More on "Blue Bloods" & Donnie Wahlberg

Tonight, my mom and I were on our nightly phone call chit chatting about baking cookies, cat behavior, and weather patterns when she seriously says:

"Mo, I better get going. I don't want to miss the beginning of 'Blue Bloods.'"

This is the 21st century and my mom totally knows how to rewind live TV and she no doubt has her DVR set to record "Blue Bloods," but she still "can't miss the beginning." She has the coveted "Start Over" option from Time Warner (I want to know when I am going to get that!!!) and still feels the need to start watching right on time. God love her.

On a side note, everyone still says "tape" or "taping," which I LOVE.

"Mom, I started a blog the other day."

"Oh really? What is it?"

"It's called 'Movie Reviews By My Mom.'"

"You're kidding!"

"You've got fans, mom."

"Well, I'll have to review some more movies for you then."

As if on cue, she then launches into why she likes "Blue Bloods."

"I really like Tom Selleck, but I like that it's a family show. I really like their Sunday dinners and I want that big brick house. I wish my dining room looked like their dining room and I like their kitchen, too. But I know it's just a set. I understand that it's all smoke and mirrors. Aren't you proud of your mom? I learn all sort of things from you."

"Yeah mom."

"I know that it's just a set. I also like that Wahlberg's character. Danny Wahlberg ?"

"Donnie."

"Oh, right. Donnie Wahlberg. There's another one, right?"

"Mark Wahlberg, he was in "The Fighter." And then there's Donnie Wahlberg who was in New Kids on the Block. I think. Am I making that up? No, it was him. New Kids on the Block. I think there's a third one that's not famous. I don't know."

"Well, I like his character, but his hair grows funny. It reminds me of the way these boys' hair grew when I was in 2nd grade. They looked like idiots. I don't know."

So, where is my mom on Friday nights at 10pm? Watching "Blue Bloods." I'm also starting a pool to see how soon it will be before she refers to Will Estes (apparently his character's name is "Jamie Reagan") as a "cute little guy" which is basically mom code for "hottie." I think I'm going to say 2 weeks, but I don't watch the show, so I don't know if they show him with his shirt off a lot. That could change things.

The Time Traveler's Wife, Harry's Law, and Harry Potter

"The Time Traveler's Wife" - My mom listened to the book and then watched the movie.

"I'm not sure if I liked the book. It was confusing with all the time traveling. I think that it's a testament to the director that he was able to make sense of all that and make it understandable. The guy meets himself. It's weird. I'm still not sure whether I liked it."

"Harry's Law" - It's my mom's new favorite show. Huge Kathy Bates fan.

"Mo, have you been watching 'Harry's Law'? Her character just cracks me up. She's this old white lady with a gun who says what she thinks. She's just really cool. Every time she goes into the courtroom I'm like 'ALL RIGHT!'"

"Harry Potter" (1 - 7) - My mom is a potterhead. It's official. She listened to the books and would often tell me that if she was almost to the end of a chapter, she would sit in her car and listen to the last five minutes because she couldn't turn it off. I guess with audiobooks, this is the equivalent to "not being able to put it down" or "a real page-turner."

I was back home last year and next to the TV was the 6-disc set of Harry Potter movies. I was curious whose they were - I asked my mom and she said they were hers. My mom never buys frivolous things like DVDs for herself - she buys that stuff for us for Christmas. She doesn't really have a lot of time to watch movies(despite the fact that I'm devoting an entire blog to her movie-watching). It was shocking that my mother bought them. Then she tells me she ordered them on Amazon.com. I'm even more flabberghasted. My mom buys plenty of stuff on amazon for us for the holidays, but she usually makes one of us help her, so the fact that she went online and ordered herself a DVD set pretty much made me realize that all she needed to become technologically literate was the proper motivation - Harry Potter.

"They're just so good. They're about good conquering evil and the importance of friendship. You care about the characters. You want to know what happens next and you're absorbed into this world. They are rich with detail. I think that the films do the books justice. There are some changes, but I think they were probably made for good reason."

"Mom, you realize that you're kind of a living, breathing version of Mrs. Weasley, right?"

"Oh I don't know. But I can tell you that if someone went after my kids like that Bellatrix did hers, I'd fight her to the death, too."

Let that be a lesson to you all who bear the Dark Mark - my mom will fight you.

WELCOME TO MOVIE REVIEWS BY MY MOM

My mom is awesome. There isn't really much more to say than that. She's 60 or something. She has two subscriptions:

- Simply Audiobooks

- Netflix

She will listen to books on CD in her car on the commute to work and then she'll add the movie to her Netflix queue. She likes to tell me about the books and movies that she listens to/watches. She always assumes that I've read the book and seen the movie.

My mom is a pretty sweet lady. I'm not just saying that because she's my mom. She's also very cut and dry when it comes to her taste in entertainment. She likes good to triumph over evil and all her endings should be happy.

"I don't like ambiguous endings. I like to know what actually happens. And it better be good."

I'm paraphrasing, but this is how she feels about things. She also really likes watching TV. She is always telling me what TV shows I should be watching. Recently, I've been hearing about:

"Off The Map" - "It's like ER in the jungle. They're always running out of medicine and they have to talk to the medicine men in the rain forest and get herbs or whatever to use. It's really interesting. They had to operate on someone without anesthesia because they were robbed. They went scuba diving and some girl got her leg caught and they had to amputate it underwater. It was really interesting."

"Memphis Beat" - "That mustache guy from that 'Earl' show plays a cop in Memphis. He is obsessed with Elvis. It's funny. I didn't like the 'Earl' show, but this one's good. I hope they don't cancel it."

"Blue Bloods" - "I gotta go, Mo. 'Blue Bloods' is coming on. Do you watch that show? I've always liked Tom Selleck and he's really good."

"Fringe" - "Have you been watching 'Fringe'? It's getting confusing with the other universe, but that Peter is a cute little guy. Wasn't he on that show you used to watch? I hope he and real Olivia get together and that Astrid can stop buying Walter groceries. And that Nina Sharpe is no good. I'm telling you, she's no good."

"Southland" - "I really like 'Southland.' You watch that, right? It scares the dickens out of me that you live in LA because I imagine that it is like it is on the show, but I guess you don't live in gang territory. You don't right?"

I think my mom's perspective on things is AMAZING. So, I'm going to blog her reviews of stuff as she tells them to me because I know you'll love it.