romantic comedies = ruins life

I completely agree w/ this report that says romantic comadies can be hazardous to your lovelife/ruin your relationship. they create unrealistic standards and ideals and then if/when you compare your relationship to them, real life always seems inferior. chuck klosterman had it right. this chick had it right a year ago.

god, I hate it in movies when they see each other or meet each other and then after 1 hour they're like "i love you." fuck that noise. I'm talking to you,

Notting Hillhe (normal bookkeeper) spills coffee on her (famous actress) and she goes to his house and then immediately kisses him? give me a fuckin break

and

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Daysbar bet that falls perfectly into place? falling in love after 10 days? stopping a taxi on the brooklyn bridge? changing of hair from straight to curly to coincide with the falling in of the love? OVER IT.

although I do watch French Kiss whenever it's on tv. in its entirety. don't judge me.

one day in the future I'll make a feminism 101 post about how disney movies fuck up children, too. (I love you Little Mermaid, but how the fuck you gonna tell little girls that they only way to get their man and fall in love is to give up their voice and only use their body? so messed up)


ps let's make a list of good realistic relationship movies.

1. American Graffitti
2. High Fidelity (wait is this a fake-real relationship movie?)
3. Annie Hall
4. idk any more post your contribution

pps kd remember when you were dating starfish and you were like "come over and we'll bake cookies and watch love actually" and he was like "you're moving too fast."

did you know . . .

mr. jones and I were watching Aladdin last night on TV (which by the way, if you haven't seen it since you were little, should totally watch it again . . . it is hilarious) and the person who plays aladdin has the cutestttt voice so mr. jones looked it up and guess whose voice is aladdin???

..................................... he was on full house ..............................

STEVE from full house!!!! you can go here to see what he's up to.

Here are some fun facts about Steve:

-Graduated from Harvard University in 1998 (majored in English, minored in French literature) --hayy smartayy!!!
-Fluent in French, lived in Paris
-Graduated from Harvard University 1998 magna cum laude
-He did the voice for Aladdin (both the series and the speaking part in the movie), and in one episode of "Full House" (1987), the one where the family goes to Disney World, D.J. fantasized that he was Aladdin
-Was born on the exact same day as Kate Winslet

Where He Is Now
(2006) On the writing staff of the WB comedy "What I Like About You."
(January 2007) Guest starring as "Dr. Kershnar" on NBC's "Scrubs."
(2008) On the writing staff of The CW's critically acclaimed "Privileged."

(god I have wayyy too much free time)

what it's really like at disneyland

so this dude played jack sparrow at disneyland and got fired after a few months (mostly for being late, nothing salacious), and he totally spilled what really happens behind the scenes. this is something I've always wondered about -- I feel like they try and keep it super secret and now I've broken into the club! eeeee

the dude and his gf who played ariel (which wasn't allowed . . . they aren't supposed to interdate. racists.)

Here is the beginning of the article!

Like everyone, I grew up going to Disneyland. Even as an adult I loved it there and went at least once a month. I was an annual pass holder, though not like the freaky ones you may have heard of. I’d see the park’s characters and think, “It’d be so cool to work here.” But there was never a character I really wanted to play. I had a role on the television show Veronica Mars and was working at Coco’s when a friend told me Disneyland was casting a Jack Sparrow character. I had already played Jack as a hobby at San Diego’s Comic-Con and the Renaissance Faire.
Thirty-seven actors showed up that day, four of us in costume. Only eight were chosen for the next round. We were told we would be auditioning the next day at Disneyland. When I showed up, there were now 23 guys—15 that had been pulled from in-house auditions. There was this assistant who would come in and pull people one by one—“Steve, can you come with me?” Then you’d never see Steve again. Finally I was sitting all alone in the room. After 15 minutes they pulled me into another room where two other guys were sitting. They told us we were going to be Disneyland’s first Jack Sparrows.

Disney warned us we were going to have a lot of horny women coming on to us. They were also worried about girls. I heard Disneyland had an Esmeralda from The Hunchback of Notre Dame. She was very flirtatious, and they finally pulled her because men found her too sexually arousing and were acting out.

The male character they had pulled was Tarzan. He moved around the tree house dressed in just a butt flap. Disney had hired these good-looking, muscular guys—even airbrushing abs on—and apparently there was excessive pinching of Tarzan’s ass by the park’s female visitors. Knowing all this, and also knowing what women were like around Jack at the Renaissance Faire, I told the other guys, “Don’t complain if girls flirt with you too much. If you do, they’ll pull the character from the park.”

go here for the rest of the article . . .