i heart virgos

The crew gathered together again in NYC to celebrate #31!





In trying to navigate us around the city, I encountered a toothless, er... 2-toothed bus driver. He commented on the tank I was wearing, which was designed and given as a gift by W in honor of the weekend - it read "I heart virgos." He says to me, I'm a virgo, do you love me? haha ok, yes, so where does your bus go?

I was slightly amused since this was the first comment I had gotten on the tank, and returned to the group to announce that 1) the tank top got attention - the bus driver was a virgo! *exclamation!* and 2) not the right bus. At that moment, the bus driver had just stepped out of his bus and overheard the conversation, and was feeling pretty tickled with the whole situation of us being virgos and all. But then fiance P pops out, who is wearing the T-shirt version of "I heart virgos" and gives the driver a come hither look. Guy is stunned, and not only then denies that he's a virgo, but pulls out a TATTOO of the taurus sign ON HIS ARM!!!

Caught in a lie! Good thing he had proof in form of permanent ink...

surroundings

We awoke one morning to find this spectacular web complete with gigantic spider right outside the front door of our California home.

For scale.

During birthweekend (more on this later!), I spotted this on a cruise around Manhattan.

nuggets

As discussed on Sarah & Vinnie this morning:





What's funny about Joaquin Phoenix is that he's trying to reinvent himself as a hip hop artist, but while doing that, he decides to make a movie out of it. Like, to add onto his filmography. Hm.

(And yes, I still listen to the San Francisco morning talk show even though I live in NYC now. Actually perfectly timed so that I can listen to them during my sleepy morning work hours. I even tried to win an iPad this morning.)

STEP UP 3D

Yeah yeah yeah. It's a girl's guilty pleasure. So why not go with a couple of girlfriends?

It's like how Brandi Carlile put it during a concert I went to. In her case, she was referring to country music.

IT'S JUST SO BAD. AND BY BAD, I MEAN GOOOOOD.

I genuinely liked the first installment of Step Up. Sure, it had a typical storyline and was pretty predictable, but it was a believable movie and had all that delicious dancing. I know of 3 movies with the same storyline now (Step Up, Save the Last Dance, Fame), but that definitely does not mean that there aren't more.

Step Up 3D, however, tries out a slightly different storyline, but as a result, has some of the worse writing ever. We, along with others in the audience, LAUGHED wholeheartedly at some of the lines. I have to commend the actors for being able to deliver what they were dealt. And the 3D and sound effects, which were supposed to enhance the dancing, were actually injustices to the movie. It made the dancing look fake, but those dancers can darn well do those moves shown in the film.

Given all that, as long as you go in expecting a bad bad movie, as in so bad it's good, you'll have a great time. Cheese, attitude, and phenomenal dancing are ingredients to an awesomely bad and fun movie!

Nice to see some familiar faces:

Legacy and Twitch from SYTYCD

Silent guy from Glee, Harry Shum Jr.

One last observation:

Am I right?