#the only thing between me and graduating is adam sandler

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i know i say this a lot but this might be the actual worst idea i’ve ever had

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new york’s very own lydia galloway was spotted on broadway street , with a striking semblance to victoria pedretti ! you may know them as @galloways or hitting the front page of tmz as LYDIA GALLOWAY PROFESSES LOVE FOR ADAM SANDLER FOR 15 MINS ON INSTA LIVE … AGAIN. according to tmz , you just had your twenty-third birthday bash . while living in nyc , you’ve been labeled as being facetious , but also ardent . things that would paint a better picture of you would be small, inconsequential stick and pokes , bumming cigarettes off of others after swearing cold turkey the night before , drinking $11 smoothies that taste like someone’s backyard all because you saw gwenyth paltrow drink one . ( cisfemale + she/her  )

hi hello !!!  my name is barb and this is my 2nd time around in wealthyhq. v excited 2 be back, v excited to write with everyone !!!  this is gonna be uber short bc i have work in less than an hr and yeah , pls message me or like this to plot and i hope y’all like this dumbo !!!

lydia is frm brooklyn and yeah ,,, the accent is there you won’t have 2 guess on that one. her parents are very big in the entertainment industry as her mother is a hotshot producer who’s worked for all the big directors and her father is on the same level as brad pitt. she’s met brad pitt, gr8 guy

growing up she NEVER wanted 2 be apart of the spotlight it scared her like no other. she saw how pushy the paparazzi could be, how ugly the haters were. lydia made sure to make it clear with her family that she never ever wanted to be famous. her parents obliged by her wishes and kept her out of the limelight. due to this, she was able to go wherever and do whatever she wanted. there was an occasional camera pushed in her face, but she lived a really normal childhood.

when she graduated frm high school, she went to college 4 graphic design but eventually dropped out to help her friend with his streetwear brand. his famous friends became her friends and the more and more they posted photos with her on insta or mentioned her in a tweet, the more the internet got nosy on who she was. “is that ur new gf?”, “who is she?”, “uhhh that lowkey looks like the girl from hill house wtf”; the attention was growing and it didn’t get any better once she started to date one of the fuckboys in their ever-growing social circle.

being the girlfriend of an up and rising singing heartthrob wasn’t as bad as dating someone who was already established in the entertainment industry, but his fans were about as loyal as could be. it seemed half adored her while the other wanted her out of the picture. with every “STEP ON ME!!!!” comment there were five d3@th threat comments to follow. the wild scary fans eventually calmed down once they became more established as a couple, but lydia could never shake the anxiety that followed.

as her and her beau broke up this year (many speculate it was due to him never standing up for her, which it definitely played part, but it was mainly due to a drunken night of her sobbing and screaming how they just didn’t work), the fanbase she accumulated over the years never died down. while she was just arm candy for the famous or their “strange new friend”, she was making her own come-up happen behind the scenes. was she subconsciously using them? YES, but no one gotta say it like that!!! her new clothing brand, Dog Eat Dog Co., has gained a cult following. many celebrities alike have been seen wearing her clothes, which is just the start for her.

PERSONALITY

def still working on that for her, but off her own online presence, she exudes that “cool girl” lifestyle that many people essentially just assume is how she is irl. which, SURE, she can come off that way, but lydia is much more complex than that. she’s super shy, reserved which could come off bitchy to people but in reality, she’s a big ol’ scaredy cat. she’s extremely goofy and is always making her friends laugh. she has rose-colored lenses for people and is always letting the wrong people in. she’s great and dumb and everything in-between!!!

rn she’s trying to coming to terms that she is a big bumbling lesbian but it’s also very scary to her and pls don’t ask for opinions on boys bc she will stutter her way into a different topic. 

does she have mommy issues due to her only wanting to drink when she was home which wasn’t often essentially leaving lydia feeling unloved by her? umm yeah :) don’t point it out she will cry :)

:)

as for connections, i love everything and anything okay loves it !!! ttyl beautiful peoples !!!

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Cole Sprouse on How ‘Riverdale’ Transformed Him From Disney Child Star to Leading Man

Most child actors don’t thrive in Hollywood past puberty. Cole Sprouse opted out on his own terms. The 2005 hit Disney Channel sitcom “The Suite Life of Zack & Cody” turned Cole and his twin brother, Dylan, into the Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen of their generation. But after the series and its spinoff wrapped, Cole was ready for something new.

Sprouse tells this story between cigarette breaks while sitting on the “Riverdale” set in Vancouver. The show became an instant hit for The CW Network when it debuted in the winter of 2017. Sprouse’s role as the sardonic narrator Jughead has allowed him to reinvent himself as an actor in his 20s. This year, he starred in his first grown-up film, “Five Feet Apart,” as a man with cystic fibrosis who falls in love with a patient down the hall. The drama, distributed by CBS Films in March, became a sleeper hit, grossing almost $46 million at the domestic box office.

“It’s very difficult to make the jump from Disney child star to serious leading man in Hollywood,” says Justin Baldoni, the director of “Five Feet Apart.”

Sprouse spent the first 18 years of his life acting, guided by other people’s decisions. “My mother and father divorced at a young age,” he says. “I never knew them to be together. Our mother was really the main fuel for us to pursue acting. We booked a diaper commercial, and that got the ball rolling.” One of his earliest professional memories is from the ABC sitcom “Grace Under Fire,” where he shared the role of the family’s infant son with his brother. “Oh, we were exploiting child labor laws,” Sprouse says with a smirk Having two identical boys meant that they could collectively work a full day, by splitting the job in half..

That was an arrangement they used often — although sometimes they’d take roles on their own (such as when Cole portrayed Ross’ son on “Friends”). Their big break was getting cast together in the 1999 comedy “Big Daddy,” playing an abandoned kid adopted by a boorish bachelor in the form of Adam Sandler. Sprouse recalls how one night during the shoot, a fire alarm went off in the hotel the cast was staying at in New York. “Adam Sandler carried me on his shoulder down 45 flights of stairs, which was really cute,” he says. “We were taught every single bad word. So when my brother and I went back to school, we swore like sailors.”

Most of the time, they were homeschooled. “I don’t feel like I missed out on the United States public high school education,” Sprouse says. “My brother and I both have ADHD, and I needed one-on-one attention from a tutor.” Getting their own sitcom on Disney Channel made their careers explode. “It was the golden ticket,” Sprouse says. “At the time, being the leads of a sitcom as kids was the most stable job we could think about in the industry. In terms of technical acting, it’s only 30 minutes long. My brother and I were really thankful for it.”

They were able to avoid the scandals that consume other Disney stars because of their strong family network. “Cole and I had each other,” Dylan says. “We were blessed to have someone experiencing the same thing at the same time, as an objectivity to the reality of it all.” Dylan recalls one day, as a teenager, getting into a drag-out fistfight with his brother between takes — it was broken up when a fan asked them for a photo backstage. “It was such a weird and funny moment that we actually calmed down, laughing at each other.”

They spent six years at Disney, with three seasons on “The Suite Life of Zack & Cody” and another three on the spinoff, “The Suite Life on Deck.” Despite an offer to do a third series with Disney, Cole and Dylan knew they wanted to attend college, and both were accepted to NYU. Still, it took some adjustment. “The amount of rumors that were spread about Dylan and I were incredible,” says Cole, who heard stories about how he’d fallen down the stairs at the school library. “When you’re a public figure, people use you to build their identities. And I think that was a bit daunting. But also because I’d been homeschooled, I had no idea what it was like to interact with other people socially.”

(..) But Sprouse isn’t in a hurry to graduate from “Riverdale.” He says the show has given him a renewed appreciation for acting, one he couldn’t have when he was younger, because he was so focused on being his family’s breadwinner.

“I’m somewhat of a workaholic,” Sprouse says. “Maybe that’s my child-star brain, where I just can’t stop thinking about being a commodity.”

On the day of our set visit, the four “Riverdale” actors are shooting at a house on the outskirts of Vancouver that’s been converted into an ominous location. This episode, which will air in the fall, is a tribute to Luke Perry, who played Archie’s dad and died in March at the age of 52 from a stroke. Sprouse has talked about what Perry meant to him, and how his passing affected him deeply. Between takes, the actors are mostly quiet.

Sprouse says that these scenes — which involve Jughead helping Archie say goodbye to his father — have required some thought. “The important line we’ve all been trying to draw is how to separate, how we can portray real emotions, but in the eyes of the characters,” he says. “If I was making this an entire sob story about my relationship with Luke, it wouldn’t be a job well done. My job is to do it in the eyes of Jughead.” And he doesn’t think Perry would approve of tears. “Luke was the kind of guy who would not like people crying about him,” Sprouse says. “I hope this episode does him justice, but I think the way we lived with him does him justice as well.”

Dylan thinks that Cole could become “a great cinematographer or director.” When he’s not acting, Cole sidelines as a professional photographer, shooting spreads for magazines and fashion brands like Moncler, which sent him to Iceland for a campaign. “Most of the people that I speak to initially don’t know him from his acting,” says his photography agent, Glenn Wassall, who represents Annie Leibovitz. He describes Sprouse’s aesthetic as “fashion within landscape,” as in a portrait of a woman bundled in a glamorous coat against a backdrop of ice-covered mountains.

Cole could see himself working again with Dylan, who has also gone back to acting, with an indie film, “Tyger Tyger,” out next year. “We’ve talked about it,” Cole says, adding that it wouldn’t be a reboot or a reunion for Disney. “The whole kitschy twin thing, I don’t think that really sells anymore.” He explains what would convince them: “It’s about feeling passionate for acting again. If it’s a cool project, I don’t have a problem with that.”

Source: Variety

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‘Riverdale’ heartthrob Cole Sprouse goes for leading man status in ‘Five Feet Apart’

When Cole Sprouse left Hollywood, he didn’t think he’d ever come back. He was 18, and he’d been acting alongside his identical twin brother since they were in diapers. The choice to work as a kid had not been his own: His single mother wanted to be around for the boys and have a steady career, and putting her twins in the entertainment industry seemed like a “lucrative alternative,” he says now.

But then Sprouse and his brother, Dylan, landed their own Disney Channel show, “The Suite Life of Zack & Cody.” By 13 they’d signed a licensing agreement with Dualstar Entertainment Group, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen’s company, to develop their own quarterly lifestyle magazine, ringtones and cologne. They were full-blown teen heartthrobs.

And yet when it came time to apply for college, the twins decided — unlike fellow Disney stars Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez or the Jonas Brothers — that they wanted to pursue higher education and enrolled at NYU.

“My brother and I were getting recognized a lot. It became one of those things that we realized we had just sort of taken as gospel since we were little kids, and that there was another path through life,” Sprouse, now 26, recalls. “I was completely content, at the time, to let the Disney shows exist within this little nostalgic bubble and I was ready to move on.”

But somehow here he is now, sitting on the balcony of a ritzy hotel smoking Marlboros, promoting his first leading role in a movie, “Five Feet Apart.” And the film, a romantic drama about two young lovers with cystic fibrosis, is not the only project he’s taken on since graduating with honors from NYU in 2015. For the past two years he’s starred as Jughead on the CW series “Riverdale,” a teen drama based on the Archie comics.

The program, which has already been renewed for a fourth season, has reignited Sprouse’s popularity. On Instagram, he has nearly 24 million followers, many of whom are obsessed with tracking his real-life relationship with his on-screen love interest, Lili Reinhart.

“Riverdale” also rekindled Sprouse’s love for acting. During college he did none of it, opting to study something completely different: archaeology, geographic information systems and satellite imaging. He became interested in the field because his grandfather was a geologist and “it seemed like an academic discipline that was really competitive and challenging. I fancied testing if I could do something like that.”

He traveled to Germany, France and Bulgaria for excavations, and on one dig, after spending six weeks hunched over a 1-by-1-foot trench of dirt with a toothpick, he pulled a 35,000-year-old Aurignacian stone blade out of the ground. Following graduation, he began working in cultural resource management as an archaeological assistant in a Brooklyn artifact laboratory. He was thinking about going into academia: studying at graduate school, researching a specific time period or peoples and becoming a professor.

But then he heard from his acting manager, who, per Sprouse’s request, had left him alone during his four years at NYU.

“He asked me to come back for a single pilot season. I was on this path, but I said ‘OK, if I don’t book anything, I don’t think I want to do acting anymore,’” he says. He did book something — “Riverdale” — and soon began to realize it wasn’t acting itself he had an issue with.

“From a very young age, the industry had been defined as a business,” he continues, “and it took me going away to school for a while and redefining that to find [performing] as a passion again.”

On “Riverdale,” Sprouse’s Jughead is a something of an outsider — an artsy writer with a signature beanie and leather jacket. Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, the show’s creator, initially thought the actor might be a better fit for Archie, the lovable jock. But after reading the pilot script, Sprouse expressed interest in Jughead — even though the character only had one scene in the episode.

“It was already kind of a sign that he viewed himself differently,” says the showrunner. “I think Cole is an old soul. He’s done a lot, and he’s seen a lot, and I think that gives him a little bit of wisdom that other actors his age might not have. When he smiles, he looks like a true 15-year-old kid. But when he furrows his brow, he looks like he has the weight of the world on his shoulders.”

When it came to tackling his first adult movie part — he and his brother were in Adam Sandler’s “Big Daddy” as boys — Sprouse didn’t want to stray too far outside of his comfort zone. Recognizing the persona he’d established on “Riverdale,” he chose to play a similar archetype in “Five Feet Apart”: Will, a brooding teenager whose rebellious spirit attracts his romantic interest, played by Haley Lu Richardson of “Split” and “Support the Girls.”

“This role was interesting in a larger business sense, because a return to film also meant a question of how much of [the ‘Riverdale’] audience would turn out,” says Sprouse. “I didn’t want it to feel so incredibly distinct.”

The CBS Films production, out Friday, follows two CF patients as they fall in love but are unable to physically touch due to risk of cross infection. Cystic fibrosis is a genetic, progressive disease that affects lung function, making it difficult to breathe; the average life expectancy for the 30,000 afflicted in the U.S. is 37.5 years.

Justin Baldoni, who makes his directorial debut on “Five Feet Apart,” is also an actor on a CW series: “Jane the Virgin.” But he and Sprouse never crossed paths at network affairs. Instead, Baldoni began thinking of him for the role after catching some of his interviews on morning talk shows.

“Cole’s a great actor, but I was actually more interested in who he was off-screen,” explains Baldoni. “Cole had to grow up a lot faster than the normal kid. He was surrounded by adults: directors and producers and writers and people that were basically employing him. … When you grow up with cystic fibrosis, you grow up with doctors and nurses. Those are your friends. You learn medical terminology. You have to understand regimens and taking care of yourself in a way that regular kids don’t. You’re forced to grow up a lot faster. So there was an interesting parallel between Cole’s life and Will��s life.”

Baldoni came to “Five Feet Apart” having steeped himself in the world of CF. He had the idea for the film while working on a web series about those with terminal illnesses, “My Last Days.” One of the episodes focused on an 18-year-old girl named Claire Wineland, a CF patient whom Baldoni became so close to that he ultimately hired her to serve as a consultant on “Five Feet Apart.”

Sprouse spent a lot of time with Wineland, who died last September three months after filming was completed, talking about how CF affects both the mind and the body, including how the disease makes it difficult to gain or maintain weight. Together, he says, they came to the conclusion that it would be “a really powerful choice to embody that physicality,” and so with the aid of a nutritionist, Sprouse lost 25 pounds over the course of five weeks.

Sprouse initially told Baldoni he was somewhat hesitant to sign onto “Five Feet Apart” because he knows the scrutiny that films in this genre — “The Fault in Our Stars,” “A Walk to Remember,” “Me Before You” — can face for romanticizing illness.

“But I’m a believer that even if it might feel like the volume is a little bit too high within that genre, it still serves as an amazing platform to discuss something like cystic fibrosis,” says Sprouse. “And the star-crossed lover narrative — this is something that has existed before Shakespeare to Ovid and Pyramus and Thisbe. It’s part of our cultural memory bank. It’s one of those motifs that we just understand so well.”

Sprouse, who has the kind of poster-boy mane that’s perfect for brushing out of his eyes, frequently peppers his speech with these kind of literary references. He and his brother were the first ones on their father’s side of the family to go to college, which is “positive upward momentum” he’s proud of. Someday he hopes to spark a larger conversation about the California High School Proficiency Examination, a test that many young actors take at 16 so they can receive the legal equivalent of a high school diploma and no longer be considered minors.

“It basically cripples young academics who are working children from feeling capable to take the SAT and the ACT,” Sprouse says. “So many of us don’t go to college because our skill sets are not defined enough to be able to take those tests that would eventually allow us to apply. And kids are encouraged to do it because if you’re 18, you can work more hours and hypothetically make more money — and also because as a kid, you always want to sit back in your high chair and go ‘Yeah, I’m an adult.’”

On set, his collaborators have come to value his intelligence. Aguirre-Sacasa says that Sprouse “does a ton of work” on the “Riverdale” scripts, asking questions about the scenes and offering different points of view.

“A lot of times our episodes are homages to different films,” the executive says. “So Cole asked: ‘Can you send me a list of the movies you’re referencing in any given episode?’ And I’m that exact same way.”

While Sprouse no longer dreams of leading excavations in far-off lands, he’s found another non-acting passion that fulfills the “desire for learning and otherness” that archaeology did: photography. A few years ago, he walked into One World Trade Center in New York wearing a button-up T-shirt and asked the receptionist at Conde Nast Traveler magazine, “Hey, can anyone give me a job?”

He was pointed in the direction of former creative director Yolanda Edwards, who was willing to toss him a few unpaid assignments. Since then he’s landed a handful of high-profile gigs for Elle, W Magazine, Adidas and J Brand. He’s planning to spend the majority of his upcoming hiatus from “Riverdale” working as a fashion photographer.

Sprouse showcases some of his work on his Instagram account, which he admits is “very curated.” He’ll often delete old photos of himself, and he’s careful not to post too many photos of his girlfriend, Reinhart.

“I’ve girded my private life very intentionally,” he says. “It’s one of those things that I still sort of grapple with, and Lili and I grapple with.”

Asked if he thought about how much attention dating his costar might garner, he says he had no choice in the matter: “We legitimately could not stay away from one another.”

Beyond Reinhart, he and his cast mates — who film in Vancouver — are exceptionally close, especially of late, as they grapple with the loss of “Riverdale” costar Luke Perry.

“It’s been very, very hard this week,” he acknowledges, referring to juggling his film press responsibilities with his grief. “But the family has asked us all to keep it as private as possible, and I respect them tremendously through this time, so I continue to do so. We go back tomorrow, and it’ll be nice to be together. We all got together and talked it out a couple days ago, and then they gave us a couple of days off of production to acclimate, which was really wonderful.”

As for his future as an actor, Sprouse says he doesn’t expect to leave Hollywood again any time soon.

“It’s easy to forget, because this industry has so many different sides to it, that the act of acting is an incredibly enjoyable thing,” he says. “It’s a really empowering thing to do and it’s all the stuff on the outside of it — the publicity and the celebrity — which I actually had a problem with.”

Source: LA Times

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The Best (and Worst) Films of 2017

Determining what you deem to be the “best” films of a given year – or the “worst,” for that matter – is something of a drain. First of all, what, exactly, is your criteria? Do you choose the films that made the most impact on you? The ones that months later you still remember in vivid detail? The ones that seemed the best made? Sometimes, a film you dismiss one year you eventually come to realize is actually very, very good. Other times (though more rare), a film you absolutely loathed comes around for you and you realize you made a huge mistake in your original harsh judgment. Ultimately, it has to come down to the most basic and inexcusable of fallacies: It just feels right to you, for whatever reason, and shut up, it’s my list. This obviously makes these year-end lists little more than a document of my utterly subjective whims in a given calendar year, so take any of these so-called lists, no matter how definitive they want to appear to be, with a giant salt-lick block. Withering disclaimers in place, let’s go ahead and do this.

The 20 Best Films of 2017

20. Wind River Taylor Sheridan’s directing debut – a whodunit conducted on reservation lands in frigid Wyoming, lead by a BFW hunter (Jeremy Renner) and a neophyte FBI agent (Elizabeth Olsen) -- does have some glaring weaknesses – he does seem preternaturally fond of the whole “female agent in over her head” dynamic, and there is certainly some White Guy in Native Lands stuff that might turn people off. But one thing he does get right is the landscape, in all its pitiless beauty, and a sense of just how thoroughly American society has largely turned its back to the plight of our country’s native peoples. It’s a murder mystery with more of a political kick than you might expect. Full Review

19. Logan Just when the superhero genre had about exhausted its bag of tricks, James Mangold’s more haunting vision of a Wolverine (played for the last time by Hugh Jackman) old, riddled with guilt and doubt, and loss of purpose felt like a revelation. The lion in winter, whose adamantium claws were still in effect – and to particularly bloody purpose, with the application of the hard ‘R’ rating – became a version of the character we hadn’t seen before, and one that proved to have much more emotional complexity. Full Review

18. The Meyerwitz Stories (New and Selected) I realize Noah Baumbach, with his archly literary sensibilities and dynamic wordplay between admittedly sad sack, often dislikable characters, isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. But I’ve always found his stuff riveting, and here, with a full-blown cast (including Dustin Hoffman, Adam Sandler, Emma Thompson, and Ben Stiller) and a bevy of characters whose intricate interactions yield emotionally rich scene work, he’s in fine fettle. Sandler, proving once again that he’s capable of far more than brainless, lazy fart comedies when pressed by a good director, is very strong, and Hoffman, playing an irascible, egocentric aging patriarch, is excellent. Full Review

17. Berlin Syndrome Another film I thought would do better than its limited-run-straight-to-video release might indicate, Cate Shortland’s cat-and-mouse thriller about an Aussie tourist in Berlin (Teresa Palmer) who has a brief affair with a German man (Max Riemelt) before he abducts her and keeps her locked in his apartment for months on end. The film is smart and riveting – featuring yeoman work from the two leads, and a pulse-tripping last act that welded me to my seat – and, in this unofficial Year of the Female, featured a strong-as-nails heroine standing up to the worst sort of male oppression, a perfect metaphor for 2017. Capsule Review

16. Free Fire Amongst an admittedly soul-searing line-up at the 2016 Toronto Film Festival, Ben Wheatley’s absurdly entertaining shoot-em-up struck me as exactly the kind of elixir I needed to pick myself up off the floor. With a sterling cast – including Armie Hammer, Cillian Murphy, and Oscar-winner Brie Larson – and a can’t miss bottle-episode premise – a pair of gangs during a gun-buy gone bad are forced to square off against each other in an abandoned umbrella warehouse in ‘70s-era Boston – work to make this thing pop like a series of firecrackers. I actually expected it to be a bigger hit than its more modest returns indicate, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it picks up steam after repeated viewings on cable and streaming services. Someday, it will get its due. Full Review

15. A War Quietly, Tobias Lindholm has been making tremendous films over the last decade, either working with director Tomas Vinterberg, or on his own helmed projects. This military drama stars “Game of Thrones” actor Pilou Asbek – a star in his own right in his native Denmark – as a captain of an outpost in Afghanistan forced to make a difficult, but totally understandable, decision that leads to his having to endure a court martial hearing. Asbek is absolutely masterful, and Lindholm has a way of creating difficult and complex narratives that puts his characters and his audience in a moral quandary. Full Review

14. The Salesman Every film from Iranian auteur Asghar Farhadi is a cause for celebration, and this film – an interesting meditation on repressive misogyny, Iranian social politics, and Arthur Miller – is no exception. The film utilizes Farhadi’s trademark tightly wound, concentric narrative wrapped around a central core mystery. While it’s not quite at the level of some of his best work (including A Separation, and The Past) it’s nevertheless a fascinating film further probing deeply into the human condition. Capsule Review

13. Strong Island I had the pleasure of watching Yance Ford’s deeply moving doc, about the murder of his older brother and the ways his loss devastated her once-happy family, at last spring’s True/False festival. Here’s what I wrote about it at the time: “Shot in a pastiche of styles – for most of the interviews, the camera keeps a respectful distance, but for Ford’s own confessions, he shoots almost uncomfortably close, almost daring us to look away – the somber themes are greatly enhanced by the addition of inspired poetic visuals: an angled roof against the blue of the sky, snow swirling in air against a dark night, a particularly haunting overhead shot of the grease stain on the concrete outside the garage where his brother lay down to die, which untether the film from clear narrative delineation, and send it into spiraling layers of grief and acceptance. The result is uncompromising and almost impossibly raw.” Capsule Review

12. Wonder Woman Just when we were all ready to take the DCU and chuck it into Zack Snyder’s garbage disposal, along comes Diana Prince, who revitalized the entire comic book genre, and breathed new life into what had been Warner Bros. desultory foray into comic book universes (a life almost immediately put back on life support after the disastrous Justice League debacle this past fall, but I digress). Gal Gadot’s star turn as the heroine of the summer could not have come at a more precipitous time, given the political wave of female empowerment, and Patty Jenkins’ film was thrilling and ground-breaking. DC might have only given us one winning film this year, but it certainly was a doozy. Full Review

11. Graduation Cristian Mungiu’s narratives always challenge his protagonists in deeply disturbing ways, either by dint of the oppression they are under, or the moral quandaries he elicits. His latest film, about a well-connected Romanian doctor (Adrian Tetieni) who uses his influence to illicitly aid his stricken daughter (Maria Dragus) on the eve of her college entrance exams, is another master study of moral nuance and precise scene composition. A single, wordless shot of the doctor coming home with his wife (Lia Bugnar) sitting in the kitchen tells us everything we need to know about their marriage, which is fantastic filmmaking. Mungiu greatly helped spur the Romanian cinematic revival over the last two decades, this film continues to cement his considerable legacy. Capsule Review

10. The Unknown Girl Recently, the Dardennes Bros. have been quietly making some of the more ethically absorbing films of the last few years. In 2014’s Two Days, One Night, we got to see the plight of a depressed woman attempting to get her old job back by pleading with her co-workers; here, we follow an obsessive doctor, Jenny (Adèle Haenel), after a young woman is murdered after first trying to gain entry into her small clinic after hours. Jenny devotes most of her time and energy not to try and solve the crime, but only to discover the identity of the woman so she can notify her family. You get the impression the Dardennes – whose previous oeuvre contains many unflinching dramas – want to lay out the ways we need to respond to our fellow human beings in order to be truly happy with ourselves. It says something that their protagonists stand out so much for simply just doing the right thing. Capsule Review

9. Personal Shopper Kristen Stewart has become far more than a starlet; she’s a bloody force of nature. Working again with Olivier Assayas (their previous collaboration, Clouds of Sils Maria, was also very strong), the two have made a film so filled with provocative energy, it can’t stay in one place for very long. Part ghost story; part fashion treatise; part character study; part Millennial ode, it moves in so many directions, you can’t catch your breath. Rather than feel scattershot, however, it’s anchored by Stewart and her undeniable screen presence. It will be fascinating to watch the rest of her career play out as she gets older and her muse carries her in different directions. Full Review

8. My Happy Family One of the joys of going to a festival like Sundance (and having critic friends with excellent taste) is getting to catch films you likely wouldn’t have seen under normal circumstances. Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Groß’s Georgian drama concerns a middle-aged matriarch (Ia Shugliashvili, in a fantastic performance) who suddenly decides to move out of her busy apartment where her vast extended family live, and move into her own flat where she can hear herself think. To her husband’s consternation, no matter how tightly the thumbscrews are applied, she remains resolute, which comes to make more and more sense as the drama unfurls. Currently on Netflix, I can’t recommend this one strongly enough. Capsule Review

7. I, Tonya One of the true surprises at last year’s TIFF, Craig Gillespie’s black comedy plays out the life and times of Tonya Harding with verve, wit, and absolutely brilliant performances, none more so that Allison Janey’s scene-stealing turn as Tonya’s witheringly acerbic mother. “Through a series of recreated interviews with the participants, screenwriter Steven Rogers has a grand time, breaking 4th walls, and giving glorious, epithet-spewing life to its decidedly lowbrow characters. Admirably, it also manages to make salient points as to the nature of celebrity culture, and the simple, one-dimensional character forms that American society so adores. It’s a colorful noisemaker, with a strand of barbed wire wrapped around the handle.” Capsule Review

6. Lady Bird Greta Gerwig’s directorial debut was a spiky, scintillating reverie on teen identity, and the difficulties of holding onto those things that most matter to you even as you strive to open yourself up to totally new experiences. “At its heart, too, through all of its sweetly comic undertones -- and laugh out loud bits of extemporaneous dialogue that flows through Gerwig's script like a guzzle of warm syrup -- it's an emotionally powerful evocation of the way loving parents and their children have to forge a way to learn to live apart from one another. "I want you to be the very best version of yourself you can be," her mother tells her at one point, and Lady Bird's struggle to figure out just who that might be is thoroughly captivating.” Full Review

5. The Florida Project A kind of reimagined Little Rascals, but set at an Orlando residence motel on the dirty outskirts of the strip outside Disney World, Sean Baker’s film is filled with the vitality and spark of life, even as the lives it depicts are difficult and often suffering. As far as the children of these hard-scrabble parents are concerned, the whole area is like an unsupervised playground. Featuring fantastic performances from the children – and a wondrous turn by Willem Dafoe, as the building manager – none more so than impossibly young Brooklynn Prince, the film is smart, sassy, and, at the end, extremely moving. Full Review

4. Get Out Much digital ink has already been spilled (um, generated?) in praise of Jordan Peele’s stunning directorial debut, a brilliant comedy/horror-based dissection of racial politics in this country, but here’s just a bit more: Peele’s film is so tightly constructed and carefully put together, it works equally well on multiple levels. That a film so loaded with racial politics can also be so damn entertaining is a marvel that needs to be seen multiple times before fully appreciated. Full Review

3. Phantom Thread Not that there was any serious doubt before but Paul Thomas Anderson is so fully in control of his craft he can make a riveting, emotionally wrenching film from a fussbudget dressmaker who likes his breakfast to be eerily silent. It helps when you have the luminescent efforts of a fantastic cast – lead by Daniel Day Lewis, in his reported last ever film role – but PTA is also the man who put that cast together and got such fantastic performances out of them. It’s a love story from a particularly obtuse angle – in this way, somewhat reminiscent of PTA’s earlier Punch Drunk Love – but takes such vibrant risks along the way, it’s all you can do to keep from applauding midway through. Delicate, fussy, nuanced, and absolutely gorgeous to look at (thank you, DP PTA!), with a wondrous score from Johnny Greenwood, it’s almost shockingly good. If this is indeed Day-Lewis’ last film, he’s gone out with a hell of a swansong. Full Review 

2. Call Me By Your Name I have written more about this film, and the year’s best winner, over this year than I can ever remember doing before. Hence, I quote but one of my various musings thusly: “The film’s first couple of hours are perfectly entertaining, but is in its closing scenes that it goes from engaging to sublime, including a monologue from [Michael] Stuhlbarg, consoling his now-bereft son, that is truly one for the ages. The closing credits, set over a long, single-take of Elio’s face in front of the fire, will sear your soul.” Full Review

1. A Ghost Story Ladies and gentlemen, David Lowery’s powerful meditation on love, time, and the fallacy of human legacy was the only film this year that very nearly dropped me to my knees in anguish as I departed the theater. You can actually view it as having something of a happy ending, but even so, it strikes nerves deep in your cerebral cortex you never even knew existed before. “It’s a film of felt, quiet spaces, whose emotional intensity builds in small increments to become at times almost overwhelming. It goes places you don’t expect, and keeps you there, frozen stiff in your chair, as it comes full circle. It’s definitely not a film for everybody – if, for example, you require three full acts and complete character arcs, you might want to take a flyer – but for the people who can hang with it, it has an enormous amount to offer.” Full Review

Other Worthy Mentions:

47 Meters Down, A Gray State, Abundant Acreage Available, Atomic Blonde, Baby Driver, Bad Day for the Cut, Beach Rats, Beatriz at Dinner, Blame, Did You Wonder Who Shot the Gun?, Dunkirk, I Don’t Feel At Home In This World Anymore, Jane, Killing Ground, mother!, Quest, The Cage Fighter, The Endless, The Force, The Square, Thumper

The 5 Worst Films of 2017

5. Mary Shelley “Unfortunately, working from a truly terrible script from Emma Jensen, Al Mansour’s film is at best inartful, and at worst, the kind of simplistic, every-scene-has-a-point! pabulum that would embarrass a high school English class. Each element of Frankenstein is foreshadowed (here, Mary learns about galvanism; here, she sees an article about sewing body parts together, et al.), as if all she needed to do to write the novel was to pluck them directly from the sources. Even the film’s strongest moments – where Al Mansour, the worlds first female Saudi director, gets to show 18th century male oppression at its most vile and condescending – get watered down under that lead weight of a script. Everyone deserved better.” Capsule Review

4. Hostiles “Cooper confuses macho bravado and grittiness for any kind of verisimilitude – there are a staggering number of plot holes, and character inconsistencies – including the continual presence of a pretty frontierswoman (Rosamund Pike), whose family was wiped out by a group of marauding Comanche – that only serve to move the meandering plot forward. Worse yet, the action sequences themselves are both incoherent, and oddly designed (one of the oddest choices is putting us outside a closed series of tents in one scene, such that the action sequence is totally lost on us). The male actors sport very real and copious facial hair, as to suggest the worthiness of the project, but any filmmaker that can take a pair of powerhouse actors like Bale and Ben Foster and reduce them to this level of low-wattage really needs to self-examine.” Capsule Review

3. The Promise “Worse than any of its stylistic decisions, however, is to take something as horrific and criminally under-represented as the Armenian genocide and saddle it with a hokey love story that is virtually lifeless on its own. Naturally, the timeliness of the film -- taking us back to another age where virulent nationalism ran rampant, and minority groups were targeted as the subjects of its wrath -- is all too sickeningly relevant in the age of Brexit and Steve Bannon's type of exclusionist populism, but even there, the film either falters on the side of its overbaked plot, or sticks its more relevant political points in blithely didactic lurchings. ("This whole country is a graveyard," one character says.)” Full Review

2. Aardvark “A turgid, draggy drama (mostly around the premise that Slate’s character has to be an almost impossibly bad therapist to do to her patient what she pulls off here), a pasty comedy, coddled around a fantastically unbelievable premise and its flailing execution, the film tries to play with our sense of reality, using Quinto’s recurring hallucinations, but it doesn’t even want to bother to play by its own rules. It’s hard for me to imagine those talented actors reading this script and signing off on it, but here we are.” Capsule Review

1. Kidnap “As a means of conveying information, Knate Lee's "script" calls for Karla to talk incessantly to herself in the car, narrating her dilemma ("So now what's the plan?" she asks herself at one point, quickly concluding that she hasn't got one) pretty much so former Oscar-winner Berry has something to do other than grit her teeth and bleed out the nose. She also has a penchant for broad exclamatory statements ("Wherever you go, I'll be right behind you, no matter what!" and so forth). The effect is like overhearing a young boy playing with his GI Joes.” Full Review

Other Dishonorable Entries:

Axolotl Overdrive, Baywatch, The Mummy

Random Notes:

Inexplicably Overrated: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Biggest Welcome Surprise(s): I, Tonya, Lady Bird, Logan

Most Bitter Disappointment(s): Downsizing, Mary Shelley, The Killing of a Sacred Deer

Film That Critics Got Wrong: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Film(s) I Totally Whiffed On: Coco, I Love You, Daddy

Best Upcoming Releases of 2018

1. The Rider 2. Lean on Pete 3. Happy End 4. Chappaquiddick

[ryodan]

Do all the odds! You don't have to do the selfie and 16,24,46.

1. selfie: I can post this if anyone wants it to happen (☞ﾟ∀ﾟ)☞3. do you miss anyone? Not particularly, no.

5. is there anyone who can always make you smile? Yes, my brother and my squad

7. what was your life like last year? Stuck in a limbo between hectic and slow. Stressful. Hated it.

9. who did you last see in person? My sister in law

11. are you listening to music right now? Nope

13. how do you feel right now? Incredibly anxious. Exams.

15. personality description: did this separately but I’m basically a social mess of a human being

17. opinion on insecurities. Everyone has them. Some people may be physically insecure and some might have other insecuities. Like for me, even though I have off days my main insecurites are tied to my personality and how I always feel like people might find me annoying or how sometimes I can feel really stupid while solving something and I cry out of frustration.

19. have you ever been to New York? Yes

21. age and birthday? 18, 16th of July

23. fear(s) the dark has made me have actual anxiety attacks, plane take offs, slipping up and making people find out things I don’t want them to know, failure

25. role model: probably the prophet Muhammad? From us hoomans I’d probably say my parents whom are an engineer and a doctor and they worked hard to get to where they are today. My brother who’s the epitome of wishy washiness and switching lanes but still manages a very successful career that allows him to make travel plans to Japan where he texts me and asks ‘this is my gift for your graduation. You in?’ And I think 'way to spend your cash u angel loved by everyone’. Harry styles because he takes pride in being unique but is still the kindest fucker. My grandma who was on the British team that discovered the DNA, she believed that the main thing a scientist needed was the innate human ability to question everything. My grandad who was a Geologist who straight up changed an entire African country (Sudan) with his research and charity foundations, they wrote about him everywhere when he died. 27. things i hate: hate, idle talk

29. favourite film(s): I don’t watch movies ujfjd. I love you man. Seabiscuit. The demon barber some shit like that the movie where Johnny depp is killing everyone as Sweeny Todd. Grown ups. Any Sandra Bullock movie ever. don’t come at me but any Adam Sandler movie ever Any Pixar movie ever. Hairspray the musical. Any romantic comedy ever no matter how cheap and cheesy. Any comedy or horror. The Texas chainsaw massacre. Any Disney movie ever. Koe no katachi. An Arabic movie called 'Teer enta’ 31. 3 random facts: I hate people who think their music taste is superior to others. I hate anyone who hates mainstream things. I have loved one direction for about 7 years now.

33. something you want to learn: Volleyball or archery

35. favourite subject: physics

37. favourite actor/actress: I don’t watch movies so I don’t really have any. Maybe Neil Patrick Harris

39. favourite sport(s) to play? Basketball. To watch? Volleyball

41. relationship status: single

43. favourite song ever: dont have one 45. how you found out about your idol: everyone was talking about one direction. I heard what makes you beautiful. I pretended to like them so I’m not the odd one out. Now I’m the only one left who even remembers they exist sob (ಥ_ಥ)47. turn ons: honestly just being nice and being confident. I also have a thing for eye contact ♥‿♥ and casual touches.

49. where i want to be right now: home studying 51. starsign: sun in cancer moon in Capricorn. Venus in Leo, Libra rising.

53. 5 things that make me happy: my friends, comedy, my little cousins, pop music and good food55. tumblr friends: um wow I’m friends with everyone this is hard to narrow down. my funniest friends are @chiwawha @sharinghoe and the funniest of the bunch @xinpaii friends I have most in common with are @gangbangedbyteam7 and @lalody the easiest to talk to + is hilarious is @saradacchi the friend that gets all my obsessions is @kittyblaze the friend who I don’t have much in common with when it comes to naruto but can still take my liver @uzumakura and my crush friend @kuramaknows . there’s like 900 more people but let’s stick to these for now.

57. favourite animal(s) I love all animals. Please don’t make me do this. Cats, big cats but fuck tigers. Rain forrest birds. Snakes specially the king cobra. Foxes. Sharks specially tiger sharks and great whites. Whales specially orkas belugas and blue ones. Penguins. Bear cubs. Howling monkeys. Lemurs. All animals fuck fuck I love them all

59. why i joined tumblr: peer pressure + 1d

[csprousedaily]

COLE SPROUSE | THE LAST MAGAZINE (30/1/2017).

 When Riverdale, Greg Berlanti’s dark, contemporary take on the Archie comics, premiered on the CW last week, it marked the return of the actor Cole Sprouse to television in a project worlds away from the one that first brought him to prominence as a teenager. Sprouse and his twin brother Dylan are still best known for playing the titular brothers on Disney Channel’s The Suite Life of Zack and Cody and its follow-up The Suite Life on Deck, which took place, respectively, in a hotel and on a cruise ship and made the Sprouses the most famous television twins since Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. Broadly humorous, loudly acted, and, as Sprouse politely puts it, “boisterous,” the shows fit neatly in the Disney stable alongside Hannah Montana, which starred a young Miley Cyrus, and Wizards of Waverly Place, which introduced Selena Gomez to the world. And just as Cyrus and Gomez have successfully managed to move beyond their child-actor days and reinvent themselves in recent years as international pop stars, Sprouse sees Riverdale as a chance to prove that his Disney phase is behind him. “I think while it’s easy to group us all into a similar category, all of our paths have remained unique,” he explains. “We end up having to show the same maturation, just in different ways. We’re consistently trying to prove our humanity to a group of people that has a really hard time believing it.”

Born in Italy, the Sprouse twins began acting as babies to help their mother pay the bills. They appeared in films like Big Daddy with Adam Sandler and as Ross’s son on Friends, and were tapped by Disney in 2005 to headline The Suite Life, which would go on to run for four years before spinning off as The Suite Life on Deck. “The show gave me a profound work ethic,” Sprouse says. “I never missed a day of work in the eight years I was there, and it really taught me to push myself and drive myself. But the danger of being on a show like that for eight years is that you lose purpose. Continuing the show is oftentimes the most dangerous thing to do as an actor because purpose is the currency for quality work as an actor.”

Besides the increasing monotony of playing Cody, Sprouse now says that he is still trying to sort out what being so closely linked to a fictional persona throughout his teenage years has meant for his personal development. “When you’re a child and you’re growing up and you’re mimicking a certain character or you’re trying to live and breathe a certain character on set for eight years that are also your formative years, you oftentimes take a lot of who you’re playing into your real life and kind of become that thing,” he explains. “You end up having to figure out where you separate from the thing you’ve played for eight years when you leave it.”

Sprouse, now twenty-four, says that the unique strictures and tone of the Disney studio also may have served to sharpen some of the developmental struggles its actors had to endure, due to the contrast between the roles they were playing onscreen and the people they were still in the process of become themselves. “Disney acting as a style is very large. It’s designed to capture the attention of children, so it often comes off as immature and youthful,” he says. “That gets complicated when you’re starting to develop personally and sexually through puberty and you’re starting to have these opposing ideas of yourself as a young person. Oftentimes that leads to some form of cognitive dissonance where you are being sold as something you truly don’t identify with and you have this rebellion that takes place.”

Having successfully made the transition from child star to grown-up actor without scandal, Sprouse is nonetheless quick to come to the defense of his peers who have had rockier paths, heightened by the intense scrutiny of the public eye. “It’s one of those things that gets written off as humorous when you watch a child entertainer try to redefine themselves, but it can be an intense identity crisis,” he says. “I think in our modern society we have a much greater understanding of the importance of personal identity and how we see ourselves and I’m hoping that over time people latch onto the fact that this hurts people and they have a little more respect for something like that.”

In lieu of “We Can’t Stop” or Spring Breakers, Sprouse turned to school. After taking a year off after The Suite Life, he enrolled at NYU at nineteen and eventually decided to major in archeology. Fascinated by the earth sciences since childhood thanks to a geologist grandfather, Sprouse jokes that he wanted to live out “tales of adventure,” which he was able to do after he was accepted into an exclusive program to work on an excavation site in France. He moved decisively away from acting during his four years as an undergraduate, and admits that he very seriously considered the possibility of never coming back. “When we were younger, it was a business choice for us and I realized that I couldn’t live like that anymore and there was no fulfillment in that sort of acting,” he explains. “I needed to take a break and reassess, and I did. My brother and I had sort of reached a plateau and there was nothing we could really do there so we chose to go into education and embrace an interdisciplinary world of knowledge.”

Faced with the choice between (expensive) graduate school and (relatively lucrative) television work, Sprouse says he decided last year to take a shot at pilot week, the annual busy period when studios and networks cast many of the new television shows they want to try out. “I was planning on continuing with archaeology, but when I auditioned and I got the part and we did that pilot, I had a lot of fun,” he recalls. “I didn’t really think of it, but it felt fulfilling again, which is really the only thing you should honestly pursue in art. And as long as it feels fulfilling, I’ll continue.”

Having just come off a Twilight Zone binge, Sprouse says he was immediately attracted to the role of Jughead, Archie’s best friend who also takes on a voiceover role in Riverdale that is reminiscent of Rod Serling’s narration for his influential television series. Full of sex, scandal, and the sort of heightened drama common to most shows about teenagers, Riverdale will come as a surprise to most people who know Archie only as a cheerful, lighthearted slice of midcentury small-town American life. The series opens with a death, Archie sleeps with his music teacher, and Veronica comes to town disgraced after her family loses all its wealth when her father is jailed for financial misdeeds. There are notes of Twin Peaks—although Sprouse is loathe to compare anything to David Lynch—and Brick, the 2006 Joseph Gordon-Levitt movie which took a film noir sensibility to high school life.

 Sprouse himself admits to having been put off by the initial descriptions of the show, but says that further reading helped him understand that Riverdale fits easily into the world of Archie, as the new leadership at Archie Comics has pushed in new and surprising directions to make the brand relevant again today. “When I first heard the abstract, it kind of put a sour taste in my mouth,” he says. “I come from a comic background—I worked at a comic shop—and when you hear about a dark and gritty take on an otherwise beloved franchise, that’s all the wrong buzzwords for the right project. Nothing really dubious happens in the original Archie Digests, but as I started to do more research, I realized the universe of Archie is really wide open. The Punisher comes to Archie, Archie dies when he gets shot trying to protect his friend, and in the new comics, zombies come to Archie. So it seemed like the road had been paved for a while for something like this. My knowledge now is that the Archie universe is wide enough for something like this to take place.”

In refashioning an idyllic American icon for a confusing and complicated new world, Riverdale is also, Sprouse contends, a tacit reflection of today’s political climate. “We live in a society right now that’s obsessed with this golden-age America mentality,” he explains. “Trump’s whole campaign was built around ‘Make America Great Again,’ which essentially is a play towards the same era that Archie arose out of that is this golden, perfect world. I don’t mind how we may be tampering with this idea of a golden age because of my personal political stance. I don’t think that ‘everything is perfect and jolly’ is a perspective that makes any sense. Our society is either primed perfectly for a more contemporary view of this classic American property or they’re going to rebel against it. It’s the same political division within our society right now.”

Currently based in Vancouver shooting Riverdale, Sprouse is also continuing to pursue a photography career on the side. He’s been commissioned by Condé Nast Traveler and shot a story for Teen Vogue earlier this month, and says that what began as a hobby has quickly turned into a passionate vocation. He finds that the travel photography, especially, has been helpful in shaping his perspective. “Travel photography is difficult in that you’re very reliant upon the place you’re going to be a sort of beautiful that can sell,” he explains. “You end up having to be really critical and quite aware at all points of your environment. It’s a very different way of looking at the world, but you end up internalizing a lot of that way of seeing. Most of us were quite nomadic through human history, and I think that part of us still very much exists in a yearning for adventure and worldliness. What travel photography is aiming to do is to inspire a love of something different than yourself.”

And though they require work on different sides of the camera, what connects Sprouse’s acting and his photography is that he plans to continue both as long as they remain “fulfilling.” With over two decades of experience under his belt, he knows what he wants and he knows when it’s time to move on. “Riverdale is a much more human project than the last one and I realize now that though I’ve had enough time to step away and to take a breather, my main challenge if I’m going to continue acting is to discern the things that were valuable about my childhood and the skills I acquired as a child and the things to keep and the things to let go,” he says. “It’s more real, and I don’t think just because it’s on the forefront of pop culture that it should be treated any less than something very ‘noble.’ I’m going to try and do that and see how it ends up.”

[m0rgansux]

200: My crush’s name is: I guess I have a crush on Justin

199: I was born in: North Carolina

198: I am really: Sad

197: My cellphone company is: AT&T

196: My eye color is: Blue

195: My shoe size is: 7 ish

194: My ring size is: I have no idea something between 6 and 8 maybe

193: My height is: 5′ 9 1/2′’

192: I am allergic to: Ants I think and maybe the sun

191: My 1st car was: A 2007 Kia Rondo

190: My 1st job was: Selling Avon

189: Last book you read: Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher

188: My bed is: COMFY

187: My pet: s are cool I have a lot

186: My best friend: K8 bc no one else likes me

185: My favorite shampoo is: Organix

184: Xbox or ps3: I haven’t played either 

183: Piggy banks are: CUTE

182: In my pockets: Nothing 

181: On my calendar: Birthdays, cat rabies dates, appointments, work schedule 

180: Marriage is: NEAT

179: Spongebob can: Eat my ass 

178: My mom: is a cool lady 

177: The last three songs I bought were: I use apple music so I don’t buy songs but the last 3 I downloaded were  We Don’t Talk Anymore (feat. Selena Gomez) - Charlie Puth Just a Dream - Nelly Airplanes Pt 2. (Feat. Eminem and Hayley Williams) - BoB ....don’t judge me ok I was havin a time last night 

176: Last YouTube video watched: An analysis of an episode of Black Mirror 

175: How many cousins do you have? 0

174: Do you have any siblings? I have a brother and sister 

173: Are your parents divorced? No

172: Are you taller than your mom? Like 4 or 5 inches 

171: Do you play an instrument? I played the violin up until a couple years ago 

170: What did you do yesterday? Cleaned out cages at petsmart 

[I BELIEVE IN….]

169: Love at first sight: Idk fam

168: Luck: I don’t think so 

167: Fate: No

166: Yourself: No

165: Aliens: Yes

164: Heaven: I don’t know

163: Hell: No

162: God: I don’t know

161: Horoscopes: Maybe

160: Soul mates: No

159: Ghosts: Maybe

158: Gay Marriage: Yes???

157: War: No

156: Orbs: I don’t think so 

155: Magic: No

[THIS OR THAT]

154: Hugs or Kisses: Hugs

153: Drunk or High: High

152: Phone or Online: Phone

151: Red heads or Black haired: Both

150: Blondes or Brunettes: Brunettes

149: Hot or cold: Cold

148: Summer or winter: Winter

147: Autumn or Spring: Autumn

146: Chocolate or vanilla: Vanilla

145: Night or Day: Night

144: Oranges or Apples: Apples

143: Curly or Straight hair: Curly

142: McDonalds or Burger King: McDonalds

141: White Chocolate or Milk Chocolate: White

140: Mac or PC: PC

139: Flip flops or high heels: Flip flops 

138: Ugly and rich OR sweet and poor: Do u mean like ugly personality bc obviously I’m going to go for sweet and poor

137: Coke or Pepsi: Pepsi

136: Hillary or Obama: Obama

135: Buried or cremated: I......don’t know

134: Singing or Dancing: Singing

133: Coach or Chanel: I don’t care

132: Kat McPhee or Taylor Hicks: Oh my GOD Chris Daughtry 

131: Small town or Big city: Big city 

130: Wal-Mart or Target: Target 

129: Ben Stiller or Adam Sandler: It depends on the movie 

128: Manicure or Pedicure: Pedicure 

127: East Coast or West Coast: Both??

126: Your Birthday or Christmas: Christmas 

125: Chocolate or Flowers: Flowers 

124: Disney or Six Flags: Disney

123: Yankees or Red Sox: I don’t care at all 

[HERE’S WHAT I THINK ABOUT]

122: War: UH WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR  ABSOLUTELY NOTHIN

121: George Bush: He’s a fucking monkey 

120: Gay Marriage: I support it

119: The presidential election: Sad and disappointing 

118: Abortion: Pro-choice 

117: MySpace: It died like 500 years ago 

116: Reality TV: I don’t like it except for The Voice sometimes 

115: Parents: They neat

114: Back stabbers: ....they suck???

113: Ebay: It’s kinda dead tbh 

112: Facebook: Moms use it too much 

111: Work: Cute dogs and a cute boy 

110: My Neighbors: I don’t know them but they’ve waved at us before 

109: Gas Prices: I wish they were lower 

108: Designer Clothes: I shop at H&M and Target 

107: College: Waste of my time and money 

106: Sports: I don’t care about sports 

105: My family: They’re nice but I need a break from them sometimes 

104: The future: How dare u ask me about that 

[LAST TIME I….]

103: Hugged someone: It’s been like 50 million years 

102: Last time you ate: A few minutes ago 

101: Saw someone I haven’t seen in awhile: A couple days ago 

100: Cried in front of someone: DUDE LIKE NEVER 

99: Went to a movie theater: A couple months ago

98: Took a vacation: It’s been like 3 years 

97: Swam in a pool: It’s been like 5 years 

96: Changed a diaper: It’s been like 7 years omg 

95: Got my nails done: About a month ago

94: Went to a wedding: 2011

93: Broke a bone: Never 

92: Got a piercing: Last March

91: Broke the law: Probably within the last week 

90: Texted: A few minutes ago 

89: Who makes you laugh the most: K8

88: Something I will really miss when I leave home is: My cats bc I can’t take them all 

87: The last movie I saw: I don’t remember 

86: The thing that I’m looking forward to the most: Nothing

85: The thing I’m not looking forward to: MY LIFE

84: People call me: Morgan :\\\

83: The most difficult thing to do is: A lot of things

82: I have gotten a speeding ticket: Once

81: My zodiac sign is: Leo

80: The first person i talked to today was: Probably my dad

79: First time you had a crush: Kindergarten 

78: The one person who i can’t hide things from: No one :)

77: Last time someone said something you were thinking: Probably today??

76: Right now I am talking to: No one

75: What are you going to do when you grow up: Lol who knows

74: I have/will get a job: I’m a cashier

73: Tomorrow: I’m going to breakfast with Angelica, then the dentist

72: Today: I did nothing

71: Next Summer: I don’t even know 

70: Next Weekend: Working or doing nothing 

69: I have these pets: 15 cats and a turtle

68: The worst sound in the world: I hate Styrofoam squeaking sounds 

67: The person that makes me cry the most is: MEEEE

66: People that make you happy: NO ONE

65: Last time I cried: Today

64: My friends are: NEAT

63: My computer is: FINE BUT I DON’T USE IT

62: My School: I graduated 

61: My Car: A 2007 Kia Rio

60: I lose all respect for people who: Yell at cashiers 

59: The last movie I cried at was: Who knows 

58: Your hair color is: Red

57: TV shows you watch: Criminal Minds, New Girl, Family Guy, Parks and Rec

56: Favorite web site: Tumblr or Youtube

55: Your dream vacation: A vacation in general 

54: The worst pain I was ever in was: BRUH I DON’T KNOW 

53: How do you like your steak cooked: I don’t know honestly 

52: My room is: A cross between a young adult hipster’s room and an emo teenager’s room

51: My favorite celebrity is: Matthew Gray Gubler sure

50: Where would you like to be: In my bed 

49: Do you want children: No

48: Ever been in love: No

47: Who’s your best friend: k8

46: More guy friends or girl friends: I have 2 friends and they’re both girls 

45: One thing that makes you feel great is: Attention

44: One person that you wish you could see right now: NONE OF UR BUSINESS

43: Do you have a 5 year plan: I don’t even have a 5 month plan

42: Have you made a list of things to do before you die: Yeah but who knows where it went

41: Have you pre-named your children: NO EW

40: Last person I got mad at: Dominique 

39: I would like to move to: Anywhere else 

38: I wish I was a professional: Cat petter 

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37: Candy: Sour patch kids 

36: Vehicle: I don’t have one

35: President: I am not educated enough to answer this 

34: State visited: New York

33: Cellphone provider: Not AT&T

32: Athlete: None

31: Actor: My mind is blanking

30: Actress: ^^^

29: Singer: Brendon Urie maybe 

28: Band: Fall Out Boy

27: Clothing store: H&M

26: Grocery store: Whole Foods 

25: TV show: Criminal Minds 

24: Movie: Scream, 13 Going on 30

23: Website: U have def asked this already 

22: Animal: Cats

21: Theme park: I have only been to Carrowinds and Busch Gardens 

20: Holiday: Christmas 

19: Sport to watch: None

18: Sport to play: NONE

17: Magazine: I haven’t read a magazine in 45 years 

16: Book: I literally just forgot every book I’ve ever read 

15: Day of the week: I don’t have one 

14: Beach: I don’t like the beach 

13: Concert attended: PATD or Monumentour 

12: Thing to cook: Desserts 

11: Food: Sushi

10: Restaurant: Blue Asia 

9: Radio station: Modern rock 98.7

8: Yankee candle scent: Idk fam I like incense-y kinda smells 

7: Perfume: I just got a trio of Nest perfumes and I really like those right now 

6: Flower: Roses???

5: Color: Black

4: Talk show host: None of them

3: Comedian: Bo Burnham

2: Dog breed: Pittbull 

1: Did you answer all these truthfully? Who knows there were so many questions I don’t even remember,

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Have you cuddled with someone today? Just my dogs Can you smell anything right now? I put moisturizer on my face a little while ago and I can still smell it Have you spoken to a relative on the phone today? No Do you use the toilet paper with the colourful designs on it? Nope Do you wear your hair up or down most often? It's kind of a 50/50 these days. How does alcohol affect you? It varies tbh...I used to be more of a lightweight and then for a while I'd drink a decent amount and feel no change. But since I've graduated and I'm not going out every weekend and drinking as much I feel like I've kind of gone back to lightweight status ish When was the last time you had a cold or flu? Over the summer What was the first thing you ate today? A waffle Do you have anything more important you should be doing right now? Not really Do you still buy the paper or do you get your news elsewhere? Online or on tv Have you ever eaten tofu and if so, did you enjoy it? Nope Have you worn make-up today? I wore a little concealer and that was it Do you ever get dizzy and nauseous when you’re extremely tired? No Have you ever tried lemon brownies? Can't say that I have Can you hear anything right now? My fan is on What was the last type of meat you ate? Ham What colour is your toothpaste? Blue and white Have you taken any medication today? Just my daily bc and migraine meds Have you ever been suspended from school? No Have you ever inhaled helium? Yessss it's so fun lol. At my last restaurant job we had a helium tank for balloons and sometimes we'd blow one up just for fun Have you bought something that was on sale today? No Are you a fan of Adam Sandler? I love his older movies, he was great back in the day What was the last fruit you ate? Strawberry Off the top of your head how many aisles are in the supermarket you shop at? Maybe 15ish? Or 20 idk Have you ever watched Parks and Recreation? I just started it like last week and I'm obsessed. I took a little break to binge watch a series of unfortunate events but I'm gonna get back at parks & rec probably tomorrow Have you watched a movie this week? Don't think so How far away is the closest McDonald’s from your house? Like 3 miles Have you ever been to a wedding? Yes, but not in quite a while What is your favourite kind of pasta? Penne. Ala vodka. Om nom Have you set an alarm today? Nope Do you keep up-to-date with current news and events? Yes of course, idk how people can't these days with all the technology and social media we have When was the last time you visited relatives? Christmas Day Have you asked someone for advice today? No What was the last website you were on, other than this one? Twitter Did you ever play Habbo Hotel? No Do you speak any languages other than English? I know some Spanish and Italian but I'm better at understanding it than I am at speaking. Especially since I don't keep up with learning it Have you ever been to Hawaii? No What colour is your shampoo? No Have you watched more than an hour of TV today? Yes Ever wake up early on Saturdays to go Garage Sale shopping? Not in a long time When was the last time you got a nose bleed? I've only gotten like 2 ever, the last one was within the last 4 years How old is the mattress on your bed? 6 years? Idk how long mattresses are supposed to last but mine is still bomb. Maybe because 3 of those years I spent on campus in a dorm so barely slept in my bed but still. It's so comfy Do you have any picture frames without a picture in them? Yeah I need to print some pics Do you keep magazines by your toilet? No What did you last take a picture of with your camera? I hardly ever use my actual camera. I brought it to Italy but then thought my phone pic quality was better so I stopped using it. I probably last used it somewhere in Rome The last time you got dressed up, where did you go? To the bar lol Did the one person who hurt you the most in your life apologize? Yes kind of I guess Are you proud of who you are? Yeah occasionally Think of a random person, and give them a message here, no names: Hi If you were a waiter/waitress, would you make good tips? I'd hope so. I'm pretty nice I think What if there were two of you? Would the world be in trouble? Nah, as I said I'm pretty nice. So unless other me is totally evil I think the world will survive Forget about toppings. What type of CRUST do you like on pizzas? Thin crust like a good ny style pizza. So gooood Have you ever stolen a road sign or traffic barrier? No but I saw several people my freshman year of college steal traffic cones Captain Crunch vs. Count Chocula: Who makes the better cereal? I hate cereal Would you prefer an ice cream sundae or an ice cream cone? Sundae Is chapstick a necessity for you? Oh yeah What are the best kind of Girl Scout cookies? Forever torn between thin mints & tagalongs buuuut you know I think I'm just gonna go with thin mints If a cop was following you, would it make you paranoid? I get mildly paranoid and watch my speed but not too much. I get more paranoid when it seems like a regular car has followed me for a while Do you watch movies with the subtitles on? Yeah if I'm watching a foreign movie