exhaustivo adjective Feeling exhausted because you stayed up too late the night before watching shows recorded to your TiVo or DVR. Commonly accompanied by the self-flagellation, "Why do I do this to myself?"
Origin: Wednesday morning, three blocks into my 12-block walk to work, I regretted staying up till 3 a.m. watching (or fast-forwarding through) four new-to-me Angel repeats, American Idol, the Dancing With the Stars results show, and a Bones rerun on TNT that, hello, I actually own on DVD. (But it was the season 1 Christmas episode where everyone gets quarantined in the Jeffersonian, and only Booth gets to enjoy the fun side effects of the antifungal cocktail they're administered, as seen below.) Which is why I said to myself, as I was trudging, "I am exhaustivo."
cineparanoia noun The overwhelming fear of being judged based on a film selection.
Origin:
I was recently tasked with renting a long list of movies so that our
photo editors could make screen grabs for the latest EW.com gallery: Watching the Unwatchable. I skipped merrily through the video rental store, and happily plunked my movie picks on the counter. The clerk took a long, hard look at me, followed by an even longer look at my film selections. I followed his eyes over the titles:
American History X.Pulp Fiction.Saw (starring Tobin Bell, pictured). The Hitcher.Blade Runner.Reservoir Dogs.The Ring.Requiem for a Dream.
It dawned on me. I was being judged. And, guessing by the look on the young employee's face, I ranked somewhere between disturbed and psychopathic. He seemed momentarily lost in a reverie, and I knew. I just knew he was picturing me running home and hosting a graphic movie marathon, a weekly event celebrating film in its unrated, grotesque, and downright offensive glory, a night culminating in some sort of sacrifice, ending in a toast with a glass of my own blood.
The trailer for Angelina Jolie's latest, Wanted (opening June 27), has what I like to affectionately call "The Giggle Factor." You know what I mean — when you're watching a movie or a TV show or an American Idol performance, and something so over-the-top awesome/ridiculous happens that you cannot suppress the urge to bust out laughing.
For me, the Wanted trailer can be broken down into a mathematical equation:
That opening sequence with Angelina Jolie's car skidding into/picking up a bewildered James McAvoy + the "bullet rustles Angie's tresses" shot + the artsy slabs of meat = Uncontrollable giggling.
And yes, of course I'm going to go see it! What about you?
mift noun A gift you secretly purchase for yourself that masquerades as a gift for someone else; a mift is given in the hopes that it will inevitably become yours, either when the receiver lends it to you, then forgets about the present entirely, or, in cases where the giver and receiver live together, via shared possession.
Origin: Mashup of the words "my" and "gift."
Usage: Kip, when I got you seasons 1 and 2 of Arrested Development on DVD, they were mifts. I was dying to see all the special features, and I had nothing
else to do over Christmas break. If
you were to check right now, you'd see that a majority of the box set is
filled with blank discs. And Dad? About the Angels and Demons audio book I got you? Also a mift. I knew
you couldn't listen to it because you don't have a CD player or an
iPod. I included the gift receipt, but I knew you'd be too lazy to
return it. I ''borrowed'' it from you and I've been listening to it on
the train.
Okay, I think I've probably confessed enough here. How about you, PopWatchers? What's the best entertainment related mifts you've given? And have you ever been the recipient of a suspected mift?
The credit on an actor’s resume that is so beloved it stops fans from wanting to actually kick him where it hurts after sitting through his latest stinker.
[Origin: After seeing Fred Claus, Mandi told her friend Karen that she wanted to kick Vince Vaughn in the nuts. Karen said, “No, you can’t. He’s got a nut guard because of Swingers.”]
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