The Three Faces of David Tennant

There has always been something that bothered me about David Tennant. I finally figured it out after an indulgent mini marathon. Yes, he's cute and he has an accent but he's also a wonderfully one dimensional actor. That's not an insult - he is wonderful at it.

Movie #1 - Secret Smile

David stars as a scary crazed ex boyfriend to the chic from Shaun of the Dead. First, who knew Lifetime movies were not an American phenomenon? Not me. Richard Greico could totally play this part here.

This had a nice twist at the end but girlfriend was just plain stupid for never changing her locks when she broke up with him. I had a scary ex boyfriend once too although he wasn't remotely cute or Scottish, and I changed the locks while he was asleep one morning. You don't see me hiding out in Australia.

This is David's scary side and he doesn't show much else in this movie besides his "oh" face. Still he wasn't that scary. Richard Greico is scarier.

Movie #2 - Recovery

Ok, David was really good in this. His character gets hit by a truck - and that scene was so awesome I had to watch it three times - but survives with a good amount of brain damage. The story focuses around his family and David trying to adjust to life. I couldn't actually finish it. Some of it was a little too close to home but it was good.

So this is David's specialty character side. Sorry, can't find a better term. :) Sure there's some depth and heart break but still...mostly just one dimensional.

Movie #3 - Casanova

And now we come to goofy.

He's superb at goofy but for the love of god, I could only take about 30 minutes of this. This was incredibly fluffy even for Russel T. Davies.








And that is why Christopher Eccleston was a better Doctor.

Special Mention - Jude.

This is just an awful, awful movie since there are not one but three dead babies. However it does star Christopher Eccleston as Jude and David Tennant as I believe "Drunken Undergraduate". But David says his one line with such passion that he stands out completely from the other drunken students. It's just impossible to forget him.

Eastern Promises

I saw this with Matt while the boys were on holiday. And yes, we saw it for that reason.

I really do love Viggo. He should be in every movie, tv show and on every cereal box from now to eternity. He is just a lovely human being.

However this was not my favorite Viggo movie. It was slow and dragged at points. I'm not sure why the Russian Mafia didn't just kill Naomi Watts. I kind of wanted to kill her. The story was interesting - it just needed to move along a bit.

Viggo does save a baby which I loved. And he does spend 5 minutes necked and fighting men with pointy knives. There was more cringing from me than trying to get a peek.

No, Sean, I won't be downloading the movie and trying to pause it at the right times.

Outsourcing sucks!

Let's take a good organization that's friendly, helpful, and actually cares about the university community by giving back to each department and replace it with a faceless corporate whore beast that abuses its employees by not offering benefits and is only, only interested in getting into Jane Freshman's wallet.

I am seriously sick of sending angry emails to said corporate whore beast's manager. Yes, I am sick of being angry and sharing those tirades with the person responsible. Unbelievable, right? Jesus christ, it's a bookstore run by a bookstore. The logic in my brain says that it should work better than the huge pile of dung that is the IU Bookstore.

We should seriously encourage all of our students to buy their books online. That will be my first conversation with Kathy on Monday. Hell, I'll price check the books for the kids just to keep them from feeding the beast.

I want you...

to buy your textbooks online and steal my music, while you're at it.

More Fun with Drunken Monkeys

The phone call of the day...

Advisor: I have a student that wants to add one of your courses. Where should I tell him/her to go?

I give her our street address, landmarks, and a description of the house.

Advisor: But you're WU. Where is that?

Again, I say where we're located and explain that WU is our code on the campus map. Like GY is geology and EP is journalism.

Advisor: But where do I tell the student to go?

I hope she could tell that I had lost my patience. I again, tell where we are and that WU is just a code.

This has been the 6th call this week from an advisor from that particular department. Its good to see that the university has no qualms about hiring monkeys.

30% of my time at work is spent doing other people's jobs

Man asks for Criminology department at the IU switchboard.

No, criminology department here.

Man then asks for Social Sciences. She transfers him to me.

Close but no cigar.

I transfer him to Criminal Justice.

Jen is not the IU Switchboard who is now operated by drunken monkeys.

ask-elizabeth.com

Yes, if you're a stereotypical girl obsessed with boys, fashion, and all things pink, you can head over to www.ask-elizabeth.com for advice from none other than Elizabeth Burkley (aka Jesse Spano or that bimbo from Showgirls.)

I don't know what's more disturbing about this. Maybe it's the fact the this person had decided to mentor America's young girls. Or that whomever she paid to badly design her site thinks that America's young girls are attracked to this bullshit. (They should have seriously used a focus group.) Plus, since Showgirls, Elizabeth has pretty much been off the radar. IMDB So these girls won't know who she even is. Watch the ask-elizabeth video under "mission" for proof of that. Several of the girls posing questions - that are totally scripted - roll their eyes at her. That made my morning. :)

Plus now, I can bug Carlene, who showed me the site, by humming the annoying song playing in the background. No, not Coldplay, the na na na na na na song. Don't forget to sign up everyone you know for the ask-elizabeth.com newsletter! Carlene will hate me by the end of the day. :)