Get Matched

It's really important to get matched!


Apparently I'm a "cool":

"Your rosy undertones make shades with hints of blue, purple, and plum your perfect matches. Look for products with silver shimmer and foundations that have tones of pink rather than yellow. "

http://www.covergirl.com/makeup-match/shade-selector

http://health.howstuffworks.com/skin-care/beauty/match-colors-to-your-skin-tone.htm

A Backward Glance: Autobiography of Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton is one of my favorite female authors.  I've read almost every book she's written and my favorite is House of Mirth. ~Katie

About A Backward Glance (amazon.com):

"A Backward Glance is Edith Wharton's vivid account of both her public and her private life. With richness and delicacy, it describes the sophisticated New York society in which Wharton spent her youth, and chronicles her travels throughout Europe and her literary success as an adult. Beautifully depicted are her friendships with many of the most celebrated artists and writers of her day, including her close friend Henry James.

In his introduction to this edition, Louis Auchincloss calls the writing in A Backward Glance "as firm and crisp and lucid as in the best of her novels." It is a memoir that will charm and fascinate all readers of Wharton's fiction."

Quotes From the Book:

(PG 47): "The sentimental theory that children must not be made to study anything that does not interest them was already in the air, and reinforced by the fear of "fatiguing" my brain, it made my parents turn my work into play.  Being deprived of the irreplaceable grounding of Greek and Latin, I never learned to concentrate except on subjects naturally interesting to me, and developed a restless curiosity which prevented my fixing my thoughts for long even on these."

(PG 100): "(My husband) taught me never again, when I had the chance to do something difficult and wonderful, must I hesitate to trust to my star-the only condition being that the risk should not be run for anything not really worth it."

(PG 169, from the chapter entitled "Henry James"): "  "What is one's personality, detached from that of the friends with whom fate happens to have linked one?  I cannot think of myself apart from the influence of the two or three greatest friendships of my life, and any account of my own growth must be that of their stimulating and enlightening influence."

(Henry James to Edith about her lack of ability to memorize poetry): " 'It's just because you are dazzled'.  It was only afterward that I saw he had really said all there was to say: that the gift of precision in ecstasy (the best definition I can find for the highest poetry) is probably almost as rare in the appreciator as in the creator, and my years of intellectual solitude had made me so super-sensitive to the joys of great talk that precise recording was impossible to me."


(PG 176): "Henry James was essentially a novelist of manners, and the manners he was qualified by nature and situation to observe were those of the little vanishing group of people among whom he had grown up, or their more picturesque prototypes in older societies."


(PG 178):  "Henry James' slow way of talking was actually a way he used to cover up a stutter that 'in his boyhood had been thought incurable'."


-Henry James cannot handle even the slightest criticism offended his delicate sensibilities.  ("We all saw, that even this slight, and quite involuntary, criticism, had wounde his morbidly delicate sensibilities"--(PG 190)


(PG 191): "This sensitiveness to criticism or comment of any sort (towards Henry James) had nothing to do with vanity; it was caused by the great artist's deep consciousness of his powers, combined with a bitter, a life-long disappointment at his lack of popular recognition.  I am not sure that Henry James had not secretly dreamed of being a 'best seller' in the days when that odd form of literary fame was at its height."


(PG 212):  "If one has sought the publicity of print, and sold one's wares in the open market, one has sold to the purchasers the right to think what they choose about one's books; and the novelist's best safeguard is to put out of his mind the quality of the praise or blame bestowed on him by reviewers and readers, and to write only for that dispassionate and ironic critic who dwells within the breast."

The Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town

From wiki:

The Kids in the Hall is a Canadian sketch comedy group formed in 1984, consisting of comedians Dave Foley, Kevin McDonald, Bruce McCulloch,Mark McKinney, and Scott Thompson. Their eponymous television show ran from 1988 to 1994 on CBC in Canada, and 1989 to 1995 on CBS and HBOin the United States. The theme song for the show was the instrumental "Having an Average Weekend" by the Canadian band Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet. The troupe made one movie, Brain Candy, which was released in 1996.The name of the group came from Sid Caesar, who, if a joke didn't go over, or played worse than expected, would attribute it to "the kids in the hall," referring to a group of young writers hanging around the studio.

Before the troupe formed, Bruce McCulloch and Mark McKinney were working together doing Theatresports in Calgary, performing in a group named "The Audience." Norm Hiscock, Gary Campbell, and Frank Van Keeken were co-members and later became writers on the show. At the same time,Dave Foley and Kevin McDonald were performing around Toronto (along with Luciano Casimiri) as The Kids in the Hall (KITH). In 1984, the two pairs met in Toronto, and began performing regularly as KITH, with a rotating band of members, including Paul Bellini for a short time. When Scott Thompson was invited to join in January 1985, the group had its final form. The same year, McCulloch and Foley appeared in the Anne of Green Gables series, asDiana Barry's husband and a former classmate of Anne's from the fictional Queen's College, respectively.

Not long afterwards, the Kids broke up for a short time when scouts for Saturday Night Live invited McKinney and McCulloch to New York to become writers for that show, Foley made a poorly received movie debut with High Stakes and Thompson and McDonald worked with the Second City touring group. They were reunited in 1986. After SNL's Lorne Michaels saw them perform as a troupe, plans began for a TV show. In 1987 Michaels sent them to New York to what was essentially a "Comedy Boot Camp", and in 1988 their pilot special aired on CBC Television and in the United States on HBO before debuting as a series in 1989.

I have been a rabid KITH fan since I was a freshman in high school. I just think they may be the best comedy troupe ever to exist besides Monty Python. I know not every comedian likes sketch comedy but I could never help myself: I love it. My sister got us tickets for their Tour of Duty, but they cancelled the event because they apparently didn't sell enough tickets so they cancelled. Yeah, I wasn't too happy about that at the time, to say the least, but I'm over it.


I even enrolled in my high school's half-semester theater and improv class because it was a chance to see if I really was funny enough to do improv. I was already known for my sense of humor, and I had so many ideas for sketches and improv games (or theater sports, I guess you can call it).


In 2010 The Kids in the Hall did a one season tv show: "Death Comes to Town". It really was so cool to see the troupe back again even for a short while.  If you're a die-hard fan like I am, you'll really enjoy it.







From wiki: Death Comes to Town:

Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town (or simply Death Comes to Town) is an eight-episode Canadian mini-series that aired on CBC Television on Tuesdays between January 12 and March 16, 2010. The show takes place in a fictional Ontario town called Shuckton where their mayor has been murdered. As the Shuckton residents cope with the loss, a new lawyer moves in to prosecute a suspect – though another resident, unsatisfied with the evidence, tries to find the real killer. At the same time, a character who is a personification of death waits at a motel room for the latest Shuckton residents to die. 

Philosophy etc. haul

Hostel 2

Eli Roth loves loves loves a gore fest.  Thanks to him, I'm warming up to it. This sequel follows a group of young ladies vacationing in Slovakia.  You get to see the chick from "Welcome to the Dollhouse" naked, and to be quite honest: the girl has a figure!  Well, before all the slicing and dicing.  But enough spoilers.  I actually like this sequel because I am a big fan of girls kicking ass.






From wiki:


Hostel: Part II is a 2007 American horror film by writer-director Eli Roth that is the sequel to the 2005 horror film Hostel. The film was released on June 8, 2007 in the United States. Like its predecessor, the film is set in Slovakia and centers on a facility in which rich clients pay to torture and kill kidnapped victims. The film performed poorly at the box office totaling just $17 million by the end of its theatrical run, whereas the original made $19 million in its opening weekend alone. Eli Roth shot scenes for the movie in the Prague online brothel Big Sister and at the Blue Lagoon in Iceland.


Trailer:


http://youtu.be/bq_Xc8h5PHw

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