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ere's a rant in my "Ghetto Boomqueshia" accent. Enjoy!

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9/18/11

I

'v decided that since I still can't type well, this will be a video blog for a while. :-)

BTW, I used some of youtube's nifty new editing shit on this so it would look better. If you're seeng the vid in color, it hasn't taken effect yet. It looks better in black & white.



Today's music video of the day is Adele. I first heard this song on some half hour live show a while back. ♥ it!

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Shirley Valentine

S

o effing Frontierville is experiencing major issues. Every time I load the page, it tells me it's lost my internet connection.

*sigh*

Did I tell you that Frontierville is the only game I'm playing now? No more Farmville or CafeWorld or Mafia Wars.

Whatever.

So while I was wondering WTF I was going to do, a movie that I've seen in the past came on & I watched it again. It's called Shirley Valentine.

It's the story of a middle aged woman living her life in Great Britain. She's a housewife with 2 grown children and a husband. She gets through her days by talking to the wall.

THE WALL.

There's no one else to talk to. Her kids are out of the house & her husband... just isn't there to listen to her anymore.

Shirley's only friend wins an all expense paid trip to Greece for 2 weeks, and invites Shirley to go with her.

She does. :-)

I love this movie so much. I love that the 4th wall is broken constantly. I love that we are privy to Shirley's interior monologue while she's talking to The Wall or The Rock or whatever she's talking to.

I love the story.

As a soon to be middle aged woman, I can appreciate it so much more than I did in my twenties. I've tried not to be one of those women who lives only to take care of her children and/or husband. I don't think I am, but what will I do when Evan really moves out?

Will I ever leave the house? Will I ever go on a real "vacation"? Will I actually "live" the life that I have left?

That is what Shirley faces in the movie. When she finally gets to Greece, she realizes that with her kids grown & living their own lives, she really doesn't have anything to go back to at the end of the vacation.

The entire story is told with some flashbacks to the girl that Shirley used to be, and the young woman she used to be. She used to be sassy. She used to be daring. On her 2 week vacation, Shirley "gets her groove back" and wants to be Shirley Valentine (maiden name) again.

I think this is one of the few "chick flicks" that I actually like. If you happen to see it on your TV Schedule, you should definitely watch it or record it.

♥♥♥♥ out of 4. Put it in your Netflix queue!

Kingdom

I

was watching Flash Forward at Hulu and I happened to see an ad for Kingdom starring Stephen Fry.

I've watched the first episode. I'm in the middle of the second.

Kingdom is about a lawyer named Peter Kingdom whose brother has been missing for 6 months. While he's trying to figure out where his brother is and if he is actually dead, he continues with his practice which includes the regular small town lawyer stuff like wills & child custody cases and other stuff.

He has a secretary and an "apprentice". I don't know what Peter called him.

She drives the secretary crazy by taping the secretary's chair to her desk...Anyway in the middle of the first show, Peter's crazy (clinically) nymphomaniac sister shows up from a stay at a mental hospital. She's very immature.

She drives the secretary crazy by stealing her car keys, spitefully eating the last piece of toast even though she didn't want it, tapes the secretary's chair to her desk with masking tape and labels everything in the office/house.

Anyway, turns out that Peter is the responsible sibling. He ends up taking care of his crazy sister while looking for his brother and handling cases.

Peter constantly gives his apprentice a pile of crap to carry and any other grunt work that he doesn't want to do himself, LOL.

I love it.

Watch it at Hulu!

Texting while driving

"DON'T TEXT AND DRIVE!!!"

I

have never done this because my texting sucks, but I know people who do.

The PSA is graphic. You have been warned.

Obsessed

O

MLY, I just watched Obsessed on A&E.

It's a show about people with OCD and they get therapy to get over their obsessions. It's like Intervention for people with OCD. The first episode showed Helen & Scott.

"I mean, I still like to eat my M&Ms according to color from least to greatest, but I'm not checking the fucking alarm clock 50 times an hour."Scott had the OCD that we (probably) always think of. He was germ obsessed. He wouldn't have any garbage cans in his house (he took trash straight out to the garbage can in the back yard), he wouldn't hang up towels in his house (because he'd use them and put them directly in the washer), he couldn't have a real relationship.

His therapist exposed him to his "triggers" and after 3 months, he was finally living with his BF and NOT obsessing about everything. When his therapist came over for one of his "exposure" days, she told him she was on her period and had to use his bathroom. She made him find something as a trash can so she could put her "used" tampon in there.

After he got rid of the trash, she made him touch the basket that she had used as a trash can, put the clean towels in the basket & then touch them to his face, and not wash his hands or the bathroom.

You know he was freaking the fark out, LOL.

Helen was afraid of driving on the highway. Her father died from a bus crash about 2 years after her mother died of cancer.

She kept the clothes he died in, blood and all, and would wear them. She did the repetitive checking of alarm clocks, locks, stove burners, even asking her 3 children over and over again if they were wearing their seat belts.

I joke about being OCD. I mean, I am a little anal. Compared to the people I saw tonight, I am the most well adjusted human being EVER, thankya Jaysus.

I mean, I still like to eat my M&Ms according to color from least to greatest, but at least I'm not checking the fucking alarm clock 50 times an hour.

Whew.

Anyway, I don't like to end on a low note (inside joke), so here's a rap from "The Mighty Boosh". It comes on Sundays at 1 am on Cartoon Network. If you haven't seen it, watch it. You can watch it on youtube, I guess.

Hugh Laurie discusses House, MD

House - Hugh Laurie Talks About Season 5
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The Other Stall

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have nothing about which to write, so I'm posting a joke I got in my e-mail today.


This could happen to you.

I was barely sitting down when I heard a voice from the other stall saying:
'Hi, how are you?'

I'm not the type to start a conversation in the restroom but I don't know what got into me, so I answered, somewhat embarrassed,
'Doin' just fine!'

And the other person says:
'So what are you up to?'

What kind of question is that? At that point, I'm thinking this is too bizarre so I say:
'Uhhh, I'm like you, just traveling!'

At this point I am just trying to get out as fast as I can when I hear another question.
'Can I come over there?

Ok, this question is just too weird for me but I figured I could just be polite and end the conversation. I tell them
'No..I'm a little busy right now!'

Then I hear the person say nervously...
'Listen, I'll have to call you back. There's an idiot in the other stall who keeps answering all my questions.'

Cell phones, don't you just love them?

OH! I remember what I was going to blog about now.

I recorded River Monsters on Animal Planet just...because. Then when the host, Jeremy Wade, took off his shirt I thought "Whoa! Silver Fox."

I couldn't find a good picture of him online. He's, apparently, very low profile on the interweb.

But if you GO HERE, you can watch a video from the episode I recorded. :-)

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Chasing Pavements

W

hat is it with all these British singers sounding like old R&B singers?

Whatever, I love it. :-)


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Ok, I'm officially a Chaplin Fan!

I

started watching Chaplin's movies yesterday on TCM because nothing else was on. Once I saw one, (The Gold Rush) I wanted to know if that particular silent film was the exception (because I liked it) or the rule. I watched several of them. Stayed up all night watching them, actually.

Today I watched "The Great Dictator", his first "talkie". "Modern Times" was released the technology was available for voice, be he still chose to be "The Tramp" and didn't say anything.

Y'all, if you've never seen a Chaplin movie, you NEED TO! I don't mean "If you get the chance" or "If you're bored". I mean you MUST see this man in action.

It's not only his movies, but who he was that has me loving Chaplin.

In between movies, they told some stuff about his real life. Like the fact that reporters always asked if he was Jewish (he wasn't) and he said "I prefer not to answer."

How cool is that?!?! WW2 Era, and this man won't say "No, I'm not Jewish."

I just finished watching "The Great Dictator", which is the movie where he spoofed Hitler & Mussolini. Excellent. The "TCM Guy" said that some people had called it preachy, but I found it inspirational in between the comedy bits.

Chaplin was a genius.

Here are the movies you should definitely see, IMO (Movie Plots are from IMDb.com):

City Lights (Silent) - A "romantic" comedy where The Tramp (Chaplin) struggles to help a blind flower girl he has fallen in love with. The ending was so sweet. That silly Tramp Smile is...I can't even find the words. It made me tear up a little bit. :-)

The Great Dictator - In Chaplin's satire on Nazi Germany, dictator Adenoid Hynkel has a double... a poor Jewish barber... who one day is mistaken for Hynkel. Chaplin's "German" is hilarious!

Modern Times (Silent) - The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman. So good. He goes to jail for a crime he didn't commit, foils an escape attempt, and then tries to get back into jail after they pardon him.

I seriously wonder if there was anything that Chaplin couldn't do! He sang the Title Song for one of his movies, juggled, roller skated, etc. You name it, he seems to have done it. His writing was so clever. It's all the "little bits" & unexpected things that made his movies great.

You know the excitement you feel when you find something new that you LOVE? That's what I feel. I wish it was Charlie Chaplin MONTH on TCM!

Here's one of my favorite clips from Modern Times. The Tramp is hired as a singing waiter (with no experience) and he can't remember the words to the song. The woman writes them on his cuff, but then when he's dancing his cuffs fly off. This is the best clip that I could find. Enjoy!



Oh! And here's the part from The Great Dictator where he's allegedly "preachy".

Set your DVRs!!!

L

ast year, I wrote about the BEST Dr. Who episode I'd ever seen.

That was way back in September, 2007. I still have it saved on my DVR because we (Evan and I) still watch it sometimes.

It's coming on again this Friday, June 6 on Sci-Fi at 6am EST/5am CST. Record it. (Or watch it, if you happen to be up.)

When I looked for that old post, I found that Wikipedia has some info about the episode. Apparently, the writer of that episode has won several awards for it so it isn't just me who thinks that episode is da bomb. ;-)

Seriously. Set your DVR!

**Update** I'm republishing this in case anyone didn't read my blog on 6/2/08**

Mercy

B

y Duffy. I heard it the other day on The Late Show with David Letterman. Loved it instantly.

Why is it that these British artists like Amy Winehouse & Duffy seem to be bringing back the Motown Sound (IMHO) and everyone in the USA is talking about big butts & "flossing"?

Whatever. Check it out!

The Sarah Jane Adventures

If you're a big Dr. Who fan like me, you might remember an episode when The Doctor worked at a school & met up with his old travel mate Sarah Jane Smith.

Now, the producers have created a spin off called "The Sarah Jane Adventures".

I was going to watch the show anyway, just to see what it was about, but when I was watching the Dr. Who marathon on Sci-Fi today, I saw the episode with Sarah Jane. That made me much more interested (because most of the shows on Sci-Fi are crap, IMO.)

I just finished watching the first episode.

I already love it!

It's like Dr. Who without the -

OMG. Ray J is on Chelsea Lately. WTF???

Anyway, it's like Dr. Who without the space travel.

The show starts out with a new family moving in across the street from Sarah. They try to introduce themselves, she's a bit rude, but in the middle of the night the daughter (about 13 yrs old) sees strange lights coming from Sarah's backyard.

So she goes over there and sees an alien.

Anyway, the next day some new girl (Kelsey?) introduces herself to Maria (the daughter) & they go on a tour of the Bubble Shock factory. Bubble Shock is an "Organic Energy Drink".

While at the factory, Kelsey sees an alien & Maria finds a "made" boy (As opposed to born. He doesn't have a belly button.)

Sarah Jane follows the kids when they go on the tour because she thinks something is amiss. (They've gotten the equivalent of FDA approval for an ingredient in 2 weeks instead of the usual years long process.)

As the Bubble Shock Bus is pulling into the factory parking lot & the gates are closing, she pulls out her lipstick.

Me - OMG. She's even got a Sonic Lipstick (Like The Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver.)

Anyway, the made boy, Maria & Sarah Jane save the world from the alien invasion. The "Bane", or special ingredient in the drink, is a secretion of the alien. (Guru, how do you say "Gross" in British??)

I love the show!

The first episode at least.

And one of the things I LOVE about British shows is that if this were an American show, Sarah Jane would be some 25 year old trick with double D's & blonde hair.

The British Sarah Jane is attractive, but she has wrinkles. (Maria's dad is "fit" as the youngsters across the pond apparently say. That means "hot" in American.) I honestly can't think of a WOMAN in a LEAD on an American show who has wrinkles. Even Candace Bergin (or whatever) looks younger than her years.

Whatever.

If you like Dr. Who, you will like The Sarah Jane Adventures. I'm sure they'll replay it to death like they do everything else, so you should have plenty of chances to see it. :-)

BTW, new episodes of Dr. Who begin NEXT FRIDAY, the 18th. YAY!!!

Brits are taking over American TV!!!

This might be old news to you, but I just watched last night's Craig Ferguson.

Did you know that the guy who plays Eli Stone (Johnny Lee Miller. That's an American sounding name if ever I heard one, LOL.) is British?? I didn't. I had NO CLUE.

When I watched Bionic Woman, Michelle Ryan's accent crept through sometimes. (Like when she said "paasta" instead of "pasta".)

Hugh Laurie says some words in a very odd accent. It's not necessarily British, but it's not American, either.

Lena Headly from the Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles is British. (Remember her in the movie "300"?)

I don't even know who else is British. I would NEVER have guessed that Sarah Connor or Eli Stone were Brits. They have excellent accents.

Now I have to go watch yesterday's Eli Stone.

Ta!

I LOVE The Puppini Sisters!!!

Ok, one of my occasional guilty pleasures is Perez Hilton.

I don't really care about the celeb shit, but sometimes he has music on there.

I have INSTANTLY fallen in love with the Puppini Sisters.

I don't know what genre of music this is, technically. But do you remember the Andrews Sisters? Now imagine them singing Beyonce's "Crazy in Love" or The Bangles "Walk Like an Egyptian".

AWESOME!

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEE!


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Equus

Remember last year sometime when we all heard that "Harry Potter" was nude in a play?

Well, I was curious. Naturally. It kind of makes me feel like a pervert, because he's like 18 years old. But LOOK at this picture. He's hot. Even though I saw him grow up. *shudder.*

Whatever.

TCM is having 30 days of Oscar Movies (or maybe it's AMC?). Anyway, I was looking at the schedule and I happened to see "Equus". So I thought I'd watch it.

This is the first time I've ever understood when actors say that they do nude scenes because it was 'essential to the role'. I always assumed it was just a bullshit excuse for showing T & A.

But the nude scenes in this movie were NOT sexual. (Yes, they showed the nude scenes. They even let a couple of F-bombs drop unbleeped.) Not that they weren't sexual for the character, but they didn't turn me on or make me uncomfortable. I guess that's what I mean.

The info for the movie said "A tortured psychiatrist (Richard Burton) treats a patient (Peter Firth) who blinds 6 horses with a metal spike." So I probably would have watched it anyway, even if I'd never heard of it before.

It was an interesting movie.

The subject matter was...unique, LOL.

The boy Alan Strang, worked at a stable for months and one day blinded 6 horses & was found naked by the stable owner. Instead of jail or a mental hospital, they sent him to see Dr. Martin Dysart.

What was interesting (one of the things, anyway) is that at certain points, Dysart is having a conversation with the camera. Describing how he feels treating this boy. Describing how dissatisfied he is with his marriage/career/life.

I would recommend this movie if you like "artsy fartsy" type movies. I don't know if it's supposed to be a drama or a suspense movie. But it is definitely suspenseful. We keep finding out secrets about Alan from his parents, people who worked at the stable, Alan's own admissions while supposedly under hypnosis or recording a tape for Dr. Dysart. (Dr. Dysart tells Alan that some patients find it easier/less embarassing to tell their deepest, darkest secrets when they are alone & give him the tape to listen to when they aren't there.)

I honestly don't know how I would react if this same thing happened to Evan. If he blinded 6 horses for some twisted reason. How would I feel? Would I blame myself? Could I blame anyone else?

These are the questions that were brought up for ME. And Alan's parents. They both seem ashamed & embarrassed by their son's actions. (They are 2 extremely uptight people, let me tell you.)

The average rating on Amazon.com for this movie (released in 1977) was 4 stars.

I'd give it about that.

If you see it on your TV schedule, definitely check it out.

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I love Stephen Fry too!

I probably never mentioned that before.

But let me state clearly, for the record:

I have a crush on Hugh Laurie. I would have sex with Hugh Laurie.
I love Stephen Fry as an actor/writer & what I know about him as a person. I am not physically attracted to him (and I'm not his type either, LOL.) I like him enough to search for his name on my DVR. He's the reason I started watching "Bones", because he did a story arc on there as a psychiatrist.

Anyway, yesterday I was browsing Entrecard blogs when I saw that someone had a link to Stephen Fry's Blog (The link is in my left sidebar right under the Hugh Laurie links.) I never think about celebrities blogging. I hear about it on shows like "The Soup", but I've never searched for celebrity blogs. Never even thought about it.

So when I saw the link, I was interested to see what this was. I read a "blessay" titled "I give up".

He writes the same way he is on "A Bit of Fry & Laurie". I didn't know this!!! I love when he gives a monologue on ABOFAL because his "phrasal mannerisms" (Yes, I stole that from him, LOL.) are so different & funny. I mean, he and Hugh were the writers on ABOFAL, but I thought that they were writing "in character" I guess. I just never thought that he'd really be that way, LOL.

I haven't had a chance to read anything else because I actually had some real life BULLSHIT to deal with, but I will be reading it all.

I would totally be friends with this man IRL. I LUFF HIM! :-)

Queen Elizabeth is aight with me!

Any Head of State who openly talks about God & The Armed Forces is all right with me!

I just watched her Christmas Broadcast on YouTube. Pretty cool! :-)

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Blink

The best Dr Who episode we (Evan & I) have ever seen came on Sci-Fi Friday. We've watched it 6 times already.

It could have been made into a movie. I could totally see M. Night Shyamalan doing something like that.

You should check your local listings to see if it's going to repeat on Sci-Fi or come on PBS.

This one didn't have a lot of The Doctor or Martha (I wonder if that's why it was so good, LOL.)

It started with this girl, Sally Sparrow, going to an old house and taking pictures. While she was there, she saw writing on the wall behind some peeling wallpaper.

It said: "Beware the weeping angel. Oh, and duck. Really, duck..."

The previews for the episode were "Don't blink. Don't turn your back, don't look away, and DON'T BLINK."

It was a very intriguing promo. I couldn't wait to see it. I was just hoping that it didn't have anything to do with the effing Daleks. I hate the Dalek episodes.

I don't want to tell you the entire episode just in case you ever see it. You should try to see it.

Try to rent Dr Who Series 3 from Netflix or something (I don't know if they rent TV shows...I don't use Netflix).

I'd buy the DVD on November 6th if there weren't so many effing Dalek episodes this season. I think there've already been 3.

That's one thing I don't like about Dr Who. They bring back old enemies over and over and over and over.

I guess it makes sense. The Doctor is a time traveler. So it makes sense that he sees the same enemies all the time. It's just that the Daleks are sooooooo irritating. "Exterminate!"

I wish they'd be exterminated once and for all.

Anyway, check your local listings for the Dr Who episode titled "Blink".

And beware any weeping angel statues you see....

Muuuuuuuuuuuhahahahahahahha.

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