Wordy Wednesday: Dr. Seuss

In my ever growing quest for structure, I've come up with these weekly concepts for mini entries every week day. On that note...

I've always been relatively proud of my generous vocabulary, but sometimes, I feel that one needs the credibility of an ex-President, a Philosopher, or even the occasional Pauly Shore to get your point across.

Hence the birth of Wordy Wednesdays.

This will be my weekly dive into greater minds than mine and splatter them all over the page. Since it is MY blog & I'm not the biggest fan of rules, I will keep it loose. Sometimes it may be a quote, sometimes a passage, maybe even an entire song. I hope no one is overwhelmed if i get a little "slap happy" & add one of each, or THREE!

Who better to start my Wordy Wednesdays with than, in my eyes, the Doctah of the written word... No, not Mark Twain... not James Joyce... not even Biggie Smalls...

Dr. Seuss

I know, right?

"Today you are YOU, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is YOU-ER than you."

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."

"I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!"

"How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?"

and finally...

“Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.”

I recently went to my little sisters high school graduation (gasp! feeling... so... old...) & I realized that every graduation quotes at LEAST one Dr.Seuss tid bit of advice. Normally, this would annoy me and replicate nails on a chalkboard (much like how i feel myself slipping deeper into insanity when i hear speeches start by addressing every possible type of person at the event - "Good Morning teachers, staff, graduates, mothers, fathers, sisters, brother, grandmothers, grandfathers, janitors, flys on the wall..." UGH) but I feel that the use of Seuss-isms are so relevant, that i'd probably be angrier if i didn't hear them at important life events. "Oh, the Places You'll Go" is given to everyone on Graduation because it's relevant. I, on the other hand, did NOT receive a copy of the classic tale, but I know people who did (including Ephram Brown on Everwood... tear jerk!).

Dr.Seuss's amazing ability to prove that "a person's a person, no matter how small" lifts the spirit of any sad Who, even if their Christmas was stollen.


FUN FACT! Dr. Seuss's the Cat in the Hat movie (2003) is definitely a fun watch when you're half alive on pain killers (prescribed only!). It was def one of my favourite watches while bored out of my pained skull after having the 'ole wisdom teeth out.


So, today we sing "Dah who dor-aze!". Today, we celebrate you, Dr. Seuss, not only for your iconic hat, colourful new breakfast, or the invention of Things 1 & 2, but for your wisdom, your laughter and your wordies!

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Too Hot Tuesdays!

This is a NEW weekly trend. I think that most of us should agree that looking at yum-tastic boys should be an everyday event, not just once a week... but i think that there is some sort of addicts group out there somewhere that may agree i should stand up, in front of the room & say

"Hi, My name is Spanky, & i'm boy crazy."

So, we'll make it a weekly occurance (for the most part).
First week...

Bryan Greenberg

This yummy Omaha, NE native seriously lights my fire. I was lucky enough to see him play on June 18th at the Highline Ballroom in the Meat Packing District in NY. Oooo, it was amaaazing. Every song from "Someday" with it's beautifully acoustic lyrics...

"I drive all night just to see your face The way you touch the way you taste Even if only for a day I'll come back to you someday"

to the cheeky cute lyrics of "i sorta have a girlfriend" which raised quite the fuss when he started singing it at the concert.

Oh Bryan Greenberg, how perfectly quaffed your hair is. How precious you are with your puppy eyes. How sexy you are with your... body...

I first discovered B. Greenberg as Jake Jagielski on "One Tree Hill" a few years ago when i picked up the show. I then saw him in a few episodes of "Boston Public" when that became my syndication obsession. Eventually, my addiction became more sever when i started watching "October Road" (yes, in syndication) and when i heard the boy sing... i was toast! I went to see Bride Wars 60% too see him play the small role of Nate, Kate Hudson's brother and dragged a good (guy) friend of mine to see the WEIRDO (& awwwesome) flick "Nobel Son" where Greenberg played Alan Rickman's son, Barkley Michaelson. (see it. it's awesome.) When i had the chance to see him in concert... i HAD to go. While i was there, he mentioned his new show, "How to Make it in America" to start in the Fall of 2009. I BELIEVE that the show will be on HBO and also stars rapper Kid Cudi and, previous post chica, Shannon Sossamon! I'm sooo stoked!!!

buy his CD ("waiting for now"), watch his shows, rent his movies, drool over his photos.

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words to live by...

This goes out to my bestie who's hurting today. I'm not sure if it will help, but i hope that it will at least plant a seed of hope in her heart.

"If we do not change our direction,
we are likely to end up where we are headed."
-chinese proverb

Remember this BFFer lady...
It's the truth.

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Golden Years in Gelderland...

A Knights Tale:

There's really no reason for me to post this other than the fact that i want to! haha. this is one of the best scenes in a movie ever. i luvvv it. One of my favourite songs, one of my favourite actors (miss you h.ledger, rip). I think that the best thing about this movie was the modern aspects sprinkled throughout the medieval story line; the opening scene where the crowd "bang, bang, clap"s to Queen's "We Will Rock You" during the jousting match, the slow walk from The Right Stuff (1983) and of course Kate the Blacksmiths marker being the Nike symbol.

The soundtrack rocks out with quintessentials from Thin Lizzy's "The Boys are Back in Town", Robbie Williams & Queen's "We are the Champions" & BTO (Bachman Turner Overdrive) "Taking Care of Business" which prooves that with a little thought, the perfect cocktail can be made from mixing the right amount of the 1970's and the 1370's... 600 years pulled together by the missing link, good 'ole Classic Rock.

"Director Brian Helgeland once said in an interview that he had a simple explanation for the use of modern music in the movie. He said that he felt it would show people today what people then felt about their music. When true Renaissance music is used in movies today it fails to convey the emotional response that people back then had to such music. Helgeland used modern music to try to elicit an emotional response in the movie audience akin to what medieval people would have felt when hearing the music of that time."

- From IMDB.com

The movie has so much meaning behind it with it's connection to Chaucer and his missing 6 month missing period. This is a perfect story to fit in the real time missed in the history books, but much more charming than anything anyone has put forth for the missing 12 years of Jesus' life in the bible & just a bit cuter than Michelle Williams professing her luv on tape and singing Olivia Newton John's "I Honestly Love You" for Nixon's infamous missing 18 mins. The movie explains how Chaucer (Bettany) went from being mysteriously gone for 6 months and then coming back to write "The Knight's Tale" in the Canterbury Tales, sighting both characters Peter the Pardoner and Simon the Summoner.

Genius.

But, in my eyes, the best part of this film, better than Will (ledger) calling Jocelyn (Sossamon) a "foxy lady" or Wat (Tudyk) telling Jocelyn that "it's called a lance.. helllooooo!?", is the scene that still give me chills... the dance improvised from Gelderland... in these oh so, Golden Years...

never gets old...

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a little trip down memory lane...

This may be a weekly thing... a little stroll down memory lane for all your children of the 80's (& 90's)



luvs Randy Newman, luvs school house rock, luvs this video...

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two things amazing...

So, i bitch & moan about not having the time to post & here i am, posting for the 4th time today..

a real quick side note... on my way home in a complete cats & dogs disaster outside, scared of trees falling on my soft top car & crushing me, my car decides it's a great time to stall out & NOT TURN BACK ON!... garr... thank god i was close to my girl Katya's house. She came to my rescue & took me back to her house. I called the AT&T road side assistance & had a lovely conversation with a fellow Customer Service agent who booked me a tow truck. but.. then.. yuck.. while on the way back down the BUSIEST road in my town to get to Katya's car, i stepped on a slug... ewwwewewewewwwww~ the poor thing didn't stand a chance being stuck between my foot & my flop. grosss...

&... with that luvly story...

The two amazing things are...

Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (2010)

When things like this are released, i have a very torn, slightly schitsophrenic episode. I become so excited & happy for the release of the film, but, at the same time, incredibly sad & angry with myself for not having been a star yet so that I could have been IN it! I felt that way about Moulin Rouge, Charlies Angels (but i got over that one...) & a few others (honestly, i'm drawing a blank) but i mean it, the first thing i thought of when i heard about T. Burton's newest venture was "FUCK! WHY AM I NOT IN THIS!?!?!" I have adored the bed time acid trip since i was a child. The walrus & the carpenter is one of my absolute favourite pieces of written word and i find myself quoting the Disney version on a weekly basis ("there g
oes Bill... poor Bill" "We don't want weeds in our bed" "aWHO aARE aYOU" "twinkle... twinkle... little bat...." i have literally said eveyone of those lines at least once in the past month... i wonder if people find me terribly annoying...). I was so weepie over the fact that i'd missed out on being in one of the best stories being told by one of the BEST story tellers. boo hoo. i shal cry so much that i will flood the parlor & float away towards the DoDo bird in a glass bottle ("the boooottle... the BOTTTTTLE"-door knob)


I've seen a few sneak peeks & so far.. amazed. (even though the mad hatter looks a litttttle bit too much like what i picture the boogie man must look like.)




the Tweedles are a bit scary, but Helena Bonham Carter looks fantastic as the Red Queen Anne Hathaway is a vision as the White Queen.


The lucky little girl playing Alice is Mia Wasikowska whom I luvd in In Treatment with Gabriel Byrne. (The show i wasn't a huge fan of & was a bit overwhelmed with the fact that there was a different person for each day. i liked the concept, but opted to only watch Wednesday, as it was Sophie day.)


I'm very excited to have t. burton blow my mind once again. i've been taken on so many glorious adventures with this brilliant man; to Fleet Street, a Chocolate Factory, Halloween Town, Gotham City & even around the world & back to London in a Giant Peach. I don't think i'll be disapointed.

Toy Story 3 (2010)

Yes! 3!!! Wooohoooo! My FAV pixar film of allll time (yes, we all love nemo and there is something sweet about talking tow trucks) has come back AGAIN! I cannnnotttt wait to see what HILARIOUS shananigans insue with Woody, Buzz, Ham, Mr. Potato Head & ESPECIALLY Slink the doxie dog!!! I don't know too mch about this yet, but i'll write more when i do!!!

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Foto Friday

Ok, in an attempt to become more organized with my blogging, i'm going to start theme days. For now, I will be using friday to post a beautiful photo (er.. Foto if you will) that i'm currently in luv with for whatever reason.

Today's photo was found on the Backgrounds App on my iPod. It was submitted by someone on Flickr, but the application makes it very difficult to find out whom.

This image was the piece i designed my new blog layout after. I think that i may update the layout to reflect the true mod-osity of this flower.

It really is 60s-tastic beautiful.


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