March 10th, 2010
Everyone has days when you wake up, hit your alarm to snooze, skip spin class, and wear your hair wavy. As Atlantans know, today’s weather makes you want to listen to Belle & Sebastian, drink hot tea, and cuddle up on the couch and watch movies during the day. And do laundry. (loooove to do laundry. Love the way clean laundry feels, smells, love the way the house feels when the washing machine and dishwasher are running. Love it love it love it). But alas, work calls. However, if you WERE at home and COULD watch a movie during the day, what are your favorite movies to watch over and over and over again?
February 2nd, 2010
We looooove the Academy Awards. So much so that when we watch them, we still think about chasing the childhood dream and becoming an actress and moving to LA (after passing the age limit for the Miss America pageant – it’s all we have). This year they’ve switched it up and nominated 10 films for best picture. Just announced this morning, what do you think will win?!
- Avatar
- The Blind Side
- District 9
- An Education
- The Hurt Locker
- Inglorious Bastards
- Precious
- A Serious Man
- Up
- Up in the Air
November 13th, 2009
Well here we are again, deep in the dregs of another teenage phenomenon. Not to be a downer, but we just don’t know. Are you kind of over it by now? It’s like, first we fell in love with Pacey and Joey and the crew at the Creek. Then all of a sudden they move to Boston and get weird and what to do then? Next our hearts bled for sweet lost Marissa and cute Summer and Seth. Then – to the tune of “Hallelujah” by Leonard Cohen, Marissa dies and so do the plot lines. Soon after, Gossip Girl restored our faith in the overprivileged youth, but then Nate and Vanessa started dating, and we just couldn’t buy it. It’s like, we can’t be left disappointed by our fictional friends anymore. How much heartbreak can a hopeful viewer take?!? Even in the best case scenario, you eventually reach book 7. So, we don’t know if we can handle the same story, New Moon again. What do you think? Are you throwing caution to the wind and headed to the Wednesday night premiere of New Moon? Or have phenomenons about teenage angst lost their luster?
November 5th, 2009
Considering the trailer has led us to a stream of tears twice already, we are scared to see this movie, but very much looking forward to it. Precious has received some solid press, as it has been blowing film festivals out of the water AND Mariah Carey “gets ugly.” Set in Harlem in 1987, Precious is the story of a sixteen-year-old African-American girl pregnant for the second time by her absent father. Beneath her impassive expression is a watchful, curious young woman with an inchoate but unshakeable sense that other possibilities exist for her. (paraphrased from RT). Just thinking about the theme song is risky. Verdict? Waterworks.
August 10th, 2009
Julie & Julia is the story of 30 year old government employee Julie Powell and the story of the Great Julia Child. After reading the book Julie & Julia, we were a little apprehensive, because while Julie’s story is charming, it’s just sort of medium, and while Julia’s story is of course delightful, it’s better read in My Life in France (sidebar: GREAT book). However, the movie is quite cute, and we fully endorse it with the elaney seal of approval.
More than that, Julie Powell kind of got us thinking. If you aren’t one of those people that want to be a doctor (or insert other career that requires a lot of commitment) your whole life, there may be a tendency to think that one day your “future” will present itself to you. If you’ve been called a “dreamer” once or twice, you may think that one day you’ll find your future under a rock. Oh here it is! Just stumbled upon it! You imagine your future packaged in expensive wrapping paper from Neiman Marcus behind door number 3 with the answers to all the unknowns. But Julie Powell’s story kind of got us thinking. Your life really is a series of choices – whether it’s to cook all of Julia Child’s recipes, or to go back to school, or to get married, or to try out for Food Network’s “The Next FN Star.” And if you decide never to really make a choice, your life might be fine, but maybe not exactly what you want. In the words of eDaddy, “at some point, you just have to choose.”
So, on Monday morning, here’s to making decisions – just making them. Thinking, praying, analyzing, and then at some point finding the courage to muster the close-your-eyes-and leap-sensibility that brings smiles to faces and realizes dreams.
June 26th, 2009
For all the elaney girls out there that became friends at the Skate Center in South Columbus: the link to the video on youtube. BTW, just noticed that Tyra Banks is one of the people in the video – should submit to Before They Were Stars!
