| VTV: TV with an extra V |
[Aug. 20th, 2008|08:06 pm] |
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Here are all the TV shows that I really like that I could think of.
60. Bill Nye the Science Guy
59. Beakman's World
58. Roseanne
57. If only for the awesome theme song.
56. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
55. CKY/Jackass
54. Flavor of Love
53. Shows with Rachel Ray
52. Celebrity Roasts on Comedy Central
51. The Critic
50. I'm With Busey
49. Da Ali G Show
48. Darkwing Duck
47. Wonderfalls
46. Ducktales
45. The Simple Life
44. Sifl & Olly
43. Space Ghost: Coast to Coast
42. Kids in the Hall
41. America's Next Top Model
40. Poker after Dark
39. I Love the 80's/70's/90's
38. Sports Night
37.
Inside the NBA on TNT
36. Upright Citizens Brigade
35. The Adventures of Pete & Pete
34. The Flight of the Conchords
33. Real World Road Rules Challenge
32. The State
31. The Tick
30. Futurama
29. The Wire
28. Friends
27. The Powerpuff Girls
26. Saturday Night Live
25. ESPN SportsCenter
24. Mr. Wizard
23.
Veronica Mars or as I like to call it Logan Echolls: Professional Shit Beater Outer Of
Ah hell, let's post another Logan clip
22. Scrubs
21. Firefly
20. Batman the Animated Series
19. Strangers with Candy
18. Batman Beyond
17. Good Eats with Alton Brown
16. Freaks & Geeks
15. Samurai Jack (that's all of Episode 1)
14. The Muppet Babies
13. Dr. Katz
12. Rob & Big
11. Mr. Show with Bob and David
10.
Fuck you So You Think You Can Dance? for making me cry at LIFEHOUSE.
9. Human Giant
8. That Mitchell and Webb Look
7. Andy Richter Controls the Universe (jump to 3:13)
6. Chapelle's Show
5. The Simpsons
4.
30 Rock
3. Columbo
2. Angel
1. Buffy |
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| Writer's Block: Romance! |
[Aug. 19th, 2008|11:42 pm] |
i waited. i waited. i waited. |
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| she will live always in a world of love |
[Aug. 19th, 2008|09:38 pm] |
things are slowly coming together. i start training at a new job tomorrow [serving lunches & hosting weekend dinner @ a restaurant]. since my transportation is flaky, i'll be taking classes online this semester, assuming i can beg them to let me fill out a fafsa this late. i'm a dick & forgot to do that this year, my life got very hectic in the middle of the spring semester & various life things just derailed me.
things with joe are great. it's been over two months now, & we even took a vacation together. i think we've got something very special & i am always excited to see where it leads the next day. despite all the various stresses in my life, i at least know i've got one thing going for me. he's amazing, the end. |
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| #94 The Return of the Living Dead (1985) |
[Aug. 19th, 2008|05:25 am] |
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Speaking of punks...
There's a lot of different golden ages of cinema for different people and different cultures. For me, the height of American cinema and maybe cinema as a whole arrived in the late 70's and then throughout the 80's. Not that all of the best films came from that time nor that the output was so prolifically good either. Rather a crop of filmmakers from that time seem to hit upon my own mindset so astutely that I consider many of their films a touchstone on both life and film. Those honored include John Carpenter (of course), George Romero, The Coen Brothers, Walter Hill, and Dan O'Bannon. All of these directors are snarky but not particularly cynical; most if not all of their films have a weird layer of optimism to them and a reverence for the masters that they grew up with. I think they manage to strike the perfect balance between fanboy and critic that I personally am always trying to achieve.
O'Bannon and Carpenter actually got their careers started together, working on the extremely low-budget and extremely hilarious sci-fi spoof Dark Star. Those who have seen that film are probably surprised to discover that O'Bannon also wrote the sci-fi/horror mainstay Alien, but I think that only emphasizes my point that their sarcastic tendencies haven't made them any less insightful or emotionally resonant.
But I'm here to talk about his horror comedy The Return of the Living Dead, an offshoot of Romero's series that actually began as a disagreement between Night of the Living Dead writer John Russo and director George Romero over where to take the zombie mythology. However, the final result is markedly different than Russo's original plans. And while an interrogation with a tied up half a corpse toward the end of the film does suggest a fairly interesting (and extremely creepy) reinvention of zombie mythos, the main draw for me to this film is experience of it. Romero's films are all brilliant, but they've also been ossified a bit by 30 years of critical analysis. And just aren't as fun.
In Return, zombies are the result of a military biochemical agent. It was tested in a hospital, but the military in their hurry to cover up the incident accidentally "misplaced" a few of the specimens which got shipped to a medical supply warehouse. A couple of bungling employees accidentally open one of the canisters of course, and all hell breaks loose from there. But these aren't Romero's zombies. They're smart, strong, and fast. In what I consider to be the iconic scene of the film, after devouring a pair of paramedics, one zombie gets on the radio and grunts, "Send... more... paramedics..."
When I say that I love the experience of this movie or talk about a movie as experiential, what I mean is that my reaction to it is like seeing a beautiful sunset or being witness to a car accident. The reaction is deep but not a deep that one really expresses in words. I like the indictment of the military in the film. I like the expansion of the zombie mythos. I think it's very funny. But what I really like is the experience of the film. I like watching it. I like the way I feel when I'm watching it. The watching of it is the depth and the analysis. And like I said, it's really really fun, and the soundtrack is killer
Historically, The Return of the Living Dead might be the beginning of when I started calling B movies great without the "for a B movie" at the end of it when I recognized that movies didn't need critical appreciation to be appreciated critically. |
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| whatever happened to predictability? |
[Aug. 19th, 2008|10:45 am] |
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i keep having dreams that i'm dating john stamos & he wants us to move in together. |
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[Aug. 19th, 2008|02:50 am] |
sleepless, 3am, part three hundred seventy two out of countless, and more to come. i woke up crying.
this is the reason people write movies, and music, and songs full of heartbreak and sadness. i'm just going to try to get through the rest of the day without crying. that's my only goal. |
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| dear human race |
[Aug. 18th, 2008|10:57 pm] |
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i can't communicate with you and i'm giving up. don't worry. i'm not going to avoid your calls. i just really don't have the energy anymore to try and get in touch with you. later. |
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[Aug. 19th, 2008|03:17 pm] |
I buyed a new geetar!!
And my ticket arrived in the mail!
Oh glorious day!
Edit: I just inherited a drum kit. |
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[Aug. 18th, 2008|09:25 pm] |
there was the dream where I was given the key. the flood came in wonder and I held her up, pulled her into the tree. umbrellas, red and blue, carrying mud puddles and I knew - they were coming to kill but I wouldn't sit still, rather I would kill too - we fled and we flew 90 mile surprises in the back of anais all the way to denver, sun drying and warm on leather. |
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[Aug. 18th, 2008|04:49 pm] |
For 30 days, I am not going to write about myself. I am only going to write about other people.
I just can't handle introspection, anymore. It's become a disease. |
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[Aug. 18th, 2008|05:58 am] |
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fyi: i got a new phone, and text messaging does not seem to work...i will fix that, but so far it's just annoying. |
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| Alton Brown lied to me |
[Aug. 18th, 2008|04:39 am] |
http://www.goodeatsfanpage.com/Season6/Tomato2/Tomato2Trans.htm
"Now you could eat that sauce as is on anything from pasta to eggs to your breakfast cereal. But you'd be missing an important dimension of flavor and I just hate that. So add a cup of white wine—I like a nice cheap chardonnay—and bring to a boil over medium heat. Why bother? Because tomatoes contain alcohol-soluble flavors that can only be delivered to your tasting mechanisms in the presence of alcohol. Now you could use vodka for this but wine also brings a nice fruitiness to the party.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57084-2004Sep28.html
"The real reason we use wine in cooking is simply that a good wine contributes its good flavor to the dish. It has nothing to do with dissolving flavor components... The properties of the mixture, including what it can and cannot dissolve, vary as the percentage of alcohol varies. If a given substance dissolves in pure alcohol or pure water, that doesn't mean it will dissolve in any given mixture of alcohol and water."
To be fair, the tomato episode originally aired in 2002 and Wolke's wapo article wasn't published until almost two years later. I'm just tired of having to fact check my entire brain. Everything you know is wrong, all of your opinions are based on erroneous assumptions, damned dirty lies, etc, etc.
I really need to get out of the house. |
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