YouTube Matters: Heather Traska's A Cappella Disney Song Inspired Masterpiece

Heather Traska is the one-woman a cappella Girl Talk of Disney songs. A star is born.

Predictions: 1) She will get her wish of being on Ellen (Tweet Ellen!); 2) She will be on an episode of Glee and 3) She will be the voice of the next Disney princess (this is obviously the boldness prophecy). My favorite part starts at 2:50 and goes to 4:35 (Let's Get Down to Business, Mulan melting into the greatest Disney song of all time, Reprise to One Jump Ahead, Aladdin). I would have ended the video here, but she's from a younger Disney-movie-watching generation who saw movies like Hercules and Tangled (a movie that brought tears to my 16 year-old brother's eyes because, he said, "Some parts [of Tangled] are just so deep") so she had to pack in more songs.

So, take a trip down memory lane and listen to Heather Traska sing Disney songs like you've never heard them before.

Movie Matters: 10 Things I Hate About You

I just popped in the shiny 10th Anniversary Blu Ray of 10 Things I Hate About You. This is the hands down the best Julie-Stiles-plays-90s-teenager-version-of-a-Shakespearian-heroine movie ever made. 

Couple of great things about the 10th Anniversary edition.

1. Heath Ledger gets a lot of love on the back cover for being the Joker, which is fair because he got the Oscar and he died a glamorous death of a young famous mega star on the top
2. Inflation is a bitch. Two movie tickets cost $15 (with popcorn, $53).Verona does all of his dirt for less than $500.00, the cost of an iPad. 
3. There are so many songs in this movie that I don't remember at all - from the movie, from the radio, from anywhere. 

Quotes that are still really awesome...

"And I'm back in the game"

"Kisses don't keep me elbow deep in placenta."

"Normal? Like those damn Dawson's River kids?"

"And go hear a band that blows by rule?"

Local News Matters: Starburst Dress

I hope KARE 11 ran this story to make fun of people from Wisconsin, but it doesn't really matter because people out East don't know the difference between Minnesota, Wisconsin or any of the other northern midwestern state. As a kid, I used to save Starburst wrappers and I'm not really sure why. Maybe it was because I was living in Minnesota and during the harsh winter months going outside was not an option and we didn't have cable. I kept my wrappers in a box and organized them by color and that was about it. At least this women made something out of her hoard of wrappers. Mine ended up in a pile of stuff I left in Minnesota before I left for warmer climes.

Movie Matters: 2011 Oscars: And the Nominees Are Alright

First thoughts, Helena Bonham Carter and Geoffrey Rush are geniuses but they got in on the coat tails of Colin Firth's tour de force performance in the "King's Speech."

"The Kids Are All Right" is the perfect portrait of the Whole Foods American family and every Obama voter should go see it right now.

"Inception" was the second most fun I had at the theater last year.

"The Social Network," yawn.

Other thoughts, this is the first time in a long time that a number of the films nominated were released all throughout the year.

Snubs include "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World" (Best Adapted Screenplay) and "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World" (Best Picture Ever and the most fun I had at the theater this year).

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