New favorite

This is my new favorite artist, Marie Digby. (That's Ma-ri-e, the Japanese way, where you pronounce the "e" as a separate syllable - short e.) She is half Japanese, half Irish. Her first album drops (hahaha, I'm so hip.) on April 8. You can preorder it here.

Here she is doing a cover of Rhianna's Umbrella:

Arrived!

Guess what? Our Super Smash Bros. Brawl arrived from Circuit City in the mail just after we got home from buying it!! hahaha. We checked the mail before we left and it hadn't gotten here yet, but Sam decided we had better buy it in case it sold out. As it happened, they had to go into the back room to get a copy for us to buy at the Korean man's store.

We've played a good 2 hours worth of 4-player brawls. Sam, me and two "puny" computer players. [Thought we should start out with easy foes.] I think I hear Sam in the other room playing some more. I guess we haven't really battled for the whole time. Sam tried to take a snapshot of my character, Pit, beating up his character, Link. We played the coin game to get more trophies and stickers. Then we browsed the said collections. Fun!

We also received our 2nd Netflix movie - "The Game Plan." Yay for the Rock!

Here are our Netflix pictures. [Yes, we are enormous dorks. Well, I made Sam pose with me, so maybe I'm just the dork.]

"The Break-Up" follow up

So, Sam said I needed an image, so here it is! [Thanks, Sam.]

I am not sure if there is a difference between the "his side" and "her side" areas of the DVD. Unfortunately, I was sick of Mr. Vaughn and forgot to go back and check after we watched the movie and the previously mentioned special features. Sam theorizes that it is just the menu pictures that are different. Ours all had pictures and scenes of Jennifer Aniston on the menu. We also watched the "her side." Does anyone out there know if there is a difference? Inquiring minds want to know.

Well, I'm getting hungry and am thinking about grabbing Sam and heading out to forage for food. Also, maybe there will be shopping!! We'll let you know.... or not.

Still waiting...

Well, we did receive and watch "The Break-Up." I have decided that I am not a Vince Vaughn fan. I enjoyed the movie itself well enough. The ending was pretty ambiguous, but definitely better than the alternate ending -- except for the "Rainbow Connection" performance by the Tone Rangers (not the real Tone Rangers, the movie Tone Rangers). I think there should have been more a cappella moments. The special features were disappointing. The outtakes were surprisingly boring. We also didn't make it through all the takes of Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau "improvising;" it was also boring. I am glad we finally got a chance to watch it, but I probably won't be watching it again.

We are still waiting for Super Smash Bros. Brawl. If it doesn't come soon, we may just have to go out and buy it at the game store. We often go to a place that has new and used games and is owned by a nice Korean guy. Maybe we will look for some used games while we are there. [Not today, Sam, NOW!]

Well, that's the update for now. Ciao!

Waiting...

So, I am anxiously awaiting two things:

1. Our first DVD from Netflix. Sam and I got a subscription to Netflix for X-mas and finally got our acts together to set up an account and queue up some movies this weekend. I can see that it is another way to waste time and strain my eyes! Fun!! We kept getting swept up in adding stuff to our queue and rating movies. It's fun to see what you guys are also watching and rating... feels a little voyeuristic, though.

First movie: The Break-Up. Why, you ask? Because the Multnomah County library doesn't have it and we haven't been willing to spend money to see it... but I really want to see it!

2. Super Smash Bros. Brawl! We ordered our copy this weekend. Yay, free shipping from Circuit City! We have been excited for this game since before we decided to buy the Wii! Yes, we are nerdy enough to have been reading the SSBB blog, though not quite so nerdy as to be reading it daily or pre-ordering the game months ago.

Here is my favorite post from the SSBB blog. (^_^) It's about Stafy; he's my fave. Here he is:

Update for Raiz

Hollah! Raiz, sorry for not updating sooner. Thanks for goading me into it.

So, I know my poll was a long time ago, but I've finally taken your advice and changed my blog colors. It was very, very pink. I am testing out these shades of blue and hope they work better for the blog. Let me know what you think!

Happy spring forward day!