Wednesday - August 27, 2008

A winning formula

And Disney cranks out another one!

Music video from the unbelievably cute Selena Gomez, all of 16 I think maybe. It’s part of the soundtrack to her new, straight to DVD movie, Another Cinderella Story. I guess that explains the maid costume.

Disney has this shizz down to an art at this point. I can almost guarantee this kid will be a multi-millionaire by the time she’s 22. Sucks to be her, don’t it?

Let’s see if the big D is keeping to form here ... really pretty performer? Check. Taps into the Tweener market? Check. Simple lyrics repeated endlessly so that simple minded people can memorize the whole thing in two listenings? Check. Lots of synth and computer assistance on the soundtrack? Check. Rebellious teen theme? Check. Loaded down with implied sexuality, but nothing actually overt? Check and Double Check. Cha-Ching! Platinum sales guaranteed.

UPDATE: This video may have been pulled from YouTube, or it may just be overloading the servers. MTV may have exclusive rights to the thing for now perhaps. So here is an embed that gets the vid from MTV ... minus all of their extra links, previews, and other junk

I’m such an old fart that I never even thought to go out to MTV.com. Duh. Ok, next time I feel the need to post a bit of pop music I’ll remember. Unless I have another Senior Moment.

My God that girl is adorable. 16 didn’t look 1/20th this good when I was there. 

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   Wednesday - July 09, 2008

Summer TV

New season of Gabrielle Anwar starts tomorrow, 10pm Eastern on USA Network.







Oh, right. I forgot. Where was I?

I’m actually trying to say that the second season of Burn Notice, a delightful little lighthearted action/drama/mystery/near-sitcom show, starts this Thursday. It’s about this guy named Michael Westen (played by Jeffrey Donovan ["he’s sooo cute” comes up from downstairs]). He’s this super spy guy who gets fired. Burned. And all his money and everything else disappears too. So he’s stuck in Miami Beach, all sun and bikini babes, trying to figure out what happened. Being flat broke, he does whatever he can to avoid moving back in with his nagging, chain smoking mother (excellently played by Sharon Glass) and deadbeat brother. That “whatever he can” is the weekly episode of him helping out some regular schmoo who’s being screwed over by the mob, the government, cheating business associates, etc. And for a few bucks Michael solves the weekly case by being a combination of MacGyver/A-Team/Mission Impossible and The Saint. And sometimes he finds a clue about who burned him.

Along the way he gets a little help from his one remaining friend Sam (Bruce Campbell), who used to be another spy guy but now he’s a bit of a drunk. And more than a little help from his mostly-girlfriend Fiona (Gabrielle Anwar. You saw Pacino in Scent of a Woman? That was her). She makes it all worth watching. That is, if you appreciate former models who have matured a bit but still kept their slender shape. Damn. Wow. Fiona is this former IRA assassin. Fiona is smart and dangerous, and always just this close to violence. Which makes her sexy as all hell. Oh, and Michael has a nice old Charger Sebring to drive, though it frequently needs work as it’s always getting shot up or set on fire.  Season Two will also feature more of Tricia Helfer, former underwear model turned actress. The one who played the Cylon Number 6 in Battlestar Galactica. Not that there’s anything wrong with that either.

It’s a fun show, light and breezy, and the eye-candy factor for guys who are over 30 is first class. ["But he’s sooo cute!!” comes up from downstairs again]

Two other USA shows, Monk and Psyche, start up on Friday. Both are funny in their own way and usually worth watching. But they don’t have Gabrielle.

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   Friday - May 30, 2008

Has LOST jumped the shark?

I found the 4th season finale to be kind of a let down. I don’t know what I was looking for, but somehow I didn’t find it. So Michael sort of redeems himself but the freighter and everyone on it are now dead. Bye Jin. Gee, thanks Ben. And Faraday and a couple of the other extra cast members in the little motorboat? I guess they’re lost at sea now. The SIX started off as the EIGHT, but once Penny found their lift raft (of course!) and she and Desmond had their perfect moment and he’s never leaving her again, so Desmond’s out of it. For a while at any rate, until the final Widmore showdown is my guess. And Frank stayed on there too, so he’s off the show as well. Big Red stayed on the island; interesting that she was coming back to it again! Maybe she’ll be getting her claws into Sawyer now, after his altruistic jump to save the helicopter and his long swim to shore, where he washes up shirtless like a gift from the sea right at Juliet’s feet while she knocks back the Captain Dharma spiced rum and watches the ship burn. I smell bitchfight coming!

But after Ben worked the Windlass of Time ^TM and upped the Phase Space Anchor^TM the island was sent to another reality. He paid the price and descended the temporal tunnel back to our timeline, so he’s off to do nasty things in the “real” world. And the only way he can get back is to take the SIX and the dead guy with him? Not likely.

So now Lostie Island is a gigantic tropical version of Dr. Who’s magic phone booth? Are all the castaways going to bond now with the remains of the Others (cue Jeff Probst: “Ok everyone, take off your buffs. It’s time for the Merger. Everyone put on huge amounts of eyeliner like Richard Alpert here") and jump around each week solving crimes and saving whales and dolphins? Shark jumping? Who can say, but I think the Fonz is off the water ski jump and in the air.

Loose ends: WTF is up with Claire and Dr. Daddy? After all she’s been through with the baby, and Charlie, and being kidnapped, etc., now she’s suddenly all languid and dreamy and given to ghost like appearances in people’s dreams?

Major disappointments: The man in the coffin is Jeremy Bentham. That name has got to be a scrambled message, so get to work. But the season came full circle: episode one had Jack visiting the funeral home and that’s where this season ended. Except I swear that in ep 1 he met the funeral director, and in this final ep he had to break in. And I had thought the coffin was much shorter the first time, not at all big enough to hold the large man we finally see inside: John Locke. What the hell? Maybe he lost his legs again.

Amazingly stupid: So now, several years later, a burned out, drunk, and despondent Dr. Jack wants to get back to the island? Why, because events there proved him to be totally wrong about everything? He can’t face the world without his giant ego? “There’s no such things as miracles John” says Dr. Brainwave. And then the big purple light fills the sky again, and poof!, the island is gone, leaving nothing but a quickly dissipating ring in the water. And a school of sharks, circling.

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   Sunday - May 11, 2008

Signs of the Apocolypse

Comedy Central Thursday announced it is bringing “The Gong Show” back to U.S. television with a new version of the classic variety series.

Lauren Corrao, the network’s president of original programming and development, said “The Gong Show with Dave Attell” is to premiere July 17.

The new series will feature eight to 10 “off-beat and hilarious acts” that will be judged by a panel of three revolving celebrity judges, Comedy Central said.

The search for talent has already begun and submissions are being accepted at gongshowcasting@aol.com.

“We are very excited to welcome Dave Attell back to the network and put the Comedy Central touch on such a classic game/variety show,” Corrao said in a statement. “Dave is the perfect guy to host this series. His dry, comedic wit paired with the outspoken personalities of our celebrity judges and the outrageous acts will create a fresh, new take on the famed series.”

“Stars will be made, feelings will be hurt,” Attell warned.

Attell was the creator and host of “Insomniac with Dave Attell,” ran for four season on Comedy Central beginning in 2001.

Yes, I remember Insomniac, in which Dave “played” a foul mouthed sarcastic scruffy drunk, who would visit a different city each week to cruise the late night bars, chat up the hookers, and visit the unusual people who work the overnight shift in various odd businesses. It was slightly funny and slightly educational.

The original Gong Show was perhaps the worst game show that was ever on TV, back in the mid 70s when TV was at its lowest ebb. It was funny in a very painful way; if you could take everything bad about Idol and it’s predecessor Star Search and magnify it ten times, you’d have The Gong Show.

Thanks to Rancino for the link. I think.

Truly we are living in End Times.

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   Thursday - May 08, 2008

TV Blogging: Survivor Fans vs Favorites

One man against four women. Four women who have openly bonded to vote off all the guys. And have done so. One man who wins every challenge, time after time. Because even a scrawny wiener of a guy is stronger and faster than most women. Four women who lay such an obvious guilt trip on him -"oh you hurt our feelings so much, I don’t know what you can do to make it up to us!” - that he gives up immunity when it’s a guarantee to be in the Final Four. Four women who vote him out in a flash and laugh in his face while the jury hides their faces in embarassment for him. As Parvati says “Erik, you are the dumbest Survivor in the history of Survivor”. And Erik is gone. The tribe has spoken.

Hey dumbshit, didn’t your “religiously studying” the show teach you anything from Dreamz a couple seasons back? ”I’m a keep it.” That’s how the game is played.

Truly, there has to be an intelligence test to be a contestant on this show. And you have to fail it by a wide margin to become a contestant.

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   Friday - April 25, 2008

New LOST TV episode

Now that the mid-season intermission is over, LOST was back last night with a totally mind-blowing (and house blowing) episode. So now we know why future Sayeed is working for Ben, but why did Nadia get killed? (talk about a rotten encore - her character appears for the first time in 2 years and she’s already dead). Meanwhile, back on the island, the frieghter fighters are shooting everyone in sight, including Alex-I-just-got-my-hot-babe-tiara-and-now-I’m-dead. And once again Hurley turns out to have a pivotal role. Oh, and as if anybody cared, Dr. Jack is sick. I wonder if we’ll have another catfight in the mud to see whether Juliette or murder girl Kate gets to take care of him?

Let’s just hope that “The Shape of Things To Come” is the shape of things to come. Buckle up, it’s gonna be a wild ride.

For the usual great recap, go visit Mac.

For you detail junkies, mouse on over to Sledgeweb’s site, cuz there were lots of micro-clues in last night’s episode, including a new Dharma station and the parka of someone special!

Meh for recaps, but great for theories and HD screencaps is Doc Artz’ site. Plus forums!

For some fun cartoons like this on, and character sketches, plus T-shirts and coffee mugs, go visit The Lost Boys Project

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   Thursday - March 20, 2008

LOST - the half season finale

So, are you utterly blown away and confused? Got lots of your questions answered, only to have many more questions asked? Me too. We got to see “Kevin Johnson“‘s backstory, in between leaving the island and nearly coming back on the freighter. I still hate him, and hope Libby haunts him forever. And is Locke totally nuts, a traitor for now supporting Ben, or has the island just taken over his mind? And I knew Tom was gay!! He was just having waaay too much fun playing football with Jack back at the Other’s compound last season. And the twist at the end, where it looks like Sayeed is giving Michael his wish ... “Why are you here?” “I’m here to die.” Fantastic move Sayeed. Talk about leveraging your assets!

Now you’ve got 5 weeks to watch all your Tivo’d episodes, and try and figure out the timelines ... one in the real world, one on the island. Because I think the show resumes on Christmas morning, island time. And decide if Charles Widmore is hugely evil, or merely rich and diabolical ... putting together the world’s biggest con in less than 10 weeks. So where does that leave Penny?

PS - knowing the LOST curse, does anyone know if the actress who plays Rousseau was caught DWI?
PPS - did Walt look small again to you? Last time we saw him, when Locke was dying in the Dharma body pit, he looked 6 feet tall and 20 years old.
PPPS - Michael’s ride is a 1976 Plymouth Volare, restored to mint condition. Which is an oxymoronic undertaking akin to chrome plating a turd, but fits perfectly with his woebegone, do-everything-wrong personality.

You can always get a great recap over at Mac’s place. Until April 24, namaste!

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   Saturday - March 01, 2008

One for the LOST fans

Mr. Ecko’s stick and Frank Lapidus’ map (the helicopter pilot): both show course 305 is the way off the island.

But Ben sent Walt and Michael out on course 325 ... wonder what year they wound up in?

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