Monday, May 05, 2008

Lacking in Consistency

No, I am not talking about low-fat milk.

I didn't do so well with the whole plan to keep up with what I'm watching & listening to. There's no good reason. I just don't think to write it down - but I will - do - better.

Starting now.

Movies:
Watched this old Peter Jackson film, "Dead Alive". Holy moly, talk about GORE FEST!! And no, not in an Al Gore save the Earth and make it green kinda way. Blood, guts, skin, body parts - flying about. Madness.


I would think it's a stretch to imagine this is the same genius behind the Lord of The Rings films, but, really this movie was totally creative. Peter Jackson is great. Formulaic even. The film is set in the 50's, there's this young guy whose life is run by his psychotic, wanna-be elite mother. He meets a girl - mom doesn't want any other women in his life - mom turns into a zombie. Love conquers all. Entertaining movie overall, I thought it was cute how in the midst of this huge debacle where the guy and the girl are killing a room house full of zombies it was done in the traditional roles of man & woman. What I mean is, the guy is tearing the zombies to shreds with a lawn mower, meanwhile in the kitchen the girl is shredding zombie body parts with the food processor. Cute.

Attempted to watch 'Hot Fuzz' a few days ago, but it was following 3-hours of tv and I couldn't get through it. Sometime soon I'll finish it. The first 20 minutes were amusing.

Music: I'm digging the Daft Punk album, "Voyager". Where I live a lot of us are on a shared network which means shared iTunes, yay. Someone has all of the Daft Punk albums, and one song that stands out to me for the tight bass and tech drums is "Teachers". It's a good wake up song, a good running around the house cleaning up or cooking song. Really like it.

The new Portishead album is out. Gotta say I'm not a big fan yet. Granted, I don't listen to a lot of Portishead in general. I'm more inclined to listen to Massive Attack than Portishead if given a choice. And, well, it's always my choice with itunes, so I don't listen to a lot of Portishead. I really like their song "Glory Box" "Roads", and "All Mine". Funny enough I didn't know "All Mine" through Portishead originally. I heard a sample of it in a Victoria's Secret commercial some time ago, looked it up and -oh, it's Portishead.

Mariah Carey. Apparently she equals MC squared. I only like two songs on this album so far. "I'm That Chick", and "Touch My Body". But, "Touch My Body" is very touch and go because it's one of those songs I shouldn't like, but just do because it's so damn catchy (and cheesy).

In the last week I've been kinda obsessed with Wagner's "Tristan and Isolde".


Amazing music right there.

In the world of television...Grey's Anatomy is back. The Office is back. Grey's Anatomy is closer to being enjoyable since the writer's took the cheese sticks out of their asses. It's still not as good as the first two seasons - but, what can ya do? The last episode I watched Addison was back, yay! What a fabulous character Grey's lost that is wasted on Private Practice. It's like the Addison of L.A. is the shell of Addison with some 'quirky' Kate Walsh antics and a bit of annoying Brooke Shields-ness.

I am looking forward to So You Think You Can Dance, I don't know when it comes back on, but I am looking forward to it whenever it does.

Hell's Kitchen. Awesome. How I miss the days of being yelled at because the halibut is cold.

Gordon Ramsay is hot, for the record.

I randomly watched an episode of The L Word. Hm, very dramatic, very "pretty", and pretty entertaining. It's intriguing. It has a shinier-prettier feel than Queer As Folk, if that makes sense. The lady from 'Flashdance', Jennifer Beals, she looks like she hasn't aged.



I mean, she looks like she has aged to about 30 and just stopped there. She looks better than she did in the 80's. The guy from Ugly Betty is also on this show, he's adorable. Can't remember his real name, but his name on the show is Tim, so, Tim is adorable.


I missed the best part! South Park! Watched the Mr. Hankey episodes, how wonderful is he! I laughed out loud a few times, yup.

I'll try to keep up-updated-updating.

Until next time.

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