August 2010
31 posts
WatchNow, this is the attitude I want to see Sam Merlotte employ more often on True Blood. Sam is no Baxter, he’s a desert renegade!
“As highly accomplished as his work was, it was a bit too much in a highly...”
– I agree with Jerry Saltz’s reasoning for why Work of Art’s golden boy, Miles, had to lose. I also appreciate that an artist can win by not being cynical; he can be rewarded for his selfless approach and sincerity, even if only within the reality tv sphere. Abdi was championed because he worked...
WatchHe might be a workaholic, a deluded dilettante, a dreamboat, a terrible writer, an average writer with potential, a fairly good actor, a fairly hot specimen, pretentious, insane, or a closeted genius…I don’t really care. I’ve decided that I will remain a fan of James Franco if only for the fact that he has never seen an episode of Scrubs. Also, I am digging the brotherly love. I...
Louis C.K.’s new show, Louie, really charms me. It’s real, it’s hilarious, it’s sad in a way that makes me smile because, invariably, all of our lives are doomed and pathetic in their own unique way. The truth of this is so depressing that it’s astonishing and when I am in awe of something, I smile.
Louie reminds me of the comedians that used to flirt with and...
For Your Belief in Foolish Pleasures: No. 1
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Welcome to For Your Belief in Foolish Pleasures where Jillian from For Your Pleasure and Josh from What a Fool Believes have a chat about topics that affect YOU!
Today’s topic: True Blood Season 3: Episode 8 – “Night on the Sun”
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“It’s funny that of the two central mysteries of human existence one has to be...”
– Kindred spirit Rob Sheffield in the Boston Globe. My two primary interests in life just happen to be love and the 80s and how the two co-mingle. I need to read this book NOW! Also, I think Duran Duran is the only band that I have written fan fiction about as a way of entertaining myself. I will not...
The Indispensables
Anyone else excited about The Expendables?
The film’s premise remains unclear; the acting likely consists of broken English punctuated by grunts, snorts, pugilistic thuds and groans, and various other animalistic sounds; and the whole manly enterprise is spearheaded by Sylvester Stallone. And yet, with brutish force the movie taps into my nostalgic fondness for action stars in all their doltish,...
The Official Iggy Pop Shirtless Aging Timeline →
(via goldenfiddle)
One of the most essential chronologies ever.
It’s no secret that I love Tom Petty. But I don’t often enumerate the reasons why. Mainly, because I find it absurd that there is even a need for me to do so. After all, the man’s catalog is one great, big ballad encapsulating all that is good and true about the U.S. of A! Yet, I know many are not convinced of this rather glib argument, so instead I am going to relate various experiences had...
Notes on John Mayer
I am about to lose all credibility—especially after this week’s Entourage tirade—because on Tuesday around 9 pm, you would have found me on a grassy lawn in New Jersey listening to John Mayer tell his adoring audience of 18,000 college kids that drunk texting their exes was a way of seizing the moment, of embracing what we have in this life, of putting aside our pride and...
It’s been four years since I’ve seen an episode of Entourage. It seems that nothing really has changed except the ‘yo, bro’ chauvinist wish fulfillment has spiraled into ‘OOC, Are You Freakin’ Kidding Me?’ territory. From what I observed, a show that was once thinly about male camaraderie helping one avoid the trappings of fame has mutated into an exploitation of how...
July 2010
1 post
High Five!
My summer officially begins now! Last night marked my final class session for the summer, which I closed out with a bungled oral presentation as is usually my style. I wonder when I will ever cease sounding like a flustered chipmunk with low blood sugar when presenting information to a group of peers.
It’s time to put it all behind me, though, and set my sights on the horizon. Tonight:...
April 2010
2 posts
Ambrosiac
So, last Saturday, I went to see Ambrosia Live at the Bell House in Brooklyn.
You know, Ambrosia: one of the smoothest, soft rock juggernauts of the late 70s/ early 80s? Not to be confused with Ace, Player, or Firefall? Their biggest hits include “Biggest Part of Me”, “That’s How Much I Feel”, and “You’re the Only Woman (You and I)”. If the song titles aren’t familiar, chances are you’ve...
Hello Again
Just like Shelley Long or Ric Ocasek, I happily exclaim, “Hello Again!” I am making a halfhearted return to Tumblr. I cannot say how long it will last, although I will wager that it endures at least as long as this post takes to write.
For the past year or so, I’ve abandoned my writing via blog in order to pursue a career in teaching special education. I considered teaching at...
July 2009
13 posts
You Know What I'm Sick of?
Writers that continue to write snarky reviews of True Blood for the amusement of other snarksters! It’s very clear that you were vehemently against the show from the beginning and were far too cool to take pleasure in its swampy, campy, gothic eroticism of the undead. Like Tru Blood itself, it’s an acquired taste. If you don’t like it, you don’t like it. But seriously, is...
Go Ahead With Your Own Life aka The Pierogi...
I was just downstairs at my workplace cafeteria. The options were minimal and all laden with a combination of starch, grease and those invisible yet, obviously, unhealthy additives that smell so delicious. I chose the pierogies with scallion sour cream and spiced applesauce. It was a matter of whittling down to the lesser evil.
The cheesesteak, although mighty enticing, was oozing oily bubbles...
Rainbow's End
I am not sure what the consensus is on this song and I am not sure if I care: “Seven Wonders” is, hands down, my favorite Fleetwood Mac tune. It’s at once breezy and nostalgic, brimming with both hope and resignation. The way Stevie stresses both “hope” and pray” as she sings “If I hope and if I pray/Ooooooh it might work out someday” tingles my spine every time. It never fails to capture the...
