Mmmm TV...

Well here's tonight's TV wrapup based on what I just watched.

Arrested Development is back for it's third and quite possibly last season, but it's still as great as ever. This episode included kissin' cousin's, camping, Reno, the blue man group, sleeping in cars, and the return of STEVE HOLT! (the name has to be said in all caps, with the exclamation mark.) Tonight was also the series premier of "How I met your mother." I really enjoyed the show and the twist ending was even better. You don't really see twist endings in sitcoms anymore, but I think it was a nice touch, it really made the show for me. Thirdly I watched "Prisonbreak." I am really hooked on this show, it's fun and intense, as long as you don't pay too much attention to the few plot holes and "Surprise Twist" that everybody saw coming. (It wasn't nearly as good as the one in HIMYM{if you read that right it's like the thing you sing in church.})

Now that I've mentioned the shows I watched, lets tackle about some commercials I saw. The Taco Bell ad camping currently being employed is stupid. "Full from a value menu?!?" as if such a thing were impossible. a) if you eat 6 things on the value menu you'll be full no matter what and b) the worst one is the politician dude who comes out and declares to the audience of generic mics "I'm FUUUUUUUULL" Which sounds like "I'm fool," to which I respond "with grammar like that, you sure are." The second commercial I remember is the Verizon V-cast ad with Pamela Anderson. I looked up her age, 38, which is less than I expected, but still not as young as she thinks she is. I will admit she is a very attractive woman,(no she doesn't look as good as you Kels) but her age is starting to show. This isn't a bad thing people age, and with age comes wisdom, but I would hope that she would wise up to the fact that she isn't funny. Final commercial: Lunestra. A sleeping pill. Possible side effects include: drowsiness.


Note: Verizon is in blogger's spell check, and blogger isn't. Now that's product placement!
DoubleNote: Mark likes bounce houses. (Kels asked me to put it in, and if you dont get it I'm not allowed to explain it to you)

Hmm, my compliments from me to you
On this your most intriguing hat
Consider though this substitute
A bat in place of this old rat
Huh! No, no, no, now that's all wrong
This thing will never make a present
It's been dead now for much too long
Try something fresher, something pleasant
Try again, don't give up  ¶ 9/19/2005 09:29:00 PM (0) comments

  A little over four years ago I was in the production of Bye Bye Birdie at Faith Christian School (FCS). I didn't have a big part, I was Harvey Johnson's father as well as the guy who ran off with the mayor's wife (little known subplot), so I spent quite of time back stage ignoring the play. There's a scene in the play that takes place in "The Icehouse" where the kids take Conrad Birdie for a good time, and for lack of anything else to do suggests that they have an orgy. As I read the script, it was supposed to be suggested without the character really knowing what it meant, I thought this was exemplified by the actress who, apparently not knowing the word either, pronounced it with a hard 'g.' I thought this was very funny and added to the humour of the line, but because of where the play was being produced the line was quickly changed to "party", which made the line pretty much useless. Some of Faith's other great acts of censorship include the line "would you like a glass of wine" switched to tea, and changing "gay" to "different." None of this really has a point but I felt like sharing.

Sidenote: isn't it kinda funny that the character of Conrad is possibly going off to war to fight Commies?

Does anybody ever read these lyrics?
Or this blog for that matter?

There's a stool that waits in the corner of the corner bar six nights a week
Til six pm that's when Crazy Jeff comes in
Between drinks and under his breath you can hear him speak

There's one in every bar there's a bar in every corner
There's a corner on the end of every street
Don't get to close or Crazy Jeff will corner you
He tries to tell his whole life story to everyone he meets

All he wants is somebody anybody
Friends Romans countrymen lend him an ear
But seldom can he get their attention
So he bends his head and mutters softly to his beer

He says, "Hey let me tell you something
I got to tell this I'll tell this much for free
Hey I'll you right now I'll tell you I'll tell you hey
How bout them Bills?"  ¶ 9/18/2005 05:38:00 PM (1) comments

  Flaming socks.

A quick search on google of "my socks are on fire" leads me to multiple sites about the short lived television show Twin Peaks. I've never watched the show but for one reason or another I know some about it. The show primarily dealt with the investigation of the death of a girl, but gained a cult following because of a lot of it's absurdities. For instance clues to the mystery were revealed to people in their dreams via "the Red Room" and a little person. These red room scenes were filmed with everybody moving and talking in reverse so that when played backwards it looked like it was moving correctly but with a very weird feel. From what I know the little person had experience in doing things backwards, for some reason or another and had to help train everybody else for their scenes in the red room. There was also a lady with a log who said weird things throughout the series and in an episode of "Northern Exposure" (which I've also never seen, but my mother loved when it was on) where somebody looks across a river or valley or something with binoculars and sees the previously mentioned lady with the log. Anyway in one episode a character asks for some pie and a glass of water, because his socks are on fire. Weird huh? Sidenote: in the "who shot Mr. Burns" episode of The Simpsons, chief Wiggum drinks some warm cream and falls asleep, his dream takes place in the "Red Room" from Twin Peaks but with Lisa Simpson replacing the little person.

It's football season, here at Tech which means that I have the campus to myself while everybody else goes to the game on Saturday evenings. I'm actually going to see a play at the Lubbock Community Theater if I can find it, and it's supposed to be a spoof of old 40's radio shows. Sounds fun no?

Last night I went to see "the Motorcycle Diaries" because I have to attend 3 cultural events this semester for the honors college and foreign films count. The movie was pretty good, but unlike my liberal suitemate it didn't make me want to go change the world.

I also had to attend an icecream social for recipients of a Presidential scholarship. I went with Ben a guy who lives down the hall and is also an engineering physics major, although with a specialty in electrical engineering instead of mechanical. Anyway, we went to the wrong building and had to call my dad and the honors office to figure out where it was, which happened to be across campus from where we were. We were about 20 minutes late but it was all ok.

I had ice cream for breakfast today. Ben and Jerry's, chunky monkey. It was good but I didn't finish it because there was a lot. Actually I think I'll finish it now.

To days of inspiration
Playing hookie, making something out of nothing
The need to express
To communicate,
To going against the grain,
Going insane
Going mad

To loving tension, no pension
To more than one dimension,
To starving for attention,
Hating convention, hating pretension
Not to mention of course,
Hating dear old mom and dad

To riding your bike,
Midday past the three- piece suits
To fruits to no absolutes
To Absolute- to choice
To the Village Voice
To any passing fad
To being an us-for once-, instead of a them -
La Vie Boheme  ¶ 9/17/2005 05:18:00 PM (0) comments

  second post in just a small ammount of time.

i have no real friends
everybody in the world is fucked up
i wonder if i'm manic depressive, it runs in the family, sorta
i miss you
it's 8:37

So reckless for all these years,
I crashed into a wall.
There's a ringing in my ears,
And it's my wake up call.

  ¶ 9/11/2005 08:37:00 PM (1) comments

  mmmm... gossip

That was the original title of this post but after typing it I realized that it wouldn’t be cool to talk about people I consider my friends behind their (metaphorical) backs to (possibly) the entire world. Instead I’m using this post to send good vibes their (now separate) way.

****GOOD VIBES****

now for your daily (heh, like that'd happen) dose of news from the biggest college in the hub city, or as I like to call it "This Week at Tech."

I've been doing fine here, thanks for asking. This week I went to the meeting of the Go club, and learned to play, sorta. and now Kels is mad at me because I would never play with her back home, and I really wish I had instead of just sitting around saying "what do you want to do" for long periods of time, and now that opportunity is no longer here, because I am no longer there. In my sociology class we were supposed to watch a clip from "If These Walls Could Talk 2" but that never happened and instead we talked about gay marriage and homophobia, calculus is painful, and I’m at this moment not doing my homework for it. Adam spends approximately an hour a day in the dorm room. I watched "The Hebrew Hammer" last weekend with Ben a guy who lives down the hall. I may be in a D&D group that’s trying to start, but we need 2 more people. Scotty and Brad and two girls were watching "the Boondock Saints" at one in the morning last night. When I grow up I want to be the crazy guy in the diner. Normal life just isn’t suited for me. I sent a letter to Kels that contained a comic called "angry Chihuahua" in which a dog tries to buy some coffee that I wrote back when I was at SMU. "Serenity" comes out in 19 days. I have some sort of sinus drainage thing going on; I need to go to Wal-Mart tomorrow for Claritin and deodorant. Rock Star: INXS is a cool show and there’s only 4 people left, on the one hand I want Marty to win because he’s my favorite, but I think J.D. may be better suited for the band, and Marty could always get a rocking solo career.

Whoa! Leave it out
Are you smoking crack or something?
Leave it Out
Mike just leave it just leave it
We cannot have that behaviour in this establishment
S'not worth it mike, just leave it
Dont Touch Me, S'not Worth It
Dont Touch Me, Don't, Look Im Alright Don't Touch me

Also Never forget 9/11  ¶ 9/11/2005 07:42:00 PM (0) comments