SYTYCPretend you are Chinese?
Sometimes I wonder about things, but was that just me, or was that weird tonight on So You Think You Can Dance? Contestant Lauren is all like, "Sometimes, I pretend I am Chinese when I try out! I even have a fake name, Misha Chan!" Um...really?! Anyhow, I do not like Lauren and/or Gayer-than-Blake Neil, and so I would not vote for them regardless of whether or not Lauren pretends to be Asian.
Best tonight: OMG Sabra and Dom. The hotness!!!! I think those two are totally hitting it off. I could watch them all night. Also good: Pasha, his darker hair, and Sara. Kameron and Lacey, per usual.
Just okay: Anya and Danny. Hok and Jaime. Cedric and Shauna. That should be your bottom three, with Cedric and Shauna going home. I am sorry but I am tired of her cankles and his herky-jerkyness.
7.11.2007
Timbaland vs. Timbaland
I like Justin Timberlake, like, a lot. And I like Timbaland. The highlight of my third Justin Timberlake concert was, in fact, when Timbaland showed up. But is it just me, or is Timbo's new song "The Way I Are" exactly the same song, structurally, as "SexyBack"?
The lyrics are below, but I suggest listening to these songs one right after another. They even have the same "yeahs!" in them. It's just weird.
What do you think?The Way I Are
I ain't got no money
I aint got no car to take you on a date
I can't even buy you flowers
But together we could be the perfect soulmates
Talk to me girl
(Oh) Baby, it's alright now, you ain't gotta flaunt for me
If we go and touch, you can still touch my love, it's free
We can work without the perks just you and me
Work it out 'til we get it right
[Chorus]
Baby if you strip, you can get a tip
'Cause I like you just the way you are
(I'm about to strip and I want it quick
Can you handle me the way I are?)
I don't need the G's or the car keys
Boy I like you just the way you are
Let me see ya strip, you can get a tip
'Cause I like, I like, I like...
SexyBack
I’m bringing sexyback
Them other boys don’t know how to act
I think you’re special what’s behind your back
So turn around and I’ll pick up the slack
Take ‘em to the bridge
Dirty babe
You see the shackles baby I’m your slave
I’ll let you whip me if I misbehave
It’s just that no one makes me feel this way.
Take ‘em to the chorus
Come here girl (go ahead be gone with it)
Come to the back (go ahead be gone with it)
VIP (go ahead be gone with it)
Drinks on me (go ahead be gone with it)
Let me see what you’re working with (go ahead be gone with it)
Look at those hips (go ahead be gone with it)
You make me smile (go ahead be gone with it)
Go ahead child (go ahead be gone with it)
And get your sexy on!
Blind rage.
Well maybe blind rage is a bit much, but I wasn't feeling any warm fuzzies when I watched the first night of VH1's World Series of Pop Culture on Monday and saw a contestant cop out TWICE by saying something to the effect of, Oh heck, I'm just too young to know the lyric you are asking me to decipher in this here category called "1980s Pop Hits"!
She was born sometime in the early 1980s. The lyrics were, as follows:
Dream if you will a courtyard/
An ocean of violets in bloom/
Animals strike curious poses/
They feel the heat/
The heat between me and you
Just, please. If you don't know what this song is, you and I might not want to be friends anymore.
And if you are competing (IN MY PLACE) on The World Series of Pop Culture then you might want to brush up on your 1980's MEGAGINORMOUSLYHUGE SUPERSTARS and their SIGNATURE SONGS.
The next one she missed was admittedly slightly harder. SLIGHTLY:
The sheik he drove his cadillac/
He went a cruisin down the ville/
The muezzin was a standing/
On the radiator grille
Well maybe blind rage is a bit much, but I wasn't feeling any warm fuzzies when I watched the first night of VH1's World Series of Pop Culture on Monday and saw a contestant cop out TWICE by saying something to the effect of, Oh heck, I'm just too young to know the lyric you are asking me to decipher in this here category called "1980s Pop Hits"!
She was born sometime in the early 1980s. The lyrics were, as follows:
Dream if you will a courtyard/
An ocean of violets in bloom/
Animals strike curious poses/
They feel the heat/
The heat between me and you
Just, please. If you don't know what this song is, you and I might not want to be friends anymore.
And if you are competing (IN MY PLACE) on The World Series of Pop Culture then you might want to brush up on your 1980's MEGAGINORMOUSLYHUGE SUPERSTARS and their SIGNATURE SONGS.
The next one she missed was admittedly slightly harder. SLIGHTLY:
The sheik he drove his cadillac/
He went a cruisin down the ville/
The muezzin was a standing/
On the radiator grille
But context clues alone should help you out with this one.
Not many 1980s pop hits feature SHEIKS!
I am happy to report that I smoked nearly all the categories on Monday and Tuesday, with the exception of Quentin Tarantino films. Movies are not my strongest suit. Safe to say music/lyrics and television trump films as far as my repetoire of useless knowledge is concerned, but I can certainly hold my own. When the category "Bueller, Bueller" came up last night, I about died. And of course answered all six questions correctly, because I have, no lie, seen Ferris Bueller's Day Off well over 30 times. Sadly neither of the folks competing in that round knew how many times Ferris had been absent.
Say it with me, friends. Nine times.
Nine times?
Nine. Times.
I should so be on this show.
7.10.2007
D'oh!
In honor of Springfield, Massachusetts not being selected to host The Simpsons movie premiere (Congratulations, er, Springfield, Vermont!), here are my Top 7 favorite episodes of The Simpsons:
7) So It's Come to This: A Simpson's Clip Show. When Homer is sent to the hospital in critical condition after Bart pulls an April Fool's prank, the family spends the time reminiscing. Luckily Homer pulls through, and the final scene is as follows:
Homer: This calls for a celebration. We're all going to Hawaii! April Fool's!
Poor Homer, it's been seven weeks that he was in the hospital. After a pause, the whole family laughs and laughs. Marge says, "You lost five percent of your brain!''
Homer: Me lose brain? Uh-oh!
More laughter.
Homer: Why I laugh?
6) How I Spent My Strummer Vacation. The episode in which Homer goes to Rock and Roll Summer Camp with The Rolling Stones, Elvis Costello, Tom Petty, Lenny Kravitz and Homer butchers "She's So Cold" by the Stones, singing, "I'm so hot for me! I'm so hot for me!"
5) Treehouse of Horrors V, featuring both The Shinning, and Time and Punishment, where Homer goes back in time and, after being admonished not to kill anything or else he will affect the future, he squashes a bug. In the new-future Homer and his family are rich, but there is no such things as donuts:
Homer: Hmm, fabulous house, well-behaved kids, sisters-in-law dead, luxury sedan…woo hoo! I hit the jackpot. Marge, dear, would you kindly pass me a donut?
Marge: Donut? What's a donut?
Homer: AHH! AHH! (At which point Homer leaves, and activates his time machine again.)
Marge (looking out the window, seeing donuts falling from the sky): Oh, it's raining again.
4) Missionary: Impossible, in which Homer unwittingly becomes a missionary on a remote island and utters the now-overused but always funny (to me): "Save me, Jebus!"
3) Trilogy of Error. I love this episode, told from all the characters' points of view. This episode has many, many of my favorite lines including: "Sorry doesn't put thumbs on the hand, Marge!" after Marge cuts Homer's thumb off and apologizes profusely, and the following exchange when Lisa brings her talking robot to the wrong school:
Lisa: Huh? This isn't Miss Hoover's class.
Teacher: (in a French accent) I do not know this mademoiselle OO-Vaire of which you speak.
Lisa: What's happening? Where am I?
Teacher: Sacre bleu! What a foolish question. You are at West Springfield Elementary School.
Lisa: West Springfield!? I'm at the wrong school! (The class laughs - "ha ha ha")
Teacher: En Francais. (The class laughs in French - "uhh uhh uhh").
2) Stark Raving Dad, in which Homer goes to the nuthouse and maybe meets Michael Jackson. Yeah, basically a big, fat white guy named "Michael Jackson" ends up working with Bart to give Lisa a very special birthday gift. It goes a little something like this:
Lisa, it's your birthday.
God bless you this day.
You gave me the gift of a little sister, and I'm proud of you today.
Lisa, it's your birthday. Happy birthday, Lisa.
Lisa, it's your birthday. Happy birthday, Lisa.
I wish you love and good will.
I wish you peace and joy.
I wish you better than your heart desires,
And your first kiss from a boy.
One of the more touching episodes of The Simpsons. And legend says that it really was Michael Jackson who provided the voice for, uh, Michael Jackson, though he was not credited.
1) Brother from the Same Planet. My absolute favorite episode, for years and years and years. Homer forgets to pick Bart up from soccer, so Bart gets himself a Big Brother, a handsome guy named Tom. Homer, to spite Bart, then gets himself a little brother, a big-eyed waif named Pepe.
This episode features so many of my favorite Simpsons moments, such as:
Person at Little Brother agency: And what are your reasons for wanting a Little Brother?
Homer's brain: Don't say revenge! Don't say revenge!
Homer: Revenge?
Homer's brain: That's it, I'm gettin' outta here. (door slams)
And my favorite Simpsons scene of all time, during a tender moment between Homer and his Little Brother:
Pepe: I love you, Papa Homer.
Homer: I love you, too, Pepsi.
Pepe: Pepe.
Homer: Pepe.
This episode also features the fight scene between Homer and Bart's Big Brother, Tom, at the aquarium, along with the hot dog stealing dolphin and starfish used as Chinese stars. This episode ALSO features Lisa becoming addicted to the Corey hotline:
Corey: Hi, you've reached the Corey hotline. $4.95 a minute. Here are some words that rhyme with Corey - Gory. Story. Allegory. Montessori.
God, I love this episode.
Honorable mentions: Marge vs. The Monorail - just classic. What more can be said about MONORAIL!
And Lemon of Troy, in which the kids of Springfield do battle with the kids of Shelbyville over a lemon tree, and which included the following line:
Bart: OK, here's how it goes: I'm the leader, Milhouse is my loyal sidekick, Nelson's the tough guy, Martin's the smart guy, and Todd's the quiet religious guy who ends up going crazy. And now, the time has come to cross this line into mystery and danger -- to step out of childhood and become men.
That reference to Lord of the Flies is when I, personally, realized just how deep The Simpsons could go. It may be past its prime now but the show has brought me nearly fifteen years of laughs and I am looking forward to the movie, even if Massachusetts won't be hosting the premiere. Jebus bless the Simpsons!
In honor of Springfield, Massachusetts not being selected to host The Simpsons movie premiere (Congratulations, er, Springfield, Vermont!), here are my Top 7 favorite episodes of The Simpsons:
7) So It's Come to This: A Simpson's Clip Show. When Homer is sent to the hospital in critical condition after Bart pulls an April Fool's prank, the family spends the time reminiscing. Luckily Homer pulls through, and the final scene is as follows:
Homer: This calls for a celebration. We're all going to Hawaii! April Fool's!
Poor Homer, it's been seven weeks that he was in the hospital. After a pause, the whole family laughs and laughs. Marge says, "You lost five percent of your brain!''
Homer: Me lose brain? Uh-oh!
More laughter.
Homer: Why I laugh?
6) How I Spent My Strummer Vacation. The episode in which Homer goes to Rock and Roll Summer Camp with The Rolling Stones, Elvis Costello, Tom Petty, Lenny Kravitz and Homer butchers "She's So Cold" by the Stones, singing, "I'm so hot for me! I'm so hot for me!"
5) Treehouse of Horrors V, featuring both The Shinning, and Time and Punishment, where Homer goes back in time and, after being admonished not to kill anything or else he will affect the future, he squashes a bug. In the new-future Homer and his family are rich, but there is no such things as donuts:
Homer: Hmm, fabulous house, well-behaved kids, sisters-in-law dead, luxury sedan…woo hoo! I hit the jackpot. Marge, dear, would you kindly pass me a donut?
Marge: Donut? What's a donut?
Homer: AHH! AHH! (At which point Homer leaves, and activates his time machine again.)
Marge (looking out the window, seeing donuts falling from the sky): Oh, it's raining again.
4) Missionary: Impossible, in which Homer unwittingly becomes a missionary on a remote island and utters the now-overused but always funny (to me): "Save me, Jebus!"
3) Trilogy of Error. I love this episode, told from all the characters' points of view. This episode has many, many of my favorite lines including: "Sorry doesn't put thumbs on the hand, Marge!" after Marge cuts Homer's thumb off and apologizes profusely, and the following exchange when Lisa brings her talking robot to the wrong school:
Lisa: Huh? This isn't Miss Hoover's class.
Teacher: (in a French accent) I do not know this mademoiselle OO-Vaire of which you speak.
Lisa: What's happening? Where am I?
Teacher: Sacre bleu! What a foolish question. You are at West Springfield Elementary School.
Lisa: West Springfield!? I'm at the wrong school! (The class laughs - "ha ha ha")
Teacher: En Francais. (The class laughs in French - "uhh uhh uhh").
2) Stark Raving Dad, in which Homer goes to the nuthouse and maybe meets Michael Jackson. Yeah, basically a big, fat white guy named "Michael Jackson" ends up working with Bart to give Lisa a very special birthday gift. It goes a little something like this:
Lisa, it's your birthday.
God bless you this day.
You gave me the gift of a little sister, and I'm proud of you today.
Lisa, it's your birthday. Happy birthday, Lisa.
Lisa, it's your birthday. Happy birthday, Lisa.
I wish you love and good will.
I wish you peace and joy.
I wish you better than your heart desires,
And your first kiss from a boy.
One of the more touching episodes of The Simpsons. And legend says that it really was Michael Jackson who provided the voice for, uh, Michael Jackson, though he was not credited.
1) Brother from the Same Planet. My absolute favorite episode, for years and years and years. Homer forgets to pick Bart up from soccer, so Bart gets himself a Big Brother, a handsome guy named Tom. Homer, to spite Bart, then gets himself a little brother, a big-eyed waif named Pepe.
This episode features so many of my favorite Simpsons moments, such as:
Person at Little Brother agency: And what are your reasons for wanting a Little Brother?
Homer's brain: Don't say revenge! Don't say revenge!
Homer: Revenge?
Homer's brain: That's it, I'm gettin' outta here. (door slams)
And my favorite Simpsons scene of all time, during a tender moment between Homer and his Little Brother:
Pepe: I love you, Papa Homer.
Homer: I love you, too, Pepsi.
Pepe: Pepe.
Homer: Pepe.
This episode also features the fight scene between Homer and Bart's Big Brother, Tom, at the aquarium, along with the hot dog stealing dolphin and starfish used as Chinese stars. This episode ALSO features Lisa becoming addicted to the Corey hotline:
Corey: Hi, you've reached the Corey hotline. $4.95 a minute. Here are some words that rhyme with Corey - Gory. Story. Allegory. Montessori.
God, I love this episode.
Honorable mentions: Marge vs. The Monorail - just classic. What more can be said about MONORAIL!
And Lemon of Troy, in which the kids of Springfield do battle with the kids of Shelbyville over a lemon tree, and which included the following line:
Bart: OK, here's how it goes: I'm the leader, Milhouse is my loyal sidekick, Nelson's the tough guy, Martin's the smart guy, and Todd's the quiet religious guy who ends up going crazy. And now, the time has come to cross this line into mystery and danger -- to step out of childhood and become men.
That reference to Lord of the Flies is when I, personally, realized just how deep The Simpsons could go. It may be past its prime now but the show has brought me nearly fifteen years of laughs and I am looking forward to the movie, even if Massachusetts won't be hosting the premiere. Jebus bless the Simpsons!
7.08.2007
maybe m*a*s*h is next
so we had neighbors who moved out in may. from the time we moved in to the time they moved out, every single time we pulled in our driveway, they were watching Scrubs. we could see right in their living room. there was zach braff, john mcginley, that chick from roseanne, all the time. they watched Scrubs like it was their job. maybe it was their job. we didn't know them very well.
so we have new neighbors now. i wish i was joking about this. but every time we pull in our driveway as of late, and really, it's been every time, they are watching grey's anatomy. at first we thought it was scrubs again, because, well, all we saw were characters wearing scrubs, but it's not. i can see meredith's face right now!
seriously!
so we had neighbors who moved out in may. from the time we moved in to the time they moved out, every single time we pulled in our driveway, they were watching Scrubs. we could see right in their living room. there was zach braff, john mcginley, that chick from roseanne, all the time. they watched Scrubs like it was their job. maybe it was their job. we didn't know them very well.
so we have new neighbors now. i wish i was joking about this. but every time we pull in our driveway as of late, and really, it's been every time, they are watching grey's anatomy. at first we thought it was scrubs again, because, well, all we saw were characters wearing scrubs, but it's not. i can see meredith's face right now!
seriously!
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