Merry Christmas from Australia...it will happen first here remember

I was going to write up a post reviewing The Woman in Black, The Moth Diaries, and The Awakening as a alternative to the Christmas fare offered up. But last night I watched on YouTube a cartoon from my childhood - Cabbage Patch Kids: First Christmas and I realised I love that schmaltzy fare.


Spoiler alert - the two gingers get adopted

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVXUkUm25Ss



Merry Christmas everyone, it's going to be 39C here tomorrow.

Adventureland (2009)

Insert obligatory comment about having been away so long and being a bad blogger. And thanks to certain bloggers for not taking a break and still entertaining me. I have been lurking and not always commenting.

The way Kristen Stewart is gazing adoringly at Jesse Einsenberg is misleading. I'm pretty sure she doesn't gaze at anyone. Ever.

So Adventureland...I find Kirsten Stewart annoying. I can’t help it, I know she just wants to lead a normal life and blah blah. But when you star in one of the biggest (for better or worst) pop culture book adaptations you are going to be in for a whole lot of fame. Instead of smiling and declining questions about her personal life, she seems to sulk and basically seem like a spoiled brat.
In saying all this, I recently watched Adventureland and I’m not sure if it was the inclusion of Jesse Eisenberg who I just find adorable but I found myself not dwelling on Kirsten’s personal life in this movie and just enjoyed her as an actor. And yes she is good at playing the sullen teen which she has done a few times over now, but it works in this movie.

Set in the 1980’s, for whatever reason –it’s not completely clear to me- but Jesse got to keep his normal hair so that is a bonus, Eiseneberg plays a grad student looking to move to New York with his friend in the new school year intending on using money from his parents to supplement the move and school and a European Summer holiday. Unfortunately it is revealed that Dad recently was demoted and the money is no longer there. So Jesse (okay character name James) needs to get a Summer job.

So serious

He is qualified for nothing and so is hired immediately by Adventureland’s owners (played by Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig in rather underused roles) to work the games area of the amusement park. There he meets Kristen’s character of Em, also working the games, Martin Starr (Freaks and Geeks alumni! I’m always so excited when I see anyone from that show except Jason Segal, James Franco and Seth Rogan working…and when you look back, it’s weird that Rogan has done so well, whatever happened to little John Francis Daley) shows up as a bit of an outcast James befriends along with Em. Ryan Reynolds also stars as the park’s handyman/lothario. So that is the basic storyline, a summer of lessons etc. I’ve been meaning to watch this for a while and it happened to be on one night while I was babysitting, waiting for the mum to return home (she was waiting for a taxi for 1.5 hours). I felt like this film could have done a bit more with its actors, but I liked its underrated qualities.

On a different tangent: John Francis Daley is a Dr on Bones...is this even logistically possible given his age?

And back to me...in my time of supreme blogger laziness, I fostered one yellow Labrador named Buddy who my in laws have now adopted. He was the most gentle, easy going foster and I have no idea how he ended up in a country pound, but he now lives the luxury life, so all ends well.
I've also been holiday fostering this lovely lady, Evie who has been in foster care for a year.

Why yes that teddy does need an eye mask

A week ago I obtained one pretty feral little kitten, who I have named Kasey as I'm not sure of the sex at this time. A person called our rescue, asking for help for a few kittens who were living in her neighbours backyard (he is on holidays). She believed a stray mother had birthed in the backyard as he has no other animals and it is a pretty cosy set up. Long story short, I only managed to trap 1 of the kittens before the rest either moved on or perhaps ate some rat poison that was in the backyard that we didn't discover until later.

We definitely saw at least 4 kittens the first time we went into the backyard but they got quite elusive after that.

So I am at the stage of forcing Kasey to be patted while in a towel and his little heart his beating so fast, but he needs to get used to human touch.

Thankfully (I hope) we are getting 2 other surrended kittens this Saturday who might bring him out of his shell. I could post some pictures of Kasey but he looks so terrified, I'm not sure he brings enough of the cute factor yet.

Must go, Love Actually is on TV for the 70th time and I must watch, it is the season.