Archive for March, 2007

Thanks!

March 28, 2007 at 3:31 pm · Filed under Uncategorized

To anyone and everyone who’s taken a look so far and let me know what they think, thanks! I appreciate the feedback and ideas. Here’s my response to a few of them:

1)  I have a tendency to be facetious, so you might see me make a sly reference to the style/dialogue of a movie in my reviews. I try not to swear in general conversation, and the same goes for when I write. However, if the movie is rife with F-bombs, chances are I’ll use it to make a point. Usually, though, I try to keep it clean and professional.

2) I haven’t decided how I’m going to do my ratings quite yet, but I think I might do letter grades, as I can still relate closely to the letter grades as a student. In reality, we get our grades here in numbers (4.0, 3.7, and so on), but since I hate numbers for the most part, I’ll use letters. We’re on better terms.

3) For the time being, since I’m still quite anonymous to most restaurants, I’m going to try to do the rating myself. I am, however, always open to suggestions and ideas for places to visit, and if you have a great/horrible experience in one particular place, maybe I’ll use your feedback in one of my posts!

4) Please, feel free to leave comments! I love them! The link is directly under the post, so if you love or hate what I had to say, let me know! Have recommendations for movies or restaurants or recipes? Let me know! I love exclamation points! Actually, not really. I try to avoid them if I can, but I was being enthusiastic, so there they are.

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The Quick ‘n’ Dirty on Recently-Watched Movies

March 27, 2007 at 12:44 am · Filed under Uncategorized

Here are some of the latest movies I’ve seen, both in the movies and on DVD, and what I think of them. I’m not going to go into major detail on any of them, since I might review them in more depth later, so here’s the “quick ‘n’ dirty.”

The Departed: Excellent, excellent, fucking excellent. This may be because I’m from the Boston area and knew exactly where they were, or at least where they were talking about, most of the time. The psychiatrist (Vera Farmiglia, I think) drove me nuts, though. Her accent was the worst of all the actors, and I felt that she wasn’t necessary to the plot.

Monster-in-Law: I love this movie, even if it’s not exactly quality cinema. Jennifer Lopez and Jane Fonda are excellent in their battles, particularly Fonda.

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room: I watched this film in my Management class when we were discussing ethics, and didn’t really have high hopes for it. I was, however, shockingly surprised at the level of depravity of the upper-echelons of management at Enron. To be honest, I never really paid much attention to what was going on because I was neither interested not affected, but this documentary drew me in and made me understand exactly what happened.

An Inconvenient Truth: I wasn’t as wowed with this film as I had expected to be. Al Gore is wry and convincing, and I was shocked by a few points, but there wasn’t really anything earth-shattering to me here. I think I had heard so many good things that I was expecting an amazing documentary, but I just didn’t have it here.

The Good Shepherd:Very good, and Matt Damon plays an excellent spy, as he’s proven in the Bourne trilogy. I was a bit disappointed, though, because I was expecting a flashier, Bond-type spy movie, and what I got was a carefully-crafted, twisting-turning journey through the early days of the CIA. I think it needs another view, now that I know what to expect.

Tune in next time, when I might actually have a dinner and a movie on which to report!

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It all starts at the beginning…

March 26, 2007 at 8:27 pm · Filed under Ideas

Hey, all!

I was up until a little past 2 this morning working on a project, and I couldn’t fall asleep. You know, I think some of my best ideas come about right before I fall asleep, and I lose so many of them because I don’t get to write them down. I used to have a pen and paper near my bed, but last night I realized they were missing. Luckily for me, I remembered my brilliant idea in the morning, and here it is.

Why is it brilliant? Well, first, because it’s MY idea. Obviously. Second, it’s brilliant because I think it might have something to do with a potential career. You see, I’m a junior in college, and I’m having a hard time trying to figure out what I want to do when I graduate. I’m a business communication (that’s the short version) major at a mostly-business school, and I’m finding more and more that I’m leaning toward writing and being creative than a PR-related job, which is where most of the “business communication” majors at my school wind up. I think a lot about when I marry and have kids, and want to have a job that I can potentially do from home, allowing me to have some intellectual stimulation while being able to raise my children the way I want them to be raised. Yes, I know, this may not sound very original, but I find myself being surprised at how much more I am pulled towards a family than a career, quite unlike my fellow students.

Anyway, back to the brillant idea. Again, it may not be hugely original, but I plan to make it my own and have fun with it, and pray it turns into something I can make some money doing. The idea? A ‘dinner and a movie’ blog. Each week, or however frequently it turns out to be, I’ll do a combination of two things: eat dinner and watch a movie. I can either make dinner and rent a movie, rating the recipe and the DVD, or I can go out to dinner and catch a movie at the theater, rating the restaurant and the movie. Here’s my rationale behind it: I love to cook and eat food, and I love watching movies. And I love to write and share my experiences. End of story. It’s pretty simple, and I like it that way.

It may turn out to be kind of complicated, though, as I am a college student (read: broke) and I don’t have a kitchen while I’m living at school. Oh yeah, and my DVD player attached to the TV is busted, so I have to watch movies on my laptop. At any rate, I will do my best to update at least once a week, though I can’t tell you how varied the entries will be. The restaurants will all be located in the Boston/Greater Boston area, and I’m always interested in new places to check out. Have a recipe you recommend? Send it over! If I need some ideas, I’ll likely use my daily e-mails from AllRecipes.com for a start- I save the ones that sound the most appealing.

So sit back, relax, and enjoy the show!

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