I found her picture on a random image search for my other blog, and thought she had darned near perfect eyes, especially in close-up. I'd never heard any of her songs, however, so I looked up a couple. Apparently she falls into the genre of Christian Rock, but I refuse to hold that against her.
This cover is another in my regular feature of acoustics done by an amateur girl or two. The singer is a farm girl in Michigan; she's 15, and the guitarist her "BFF."
I think it's actually better than the original, which doesn't seem to have done much when it was released three or four years ago. As a song, I like but don't love it; one lyric in particular seems to just lie there (it's the one that starts "But you're okay with this...").
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Have I mentioned that Mandy Moore has set her cap for me?
As if more proof were needed, here she not only wears my favorite color (again), but in the pull-quote she's singing its praises.
This will probably only interest you if you love the great electronic pop artists as much as I do
It's an excellent Pet Shop Boys/Human League "mash up" made by a producer/DJ called Matt Pop. Unfortunately there are no graphics, but it ends up sounding a lot like OMD...
Winning smiles
A group of "cosmetic dental professionals" were polled to determine the celebrities with the best smile, and have released the top three vote getters in each sex. Eva Mendes, Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson received the most votes in the women's category, with Brad Pitt, David Beckham and Will Smith taking the crowns (get it?) among men.
Well, I have no problem with the women, especially the first two, though I admit I've never fully understood the appeal of Hudson. And I'm comfortable enough as a man to be able to say that Pitt, Beckham and Smith ain't bad-looking mugs.
But.
If I were gonna make a few suggestions of some smiles they forgot, I might start with the self same Miss Benson you see pictured in the post below. Or her onetime fellow cast member in The Crush, Alicia Silverstone.
Or Anna Friel has an adorable smile, though it's not enough for me not to wish her series dead.
And what's not to love about Charlize Theron's smile?
Or Jennifer Love Hewitt. For all the talk about the hotness of her girl-body--and this blog has certainly been as guilty of that as any--I'm suddenly thinking that even as that falls away (as it were) she's still going to be easy on the eyes.
Diana Rigg had one of the great smiles of the '60s...
...and she's leaving it to her daughter, Rachael Stirling.
Or tennis hottie Maria Sharapova.
And um, well, Julia Ormond. Have you ever seen a more kissable mouth in your life?
Well, I have no problem with the women, especially the first two, though I admit I've never fully understood the appeal of Hudson. And I'm comfortable enough as a man to be able to say that Pitt, Beckham and Smith ain't bad-looking mugs.
But.
If I were gonna make a few suggestions of some smiles they forgot, I might start with the self same Miss Benson you see pictured in the post below. Or her onetime fellow cast member in The Crush, Alicia Silverstone. 
Or Anna Friel has an adorable smile, though it's not enough for me not to wish her series dead.
And what's not to love about Charlize Theron's smile?
Or Jennifer Love Hewitt. For all the talk about the hotness of her girl-body--and this blog has certainly been as guilty of that as any--I'm suddenly thinking that even as that falls away (as it were) she's still going to be easy on the eyes.
Diana Rigg had one of the great smiles of the '60s...
...and she's leaving it to her daughter, Rachael Stirling.
Or tennis hottie Maria Sharapova.
And um, well, Julia Ormond. Have you ever seen a more kissable mouth in your life?
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Amber as Ice
You're the Ice Maiden - Today you meet your match
Girl when I burn - Hell nothing's the same
I'll singe your pretty blonde lashes
We're talking fire - We're talking flame
We're talking ice into ashes...
-Prefab Sprout, "The Ice Maiden"
I'm going to ask this question again...
Jennifer Connelly: What happened?
1990
1991
2008
Come on, I'm serious: What happened?
1990
1991
2008
Come on, I'm serious: What happened?
Harvard hits bottom
Socialite Paris Hilton is off to Harvard University, and no, it is not for studies, but because she is being named as the University’s Woman of the Year.
According to the New York Post’s Page Six, the Simple Life star will be stopping by the Cambridge, Massachusetts institution on 6 February (08) during a promotional tour for her new movie The Hottie and the Nottie.
She will be picking up her award from Harvard's Hasty Pudding Club the very next day.
Ladies who have won the Women of the Year award in the past include Scarlett Johansson, Halle Berry and Sarah Jessica Parker.
Sir, yes sir!
Actress Scarlett Johansson is gearing up for a new role -- entertainer to the troops.
Johansson announced that she's going to the Persian Gulf on a USO tour. The USO isn't saying exactly where she's going or when for security reasons, but she'll be there for five days and will visit several U.S. military installations.
Johansson says she's wanted to visit the troops for some time, and now her moment has arrived.
Wonderful Fast Times?
I just finished watching Superbad, which I'd missed in the theatres. My nephew's dad, who has the DVD, loaned it to me. He didn't say this, but I think it was a way of thanking me for doing things with his kid.
The movie's nuts. Not the absolute hilarity fest I'd been led to expect by the reviews, but funny, and also a little smarter than you think it's going to be.
That I didn't find it as superb as many have is, I think, more down to me than to many flaws in the movie itself. In the first place, even though I am a guy, the funnier "high school" movies to me tend to be the ones that focus at least as much on the girls' experience.
Think Fast Times at Ridgemont High
or Some Kind of Wonderful.
Although Fast Times certainly can be accused of objectifying women, it also treats some of them (at least) as interesting characters in their own right.
In Superbad, though it seems apparent the writers tried to give their female characters some authentic texture, their comfort zone was clearly more with the boy horny teenage geeks.
The movie's nuts. Not the absolute hilarity fest I'd been led to expect by the reviews, but funny, and also a little smarter than you think it's going to be.
That I didn't find it as superb as many have is, I think, more down to me than to many flaws in the movie itself. In the first place, even though I am a guy, the funnier "high school" movies to me tend to be the ones that focus at least as much on the girls' experience.
Think Fast Times at Ridgemont High
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or Some Kind of Wonderful.
Although Fast Times certainly can be accused of objectifying women, it also treats some of them (at least) as interesting characters in their own right.
In Superbad, though it seems apparent the writers tried to give their female characters some authentic texture, their comfort zone was clearly more with the boy horny teenage geeks.
Martha MacIsaac (left) and especially Emma Stone (below, in my favorite color)
Single-named actress Aviva (above) has even less to do and does less with it. Her role exists primarily as a celebration of her ass.
In the second place, you might say my problem is generational. For me, the coming-of-age film well, "came of age," with Revenge of the Nerds.
But then, my nephew's dad is older than I am, and he thinks Superbad is one of the great comedies of last year...This woman has nothing much to do with anything, but dang, she's pretty.
Patric M. Verrone is a once and future writer for some of my most-liked shows
Learn something new every day.
Verrone, president of the Writers Guild of America West and a leader of the Writer's Strike, has credits including Futurama--where he wrote one of their finest, "The Sting," among others, and acted as supervising producer for the whole run.
He also wrote for The Critic and Muppets Tonight, where he worked on the episode I think of most highly: Guest-starring the artist then formerly but now presently known as Prince.
Verrone, president of the Writers Guild of America West and a leader of the Writer's Strike, has credits including Futurama--where he wrote one of their finest, "The Sting," among others, and acted as supervising producer for the whole run.
He also wrote for The Critic and Muppets Tonight, where he worked on the episode I think of most highly: Guest-starring the artist then formerly but now presently known as Prince.
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