Angela Law

animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 
movies

a star is born

Everyone already knows what this movie is about since it’s the umpteenth telling of it. I will say, it was quite a good film. I especially liked how they did the vocals and music live (instead of lip syncing–that was one of the things The Dirt did horribly). And, while I’m not a fan of pop music and thus have not had much exposure to Lady Gaga, it’s obvious that she is a very talented musician and actor (I also rather enjoyed her acting in American Horror Story). Kudos also to Bradley Cooper for learning how to play guitar and sing for this movie. They were totally robbed at the Oscars. And despite myself, I love the song Shallow. So sue me.

My rating: 4/5

me

seven

I got tattoo number seven this evening. It’s an American traditional style anchor with a couple of flowers around it (I am now officially on an American traditional kick). Brian designed the tattoo for me. I like to think that it pays homage to my penchant for swearing.

I went to Devin at Lemon Bomb again. She also volunteers at the shelter, so we always have lots to talk about (that is, dogs).

And, I have an appointment for my next tattoo, which she will be designing. It’s kind of hard to explain, but it’s going to be a knitting related skull thing. Trust me, it’s going to be awesome.

movies

the dirt

This was an entertaining movie about the history of Motley Crue. It didn’t delve too deep, though (it just hit the high–or low–points that we’ve all heard about already). Stylistically speaking, I wasn’t a fan, but it did make me long for the gold old days of hair metal.

My rating: 3/5

books

the killing hour

Not sure where this book came from, but it was in my pile, so I read it. It was about a killer who would take two women, kill one of them and leave the second woman somewhere remote. He would leave clues with the first woman as to the location. There were a lot of characters at the start, so it was a little confusing, but I figured things out as time went on and it ended up being fairly interesting.

My rating: 3.5/5

movies

widows

This was a pretty good heist flick. It starts off with a group of four thieves getting killed during a robbery. They gave a little background on all of them to make us realize this was going to leave the wives in a financial lurch. So, the wives end up getting together to pull off the next heist. Not exactly a thought provoking film, but entertaining nonetheless.

My rating: 3.5/5