The end of Lost... and other things

I can't believe Lost is over. This season I seriously procrastinated watching the episodes, because I felt like if I watched them at the time they aired, the show would somehow go away quicker. Dumb logic, I know. So I finally finished the series the other night and I'm both happy and sad. Sad because it's over, but so happy that they actually remember being on the island together. I think my biggest fear was that they were all going to just forget each other, and after all they've been through, that would have sucked.

I cried like a baby when Jack died though. It was so sad. Definitely sadder then any of the other deaths on the show. And who else was expecting Richard to just disappear when they were on the plane leaving the island. Well, I thought he would either disappear or would suddenly become some kind of crazy skeleton in his seat. Glad that didn't happen.

Anywho... True Blood season 2 came out, and of course I went right out to buy it. I saw it when it was originally on TV, but that hasn't stopped me from sitting down and watching the episodes one after the other like a big freak. I also have gotten my mom hooked on it. She think the vampires are seriously gross, but watches because it freaks her out so much. Haha. I got the latest Sookie Stackhouse book too, and just haven't had a chance to read it yet. I've been reading Nicholas Sparks, which TOTALLY is NOT my thing normally. But my grandma gave me The Last Song, and I read it just because it was there, and then I wanted to see the movie Dear John, but Sarah told me to read the book first because it's so much better, so now I'm some kind of weirdo Nicholas Sparks fan. I even went out and bought another one of his books because I was told it was really good. I am oddly ashamed of my sudden love for his stories, but oh well. I can't help that he pulls at my heartstrings.

Today I got this weird thing from Netflix that allows me to put a disc into my Wii and play some of the movies in my queue straight from the Wii/internet/TV/whatever. It's pretty nifty, and I can also watch some TV shows. The selection isn't wonderful, but it's pretty good considering that I could watch those streaming movies all day and night, and it won't cost me any extra. Danielle's really excited, because we were just talking about the Witches of Eastwick this morning, and she turned it on and it was one of the first movies to come up. Pretty cool.

I've been falling in love with Lost in Pacific Time all over again, and I've started writing again. Two events that are not-so-related, but really make me feel good.


Oh, BTW, I am so excited about this Peg Connolly Scholarship. I get to go out to Spokanel, WA in September, and while I'm out there I'm going to spend a few extra days and head out to Seattle for the end of the week and into the weekend. I love traveling, and I have always wanted to go out to Washington, so this is the perfect excuse.

The Other Boleyn Girl

I just finished watching The Other Boleyn Girl.  I decided to watch it today because I just finished the book, which took me FOREVER.  The book was amazing... the movie not so much.  In fact, I pretty much hated it.  They leave out about 80% of the actual story, and then they twist around the parts that they left in.  For instance, Anne Boleyn lived in the French court for most of her youth, and eventually moved to the English court later to join her sister Mary as one of the Queen's ladies.  In the movie, everyone lived in England at Rochford (even though their house was at Hever really), and then the King visited them for 2 days, which never happened, and invited Mary and her husband William Cary back to court because he wanted her for his mistress. And then later in the movie, Anne is banished to France.  Never happened.

William Cary is another thing.  They have Mary marry Sir. William Cary in the beginning of the movie, then at the end it says that she married William Stafford, which happened, but they left out the whole part about William Cary dying of the Sweating Sicknes so it looks like Mary just went off and married someone else.

AND Mary had two children by the king: Catherine and Henry, and then another child later by William Stafford.  In the movie, she had one child.  Ridiculous.

AND Anne Boleyn never ever asked her brother George to sleep with her. And if she did there was no actual evidence of it. Anne was convicted of Witchcraft and Adultery, but in all reality, the charges were all based off of hearsay, and were not only centered around George.  Sir Francis Weston (George's lover), William Brereton, and a few other men in George's circle were also killed.

Plus, in the movie they make Anne, Mary, and George's mother some kind of compassionate feminist.  There mother didn't care about them at all!!! She always pretended she wasn't related to them when there was a scandal, like a miscarriage, or George and Anne being thrown in the tower. 

Arg.  Next subject...

Tomorrow is The MLMs show at Dr. Watson's Pub on 11th street.  May be hitting it up with Rachel and Devon.  Fun times.

And of course I had to add this next little gem.  My favorite movie and one of my favorite songs of all time merged together:

Almost Famous vs. TAI
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