I Watch Movies, Read Books, and Eat Food

Happy Oscar Day!  I am disappointed to report that this is the least excited I have ever been about Oscar Day in my whole life.  Like I said in my previous post, I feel that this was generally a very weak year for movies, and the Oscar race reflects that.  Not one film or person nominated has me that excited.  (I am excited for Ed Norton's nomination, but he won't win, so I feel like what's the point?)  I will watch the Oscars for the fashion, for NPH, and of course for Lady Gaga!  But as far as who wins, I'm not too invested. Here are my top ten favorite films from last year! 10. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Cesar, noooo!!!!  I was surprised how much I liked this movie.  I was expecting to feel meh about it, but I totally dug it!  It has very smart social commentary about how and why societies have enemies and fight wars.  Paranoia and fear, man!  That's how it starts.  You wouldn't think a film about talking apes coul...

Was it just me, or was 2014 one of the worst years for movies in recent memory?  Of course there were good films (every year has at least a few) but when I look back at all the films I saw over 2014, generally speaking, the movies were pretty blah.  Actually "blah" is a good word to describe this list of mine.  Most of the movies weren't terrible, they were just blah. 10. Dumb and Dumber To   I was one of the few who was actually really looking forward to this movie.  I LOVE the original Dumb and Dumber.  It's seriously one of my favorite movies of all time.  To see Harry and Lloyd together again twenty years later?  Sign me up!!  The movie wasn't exactly bad.  I would even go as far as to say that I enjoyed parts of it.  But I didn't enjoy enough of it, and it was missing that something special that made the first film a classic.  I think the thing it was missing was a certain level of innocence.  In the original fi...

In three days, it will be one whole year since I've eaten meat.  I did it, you guys!  I set a nearly unreasonable goal for myself, and I achieved it!  I'm quite proud of myself.  And you know what?  It wasn't THAT bad.  Sometimes it was hard, but most of the time it was a no brainer.  It's definitely more of a psychological exercise than a physical one.  If I got my mind to believe that I didn't need meat, my body would follow through. The hardest part was eating outside of my home.  Eating and cooking at home as a pescetarian was easy.  When I'm in control of my own food, leaving out meat was not a big deal at all.  Going out, and especially going out to friend's houses was the hard part.  I never wanted to be THAT friend.  You know, that friend who's like, "Thank you for cooking this delicious looking BBQ, but would you mind throwing these tofu burgers on the grill?"  I feel very uncomfortable asking people to mak...