I think my mind is mostly on the election today. I watched Gossip Girl, but can't tell you much about it. Blair was good, Chuck was sexy, Jenny was annoying. I also went to bed at 8:30 last night, so there's that. I really want to do this before I read reviews or go into my class but I guess I'm just too distracted today. I haven't voted yet. Neither The Daily Show nor The Colbert Report was particularly memorable, except that "How to be a Maverick" film was gross.
I know I had some great idea yesterday, but can't remember it. Maybe tomorrow. Or later.
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Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Friday, October 31, 2008
Just resign already.
Last night's TV: Ugly Betty, The Office, the season premiere of 30 Rock, and Life on Mars, plus The Daily Show/Colbert Report.
I am very glad Lindsay Lohan is gone gone gone from Ugly Betty. Still hate that storyline and what Betty has become. I don't know why they can't give her a title, even if she has business cards, or why she has to dress like such a nightmare. Who wears a blue satin cocktail dress to work, even at a fashion magazine? Anyhow, it's old and the only thing I liked was Daniel's behind the scene machinations. And seriously just how bad were Betty's teeth that she still needs braces? I'd fire my orthodontist if I were her, or at least get Invislign (sp?). She has health insurance now, even if she didn't when she got them.
The Office didn't really do it for me. I laughed, but didn't chortle, though I did giggle at Andy biting a raw beet, but not being able to, and Dwight actually doing it. I don't really get why Angela didn't have a single line when Dwight and Andy were fighting, though the facial expressions were good. Michael and Holly are just tragic, and the singing was all pretty funny. But I really just plain didn't get the whole Jim/Pam/Jim's brothers thing. I get that the whole bunch of them like pranks, but the prank was so lame, which I know was the point, but still I'm not sure where they are going with this. It's very sad that a happy Jim and Pam is a dull Jim and Pam, but I'm starting to think that's the case. Though it is pretty funny that Jim just took off without even letting Michael know, and the lunatics were running the asylum. Maybe I was just in a mood, which is why it's still on TiVo because I imagine after I read zap2it and TWOP there may be something I am just forgetting this morning and maybe I'll watch again.
Yay! 30 Rock is back. That was overall pretty good. I don't see how Liz could bring up a baby, but it makes a certain amount of sense she might want to and it's not like that light fell down in her own office. Not terribly memorable, though, as I couldn't quote a line now. I've read that next week with Oprah is much better.
Life on Mars was about the same but the music was actually good stuff and not goofy. Between the Velvet Underground, T-Rex, and the Kinks, I would have been pretty happy to be at that disco, and would defininitely have been dancing, but none of those are songs that are going to be stuck in my head for a week like the last few have had. I also sort of wish that in the part where Sam is watching Nixon on TV talking about energy and George Bush fades in and out that it was Obama because I'd love for future DVD/syndication/online watchers to be able to forget this whole sordid 8 years, but Bush is also a lot more like Nixon so I guess it makes sense. But as I've said before, I don't like police procedurals or "guy shows" and I'm mostly only it it for the music and the hints about "what's going on" so this show runs the risk of losing me if it doesn't keep it up with that stuff. But hey, if it keeps me from watching ER, it's a good thing. Though I have to say if I went back to 1973 my first thought would probably be "everything is so ugly" between clothes, furniture and everything on TV, but then I might think it was kind of restful to have just a few channels, no cell phone, no internet, not so much advertising everywhere. But then I'd look at Nixon and, like Sam, say "Just resign already!" I also don't think people would get my ironic sense of humor too well, either, and god knows what I'd do with myself when work wasn't crazy, so I guess I'll stay here.
For reasons I don't understand, next week there is no Chuck, no Pushing Daisies (for at least two weeks, and the prognosis is really bad for any more being aired) and no Degrassi. My normal watching, between those preemptions, and all the stuff that ended in the last two weeks, will be pretty limited so I really need to get something good from Netflix. Maybe Six Feet Under, but it's just so heavy. Of course, I'll watch what I suspect is the series finale of Top Design (good riddance), and I'll be watching the Indecision 2008 Stewart/Colbert special on Tuesday! Oh, how I can't wait for this all to be over and to have a President Obama. Or not, but at least we'll know. Pu Pu Pu.
I am very glad Lindsay Lohan is gone gone gone from Ugly Betty. Still hate that storyline and what Betty has become. I don't know why they can't give her a title, even if she has business cards, or why she has to dress like such a nightmare. Who wears a blue satin cocktail dress to work, even at a fashion magazine? Anyhow, it's old and the only thing I liked was Daniel's behind the scene machinations. And seriously just how bad were Betty's teeth that she still needs braces? I'd fire my orthodontist if I were her, or at least get Invislign (sp?). She has health insurance now, even if she didn't when she got them.
The Office didn't really do it for me. I laughed, but didn't chortle, though I did giggle at Andy biting a raw beet, but not being able to, and Dwight actually doing it. I don't really get why Angela didn't have a single line when Dwight and Andy were fighting, though the facial expressions were good. Michael and Holly are just tragic, and the singing was all pretty funny. But I really just plain didn't get the whole Jim/Pam/Jim's brothers thing. I get that the whole bunch of them like pranks, but the prank was so lame, which I know was the point, but still I'm not sure where they are going with this. It's very sad that a happy Jim and Pam is a dull Jim and Pam, but I'm starting to think that's the case. Though it is pretty funny that Jim just took off without even letting Michael know, and the lunatics were running the asylum. Maybe I was just in a mood, which is why it's still on TiVo because I imagine after I read zap2it and TWOP there may be something I am just forgetting this morning and maybe I'll watch again.
Yay! 30 Rock is back. That was overall pretty good. I don't see how Liz could bring up a baby, but it makes a certain amount of sense she might want to and it's not like that light fell down in her own office. Not terribly memorable, though, as I couldn't quote a line now. I've read that next week with Oprah is much better.
Life on Mars was about the same but the music was actually good stuff and not goofy. Between the Velvet Underground, T-Rex, and the Kinks, I would have been pretty happy to be at that disco, and would defininitely have been dancing, but none of those are songs that are going to be stuck in my head for a week like the last few have had. I also sort of wish that in the part where Sam is watching Nixon on TV talking about energy and George Bush fades in and out that it was Obama because I'd love for future DVD/syndication/online watchers to be able to forget this whole sordid 8 years, but Bush is also a lot more like Nixon so I guess it makes sense. But as I've said before, I don't like police procedurals or "guy shows" and I'm mostly only it it for the music and the hints about "what's going on" so this show runs the risk of losing me if it doesn't keep it up with that stuff. But hey, if it keeps me from watching ER, it's a good thing. Though I have to say if I went back to 1973 my first thought would probably be "everything is so ugly" between clothes, furniture and everything on TV, but then I might think it was kind of restful to have just a few channels, no cell phone, no internet, not so much advertising everywhere. But then I'd look at Nixon and, like Sam, say "Just resign already!" I also don't think people would get my ironic sense of humor too well, either, and god knows what I'd do with myself when work wasn't crazy, so I guess I'll stay here.
For reasons I don't understand, next week there is no Chuck, no Pushing Daisies (for at least two weeks, and the prognosis is really bad for any more being aired) and no Degrassi. My normal watching, between those preemptions, and all the stuff that ended in the last two weeks, will be pretty limited so I really need to get something good from Netflix. Maybe Six Feet Under, but it's just so heavy. Of course, I'll watch what I suspect is the series finale of Top Design (good riddance), and I'll be watching the Indecision 2008 Stewart/Colbert special on Tuesday! Oh, how I can't wait for this all to be over and to have a President Obama. Or not, but at least we'll know. Pu Pu Pu.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Where's Andrea Zuckerman when you need her?
Only 6 days to the election, and I'm with Wyatt Cenac--let's just get this the fuck over already! Good news or bad, I just wanna know.
As I write this, a fourth season episode of the original 90210 is on. I've been watching the old shows once or twice a week lately, and it's really amazing to me just how much I believe those people are friends and that they are exactly who they say they are. I'm pretty sure I believed it within a few episodes.
The new show, however, oy gevult. As I suspected, without Kelly or Brenda, it's a worse dog than ever. I still enjoy Silver, and Dixon is OK but otherwise really really don't care about Annie or Naomi or Annie's parents or the so-called hot teacher or Annie's so-called love interest. The only person is intriguing, and in part that's because they clearly don't know what to do with him. He says he's been in love with Adrianna since the third grade, and mentions he wants to ask Annie out in an earlier episode but holds himself and dresses like a ballet dancer. I hate to say "he's so gay" but "he's so gay." Whether it is Michael Steger who is gay, and Navid is not, or whether Michael Steger is playing Navid gay, I don't know but the actor doesn't choose his own clothes, I suspect. Skinny jeans and a deep v-neck top on that tall willowy body with the long hair just reads gay to me. Anyhow, it came even more out of nowhere than Jenny and Nate did. I don't know why Gossip Girl can get it so right generally, and this show can get it so wrong generally. Of course, Kelly is still coming back, and I do still study teen TV, so it's staying on my season pass, but I just really don't care, and I truly don't believe these people like each other or know who the hell they are supposed to be.
Greek ended well, I guess. I read that Michael Rady is coming back so it's not a surprise that he and Casey will be together next year, (or at least in the same storyline), but I still liked seeing a girl on TV realize her future work life may be more important than a guy, even if that's a pretty cool one. I guess the idea of rival sorority is OK, but I'd rather have Casey a lot less interested in the house, and more interested in school or causes or something. We really don't know if any of those girls are smart and playing vacuous, or actually not all that bright but it would be nice to see it since I think Spencer Grammer really does come off as pretty smart. The woman who plays Rebecca too. Anyhow, with the next season coming in January, it's not the same sort of cliffhanger as Mad Men, where we have to wait 9 months.
I enjoyed the brawl between the two fraternities more than I would think, in part because I was wondering how they choreographed it. I'm sure Rusty will move into the house and realize he can't study amidst the noise and the dirt and the general busybodyness of Cappie and the gang, and will be back with Dale before long.
I don't much care, but it beats the hell out of Secret Life of the American Teenager.
As I write this, a fourth season episode of the original 90210 is on. I've been watching the old shows once or twice a week lately, and it's really amazing to me just how much I believe those people are friends and that they are exactly who they say they are. I'm pretty sure I believed it within a few episodes.
The new show, however, oy gevult. As I suspected, without Kelly or Brenda, it's a worse dog than ever. I still enjoy Silver, and Dixon is OK but otherwise really really don't care about Annie or Naomi or Annie's parents or the so-called hot teacher or Annie's so-called love interest. The only person is intriguing, and in part that's because they clearly don't know what to do with him. He says he's been in love with Adrianna since the third grade, and mentions he wants to ask Annie out in an earlier episode but holds himself and dresses like a ballet dancer. I hate to say "he's so gay" but "he's so gay." Whether it is Michael Steger who is gay, and Navid is not, or whether Michael Steger is playing Navid gay, I don't know but the actor doesn't choose his own clothes, I suspect. Skinny jeans and a deep v-neck top on that tall willowy body with the long hair just reads gay to me. Anyhow, it came even more out of nowhere than Jenny and Nate did. I don't know why Gossip Girl can get it so right generally, and this show can get it so wrong generally. Of course, Kelly is still coming back, and I do still study teen TV, so it's staying on my season pass, but I just really don't care, and I truly don't believe these people like each other or know who the hell they are supposed to be.
Greek ended well, I guess. I read that Michael Rady is coming back so it's not a surprise that he and Casey will be together next year, (or at least in the same storyline), but I still liked seeing a girl on TV realize her future work life may be more important than a guy, even if that's a pretty cool one. I guess the idea of rival sorority is OK, but I'd rather have Casey a lot less interested in the house, and more interested in school or causes or something. We really don't know if any of those girls are smart and playing vacuous, or actually not all that bright but it would be nice to see it since I think Spencer Grammer really does come off as pretty smart. The woman who plays Rebecca too. Anyhow, with the next season coming in January, it's not the same sort of cliffhanger as Mad Men, where we have to wait 9 months.
I enjoyed the brawl between the two fraternities more than I would think, in part because I was wondering how they choreographed it. I'm sure Rusty will move into the house and realize he can't study amidst the noise and the dirt and the general busybodyness of Cappie and the gang, and will be back with Dale before long.
I don't much care, but it beats the hell out of Secret Life of the American Teenager.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Does Jason Jones wear lifts?
Last night I watched, as planned, Greek and The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency, and also the prior day's How I Met Your Mother and Chuck. Obviously, I did not take the night off.
I was really hoping to let TJDMA go for good, because it had gotten so tawdry and awful with the whole model house concept. But a lot of this episode was devoted to Janice's realization that she really didn't like what LA wants from a modeling agency and her plan to move to NY and really open a high fashion agency. That I could get behind, although if things actually went like that, with models who were extremely disciplined about diet, exercise, drinking, drugs, and sex, and were totally devoted to making it, it would be a really boring show. And anyhow, Janice wasn't exactly a frail little wallflower herself in her heydey.
But the reason I originally started watching this, as well as America's Next Top Model, is that I just don't really get it. I'm not at all photogenic myself and am fascinated by the idea that some people know how to move their faces and bodies in just a certain way and it makes the difference between a gorgeous photo, and, well, my photos. I don't think I've learned a whole lot, though, in a lot of viewing. I need something more like What Not to Wear, only for photos. Only every time I watch WNTW, or the practically identical Tim Gunn's Guide to Style, I hate everything I own, not because I don't get the rules or I don't wear nice clothes because I do, but because I don't have a staff of tailors, steamers, ironers, makeup artists, and hairdressers hiding behind my mirror. No matter what I buy, after one wearing, or in my case, living as I do with a white cat and a multicolored one, after letting it hang in the closet for any length of time, I will never look that polished. In any case, I can't imagine real high fashion clients would use the JDMA-NY, after seeing any part of this show (which aside from showing the models as lazy, stupid, and riddled with eating and personality disorders, shows Janice herself as "batshit crazy" as they say--good for a reality show star, not so great for an agent I suspect) and I can't imagine the same viewers would be up for watching, if there is another season--and she made it seem like there would be.
I still love Chuck. Last night mostly took place at a class reunion and was riddled with allusions to a good many teen movies--everything from Risky Business to Heathers to Fast Times at Ridgemont High to 13 Going on 30. Too bad the title "Russkie Business" was already a Veronica Mars episode, as that would have been the perfect title here (the Russian Mafia was involved). Even Nicole Richie wasn't enough to wreck this.
I also enjoyed How I Met Your Mother--but it's so weird, I think of Jason Jones as tall on The Daily Show, and always think of Josh Radnor, who plays Ted on HIMYM as short-ish, only Radnor towered over Jones. Granted Jones was probably barefoot as he was in a Karate outfit, but he must wear some serious lifts in his normal shoes, then, or Radnor must, or it's just because Jon Stewart is so short and Jason Siegel is so tall, or something like that. I don't know . . . the ending was telegraphed slightly to me, or at least I suspected it and since Sarah Chalke is on Scrubs, and Scrubs is coming back, whether she was the mother never seemed to be at issue for me, only how they would spilt up. I'm ready for them to get on with it.
I was happy to learn that I was wrong, and that Greek was only airing its penultimate episode, which I figured as soon as I realized they kept talking about "two more weeks" in the term, and that Casey's latest love interest--who I'm sure came in second for the role of Chuck because Michael Rady looks a lot like Zachary Levi, down to the sideburns--wasn't even on, and nor was Rebecca, who is usually relatively important. The episode was just OK, as I really don't care who the new sorority president is, or who is pulling the strings and I mostly watch for the love stories, which were almost entirely absent this time, but it was still fun to watch.
I was really hoping to let TJDMA go for good, because it had gotten so tawdry and awful with the whole model house concept. But a lot of this episode was devoted to Janice's realization that she really didn't like what LA wants from a modeling agency and her plan to move to NY and really open a high fashion agency. That I could get behind, although if things actually went like that, with models who were extremely disciplined about diet, exercise, drinking, drugs, and sex, and were totally devoted to making it, it would be a really boring show. And anyhow, Janice wasn't exactly a frail little wallflower herself in her heydey.
But the reason I originally started watching this, as well as America's Next Top Model, is that I just don't really get it. I'm not at all photogenic myself and am fascinated by the idea that some people know how to move their faces and bodies in just a certain way and it makes the difference between a gorgeous photo, and, well, my photos. I don't think I've learned a whole lot, though, in a lot of viewing. I need something more like What Not to Wear, only for photos. Only every time I watch WNTW, or the practically identical Tim Gunn's Guide to Style, I hate everything I own, not because I don't get the rules or I don't wear nice clothes because I do, but because I don't have a staff of tailors, steamers, ironers, makeup artists, and hairdressers hiding behind my mirror. No matter what I buy, after one wearing, or in my case, living as I do with a white cat and a multicolored one, after letting it hang in the closet for any length of time, I will never look that polished. In any case, I can't imagine real high fashion clients would use the JDMA-NY, after seeing any part of this show (which aside from showing the models as lazy, stupid, and riddled with eating and personality disorders, shows Janice herself as "batshit crazy" as they say--good for a reality show star, not so great for an agent I suspect) and I can't imagine the same viewers would be up for watching, if there is another season--and she made it seem like there would be.
I still love Chuck. Last night mostly took place at a class reunion and was riddled with allusions to a good many teen movies--everything from Risky Business to Heathers to Fast Times at Ridgemont High to 13 Going on 30. Too bad the title "Russkie Business" was already a Veronica Mars episode, as that would have been the perfect title here (the Russian Mafia was involved). Even Nicole Richie wasn't enough to wreck this.
I also enjoyed How I Met Your Mother--but it's so weird, I think of Jason Jones as tall on The Daily Show, and always think of Josh Radnor, who plays Ted on HIMYM as short-ish, only Radnor towered over Jones. Granted Jones was probably barefoot as he was in a Karate outfit, but he must wear some serious lifts in his normal shoes, then, or Radnor must, or it's just because Jon Stewart is so short and Jason Siegel is so tall, or something like that. I don't know . . . the ending was telegraphed slightly to me, or at least I suspected it and since Sarah Chalke is on Scrubs, and Scrubs is coming back, whether she was the mother never seemed to be at issue for me, only how they would spilt up. I'm ready for them to get on with it.
I was happy to learn that I was wrong, and that Greek was only airing its penultimate episode, which I figured as soon as I realized they kept talking about "two more weeks" in the term, and that Casey's latest love interest--who I'm sure came in second for the role of Chuck because Michael Rady looks a lot like Zachary Levi, down to the sideburns--wasn't even on, and nor was Rebecca, who is usually relatively important. The episode was just OK, as I really don't care who the new sorority president is, or who is pulling the strings and I mostly watch for the love stories, which were almost entirely absent this time, but it was still fun to watch.
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