We’re gonna dance on fire

I watched a lot of movies this weekend. The best one was Confetti, a hilarious comedy about 3 different couples competing in a wedding contest for the year’s most original wedding. The entire movie is filmed in the style of a mockumentary (very much like The Office). It was so funny simply because each couple had such odd quirks about them (as individuals and as a couple).

Kidulthood was also another movie to take note of. It’s very much like a modern-day remake of Kids, except that the urban youth here are from London and all have British accents. Of course, Kidulthood carries its own box of overseas slang that I had to really listen in on in order to understand, but once I got over that barrier, the movie was really eye-opening. I found that the issues that the kids in Kidulthood were facing weren’t that much different than the ones faced by American teens, despite the society and culture difference.

I try to make it a rule to watch at least 2 movies per week. Living each week by this simple “rule” has really been great for me. It allows me to have just the right amount of time to chill out and relax from school work while also letting me do one of my favorite things (that is, watching movies). I think more people should try this.
Since the movie chart changes quite frequently, I have decided to keep it underneath the first post, that way, you’ll never miss anything I’ve rated.

This is a funny picture from Sunday when we celebrated my dad’s birthday.

Hahahahahahahaha…somebody’s gonna get fired from the Grindhouse advertising/PR team soon…

Grindhouse had a per screen average of $494. That’s about 55 tickets sold per theater on Friday. Considering that the movie screens four times during the day, most theaters probably packed a hefty 14 moviegoers per screening. And I’m sure the theaters in Middle America could have been completely empty.
Update: The full weekend numbers confirm our report. Grindhouse had a per screen average of $1,612. Which is $537 per screen per day, and $67 per screening (estimated). So this means that only 14-18 tickets were bought per screening.

Oh man, that’s not good at all. Here are some more box office numbers to compare with.

I was browsing the Engrish website yesterday because I was bored and noticed that they have clothing on sale now with famous Engrish slogans (if you could call them slogans). The image above is a mash-up of some of my favorite ones that I would totally buy if I had the extra money to spend. The tees above are hurry up the cakes, Hello! Lovely Silly, I [heart] NY California, and the nonsensical alligators t-shirt. Engrish never ceases to make me laugh.

Everybody knows that phone books are outdated in terms of contact information these days. So why keep them around? Why, to rip them in half of course! The video above shows us all how to rip a phone book in half using nothing but your two hands. I want a phonebook to try now.

Let me tell you all this: The movie 300 is having a bigger cultural significance than I ever expected. It’s a good film with one of the most quotable character lines since Napoleon Dynamite! Anyway, enjoy the above comic illustration of Mario screaming ‘This is Mushroom Kingdom’ in the tone of 300’s ‘This is Spartaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!’.

Here’s a fantastic Q&A session with Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson.

Interestingly enough, the kind of car you drive may or may not send a message to people that you are or are not gay. Not confusing enough? Peep the excerpt below:

Cars are no more straight or gay than cellphones, office chairs or weed whackers. But in recent years that truism has not stopped a perception among some motorists that certain cars can, in the right context, be statements about a driver’s sexual orientation.

But to some people, such stereotyping is homophobia, pure and simple. A poll seeking to determine the most gay automobiles, conducted by a South African Web site, was a topic of heated interest last December on Gizmodo, the New York-based technology blog, where one reader wrote: “Since when are cars gay or straight? We’re really polling people’s prejudices here.”

Mr. Johnson maintains that “soft lines” and a “vibrant personality” — say like those on a Volkswagen New Beetle — are typical attributes of a gay man’s car…

People are weird!

I still really love this quote. Yep, I still update.

Don’t forget! Today is free cone day at Ben & Jerry’s (12PM to 8PM). Go snag a scoop! My post yesterday was all wrong (I got the dates mixed up). But it’s been fixed since then. Just make sure you don’t confuse “tomrorow” with actual tomorrow, since “tomorrow” in that post actually means TODAY. TODAY IS THE DAY FOR A FREE CONE.