Movie Review of X-Men Origins (with Wolverine)
Pretty dumb. Hugh Jackman has definitely been working out.
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Carmen
Review of Raw Minerals
So I recently tried a free trial from glow.com (I am not linking it because no one should be visiting this site) for only $4.95! That is until 30 days go by and if you don’t read the fine print (i didn’t) then they charge you a whole lot more! I called and they are refunding me half – but its not good enough. Especially because their product sucks. And I’m not just saying that because I failed to read the fine print. I’m saying it because its the gosh darn truth. If you want your face to age 10 years right in front of your eyes then by all means cake on the Raw Minerals! They want you to believe that this 4 (four!!) step process of putting foundation on your face will make you glow like the airbrushed models in their ads. I’m not that much of a sucker ok, I live in reality, I know what photoshop is, but I thought I would try it. With each new layer I put on it was like the natural glow of my skin (yes, i have that) disappeared only to be replaced by a desert… a cakey, dry desert…on my face. And no, its not because I didn’t apply it right. I think any time you are required to put 4 layers of stuff on your face its not going to look good. I knew that already somewhere in the recesses of my brain, but now I know it for REAL!
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Olga
Whoa there Silver! Thems are fightin’ words! I’m getting the feeling that you might not think too highly of the above product. I found a jar of this product on my bathroom floor just a few weeks ago (i think a guest dropped it and left it). Anyway, I tried it out because I’m always game for new facial product and well… it was free. I thought it looked good for the first 30 minutes or so.. then it went flat and had a drying effect on my skin. Of course I had only one layer on, I can only imagine what 4 layers would do!
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Emilily
Oh, the fine print. I am embarrassed to admit, I fell for one of those a few months back and bought, of all the snake-oil hocus-pocus loony-bin products, a bottle of acia berry multi-vitamins. It was during one of my ill-advised attempts to kick the caffeine habit, and I thought “maybe this will help me off coffee, and hey, it’s a free sample, what could go wrong?” Oh, famous last words. You know what happened – I had to call and argue with this obnoxious call center in Indonesia after they tried to tell me I had signed up for a one-year supply, delivered and chargeable monthly. The fine print actually said you had 30 days to cancel, but when I called within the 30 days, they said the return policy had recently been changed to 14 days, how shady is that?! Finally, I called my bank and they helped me block the charges; apparently, they have an SOP for just this type of scenario because I guess I was like the 10,017th person to fall for it. What a sucker.
Four layers of face product is excessive, I agree. But I see how you were tempted by the promise of glowing skin; the luminosity of my aging skin is something that keeps me up at night. Seriously.
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Carmen
Emily, losing sleep over your aging skin is exactly what will cause your skin to lose its luminosity (not to mention sleep apnea). I guess its time to invest in La Mer??
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Emilily
Oh yeah, cause I have way more faith in miracle Canadian seaweed than miracle rain forest berries. Maybe I’ll just burn my money and plaster the ashes on my face instead.
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Emilily
I wont to create my OWN font!
I couldn’t help it, I know, that was an absolutely terrible word play. I should be ashamed…and I would be, if not for the fact that I know my sense of humor can and has done much worse.
I was reading the ilovetypography blog this morning, and they have a few articles on creating your own font. I think I am going to give this a shot – I love drawing, fonts and words – what’s not to love about putting them all together?! Well, I can answer that – the expensive font developing software programs one must buy. So I think I will create my own font that no one else can use because it won’t be a font, it will just be a bunch of Illustrator drawings. Okay, you can use it too. I just really love the idea of creating your own font, then making a poster with it…it’s art, words, and a message on potentially so many layers.
I’m not sure if you follow ilovetypography as fanatically as I do, but here is something I know you will appreciate: the Font Police! This is a blog devoted to bad use of fonts, improper typesetting, and just some general abuses of signage. Finally, a way for me to punish that stupid store downtown that has a sign out front in some godawful version of curlz that says: Fantasys’ Jewel’s. I mean, seriously, I don’t even know what they are trying to sell in there, it could be baby seal pelts, I simply cannot get past the horrible font (which you can’t see, obviously, in this post) or the bizarre use of apostrophes.
Lastly, here is an interesting notebook company. You subscribe to their Field Notes collection, and receive 10 three-packs, in assorted colors, of their fine notebooks, in graph, ruled or mixed. Lovely and functional! They had me with the graph paper option, but the little color wheel in their logo sealed the deal.-
Carmen
Ok, I think we both agree that your word play doesn’t make any sense, but its ok, we can still be friends.
I looked at all the links, I like the Field Notes the best. I have a thing for notebooks, just like you I assume. I went through the ordering process to get the three different versions of the Notes and then it told me I would have to pay $5.50 for shipping (when the 3 pack of Notes is only $9.50), suddenly I couldn’t stand the thought of paying that much for shipping. I think I’m spoiled from Amazon Prime (i love it!). So, it ended there. But I admit they are very pretty and I want some.
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Emilily
a review
I don’t know if I told you, but I saw Inglourious Basterds last weekend, and I just wanted to say – highly recommended. Two thumbs up, five stars, a juicy red tomato, the whole shebang. I have probably seen almost every Tarantino film, and find him to be entertaining, but often a little over done. Take Kill Bill, for example – it was great, but after the 57th blood-spewing-jugular, I was over it. Before now, True Romance and Reservior Dogs were tied for my favorites, with Pulp Fiction a close second. But I am going to go out on a limb here and say that every other Tarantino movie ever made was simply in preparation for this, his masterpiece, a perfect combination of comedy, gore, and, most importantly, restraint. (More …)
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Carmen
Well allrighty then – I’ll make sure to note this review and see this when it comes out on blu-ray. Sadly, unless I want to go to the movies alone (its a possibility) the movies I see at the theater (with Max) only involve 1) Science Fiction 2) Explosions 3) Boobs – or a mixture of all three. Very nicely written review though!
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Emilily
Well, there are a ton of explosions in this movie, but no topless aliens. If it is still playing when you come down here, I will see it again with you!
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Ma
Yes yes, a very nice review, cheers! However I did not have the same feelings for this movie. I will openly admit that Tarantino films are not tops on my list. It’s not that I mind blood and guts, and I just adore Brad Pitt, my problem is with the subtitles. I hate subtitles! When do you get to actually “watch” the movie? I was so busy reading subtitles that I feel like I missed most of the action. I may go see it again but first I must indulge in a speed reading class. The ending however was fantastic. I won’t give it away but I would love to have an audience photo-shot from the screens viewpoint, that would be worth a thousand reviews.
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Emilily
Some reviews
This post was originally intended to review two magazine spreads, but I wanted to start by saying I am slightly disappointed with Gilt Fuse. From what I can tell, the only difference between Gilt and Gilt Fuse, is that in the latter, the models are all posed like idiots. I think they were going for “edgy and playful” but I’m sorry, an adult (late 20′s even?) model wearing Juicy Couture, blowing a bubble, and yanking on her thigh-high stockings like a schoolgirl in a Brittany Spears video looks like an idiot to me. Ok, moving on.
The pictures below are from a Wired magazine article on Somali piracy. While the content of the article was compelling and well-researched (it was very similar to the ongoing NPR coverage of the same events) it was the unique layout that really grabbed me. I especially liked the little facts boxes and graphs scattered amongst the illustrations – a great example of print media effectively borrowing design elements from the web world.
This next review is less about a particular article and more about the apparent laziness of a few fashion photographers and magazine editors. All of these ads appeared in the first half (the prime half) of my August issues of Elle and Lucky. I find it incredibly hard to believe that they have run out of creative things to do with fashion models, and all they are left with is to just line them up in front of the camera and say “cheese.”
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Carmen
well, first off, Wired is so pretty. Well done Michael Doret! Lets get a subscription to this magazine. Secondly – i know! Gilt Fuse has been dissappointing thus far. I have not given up on it yet, but they better entice me soon because my list of sites to check is long and is ripe for the clipping. Thirdly and Finally, I think that the lack of creativity on the part of photographers has alot to do with the caliber of magazine. Not to say that Elle and Lucky aren’t great but on the spectrum of magazines they kind of fall into the mediocre category. If you want to be really inspired by the photographers I think you will need to upgrade to Vogue Italia or some other such magazine that I can’t think of right now. I will shop around for something!
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Carmen
I’m just not into – He’s just not that into you
Ok, I did another nice Saturday thing – I watched a movie at 5 in the afternoon. It took some rationalizing to get myself to watch it in the first place and now all i can do is curse the idea! Ugh. Why did i do it. Rather, why did I choose that particular movie to watch and subsequently waste 2 hours of my time. Goshdarnit!! For your future reference – do not watch “he’s not that into you”. And i hope i’m not too late. Ok, I know i’m a girl but chick movies are bullshit and they should all be shot in the face. This movie spent about the entire time showing me how insane chicks are because they get all obsessed about men and (by the way I was convinced chicks are crazy before i saw this movie!) and then in the end of course they end up happily in love and everything works out and the narrator, one of the crazy chicks, is explaining “see! even though we are crazy it still works out sometimes!” Its like one big backwards fucking joke.
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Emilily 10:57 am on October 12, 2009 Permalink
I agree. Dumb. It is a little better if you turn the volume off, and waaay better if you turn the volume off and just leave it on pause when the screen looks like this…