Well Above Average
Blog URL http://wellaboveaverage.com
Located Santa Monica, California USA
Tags movies, TV, pop culture, random, Current Events, girl stuff, music, books, writing
Rants and raves, facts and fiction, amusing musings and random assorted thoughts. Or more accurately--a way for us to procrastinate when we both have much better things to do with our time!
Latest Blog Posts
- The BlackAdder Ultimate Edition on DVD 10/20 on Nov 19, 2009 in TV DVD
I must admit that I had no knowledge of Rowan Atkinson's (aka Mr. Bean) Blackadder series. Set in Britain in the Middle Ages, the show follows the exploits of the foppish, foolish, conniving Prince Edmund (Atkinson). It's a silly send-up of British...
- The Men Who Stare at Goats on Nov 19, 2009 in movies writing
This movie falls into the same category as many that I've seen this year: good, not great. Quirky, offbeat and fitfully amusing, it's a decent showing for director Grant Heslov, long-time producing partner of George Clooney.The film aims for Coen B...
- Natural Born Killers 15th Anniversary Director's Cut on Nov 3, 2009 in movies DVD
It's hard to believe it's been fifteen years since Oliver Stone's groundbreaking film Natural Born Killers was released. Stone took the script by then up-and-coming writer/director Quentin Tarantino and took it from a standard blood-spattered action...
- Where the Wild Things Are on Nov 2, 2009 in movies
According to IMDB, Warner Bros. decided against marketing this film as a kid's movie and 70% of the marketing budget for it on broad-based and adult driven buys. That, however, didn't prevent a gaggle of kids from traipsing in or for "kid-based" tr...
- A Serious Man on Oct 26, 2009 in movies writing
A Serious Man is seriously dark, seriously surreal, seriously twisted. The Coen Brothers film it reminds me most of is Barton Fink. Certainly, Larry Gropnick, protagonist of A Serious Man shares similar obstacles as Barton Fink. But whereas Fink s...
- Dear Whore of Lucifer on Oct 20, 2009 in random rants
My latest favorite best of Craigslist post comes via Chicago:I have recently enrolled in a 12-step program for people whose lives were decimated and finances ruined by lawyer bills when their spouses filed for divorce after finding someone else to fu...
- Nip/Tuck on DVD 10/6 on Oct 20, 2009 in pop culture TV DVD
One of the benefits of finally getting cable was experimenting with a wide variety of programming. One of those experiments was Nip/Tuck, an FX series about two plastic surgeons and the exaltation of image and superficiality and misogyny. The surge...
