(500) Days of Summer

Today, I watched the movie (500) Days of Summer, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel

This is a story of boy meets girl. Not a love story
Day 488 Summer and Tom sitting at the bench. She has an engagement ring

Day 1 Jan 8, Tom meets Summer. Moon River plays every time he sees her or when they have a connection.

Day 290 Tom's sister, Rachel,  rides a bike to Tom's apartment and sees him smashing plates. Things were going so well then "I think we should stop seeing each other." She says she loves the pancakes and he walks off. "You're still my best friend!"

Day 1 Tom meets Summer during a pitch meeting.
Summer: average but she induced a rise in sales of a band, sales at a ice cream store, and at least 9% below rent in every where she stayed.

Day 3 Tom's friend, McKenzie, tells him Summer is a bitch

Day 4 Summer is in the same elevator as Tom. She comments on the fact he's listening to The Smiths.

Day 8 Talks to Summer at a co-worker's engagement party. She tells him that she moved there because she was bored. She asks him about his architecture.
Best quote of the movie "They used to call me anal girl" "I was very neat and organized"

Day 154 Tom tells his friend, Paul,  he's officially in love with Summer. He lists all the things he loves about her

Day 11 Talks to his sister, she tells him just because they like the same things doesn't mean they're soul mates

Day 22 Tells his friends it's over between him and Summer

Day 27 McKenzie invites Tom to karaoke

Day 28 They have fun. Tells them she doesn't believe in having a boyfriend. Or relationships. Or love. She gets Tom to sing. McKenzie tells Summer that Tom likes her. She asks if it's true. And says they should be friends.

Day 31 They see each other in the copy room and she makes out with him and leaves after her papers are done. Paul goes over to Tom's place all excited and sees Summer come out of the bathroom.

Day 282 Ikea. Hun, all our sinks are broken. She shows no interest

Day 34 Famous Ikea scene. They play around, tv's not working, invisible food, broken sink, a home with two kitchens, racing to the bedroom. Chinese family in the bathroom. She reminds him that she's not looking for anything serious. That night at his apartment, he goes into the bathroom to give himself a pep talk and comes out to find her naked in his bed.

Day 35 Morning after, everyone is wearing blue and there's a dance sequence. Very Disney-esque bluebird flies by. He goes into the elevator at work all happy

Day 303 He comes out of the elevator all depressed. McKenzie tells Tom to write a book. Tom gets an email from Summer saying maybe it means they could start to be friends

Day 45 McKenzie sees her on the phone in the copy room singing. Tells Tom "your girl is losing it"

Day 87 At a dvd store, she tells him she loves Ringo Starr. They go into an adult section and rent something. They try it out in his tub

Day 95 He talks about the architecture of the city. Shows her his favorite spot at the park. He draws a landscape on her arm

Day 109 He sees her apartment for the first time. Finally inside her inner sanctum. Next 6 words: Summer "I've never told anybody that before" Tom "I guess I'm not just anybody"

He talks to his friends about it. They tell him he should put a label on it

Day 118 Tom is at Rachel's soccer game. "What should I do?" His sister has had multiple boyfriends
Summer and Tom ride in a car, he asks what they're doing and she said they're having fun.

Day 259 At a bar, Tom complains about how women dress nowadays. Summer says "some people like it." Some guy comes up and aggressively tries to buy Summer a drink. She calmly shoots him down and he acts like a jerk about it. Tom punches the guy in the face. Summer takes him back to her place and is upset that he stood up for her and she doesn't need anyone to defend her.
He storms out. Neither of them can sleep. She buzzes at his door and apologizes.

Next morning, they talk about their past experiences.

Day 266 They play the "penis" game at the park

Day 191 At an art gallery. They go to a movie

Day 314 He sits at a movie by himself. Foreign film about his sadness

Day 321 "Roses are red/Violets are blue/ F* you whore". Gets reassigned to misery

Day 167 He finished his 25 cards assignment early and help others do their assignments

Day 322 "I hate Summer" lists of things he hates about her.

Riding on a bus, "I HATE THIS SONG!" Gets kicked off

Day 345 Set up on a blind date by Paul. He tells her that "this isn't going to go anywhere"
He gets drunk and tells her about Summer. They go karaoke.

Day 402 Getting on a train to go to a wedding. Sees Summer. She invites her to coffee. They have fun at the wedding, they sit at the kids table. Summer catches the bouquet. They dance. She invites her to a party at her place.

Day 408 Party day. Expectations vs Reality. Expectation: She kisses him on the mouth. Reality: She hugs him. Expectation: She hugs him after opening the present. Reality: She puts a hand on his shoulder. Expectation: They sit at the table talking while everyone else around them talks to each other. Reality. She stands beside the table while random people talk to him. Expectation: They talk at the balcony and leave together. Reality: He drinks alone while she's with some guy.
And then he notices her engagement ring and leaves.

Day 440 Alarm. Stops it.
Day 441 Alarm. Stops it.
Day 441 1/2 Buys Orange juice, Jack Daniels, and Twinkies while wearing a robe
Day 441 Alarm. Sleeping with eyes open. Goes to work. Everyone stares. Pitch meeting. He quits.

Day 450 At the soccer field. He's sketching suicidal pictures of Summer. Rachel tells him he was only remembering the good stuff and to look again. He remembers a day when they go watch a movie. There's a wedding scene, she cries. That's when she starts acting weird.

Day 456-476 He's lounging around on his bed and then decides to erase his chalkboard wall, read architecture magazines, and go on interviews. He draws a landscape on his wall.
She gets happily married

Day 488 He goes to his bench and finds her waiting there for him to eventually show up.
"You never wanted to be anybody's girlfriend and now you're someone's wife"
"I just woke up one day and I knew" ... "What I was never sure of with you"
"I was sitting in a deli reading Dorian Gray, a guy comes up to me and asks me about it. And now he's my husband."

Day 500 May 23, a Wednesday. At an interview, a girl talks to him. Tells him that she also loves the spot with the bench. He invites her to coffee. She introduces herself as Autumn.

Day 1

Sherlock Holmes: The Reigate Puzzle

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - The Reigate Puzzle

April of '87, a strenuous case concerning Baron Maupertuis left Holmes ill. More than once, he had spent 4-5 days awake at a time working on the case that the police of three countries had failed.
Watson took Holmes to Reigate in the country to visit Colonel Hayter and to let Holmes have a little fresh air.
They happened to visit the day after there was a break in at one of the other residents. And the night they arrived, there was a shooting. Involved were the feuding families of Acton and Cunningham.

Result: Cunninghams robbed Actons looking for a deed to the land. Their coachman, William Kirwan, was shot because he followed his employers (a father and son team) and witnessed them robbing the Acton's library. They both made up a story to cover their tracks about the shooting.

Black Box: Season 1 Ep 8 Free Will

Black Box Season 1 Episode 8 Free Will

Alien Hand Syndrome:

Side effects of brain surgery. Left and right hemispheres of the brain are not connecting, brain synapses are crossing so the right hand doesn't know what the other is doing.

Dominion: Season 1 Ep 2 Godspeed

Dominion: Season 1 Episode 2 Godspeed



Michael looking like JGL while talking to Gabriel

Caesar's Palace in Vega

Sherlock Holmes: The Musgrave Ritual

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - The Musgrave Ritual

Watson tells Holmes to organize his papers. Holmes pulls out a box with "a crumpled piece of paper, an old fashioned brass key, a peg of wood with a ball of string attached to it, and three rusty old discs of metal."
It's from one of his earlier cases about the Musgrave Ritual. His college acquaintance, Reginald Musgrave, came to him with a case: His butler,  Brunton, disappeared after being caught looking through family papers. Brunton asked for one week before leaving the job. But he disappeared a few days before the week was up.

Result: The Musgrave Ritual is an initiation for young men of the family to join the estate. It goes like so:
"Whose was it?"
"His who is gone/"
"Who shall have it?"
"He Who Will Come."
"Where was the sun?"
"Over the oak"
"Where was the shadow?"
"Under the elm/"
"How was it stepped?"
"North by ten and by ten, east by five and by five, south by two and by two, west by one and by one, and so under."
"What shall we give for it?"
"All that is ours."
"Why should we give it?"
"For the sake of the trust"

Holmes figured out that they were directions and it lead to a cellar. Brunton's dead body was in it.
Earlier, they had fished a bag of metals and stones out of the pond. It turned out to be the crown of Charles the Second.
Ancestor Sir Ralph Musgrave was the right hand man of Charles the Second. He was protecting the crown until the king could get it but died before then. He created the ritual as a way to remember the location.

Sherlock Holmes: The "Gloria Scott"

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - The "Gloria Scott"

This is Holmes' first case, he shows Watson a note:

"The supply of game for London is going to steadily up [it ran]. Head-keeper Hudson, we believe, has been now told to receive all orders for fly-paper and for preservation of your hen-pheasant's life."

The client was his only friend in college, Victor Trevor. Holmes was invited to vacation with Victor in his home in Birmingham. He uses his deduction skills to wow and shock Sr Trevor causing him to be cautious around Holmes.
On the day that Holmes left, a drunken sailor comes to visit. Sr Trevor went above and beyond to appease him.
Two months later, Victor goes to see Holmes to tell him that the sailor, Hudson, is "the devil." He drinks and acts like he owns the place. And his father has fallen ill and is in his deathbed.

Result: Sr Trevor died and left his son a letter with the story. His real name is James Armitage, he was being transported on Gloria Scott as a convict. They overthrew the crew and just as they were escaping from the ship it blew up. He and his friend Evans changed their names and both prospered. Hudson, the only survivor of the explosion did not prosper. He went around blackmailing all the escapees.

The real message behind the note was actually this:

"The supply of game for London is going steadily up. Head-keeper Hudson, we believe, has been now told to receive all orders for fly-paper and for preservation of your hen-pheasant's life."

Teen Wolf Season 4 Ep 1 The Dark Moon

Teen Wolf: Season 4 Episode 1 The Dark Moon


The episode starts off with Stiles, Lydia, Scott, Kira, and Malia in Mexico looking to buy Derek's freedom from the Calaveras gang. (Note: Allison is definitely dead, the actress asked to be written off the show. Completely unrelated, the twins' and Isaac's actors also asked to be written off.)

I honestly don't remember her name

Their plan was to ambush her but in reality, she ambushes them with wolfsbane gas. She puts them all in a cell except for Lydia to test Lydia's banshee abilities. She gets Kira to shock Scott (or Lydia if Kira refuses) into answering the question of who took Derek.  She goes up to the highest voltage and Scott has an epiphany. "Kate!"

Stiles has a new truck? Or it just looks less beat-up

The Gang

They talk about who Kate is. Gist: Allison's aunt. Burned down Derek's family. Peter (Derek's uncle) "killed" her. She didn't kill herself before she changed on the full moon.
Car breaks down. Stiles tells Scott to go. Scott says "not without you" to Stiles. Kira hugs him and tells him to be careful.

New girl: Braeden, a mercenary, is sent to guide them to "the church"

Something about werejaguars.

Stiles: I will never abandon this Jeep. EVER.

Stiles tells Malia to never run off again. She tells him she'll never leave without him.  (Gestures to Lydia and Kira) "Them I would leave." Stiles: "That's progress"

They find a jaguar god after Scott roars and a magic wall moves.

They found Derek

 Uhh...sort of