it’s acorn season.

Officially.

It is also the beginning of good TV season. How was my grammar, there? It sounded a little weird to me, but you catch my drift.

There’s a new show with Zooey Deschanel (my fave) called The New Girl that looks really good! I was only just recently “the new girl” when I used craigslist to find my new place and so I’m sure there will be some comedic gems in it that will have me dying with laughter.

And there’s that other new show called Pan Am that looks pretty awesome too. It has Christina Ricci in it (love her) and the preview makes me think Catch Me If You Can meets Almost Famous.

Bored to Death, Gossip Girl, 90210 (guilty pleasure), Glee, Boardwalk Empire, Workaholics, and How to Make it in America are all coming back very shortly. I. CAN. NOT. WAIT. ANY. LONGER.

Although I realize it should be embarrassing to have such an extensive TV addiction, I flat out refuse to feel shame for enjoying such high quality programs. The Entourage series finale was last night, as was the True Blood season finale so I need something to look forward to. What I’m really pumped about are the new seasons of Game of Thrones and Mad Men but I will have to wait awhile for both of those.

After watching just one season of HBO’s Game of Thrones, I know that I need to read the books.

But before I can do that, I need to finish the following:

1. Water for Elephants

2. Just Kids

3. The Thirteenth Tale

4. Sarah’s Key (I’m seeing the film tonight!)

5. One Day

I’ve been told to read The Shadow of the Wind, The Calligrapher’s Daughter, The Historian, and A House on the Heights, all of which sound good. It always feels so good to get back to reading again when there has been an unnecessarily long hiatus. If you know of any good shows, movies or books worth reading, let me know! I’m always looking for suggestions.

Sorry for the rambling, gros bisoux!

One Day dissection.

Saturday night I went to the film One Day with a couple friends.  It’s the new Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess film, which is based on the book with the same name (you may have seen my post from the other day with the Chelsea Lately interview of Anne Hathaway when she was promoting this film). By the preview, I could tell that I was going to cry. I could tell that it’s the kind of film that makes your fingers tingle because your heart hurts so much that the hurt spreads to the rest of your body. And I was right. It was really great and sad and I’m glad I watched it, but there were a few things that I wish had been done differently.

For starters, as you probably already know, the film follows a pair of best friends over the course of twenty years. The day they met held particular significance and the film marks every July 15th. This made the film, the beginning in particular, move by almost too quickly. Sometimes, when the two characters had grown apart, three or four years would go by in a succession without allowing the viewer to know what has happened in either of the characters lives.  This made it hard to feel a real connection with them.  By the end of the film, this obviously wasn’t a problem, but it did make it difficult to become invested in the characters in the beginning. The chronology also jumped around a little bit and made it semi-difficult to follow the order of events at certain points. I don’t know how the book is written, but I feel like this format would work better in literature than in a film.

 

Even though there were flaws, I really liked the story and Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess each had phenomenal performances. I want to read the book. Cue the waterworks.

xx