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Who do I root for in a case like this: Motel 6

The widow Spelling v. Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis

Actually I suppose I'll root for Mrs. Spelling on account of I once had a little completely-wrong crush on her daughter. And I really don't like Joe Francis, who's managed to take something that should be all about appreciation-girl watching-and turned it into something that from where I sit is almost as humiliating for the "boys" as it is for the "girls."

He's been the worst thing for women's breasts since Demi Moore.

I thought so.

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And hey, this means I get to be married to the most beautiful woman on television (1995-2005), Christa Miller.

Albums you (probably) haven't heard and need to

Starflyer 59's Leave Here a Stranger.

Please forgive me in advance for this joke

When his girlfriend asked Marvin why he was always hanging out at the golf course, he said, "Oh, y'know...the view...the excercise...the silent contemplation...the view..."

If our love song Could fly over mountains; Sail over heartaches

Or: 2,570 entries, and I haven't posted any David Bowie videos. Let's rectify that right now, being as he only invented rock and did anybody bother to thank him for it?

I'm semi-serious when I say that, BTW. For the kind of rock I like (which is pretty broadly defined, admittedly), Bowie, Kraftwerk and Roxy are basically the Robert Johnson, Chuck Berry and Ray Charles.

Plus it was a show on his "farewell tour" where I kissed Ginger. Those of you who know what that means, know what it means.

Here's "Absolute Beginners."

Forget it, Veronica...it's Neptune

As you didn't have to be a fortuneteller to predict, Veronica Mars has not been renewed for next season. SAP and Keith the Reel Fanatic are in mourning and I know they're not alone (in fact SAP links to another).

Veronica Mars has been one of my favorite TV shows literally since the day it premiered and I can prove that. I spent what seems like a year or two badgering people to recognize its superiority, or even just try it.

I can't bring myself to get too crazy about its cancellation; I went into this season knowing it was do-or-die time for Veronica ratingswise. Nor do I think I can really call the CW stupid (or threaten, as Keith does, never to watch the network again).

They cancelled a show that after three years was still at the very bottom of the ratings for the week. That doesn't make them stupid or mean I should deprive a future show I might like of my viewership, or myself of the pleasure of viewing.

The show blew its chance to expand on the cult and critical following it had acquired over the first season when the second season's writing spun wildly out of control. Although the third season has been a marked improvement, it's still (for me) too often been in fits and starts.

I hope everyone involved both in front of and behind the camera on Veronica Mars will go on to other things, and I'll certainly be watching for them.

This made me laugh.

Via Feministing.

see the sights

This is Field Work by Ryuichi Sakamoto and Thomas Dolby. The part where the record proper starts (after all the bleeps and bloops while they set up the concept of the video) is one of my favorite song inroductions ever. Serious "walking on stage if I were a pop star" fantasies here.



And this is Wise Up Sucker by PWEI (Pop Will Eat Itself). I love the destructive but controlled feel that runs through this record like an electrical current.

I'd just like to officially be the last guy in the world to say

Oh my god does Ocean's 12 suck beyond all previously accepted definitions of sucking. I'm a big fan of its predecessor, but this may be the worst follow-up I have ever seen. Boring where the first one was fun, dull where it was shiny, and where the first story had a kind of absurd reasoning, this one throws all reason out the window.

It's essentially over two hours of Clooney, Roberts, Soderbergh and the rest holding up a great big "fuck you!" finger to the audience.

"We don't need a script, we're movie stars!"

As I say, I realize I'm probably about the last one to come to this realization. Some comments I have seen from Clooney about the forthcoming ...13 suggest he knows it too. But I just had to get that out or it was gonna stick in my craw.

You know how it is.

I always knew you had it in you, Tara

TMZ is shocked-shocked!

Breaking News: Tara Reid Gets Classy!

Tragic party girl Tara Reid managed to pull it together, and dare we say, actually looked good last night.

Some people can wear a gay flag for a dress and some people can't

Further to my latest Kylie post, here's Lindsay Lohan at Maxim's Hot 100 party. Click to make it bigger.

A short review

According to Rotten Tomatoes, the critical consensus for the film Shortbus is

The sex may be explicit, but Mitchell integrates it into the characters' lives and serves the whole story up with a generous dose of sweetness and wit.

No, he doesn't.

i'm old, not wise, just worried

the best man's fall
could i interest you in a little something special
pay the earth but if you have no money
your attention'll do
and if you don't give a damn
you're welcome to keep it
it's a hard road when you know where you're going
and it's harder when you know where you're not
so i'll stamp my clay feet till the staggering stops
but good god give me strength to face another lazy day of
"if i was a millionaire i'd be a million miles from here"


hands of the clock give me a round of applause
for getting out of bed and the scars of the night before
have turned into scabs and still I'm seeing double
and i'm looking twice my age
it's getting to the stage where
i'm old, not wise, just worried


stories of rags to riches leave me in stitches
and with a thread that's hard to follow


you came into my life like a brick through a window
and i cracked a smile
remember those good
who remembers the good old games
that seemed to fill our days
like a kiss, cuddle and torture and
i-spy, s-p-i-t in your eye


those around me who came up trumps
would always get down on their knees to brag

the trash can sinatras

Poetic

Le Coeur
Henri Matisse, French, 1869-1954

This is my contribution to today's offering of Poetry Corner at If I Ran The Zoo. I found this poem and the artwork I'm posting with it in one of my "Desert Island Books:" Art & Love: An Illustrated Anthology of Love Poetry, put out by the Met Museum of Art. 150 poets matched with pieces from the musem.

My first, first (and to date only) produced play was originally named after this poem. I changed the title, but it still contains a scene where a character quotes:

somewhere i have never travelled

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
any experience, your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which
enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring
opens
(touching skilfully, mysteriously) her first rose

or if your wish be to close me,i and
my life will shut very beautifully,suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;

nothing which we are to perceive in this world
equals
the power of your intense fragility:whose texture
compels me with the colour of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands

E.E. CUMMINGS, American, 1894-1962

The Garden at Vaucresson
Edouard Vuillard, French
1923 and 1937.

Sarah Silverman is mocking me with her Jewish star good looks

I tend to be a little ambivalent about Sarah Silverman. When I think of Silverman, I often think of something Dorothy Parker once said about herself,

"I was just a little Jewish girl trying to be cute."

But that thought in itself is ambivalent. I mean it, in one sense, in a desire to decrease her celebrity in reaction to the idea that she is somehow state-of-the-art in comedy. When I sometimes think that at least as much of her success is down to the fact that men like an attractive woman who is willing to talk filthy.

Yet comparing anyone who writes and can be witty (man or woman) to Dorothy Parker in any way is, inherently, a compliment. And I mean it in that sense, too. Sometimes she doesn't make me laugh as much as squirm...but sometimes that's my favorite thing that she does, as in her appearance in The Aristocrats.

All that to one side... I love this picture of her that appeared in Maxim.

I love it not just because it's a picture of a good-looking woman in her underpants (although, god knows...). But because I think it's a reference to one of the more famous scenes from the original Cabaret.

In the scene, Joel Grey as the MC of the title show in 1930s Berlin dances with an actor dressed in an oversized gorillia suit and sings lovingly "If they could see her through my eyes, maybe they'd all understand..." Originally, the last line of the song was-"If you could see her through my eyes...she wouldn't look Jewish at all."

It was meant to be chilling, and reportedly it was too much so. As happens, what was intended to be a scathing satire of anti-Semitism was taken by some to be the real thing. The creators, against their better artistic judgement, changed the line, although Grey would sometimes use the original and claim he "forgot." Bob Fosse also restored it for his film version, and I believe it is mostly used in productions today.

I should say that I don't know if that connection was intended, and if it was I don't know that it was Silverman's idea and not the photographers. But it seems so typical of Silverman that she would have things working on at least two levels even for something that's usually just as honestly sexist as Maxim photos.

I have to admire her for it.

(Photos source here. There's one or two more sexy ones, too.)

On the other hand

As most of you know, I have been writing/trying to sell a play/screenplay/novel for a few years that features a couple of characters who happen to be gay. As many of you may also know, it is a characteristic of the "struggling artist" that we sometimes feel sorry for ourselves when work that we perceive to be not as good as our own does well.

Or even just the fact that it gets made or published, even if it dies on the vine, while we still struggle. It can be disheartening, my friends, when you know that you've spent great amounts of time and care trying to create people an audience will care about. With good things to say, and a compelling story to tell.

Meanwhile, stories that seem to you to be more about exploitation and/or tokenism are put out there.

But, as in all things, there is balance.

you can get Mary Cheney's memoir for six cents (***NEVER USED***) at Amazon.

Gracias to Blue Gal.

There are exceptions to every rule

Speaking of actresses that I don't find quite as pretty as the rest of the country seems to, I've written in the past of how Jessica Alba doesn't get me that hot.

However.

Sweet Lord, her legs are about eight feet long!

This blog needs to return to its higher purpose

Over in thoughts from an empty head, SAP replies to Maxim's naming of Lindsay Lohan as The Most Beautiful Girl in the World.

I can personally think of at least seven women right off the bat who are infinitely more beautiful than Lohan.

And so SAP features them. My favorites on that list: Freema Agyeman (I think a better picture might have been found, but that's me) and Jewel Staite (hey, just because I don't think Firefly was all that doesn't mean I don't know a hot babe when I see one) .

So I figured I could also think of at least seven women who are more beautiful than Ms. Lohan. And I figured, just for the challenge and to keep you all entertained, I would do so without relying on Anne Hathaway or any of the rest of the usual suspects.

As it turns out, I thought of nine.

So.

In no particular order, here are nine women who may be less celebrated, but are definitely more beautiful than Lindsay Lohan.

Gina Philips. An actress who may be best known as the star of the first Jeepers Creepers movie. As I've written in the past, the creepiest thing about the Jeepers movies is how pedophile-erotic they are. Especially when you know that they were directed and written by a convicted child molester. But you can't blame Philips for that; she does a good job and looks like this.

Sarah Polley. As an actress, she's the queen of what they call "small" movies, with the odd exception like the 2004 Dawn of the Dead. She's also an award-winning screenwriter and director whose first feature, Away From Her, is in limited release now and has been getting terrific reviews.

But. For me, it's always been hard not to think of her as little Sally Salt in Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, also starring Uma Thurman. Even as Polley grew up and turned into Uma's younger sister...

Kim Cattrall. Who really ought to get some kind of special mention on account of she's been scary sexy for over 20 years.

Kelly, aka WarriorTwo. A friendly, thoughtful and bright old girlfriend who is also a damn pretty, kissable (if memory serves) babe and a woman of vision not at all subsceptible to flattery.

On a completely unrelated matter, I sent her my novel a couple of days ago.


And, of course, the Go Gos, especially Jane and Belinda.

Note to self: Never take hallucinogens and look at Kylie

Seriously, either she actually is trying out for Doctor Who, only in 1985, or else this is her way of paying tribute to the gay subjects under her rainbow flag. I'm not saying she doesn't still look amazing, but, um, ow!

First picture credit: Pink Is The New Blog
Second picture credit: This is London