I'm Addicted to Wikipedia

So one day I was looking a movie up on wikipedia, I have an app on my iphone so that I can use wikipedia at any and all times, and I realized that it told the entire plot of the movie. It not only included major summary points but also points of interest and controversy. It wasn't until later that I truly began to appreciate this feature (imdb.com, also a fave of mine, doesn't include plot spoilers), when I was watching a movie on tv and decided that if things weren't going to work out the way I thought they should then it was going to be a complete waste of my valuable time to finish it. So I wikipedia-ed the movie and found out that not only were things not going to work out the way that I wanted them to, the plot was going to get extremely cheesy towards the end. If there is one thing I can't stand, it's cheesiness. So I didn't finish the movie, but was glad that I knew what happened; I've never liked not seeing movies and books through to the end, I'm always afraid of what I'll be missing. Since that fateful day I have become obsessed with wikipedia. I wikipedia everything: movies, books, actors, actresses, music, etc. Sometimes it does let me down on newer movies or books and won't yet have entire plot summaries, but I'm far more willing to give more recent movies and books a chance so it's not too big of a let down. It's when you're watching the weird and or unheard of movies on AMC or even lifetime that it's better to look it up before wasting valuable time. I also tend to get very emotionally invested in the plots of movies and books. It takes a lot to make me cry in a movie but not a lot to put me in a seriously weird mood. I would much rather know what's going to happen going into a movie so that I can be prepared, rather than leave feeling like I just paid 9.50 to be totally depressed. A perfect example is the movie Brothers (starring Jake Gyllenhall, Natalie Portman, and Tobey Maguire). I went to go see it with Rebecca and Anna when it was in theatres (it totally should have been a rental). It was so not what I was expecting, or what the previews made it out to be. We sat in the theatre for a good 5-10 minutes after the movie ended to let everything sink in. Had I used wikipedia we could have gone to see something else and not wasted a couple hours of our time on the disappointment that was brothers.

Millenium Trilogy

I just finished the Millenium Trilogy (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest). I got a little bored with the second one, but I had a hard time putting all three down. Sadly the author, Stieg Larsson, died of a major heart attack shortly after delivering the three manuscripts. I defintiely wish there was going to be a fouth book. I'm really excited for them to finish casting the American version of the movie; I netflixed the Swedish versions but haven't had the chance to watch them yet. Daniel Craig is on board to play the lead role, definitely a solid choice. I'm hoping they'll pick Ellen Page for Lisbeth Salander, I think she would be perfect.

Only in Louisville

My mom took me to vote in Tennessee's republican primary the other day since I was new to voting in Louisville and wasn't sure where to go. Voting was at the fire department, or rather where the new fire department is being built, and was set up in what appeared to be a barn. Awesome. As we were leaving we saw a man pull up on his lawn mower to vote. Only in Louisville would someone take their lawn mower on the road. Upon my mentioning something about said man, my mother informed me that when she and my dad had voted during early voting someone had driven a tractor. Even better.