Because today feels like a Three Amigos kinda day.

Well, well, what have we here?

So, shock of shocks, I am posting. LOL.

As you no doubt have noticed, I've been on a bit of a blogging hiatus. Frankly, real life drama, computer issues and a reading slump all conspired to keep me from having any meaningful content as of late (or even a way to post it if I had it at times). I became so burned out in my reading slump that I didn't feel I was able to give the books I was attempting to review a fair shake and thought it best if I just waited for the ennui to pass before attempting to pass judgement on the plethora of books out there (Note: I <3 El Guapo).

Now that I'm starting to shake the slump I think I'll start updating the blog with some posts about the things that have interested me (and sometimes saved my sanity) during this gloomy faze as well as updates about what I'll be reading and reviewing in the future. I'll probably start slow, but hey, it's a start, right? :P

So, what have you peeps been reading, watching, listening to lately? Fill me in, I feel like I've been out of the gossip loop waaaaay too long. LOL.

xoxo

This is funny, when it probably shouldn't be...

I'm in love with Evanescence all over again...

There's more goodness on the album, but you get the drift and it's an awesome one at that.

And because I'm totally missing her (and Amy Lee is totally channeling her with that beehive she's rockin') here's a little Amy Winehouse.









Thanks for tuning into the Queen B's Music Hour ;)

I have no content so I bring you...

Meeeeee!!! At a Britney Spears concert. Don't hate. I lurve me some Brit Brit. There was the cutest gay couple in the section bordering the stage (you know, the one you sell your kidney for?). They almost made me believe in love...except I'm married which is kinda like being inoculated for it. I kid. Mostly.

Anyhoo....

Here I am in Vegas (for the fist time) for my last bday with one of my sistahs in the law and an awesome and totally random Mad Hatter. (A lil' Vegas advise for noobs: Pace yoself. Trust me on this.)

And lastly, me and my sis, Jen, Who also blogs. We are serving time at in-law Christmas. God bless my MIL, she has a well stocked wine room.

PINATA FAIL

My 6 year old had his birthday party last weekend and there was a pinata involved. Worst. Pinata. Ever.
I give you the evidence:

I defy you not to dance...

to this awesomeness. Come on, you know you wanna...



Oh, and Happy Friday!

Because I Need a Laugh (NSFW and bad language galore)

So, a dear friend of mine is having a really bad time right now and I feel completely useless. And between my life drama and others I know that are having a rough time right now, I figure we could all use a little laughter and this always brings a smile to my face. This is the audio of Christian Bale's infamous rant on the set of that silly terminator movie. First is the original audio and then I have the fabulous mixed version to music. It's epic and awesome.

A bit of a heads up: If you haven't heard this before and our offended by the F word, don't listen to this. Seriously, Christian lurves himself the F-bomb. If he could cuddle it and take it to bed, he totally would.






See? This shit makes me giggle. Every time. ::sigh::

Microwaves

Who cleans their microwave? I mean, I always just figured that the radiation from the microwaves would just, I don't know, kill all the yuckies in there. But I'm beginning to think that I'm in the minority here, so I put it to you: Do you clean your microwave? How often: Annually? Semi-Annually? Monthly? Weekly? Can you convert me to your anal-retentive microwave cleaning ways? Maybe I'm just some kind of cave-woman throw back. ::hangs head in shame::

Random

I have recently become addicted to Resistance by Muse because I've decided it's the theme song for Delirium by Lauren Oliver. I type this as I listen to....guess....Muse. Ha! I think I'm even gonna cry a bit....course that could be the wine talking...

A Little Friday Hotness

So, I recently stumbled across pictures of Odette Yustman and I instantly fell in love. She is just so pretty. So, naturally I had to share.

I can see her as Kate Daniels (even though I always picture Kate as Angelina Jolie) or maybe Sascha from Slave to Sensation by Nalini Singh.

Which character(s) can you picture Odette as?

I'm ridiculously excited that the 80's are back

Well from ripped jeans to this music vid, it looks like the 80's are making a comeback and I'm beyond excited. Bring on the shoulder pads, baby, I can take it!!

Book Rec?

My 9 y.o. is just starting to enjoy reading and he says he wants to read something with "magic and fairy tales" in it. Do any of you lovely peeps have any suggestions? We weren't very impressed with the Percy Jackson series, so not that one. Any suggestions are welcome! :D

I'm developing a foot fetish...

Ok, not really, but I'm loving this new nail polish for your toes called Piggy Polish so much that it's making me almost like my feet. Seriously, I hate my feet.  But now that my toes are biohazard green or mermaid blue or lemonade yellow or pretty purple....I hate them a hella lot less.

There's even a website for Piggy Polish right here. 

The colors I've tried are:













































And a bright green called "Get Ogre It." I can't find that one online at the moment, but I originally found it at my local Ulta store so if you're interested you could look there.

I figure since it's summer, all my girls would be interested in havin some hot colors for their lil piggies ;)

Men

So, I was having a random convo with my hubster, Mr T, as I am wont to do, and I mentioned that I prefer the term "self-castigate" as opposed to "self-flagellate." To which he responds, "That's because it sounds closer to castrate." Which led to this exchange:

Me: Does EVERYTHING have to be about your nuts?

Mr. T: Yeah. Pretty much.

::headdesk::

I was away this weekend

and apparently I forgot that my guest post over at Wicked Little Pixie's was up this weekend. So, stop on by and see what I'm ranting talking about now. Check it out here.

Also, because I was away from my computer I borrowed my darling Jen's computer (since I was crashed on her couch). She doesn't have Firefox like I do, but instead has Internet Explorer. I happened to be perusing my blog to see how it looked in IE and I noticed the horrible truth: it looks awful. There are random links to products that I didn't put there, and then they were all over twitter and it was a pain to navigate. Anyway, my apologies to all my IE peeps out there. Seriously, my blog looks better than that, I swear *sobs*. And may I recommend a switch to Firefox or Chrome (which I'm hearing good things about)? Just a suggestion.....

Anyway, I'll put some pics up (hopefully) of my weekend fun and all that good stuff later this week.

Hope you all had a great weekend and I hope Monday is kind to us all.

Muah!!

Romeo and Juliet: Romance or Satire?

Now, I think we all have read or watched some version of Romeo and Juliet at some point in our lives. I was never a fan of the play or the movies. The whole story seemed absurd to me and I began to believe that perhaps I was a soulless cynic. All the other girls thought it was romantic, was I missing something?

I've given this a lot of thought and come up with some answers.

1) I am, indeed, a soulless cynic.

2) I don't believe this makes me wrong.

My argument, let me show you it:

Shakespeare was a witty, ironic and sarcastic bastard (hence my love of him). I don't know that he really intended Romeo and Juliet to become the icon of true and fated love. To me it's more of a satire on bad parenting and young love (and in this case I think he portrayed it more as young lust and overactive hormones). Apparently, there were angsty emo teens even in Shakespearean times. Take note angsty emo teens that think you are so shiny and new: it has been done before and done better.

If you've read the play you'll find that Romeo and Juliet's parents are self absorb rich people that feud over the stupidest crap and mishandle their young and angsties consistently. They don't listen to what their kids are telling them and they don't pay attention to what their kids are doing. They just expect that because they said, "No. You will not see that boy/girl or go to that party/place and do that thing" that their kids are totally going to obey them and not question them. In short, they are poor parents that are asking for their kids to do something rebellious and stupid.

Then we have the making fun of the young love/lust. Romeo, you will find if you read the play, is a bit of a teenage player. He falls in love with a new set of female attributes every other day. And each time it's the end of life as we know it. He shall surely die if he cannot have his ONE TRUE LOVE (de jour). SURELY DIE. He gets all angsty, emo, suicidal, and mentally unbalanced when talking about his ONE TRUE LURVE at the beginning of the story and guess what, it aint Juliet. It's not until later that he abandons (trades up) his TRUEST OF LURVES when he spots Juliet. Juliet herself is a girl that is overly controlled by immature and selfish parental units that have decreed she shall marry some older dude that she doesn't want to marry, so when some young hotness (who is wise to the wooing of the ladies) comes knocking at her balcony, she throws herself off the proverbial cliff of love and avows her eternal devotion to said hotness.

Now, we have the satire of the church. A Father, who is supposed to give the young and foolish lusters lovers, sound advice and guidance, instead aids and abets them in their plan to lie to and dishonor their parents and run off together to be poor and miserable but have lots of virgin sex happy ever after. The plan itself is not sound. I mean, what could go wrong with poison?

The end of the story saw the bad sad parents realizing the errors of their ways and getting over their feud. They kissed and made up and grew up at the cost of their children's lives. That was the moral of the story. Not the young love conquers all, cause....um....it didn't. It got pwned.

If Romeo and Juliet hadn't died, here's what I think would have happened. In a week (max) Romeo would be bored with Juliet cause she wouldn't put out (that's why he dumped his last lurve) and would be on to freer greener pastures with the discovery of chambermaids and serving wenches and women who love you as long as your coin is good (probably the most honest relationship of his life). Juliet would be all heart broken but learn that men are pigs that want only one thing and Romeo never gave her anything except trouble with her parents. She would marry the rich guy she was supposed to and realize that having the protection of money and position is truly the only way to fly. The Father would realize that he's a hopeless romantic and should never have taken a vow of chastity.  The End.

In my opinion, a far more honestly romantic tale of Sir Bill's was Much Ado About Nothing (omg y'all, you must see the movie! Denzel Washington rocks and emo Shakespearean Keanu Reeves plays his brother. It's a total WIN). In this story, there's a couple that have been involved before but broke up and both are bitter with each other because they still have feelings for each other but they're both too old and too smart to go down that road again. So they have a war of wits at every available chance until they are tricked (in true Shakespearean fashion) into admitting their feelings for each other. Later, when much needless drama ensues (created again by the young and clueless lovers, I'm sensing a theme) they realize to what lengths they are willing to go in the name of their love and devotion. It is funny, romantic and dramatic. It's of the awesome. Truly, watch the movie. It's too fab for words.

Probably it's on Netflix or something, but you can also get it here  Much Ado About Nothing

Well, now that I've ranted on Shakespeare and how it gives me a twitch whenever anyone goes on about how Romeo and Juliet is so romantic.... *shudders* I think I shall go watch my copy of Much Ado About Nothing and stop myself before I start comparing Shakespeare and Jane Austen for who started the archetype romance with the hero/heroine that don't like each other and then fall in love. Really, my mind is a scary and random place.

I don't know who this chick is.....

But she drops the f-bomb with panache, wears a flaming (and fabulous) red dress, runs around semi nude in a cemetery all to encourage us to carpe diem (or possibly carpe corpses, but if we get to wear that fabulous dress I don't really care) and go out and get us some. And I like that in a woman. I've just very newly discovered this blog so I'm not sure, but I think I may love it like I love dark chocolate with chili in it.
But seriously my friends, you should check out this post. I enjoyed it and it's a great reminder to do something wild and crazy in life, you know, while we have a life to do it in.

 

Friend Me or Perish!

Ok, not really. Seriously, though, I am on Goodreads now (better late than never, lol) so if you want, swing on by and FRIEND ME OR PERISH! Apparently I'm feeling dramatic today and perhaps a bit frisky. Or this head cold could be making me loopy and delusional.......well in either case here's my Goodreads link: ta da!!

In other random news, I haven't been sleeping well because of aforementioned plague, and I stayed up late watching 10 Things I Hate About You for like the first time ever and I'm wondering how the hell this escaped my radar back in the day!?! I mean, it's so great! Another one of those Shakespeare redone for the 90's/early 2000's and it has Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles (who was like queen of those Shakespeare remakes *"O" anyone?*) in it. *sigh* This made me miss Heath. So bad. It kinda made me miss Julia, too, to be honest. I mean, where the hell is that girl? I know she did the Bourne movies for a bit, but........I don't know. She kinda fell off the earth and it gives me a sad.
Anyway, have you seen that movie? What movies take you back to teens/20s/sometime big in your life and give a big dose of nostalgia?

I leave you with a lil love from back "in the day"