Sick day

Kim was complaining on the phone about how nobody posts to this anymore, so I thought I'd give a stab at it, although I don't really have a whole lot to say, really. I took a sick day today, because I had a really annoying sinus headache, which only got worse in the morning after I called out and went back to bed. I got up at noon and took the bus about 20 blocks in a complete fog and went to the grocery store to get some cheese and a green pepper, then went back up to my apartment, took some Excedrin, ate a quesadilla and started to feel better. I watched some X-Files and read some of the new David Sedaris book and watched my favorite scene of Penelope about a frillion times.

I also got an email from my agent, who said that she's gearing up to send out my manuscript after Labor Day, because that's when all the publishers will be settling back into their routines after all the conferences and vacations during the summer. So I'm impatient, but I also know this is the best idea, so that the book doesn't fall through the cracks. I'm so lucky to have somebody behind me that believes in the project so much--I only hope that it all lives up to our expectations.

That's really all that's going on in my life. Sorry to be so boring, but oh well. My life is boring. Oh, also I saw Wanted, which stars the amazing James McAvoy, who was typically wonderful. The movie was violent, but for an action film it had quite a quirky, ridiculous personality--only a crazy person could've made it, but a brilliant crazy person. I highly recommend.

Shaking things up

Okay, so I came on the blog today to bug people about not blogging, then I decided to check the blog to make sure nobody had posted recently and guess what--two of you (Maggie and Bri) had! Sorry! Okay, BUT: I think we can all agree that we've been a little remiss about posting lately, and how are we supposed to keep in touch if we don't ever write on the blog? I blog way more at my personal blog and WAY more at my Tumblr than I blog here because I feel like people don't read this. I have a two-point solution to this problem, which I will lay out for you now:

1. Everybody get Google Reader. Y'all have a Gmail account--I know that because you have to have one to have a Blogger account...right? Maybe that's not true, but since Blogger and Gmail are connected, most of you probably have a Gmail account. I have so many I can't even keep track! Anyway, Google accounts have this cool feature called the Reader.



All you have to do is subscribe



by typing (or copy+pasting) our URL [http://foursandfriends.blogspot.com] into the field.



The Reader will update you every time there's a new post in a blog that you're subscribed to. Then you'll know immediately when somebody posts, and you can scurry over to comment (seriously, comments are the soul of blogs; we should really do this more, so that we can have a diablog instead of a monoblog, as Diablo Cody would say) or write a post of your own.

2. We should post more. Let's just agree that nothing is too boring to post. Navel-gazing is the soul of blogs (I know I just said that about commenting, but let's just pretend that blogs are extraterrestrial beings capable of having more than one soul). You may think it's boring that one of your company's clients recently died in his sleep of an undiagnosed heart condition at the age of twenty-seven (SCARY!), or that your boss' high school aged son is eating all the Girl Scout cookies you bought for your office mates, but nobody else will! Somebody say something funny? Put it on the blog! Have a really excellent sandwich for lunch? Blog about it! Nothing's too small or too boring!

To that end, I offer up this humble tidbit from my life: My coworker Vicky brought me an X-Files movie poster from New York Comicon! Maggie and Cambria: jealous? Also, I was stuck in the lobby of our building for fifteen minutes because they shut down all the elevators due to a fire drill (we have fire drills like every three days here, it's a totally ridiculous, post-September 11 overprecaution) and hell naw am I going to walk up twelve flights of stairs (I already had to walk up the escalator to the subway today, and I was PISED!).

So come on, guys, let's do better--you know you want to!

(P.S. When did I become everybody's blogmom?)

I'm gonna see some moovies!

Oh, Hollywood. You fill me with so much rage. But! I am not above escaping from the dismal boredom of my own life and into the romantic, tense, sometimes tragic, sometimes comic, drama of yours! Like how I can't stop watching Becoming Jane on DVD, and how I keep talking people's ears off about how much I love Atonement and TJM (That James McAvoy). Whatever. Just be glad you didn't know me during the Titanic/Leonardo DiCaprio days...it was a roughie!

Anyways, I'm excited about a smattering of upcoming movies and I'd like you to share in my excitement/provide you with an opportunity to mock me in private/on the blog!



Penelope: Premieres February 29th (that's this Friday!!!). Starring Christina Ricci, James McAvoy, and Reese Witherspoon, this Reese Witherspoon-directed modern fairytale is about a sweet young woman named Penelope who, due to a family curse, was born with a pig's face (read: nose and ears, she's still uber cute with the prosthetics FYI) and must be loved by a high society blue blood in order to break the curse. Her mother, played by Catherine O'Hara, has hidden her away from the outside world and is now engaged in the monumental task of finding a husband for her daughter, while a sketchy tabloid photog (Peter Dinklage) has dedicated his life to getting a snap of Penelope's face and selling it for lots of money. Enter James McAvoy, a little bit of a scoundrel with (I assume) some sort of debts, who agrees to help the photog by luring Penelope out of the house. His scheme both works and backfires, and Penelope leaves the house to see what the real world is like. See the trailer here. I'm so excited to see TJM with an American accent (we'll see how that goes), and can even forgive the mad fauxial hair he's got going on throughout. Seeing this on Friday.



Semi-Pro: Premiers February 29th. Bri and I are planning a double-feature on Friday night to go see Penelope and Semi-Pro. For those of you who haven't seen the trailer (I hadn't until two days ago!), the movie concerns one Jackie Moon (Will Ferrell), the owner/captain of a semi-pro basketball team that is getting shut out of their league's absorption into the NBA. So of course Jackie, being a Will Ferrell character, has a fit about it and then determines to raise his team's record so that they can get coveted spots in the NBA. Wackiness ensues.



Sex and the City: Premiers May 30. I'm ridiculously excited, even though the new trailer does reveal some sad plot lines: Big ditches Carrie at the altar, Miranda's husband Steve may have cheated on her, and Samantha's ability to commit to Smith (by far the vastest character growth on the show over six years, which is sort of sad but also sort of true--oh, wait, Charlotte ditches her "perfect" Park Avenue prince for a man who she can really love forever, that's growth) seems to be wobbling. The only person whose life rocks is Charlotte's, who has adopted her Mandarin daughter with Harry and then finds out she's pregnant. Which is awesome, because I feel like Charlotte was made to be a mom like Ms. Neely was made to be a mom (except Ms. Neely is real). Can't wait for this flim, it will be magical.



Untitled X-Files Sequel: Premiers July 25th. Do I even need to say anything about this? Except, have you seen the weird pirated trailer on YouTube? Who is that guy with all the hair? Bri: "Maybe it's just Chris Carter running around in a wig?" I don't know how I feel about this trailer. You see Scully and Mulder each like once and it looks very weird and, dare I say it, cheesy? Also, the Arctic? That's been done, bitches. Gah, who knows what this movie will be like? I hope it's good and that it's nothing like the "trailer". No, no, no, good thoughts! It will be wonderful.

Exsqueeze me whilst I pee my pants

Four times.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=41035

Actually, I better stay hydrated because I'm just going to keep peeing my pants til summer.

So you think you're a Scorpio? THINK AGAIN.

I hope you guys aren't so attached to your astrological sign, because THEY'VE CHANGED. Apparently something about the Earth wobbling on its axis every 25,000 years or something equally science-y. I'm no longer a Capricorn, in case you're interested--I'm a fucking Sagittarius. Which actually sort of makes me sad, which is weird, right? Because I don't actually buy into astrology? But remember how "Syzygy" was "my" X-Files episode because it takes place between Jan 12 and Jan 13 (my birthday), and with all the Capricorns and goats and so forth? Now it can't be "my" episode anymore. ASTROLOGY! You're ruining my EFFING X-Files fandom! [Jezebel]