Tag Archives: Pop-Culture

Thinking of Ween

Unless you know Ween, or paid too much attention to Beavis and Butthead, you’ll get NOTHING from the reference. Anyway, I finally got around to watching Pushing Daisies. I’d had it for ages, but never got into the mood to watch it. Yep, it’s as good as they say. Normally, when the cool-kid gang likes something, I hate it on premise (see: Firefly). Anyway, it’s the narration that makes the show. The acting and visuals are wonderful too, but I just love a good “fairy tale”. The fact that my copy has French subtitles gives it an Amelie feel, thus enhancing the charm. I know future eps won’t have the subtitles, but I really enjoyed having them for the first episode.

Watch Pushing Daisies, everyone!

Am I Alone?

Entertainment Weekly‘s cover story this week is about The Simpsons movie. I could not care less about that movie. Sure, I liked The Simpsons, about 20 years ago! I haven’t been impressed with the characters since they were featurettes on The Tracy Ullman Show. I honestly don’t get the love people have for the show, but I don’t mind it either.

Somewhat conversely, I do mind the ill-placed love people have for American Idol, which was also featured in EW. I never hear anyone say they actually like the show, but for some reason, it gets great ratings and has been renewed for multiple seasons. I think my basic problem with the show is that it seems to draw (for the most part) degenerate types. There’s no way I can state my opinion without it sounding horribly classist, so I’ll just leave it at that, but man, I’d love for that show to go away (or at least stop taking up space in entertainment magazines).

OK, Eureka’s coming on…gotta run.

New Champion!

There’s a new champion in the category of Worst Movie EVER! *drumroll* The Black Dahlia is a huge pile of mess. I finally got around to watching it today, and all I can say is: If you haven’t seen it yet–DON’T. It’s boring, poorly acted, ridiculously scripted, incomprehensibly edited, and horribly scored. Yes, even the music is bad. Even with Scarlett Johansson looking fabulous, there is nothing good I can say about this movie. I wasn’t even happy when it was over because the regret of even watching it had already set in too deeply. Shite!

DC Friday, Part 1

Friday’s Wrap Up (Scattered Mode)

pict0051.JPGAfter breakfast, beg Ben and Jesse to go downstairs to the Walk of Fame. Walk into an exhibitor’s area (merchants). Turn the corner and see Cliff Simon! Go to Cliff’s table and lose the ability to function. Turn 12 years old and need help with getting money out of pocket for autograph. Make fool of self. Seriously. Get picture taken with Cliff. He asks if he’s met me before. I am convinced he dreams of me, too. Torri and Rachel aren’t there yet. Move to the table of Don S. Davis (General Hammond). Get autograph from super nice (and possibly drunk) Hammond. Walk past George Takei’s table for time-being. Turn the corner and see Nicholas Brenden attempting to wake up. Hover back a bit to give Xander time to get with it. See that it’s not going to happen. Approach anti-social Nicholas for autograph. Get a little depressed over Nicholas’ unfriendly manner. Skip over Firefly cast. Arrive at Virginia Hey’s table. Zhaan is kooky! Wait to get to Virginia. Zhaan is very kooky! Still wait. KOOKY! Get to Virginia. Wonder why Virginia acts as if we’ve known each other forever. After chatting for a loooooong time, get autograph and move on. Skip over Rip Taylor because, um, huh? Arrive at Peter Mayhew’s table. Chewbacca never speaks, just signs (unpersonalized) picture. Hmmph. Doubleback to David Prowse’s table. Darth Vader is super nice! Signs picture with awesome conversation, too. Turn another corner to see Iron Shiek, Captain Lou, and Virgil. Virgil is sad that I don’t want his autograph. Too bad. Next table is Tony Todd. Whoo! Take pics, but do not approach. Walk past Mickey Rooney and George Romero (been there, done that). See that Anthony Daniels is very popular. Everyone must love Threepio! Decide to leave Walk of Fame.

Return to room and see that picture with Cliff looks blurry and bad. Muster up another $10 to get another picture. Cliff insists on just taking as many pics as I want for no extra charge. It’s love. Can die happy. Meet up with Jesse to attend first panel, “Meet the Stars of Harry Potter”. No stars of HP are there, so we leave. Skip panels until 4:00pm and watch first SG-1 panel in total amazement. Cliff, Don, Erik Avari (Sha’re’s father), Bill Dow (Dr. Lee) joke about Teal’c and the others. Have video. Hammond says for the crowd, “SG-1, you have a go. Godspeed.” Nearly die of excitement.