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March 5, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Acadamy Awards? Jon Stewart? Comments? Questions? Concerns? Seemed to me that the first half of the opening monologue plotzed, but he picked up speed once he got to the Gay Cowboys Through The Ages montage and became progresively more comfortable as the evening wore on. The Acadamy has once again cast a wry, witty, small-screen East Coaster to host the show (think Letterman, think Rock) only to recoil in horror when they take jabs at Hollywood. The movie industry takes itself way too seriously. People: you work in entertainment. Entertainment.
Hollywood should actually be jabbed at more often. Those creepy production numbers were reminiscent of the infamous Rob Lowe/Snow White song & dance fiasco of 1989. I liked Jon Stewart. I don’t think they’ll ask him back next year, but I think in the end he was pretty damn funny. Not as funny as Lily Tomlin and Meryl Streep, though–you think any of those new big-eyed startlets could have pulled that off? Keira and Reese, perhaps? Or maybe Jennifer and Jennifer? I seriously doubt it.
I liked the faux smear ads. I liked Uma’s dress. I like that luminous little Chinese actress whose name I can’t pronounce (can I use her as a Christmas Tree angel next year? She’s just so teeny and adorable and glowing–is that messed up? Wanting to use a human being as an ornament?) and I liked that Three 6 Mafia won for best song. Not the competition was fierce, or anything, but they were just so darn psyched about it. I really liked the South African winner for Best Foreign Film. Everyone else seemed bored.
And, really, so was I.
The cable box gets turned in tomorrow. I wish my last tv hurrah could have been a little more thrilling. Maybe I should wait a week.
11:53 pm | 6 Comments
February 25, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized
This way well be my super most very favoritest Mardi Gras float thus far! But with four more days of merriment and parades, who knows!
More to follow…
2:29 pm | 9 Comments
February 17, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Click the picture or right here to watch a brief (1.5″, Quicktime) Public Service Announcement
(remember those?) about the coolness of watching videoblogs on your desktop with the help of FireAnt. Or just read below!
Don’t get me wrong. I like television well enough. I like to indulge in stickygooey treats like “Pimp My Ride” and “Strange Love” and “Lost” and award shows. I like how NY1 puts the tempurature in the lower left-hand corner. Can’t leave the house with out that. Sometimes I need to totally zone out and TV is fabulous for that. It’s pre-programmed, it’s not interactive at all, it just sits there and hurls stuff at you. Hundreds of channels of not-a-whole-hell-of-a-lot. But there was no show that sucked me in this past season. Nothing I felt compelled to watch. Nothing that made me want to race home and see it…or record it for later. The last show that really got me was “Buffy“. Last year I loved me some “Lost” but this time around? Eh. “24” swept me off my feet the first two seasons but now? How many bad days can Jack Bauer really have? He’s far exceeded his “bad day” allowance. Last I heard he was supposed to be dead. Poor guy can’t even disappear properly. He needs to get out of the covert operations business and manage a Dairy Queen, or something.
In NYC, I work overnight shifts three or four times a week, leaving me with few primetime television opportunities in the first place. During the day I’m up and about (and usually too disoriented to set a VCR), running errands and cooking dinner and getting ready to go back to work. No time for tv there and really, there’s nothing on. In New Orleans, we don’t have a tv at all. So as a far superior tv substitute I turn to videoblogs. Some are pure entertainment, some are educational, many are personal, some explore current events, a couple are “shows” and several are just…weird & wonderful. See that link list called “Watching” over there in the sidebar? That’s about half of what I’ve been watching lately and a fraction of what’s out there.
Just like you can keep track of all your blogs in one place via RSS feeds, you can view all your vlogs in one place, too. You can watch them on the web, which is cool, or on a video iPod, or you can just bookmark all the webpages and hop from one to another, but I like them on my desktop. That’s where FireAnt comes in.
I like my “tv” as interactive as possible, thanks very much.
“This Ant Don’t Sting”
by MC MissB
Appears Courtesy of BadAnger G.A./Anagram Recording
1:41 pm | 21 Comments
February 16, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Hey, it can’t be dancing with cheeseburgers all the time, you know. There’s a whole world of bad out there.
I stopped looking after the sixth picture, honestly. I am utterly speechless. Well…not utterly, exactly.
“The Pentagon initially argued in federal court that release of more Abu Ghraib images would violate the privacy rights of the Iraqi prisoners.”
You have got to be kidding me. Seriously. I want to know who’s buying that load of crap. Does anyone actually believe that The Pentagon is at all concerned with violating Iraqi prisoners’ right to privacy? They are too busy attempting to cover up the fact that these people’s privates are getting violated with large objects on a daily basis. By our own soldiers.
“Later, government lawyers argued that public release of the records might “endanger” soldiers in Iraq because publication of the pictures could incite further violence.”
Ummm. Gee, you think??? Yes, it will–but guess what? That’s no argument. Newspaper cartoons have nothing on this. Nothing.
I’m not sure why I was so naiive as to think that there weren’t more pictures.
I feel so completely unclean.
7:08 pm | 2 Comments
February 13, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized
A lot happened on 11/23/37. The Spanish Civil War raged on, Boris Karloff turned 50, Of Mice and Men debuted on Broadway at The Music Box theater, cauliflower sales were stronger than that of some classes of apples, the mighty freight ship Contessa sailed out of New Orleans bound for Havana, Cristobal and Puerto Caberas, and there was a slammin’ pre-Christmas dress sale on Dauphine St.
If you started scratching your head after “…cauliflower sales…” then click here or on the accompanying photo for an explanation.
It’s simply amazing what you can find under your linoleum these days.
“Holiday for Strings”
The Voices of Walter Schumann
Ultra-Lounge Sampler
Capitol Records, 1996
Buy it and get swingin’! This collection won the Grammy that year for Best Packaging due to it’s awesome furry leopard case and inclusion of an olive-shaped coaster! Anything fuzzy and leopard is cool.
2:24 am | 19 Comments
