“Once Upon a December” from Anastasia in Russian. The lyrics translated back to English are better than the original English lyrics. (Both English and Russian subtitles are available; click the Closed Captioning button on the video player.)
For all my grumbling about historical inaccuracy - and really, this movie is related to the actual lives of the Romanovs insofar as they have the same names - I have a huge weak spot for this song. Maybe because it’s so sad when you know how things really ended.
I was one of those kids whose parents taught them all about Russian history (right, one of those kids), so I already knew what really happened to Anastasia before I saw the movie named after her. I had a book all about her life, too, and the first part was my favorite (hard beds but pretty dresses and palaces and siblings everywhere), but it’s the last part that I remember - exile and execution. Nicholas II looking to his family before being shot; Anastasia and her sisters sewing jewels into their clothes beforehand; the fact that one of the assassins was blind drunk during the whole thing.
My parents and I went to the cathedral where the family’s bodies are interred when I was ten. I noted that they were all together now and my mother said “Yes, all together now,” and then we stood there for a minute silently before we went away.
Leave it to me to provide a Bummer Reply. It’s just weird to realize you’ve outlived someone that way.
Solo Cups: Knowledge
I was curious about the lines on solo cups the other weekend and learned something amazing. This information should be taught in an intro class to all high schoolers and college students.
It turns out that the lines of the solo cup allows you to measure out a shot, a glass of wine, and a beer. This would have been ridiculously helpful during my partying years!
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT.
Oh, Solo cups, you’re so servicey. (Though I do all my wine-drinking out of coffee mugs.)
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“How do you teach homosexuality? Is it like French? I was born of heterosexual parents, taught by heterosexual teachers, in a fiercely heterosexual society. So why then am I homosexual? And, no offense meant, if it were true that children mimic their teachers, we’d have a hell of a lot more nuns running around.”
-Harvey Milk, Milk (2008)
Fantastic movie, fantastic man.
My dad just emailed me this huge list of puns oh my god
- I changed my iPod's name to Titanic. It's syncing now.
- When chemists die, they barium.
- Jokes about German sausage are the wurst.
- I know a guy who's addicted to brake fluid. He says he can stop any time.
- I stayed up all night to see where the sun went. Then it dawned on me.
- This girl said she recognized me from the vegetarian club, but I'd never met herbivore.
- I'm reading a book about anti-gravity. I just can't put it down.
- I did a theatrical performance about puns. It was a play on words.
- They told me I had type-A blood, but it was a Type-O.
- We’re going on a class trip to the Coca-Cola factory. I hope there's no pop quiz.
- Did you hear about the cross-eyed teacher who lost her job because she couldn't control her pupils?
- Broken pencils are pointless.
- I tried to catch some fog, but I mist.
- What do you call a dinosaur with an extensive vocabulary? A thesaurus.
- I used to be a banker, but then I lost interest.
- All the toilets in New York’s police stations have been stolen. The police have nothing to go on.
- I got a job at a bakery because I kneaded dough.
- Haunted French pancakes give me the crêpes.
- A cartoonist was found dead in his home. Details are sketchy.
- The earthquake in Washington obviously was the Government's fault.
- Be kind to your dentist. He has fillings, too.
EXPENDABLES 2 TRAILER LIVE TWEET
I jotted down thoughts and reactions below, done in real time as I watched the trailer.
OH SHIT! Expendables are coming in on a MOTHERFUCKING ZIP LINE!! #ClassicAlready
The trailer just flashed its first trailer tag line “TIME. TO. RELOAD.” #FuckYeahItsTimetoReload
“I now prounounce you man and knife…” - Statham about to stab newlyweds y’all.
#CrazyMontage: An action star cameo followed by a crazy explosion, followed by a vehicle that is either exploding or proably en route to exploding.
JET LI! MOTORCYCLE! EXPLOSION! WILLIS! HELICOPTER! EXPLOSION! TANKS! MORE EXPLOSIONS!
Van Damme is the bad guy! OH FUCK!!!! He’s trying to obtain 5 tons of plutonium. This can NOT be good…
The trailer just informed me that in this sequel “EVERYONE IS EXPENDABLE!!” #HighStakesYall
Oh snap. Guess who else is expendable this go round - CHUCK NORRIS AND ARNOLD!!
“Track em, find em, kill ‘em.” - Stallone explaining the plan and the driving force of the 2nd and 3rd act of the film.
Whoa. They’re in a tank that says “Bad Attitude” on the side!! I wrote the same thing on the side of my Kia Sportage.
Arnold just ripped the door off a Smart Car!!! “My foot is bigger than this car!” #Awesome
Sly juts flew a huge plane into a bridge. I can’t conceive of how this would be good for the Expendables. But then again - MAYBE THAT’S WHY I’M NOT AN EXPENDABLE.
Aziz Ansari makes my whole life better.
