Some Recomendations

NUMB3RS- on CBS

This is a show that I watched on DVD during our six weeks with out TV. Its a really smart crime show that has almost no explicit violence, and almost no s*xual content. I really enjoy crime drama. I LOVE Law and Order. But we swore off SVU a long time ago because it made us feel yucky afterwords, and if the crime involves a child I'm most likely turning it off. What I like to learn about is the process- not the gory details of the horrid things people do to each other. This show fits that criteria. And though I'm not a math person (at all) its still very interesting because the math principals are explained and related in complete layman's terms. And there are a lot of really nice and fun (and, again, nons*xual) relationships among the main characters. I haven't watched this season at all. The season I rented was the first or the second.



Stardust

We heart this movie! It was such a fun fairytale fantasy adventure. I'm not a huge Claire Danes fan, but Michelle Pfeiffer is ethereally perfect, and Robert DeNiro is hilarious. Its got a sweetly romantic story line full of quirky little sequences. More than once at the end of a scene, Cori and I would look at each other with the same smiley "What in the world?!" Visually, the film gave me a familiar ache. It captures the English countryside just how I remember it. (Sorry these pics are so puny)

Marie Antoinette

I was so impressed with this movie. The historical accuracy of costumes and locations was so compelling. I loved seeing Versailles full of people dressed in period wear. And it was nice seeing some furniture in Le Petit Trianon. When we were there last year, a couple of the buildings in the Domain of Marie Antoinette were starkly barren. I also loved Coppola's treatment of Antoinette's story. The movie felt like living through a teenager's perspective--a perspective so appropriate because Marie Antoinette was practically a child when she came to France from Austria.

If only...

...I wasn't pregnant, and had a money tree dedicated to my whims and wishes, I would buy

this dress from Anthropologie that I goggled over with Jessica a couple of weeks ago. I almost bought it anyway.

...we had more time this Summer and had another money tree dedicated to travels, Cori and I would use the free airline ticket he just got and fly to

Kauai for a week. Though we don't have time or money for this trip, Cori is still looking up flights etc. to get us there, somehow. This was going to be our trip this year until we decided to go to Paris. I know, poor us. :)

...I had been able to stomache the Food Network again a little earlier, I would have seen

Alton Brown on Iron Chef America sporting a hideous beard and I would have written prolific fan mail begging him to get rid of it before taping anything else. I watched IC for the first time in months last night, and there it was. The beard that is. Yikes.

Last Night At Dland...

...the world premier of Pirates III screened. Take a look at the crazy set they built around the Waters of America. I love that the movie premiered at Disneyland rather than New York, or any of the regular Hollywood venues. It was fun seeing all the pirate buzz at the park this weekend.

We tried to devise a way that we could stay and be part of the audience, but they had a pretty good lock down plan. We'll just have to wait for the 25th like the rest of the general public.