I love the goat cheese that CPK use in their Tomato Basil Spaghettini. I’ve been looking for a goat cheese like theirs. Montchevre is it. So smooth and slightly tangy.

This is one of my and my bf’s favorite movies. Its all about the culture of food. A movie. About food. Two of my favorite things in one.

Formulaicly, its set up like a Western. But its set in 1980a Japan.

There is a main storyline, but there are little side stories like vignettes.

This movie is adorable, with little weirdisms that are normal and inherent in Japanese culture.

There are some inappropriate scenes for younger people. I think my Okinawan gramma would like it. But there are nipples. And I don’t want to be in the room with Gramma when there are nipples.

This is one of my favorite movies. Its also one I can watch over and over (just because its a favorite doesn’t mean I can watch it on repeat).

I concur with the other reviews. The first scene is side-splitingly funny.

This is one of those movies you can just turn your brain off and enjoy. Watch it sober before enibriated.

spoilers!

I watched this when it was in theaters over a year ago, with my parents. I went in not knowing anything about it. I saw one preview that I thought advertised it as a family comedy.

Five minutes into it, I changed my mind. Steve Carrell’s presence was startlingly misleading. Carrell, who normally plays the lovable, dry, funny man was instead heavy and depressed.

The movie starts out, describing the supporting characters’ miserably average lives. But the focus shifts over to Olive, the baby of the family.

I love how every individual set aside their personal shortcomings to support Olive in the end.

The second time I watched it, the scene where Dwayne finds out he’s colorblind and can’t pilot in the Air Force gave me anxiety. It was so emotional and having already seen the movie, I anticipated it, my stomach in knots. Powerful scene indeed.

Little Miss Sunshine is a movie that I highly recommend and deeply enjoy, but its not one that I can enjoy over and over again.

I have this long list of movies I need to watch before, well, I die, I guess. Glengarry has been in cue for only a short while. Anyways. I saw the Alec Baldwin scene on YouTube before I actually saw the movie.

Script was phenomenally normal, like a bunch of guys just talking. It was impressive. You could see with the type of drama and settings how it was adapted from a theatrical drama.

I mostly watched this movie for Bladwin and Harris. The fact that it was a good movie was a bonus.

The movie seemed really short. I wanted more.

I bought this book off Amazon because I was in a reading mood. I’m not really a reader by design, but one day I woke up and wanted to add some books to my collection. I read a book previously from the same author, “Speed Tribes”, which is a great book that I highly recommend.

This book wasn’t really in the same spirit. “Speed Tribes” was all about exposing the seedy subcultures of Japan. Standard Deviations was more personal. Greenfeld wrote about his own experiences and coming of age in New Asia.

Entertaining still.