be kind...

this evening, my friend amber and i went to the dollar theatre and watched "Be Kind Rewind." it's a movie about the owner of the video rental store in a small town.

the owner goes on vacation and leaves mike (mos def) in charge. mike's friend jerry (jack black) isn't what you'd call the fastest car on the road, but he thinks very highly of himself. he also thinks that the power company is out to get them. but jerry has a brilliant plan: sabotage the power plant! unfortunately, the plan backfires and jerry ends up getting magnetized. when jerry returns to the video store the next day, he erases all the videos.

mike--who, if you'll recall, was left in charge of the shop--decides that in order not to get in trouble they need to remake all the movies. funny, enough, people seem to like these strange new versions of all the films and mike and jerry have to create more and more of them.

anyway, so all this was really funny. i think it would be awesome to get to see some of their remakes all the way through (most were only about twenty minutes long), but i can't seem to find the "sweded" versions on the site. sad day.

the only problem i found with the actual movie was that there didn't seem to be a real end to it. lame-tron! okay, it did have an ending, but it didn't say that everything ended happily. the movie just sort of...ended.

amber and i had to decide how it really ended because we need the happy ending that everything worked out well for everyone. so, it was good for us, but we complained as we were sitting there in the theatre.

it was still a good movie and i'd go see it again, but watch out for those endings.

Mommy dearest

"If you rearrange the letters of 'Mother-in-law' you get 'Woman Hitler.'"

deaf ninja

so, in my asl 202 class last night, my teacher tried to bring up 'deaf ninja' on youtube. unfortunately, youtube is blocked on byu campus. so instead she told my classmates and myself to look it up when we got home.

gotta tell you, this was hilarious.

here's the first video:

deaf ninja: origin

and the sequel in which deaf ninja fights off an evil transformer:

deaf ninja: dn vs tf

they might be a little hard to understand if you don't sign at all. and the intro to the first will be completely useless (he tells us that his brother had a really old hearing aid system that he wore on his chest, austin then has a daydream in which he sees deaf ninja fighting off hordes of enemies). but transformation of the transformer is awesome!

Peanut butter love

"Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love."
--Charlie Brown

Parasite

“If I come back as an animal in my next lifetime, I hope it’s some type of parasite, because this is the part where I take it easy!”

--Jack Handey

blog

so, i've had a blog for three months now, and i just started posting things today. nothing is really special about today, except that it's my first bloggy-day.

two of my sisters have had blogs for a while, so--being the typical youngest sister--i had to follow in their footsteps and get one for myself.

so i did.

hm. problem.

i have no life.

at least not one interesting enough to write about. which is why i finally just decided that since it's my blog i'm going to just write whatever i feel like. so there!

i thought i'd start with things that make me giggle. i hope you like it...

Nicknames

“Sometimes you have to be careful when selecting a new nickname for yourself. For instance, let’s say you have chosen the nickname ‘Fly Head’. Normally, you would think that ‘Fly Head’ would mean a person who had beautiful swept-back features, as if flying though the air. But think again. Couldn’t it also mean ‘having a head like a fly’? I’m afraid some people might actually think that.”

--Jack Handey

'A' names

“If your name has an ‘A’ in it, come serve!”

--A guy on campus

“My name is Satan. That has 2 ‘A’s in it…”

--Satan (or some random guy on campus who is really funny, it’s a toss-up)

ice cream relations

“Being in a relationship is like eating ice cream with chopsticks: you’re not sure why you’re doing it, but you wish everybody would just leave you alone about it.”