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Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 15:26:23
Waterfalls in the East River?
More reasons why New York is a lot more fun, 15 million dollar art project in the East River will add "waterfalls" for the summer, check out this link from Daily Marauder.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 13:49:01
Audition - Transamerica
Audition
This movie is great! Well, if you like freakshows and Japanese films where we have like an hour of creepy, polite, weird, uncomfortable, awkward build up to 40 minutes of complete genius and gore and freakness. I high recommend this film if you are into horror, etc. GREAT!
Transmerica
Now, see, I didn't know what this was about, I mean I knew it was about transexuals in some way, but I didn't know the specifics. The story was good, the acting was superb and the issue was not beaten into your head, it was like, this is a story and one of the characters is a man that wants to be a woman, by the way. See this movie if you can separate your conservative Christian beliefs and entertainment, the rest of you, have at it.
WARNING or BONUS: Depending on who you are and how you feel about nudity, there is some in this movie, not ALOT but some, and it's really suggestive but in most of those situations there's so much more going on that the scene isn't really about that. Whatever, I'm not your mother.
Yellow Book, NO! You go away!
UPDATE!
OMG. Yellow book, leave me ALONE! Have they been coming by your office lately? They are totally killing me, they've been here three times. The first time I took two to be polite, you know, cause they came in and stuff with them. The second time I was like, "You guys were just here last week, I think we're good on second tier phone books that are outdated by the time their published". Okay, that's what I was thinking, I probably said, "No, we're good, thanks." But thanks was real sarcastic and Seinfeldian. But just now, a third person pops in with a dolly of them and I'm like, "Whoa. No. We don't want any of those things, in fact here's two from the first time you came, take them back, we have our SBC/AT&T book and we're good."
He tried not to take them, but I was insistent on him taking them before Iwould sign his sheet that said he'd come by to attempt delivery. Seriously, I haven't used a phonebook to look up a number in years anyway... see there's this new fangled thing called the "internet" all the cool kids are using.
FYI: Currently loving Swingtown on ABC and currently wanting to blow up Legally Blonde: The Search for the Next Elle Woods. None of thos girls should have made it through the first round of a real audition process, now one of them is going ot be on Broadway? Sigh.
Someone bring me some gellato! Make it so! - MR
Monday, June 16, 2008 - 14:30:10
Swingtown: How I learned to respect CBS again
Ummm, so in the Times and other places I'm hearing about people furiously writing their CBS affiliates over Swingtown, CBS, 9PM CDT on Thursdays. Basic premise, it's 1976, there's three couples, and the show revolves around their lives during that time.
Now first of all, apparently, I wasn't born then, but apparently the "swingers" lifestyle was in one of it's heydays or whatever, so the first episode is about the main couple and their family moving to a wealthier section of town, leaving behind their middle class friends and meeting some new, wealthier, hipper friends in their new neighborhood, and with the help of some liqour and qualudes, badda bing, they have a little foursome. Racey huh? Crazy for network television? Right? What about our youth?
Please. First of all, have you watched any of the shows on MTV, VH1, CW, FOX, ABC, NBC, AETN? I'm sorry, but the Andy Griffith days are gone Arkansas, you better only program that VChip for Nick at Night and VTN. I mean this stuff happens on lots of shows, with lots younger people, and with more graphic scenes than Swingtown ever thought of.
I watched the first episode because I wanted to see how this show that sounds like it should be on HBO or something was going to work without the "money shots" you know? Then about 20 minutes into it I realized, 1. there's going to be no nudity (well, a shirtless guy or two, you got me if that's making you divert your eyes, have fun on your west Texas ranch). 2. They haven't said F U C K or anything else remotely harsh and 3. I haven't been this uncomfortable, in a good way, with a television show in a long time. You are like, wait, are they going to? They just moved in there... wait what is going on with... crazy woman in the mansion? And then you are counting down the days to week two. It's just well written, well shot and they have completely committed to the 70's and the feel of that time. The cast is great, the stories are compelling and the setting is one that hasn't been really used in a show in 10 years, I mean That 70's show was a spoof of the 70's, this is using the time period as the habitat and not trying to make it anything more or less. Episode 2 was worth it just for the disco dancing at the Playboy club.
I don't know what is wrong with the bible belt, I mean Grey's Anatomy is fine because what? They're doctors hopping from bed to bed and walking around in nothing but a towel over their junk? That's fine? Or any show on MTV where "real" people are running around naked, binge drinking, tight walking the line between heavy petting and assault or 16 year olds are drinking out of solo cups and planning on how to spend 100K on a party - that's cool for your kids to watch. Not mention what can be found online or DVD. I mean if you want to attack something, attack something that doesn't have substance, or some heart, or a sense of humor about itself. Good Lord, the History Channel was showing severed hands the other night. It's 2008, quit acting like its the network's responsibility to keep you shielded in some nice little egg where no one does it with the lights on and babies are brought by storks.
I recommend Swingtown to anyone looking for a great summer show. I wouldn't watch it with my little kids, but that's why it's on at freakin 9PM people, they should be in bed. The show is adults. If you think Swingtown is bad, please VCHIP FX immediately, you'll have a stroke.
mad luv, mr. rickey
Whatever, Whatevers!
You know what? Guess? Do it! You're wrong. I'm perturbed, yeah, and I'm mad, well, disappointed, oh I don't know, but I'm not in a good mood. What the hell is going on lately? Everyone I know is like attacking me with junk, like you have to come do this, and you have to let me do this with you and I need you to help me with this and it's like, hey! Shut it down! There's only so much of me to go around people.
And now I'm giving up things I really want to do because one of my friends needs help on something, or wants me to be somewhere to see something and that's fine, and I want to be there, but you know every once in a while it would be nice not to have to be the go to, stand up person in these situations.
Maybe I should be a little more selfish with my time, I don't know, but it's pretty annoying when people expect you to be somewhere, not having invited you, just expect you to be there because they're there and you always come to their stuff, right? Whatever, whatevers!
So mad today, frustrated artist, maybe, but this is not a good Monday y'all.
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