{"id":1292,"date":"2009-12-18T09:04:34","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T09:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2011-10-29T18:07:12","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T23:07:12","slug":"the_comfort_foo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/12\/the_comfort_foo.html","title":{"rendered":"The Comfort Food of DVDs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I like to have movies on in the background when I&#8217;m crafting but they generally have to be movies I both like and have seen a million times.  I once had a friend come over and ask:<\/p>\n<p>Her: &#8220;What do you do with all these DVDs?&#8221;<br \/>\nMe: &#8220;What do you mean? I watch them.&#8221;<br \/>\nHer: &#8220;You rewatch movies?&#8221;<br \/>\nMe: [Stunned Silence.]<\/p>\n<p><u>Wednesday<\/u><br \/>\n<UL type=\"square\"><LI><strong>Tristan &#038; Isolde<\/strong> &#8211; Mmmm James Franco mmmmm.<br \/>\n<LI><strong>In the Line of Fire<\/strong> &#8211; One of my all-time favorite movies. Unfortunately it appears to be time for a new DVD as this one kept mysteriously skipping scenes!<br \/>\n<LI><strong>Three Days of the Condor<\/strong> &#8211; An old espionage favorite. I love her photographs.<br \/>\n<LI><strong>The Other Boleyn Girl<\/strong> &#8211; The only one I hadn&#8217;t seen before (I needed a break in my crafting!).  I remember this getting seriously panned but I thought it was decent. Portman and Johanssen really playing against type here.<br \/>\n<LI><strong>Chariots of Fire<\/strong> &#8211; Oh Yes. Watching this counts as exercising, right?<\/UL><\/p>\n<p><u>Thursday<\/u><br \/>\n<UL type=\"square\"><LI><strong>Garden State<\/strong> &#8211; Music and laughter.<br \/>\n<LI><strong>Laurel Canyon<\/strong> &#8211; Music and angst. And Alessandro Nivola being very sexy.<br \/>\n<LI><strong>Iron Man<\/strong> &#8211; RDJ has never been more fun.<br \/>\n<LI><strong>Hot Fuzz<\/strong> &#8211; This will never get old.<br \/>\n<LI><strong>Point Break<\/strong> &#8211; How can you watch Hot Fuzz and NOT follow it up with Point Break? But in all seriousness, this might be my favorite movie of all-time. And it is definitely my favorite Keanu movie of all-time. <\/UL><\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m off to the theater to see <strong>Avatar<\/strong> today. I actually think the previews make it look really, REALLY DUMB, but Steve keeps SWEARING it&#8217;s good and Carlos suggested it.  So we&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I like to have movies on in the background when I&#8217;m crafting but they generally have to be movies I both like and have seen a million times. I once had a friend come over and ask: Her: &#8220;What &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/12\/the_comfort_foo.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,14,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flicks","category-lists","category-watchin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2242,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions\/2242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}