Food and Lists
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shadowkat1. Restrictive diet has resulted in more creative and jazzier cooking. Today, for example, I made buckwheat tabouli (buckwheat - which has similar consistancy to oatmeal and bulgar wheat when cooked - although it is not a grain or wheat, it's a nut. Plus incredibly nutritious, has magneseum, zinc, potassium, dietry fiber, and protein. Also I like it better than bulgar and oatmeal, so there is that. burpless cucumbers - they don't have seeds hence the burpless - finely chopped. Green onions. Ground hemp and flax seeds. Olive and a dash of coconut oil. Pepper. Salt. Turmeric root. And Lime juice.) It's incredibly tasty.
Also lamb chops, seasoned with herbs (mint and rosemary). And green and yellow wax beans with dill.
Earlier today, I had buckwheat with apples, cinnamin, and lime juice. I'm loving the buckwheat - it's more versatile than rice or bulghar or oatmeal, plus tastes better.
2. On the fourth episode of The Crazy Ones...not the best. So far only one episode made me laugh, possibly two. On the plus side, Gellar is getting more comfortable in the series and seems less awkward. But my attention tends to wander during it.
3. Feeling nostalgic for the 90s and 80s flicks...today, and was remembering my actor crushes...
During this time also had the following actor crushes:
* James Spader
* Matt Dillion
* John Cusack
* Rutguer Hauer
* Richard Hatch (short lived, he wasn't in anything)
* Kevin Spacy
* Pierce Bronsan
* Matthew Broderick
* Christian Slater (also short-lived, because he wasn't in anything except two things)
Actresses?
* Winona Ryder
* Samatha Mathias
* Mary Stuart Masterson
* Amy Madigan
the best computer flicks were:
*War Games - Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy. Broderick hacks into the government's supercomputer to play a great video game and ends up inadvertently starting WWIII.
* Hackers - Johnny Lee Miller and Angelina Jolie (their first film) - about a contest that results in government chase. Although more complicated than that. Possibly the best computer oriented flick done.
* Tron (which was admittedly silly but fun)
* The Last Starfighter
* The Net - Sandra Bullock gets her life rewritten by an evil organization.
* The Matrix
Favorite teen flicks?
* Pretty in Pink (James Spader in a supporting role, along with Annie Potts)
* Some Kind of Wonderful (Eric Stolz)
* Back to the Future (Michael J Fox)
* Say Anything (John Cusak)
* The Breakfast Club
* The Outsiders
* Peggy Sue Got Married
* Streets of Fire
* Rumble Fish (I had an actor crush on Matt Dillon)
* The Sure Thing ( a teen version of It Happened One Night - also John Cusak is one of my actor crushes)
* Tuff Turf starring James Spader (another actor crush. Who is by the way playing the bad guy in the next Avengers film, he's playing Ultron.)
* Risky Business (the best of the Tom Cruise early flicks)
* The Lost Boys (actor crush - Kiefer Sutherland)
* Dirty Dancing
* Fame
* Heathers ( I had an actor crush on Winona Ryder and Christian Slater)
* Pump up the Volume (this sealed my actor crush on Slater for a bit, until he began to just make horrible movies and I gave up)
* Stand By Me
* Sixteen Candles
* Clueless
* Hackers
* 10 Things I Hate About You
* St Elmo's Fire (sort of a 20 something take on The Big Chill)
Also lamb chops, seasoned with herbs (mint and rosemary). And green and yellow wax beans with dill.
Earlier today, I had buckwheat with apples, cinnamin, and lime juice. I'm loving the buckwheat - it's more versatile than rice or bulghar or oatmeal, plus tastes better.
2. On the fourth episode of The Crazy Ones...not the best. So far only one episode made me laugh, possibly two. On the plus side, Gellar is getting more comfortable in the series and seems less awkward. But my attention tends to wander during it.
3. Feeling nostalgic for the 90s and 80s flicks...today, and was remembering my actor crushes...
During this time also had the following actor crushes:
* James Spader
* Matt Dillion
* John Cusack
* Rutguer Hauer
* Richard Hatch (short lived, he wasn't in anything)
* Kevin Spacy
* Pierce Bronsan
* Matthew Broderick
* Christian Slater (also short-lived, because he wasn't in anything except two things)
Actresses?
* Winona Ryder
* Samatha Mathias
* Mary Stuart Masterson
* Amy Madigan
the best computer flicks were:
*War Games - Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy. Broderick hacks into the government's supercomputer to play a great video game and ends up inadvertently starting WWIII.
* Hackers - Johnny Lee Miller and Angelina Jolie (their first film) - about a contest that results in government chase. Although more complicated than that. Possibly the best computer oriented flick done.
* Tron (which was admittedly silly but fun)
* The Last Starfighter
* The Net - Sandra Bullock gets her life rewritten by an evil organization.
* The Matrix
Favorite teen flicks?
* Pretty in Pink (James Spader in a supporting role, along with Annie Potts)
* Some Kind of Wonderful (Eric Stolz)
* Back to the Future (Michael J Fox)
* Say Anything (John Cusak)
* The Breakfast Club
* The Outsiders
* Peggy Sue Got Married
* Streets of Fire
* Rumble Fish (I had an actor crush on Matt Dillon)
* The Sure Thing ( a teen version of It Happened One Night - also John Cusak is one of my actor crushes)
* Tuff Turf starring James Spader (another actor crush. Who is by the way playing the bad guy in the next Avengers film, he's playing Ultron.)
* Risky Business (the best of the Tom Cruise early flicks)
* The Lost Boys (actor crush - Kiefer Sutherland)
* Dirty Dancing
* Fame
* Heathers ( I had an actor crush on Winona Ryder and Christian Slater)
* Pump up the Volume (this sealed my actor crush on Slater for a bit, until he began to just make horrible movies and I gave up)
* Stand By Me
* Sixteen Candles
* Clueless
* Hackers
* 10 Things I Hate About You
* St Elmo's Fire (sort of a 20 something take on The Big Chill)
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Date: 2013-10-21 09:01 am (UTC)I thought it portrayed the essential culture and technical details very well while never being lashed to tedious realism. And it was good fun with delightful pedestrian and transit oriented New York street scenes.
The complaint I heard was from people who live chained to their desks arguing that the movie wasn't a realistic reflection of their lives. Well, anyone who had to live through two hours of their lives would die of boredom.
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Date: 2013-10-21 10:29 pm (UTC)I know what you mean - had similar arguments with people stating more or less the same thing. And you're correct, watching a movie about people staring into a computer in their basement or bedroom is not interesting. Plus it is a movie - it doesn't have to be a realistic reflection of anything, it does however have to be entertaining. And yes it helps if it is somewhat believable.
Why do people equate realism with entertainment? It's sort of an oxymoron if you think about it. If it wasn't, we wouldn't require movies, books, and tv to escape from reality.