So maybe I am over-stepping the bounds by posting this but somebody else blogged about it and I found it humorous and I thought I'd share it with the people here.

The Da Vinci Load
The Truth Cums Out!

Operatives of the Priory of Semen discover that Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa using his own sperm. These keepers of the truth fuck in the name of art and kill anyone who gets in their way.

I love Cable TV.
Reason #3: On E! Network -
The Soup:

When: Fridays at 10pm, repeated during the weekend.
What: This is a revamped version of Talk Soup that focuses on recaps of various pop culture and reality show moments of the week with host and co-writer Joel McHale providing sarcastic and biting commentary on the various clips. (from Wikipedia.)
Why: So before this was The Soup it was Talk Soup which had it's fair share of host. The hosts included Greg Kinnear (1991-1995), John Henson (1995-1999), Hal Sparks (1999-2000) and Aisha Tyler (2001-2003). E! ended up cancelling the show but in 2004 E! brought it back. I like the dry humor of Joel McHale and I'm always amazed at how many reality tv shows have developed in the past few years.

Reason #4: On VH1 -
Best Week Ever:

When: Fridays at 11pm, repeated during the weekend.
What: Best Week Ever (BWE to fans) is a weekly television program on the United States cable/satellite network VH1. It started airing in 2004. On the show, comedians analyze the past week's developments in pop culture, including recent happenings in entertainment and celebrity gossip.(from Wikipedia.)
Why:I don't think I have to state why.

I found my second netflix... the public library. I never thought of going to a library to rent movies. The best part is that they're FREE!! I figured I could take care of some of my netflix list by hitting up the old public library. I got The Graduate, Guys and Dolls, On The Waterfront, and Nights Of Cabiria. Thank you public library, you allow me to be a hermit more than netflix did!!!

(B) JPod (Douglas Coupland, 2006)
Grade: B+
According to my friend, there are two types of people who read this book: geeks and people trying to understand geeks. I’m the latter. Example: The buzzword is so horrible that I have to spell it out in ASCII: {101, 100, 103, 121} (I had to ask; it spells “edgy.” And if you already knew that, you’re a geek.) Nevertheless, I appreciated Coupland’s unusual prose, interrupting his story with e-mails, advertisements and variants of typesetting. And I enjoyed the social commentary: What we describe as “character” and “personality” are not so much spiritual or cosmic states of being, but rather, an overall effect by clusters of overlapping brain dysfunctions. Geek out!

This irks me. First The Smiths and now this. Grr...

(G) French Kicks (Cafe Du Nord, San Francisco, 8/19/06) grade: B+

So, despite this awful venue (you hear me FTC?!), I thought the Kicks did a good job. I never got around to reviewing their latest album, Two Thousand, but Pigern did a nice job. I don't think the album is as strong as the previous one, BUT they sure did play the hell out of the songs last night, making them sound better than the recorded songs. They played a few songs from the previous album, which was great. (Although the first time I saw them, they did a cover of New Order's "Regret", which was a nice touch...so they lose points this time for no good cover song). Afterwards, they invited the audience to stick around and dance while they DJ'ed, which I thought was pretty cool (since I don't like the Cafe Du Nord crowd, i quickly exited the building). All in all, a good show.

Hilarious. Two chinese boys to Jessica Simpsons "Public Affair"

Probably the only person tha might care is Darth, but 93.9 KZLA Country is no more. As the article states, NY and LA are now left without a country station. It will be replaced by "Movin' 93.9" which will play "rhythmic pop." Rick Dees will run the morning show. I'm predicting it will be a watered down KIIS? Like we need more of those. Oh well, at least I will still have K-frog 95.1 since i'm in the I.E.

I was looking at my netflix queue and my reviewed movies and I was thining of the documented hours I've spent watching movies. Now... not EVERY movie I've seen has been rated and some of the movies I've rated I've seen many many time. However, I have reviewed 1,273 movies. If you average the running time of a movie, lets say 1 hour and 45 minutes, that means I have spent upwards of 2,228 hours watching movies. That's 93 days of my life watching movies. Again, this doesn't account for movies I've seen more than once or the other movies I have seen but have not documented and it doesn't account for television.

I currently have 192 movies in my queue, that's 336 hours, or 14 days worth of movie watching. It seems a little ridiculous, but then I guess I could be doing worse things like spending 336 hours on myspace or something.

All that being said, I've gone out and checked out a couple Cliffs Notes from the library. Remember these things? They're what you'd read so you wouldn't actually have to read the novel. I decided to get some on books I've read to refresh my memory as well as some on books I am planning on reading. Here's what I got: The Stranger (Camus), The Plague (Camus), The Fountainhead (Rand), Atlas Shrugged (Rand), Waiting For Godot (Beckett).

I also just finished a really interesting book on the progression of world views. It basically talks about how the western worlds history and its evolution from theistic thought which then progressed toward deism, followed by naturalism, which lead into nihilism, existentialism, and the current postmodern world view. It also touches on eastern pantheism and the new age movement. Quite an interesting read.

(TV) So You Think You Can Dance: Season Finale
Grade: B

Cat Deeley: Really people, who dresses this woman? Can we get her an image consult? First of all, she's wearing velvet which can only accentuate the bad stuff(like her pooch on her tummy) and second of all, it's a turtleneck....in August. This is the freakin finale! Step it up a little! Lauren Sanchez DANCED in the finale last year and she looked smokin' hot. C'MON! You're fired.

The show: Your typical regurge of the whole season. The benefits of that were that those who didn't watch the season got to see some of the awesome past performances. The crappy part was that you have to watch the crap performances too. And why was one of the repeat performances one from last week? Ciara's performance was entertaining. Fergie's was not. (On a side note, I don't understand her song "London Bridge"...I just don't get it. haha.)

Who won: It was kind of obvious that if you got to dance a solo at the beginning of the show, you were getting kicked off. I don't know why they do it like that. No suspense really until you got to the top 2. Between Benjie and Travis, I really didn't have a preference who won. However, I thought Travis was going to win. To my surprise, Benjie ended up clinching the votes. After he found out he won, there was a super fake pre-recorded congrats from none other than Celine Dion!(ze greatest singer in ze whole world!)--one of the prizes was to dance in her Las Vegas show, which I hear Cher is taking over soon(what?).

Overall a pretty entertaining season. I still think Allison should have been in the top 4, but America voted....oh America.

For those of you who don't care: This is what you get when I don't have boards or school to think about....I blog about this crap. Haha enjoy!

(O) Wicked (Schwartz, 2003) Grade: A+

Wicked: It's the new "RENT". Well, for me anyway. I haven't seen it yet because the Orange County Performing Arts Center sucks, but that's another story. I bought the CD for my cousin on her birthday since I couldn't take her to the actual musical. I burned a copy for myself and listened to it on the way home from SD and....I fell in love with it! The music has a pop feel to it and the story line(from what I can decipher) is pretty interesting.

Here's the synopsis from the website(sorry i'm lazy):

Long before Dorothy dropped in, two other girls meet in the Land of Oz. One, born with emerald-green skin, is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. How these two unlikely friends end up as the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch makes for the most spellbinding new musical in years.

WICKED, the untold story of the witches of Oz, features music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz (Godspell, Pippin, Academy Award winner for Pocahontas and The Prince of Egypt) and book by Winnie Holzman ("My So Called Life," "Once And Again" and "thirtysomething"), and is based on the best-selling novel by Gregory Maguire. With musical staging by Tony Award winner Wayne Cilento (Aida, The Who's Tommy, How To Succeed...), WICKED is directed by 2003 and 2004 Tony Award winner Joe Mantello (Assassins, Take Me Out, Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune)

So....I'm gonna get that book since the musical isn't playing here in the near future.

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On that same note, I was browsing through YouTube looking for clips of the musical, when I discovered that people have way too much time on their hands. WAY TOO MUCH TIME! Here is a video clip of the song "What is this feeling?(Loathing)" from Wicked, the musical with 80's action figures playing the characters. She-ra plays Glinda who will become the Good Witch and Evilyn plays Elpheba who becomes the Wicked Witch of the West. Enjoy!

She-ra Vs. Evilyn

(M) Vampire Hunter D. (Toyoo Ashida & Carl Macek, 1985) Grade: B

Thoughts: I’m trying to get into anime but I’m not sure it is working out. D is a vampire hunter hired by Doris Rumm to kill Count Magnus Lee who is trying to make her his bride. There was tons of gore and killing and random cartoon nudity which was not necessary. The idea of getting off on naked cartoon characters disturbs me a bit but that is anime for you. Considering this was done in 1985 the animation was pretty standard so the main focus was the story which was decent.

(M) The Producers. (Mel Brooks, 1968) Grade: B+

Thoughts: The Producers is funny, really funny. It was smart and sharp humor that is funny even after 38 years. Max Bialystock (Zero Mostel), with the help of his new accountant friend Leo Bloom (Gene Wilder), get old ladies to give them their money to finance the worst play ever – Springtime for Hitler. They hire the worst director, the worst actor and worst screenwriter, so what could go wrong. How about the play is a smash hit. Gene Wilder is great but Zero is awesome. I’ve never seen the musical production but I’m fine with just seeing this.

(M) Jersey Girl. (Kevin Smith, 2004) Grade: D+

Thoughts: Bored one night I saw Jersey Girl was starting on Dinner and a Movie on TBS. Considering I’ve seen most of Kevin Smith’s other films I thought I should watch this. What a mistake. Ollie (Ben Affleck) and Gertrude (Jennifer Lopez) get married and have a child. While in labor, Gertrude dies and Ollie is left to raise his daughter alone. Fast forward to seven years later, Ollie has lost his high profile PR career and is now living with his dad Bart (George Carlin) and taking care of his daughter Gertie (Raquel Castro). The whole thing is cliché and typical and not as funny or raunchy as I would like it. Obviously, Kevin Smith was making a movie about him being a dad, which is great but not fun to watch. Oh and Ben Affleck is a terrible actor. Jennifer Lopez isn’t bad and she should go back to it.

(M) (Green Street) Hooligans. (Lexi Alexander, 2005) Grade: C

Thoughts: The film started off strong, complete look into male aggression, but got super melodramatic and all feelings at the end. Matt Buckner (Elijah Wood) gets kicked out of Harvard a few months before graduating due to a crime he did not commit. He heads to the London to see his sister Shannon (Claire Forlani) who is now married with a child. There he meets Pete (Charlie Hunnam) his crazy football (soccer) loving cousin. They instantly become close (not believable) and Pete teaches Matt how to stand up for himself. The movie could have been great but it really lost steam at the end.

So my friend and I were talking about how Darth is on vacation and how lame government workers are because they get so much time off. Then we wondered how much other countries have on average. Our findings:


I am moving to Italy now!!

I love Cable TV.
Reason #2: On Cartoon Network - Futurama:

When: Typically 10:30-11:30 pm on Cartoon Network.
What: While on his job as a pizza delivery boy on New Year’s Eve, 1999, Philip J. Fry is accidentally frozen. When he thaws out 1,000 years later, Fry manages to form a dysfunctional family of sorts with co-workers Bender, a robot with a bad attitude, and Leela, the pilot of their Planet Express delivery ship. (from Cartoon Network)
Why: When Fox Network unofficially cancelled the show back in 2003 I was pretty disappointed. I did not watch the show continously when it was on Fox but when I did catch it, I thought it was great. Eventually Cartoon Network picked up the show and I caught the reruns and loved it. I loved it so much I went and bought the whole series on dvd but I still catch the eps on Cartoon Network if I am up.

(M) Chalk. (Mike Akel, 2006) Grade: B-

Thoughts: Back in July, this was the only film I caught during the LA Film Festival. The movie was a funny and exaggerated look at teaching done mockumentary style. It follows the lives of three teachers and one teacher now asst. principal at a high school in Texas. It really made you realized how difficult teaching is because you can’t learn how to teach – you either can do it or you can’t. Mr. Lowrey (Troy Schremmer), a new teacher at the school, experienced that and it was interesting to watch. Did you know 50% of teachers quit in the first three years of teaching?

(M) Trees Lounge. (Steve Buscemi, 1996) Grade: C+

Thoughts: Tommy (Steve Buscemi) has hit rock bottom – he lost his long time girlfriend to his once boss/friend Rob (Anthony LaPaglia), he doesn’t have a job, he lives above a bar which he goes drinking at all day and messes around with his friend’s 17 year old daughter Debbie (Chloe Sevigny). Trees Lounge is a movie about a loser directed by an actor who often plays losers in movies. I enjoyed it but nothing really happens, if anything it was a good character study film.

(M) Help!!! (Lat Sau Wui Cheun). (Johnny To & Ka Fai Wai, 2000) Grade: D+

Thoughts: Silly, insane, all over the map, crazy Chinese film that blends together M*A*S*H, ER and any other medical drama together and tries to make it funny. I can’t say I hated it but yea it was not great.

(M) Bleak House. (Justin Chadwick & Susanna White, 2005) Grade: B+

Thoughts: This mini series was epic clocking in at 8 hours which is not surprising given the book written by Charles Dickens is over 900 pages. It took me awhile to get through it all but when I was finished I was pleased. British productions are a bit on the cheesier and over dramatic side and Bleak House was no exception but overall well done and acted. Mainly I watched the series for Gillian Anderson who got an Emmy nomination for her role as Lady Deadlock. I know she is not Agent Scully anymore but in my mind she will always be. Oh and Anna Maxwell Martin who played Esther was great and is actually going to be in this movie based on Jane Austen’s life called Becoming Jane. The upsetting part is Jane Austen is being played by Anne Hathaway which is strange because she is not even British.