Miranda and the City

I feel like I haven't written on here in quite a while.. but in all actuality it hasn't been that long. I guess I just miss my blog, oh sweet irony. I remember the days I used to promise myself I'd never have a blog and call people who had them "hipsters trying to recruit."

Anyway.. I've been meaning to write another movie review, but lately I've been watching t.v. shows! I'm almost finished with Undeclared (Judd Apatow's college version of Freaks & Geeks) and just recently started watching Sex and the City. My new roommate is absolutely obsessed with SATC, she has the whole series and watches it religiously and so I decided to see what all her craze was about.

OMG. It's sooo good, now I know what she's been talking about all these years! You can hate the show all you want, hate me for loving it, I don't care! The truth is Sex and the City is effing amazing. It makes me want to date a million different guys at once, it makes me want to move to New York City, it makes me want to be a journalist and have my own column, it makes me want to go to a dance club.. all right, maybe not the last one. But it definately brings out the girlie girl in me.. I didn't even think I had a girlie girl side! I want to be tre chic! I'm still torn between Carrie and Samantha.. I think I used to be a Samantha but over the course of the year I've drastically changed into a Carrie (thanks in large part to my amazing boyfriend aka Big!)

It kind of reminds me of a tv version of the movie The Sweetest Thing, and that movie is the best chick flick of all time.. it's a chick flick even guys can appreciate. A must see on my list!

I'm on the 3rd and last disk of Undeclared.. so far it's good.. I mean, it doesn't even come close to being as good as Freaks and Geeks.. but it's still worth watching. I never really got the closure I felt I needed from the last episode of F&G so I started watching this in hopes that it would kind of be the next best thing.. it's not. The new actors/characters are overshadowed by Seth Rogen, Jason Segal, Busy Phillips.. all the oldies.. I think I'm still just mad about the best show of all time going off air, so I'm taking it out on this show.. also I'm watching it at the same time as Sex and the City so I'm not able to give it my full attention..






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A grave discomfort of mine

OH MY GOD.

Now I shall write about how friggin boring this place gets sometimes; like now for example. When the sun comes out this videostore is as slow as slow as a wet weekend. I loathe boredom. But on the brightside (not my brightside) when at work and bored.. I actually work! That is unless I'm blogging about how bored I am.. err..

Yesterday for instance, I swept.. aaaand MOPPED!!! I went way out of my way on this one. In the one year and two months that I've worked here I don't think the area behind the counter has been mopped at all. I did sweep it about nine months ago though.. needless to say, it's disgusting. There are soo many dustbunnies (that's supposed to be the cute and cool word to use for gross balls of hair and dust right?)

Here is a picture

..sorry it's Sideways

And all the reason why all the dust is shaped in a square is because we have those all Holy mats that restaurants and random places have.

As of today I have not done anything productive besides put some movies away.. I'm gonna say that the whole process of me actually mopping yesterday clears me of all todays duties

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I shall kill thee..

This one particular "bete noire" of mine happens on a daily basis at work. I'd guestimate at least 15 times a day (kill me now.)

When people come up to rent a movie I ask for their last name first so I can find their account.. WELL, quite a few customers are obviously impatient because before I can say anything they just blurt out their last name. Now, I'm not sure if they're trying to be helpful or not, but when they do this I want to throw dog shit in their mouth. I clearly did not ask for their last name and yet they say it anyway.. and most of the time I'm busy doing something (the reason for me not asking in the first place.) I'll be no where near the counter and they'll put their movies on the counter and say "McDonald!" Well, all right Mr. Big Mac with Fries I'm not quite ready to ring you up yet so can you please wait a god damn fucking minute?!?!? JESUS FUCKING CHRIST! Please don't do this unless you wanna end up like Alison Lohman in Drag Me To Hell. I WILL curse you!

Aaaaaand another thing..



We have a "For Sale" shelf here, extremely cheap movies so there are always tons of people hoarding around the area. This oooone particular customer comes every Sunday and all I can say is WHAT THE FUCK? When he leaves the shelf looks like a grenade went off over there. I'm thinking he does this on purpose, because even the homeless druggies that come in don't even make that big of a mess. Below is an actual photo of the chaos he leaves

I'll never understand

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Oh the horror!

Last night I watched the new Friday the 13th and.. Laaahaaame! I myself love cheap cheesy horror movies, but this one was awful. Thirteen minutes deep I found myself wondering if this was supposed to be the whole chase run murder extravaganza.. almost turned it off when the plot started to pick up so I kept watching.

I will admit there were some scenes where I flinched/covered my eyes for a brief moment.. but other than that it was me screaming at the stupid half naked girls for getting closer to Jason rather than running as far away from him as possible. Willa Ford was in it which was a nice surprise, (you get to see her titayys) but she was the stupidest of the bunch. She's swimming in the lake, sees Jason, screams and swims under the dock.. RIGHT UNDER WHERE HE'S STANDING!! Needless to say she got hers, a machete right down the middle of her head.

There was an absence of blood and guts, which is the best part in my opinion, so that was a huge disappointment. There was a mediocre sex scene though (gotta throw one of those in there) and the chick had impeccable breasts and "perfectly placed nipples" according to her sex partner.

Watching the movie wasn't that bad, but then the end. Oh lord, the final scene!! The worst possible ending. Ruined the entire movie. I didn't think they'd go there, but let me assure you they did, they really did.

Overall, the movie was predictable and corny. I'm gonna be generous and go ahead and give this movie a C-

I wouldn't waste my money on renting it, but I'd recommend watching it if it's free.

PS. I see another one in the works. They're gonna milk this one for all it's worth. (which isn't much)



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F*** you Criterion!

Last night, while drinking copious amounts of liquor, it dawned on me.. I only have ONE movie review on my "movie/video store/customer complain themed blog." (I too would like to know why I was thinking about my blog at 1am in a bar) ..1 review seems like a rather low amount to me, considering how many movies I watch/have seen.

The thing is.. if I dare turn this into a movie review blog, it'd more likely be a.. how awful/terrific the actors were in the movie review. I'm gonna be frank, I don't give a SHIT about how well the movie was shot, all the terrific angles, the colors, the lighting. Reviews tend to be all about that crap. Borrrring. The Criterion Collection can kiss my bathing suit tan lined ass. (Except for a few,.. The Rock, Armageddon, Chasing Amy.. why those 3 are in there I'll never understand.) To me, a good movie is an entertaining movie, one that I can watch over and over. So, I'd be more inclined to write a crappy review about how rediculous the characteres were, how awkward the acting was.. sex scenes.. special effects.. things of that nature.

I'm not going to write one now.. this is just a forewarning. I shall indeed start writing more movie reviews sometime in the near future.. and they will be craptastic.



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