collection. I have a bad--or not so bad-- habit of buying movies and then never watching them. Since I just reorganized and alphabetized all our films (both DVD and VHS), we are starting at the beginning of the collection and watching the DVDs that one or both of us has not seen.

The following are what we skipped today because we've both seen them:

-10 Things I Hate About You

-21

-40 Year Old Virgin

-About a Boy

-Addams Family

-Addams Family Values

-Addicted to Love

Then we came to Against the Ropes. A film starring Meg Ryan and Omar Epps, purchased soley because I love Meg Ryan. As it turns out, it's kind of an Erin Brockovitch type movie, only with boxing. It had terrible opening music and dialog, but got better as the story became more cliche and trite. Woman boxing manager breaking into a man's world, she loses herself in the publicity, Omas Epps gets mad at her and goes to her competition. She realizes her fault and makes a deal for him to fight for the title. The bad guy puts Omar in the ring too soon, Meg shows up at the end to give him the extra umph he needs to win. And he does. Classic.

Next on the docut is Ali (Will Smith), after skipping Airheads and PCU--because who HASN'T seen those two classics? I've seen most of Ali, but we need to watch the ending. I'll let you know how that pans out.

Paranoia

Everytime something tragic happens in a city where I have friends living, I freak out and must get in touch with them immediately. Example: yesterday the Staten Island Ferry ran into a pier. Now I know maybe 5 people who live on Staten Island and 20 more who live in NYC. As soon as I found out this news, I was obsessed with checking in.

Another example: 3 or 4 years ago a plane skidded off the runway in Chicago. I think it was at Midway, not even the airport my friends ever fly out of, but I freaked until I heard from them.

Another example: Two metro trains collided in DC last week. How ridiculous is it that I instantly sent texts to the appropriate folks? Like if they had been hurt, they'd be sure to T9 me back??

I guess here's my point. Tonight I watched Kevin Skinner on youtube. I LOVE the song he sang and it made me cry. Folks-- if tomorrow never comes, I really want you all to know how much I LOVE you.

Am I psycho?