Ed Westwick vs. Robert Pattinson?

Gratuitous image of brits. Rpatz and EdWestwick. (SWEET PRINCES, I WILL TAKE RPATZ, YOU CAN HAVE ED, then we'll trade off every other week only to be fair)

High School Musical 3 - in a nutshell

Kim and I just saw High School Musical 3 (we were the ONLY people in the theater) this is really the best way to watch a film ... and this about sums up the movie in a paragraph or so....

Close up on Zach efrons sweaty face. recycled basketball dance moves from the first movie! but so much more...zach and vanessa in a treehouse the nicest treehouse i've ever seen...with a roof that opens automatically WTF?!!, will they seal the deal? no! seal the deal! were in highschool! virgins! we're in a play...about highschool! lame! blah college, so much angst! we're in highschool! zach and vanessa dance in a garden - on the roof - vanessa CANT dance! did you SEE that attitude? so badly bent...ahh Prom, cuz we're in highschool! typical. Sharpae has TWO lockers and a GAY brothers but there's weird sexual tension! he acts straighter in this one however..ahhh incest and homosexuality! Corbin-Blue looks alot like a certain someone from UCLA! Im not naming names! i will! Ryan Harris?! More singing - about highschool! so much drama - about college! Zach climbs a tree, vanessae has a weird dream sequence about moving and all her picture frames disappear - then she goes to college!? WTF!? Zach and Corbin dance in a junkyard - horay for homoerotic undertones! it's not gay if it's about cars! Zach gets hella emo -goes to his highschool at night to dance? AT HIS HIGHSCHOOL (illegal) and WEARING ALL BLACK (typical emo hoodie and such. convenient use of lightning and thunder in the background. perfectly straightened hair) more gratuitous shirtess zach efron! Sharpae doesn't do anything! That weird piano girl hits on ZAch efron! get some! obvi she has a right to steal him if vanessa's character goes to stanford. even with a smaller distance, it will never work. Zach drives to stanford and climbs another tree! and jumps out of it!The skater boi dresses like a pimp and sings with sharpae! loved him. Zach and VAnessa get to the show just in time and repeat the same song - AGAIN! take my hand...i or something. Highschool! Everyone's happy and Zach goes to UC Berkeley? would he really get in? i don't even know if they have a basketball team. or a good drama program. he's a TOOL!The ENd....o and then the cast stares into the camera for an eerily long amount of time. BEST PART OF THE MOVIE

MADISON
kim - it's 2 am and i am commenting.

replacements!

SNL's newest cast members:

michaela watkins (yayeh) from groundlings and abby elliot (...) (I, madison, and absolutely furious about this new hire. She's not funny!!!) from ucb.

i'm excited about watkins (yah, she's pretty much genius...maybe a new Tina Fey!!?).

madison and I agree, however, that abby is a weaker choice than expected. perhaps this seems too harsh. i revoke the "weaker" and will say, rather "interesting".

Sure she may look good on camera and may be able to do a fairly good angelina jolie, kirsten dunst, and drew barrymore impression but other than that... ;-/ ... : - ... 8 - ( ... :'[ ... emo-emoticon pressure is ON.

in other news, madtv will be canceled. R.I.P. (luckily we saw one of the last episodes ever LIVE)

in further news, i can't wait to see "BOLT", the dog movie. I hope it's better than "Bevery Hills Chihuahua" though I'm sure it won't come close to "Firehouse Dog"!!

fondly,
-kimberley
(and...madison (i cant stand abby elliot) vanderberg)
no hard feelings.

movie ideas?

Sooo I'm one of those people that always go "omg, I have this idea for a movie...blah blah blah," then I write one sentence about it in my moleskine (i'm partial to the whole you-need-a-moleskine to be artsy and-or successful mentality). One of these days I'm actually going to write these movies, but untill then...I will blog about it and revel in my creative nothingness.



one-two line synopses for random ass movies...(spoiler alert: These are VERY cheesy and not to be taken seriously) (aka you take them seriously, but if we don't like them, at least you can say "i told you so")



1. A reclusive and loner girl decides to audition for the traveling circus when she becomes smitten with the lion tamer. (story of my life?)



2. An highschool virgin decides to sell his V-card on Ebay. In his quest to de-flower himself and pursue potential bidders, he is stalked by tranny, is almost assaulted by a department store santa, and reluctantly falls in love with a strange girl. (let's film this one!)



3. Jamie stalks crime scenes so that she can be relocated as a member of the witness protection program. As this neurotic and unstable girl changes cities monthly she completely changes her identity each time too. How long before something (or someone) causes her to stay in one place for good?



4. In the Sci-fi thriller, Meredith's husband died months after their wedding. She decides to clone him and carry the pregnancy. She raises her "husband" as her son but soon falls in love with him again and tries to deal with the taboo and oedipal nature of this relationship.



5. Two chronically single best friends make a bet with one another for who can find a boyfriend first. But the catch is, they can ONLY use online dating services. (ahahah worst movie ever!) (don't lie, you love this idea)



6. Jenny is 35 and has never moved out of her parents home. She is seriously socially demented, afraid of people, and has never had a job but she lusts after the strapping young UPS worker that comes by her house. Because of her newfound "crush" on Lenny the UPS guy, Jenny is determined to move out and get Lenny to fall in love with her. (oh Lenny! Is this the Lenny you've been talking about Madison?)



7. In this screwball dark comedy, 5 best friends from Highschool go on a roadtrip together after graduation. Everything seems like your typical indie film about a roadtrip until one of the friends goes bat-shit-insane and starts killing everyone off.

7. A super lame girl named Maddie needs to finish her Comm paper by tommorow while resisting the urge to blog.





That's All Folks!

(Idea 4 and 7 have unfortunately already been made. Keep it up, you have a bright future ahead of you George!)

Madison Vanderberg (Commentary provided by your Friendly Neighbourhood Kimberley)

art installment

Louise Bourgeois is at the MOCA. The 96 Parisian (and still alive!) could not make it to the greater L.A. herself, but her oeuvres d'art have been stirring about. Everything from spiders to adultery, to tapestry factories, a bad childhood and her father's mistress speaks through in her works and are the latest talk of the town.

I attended the "Members Only" advanced preview on Saturday for which we had exclusive Invite Only entrance, which was a cup of delight! Not merely to the winebar free-loader or the middle-aged trend monkey but for any abstract artist, curious cat, or lover of the surreal. Just a forwarning, many a phallus sprung to the ceiling, sculptures of huge bronze spiders entrapped a bed, and vaginal symbolism signified Bougeois' anxieties and her nightmarish growing up.

A mixture of latex on bronze covered the sexual ambiguities and social implications of the feminine and masculin identities and repeated throughout many of her pieces-"fillette" made a blunt statement to the girl-boy gender struggle. One resembled a 'pig-in-a-blanket' another 'two yams interfolded'. There were many marble egg-eye-tip pieces called "cumulus", which I perceive as another relationship & sexual working- one in particular backlit in red drew many a paf. Other than the french man that followed me around every single oeuvre, trying to engage me in conversation with...his eyes, two amateurs beside me said "It's too abstract, screw it" and moved on.

I personally enjoyed the charcoal house with legs drawing, the cast-iron leg sculptures hung from the ceiling (vastly overlooked), the "7 in a bed pink" fabric dolls and most of all, "Arch of Hysteria"- the gold torso hanging and bent in a backward thrust. I walked 180 'round this hot mess. The female as a house and vagina like in her "femme-maison" was powerfully suggestive of the patriarchal dominance and the role in which the female is confined to and appears in modern society.

Realize that this avant-garde art is not for everyone. If you choose to go just for kicks and giggles, make sure you don't creep on innocent art-admirers... we can see what you're looking at and it is most definitely not art for art's sake.

As you exit, be sure to check out Kippenberger's retrospective exhibit "the Problem Perspective" for faux-photos, the fake-log pipes and magnifying glass painting collection. Watch out for the rusty-looking car with it's lights on, and the shady man beside it who may or may not ask you (as he did I) whether "this is your car?" followed by "i'm going to have to write you up for this, you can't be parking here". Nice try creeper #2, but i'm two questions in and walking five steps out the door.

Allez, Kimberley


To the right is my own artwork. The inspiration? A man with a pipe -you never see this!- on campus reading his book. I could only think of Beard Papa and how much I hate that mascot. Seen is my anxiety toward said papa who needs a good beating from someone who cares. What the heck is a Beard Papa anyway and why would anyone choose to eat such a cream puff! I will never step foot in that eatery. EVER!

d'oh

aye babies, it's Maddie...

For the past year I've been really obsessed with covers of pop/hip-hop/rap songs.

Basically, if some emo slash acoustic guitar-y guy covers anything from 90's popular music or mainstream rap it is the coolest ever.

Below in list (obvi) format are some noteworthy covers. They are not the best nor my favorites, but im hella bored and I've already watched tonight's sneak peek of "30 rock" and so I have nothing else to do so I'm just gonna go on youtube and search for rando covers even tho it's a thursday night but it's ok because im sort of sick so that's my excuse for why I'm not going out and instead I'm blogging. BAY AREA!!!

1. Paper Planes - MIA


Ok, this guy, he's like "O I'm so hip because not only do I listen to super indie british amazon beats like M.I.A but I can rearrange the music and play it on my guitar bro, o and also, I have another guitar just sitting there too because I'm so cool because I have TWO guitars. I'm such a musician! Also, I'm wearing this super bro trucker hat. PUNK'D!"

2. Ice Box - Omarion



So these guys are "Boyce Avenue" (Thanks Stephen for introducing me to such gems) and are pretty much the most legit when it comes to ironic covers. Basically I'm just obsessed with the original version of "icebox," so a cover is like christmas in July. When the music video came out I pretty much watched it like every second because the choreography was the baddest. Good job Boyce Avenue!

3. Idioteque - Radio Head


remember when everyone told you to watch that youtube video of that guy with the beard doing a cover of Outkast's "Hey Ya"? Welps, it's the same guy and he is from the band Obadiah Parker. I also just really like that they are playing in front of a "quiznos". haha suburban parking lot show?!

4. Word Up - Cameo


So the video is completely gratuitous. ahhah. These are some random girls dancing to the Willis cover of "Word Up." Why did I choose a dance video and not some other you ask? Because... three years ago I did the most ballinest dance to this song with the stellar dancer Dee Caspary and I will go to my grave with the remembrance of that dance, that being said, these girls are doing a sham of a job re-creating the genius that Mr. Caspary created long ago. ulch puhleasseee!

Happy Arbor Day Northern Hemisphere,

Madison V.

N&N's

Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist is my new Juno, except now I'm totally over Juno because it's so lame or pretentious or whatever else everybody is hating about it nowadays.... (eew, ellen page)

I knew I was going to be obsessed with N&N the second it appeared on Michael Cera's IMDB page, (yes, I obsessively haunt the scrolls of IMDB checking up on my favorite bird-like imp) (aka hottie MC). Once I saw he had been cast as Nick, and that the movie was an adaption of a novel I rushed to the nearest Barnes and Noble (the one across from main place that we all went to during highschool!!!) (oh-shaah). I had anticipated buying the book, but since it was no larger than three issues of People magazine, I just read it in the store.

The book was kindof lame bonez, but I knew Cera would not disappoint on the silverscreen.

"Nick and Nora" tells the story of two "star crossed lovers" who share 24 hours in bliss and discouragement on a rampant search for their favorite band and Nora's drunken BFF. Plans go awry, people fall in and out of love, boys in skinny jeans make witty jokes, etc etc. (well said)

BUT what resonates the most in N&N's is it's simplicity and sheer "Oh how cute"-ness. Many a time I found myself shrieking in delight at every word out of Cera's mouth. If you thought he was endearing in Arrested Development and adorable in Juno, then you might just pee your pants at how painfully precious this plucky polly can purr (I really just wanted to take a stab at alliteration). (please put pasta on my plastic plate...eh..)

Some highlights are a couple of cameos (very brief) by some current SNL members. Get excited!

AND Kat Dennings is not super annoying. I was really encouraging myself to dislike her (Ahem...Ellen Page) (OMG LIAR! Madison loved Ellen Page until I made a convincing argument against it), buttt she's really good!!! (you said she's pretty)

If you enjoyed Charlie Bartlett, Before Sunrise, or the first time you saw Juno...then you will probably enjoy Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist!!!

kickin' it maverick style,

Madison Vanderberg

(BUT WAIT! you left out MY favourite part of the movie, the hot stereotypical jewish club-hoppers...look out for their new CD!)