welcome to elaney!

Three words – they sound so easy, yet they can be so difficult.  For all of you out there that love Julia Roberts as much as this Mystic Pizza loving 80s baby, let’s hear it.  What did you think about Eat Pray Love?  Did it make you want to jump for women’s lib joy?  Did it make you feel the travel freedom that comes from lifting your glass any place that doesn’t speak English?  Or did it make you want to Drink, Imbitter, Dislike (kinda like the Bachelor Pad makes us feel)?  For all of you out there that “just want to marvel at something,” did Eat Pray Love put the skip back in your travel bug prone little self?  Or did it feel more like food poisoning, church retreat, and the defeat of the 7th grade dance?

Does anyone want to see Date Night?  Love Tina Fey.  Love Steve Carell.  However, something about this plot seems like it could be lackluster.  Although, it does seem it could be like Adventures in Babysitting for adults…and in that case, we love Thor!  Thoughts?

“I like when you can go from something crass and stupid to something very smart.”  - John Cusack

Perhaps John Cusack is the male version of an elaney girl (we’d sub “crass and stupid” with “silly and fun”).  Today is the day for Hot Tub Time Machine.  When we told our co-workers we kinda wanted to see it, they politely suggested we not tell anyone else that.  So…here’s the question:  coming off of your The Hangover, and perhaps a little more open to the ridiculousness of movies like this (don’t try to say you didn’t like Wedding Crashers), do you kinda want to see Hot Tub Time Machine?

Reply as Evite Would Want You To:

Yes!  Turn the Heat Up
Maybe – The feeling is Lukewarm
No Way.  Brrr…What is Wrong with You elaney?

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?

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

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?