THE ESSENTIALS crying

confession: i hate that i love crying. i love the way that i feel like a kid again and i’m looking at my life from my little kid shadow place. i love how my head feels heavy afterwards, but my heart feels relieved – it makes for the best sleeping mood aside from thunderstorms over … Continue reading →

THE ESSENTIALS keeping cool when things get creepy

i’m going to make a confession here: i’m a huge scaredy cat. me being an anything-cat is fairly par for my course, but scaredy cat is at the top of my kitty cat list. no matter how many die hard movies, supernatural and buffy reruns i watch, i will give a dean-like yawp at anything and everything that goes bump … Continue reading →

SPOILERS pretty wild: the bling ring, part ii

much like the one and only season (containing only 9 20-minute episodes) of pretty wild, this will be short and… sweet? it’s pretty mild, as far as reality television goes, but if you’re obsessed with the bling ring, then you’ll definitely enjoy it. especially if you’ve invested some time in nancy jo sales’ book the bling ring (or … Continue reading →

IN LOVE WITH benedict cumberbatch

can i tell you a heartwarming story? it  happened when my friend discovered sherlock on netflix, which netflix, in order to garner some good karma, has recommended to everyone everywhere. suddenly i would wake up to texts like, “wow. benedict cumberbatch. that voice!” and “is it weird that i find moriarty attractive?” this must be what … Continue reading →

SPOILERS the bling ring, part i

it all began when sofia coppola was perusing vanity fair on a plane and thought to herself, “someone should make a movie about these ridiculous teenagers.” truly, though, it began with teenagers high on fame, or something like it, Twitter followers, Facebook ‘likes,’ and promises of reality TV. nancy jo sales’ piece, ‘the suspects wore laboutins,’ … Continue reading →

THE ESSENTIALS beach babe

“get in loser, we’re going to the beach!” you know it’s going to be a great weekend/day/summer when your roommate/friend/soulmate/sister wife rolls up to your house/bedroom/closet-sized-apartment/recycled plastic box on the side of the highway and yells at you to get the f*** up, haul your beautiful ass in their car, and head to the beach, … Continue reading →

DISASTERS boys… and lack thereof

dear darling internet, sometimes i think that i want a man, but really i just want joseph gordon-levitt. even though he’s porn obsessed (honestly, who isn’t?) in his new movie, don jon, it seems like he’s setting the bar too high for most guys these days. how sad is it that we have to say that … Continue reading →

SPOILERS the great gatsby, part ii

if you wandered over to the movie theater this weekend, you are in good company. as all of us came down with a serious case of fitzgerald fever, we flocked to air-conditioned and cocktail ready movie theaters to let baz luhrmann wow us with his interpretation of the great gatsby. allow me to say that, straight off, … Continue reading →

WANTED the great wait… for gatsby

see y’all after the movie! p.s., if you’re still swooning and waiting, check out carey mulligan and baz luhrmann on the colbert report Continue reading →

SPOILERS the great gatsby, part i

this week’s worth of spoilers is brought to you by f. scott fitzgerald, baz luhrmann, and the greatest gatsby of all time. in preparation for baz luhrmann’s adaptation of the great gatsby, opening wide in theaters this friday, i have been streaming the soundtrack (thank you, spotify) nonstop and even listened to michael shannon reading the book (audiobook … Continue reading →