April 30, 2008

HAPPY 17TH BIRTHDAY

christina kim!

what more is there for me to say? I LOVE YOU! and i bet you had tons of fun today :)

-pachia (your best friend)

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Happy birthday to ME! Well this is a day late but I will talk about my bday yesterday. I didn't really do much yesterday for my birthday because it was 1) a weekday 2) no time right now to "celebrate" because i am cramming for aps/sats. so i just had a normal day except i could feel the love from my friends. haha. tiffany made me cute cupcakes. they were yummy. we have CSATs this week (california standardized testing) so tuesday to thursday has been half days and we only have first period and we test in first period. after school (ended like 12:25?), i had ap chem lab from like 12:30-2pm. yeah that was "fun". it was a pretty easy lab tho. and we got to eat nachos!!! then after that, i walked over to michelle's house to study for ap us history. i studied with michelle and maggie and then angelo, hanh and min came over later. we studied like like a couple hours. then later it was just me and maggie and michelle. we decided to camwhore and attempt at vlogging. our vlog was confusing and crazy. it was too much at once. so i dont think we will post it anytime soon haha. then we went to baskin robbins's 31 cents a scoop event. we waited in line for 30 minutes for our ice cream! we saw tons of kids from school and there was a band playing. it was fun. it was good ice cream. it was worth the wait. but yeah then went home.





overall, simple birthday but it was a good one.
i think i am getting to those ages where i dont really care for birthdays anymore actually.
age is just becoming a number. tho yay i can see rated R movies (SOMEONE TAKE TO SEE HAROLD AND KUMAR!!) but being seventeen? nothing special.
birthdays are just an excuse to party.


hope i can have a party after aps and everything.
im planning to just throw pool party/potluck with friends to celebrate end of the year and survival of junior year and goodbye to mysenior friends.
augh i hope my parents can handle 20+ people at our house.

christina.

p.s. i am sad you don't get to see a pic of my whole outfit. i had some cool red tights on. they were pretty damn snazzy.

Meagen Good Hair Weave

Why look at all out of time and not in those fleeting but powerful moments in which to hear some musical notes to hear the voice of a fellow, we feel that life has an absolute sense?

Psalms

A friend sent me these. I thought they were quite nice.


Oh God are you listening?

I am crying, I am weeping, I am wailing
I am shouting, I am screaming, I am yelling
I am speaking, I am talking, I am telling
I am thinking, I am planning, I am organizing
OH!
Yes God I will listen
Oh God now I am listening



God, will you walk with me today?
Yes, God I will walk with you today.
God I need you at the start of my day.
God too many times I have had to come to you at the end of the day to ask you to bless my mess.



But God I want, I need, and I hurt.
I need it now oh Lord
Please check your clock
I need it now
Tomorrow is too far away
I need it now
This afternoon is too long a time to wait
I need it now
Oh God when I remember
Your answers
Your love
Your care
Your creases
Your gifts
Of the past
I have need for nothing more

do u know what it means to miss new orleans?

Have you ever stayed away too long--from home, from family, from friends? Were there times when you went out too far and lost yr way? Do you know about becoming untethered from the voice inside of you, so that fact and fiction change places and nothing makes sense--for a few seconds, for hours, for days? What do you know about darkness? How do you feel about the FACT of yr death waiting out

Higgamus, hoggamus, woman's monogamous. Hoggamus higgamus, man is polygamous.

So … I wasn’t gonna get into this. I just wanted to lay out the “due process” scenario – that I felt was being grossly ignored. Lay it out there with the hope that someone would agree with me. That was the plan.

But you kept asking really good questions.

So here we are, back with “Scary Texas Polygamous Mormons, Part Two.” (Note to Julie: Is there a movie in here somewhere? A “B” movie, at least? Straight to DVD? Cable?)

Anyway. Let’s get one thing straight. The other day I was passing by a heated conversation and heard a man say, ”See? That’s why Mitt Romney should never be president. He’s one of THEM.”

What?!

Excuse me, oh great stupid mouth, weren’t you paying attention? Regardless of how you regard their religion, the Mormons outlawed polygamy a hundred years ago. This Texas bunch SPLIT from the Mormons, and are no longer card carrying members. Got that? They call themselves Mormons, but in certain and less than subtle ways they are not – not not not a part of the bunch who come around to thump on your door. I mention this only because I know an honest-to-goodness Mormon family. I have found them to be honest, generous, and certainly trying hard to live by a higher moral standard than I have. Since my nature is to be contrary, I bring up the subject of polygamy at every opportunity … and they still continue to invite me over to their house.

Meanwhile, back in Texas …

Here’s a brief re-cap of the allegations that disgust many, and apparently appeal to the prurient interests of others. A supposed polygamous sect in Texas is invaded by government authorities, and 450 children are removed. 23 mothers are included because they are age 17 or younger. 6 adult mothers are removed to “battered women” shelters, and the remaining 47 adult mothers return to the FLDS sect complex. It is ALLEDGED that the majority of the children are girls, destined to be willing or unwilling participants in polygamous marriages anytime after they reach the age of 13. It is ALLEDGED that the majority of boys are encouraged/forced to leave the sect at an early age, theoretically so they will not be in competition with their fathers for the available females. (And now you know why I refuse to judge them. If these allegations prove to be true, then these people are revolting well beyond my ability to understand or forgive. Here abide monsters.)

In addition, there are a few observations to be made. In a tour of the complex, it was revealed that the children live in a communal relationship – all together. Where are the parents? Further, all the commentary on the part of sect members has been given by women. Where are the men?

Now. From comments I’ve received, it appears obvious that we, as observers, fall into two camps.

One side says that these women are purely evil. How could anyone – especially mothers – allow such outrageous acts to be perpetrated on their own children?

What makes them different from the World War II female concentration camp guards?

Yet their grief is real.

So could this ultimately be the real victim here?

The children are gone. That’s a fact. But – let’s face it – they are easy to replace.

Is the government planning a raid every ten to twelve years?

failure is not in MY DICTIONARY.

Yeah to QUOTE PACHIA:

"why does it feel like whether i fail or succeed, in the next couple of weeks, is going to define the rest of my life?! i hate that. pressure about school just does that too you."

If I can get make and SURVIVE up until MAY 14th, I CAN SUCCEED. Just gotta keep going. Gotta KEEP ROOLLLLING. I cannot lose stride. I cannot give up. I cannot get down with the spring fever and fail to lose control. But it has been happening. But I won't let it happen to me. I was keeping on top of it, but this week... was one of those weeks. I was doing homework up until WEDNESDAY. Downhill from there. But yeah I have been studying AP US History (pats self on back) and I have been trying. But you know, MAY is the worst time of the year. Everyone is tired and drowsy. Everyone is freaking sneezing and red-eyed (in sacramento) because of allergies. Everyone is WAITING for summer to come. Everyone is counting down the days.

SO EVERYONE, lets do it. Lets make it. Lets end the year with a

BANG BANG BANG!!!!

If I can do it, you can do it.

And to quote MELANIE

"I'd rather be upset that I worked hard and didn't get what I wanted than regret that I didn't put all my effort into things when I still had the time. Everything is going to pay off one day and even though we're complaining now, this is all going to be worth it."

It is going to be worth it. After AP testing, sweet days of bliss will follow. After that all my classes will be easy breezy. Anyways, why is it the worst things but the best things happen? So I was trying to convince myself that this month, I WILL BE SOCIAL HERMIT. I will turn on the "nerd" button and study study study, like I should. But last week, I was feeling emo and a loser because I was a social hermit last weekend. But when I try a social hermit, people bring back out and tempt to go out and fill up my social calendar. NO NO NO. Sadly to say, I am totally busy and driving myself crazy. Tomorrow is finally LUAWOW for our Pacific Islander's Club (though I am not a pacific islander). It will be crazy fun and a great time. I hope we give a great performance. Yeah so I have tons of homework and I will be busy ALL SATURDAY. GREAAT.. Then next weekend, SATURDAY is SATs and SENIOR BALL which I was invited to. ACK. THE AGONY. It will be nice to party after taking a five hour test, but I AM FREAKING WORRIED about my attention span next week. Knowing me I will be like PARTY PARTY PARTY from Monday to SATURDAY!!! BUT I CAN't. We have those freaking lame California Standardized testing next week also so we get three half-days (yay) but I still have to stay after school till like 2 to do AP Chemistry and AP US study groups. Great.

Once it hits JUNE, I am going to JUUUUUUMMMP FOR JOY! I hope I inspired you to try and DO BETTER.

christina.

p.s. and my birthday is next wednesday and i dont even have time to celebrate. superduper crazy seventeen. whoot. bake me a cake.

baby, baby, cute, cute babies.

today i turned in my annotated bibliographies for my junior project and i'm so glad that it's over! today was actually supposed to be even more exciting, but my plans got ruined and now i'm just home for the night. i made plans to stay after school and watch the Beauty and the Beast musical, but my parents said they didn't want to make the long drive back to school to pick me up in the middle of the night :( and now i'm not too sure if i can go tomorrow night either, because my parents don't want to drive me anywhere (which don't blame them for... look at the gas prices!)! and on another note, i have to go to my saturday school volunteer-work, which i've already missed for the last two weeks! my mom told me that if i wanted to go to the play then she wasn't going to take me to saturday school, because that would mean she would have to drive back and forth. and i cannot miss another week because next weekend will be SATs, soo... ah. ahh. ahhhhhhhh! i've been so busy with trying to keep up with tests and the annotated bibliography this week that i've forgotten about everything else i need to worry about.

why does it feel like whether i fail or succeed, in the next couple of weeks, is going to define the rest of my life?! i hate that. pressure about school just does that too you.

we had our first dance practice today during lunch, for the performance we're going to do on international day. and i suck at hmong dancing. i need practice more, probably ease up a bit because just feel really uncomfortable, which makes me really stiff from that discomfort :| geez, i really do need to learn how to conquer my fears.


anywhoo. i logged onto myspace today, and my notifications told me that TOM added a new video to his myspace! the title was interesting so i clicked on it, and it's so freaking adorable :) t was such a coincidence too, because i was just singing songs from across the universe right before i logged onto myspace. i want a baby, cute like him, when i have babies in the future. he's soooo cuuuuute! ahh, i love the part where he screeeams, and then starts singing "na, na, na." <3

korean baby singing hey jude


these are my personal favorites from the soundtrack!
(i have a lot...)

-pachia

Thank you, Herman

December 1, 1991 - April 24, 2008

Gynocomedy fails in post-Juno world

A movie can’t survive on uterine humor alone. Baby Mama is proof in stirrups.

All it had to do was last 90 minutes. That’s 10 minutes for every month of a character’s pregnancy. It made me wish Baby Mama was about African lions or pot-bellied pigs, whose babies gestate for about three months before birth. That movie would have hit the target jokes, found a nice stride and then, before it had too much umbilical cord to hang itself with, ended. But there I go, reviewing the movie that wasn’t even made.

The movie that was made is one of those One Truth Movies: The entire plot is held together by a lie so monumental that, should it be revealed, the cosmic forces holding the movie together would collapse, leaving us to pick the popcorn off our laps and trudge out to the parking lot.

The liar is surrogate mother Angie (Amy Poehler), a loony-ball redneck carrying the unborn seed of Kate (Tina Fey), who, at 37, is hopelessly single and listening to her biological clock grinding to a halt. Apparently, Kate has a T-shaped uterus, which is no good for babies since they haven’t learned their ABCs yet. And neither, it should be added, has Angie, whose taste in men explains Darwin’s theories in four different dimensions. Angie’s current guy doesn’t work because he’s trying to win arena football tickets in a radio station promotion — he has winner written all over him, but it’s spelled all wrong.

At first Angie lies that she’s pregnant to mooch off Kate’s kindness, and her $10,000 mommy-to-be checks. Then, when Angie actually does get pregnant, another lie swells with her tummy: “Is this Kate’s lab-fertilized baby or is it my deadbeat boyfriend’s?” She plays it fast and loose and Kate learns the truth at the worst possible moment — the baby shower, the only place a baby-comedy this vapid could possibly end.

A better movie would have developed Kate a little better, maybe suggested that she wasn’t as ready for mommyhood as she thought. Tina Fey, a feisty and refreshing force on 30 Rock and a former head writer on Saturday Night Live, is more expressive than Baby Mama gives her credit for. She and her movie could have been very funny, and possibly meaningful. Instead they’re just mildly humorous.

Then there’s the issue with Kate’s single status. You have to wonder what’s inherently wrong, on an emotional level, with a movie character as attractive, smart, sassy, sexy, intelligent and inventive as the one Fey plays who is unable to find a responsible and willing mate to help her produce offspring. Either she’s entirely too picky, or maybe she has a horrible foot odor or questionable, deal-breaking hygiene. Juno, last year’s big pregnancy movie, would have the answers, but Baby Mama just uses its star’s emotional well-being, and her baby, as a vehicle for a series of disposable jokes.

And then there’s Poehler, Mama’s preggo floozy who plays dumb the way Beethoven wrote sonatas. I see crazy in her eyes, and I like it, although she’s required to play dense to such a degree that it becomes distracting — come on, she doesn’t understand how her reproductive system works? In birthing class she asks if Pam, the household cooking spray, could be used to make a baby Slip ’N Slide during delivery. She then holds breast pumps to her eyes like goggles. Her timing and delivery are perfect, but viewed as a piece of the whole, Poehler unbalances an already unbalanced picture. Ditto for Fey. It’s as if the characters would have been better on their own than together.

Joining them in irrelevance is Sigourney Weaver, some kind of birthing expert who works out of an office that has probably been an Oval Office set on dozens of other movies, and Steve Martin, the great comedian who plays a hippie who apparently traded his LSD stash for an organic foods market. The pony-tailed windbag, with his aura-examining nuttiness, rewards staffers with five minutes of unbroken eye contact and expensive Tibetan prayer smoke. In a role not far removed from his dirtball in Bowfinger, Martin is either the best thing about Baby Mama or the worst depending on how you react to cervix gags, call it gynecomedy.

Women might appreciate Baby Mama. Men … not so much.

2 more days...

Well okay, more like one and a half. I'm now starting to get really excited. I'm starting to really shut down at work. hehe. I'm not even getting cold feet at all. I have never been so sure about something in my life. A few weeks ago, I was driving home to San Jose, and it hit me...I'm not even freaked out at all. People say you get cold feet and question whether it really is meant to be and you should get married. For me, that has never happened. This is something that feels so right. I couldn't help smiling the rest of the drive home. It's actually coming true...

Haha. Although, we do fight a lot more now. But it's all in the fun of getting to truly know each other and how it will be to live with each other. Regardless of all the stupid arguments, I still feel like this is the right thing for me.

Oh buggah...I'm gonna end up crying on Friday in front of everyone...

GTA IV Leaked Map

Texas Polygamist Mormon Sect GUILTY!

There! I said it – guilty. Guilty guilty guilty!

Boy, do I ever feel better. So – whadda ya say? Let’s send those people away for a goodly long time. Maybe we can do a 60 Minutes Special on the first anniversary of the arrest. Or … better yet, sometime in May, a year from now (during sweeps.) Hey, don’t dismiss the idea without giving it some thought. And – oh, this gets better. Five years from now, maybe ten, we can drag one or two of the Mormon kids out of mothballs, to tell us how their lives were ruined by … by …

What was that again?

Oh. Yes. They’re Mormons. That’s enough. They are guilty of being scary Mormons. No, they split from the scary Mormons, so that makes them even scarier Mormons. I mean, isn’t that right up there with Martin Luther splitting from the Roman Catholics? Uh … maybe not. Better to not go there. I’m sure it will all be straightened out in the made-for-TV movie.

But they’re guilty. Must be. CNN says they are guilty. I mean, CNN, NBC, everybody calls them a polygamist group. And they couldn’t and wouldn’t say that if it wasn’t true.

Could they? Would they?

… on the other hand, if they were called just a small farming commune in backcountry Texas, that probably wouldn’t make much of a grabber headline. So, in spite of the fact that they haven’t been convicted yet, haven’t even been charged yet, they must be guilty. Nancy Grace says so.

But they force young girls to marry old men. How ‘bout that? I know this for a fact. Just today, a man in the Target store told me it was true.

Oh. Oh. You can’t dispute this one. Have you seen the sect women? I mean, can you believe that? They all dress like pioneer women, talk in low monotones, and have 1950’s James Dean hairstyles. Anybody who lives like that must be guilty of something. I've seen enough movies to know that. Why, you’d almost believe they were pretending to be Amish! At the very least, In spite of their constant denials, they must all be brain dead.

What?

Oops. Sorry. I meant to say they are brainWASHED! The women who dress and talk funny, and are brain dead … they all live in Southern California, don’t they? Yo, dog! My bad!

…………………………………………………………………

Eventually, in due time and course, the evidence will be gathered, charges of crimes against society will be made, trials will be held, and individuals – I have no doubt – will be convicted and sent to jail. I’m not foolish. I’m inclined to believe that the government rarely acts without good reasons.

…………………………………………………………………

But before that – now - this group has in fact been tried and found guilty. They actually believed that they would be presumed innocent until proven guilty. Where on earth did they come up with THAT dumb idea?!

I must admit, my friend, to a great sense of relief. I belong to a church approved by everyone. I’m a …

On second thought, I … don’t think I wanna tell you.

time is t i c k i n g, time is ticking

Epik High's new fifth album is out! I am super happy about it. I wish I could go and buy a copy but sad to say that I cannot support artists and I have resolved to downloading. But that is okay. I just felt like posting since I haven't posted in like.. awhile? Feels empty if me or Pachia do not update in like a week or so.

Time is ticking for the AP TESTS. I have two weekends before my first test happens. Oh joy. And also I realized how time has GONE BY SO FAST! I was thinking about blogging about it and so I guess I will. My best friend from sixth grade added me on facebook. It was a total shock and surprise. We lost contact after she went back to Hong Kong in seventh grade. I was sad because we got really close, really fast back in sixth grade. I had to transfer late to a new school. It was surprising but Joyce and I became such good friends so quick. I used to go to her house every weekend in the summer and we would swim and listen to the Hilary Duff movie soundtrack because we went to go see it with a couple other friends at my birthday party. I even went to a new middle school, that was very far from my house, just to be with her. I hadn't really thought her until recently. After talking to her on facebook for the last couple days, it opened a whole flood of memories of sixth grade and memories at middle school. When she posted some old pictures of us and friends from sixth grade and seventh grade, I WAS SO SURPRISED at how young we looked. We really did look like little kids and I remember how "grown up" we tried to act. How hilarious it is to think back at it.

THIS WAS ALMOST FIVE YEARS AGO!!!
Look at nerdy me in the glasses.

It makes me smile though. I still think I was the same person from back then, but looking at those pictures now, I see I am not. I have grown a lot. Pretty weird to see me now, seventeen in a week and half (OOOOOOOMMMMMMGGG I AMMM GOONNNA BE OLD) and look at me back then, twelve years. Wow. A big difference. I can't believe how many things have changed in the last five years. I thank Joyce for reminding me of those times and opening all those memories back again. They were good memories. I can't wait to see her again for the first time in five years in September. She is finally coming back for a visit to America. Maybe we will have a little Merryhill/Sutter reunion with our old classmates. That would be a surprise. But I doubt much about any of us has changed. We all look the same but slightly a little older, maybe a little wiser (or stupider), and just a little more happier. I am glad those horrid middle school days are over.

More PostSecrets

christina.

S T R O N G E R, kanyee.

i thought the concert was good. i have nothing else to say, so i guess it wasnt that AMAZING! but i think that was because i barely knew any of anyone's songs! and kanye didnt sing "BITTERSWEET" which is my favorite kanye west song. ahh, i feel lame that i went to the and i dont even really listen to kanye or lupe fiasco or n.e.r.d. or rihanna. but i'm super happy i got to go in the end, and OMG I AM IN DEBT TO MARISSA! yayy. i love her.

deandre took some more pictures, but he hasnt sent them to me yet. these are the pictures from marissa's camera. i didnt bring mines, because i didnt know i was gonna go until i got to school and marissa was like "hey, are you busy tonight, go to the concert!" how funny... the last blog was about kanye's glasses. and now i have some! but they're plastic and fake. and way bigger than the real ones. haha.







i've recently gone through my diary from last year. wow, i'm a freak. i let tommy read it, since its mostly all about him. haha. and my summer. waaaaahhhh! school is tomorrow :( shit, i havent studied for my ap tests or sats. maybe if i close my eyes, they'll all go away... not. goodnight and good luck, people. listen to some kanye tonight. au revoir. by the way, pharrel is super hot.

♥PACHIA!

Last Night's Sleep (420 Full Moon Mix)

Two ReceiversThe fever she is burning, the birds they are chirping...Sick and stubbornly refusing to take anything except my usual girly smoke, I passed out early last night and ended up wide awake at 4 AM. There was a pleasant buzzing in my brain and though I still felt achy and congested, I no longer felt tired. I decided to stay up and hung out online as my blinds glowed a dark and then

Sometimes Being Stupid Isn't A Bad Thing At All

My first play was produced nationally in 1964. (Or it might have been in 1965 or ’66. At the moment I don’t remember, and it doesn’t really matter.) I had been writing local TV shows for a few years, and a friend suggested that I could probably have a few produced as legitimate stage plays … for money. I found a list of agents at the local library, picked a few, and sent ‘em copies of a few plays. I got a letter from an agent living in Florida. She was interested in my writing, and asked for a copy of what I considered my best work. I sent her a copy of Another Dumb Ghost Story, and for a number of years she would send me checks. We had a wonderful relationship.

Emerging playwrights today scoff at me; saying that I was too simplistic – that a system such as I describe could not and would not possible work. This makes me nervous. Does that mean I should give the money back?

Recognize this actor? His name is Robert Lansing. When I knew him in the late 1950’s, he was a radio DJ working in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. We were involved in a local production of The Crucible, when he started talking about dropping out of radio, and doing a show on Broadway. Behind his back, everybody snickered at his naiveté. The play closed, he quit his job at the radio station, and a month later he was acting on Broadway. The following season he was starring in a TV series. In later years he would be featured in many other television programs, movies, plays, and blah blah blah. Somebody should have sat down with this man and told him he couldn’t DO this stuff – it doesn’t work that way.

Here’s what got me started along this chain of thought. I have a young friend who is a dancer. That is, she has taken lessons for years, and danced in school and church presentations. But she would like to do something more with her gift. With head shot and resume in hand, she just finished auditioning for Walt Disney World. Will she make it? No. Certainly not. She has everything in the world working against her. The problem is, she doesn’t know that. And BECAUSE she doesn’t know that, it wouldn’t surprise me to see her dancing in front of the magic castle any time now.



So here’s my point. Is there something you want to do? What’s stopping you?

Olivia Munn

Olivia Munn (born July 2, 1982) is an American actress, model, and television personality. She began her career being credited as Lisa Munn. However, since 2006, she has been using the name Olivia Munn professionally. Also since 2006, Munn has been one of the faces of the cable network G4, hosting a number of shows for the network, the most prominent being Attack of the Show!, with co-host Kevin Pereira.

Early life

Lisa Olivia Munn was born in Oklahoma to mother Kim Munn and father Sam Munn. She is of Chinese descent on her mother's side and of Caucasian descent on her father's.[1] When Munn was two, her mother re-married to a man in the Air Force.[1] Although the family relocated many times, Munn was predominantly raised in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo, Japan,[2] where the military assigned her stepfather. During this time, she had appeared in a number of local theater productions, and later became a model within the Japanese fashion industry.[3]

Early career

Munn moved back to the United States, settling in Los Angeles, California to pursue an acting career. In 2004, she interned at Fox Sports Net and worked as a sideline reporter for college football and women's basketball. She has gone on to say that she disliked the experience, explaining "I was trying to be something I wasn’t, and that made me really uncomfortable on live TV."[2] Munn had also gained a small role in the straight to video horror film Scarecrow Gone Wild.

In late 2005, Munn began her portrayal of Milly Acuna, a teen surfer, over two seasons of the TV drama Beyond the Break[4] on The N network. She enjoys surfing and continues to practice the sport.[5] She originally auditioned for the part of Kai, but the producers wanted a "local girl".[6] She also appeared in the film The Road to Canyon Lake.

Attack of the Show!

In 2006, Munn moved on to the G4 network, where she began co-hosting Attack of the Show! with Kevin Pereira on April 10, 2006. She was replacement for host Sarah Lane, who left the show along with Brendan Moran to get married. The network, devoted to the world of video games and the video game lifestyle, was at first hesitant to hire Munn. Although she admits video games were her "weak point", she was confident in her technical knowledge.[7] On the show, Munn is featured with journalist Anna David in a segment of the program called "In Your Pants", which deals with sex and relationship questions from viewers. While working on Attack of the Show!, Munn hosted Formula D, a now defunct program about American drift racing, and an online podcast called Around the Net (formerly known as The Daily Nut), for G4.

Acting career

Munn will make her debut in a large Hollywood film in the upcoming Rob Schneider movie Big Stan. She will play Schneider's character's receptionist Maria. Munn will also have a role in the 2008 horror film Insanitarium.

Modeling career

Munn is a successful model and has booked campaigns for Nike, Pepsi and Neutrogena. She appeared on Fall 2006 cover of Foam magazine in September, and Men's Edge magazine in August, and was featured in a pictorial in Complex magazine in November 2006. In February 2007, she appeared as "Babe of the Month" in a non-nude pictorial in Playboy magazine.[8] Munn also appeared in the July/August 2007 issue of Men's Health magazine. In September 2007, she was featured in the magazine, Italian Vanity Fair for their "Hot Young Hollywood" Issue.

Personal

She is dating actor Bryan Greenberg.[9][10]

Porn for the Blind

So I was listening to the radio this morning and they were talking about how these guys had started "porn for the blind". Haha. They went on to play a clip of it. Man, they were so proper that it was just comical. Really, if a blind person wanted to listen to porn, they wouldn't want to listen to that...

I am now curious on what they had to offer the blind...

Elisha Ann Cuthbert

Elisha Ann Cuthbert (born November 30, 1982) is a Canadian actress. Cuthbert is known as the former co-host of the Canadian children's television series Popular Mechanics for Kids, and for her role as Kim Bauer in the American action-thriller television series 24. She had her first lead role in the 2004 feature film The Girl Next Door. She has had starring roles in the 2005 House of Wax and the 2007 horror film Captivity

Early life

Cuthbert was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, the daughter of Patricia, a homemaker, and Kevin, an automotive design engineer.[1] She has two younger siblings, Jonathan and Lee-Ann and grew up in Greenfield Park, near Montreal, Quebec. In 2000, she graduated from Centennial Regional High School and moved to Los Angeles at the age of seventeen to pursue an acting career.

Career

Early career

When she was seven, Cuthbert started modeling for various lines of children's clothing and also became a foot model.[2] She made her first televised appearance as an extra in the horror-themed series for children Are You Afraid of the Dark?; she later became a series regular. Cuthbert also co-hosted Popular Mechanics for Kids, which was filmed in Montreal. Her reporting captured the attention of then-First Lady Hillary Clinton, who invited her to visit the White House.[3]

Cuthbert landed her first role in a feature film in the family drama Dancing on the Moon (1997). She appeared in several other Canadian family-themed movies and an airplane thriller, Airspeed. Cuthbert starred in the Canadian television movie Lucky Girl in 2001 and was awarded a Gemini Award for her performance.[citation needed]

Soon after her move to Los Angeles, Cuthbert was cast in the role of Kim Bauer, daughter of CTU agent Jack Bauer in the television series 24. She appeared in the show's first three seasons, but not in its fourth; she guest-starred in only two episodes in the fifth season. She also reprised her role as Kim Bauer in 24: The Game. She has also said that she would like to play her role as Kim in the upcoming movie, 24: The Movie.[citation needed]

Hollywood career

Cuthbert auditioned for the role of Mary Jane Watson in the Spider-Man film, but the role went to Kirsten Dunst.[4]

2003-2005

She began her Hollywood film career with small roles in Old School and Love Actually in 2003.

Cuthbert's next film, The Girl Next Door, cast her in her first lead role as an ex-porn star, Danielle, alongside Emile Hirsch. Cuthbert had initial reservations about taking the part, but was persuaded by director Luke Greenfield into accepting. She researched the role, speaking to actual adult actresses from Wicked Pictures and Vivid Entertainment.[5] Upon its release the film received comparisons to Risky Business[6][7] – although Cuthbert claims her character was not directly based on Rebecca De Mornay's character – and was noted for Cuthbert's sex appeal. Critics were divided; some praised the film for its boldness, while others, notably Roger Ebert, decried it as gimmicky and exploitative.[8][9] Ebert wrote that he saw Cuthbert's character Danielle as "quite the most unpleasant character I have seen in some time."[10] The film has since become a cult classic.[citation needed]

In her next big-screen outing, Cuthbert starred with Paris Hilton and Chad Michael Murray in the 2005 remake of the classic horror film House of Wax. Cuthbert, along with the rest of her castmates, was made up to look haggard. In one scene, her character was to attempt to open her mouth while her lips were sealed with glue. For the sake of realism, Cuthbert opted for real superglue over prosthetics.[11] Despite her efforts, House of Wax was largely panned, with critics citing a range of flaws. It was called "notable for having some of the most moronic protagonists ever to populate a horror film," though out of those characters reviews tended to think Cuthbert "fares the best".[12] Others noted Cuthbert as an "exception" playing her role "earnestly" and "fine".[13][14]

2006-2007

Cuthbert's next film project was the indie film The Quiet, which she not only co-starred in but also co-produced and helped finance. She played Nina, a temperamental 17-year-old cheerleader who suffers from sexual abuse. Cuthbert looked to her younger cousin for inspiration as to how to play a teenager.[15] The Quiet, distributed by Sony Pictures Classics, premiered at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival and received a limited release in Los Angeles and New York City on August 25, 2006, before expanding regionally on September 1.

Cuthbert had also screen tested for the role of Lois Lane in Superman Returns, but she lost the part to Kate Bosworth. She had also been turned down for the lead in Fantastic Four.[citation needed]

Cuthbert appeared in the music video for Weezer's "Perfect Situation" in early 2006, where she played the group's fictional original singer who threw a tantrum that led to Rivers Cuomo, the unlikely roadie, becoming the frontman of the band.[16] Cuthbert also had a small role in Paris Hilton's music video for the song "Nothing In This World".[17]

In 2007, Cuthbert appeared in the film, Captivity, a thriller centered around a fashion model taunted by a psychopath who has imprisoned her in a cellar[18][19] – of which she was nominated by Razzies as worst actress.[20]

In He Was a Quiet Man, Cuthbert played Vanessa, a quadriplegic. The film was in limited release in 2007 and release on dvd in early 2008.

2008-Present

Cuthbert is slated to voice Cleo, "the feline daughter of a wealthy kitty litter baron", in Cat Tale, an animated film set in a civilized world of cats and dogs.[21]

For 2008, Cuthbert is scheduled to appear in two films. The first is the family comedy The Six Wives of Henry LeFay with actor Tim Allen, in which she plays his daughter. She will also appear in My Sassy Girl, starring alongside Jesse Bradford.

She is also one of the stars in the Canadian mini-series Guns, due to premiere sometime in 2008.

Cuthbert has plans to return for the movie version of 24, playing her character Kim Bauer.

Cuthbert will return to television with the the CBS drama pilot Ny-Lon. Cuthbert will play a New York literacy teacher/record store clerk who embarks on a transatlantic romance with a London stock broker. The project is based on a British series starring Rashida Jones and Stephen Moyer.

Cuthbert is on the cover of the May 2008 issue of Maxim magazine.

Personal life

Cuthbert, who enjoys painting,[22] is a devoted ice hockey fan and Los Angeles Kings season ticket holder, as are her mother and brother, Jonathan, who is active in the sport. She maintained her own blog on the NHL's web site.[23] She was previously in a relationship with New York Rangers hockey player Sean Avery,[24] Before that, she was dating Hayden Christensen, a fellow Canadian. She is currently in a relationship with Calgary Flames hockey player Dion Phaneuf. [25]

She regularly secures a place in FHM and Maxim's annual Top 100 Sexiest/Hottest lists. Her highest ranking was #5 in the 2005 UK Edition of FHM's 100 Sexiest Women in the World list. She was ranked #14 in 2003, #10 in 2004, #22 in 2006, and #10 in 2007. The U.S. Edition ranked her #53 in 2003, #63 in 2004, and #54 in 2006. She was not listed in the U.S. 2005 list. Maxim magazine named her #92 in its 2006 Hot 100 list, and features her in their Girls of Maxim Gallery.[26][27] As of 2006, Cuthbert has stated that she would refuse to be photographed nude in film roles or magazines, and uses body doubles whenever necessary, specifying that she would "like to keep some things to [herself]".[13] Most recently, Cuthbert was ranked #10 by AskMen.com readers in the list "Top 99 Women of 2007".

Credits

Films
Year Title Role Notes
1996 Dancing on the Moon Sarah
1997 Mail to the Chief Madison Osgood
Nico the Unicorn Carolyn Price
1998 Airspeed Nicole Stone
1999 Believe Katherine Winslowe
Time at the Top Susan Shawson
2000 Who Gets the House? Emily Reece
2001 Lucky Girl Katlin Palmerson
2003 Love Actually American Goddess Carol
Old School Darcie Goldberg
2004 The Girl Next Door Danielle
2005 House of Wax Carly Jones
2006 The Quiet Nina Deer
2007 Captivity Jennifer Tree
He Was a Quiet Man Vanessa
2008 My Sassy Girl Jordan Roark
Cat Tale Cleo
Cheese Party Amanda Rodriguez
Six Wives of Henry LeFay Unknown Pre-production
Guns Frances Dett

Television
Year Title Role
1997–2000 Popular Mechanics for Kids Herself
1999–2000 Are You Afraid of the Dark? Megan
2001–2006 24 Kim Bauer