I Watch Movies, Read Books, and Eat Food

I've received a few requests to blog about my cooking because if you follow me on Instagram, you know I cook quite often.  I've done this before, but several years ago.  So in my blog revival efforts, let's do it some more! This is one of my go-to recipes.  I make this often.  Often enough to where I don't need to follow a recipe.  Which is problematic when I want to share the recipe with you.  So let me warn you ahead of time:  This will probably be one of the worst recipes you read because I don't measure anything (This is why I don't bake!), and because it's so flexible, you can interchange a lot of the ingredients.  Look at the pictures to get a rough idea of how much ingredients I used today, and maybe use some of my alternative ingredient suggestions. Okay, first and foremost.  Turn on some music.  I recommend Lady Gaga's latest album - it's really good! Cook your rice in your rice cooker.  White rice.  Don't be a h...

Remember when I used to write movie reviews?  Let's do that again! My Twin, who has been very active on her blog(s) lately, has inspired me to revamp and revive my own blog.  I've always liked writing and sharing my thoughts on my favorite things: movies, books, and food, so I figured why not try to do this blogging thing again?  I used to do it all the time back in my Xanga days!  Oh, Xanga!  So I thought what could be more appropriate to bring my blog back than with a review of a Ben movie? Obviously I liked it!  Ben plays an autistic accountant who also happens to cook the books for the world's most dangerous gangsters and dirty crooks!  The FBI is closing in on him, so Ben decides to take on a legitimate job to throw the FBI off his trail.  He takes a job at a robotics corporation that needs him to look at their finances and pin point a mistake that a staff accountant, played by Anna Kendrick, identified.  Because Ben is a autisti...

Happy Oscar Day!  For the second year in a row, I'm not really feeling the Oscar race this year.  But unlike last year, I actually do like many of the films that are up, I just didn't get around to watching most of the Best Picture nominees.  I am, however, extremely excited to see Leo FINALLY take it home!!! 10. Ex Machina Creepy as hell!  But very good!  But creepy!  But good!  But oh the nightmares!  So good, though!  When Caleb, an employee at a huge tech company wins a company contest for a week long retreat in the middle of nowhere at the CEO's private resort, he finds himself a participant of a very interesting artificial intelligence experiment.  The CEO, Nathan, played brilliantly by Oscar Issac, has created a robot he calls Ava, played by Alicia Vikander.  Caleb's role is to determine if Ava passes the Turing Test, a test to see if artificial intelligence can pass as human.  The deeper Caleb goes in this experimen...

It's that time of year again!  The Oscars are right around the corner.  And you know what that means.  Kim posts her most and least favorite films of the past year.  First up is my list of least favorite films.  I thought 2015 was a pretty great year for films.  I actually struggled quite a bit making my least favorite list because most of the films I saw from 2015 I liked.  So the first half-ish of this list contain some pretty decent movies.  It doesn't mean I didn't like them, it just means there were movies that I liked more. 10. Jurassic World This is one of those movies that I rather liked, but not more than every other movie I saw, save the final nine on this list.  I'm still shocked that this movie made as much money as it did; I had no idea how many people wanted to see it!  I mean, I like the first Jurassic Park, but I feel like it is one of those franchises that should be put to bed, and I thought most others felt the sam...

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...