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Lie to Me is House without the medical gobidly gook.

Dr Lightman is this shows Dr. House, but without fake American accent and cane. Same amount of showboating and productive jackassiness. Theirs the not very funny pretty guy, who this time is braining rather then Australian, the perky burnette now blond is replaced by a latino women so they able to skip the black guy character all together. Theirs the curly haired professional like women, who replaces Cutty, but works for this House so the dinamic is slightly diffrent.
But the plot line is pretty similar; oh, we have a puzzle we need to solve in 40 mintues, with our speicalized skill set! Oh, theres a twist, OH GOD ANOTHER TWIST, oh wait, it was this simple thing all along!!

Its really not a bad show, but the idea of it is for cast to be able to read facial experssion and deduct to solve the projects they've been hired to conuslt on. Which means actors have to act as real as possible, which most times fall's short, since their suppost to be acting one way to lie, then have microexpressions that tell Dr Lightman and the audiance the truth.

Also why is it that Hulu keeps advertising 1. Charities it supports, 2. Cars, and 3. Various Vertiaties of Vodka. I think it subliminal messaging for our minds to create aweful stories where a van full of nuns off to help orphans get drunk and go to Vegas instead.

I Love You Man

I saw an advanced screening of I Love You, Man with my awesome boyfriend. I really was looking forward to it because I saw the original red band trailer and the intro song was from one of my favorite bands Vampire Weekend. But the red band trailer gave far too much away, the movie losing its ability to tell the story because it was already completely shared with the trailer. Then I checked OkGo's website, and they wrote a cute intro about how "I love you, man" is what Tim always tells Damien before entering a car or plane, you know, just incase. But that they also had a cameo as the wedding band at the reception. Apparently most of that hit the edit room floor since they only appeared behind Jason Segal and Paul Rudd during the credits.

They solded their best scene in the trailer, where Jason meets Paul at his open house. The stage is set of a beautiful girl and an average looking guy, where Jason points out to Paul that "That guy really needs to fart" then the long explanation and BFF forever.

It was a good introduction into the new are of Bromances, and quite funny, I just need to remember like with Slumdog Millionaire, don't watch movies with preconditions, because they can't always live up to it, unlike chocolate cake.

Thank You For Smoking

Jason Reitman works well with his actors, several from Thank You for Smoking doing his next project of Juno. Jason Reitman's father directed Ghost Busters.

Jason Reitman adapted and directed this brilliant introspect into the composite character of the face of big tobacco. The tagline: American is living in spin" the sultan of spin is Nick Naylor, who tirelessly fights for conglomerations. Aaron Eckard does an amazing job bringing Nick to life. The story is designed to humanize a devil who defends a cooperation that kills two jumbo jets full of people a day. The film is funny and amazing

This film was shot with beautiful transitions, a beautiful one where a time laps sunsets on the Washington monument, establishing movement of time and change in location. Also when Nick confronts the last Marbalo man, the entire lighting set in the yellow of old time westerns that started the ad campain.

Milk

OMG!! Milk was freaken awesome!

As always, Gus Van Sants kept us at an emotional distance, making it harder to connect to the majority of his characters, except the one that gives the audience access to the entire story. Back in Elephant, the first film I saw of his, Alex is our emotional access point, the person who the audience can really connect to. This puts more pressure on the lead, to act thought the fourth wall, so Sean Penn really had to work for it, and he did, and it showed in the film and the recognition he received. Also, Sean Penn smiled, a lot, truly emulating the late Harvey Milk, with gestures and crooked smiles and general beings.

I missed the first five mintues (Caroline ran late), so I don't know if they said in the begining that Dan White killed him, which might have made the film slightly less potent than just knowing that Milk would die, then the little shock if you didn't previously google before walking into their theater. Whats funny is in Middle School I wiki'ed Dan White in connection with the Twinkie Defense that got him off for the assassination of two government officials, I just didn't remember that it was Harvey Milk.

The death scene was beautifully shot, where Milk is in his office, Dan walks in, makes him go to his knees, and you see Dan standing behind him, gun drawn, then the shot and blood stain Milk, the camera panning as he falls forward, then out the window to the opera house, a poster of a large women sobbing in the way everyone must have felt like doing after news reached.

The use of news real in combination with film worked very well in this film, Anita the Hun Briant shown in brilliant Technicolor as the beautiful devil she is. The whole idea of protecting the children, shown for the idiocy it truly was. This also tied to the idea that in California, now, if your gay you can't adopt children already here, but if your heterosexual, unemployed and living with your parents and on well-fare, you can have a whole litter.

The Speeches given at the Oscars were brilliant. Dustin Lance Black quote was brilliant
"I think he'd want me to say to all of the gay and lesbian kids out there tonight who have been told that they are less than by their churches, by their government or by their families, that you are beautiful, wonderful creatures of value and that no matter what anyone tells you, God does love you and that very soon, I promise you, you will have equal rights federally, across this great nation of ours. Thank you. Thank you. And thank you, God, for giving us Harvey Milk."

I loved Sean Penn's speech, why "“you commie, homo-loving sons of guns.” ask, because quite simply it kicked but!

"For those who saw the signs of hatred as our cars drove in tonight, and, I think that it is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit and reflect and anticipate their great shame and the shame in their grandchildren’s eyes if they continue that way of support. We’ve got to have equal rights for everyone. And there are these last two things. I’m very, very proud to live in a country that’s willing to elect an elegant man President."

Coraline

Neil Gaiman is one very creepy and brilliantly talented man. He originally wrote Coraline in 2002, it won numerous awards. Not only was Coraline beautifully captured, a truly amazing stop-motion animation, but it also hits home in the crafting community.

The first scene, gorgeous close ups, the process of sewing the Coraline doll, beautifully archaic tools known to most crafters, construct a Coraline replica. In order to generate more buzz for the film, they actually sent out boxes to 50 blogs including some of the set of the movie!!

Coraline was a creepily beautiful story, captured magnificently, kind of like a preserved swallow-tail butterfly.

Orange Pecan Gems

These soft orange cookies are a great juxtapose to the crunchy pecans in the dough and the gem! This recipe was in my cookbook for a few weeks, and I wanted something easy (because its a cake-mix) but crazy awesome. I wanted to make something new for my mother's garden meeting!

Orange Pecan Gems
Active time: about 30 unfocused minutes
From start to finish: 2 hours
Makes about five dozen amazing cookies!

1 box of Orange cake mix
1/2 cup sour cream
1/2 cup plain or vanilla yogurt
(if you only have one, use one cup of that)
1 egg
2 tbsp butter or margarine
1 cup finely chopped pecans
Pecan halves for decorations

Preheat oven to 350F. Spray Pam to treat cookie sheets. (I used four sheets in total, rotating between Ikea sheets with Pam and old pans with SPLAT mats.)

Add cake mix, yogurt, eggs, margarine, and chopped pecans to bowl of electric mixer, and mix together for about two minutes, then scrap sides of the bowl. Drop about one and a half teaspoonfuls two inches apart on the prep cookie sheets. Press the pecan halves down into the cookie dough.

Bake at 350 for 11 to 13 minutes or until bottom sides brown or golden. I cooled on sheets, but a cookie tray would be better. Store in an airtight container.
These cookies are amazing with a cup of Black Mango Tea with honey and milk.