Or embarassing?
Read this, watch the accompanying clip (if you can) and make the call.
Best part: At the end, when he tries to assert that, as a man, of course, he's not offended...
Of course, Bill. We all know what a man you are. What with the calling for beating up on The Dixie Chicks and all.
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting
Via The Washington Monthly:
Judgemental kulturkampfer (look it up) Michael Medved attempts to argue that homosexuals should shut up about wanting to get married on the grounds that Elton John says he doesn't want to.
Yes, really.
Psst--Michael! Elton John is a bubblegum pop musician whom I cannot believe anybody takes seriously as a spokesman for gay rights. This is the same guy who dueted with the thug Eminem.
Don't get me wrong--he's fabulous, a stately homo of England. But if you've seen Elton John: Tantrums & Tiaras, the TV documentary that his own partner made about him...you know that "rare common sense" maybe aren't the words you want to be using .
Judgemental kulturkampfer (look it up) Michael Medved attempts to argue that homosexuals should shut up about wanting to get married on the grounds that Elton John says he doesn't want to.
Yes, really.
One of the world's most prominent gay entertainers offered some rare common sense on the explosive issue of same sex marriage.
Psst--Michael! Elton John is a bubblegum pop musician whom I cannot believe anybody takes seriously as a spokesman for gay rights. This is the same guy who dueted with the thug Eminem.
Don't get me wrong--he's fabulous, a stately homo of England. But if you've seen Elton John: Tantrums & Tiaras, the TV documentary that his own partner made about him...you know that "rare common sense" maybe aren't the words you want to be using .
Friday, November 21, 2008
"...the series has done a terrific job of reinventing what it means to be a terminator."
In my continuing quest to get you to watch the TV shows that I love, I'm going to point you towards this review of a recent episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: "Mr. Ferguson is Ill Today"
These are a few of my favorite things
Some things I like:
Gorgeous girls.
"Post-punk" music and '80s icons.
Idealism.
Water imagery.
Dolphins.
This is "Rush Hour" by Jane Wiedlin of The Go Go's, one of her most creatively successful solo singles. It's from the album Fur, which featured the late Rob Fisher of Naked Eyes on keyboards.
I like it.
Gorgeous girls.
"Post-punk" music and '80s icons.
Idealism.
Water imagery.
Dolphins.
This is "Rush Hour" by Jane Wiedlin of The Go Go's, one of her most creatively successful solo singles. It's from the album Fur, which featured the late Rob Fisher of Naked Eyes on keyboards.
I like it.
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Is it wrong that as I look at this picture, all I can think of is the squeaks all that leather must be making?
It's Kate Hudson and dancers in rehearsals for Nine, a musical based on the Broadway hit of 20 years ago, BTW, but it looks to me like one of those "leather shop" SNL skits.
Oh, this makes me sad...and then happy
This afternoon I got one of those emails that I frequently get from music PR folks. I'm still on a lot of mailing lists from when I used to write more reviews than I do these days.
I always glance at them to see if there's anything that makes me want to "come out of retirement," but there rarely is. Today, however, was a bit of hype regarding a new duo calling themselves The Secret History.
What makes me sad is that this is how I'm finding out that My Favorite has indeed broken up. I like My Favorite. They're on my "If my Colley/Keitha/Annabel movie got made, music I wish I could use on the soundtrack" list (specifically, a song called "listening to The Black Cassette"). More about that in a minute.
Now that I think of it, they inspired part of the writing, too.
I've written about them a few times (more about that in two minutes).
So My Favorite being no more makes me sad. On the other hand, the thought of songwriter Grace collaborating with the daughter of Ronson, who helped inventor of rock and roll David Bowie do so, is at least intriguing.
So then I scroll down and I see that the lead track of their debut EP is called...“It’s Not The End of The World, Jonah.” For those of you who don't know or have forgotten...my character Colley's first name is Jonah.
I love shit like this. Here's their MySpace page if you want to hear that song and a couple others (you should).
If you scroll down that page still further, there we have quotes from the press about Grace's previous music, and we find this little pop-out paragraph:
The thing of it is...(as if you're not already way ahead of me)...I wrote that. Well, to be honest, I wrote over half of it. See, what they've done is to combine a section of my review of My Favorite's album, The Happiest Days of Our Lives, with Terry Eagan's review of an earlier EP. We were both reviewing for Ink 19.
Everything up through-
-is mine.
I know it shouldn't make me happy that my words are found worthy of exploiting for promotion...but it does. If you will allow and forgive me just one moment of self-pity...maybe because it means it has value for someone.
I always glance at them to see if there's anything that makes me want to "come out of retirement," but there rarely is. Today, however, was a bit of hype regarding a new duo calling themselves The Secret History.
The Secret History was formed in 2007 by songwriter Michael Grace Jr., best known for acclaimed cult indie pop band My Favorite.
The Secret History also features vocalist Lisa Ronson, daughter of Bowie guitarist, and glam-rock legend Mick Ronson.
What makes me sad is that this is how I'm finding out that My Favorite has indeed broken up. I like My Favorite. They're on my "If my Colley/Keitha/Annabel movie got made, music I wish I could use on the soundtrack" list (specifically, a song called "listening to The Black Cassette"). More about that in a minute.
Now that I think of it, they inspired part of the writing, too.
I've written about them a few times (more about that in two minutes).
So My Favorite being no more makes me sad. On the other hand, the thought of songwriter Grace collaborating with the daughter of Ronson, who helped inventor of rock and roll David Bowie do so, is at least intriguing.
So then I scroll down and I see that the lead track of their debut EP is called...“It’s Not The End of The World, Jonah.” For those of you who don't know or have forgotten...my character Colley's first name is Jonah.
I love shit like this. Here's their MySpace page if you want to hear that song and a couple others (you should).
If you scroll down that page still further, there we have quotes from the press about Grace's previous music, and we find this little pop-out paragraph:
This is music that matters to me. The songs have become requirements; Grace's obsessions suddenly seem to have become mine. The alien, the girl or boy "differing in nature or character typically to the point of incompatibility," to quote Webster's. This band reflects an amalgamation, of sounds and styles while all the while retaining an awareness of the awkwardness of youth. Each single track is better than most bands' entire album
The thing of it is...(as if you're not already way ahead of me)...I wrote that. Well, to be honest, I wrote over half of it. See, what they've done is to combine a section of my review of My Favorite's album, The Happiest Days of Our Lives, with Terry Eagan's review of an earlier EP. We were both reviewing for Ink 19.
Everything up through-
The alien, the girl or boy “differing in nature or character typically to the point of incompatibility,” to quote Webster’s.
-is mine.
I know it shouldn't make me happy that my words are found worthy of exploiting for promotion...but it does. If you will allow and forgive me just one moment of self-pity...maybe because it means it has value for someone.
The world is a strange strange strange strange strange place
Joe Lieberman is a turncoat who gets off scot-free (although, y'know...maybe he doesn't.)
Ted Stevens is being allowed to retire as if he were Gwen Verdon taking her last bow, instead of the convicted felon that he is.
Ted Stevens is being allowed to retire as if he were Gwen Verdon taking her last bow, instead of the convicted felon that he is.
If ever there was a time to, I think the expression is, "lol"...
So there's a little artificial intelligence thing called the Genderanalyzer. Which, as its name suggests, tries to see if it can tell from a page's content whether or not it's written by a man or a woman. I have three blogs, so I gave it three tries.
It got that pharmaceutical diaries and this blog are written by a guy…but it thinks dancing girls is written by a woman.
It got that pharmaceutical diaries and this blog are written by a guy…but it thinks dancing girls is written by a woman.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Now That's Entertainment
I mean, the pretzels the GOP/Fox News types will twist themselves into to avoid saying the simple truth: Such types don't believe gay people are human beings and so they don't believe they're deserving of civil rights.
Come on, GOP/Fox News types! Let your homophobia flags fly!
Because you're not fooling anyone, you know. I mean it. Not anyone.
Come on, GOP/Fox News types! Let your homophobia flags fly!
Because you're not fooling anyone, you know. I mean it. Not anyone.
To be fair, she does have all that experience under fire in Bosnia
David Corn has a good post at the Mother Jones blog on some of the many reasons why Hillary Clinton just might not be the best choice for secretary of state. I think he's right.
Whatever positives she may have for that position, I've become convinced they are dwarfed by the negatives she brings.
Whatever positives she may have for that position, I've become convinced they are dwarfed by the negatives she brings.
Let's just enjoy this headline while we can
Cheney and Gonzales indicted
Vice president Dick Cheney and former US Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez have been indicted by a grand jury in Southern Texas.
The indictment accuses Cheney of engaging in an organized criminal activity because of his investment in the Vanguard Group.
It claims Cheney had a conflict of interest because the group holds interests in private prison companies running federal detention centers.
A separate indictment accuses Gonzales of using his position while in office to stop an investigation into abuses at one of the privately-run prisons.
Something like justice
The latest on the Megan Meier case The judge has decided he will allow evidence of her suicide to be presented in the trial of the horrible, alleged person Lori Drew who chose to torment a child. One whom she knew had emotional problems.
Good.
Good.
The good news and the bad news
The good news is that "Life" has been given a full-season order by NBC.
The bad news is that the Donal Logue character has not yet put a shotgun beneath his smarmy chin and pulled the trigger.
In the extremely unlikely event that anyone from the series should come across this, please, for the love of god, in the name of all that is holy, kill that character. Slowly. Make sure he suffers.
Before he kills your show.
The bad news is that the Donal Logue character has not yet put a shotgun beneath his smarmy chin and pulled the trigger.
In the extremely unlikely event that anyone from the series should come across this, please, for the love of god, in the name of all that is holy, kill that character. Slowly. Make sure he suffers.
Before he kills your show.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
For those of you just joining us, Rodgers, Hart and Hammerstein are all dead
Kelly Clarkson has finished recording her fourth album and her new single is likely called “My Life Would Suck Without You.”
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