Starring: Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Emma Thompson, Dominic Cooper, Olivia Williams, Alfred Molina, Rosamund Pike
An Education Promotional Poster
Summary: In the early 1960’s, sixteen year old Jenny Mellor lives with her parents in the London suburb of Twickenham. On her father’s wishes, everything that Jenny does is in the sole pursuit of being accepted into Oxford, as he wants her to have a better life than he. Jenny’s life changes after she meets David Goldman, a man over twice her age. David goes out of his way to show Jenny and her family that his interest in her is not improper and that he wants solely to expose her to cultural activities which she enjoys. Jenny quickly gets accustomed to the life to which David and his constant companions, Danny and Helen, have shown her, and Jenny and David’s relationship does move into becoming a romantic one. However, Jenny slowly learns more about David, and by association Danny and Helen, and specifically how they make their money. Jenny has to decide if what she learns about them and leading such a life is worth forgoing her plans of higher eduction at Oxford.
I don’t know what this balloon theme was spurred on – maybe because there have been a bunch of birthdays recently within my friends and family. Anyways, balloons are just the cutest things, and I think they’re one of the things that I love most about birthdays – they’re especially fun to prepare! (:
I first heard of Kate/Oates when she appeared on Scrubs as Ted’s new girlfriend, but then I stumbled upon this lovely little duo a couple of months later.
These girls are beautiful, funny and extremely
talented. Their songs are all so funny, but at the same time they reflect stuff that women actually go through. It’s rare to be people to find women who are funny enough to come out with songs as great as these!
Below I’ve included one of my favorite songs and some links to their other awesome songs.
You could also find more information about them on on their website and Riki’s YouTube Channel.
Last week I posted about funny facebook statuses which people had created in order to make fun of what fictional characters would do if they were on the internet.
This week I am posting something similar in humor, except that all of these facebook moments and fails are all very real. All of these were posted on the site Facebook Fails, where people take screencaps of funny things that their friends do on facebook and post them up for others to see and get a good laugh at.
Here are some funny fails that I found while I was on the site:
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross
Summary: Recent college graduate Benjamin Braddock is trapped into an affair with Mrs. Robinson, who happens to be the wife of his father’s business partner and then finds himself falling in love with her teenage daughter, Elaine.
What I Liked (Spoilers): I honestly really enjoyed this movie. What I found the most interesting was seeing Dustin Hoffman at such a young age – I think this is the first movie that I’ve seen him in that he was that young. I love how controversial this movie must have been when it was first released in the 60s. I really loved Ben’s character, who was just adorable, awkward and likable. He’s definitely a character that is easy to identify with. I also really enjoyed his relationship with Elaine – I don’t think I’ve ever seen Katharine Ross in any other film before, but I definitely enjoyed her performance. As I already mentioned, she and Dustin Hoffman made a cute couple. I also very much enjoyed the dynamic between Mrs. Robinson and Ben, even though it differed greatly from that which he had with Elaine. The music was also incredible, as was the directing (which I later found out won an Oscar). I fell in love with Simon&Garfunkel while watching this movie.
The energy that Canada had in reaction to these Olympic Games was phenomenal. Even though I live almost on the opposite end of this country, every morning I would arrive to school amid the chatter about which Canadians dominated which sporting even the night before. For those of you who don’t know (and as a Canadian commercial for McDonald’s boasts) Canada this year won the most gold medals that any other country has won in the Winter Olympics. We finished third overall for the medal count, but we dominated when it came to gold medals. This is pretty impressive, considering that Canada had never before won a gold medal on home soil before, in the Montreal and Calgary Olympics. Alexandre Bilodeau has become a national hero by being the first Olympic athlete to obtain this honor – but he was followed by 13 other athletes in teams in all sorts of sports, from hockey to figure skating to speed skating. Altogether, Canada won 26 medals.
7. Ashleigh McIvor – Women’s Ski-Cross
This is one gold medal that I didn’t watch personally, but I’ve been hearing some great things about Ashleigh ever since she won. There were also many shots of her during the closing ceremony, although I think she wasn’t actually wearing her medal, which was strange.
Even though I’m not a huge fan of this seemingly never ending season which we Canadians put ourselves through, I decided to find some pretty pictures that almost make the cold, ice and hail all worth it. Almost.
All pictures were taken from We <3 It, and are linked back to their original source.
