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Not only will the Beatles Rock Band game be out in September, but Apple Corps/EMI just announced they are putting out all of the Beatles' albums in a newly remastered collection. SCORE! I will be getting this.

In other news, FOX News fires a stupid person - no one is surprised or feels pity. What exactly did he think would happen???

Silent Hill is getting a remake, but it's only going to be on the PS2, PSP, and Wii...so I guess they are not going for the pretty. I never got around to playing the original SH so I will probably give this a try and freak myself out, like ya do.

My brother came over tonight, since he's on spring break this week. Being the wild and crazy people we are, we had a few drinks and played Lord of the Rings Trivial Pursuit (DVD Version). Yeah, you try saying "Isildur" when you're a lightweight like me. Or recalling the name of some random sword after you've just chugged a Bloody Mary made by AD. It was fun, but I have to say that the Trivial Pursuit DVDs are weak compared to Scene It. Wonder if there is another expansion pack for that game...

Last night I finally opened my "Amidala Fashion Doll Set" that I bought at Disneyworld. Let me tell you, they clearly did not make these for real children. First, everything is so TINY! Second, getting her head off was damn near impossible. I was so scared I was going to break her neck. Eventually, I got it to come apart and managed to shove her into the dress from the Naboo picnic but it took awhile. She's cute but I'm scared to change her outfits too much because of how difficult it is to change the heads.

And why is it that I actually went to bed early last night (12:30am) and slept the whole night, only to wake up more exhausted than I was the day before when I woke up after tossing and turning for hours????? Blurgh.

Ah well, time for a couple more "Big Bang Theory" episodes, then off to bed! Toodles!

movie thoughts: I Love You, Man (2009)

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I love Team Apatow.  This new brand of comedic film that blends honest (some times crude) humor but with a good heart at its center has made for some of the best laughs in a good while.  'I Love You, Man' is no exception. 

Pete (Paul Rudd) gets engaged to his girlfriend of eight months and slowly realizes that he has no close male friends.  Yeah, he knows lots of guys - the other real estate agent at the office, his fencing team...but none of them are really friends.  In an attempt to even things out, he goes in search of a friend.  But what he gets is a true Bromance.  Segel's Sydney is a free spirit who doesn't feel compelled to do what is expected of him while Rudd's Pete likes to please other people and has spent his whole life trying to be good enough.

Warning: you must love Paul Rudd and Jason Segel for this movie to work because it is all about the two of them.  The writers manage to walk a fine line between too much and not believable when it comes to the interactions.    What could easily have become a movie about Pete becoming a "real man", we find the "real men" (sport watchers, beer drinkers, hyper-competitive, muscle-bound) are portrayed as annoying (Jon Favreau is hilarious as the poker playing, beer drinking alpha male).  They are not evil people, but definitely not anything to aspire to.  And Syndey doesn't try to change Rudd, but does work to give him more confidence.  And Rudd plays Pete with just the right amount of naivete that you can go along with some of his mistakes - mistakes that must happen to move the plot along but if played incorrectly could have been unforgivable.  Instead, you just shake your head and laugh. 

This movie is a great date movie, for every kind of relationship.  It's nice to see a movie that portrays a friendship between two men without making them seem weak or that something is wrong with them.  They share their thoughts and feelings, and while it pokes fun at the conventions of the romantic comedy, it also shows that male relationships can have just as many layers as the more frequently portrayed female relationships. 

Go grab a friend or two, get some popcorn, and see this movie with a group so you can laugh out loud together.  At roughly 90 minutes, this movie gets everything right. 

(And while I have no desire to see a sequel, I do want to see more movies with Rudd and Segel teamed up together.  They compliment each other in more than just physical height).

Originally posted on orangerful.vox.com