For those of you who are wondering what the hell the title of today's blog is, it is the name of Andrew Lawrence's (one of the famous Lawrence brothers) clone in the Disney Channel Original Movie, "The Other Me". Since this is my second blog post, I figured I'd give it this name. (Actual Pronunciation: Two-ee)
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| The Other Me Poster |
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| The Tempest Poster |
A couple of weeks ago, I was watching Get Him To The Greek (a great movie, if you have not seen it, GO GET IT) and I was wondering what other films Russell Brand would soon be in, because he is hilarious and I love him. I went on IMDB and found out that he was going to be in The Tempest, a new adaptation of William Shakespeare's play. I had forgotten about this for a little while, until today.
In my Theatre Into Film class (one of my favorite classes at Emerson), someone brought up the movie, so we decided to watch the trailer, and all I can say is WOW!!! The movie looks amazing! I have never read or scene the play, but the movie looks really good! Julie Taymor (who directed Across The Universe and Frida) directed and wrote the screenplay for The Tempest. Taymor makes the movie her own, by changing the main character Prospero, a man, into Prospera, a woman, who will be played by the amazing Helen Mirren. Other well known actors in the movie include Alfred Molina (Spiderman 2), Russell Brand (Forgetting Sarah Marshall), Chris Cooper (American Beauty), Alan Cumming (if you don't know who he is, then you must be crazy!), and Djimon Hounsou (Blood Diamond). The special FX in this movie look more incredible then Shakespeare could have ever imagined!
I know what some of you may be thinking, "Oh Shakespeare is so boring and is just a bunch of 'doths' and 'thous'", and if I were "Freshmen Year of High School Phil", I would agree with you. I used to think Shakespeare was boring and was just something that teachers made us read in school to torture us, but my theatre teacher from high school, Connor (check out his blog, it is awesome and he's doing it for a great cause!), changed my mind. After being in 3 Shakespeare plays in high school and reading Shakespeare for 12 hours every year to fundraise for our drama club, A.C.T., I have really learned to admire Shakespeare for the genius that he is! I have a feeling that if you have any doubts about Shakespeare, this movie might change your idea on how awesome he is. The movie trailer for "The Tempest" is below:
In my Theatre Into Film class (one of my favorite classes at Emerson), someone brought up the movie, so we decided to watch the trailer, and all I can say is WOW!!! The movie looks amazing! I have never read or scene the play, but the movie looks really good! Julie Taymor (who directed Across The Universe and Frida) directed and wrote the screenplay for The Tempest. Taymor makes the movie her own, by changing the main character Prospero, a man, into Prospera, a woman, who will be played by the amazing Helen Mirren. Other well known actors in the movie include Alfred Molina (Spiderman 2), Russell Brand (Forgetting Sarah Marshall), Chris Cooper (American Beauty), Alan Cumming (if you don't know who he is, then you must be crazy!), and Djimon Hounsou (Blood Diamond). The special FX in this movie look more incredible then Shakespeare could have ever imagined!
I know what some of you may be thinking, "Oh Shakespeare is so boring and is just a bunch of 'doths' and 'thous'", and if I were "Freshmen Year of High School Phil", I would agree with you. I used to think Shakespeare was boring and was just something that teachers made us read in school to torture us, but my theatre teacher from high school, Connor (check out his blog, it is awesome and he's doing it for a great cause!), changed my mind. After being in 3 Shakespeare plays in high school and reading Shakespeare for 12 hours every year to fundraise for our drama club, A.C.T., I have really learned to admire Shakespeare for the genius that he is! I have a feeling that if you have any doubts about Shakespeare, this movie might change your idea on how awesome he is. The movie trailer for "The Tempest" is below:
JUST GOT THE BRO CODE, THE PLAYBOOK, AND BRO ON THE GO
Books from How I Met Your Mother
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| Neil Patrick Harris (plays Barney Stinson on How I Met Your Mother) |
For as long as I can remember, all of my friends said "Phil, you need to watch How I Met Your Mother! It's amazing and hilarious! You'll love it!" Well, a couple of weeks ago, I decided that I would watch How I Met Your Mother (also known as HIMYM). Immediately, I was hooked on the show! It is f***ing hysterical! I ended up watching all 5 seasons, and the first couple episodes that I missed from the 6th season, in a matter of 3 weeks (that's about 40 episodes a week)! This was very difficult to do, in between all the studying and homework I was doing *wink* *wink*! Many of the characters are known faces, such as Alyson Hannigan (American Pie), Jason Segel (Forgetting Sarah Marshall), and of course Neil Patrick Harris (the one and only NPH). The show also has some amazing guest stars such as Wayne Brady and Carrie Underwood.
Anyway, Neil Patrick Harris' character, Barney Stinson, is the hilarious womanizer who is always wearing suits. He thinks he is totally awesome, and just has sex with woman for fun. He will always except a challenge, no matter how weird or stupid it may be. He is hands down my favorite character on the show. Barney even has a blog which is very funny as well.
Every guy knows about "The Bro Code" (the code that all "bros" live by), but Barney Stinson is the one who decided to publish it. "The Playbook", a book of every scam Barney has ever played/wants to play on a woman. And "Bro On The Go" in which the front cover says it all "New wisdom and select classics from The Bro Code for today's active bro!" All three of these books were delivered to me today and I can not wait to read them! When I finish each, you will definitely see some reviews on my blog.
If you have never seen How I Met Your Mother, go watch it now! Here's a hilarious clip to get you interested:
THE HAND JOB
A FEMALE SUPERBAD-ESQUE MOVIE
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| Aubrey Plaza to Star in The Hand Job |
SELF CONTROL
THE #1 PROCRASTINATION APP
Download Self Control Here
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| Self Control Logo |
Last night, the wonderful Samantha Gottlieb (yes, the girl who was my Gabriella in High School Musical) IMed me telling me about something that I myself and probably every other college/high school student needs. It's called Self Control. Self Control is an application for Macs that will not allow you to go on any of those websites that can easily distract you, aka Facebook, Twitter, Youtube etc.
You make a "blacklist" of all the websites that you shouldn't go on while you're supposed to be doing homework/studying/paying attention in class and you choose a predetermined amount of time that you can not access those websites. Even if you quit the application, you still can't access those websites, so make sure not to set the time for longer than it will take you to accomplish your tasks, cause then you're stuck going on dumb websites like http://www.smellypoop.com/...trust me, that website is funny for only about 5 minutes.
This App really is such a great idea for people, like myself, who get easily distracted and procrastinate a lot. If only they would make one of these for life! Oh yeah...it's called ritalin. Anyway, thank you so much Sami for introducing me and the rest of the world to Self Control, it really will help us all! Oh and if any of you wanted to hear Sami sing, here's a clip of her and her acapella group, Kol Sasson, which is a Jewish acapella group at the University of Maryland. Watch the video! Sami's pretty f***ing awesome! This song is called Avir Linshima (don't worry, they sing songs in English too):
You make a "blacklist" of all the websites that you shouldn't go on while you're supposed to be doing homework/studying/paying attention in class and you choose a predetermined amount of time that you can not access those websites. Even if you quit the application, you still can't access those websites, so make sure not to set the time for longer than it will take you to accomplish your tasks, cause then you're stuck going on dumb websites like http://www.smellypoop.com/...trust me, that website is funny for only about 5 minutes.
This App really is such a great idea for people, like myself, who get easily distracted and procrastinate a lot. If only they would make one of these for life! Oh yeah...it's called ritalin. Anyway, thank you so much Sami for introducing me and the rest of the world to Self Control, it really will help us all! Oh and if any of you wanted to hear Sami sing, here's a clip of her and her acapella group, Kol Sasson, which is a Jewish acapella group at the University of Maryland. Watch the video! Sami's pretty f***ing awesome! This song is called Avir Linshima (don't worry, they sing songs in English too):
If you like what you read today, come back and read again...and if you didn't "GO F*** YOURSELF!" Only joking, come back tomorrow and see if you like that. These are the things that I live, see, and hear everyday, they interest me and I hope they interest you. Thanks for checking out my blog!
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