how to make a halloween costume with little effort, some creativity and just praying that people watch as much television as you do

You have two days left to come up with a good costume. All of the Heisenberg's and the Daenarys's are taken and you need something clever in a hurry. RIGHT. Well I came across this photo on the Huffington Post's TV tumblr and it gave me a few ideas.



How easy/fun is that? Most people know the Cheers credits, and there are a few others out there you could replicate as well that would be fairly well known.



1. "Executive Producer Vince Gilligan" - since Breaking Bad is still hot right now and it's easier and more out there than just being Heisenberg. Unless you're a sexy Heisenberg.



2. "Executive Producer Dick Wolf" - who hasn't seen at least one variation of the multiple variations of Law & Order?

3. Why not just wear a black t-shirt (as seen above, but without the caption) and go as the infamous Soprano's ending? Just make sure you crank some Journey.

That's a good start, right? You can always get slightly more creative when it comes down to it.

4. Be completely animated in only 6-second intervals and just go as a Vine video. Namely a Chris D'Elia or a Batdad video because they are the best.

Okay step it up just sliiightly more.

5. Dress yourself in blue and be meth. Yes, I went there, be meth from Breaking Bad and extra points for crystalizing yourself in any way or wrapping yourself in a plastic bag. And if you have leftover plastic why not lend it to a friend...?

6. ...so they can go as a Dexter victim, even a sexy Dexter victim because obviously you're wearing plastic. More extra points for blood.

7. Why not just find something of a period piece and go as a victim of Game Of Throne's Red Wedding? Wait for it...OF COURSE EXTRA POINTS FOR BLOOD AGAIN!

8. Or the last one, the easiest of all of them. Print out a piece of paper that says "muggle". Wrap around neck. Easy enough, just don't blame me if someone dressed as Draco Malfoy calls you names. But you're an adult and you can take it, right?

9. And out of all of the wrecking ball costume attempts (including the pug we all love) this human variation may be my favorite.



This and other wrecking ball ideas found here.

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Up a little late today, apologies. I came across this AMAZING video this morning. It's a Breaking Bad ice skating tribute and it's phenomenal. It's not at all cheesy, its talented and very beautiful. Give it a shot.

Full link.

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It is no surprise that The Shining is my favorite movie. What I love almost as much as the movie itself is all of the references out there within movies and television. Here is my list of some of the best of them.

As written recently here, small obsession with Treehouse of Horror, and probably the best of all-time is The Shinning. Obviously a classic and deserved it's out shout out so moving on...

I don't watch Supernatural. I'm sorry. Doxey watches Supernatural so I am sure at some point I will get there. One thing I am aware of regarding the series is their multiple references to The Shining. Just a few of my favorites that are a little more thought out than just dialogue: A not so obvious reference to the nearest city of Sidewinder, a few apartment/room numbers being 237, and basically the entire season 2 episode Playthings. Seriously, why am I not watching this again?

Sid's carpet in Toy Story looks a bit familiar.


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The South Park episode A Nightmare on Facetime loosely follows the plot of the movie where Stan's family purchases an abandoned Blockbuster video only for Stan's dad to be haunted by ghosts and turn into a Jack Torrence-y like maniac.


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One of my favorites is so extremely subtle I did not catch it until the re-watch. Breaking Bad pays a small tribute in season 3. The Salamanca twins murder a police officer with an axe. Minutes before on the police radio you hear a call to KDK-12, the same call letters of the Overlook Hotel.


This 30 Seconds to Mars music video.



Gilmore Girls has five of them (and also has my heart). Mainly verbiage including axes, "here's Johnny" and crazy people.

Crawl Space, one of the earlier episodes of one of the best animated shows ever Bob's Burgers, takes place in a crawl space. Obviously. But with Bob being trapped within the crawl space he starts to hallucinate...about a bar...


PHOTO FROM MY NETFLIX.

And probably the most well-known from Friends.



And this photo because hello obviously.


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*Do I even need to mention, spoilers? Well, I will. And spoilers and thoughts on Talking Bad as well.


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Good God.

Let me start from the beginning.

A few years ago Zack informed me that I should, no, needed to watch this show starring Malcolm's dad about a chemistry teacher that sold meth! It sounded absurd and I lost interest after two episodes. Mainly I think I was in my Dawson's Creek phase and I didn't ant that interrupted. A few weeks later he came back to me and told me that I really needed to give it another chance. He had finished the first season and felt very strongly that I needed to be a part of this.

That clicked with me.

He doesn't binge watch television like I do so for him to outright say something like that was beyond me. So I figured, hey, I'll give it another shot. I started from the beginning and somehow I made it through season one. And two. And three. All within about a weeks time. And then that crazy Saturday happened where at nine in the morning we decided to watch a few episodes in bed before the day actually started. All of a sudden we look out the window and it's nine at night. It's dark and we order pizza and finish the last episode of the fourth season.

We were caught up. We were able to watch all of season 5 in "real time", sometimes surrounded with others and sometimes in the dark alone. Either way it was almost painful to have to wait a week in between each episode and then an entire year between part one and part two. But somehow we made it, and now we're here and now it's over. Like over, over and I'm struggling. It's like the first time I watched Six Feet Under and felt like I had ended a six season relationship. I tried to give The Soprano's a chance right after and it was just too soon. The wounds hadn't healed yet and inevitably I had given up. I felt worse this time around. Like that feeling where you want to just stay in bed watching You've Got Mail or my go-to chick flick Grease 2 and stuff your face with cookie dough? I'm surprised I'm not doing that right now.

Considering how this all went down, I will be honest and say I am thoroughly satisfied with this ending. I think they tied up every single loose end they needed to, even when it seemed like they didn't (supporting characters, not much needed to be said, though I was hoping for a little more Marie/Flynn time but I'm not mad about it).

Jesse broke free. He broke completely free and drove away probably singing a Lynyrd Skynyrd song. Good, he deserves it. I hope wherever he goes (to get brock, to get some In N'Out) that he is happy and life is amazing for him. He finally got to be in control of his life.

Walt. It was not completely clear that he lived or died. I honestly thought that's how it was designed until I watched Talking Bad. He died, and good riddance, though honestly I cried, and I very much did not expect to cry. But I did. Because even bad things are sad.

It could not have been more perfect. I don't know if I can even say much more about it. I think if we go on and on about how brilliant it is, it's ruined. I don't want that. So to end, I have some links about things you might have missed (I know I did) via Buzzfeed, and also some of the most heart-stopping moments.

-Jesse got Todd
-Who was right about Lydia and the ricin?
-Did you not freak out when those red dots appeared on Elliot and Gretchen?
-And also flip out when it was Badger and Skinny Pete?
-That pillar in Skyler's apartment so perfectly placed hiding Walt? Crap!
-JESSE GOT TODD
-Walt finally admitting to Sklyer it was all for him
-Walt saying goodbye to Holly
-Walt from above, something we've seen a few times

HERE IS ALL THE CRAP YOU MISSED perfectly compiled into a little package. Please click this link.

And a proper farewell to everybody's favorite punk ballad.

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The first time I wrote about Breaking Bad was here. Considering the finale is the Sunday I figured for part two I would divide into BF (before finale) and AF (after finale).

SUPER SPOILERS AHEAD, you've been warned.

If you haven't been watching Breaking Bad I suggest if you want to continue our friendship you get on Netflix or download or borrow DVDs. DO YOURSELF A FAVOR. It may be the only thing worth talking about until Game of Thrones comes back. And even that won't feel the void that is Breaking Bad. Nothing will.

First to debunk basically everything I thought was going to happen during the latter half of season 5, so far Holly is still alive, pink hasn't really surfaced (unless you count the teddy's random appearance, and we don't know for sure if Walt was wearing a wire (I almost think it's the string from the wedding ring he put around his neck due to his weigh loss). Funny thing is there is now a whole new set of w.t.f.'s that we have to ponder now, so that's super fun. With one episode left (sob) how the HELL are they going to wrap this up and end it? Are they going to pull a Dexter? I don't think so because unlike those writers, I have the utmost faith in Vince Gilligan.

Where we are: Walt is seriously suffering from his cancer now. Having relocated to the remote mountains in New Hampshire he has resorted into paying $10,000 an hour for a man to play poker with him to cure his loneliness. It's bad. And it's deserved, but that doesn't mean I'm not a little sad about it. His son just basically asked him to die please, Hank is kaput, not by Walt's hand but essentially he is the cause, and his wife Skyler is facing jail time even after he tried to exonerate her.

Jesse may or may not be dead (may not, please) after watching his sort-of girlfriend Andrea get shot in the head by Todd (I'm sure he told her son Brock he was "Sorry for his loss" after whacking her, Todd is so polite).

And then there's Gretchen and Elliot, which out of fracking nowhere resurfaced on Charlie Rose only to tell the world that the only contribution Walt had made to Gray Matter was THE NAME. That lit a damn fire under Heisenberg's ass, basically having nothing else to live for since his family hates him, Hank is gone and Jesse is his enemy.

The finale is called Felina. Not only is Felina an anagram for finale, it also means: Fe (Iron), Li (Lithium), and Na (Sodium) which can be translated to Blood, Meth and Tears. There ya go. Seriously I don't believe a single detail is overlooked when it comes to this sort of thing. The first episode of this season was titled "Live Free or Die" which is the motto of New Hampshire where Walt is now, however taken literally, if he is caught there is no way he's going to even see the inside of a prison.

So now, what the hell else can happen?

Oh I'll tell you. But before I do I asked a few of my mates to give me their best final episode breakdowns, in their own words (and accents in some cases).


Chryshele's theory -

With Walt having just been called an asshole by junior and finding out that his only contribution to Gray Matter was the name, Walt is brought to the point of no return. These events will be what brings him back to New Mexico. Walt is determined to take out Todd and his "gang" for ruining Walt's life by killing Hank, but it goes badly. In retaliation true to Todd, he kills Skyler and furthers Walt's insanity.

But before Skyler is killed, Walt makes one more attempt to reconcile with his family, who is still convinced that he killed Hank. He tries to give Skyler the money that junior refused and, junior calls the cops and Walt has to disappear. Todd then shows up and kills Skyler while Walt is watching from a distance. Todd gets away just as the cops show up.

Now that Todd has killed Skyler, Walt is more determined than ever to kill Todd and sets things in motion. Junior and Holly are now orphans essentially and Marie takes them in, but she's barely there herself because she's so stricken with grief that junior has to take care of Holly himself.

Jesse who has just seen his girlfriend killed by Todd and is still in their entrapment, tries again to break free of his pit and this time succeeds, only to run into Walt who is on his way to kill Todd. Walt and Jesse team up to kill Todd and his "gang" and this time succeed, and then Jesse turns on Walt before Walt tries to do the same thing, and Jesse kills Walt. Jesse then leaves the state and tries to start over.

Flynn and Holly stay with Marie and are only slightly screwed up, Walt left a message on Marie's phone before Jesse killed him telling her the coordinates of Hank's body, and Walt is forever thought to have murdered Hank. Walt's money is seized by the police and never to be seen again, all his "hard" work for nothing.

Jason Doxey's theory -
Breaking Bad has been an emotional roller coaster I hesitantly boarded a little over a year ago and consumed at a rampantly vicious rate once I got my taste of the blue stuff and the spiral it created in all of the affected lives around Walt Sr. Having invested so much time and energy into this property and it's characters and universe they inhabit I can only give my opinion of how I would like it to end; I want Walt to find resolution, as vindictive as that resolution may spew. It will not be the cleanest break, since the dirty laundry has already been consumed, but I want Walt to be okay and live out his numbered days as a free man, crime free and as innocently as he began this journey so that he may retire in as much peace as possible. I want his family to reap the benefits of his lifestyle as recompense for the sacrifices, mostly unbeknownst to them, of his misguidedly cunning ways. And everyone else around him/them to get what's coming to them or become lost in their ignorance. Any way I spin the end of this most epid of sagas is irrelevant, but that's how I want it to go. I will miss this mess and can only look forward to the spin off story of Saul as consolation. I'm glad it's ending while it's on top and I'll be there to witness it firsthand for the first time the FIRST TIME it's available. Thank you Breaking Bad family, for your gratuitous gift of compelling and engaging entertainment. It will live on for generations.

Zack and Aadi's theory (because family collaborates) -

Aadi (to be said in a thick Mexican accent): So, basically what we think is going to happen is Walt is going to go after all of Todd's uncles cronies and what's basically going to happen is he will buy guns and stuff and go after them. We believe that Jesse will be stuck in the crossfire but will survive and it will come down to a huge showdown between Walt and Jesse. And we think that Walt will end up crippled and Jesse will be dead because he will bleed out or something, and Walt will have to live in a wheelchair with his only means of communication being a bell (ding, ding, ding).

Zack: Skyler and Walt Jr will survive, honestly it's never been about them so why start now. Walt has created all of this risk and he himself will be the one to suffer.

In the end, the whole reason for doing this was Gray Matter. What if, Walt completely forgets about Todd, the Aryans, Lydia, everyone and goes after the Schwartz's? Early on Jesse asked Walt why he couldn't just stop now? He'd made enough money, why go on? Walt explained that he'd sold his stake in Gray Matter for peanuts and now it's a billion dollar company. Never again.

Michael Doxey's theory - Everyone dies, bitch.

My thoughts? I know you were waiting. I think that considering all that has gone down, the primary reason Walt started this whole mess was to make sure his family was financially secure if his cancer took a turn for the worse. Walt now has no hope of regaining his family. They're done with him. So now he can fully embrace Heisenberg, take out Lydia and Todd's family of Aryan's without worry that his family will find out. Skyler has already been taken out by them, Marie has taken in the children where they are all she has left, Walt can take his own life via Ricin because he is alone. Hopefully in the desert in his underwear. Let's bring this full circle. I would really like to see him contact Marie in someway to give her the exact coordinates of Hank's body so she can have some closure. It is the least he could do.

Jesse needs to live. If Walt doesn't take his own life, he needs to perish by the hand of Jesse. Jesse hasn't always been the best kid, I'll admit that, but he has a heart and he has given up a lot and tried on so many occasions to fix himself and look what has happened. He deserves a fresh start, possibly with Brock though I'm fairly sure that Child Protective surfaces wouldn't let a random felon take care of that sweet little dude.

Some of my other favorite theories from around the web (possible and so not possible):
- Gus was Lydia's baby mama. He had children's toys when Walt visited him for dinner, Lydia has always been the most protected of his people, she has a daughter? Someone mentioned that after she dies (hopefully) they cut to a photo of Gus with her little girl in the house. Random but interesting.
- Walt blackmails Gretchen and Elliot somehow into financially supporting his family. That way the money they receive doesn't really look that suspicious.
- This article here has a lot of them, mainly confirming how Walt takes on the traits of people he kills (crusts like Crazy 8, ordering drinks like Mike, foreshadowing Jesse and Skyler by dressing like him and making bacon numbers like her). Super chills.
- and now Buzzfeed has posted this list of 11 predictions for the finale. Yup.

But really, we actually all KNOW how it's going to end, right?


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Until Sunday we won't officially however it may be a safe bet to think that every single one of these theories are wrong because, in true Breaking Bad style, we truly have no idea. Like, none.

rebecca black friday part deux

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My favorite holiday is Rebecca Black Friday. Last year I sucked at it, this year I was amazing.

Total loot:

Target
-Dirt Devil (no need for a fancy Dyson, I have no carpet)
-Baby gifts for sis-in-law
-Breaking Bad S1-3
-Sweater for Zack
-Sweater for me
-Pants for Zack x2

Walmart
-Lord of the Rings 1-3
-Christmas Classic pack featuring Rudolph The Red-nosed Reindeer and Frosty The Snowman (whatever, I'll have babies someday)

Amazon
-Breaking Bad S4
-Frasier THE COMPLETE SERIES YAY

I think I did alright. Chryshele and I hooked up with my friend Shiloh at Target to begin. Lines were ridiculous but we somehow managed to not leave without everything we all wanted which was a big deal. Everyone was very polite and the story was very well-organized. I recommend Target for all of your Rebecca Black Friday needs, endorsed by me, Jordan.

After we finished up there, Chryshele took me home, but we decided to just see if our Walmart was effing nuts, and it wasn't! We mostly just scoured their $2-$8 DVDs and were able to find quite a few goodys. And the best part, no lines there!!!

Then I went home to slumber, just to wake up extra early to see what Amazon had in store. HUGE SCORES with Breaking Bad season 4 being cheaper than the first 3 seasons I bought at Target, and an even HUGER SCORE with Frasier being half off for the entire box set. My old lady dreams coming true right there.

I was a happy camper. Zack scored some electronics as well and we found a few more little clothing items online that we're excited for, but I have to say it was a rather successful year and I cannot wait for the next one. Third may be the charm.

the best of friends

I truly have some dope peeps in my life (yep, I said dope). One of those is Meg, who sends me love notes out of the blue. Zack and I received a thank you card last Friday in the mail and I had no idea why until I read it.

photo via zack's instagrammy
And that is why my peeps are dope.

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Just fyi...there will be spoilers here if you read further. You have been warned.

Okay, with last Sunday's finale of part one of this seasons Breaking Bad (good lord, mouthful much?) it's finally time to detail my possible theories and reactions.

HOLY MOTHER OF BABY JEBUS WHAT IS GOING ON.

That's about standard it seems. I have so many feels involved with this show that its really hard to find words without screaming.

So I'm not going to waste a bunch of time recapping because you should actually be watching this, not reading it from me. We ended with Hank becoming privy to Walt's secret (that he is selling meth, come on you guys) by finding a Walt Whitman book signed by Gale in Walt's bathroom. Flashbacks alluded to Hank and Walt previously discussing that Walt Whitman has the same initials as Walter White and maybe the giant meth dealing Heisenberg has been under Hanks nose the entire time? And then they laugh.

I've had a theory for a while and recently it was backed up by this article right here that the only thing that could really turn Walt around was the death of one of his children. I doubted they'd kill off Walt Jr (not sure why, I just didn't see that happening) so that turned to poor baby Holly.

The article above also references the particular color scheme of this show. The writer states that he/she believes that pink represents death...the plane crash in season 2, several images of the pink teddy bear from the plane as well as Walts bright pink sweater.



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Holly is often seen wearing pink. Yes, she is a baby girl, but that would be a very good allusion as well, and just enough I think to turn Walt around so he can start helping Hank...especially now that Hank potentially has linked that Walt is Heisenberg.

The season 5 premiere shows Walt in what seems to be about a year in the future, hanging out at Denny's on the other side of the country. Firearms, fake ID's and vehicles. There is one very obvious scene in which he has to be wearing a wire. To me that's the only explanation, with as detail-oriented as these writers are I doubt that they'd let a microphone wire just slip into the shot.


Come on.
That photo doesn't even do it justice, its plain as day. Go check your DVR, I'll wait.

So I really have no more theories for the future. My friend Chryshele pointed out that she believe's Walt's cancer is back (also mentioned here among other things). I didn't really think of this but now that it is pointed out it makes boatloads of sense. Walt was coughing up a lung practically at the Denny's a year later (so he at least lasts that long), plus him knowing the cancer is back (and inavertantly hiding it from Skyler...again...) would give him the courage to quit and help the other side, knowing that more than likely he is going to die and now his family is taken care of with the money that Skyler has been saving.

And just for fun, here are some other "allusions" that have been found along the way. Just how much more can this show blow my mind? AND THEN I STUMBLE UPON THIS!? I knew Marie wasn't wearing purple for a reason. Oy to the vey.

I cannot wait until next July, and to find out how this all unravels. Good lord, I really like television. And I don't care.

sunday thought bubbles

Yesterday I literally (I mean that) spent all afternoon in bed finishing season 4 of Breaking Bad. Obsessed much? I think so. We were out of Tab so I had to drink Fresca. Never again. I feel like I need to take one night a week to indulge my girly side. Be it trying on dresses at Target or something as simple as painting my nails. I neeeeed that, so I must figure out a way to incorporate "being more girly" into my life. I have a friend who has not seen: Pretty Woman, Dirty Dancing, or Ghost so now I feel the need to educate her. One day, my dear, one day. I can't figure out why I like the Olsen twins but I watched Beastly last night and where I should have hated it, I totally didn't. Ohh, Zack just brought home some Tab, righteous.

happy sunday

Saturday was filled with many things: laundry, movies, tv, Olympic anniversaries, cold sushi, dog walks and this song.


The fact that Leonard Nimoy is in this video just makes it so much cooler.

And I couldn't not post this song as well.



Hope everyone has a wonderful day! I'm not sure where adventure Sunday will be taking us yet, but considering the weather I'm perfectly content in having the day take me somewhere vicariously through the television. I could go to New Mexico and hang out with Walt and Jesse. I'd be cool chilling with Molly and SAM WHEAT even though he's a ghost. Maybe I'll play baseball with the dudes from the Sandlot. Who freaking knows.

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So recently Mr. Shutt and I have been watching Breaking Bad. Oh you haven't heard of it? Neither had I. It's just your typical show about a typical chemistry teacher turned methamphetamine cook to pay for his cancer treatment so he does not leave his family penniless. Yeah, it's really good.

I was skeptical at first. I found it so hard to believe that the dad from Malcolm In The Middle could be anything but upstanding, but alas, he has turned over a new leaf.

The cast is over par, the writing is brilliant, and it's given me more WHAT THE CRAP moments than most shows with the exception of Six Feet Under, Dexter and Grey's Anatomy because all three of those have given me ulcers. Breaking Bad is WELL on it's way.

Mr. White (Bryan Cranston aka Malcolm's dad) says motivational things to his junkie partner Jesse, such as: "Do it right." "I am just trying to provide for my family, why can't you understand that?" and "I tell YOU what to do." Jesse usually responds with the word: "...bitch."

I am not here to sell you on it, though if I was offered money I'd totally sell out and try and hand out pamphlets on how crack is whack (RIP Whitney) and how this show will seriously make you not want to do any kind of drug ever in you're life. But for reals, if you're interested in fantastic adult (not porn, but clearly not for babies) television I highly recommend tracking it down (seasons 1-3 are streaming on Netflix!) and settling in. And I must say....pause for dramatic effect...give it until at least halfway through season two. I found it slow to start but it's definitely worth waiting on, this I assure you.

Would I steer you wrong?

As Walter White would say: Watch it now. That's what we're doing this lovely, Valentine's Day evening....bitch.


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