I called it!

I'm gonna say it now so that I can say I said it:

I love B.o.B. He gon' be huge.

All work and no play makes Gravy crazy

Ugh... 24 hours until I'm writing the last exam of my undergrad. I cannot find the motivation.

Distractions include:
(1) Chuck Klosterman's Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
(2) Season 6 of Entourage - I'm re-watching the series in prep for 7th season
(3) Alex & Luke - their charm is still too much for me!
(4) Anything but studying

Sugar & Gravy Reads

"The Real World is the real world is The Real World is the real world."

That is a quote from the book that I started reading yesterday, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman. It's called "A Low Culture Manifesto" and I love it!

To the Land of the Blueberries

For those of you celebrating 4/20 - here's a little bit of trippiness!

Sugar & Prodigy

We've got a prodigy, ladies and gentleman. A prodigy a la Ryan Sheckler... minus the skateboard and add a piano.

That being said, I love how her family doesn't use the word prodigy... I love her family in general. Her Mom is adorable!!!

suGar & grAvY on some hot topics

Surprised, but I love it!

Always good to see someone using their power for good.


In other news, I saw Precious last night.

Precious... Precious... Precious...

Let's just say - when the film ends, the impact doesn't. The emotion in that movie! It was incredibly done, the acting was FLAWLESS, the writing was out of control... I don't even know what to say. I'm not even sure I am important enough to rate such a spectacular film, but if I was.

RATING = 4.9/5.0

The Okay Bones

I just watched the movie The Lovely Bones. I'm a huge fan of the book (have read it twice!) and was really looking forward to seeing the film adaptation.

Thoughts:

It has some AWESOME moments, and of course I bawled like a baby throughout, but overall? I just feel like there was a lot of cliche, missed opportunities, and rushed storylines. If you saw the movie and loved it? I can understand why, so read the book to make it that much better. If you loved the book and haven't seen the movie? Just a warning: it doesn't do it perfect justice.

BUT, like my girlfriend said, it went for it, and gave it a shot in trying to capture the heart of the book.

FINAL SCORE? 3.8/5

PENS!

With an essay due today, and an exam at 6:30, how do you think I'm spending my time?



Watching White House videos, naturally. I love Obama, and I love pens, so here we are! I got a fountain pen recently. Best present ever. Looks as though Barack is using ballpoints though.

Also, the White House website allows you to post videos right to Facebook. I love Obama!

TWEET!

Here's a weird 21st century concept:

When someone famous tweets @ you or RTs you, you feel famous.

True fact.

EDIT - I wasn't tweeted @ or RT'd by anyone famous, just FYI. I just know a few people who have been AND I know I would feel famous if it happened to me. So new gen.

Rifoki? More like, Ajokey.

So not my thing.

Rifoki - Zombie Attack from Dim Mak on Vimeo.

In fact, I'm kinda just over Dim Mak... I might take that back, but for now? It's so yesterday.

Gravy-at-Large

André!!! Can we be friends?

THE GREAT FLOSSING CHALLENGE: UPDATE

Important dental hygiene update!!! I just checked, and in 50 days, I have flossed 22 times. That's nearly once every 2 days! I am pumped! I'm gonna try to get it up to once a day, which will require twice or even three times a day (if that makes sense). It's worth it just to be able to say to the hygienist: "How often do I floss? Well, once a day actually. TAKE THAT!"

In other news: As I grow up, I take note of the things that seem to be signs of growing up. One example = buying toilet paper BEFORE you run out of toilet paper. Oui!

One never knows when the Homosexual is about.

Realness

Glee Gals - Photo Gallery

My thoughts... (keep in mind I love the show!!!)

Lea Michele - chill out on the "fierce" looks, girl, you're not high fashion
Dianna Agron - you look hot in the red lipstick
Jane Lynch - you look strange in a dress, but I idolize you
Amber Riley - yes!
Lea Michele - again... relax!
Kevin McHale - you are so Hel-Looks
Jayma Mays - no comment

Hot or Not - Vol. I

HOT
Emma Watson
Ratatat

NOT
Lady Gaga
Willard Carroll

These are the opinions of Sugar&Gravy and so if you disagree, then we agree to disagree. That being said, this blog really lacks comments, so why don't you disagree (or agree!) by commenting, and then we'll agree to disagree (or agree to agree). Agreed?

Dear Hack Writer

Dear Willard Carroll,

Last night I watched a movie that you wrote and directed, called Playing By Heart. I'm at my parents' house for the weekend and they have this movie on VHS. It's not theirs, it's my sister's, but I digress...

There was a time in my teens when I thought this was a really top-notch movie. It has a lot of "stars", some "talent", and it also incorporates that thrilling thing that some movies do where all of the separate story lines of all the separate characters tie together in the end. I haven't watched this movie in years, so I recommended that my friends and I watch it last night.

Now, at the age of 22, I have learned something about your movie: it's not good.

Even if the actors were more talented, they've got nothing to work with! The writing is absolutely pathetic and I cringed more than I have at anything before in my life.

So, here's my advice to you: If you're still in the movie biz, stick to executive producing and stay away from writing. I saw that you executive produced The Brave Little Toaster. That movie's genius! Make a four-quel.

All the best,
Madam Gravy

Gravy LOVES: Alex & Luke

THEIR STORY :

In September of 2009, after a few unexpected life turns, we started planning this project. Restless with our current positions in our respective lives, we set out to see what would happen if we used the power of social media to enable an exploration of North America.

Without a route or any preconceived idea of what we will see and do, we are calling on the communities behind the most popular social media websites to act as our compass (pointing us where to go) and our guidebook (telling us what to see).

Equipped with a small car and a trunk load of equipment, our goal is to travel through every state, province and territory while documenting and sharing the experience through web videos and other internet content available at our website, alexandluke.com.

We will be exploring the gap between real-time relationships and online relationships and it is our hope that connections between these two realms will be made in interesting and unexpected ways. Every individual who participates and engages with alexandluke, both on and offline will play a role in our journey. Sometimes these relationships will be formed deliberately, and other times by pure happenstance.

The desire to explore has been with us for thousands of years. The geography of North America is relatively the same as it has been for centuries. The need to collect and share the travel experience with others is as old as is travel itself. But never before has exploration been so accessible and sharing been so easy.

Who we will meet, where we will sleep, what we will see, and even the most fundamental aspect – where we will go, are all unknown. The notion of directionless travel may not be a new one, but this wanderlust is both facilitated and shared through new social technologies in an internet-empowered world

We leave it in your hands to help us experience the North America that you think we should experience and you can do this in a number of ways. Regular polls will be held on the home page of our website, but you can also interact with us through Twitter (where you can vote and make suggestions), YouTube (where you can vote and watch our videos), Gowalla (where you can check in with our current location and visited destinations) and on our Facebook Fan Page (where you can interact with us and our other followers). Click on the Interact button on our home page to learn more.

We can’t wait to see how the story unfolds, and how your involvement will affect our journey.

Alex & Luke are innovative, fun, smart, cute, and totally plugged in all the time! CHECK THEM OUT!!!

Stirring the Pot

An incident occurred at a Waterloo restaurant/cafe/bar that has been considered (perhaps rightly so... it's hard to say since I wasn't there) homophobic. Students, activists, friends, and people in general have responded strongly, and there has been a lot of media attention as well.

Wilfrid Laurier University's Student Newspaper: The Cord

Waterloo Region Paper: The Record

Toronto Queer Paper: Xtra

Plus - The Facebook Group

What do you think?