Celebrities: They're just like me!

This is just to let you know all know that Suri Cruise is officially as cool as me. 


I was minding my own business, scanning through TMZ on my iPhone following a delightful July 4th BBQ and saw the following picture: 

Suri was out getting ice cream with her mom, Katie Holmes, who you all know (unless you're hiding under a rock to get away from the heat) has recently divorced Tom Cruise/escaped the clutches of Scientology. Suri and Katie were having ice cream in NYC, laughing it up, having a grand old time just mom and daughter (and bodyguards). 


I immediately turned to the BF, shoved this picture in his face and asked, "Does this dress look familiar??" He responded with, "...Um, maybe?"


Yes. Yes it does. It's the exact same dress that I wore to the Derby earlier this year!

I love when celebrities want to be just like me. Do you think they sell this dress in child size? Or did they custom make it for her out of the same fabric? Did they buy it in adult size and just tailor it down to child size? Tell me your secrets, Suri Cruise!

ou est le bibliotheque?

has been stuck in my head all day, thought i'd share. thanks, z.

i don't know what you're talking about, but it sounds illegal.

did anyone see fantastic mr. fox yet? i can't decide yet if i loved it, or if it was a bit too wes anderson, cutsey, hipster for its own good. pretty sure i'll land on the side of "awesome" though. you can check out the music at the movie's website and watch the trailer below, if you haven't seen that yet. additionally, i saw willem defoe (he plays Rat, of course) last night after seeing the movie. so, that was pretty cool. imdb also tells me that adrien brody (loooove) was in the movie, but i don't recall the specific Field Mouse that he played. then again, mario batali was also in it, so who knows?

enjoy -

bret & jemaine keep me company at work.

Bret: Yes, she's in Delta Force. She's been deployed to Fallujah.
Jemaine: But she works in the croissant shop.
Bret: Yeah well, she's got two jobs. She's a pastry chef and a sniper.

eek!

does this scare the pants off of anyone else???

dum-b.

even though they reportedly made thousands per episode on jon & kate, this is what happens when you live well beyond your means.

note to the gosselins: maybe try cutting back on your number of houses, kids, crazy parties, hair-do appointments, stupid clothes and bickering? just an idea. then you won't have to get a job at mcdonald's (as kate apparently claimed she'd have to do to pay their bills).

family math.

though it's no surprise to any of us, tlc has finally decided to axe jon from his family's show, and continue with (mostly) just kate and the kids - kate plus eight. i suppose jon was just getting in the way of the show, and his bad behavior was not sitting well with the tlc folks. it's pretty sad that kate has managed to turn america over to her side. in previous seasons of the show, she's looked like a horrible bitch and we all felt bad for jon. personally, i'm glad to see him go. i'm sad for the kids, but they are really the reason i watch the show anyhow. hopefully now we'll see more of them, and less of jon's antics.

obsessed.

"this is a book that i'd love to read" - dan brown

rebloga recommends.

looking to escape whatever terrible weather climate change has decided to bestow upon you (perhaps it's extreme heat, wildfires or sudden chill)? here's a suggestion - go to the movies! maybe you haven't been all summer in an effort to be outdoors as much as possible? i understand. but allow me to recommend two movies that we've seen recently that were quite, quite good.

1. Moon
I can't say too much about the plot in this one. To say more than a few sentences would give it all away. But here's the premise: It's sometime in the future, when we have figured out how to harness energy from the moon. So now all the energy we use on Earth is harvested from the moon. Sam Bell is an astronaut at the tail-end of a 3-year stint as the lone energy harvester on the moon. We see him interacting with GERTY (voiced by the awesome Kevin Spacey), a computery robot that is his sole interaction (other than viewing video uplinks from his wife). Basically, things get kind of crazy for Sam as loneliness sets in, and he mentally prepares to finally go home. Hopefully that set-up interests you enough to check out the movie. And if none of that got you, does it help that the director is David Bowie's son (Duncan Jones)?

2. District 9
So, you've seen the previews, right? At first, it seems like it will be an interesting documentary about South Africa. It will have cool footage and you'll hear about humanitarian aid efforts and firsthand accounts, and what the government is/is not doing right, etc. And then you see the space ship that is hanging over the city like an ominous gray storm cloud and you think to yourself, "...this is not a documentary."

Well, if you haven't seen the preview, that's what you would have thought. (And if you haven't even seen a preview yet... I anticipate that this is not your genre of movie.) That being said, the preview does not even touch the surface of the awesomeness of this movie.

Anyhow, the movie starts out similar to the trailer - interview footage, documentary-style footage. It sets up the scene for you, which is: 20-some years ago, this huge spaceship just sputtered out over Johannesburg. A review I read said that unlike the classic alien movie that explores "what would they do to us" this movie shows "what would we do to them." And we see that what we did was put the aliens in a camp (District 9), take away their rights and basically otherwise bully them around and ruin their lives. Our story starts when they decide that the camps have gotten so overrun, they are going to relocate 1.2 million aliens to a camp outside of the city. To do so, they need to get every alien's signature on the eviction notices (I know, it sounds ridiculous, but just hang on). Our hero is Wikus Van De Merwe (yea, I'm not sure how to pronounce that either) who heads up the committee to go into District 9 to get these signatures. After he has a run-in with a particular alien (Christopher Johnson - of course we'd dole out stupid generic names to the aliens), who seems to be suspiciously less drone-ish than the others, his life is never the same, as they say... There's really something for everyone in this - biology, science, aliens, family, betrayal, heart, and explodey bits (i.e., the alien guns don't just kill you, they explode you and everything around you).

Let me know if you go see/have seen either of these, and what you thought. Any others that I should make it my business to see?

confusement.

did anyone else see this story on tmz today? btw, you may need to avert your eyes, or look really quickly. it's that bad. jon - we were all on your side! and now you have forced us to root for kate. that's how bad of a person you are.

questions:
- where is this?
- why is jon up in a window/booth? is he handing out the chips?
- what is this girl wearing (my vote is that it's a sparkly pillowcase)

SPOILER alert!

when we last saw our heroes, jim and pam were at the hospital waiting to get some test results back, while dwight was doing his best to stall the volleyball game against corporate. want to know the rest? nymag is glad to spoil it for you. i'll remind you again that this is highly spoilery, but i doubt you'll be surprised if you do take a peek.

vomit-fest.

thank you to tlc for inundating me with commercials about the time traveler's wife movie, coming out this friday! even though i previously said i was "excited" for this movie to come out, that was only because it's one of my all time favorite books of all time. unfortunately, the trailer makes me want to stab my eyes out, and makes me so sad for its suckiness. here it is, but don't say i didn't warn you...




if you see it, let me know what you think (especially if you read/enjoyed the book).

that being said - i will remind you all that i will be away for the next 2-ish weeks. i will be sure to look out for goo blobs, and do bucko updates when i return!

faraday plays evil??

first off, it's really difficult to imagine my man faraday in any sinister role. on lost he plays a nerd-tastic scientist, he's in love, he's loyal to his mother. not the meanie type.

but according to ew.com, this same man (well, the actor anyhow) plays charles manson in a 2004 tv movie! manson AND jeremy davies?! this i must see. and if you click on the ew.com article, you can barely tell who is the actor and who is the real manson. scary stuff. apparently his performance is on fire, so this is a must see for me. has anyone else seen it? do tell!

i need a vacation.

the austrian accent is implied.

at least i don't look as bad as this though...

put that away.

does this make anyone else want to stab their eyes out? (if so, sorry for ruining your day. i can't help but share...)

mystery box.

great talk by JJ Abrams at TED about mystery boxes.... a very cool combo of technology, movies, magic, filmmaking, lost.

this breaks my heart.

...and made watching the entire memorial service worth it.

mj matrix.

thanks to z (and nymag) for this michael jackson approval matrix. my favorite is "you're a vegetable. you're a vegetable" in the highbrow/despicable quadrant. not sure what that means, but i know i love it!

and it continues.

first off, if you're wondering where you can turn for mj news (i know, i know... we've been bombarded with it for almost a full week now), tmz.com is the place to go. considering they were the first to post he was dead, i kind of trust them in this. but they have just been flying off the handle with a new mj story every 4 seconds. here are two good ones in the on-going saga of madness:

#1: i knew it was too nuts to be true. the jackson family is now saying there will be no public viewing of mj at neverland tomorrow. whew! when i heard about reporters going there to camp out for days to get a good spot for pics, and all of the crazies who would descend onto the property.... it was just too much. glad it's no longer happening (well, we'll see what happens between now and tomorrow), but sorry to all those folks who were psyched about it...

#2: some chick is claiming to be mj's wife. first off, her name is Nona Paris Lola Ankhesenamun Jackson. can you say crazy?! that's my first clue. then she says, "all my husband's properties, monies and assets must be transferred to me immediately" and "my husband's body must be returned to the coroner or the mortuary immediately." uh, i don't think so, lady. if you are at all still in doubt that she is beyond nuts, she claims, "though he died to this earth he lives with my father Satan the Devil Khalid Lucifer." yes, please return mj's kids to her. great idea....

crazy time.

um, what? apparently things are getting even farther removed from whatever you learned in biology.

now, tmz is reporting that both debbie rowe AND mj are not the biological parents (of mike jr and paris; blanket is another story). not only were they conceived in-vitro (with debbie serving only as a surrogate, not an egg donor), but apparently it wasn't even mj's sperm either! who do these kids come from?! with blanket - apparently there was also only a surrogate, and the surrogate didn't even know who the kid she was carrying was going to (mj came 3 days later to pick up the kid. or atleast his lackeys.)

additionally, mj never formally/officially adopted any of these kids. since there was no one else who could really otherwise claim them, maybe he didn't think it was necessary? therefore, these were just some random kids he made and had living with him? ack. poor kidlets. hopefully this mess gets sorted out, for their sake.