Leap year (The movie)

I watched "leap year" with my mom last night, and I watched it again this morning. I only have around 4 more hours with the rental :(

Heres the trailer: Leap Year Trailer

I love this movie for multiple reasons, and as you can guess, many of the resons are because of the culture. I suppose I'm obsessed, and going to the highland games only fed it. You see, I've had obsessions with alot of cultures, I go through phases, and usually they leaves me after a few months, but not this one. I once was obsessed with native american culture, but my connection with that culture was lost nesrly completely other than my cherokee forehead, so i couldnt embrace it. I was obsessed with judaism, but had no desire to convert. Its the music that has brought me into cultures the most, folk songs and stuff. I thinkI'll have a phase with indian culture soon because of jumpha lahiri short stories, which are written amazingly. My scottish obsession, or I suppose Celtic obsession seems like it will be life-long, but anyway back to the movie.

In the movie a girl name Anna goes to Ireland from Boston (its always Boston..."Boston rose"..."shipping up to Boston"...."celtics basketball" etc.) becasue there is a tradition that girls can propose to a man on leap day, and her boyfriends has been taking forever (four years, just like my rich cousin kenny from chicago who finally got engaged!!) There are some complications with getting to Dublin though, a storm or something. Somehow she ends up in Dingle, and a man there who needs money for his bar decides to take her to dublin.

Declan: [slams Anna's suitcase on the ground] How does that work?
Anna: Can you be careful with that, it was a gift from my boyfriend!
Declan: He bought you a suitcase?
Anna: It's a Vuitton.
Declan: What?
Anna: A Louis Vuitton?
Declan: Come on. Ah, is it yourself Louis? Can I give you a hand getting into the car Louis? She named her suitcase, she's a crackpot.

Her suitcase gets stolen, and the man (declan) has a barfight for it back. They miss a train and have to stay in an inn where they need to pretend they are married to share a room becasue "right is right." THey come up with this ridiculous last name "dingle o'brady callahan." When they flip for the bed, Declan says "Heads I win, tails you lose" which is funny.

Anna: [as she forces Declan awake] You lying, deceiving, son of a - Get up, get up, get up!
Declan: Wha-what?
Anna: Oh? Heads you win, tails I lose.
Declan: [smirks] Oh, you finally got that did you? Well then, good for you.
Anna: Up, get up! This is my bed. Liars forfeit.
[as she sniffs him]
Anna: And take a shower, you smell.
Declan: [shakes head] You can see right through the curtain.
Anna: Can you?... CAN YOU?
Declan: [as he runs to the shower] Okay, liars forfeit, liars forfeit! No peeking!

There is this beautiful scene when they are getting food and Declan tells anna to have a little faither, and she says "my father was the king of have a little faith" and that she had to work two part time jobs after school and got her house reposest on christmas because of her father's recklessness. It was a really powerful scene, and Declan said "I'm sorry" and he meant it. It was almost shocking to see someone say sorry so earnestly, especially when it was someone who was something of a hellion, trickster, and jerk. They got stuck in a hail storm, so they went into a church and were invited to the wedding. While there she let her hair down a little, but her shoe came off while spinning and thunked the bride in the forehead. Ana got drunk after that and told Declan that she knows he snaps and everything, but he is really in pain before throwing up on his shoes. He just picks her up. When they get to dublin her boyfriend proposes, but when she goes home she realizes she has everything she wants but nothing she needs. She goes back to Ireland, and what took her ex-boyfriend four years to do, it takes Declan four days. They get married.

Declan: Mrs. O'Brady Callhan. Where the hell are you going?
Anna: You said no.
Declan: I didn't say no. I didn't say anything.
Anna: You walked away.
Declan: I was getting something.
Anna: Really? That was a good time to go get something?
Declan: Yeah, it was actually.
[Presents Anna with a ring]

"May you never steal, lie, or cheat, but if you must steal, then steal away my sorrows, and if you must lie, lie with me all the nights of my life, and if you must cheat, then please cheat death because I couldn't live a day without you. Cheers!"
--leap year

I loved the bar drinkers in this movie who are always fighting about things, and i loved the music. I loved that they got the superstitious aspects of it, the drinking part of it, the culture, the beautiful land, and ideals of Ireland. I loved the acting. There is something true and endearing about Anna, and as for Declan, his expressions just make you absolutely love him. His eyebrows have a life of their own, and I just fell in love with him (too bad he isnt real). And can i just say, i love the way Declan walks?? because I do! The scenes were sweet. Their chemistry was perfect. This was a great movie, and there is nothing out there like it, which makes it even more special. The accents just made it better! There are some movies that just make you want to enjoy life, and this was one of them. It makes me want to go to Ireland, scotland or bothand just be myself. Here where I live, though it is beautiful, it is difficult to be yourself, but I'm working on it.

Dammit man *hits the table* KISS THE GIRL!
--leap year

--JSparrow

Got a new ipod for christmas

Ive been waiting forever to have a nice place to put all the itunes Scottish music that I've collected. I paid a good sum of money for this ipodtoo, although 300 was a gift from my father and around forty more was from family members. I only paid around $70 for a 400 and something dollars because of christmas money. Its my christmas gift to me. I also got a $50 itunes giftcard from my mother, so i bought more folk songs! ALot of these new songs are irish too, because they are funny and make me happy. My grandpa always says that I am irish, but i don't really think we are. He likes to joke around, and all evidence that I can find only points to scotland, but points very clearly at Scotland. Who knows though, boarders blur when you consider that they are both celtic.

Alot of my songs are by Cara Dillon, she is amazing. Her voice is perfect, the melodys are perfect, and the songs are beautiful (as you can expect from these songs). I also got alot of Connie Dover songs. Right now I'm listen to "bold jaime" sung by Cara Dillon. I also got irish folk songs including "I'll tell me ma," "finnegan's wake," "whiskey in the jar" (high kings version <3), "red hair mary," "some say the devil is dead," "patsy fagan," "rising of the moon," "roky road to dublin," "fidller's green," "morning glory," "Molly malone," "the wind that shakes the barley," and "the star of the county down." Good songs. I really love these songs, I can't help it! They just make me want to dance. "Some say the devil is dead" is to a tune that an american folk song is to, but i havent been able to figure it out yet, the same with "fiddler's green," I'll figure it out soon. I have 366 songs on my ipod, and only about 70ish arent celtic.

Love my ipod so much! Love the songs on them!

--JSparrow