Piece of the Puzzle Your My Missing Part

I finally saw 500 Days of Summer. I had been wanting to see it since before it came out. It was definitely my kind of movie; cute, funny and romantic...but real. There are not alot of movies that portray that side of love; especially from the girl's perspective. I loved how it displayed that the female can be the one who isn't head over heels for once. Sure I felt a little bad for Tom, but that kind of thing happens...you can't force someone to love you or expect someone to love you just because you love them. The tagline for the movie is "Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love. Girl doesn't." I like it. It's like those children's books; "See Spot run." Simplicity is really nice sometimes...the relationship portrayed in the movie was by no means simplistic though. The movie also has a fantastic soundtrack. Regina Spektor makes my life and any movie that has Regina Spektor in it is going to be a movie I like. Spektor's most prominent song in the movie is, "Us" and this is one of my favorite songs by her. It's in this trailer.



When I first saw the trailor in theaters and heard the song playing I jumped out of my seat a little and I was seeing a movie with just my mom that day and I grabbed her arm and she freaked and said, "Are you OK?" really loud and I was like, "Yeah, yeah it's just...it's just this movie looks really good!" I also really liked the movie because I just love Joseph Gordon-Levitt and I especially adore Zooey Deschanel. One movie of hers that I have to mention is Flakes. I'm sure many people have never even heard of this movie. I wouldn't have if I hadn't gotten it on sale at Blockbuster. It's a low budget indie that didn't do so hot, but it was definitely interesting and kind of fun. Zooey Deschanel's character in that movie was Miss Pussy Katz...that character name says alot about the film. I just liked it because it was ridiculous and about cereal; I love cereal.

I love Ben Gibbard. Love. Love. Love him. That may have seemed out of the blue, but it very much correlates to the subject matter of my post. Ben Gibbard and Zooey Deschanel are married. They married September 21st of this year. I knew they were engaged since last year, but after researching I discovered that they are now married (Yay!) In one article I was reading from Spin magazine the headline read, "The She & Him singer/actress and Death Cab for Cutie frontman tie the knot, ending fantasies of indie boys & girls worldwide." I thought that was kind of funny, but I just wanted Ben Gibbard to get married so bad because all of his songs were so sad and sweet, "Nothing Better" especially made me want him to have someone to be married to. So even though I am in love with Ben Gibbard, I'd much rather have him be married. I also enjoyed this line from the article, "It was like the indie rock prom, and they were the king and queen." If I could have chosen any wedding ever to attend this one definitely would have been it. Here's a little video of them singing together. It's kind of poor quality, but they're just so stinking adorable.

I love Zoe Deschanel's style and her singing voice. It's so unique. One song from She and Him that I currently love is "Sentimental Heart"



I've been writing a lot of posts lately that are mainly just commentary on things so I'm going to start trying to bring my life back into just a little bit. My favorite line from the song is, "Piece of the puzzle, you're my missing part." Sure it's kind of cliche but in the context of the song it's super cute. I especially like it because puzzles mean a lot more to me now. I took one of those dumb quizzes online that tell you your IQ and intelligence in different areas and I got below preschool level on spacial intelligence, which is puzzles and such. I had never been a fan of puzzle making, but after going to Puzzle World, buying an awesome Norman Rockwell puzzle (of the picture soda jerk), and working on it for three plus hours with one of my best friends in the whole wide world, I am now a fan. We are having a tough time with it but we are going to finish it someday. I can't wait to work on it again.