Tuesday, April 13, 2004
Saturday, April 10, 2004
Much better than I would have thought
If you can get it, tune in to or have your TiVo! record Dinner for Five on IFC. It's pretty fantastic. There isn't a show in recent memory that had me laughing this much. Next weeks episode looks suck ass, though.
I highly doubt that
Jami Bernard in the New York Daily News, writes: "Once in a very long while, a truly memorable romantic teen comedy comes along. The Girl Next Door is one. This funny, surprising gem joins the ranks of Risky Business and Say Anything, comedies with heart and charisma."
I don't claim to have seen this movie, but I am going to say upfront that there in no chance in hell it is as good as Say Anything. No. chance. ever.
Oh, and in other news, my subscription to ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY is about to expire. I won't have enough money to pay for at least two weeks. Tears, I know.
Thursday, April 08, 2004
Argh.
Do you know what bugs me? When asking customers if they are doing alright and if they have questions, they tell you that they are "just looking." As soon as you turn around and take 3 steps in the opposite direction they go, "Actually, I have a few questions." Why didn't you ask me your questions when I actually WANTED to answer them? Stupid people.
Wednesday, April 07, 2004
Hold me closer, tiny dancer
My head is killing me. This could be due to the attempt of American Idol's Camille to warble her way through yet another song. The Pumpkin and I wanted to fast forward through the whole thing, but were glued to the set. Who wants to stop watching such a train wreck of a performance? It was gleefully bad.
I actually liked Fantasia's performance, even though Simon (Who I usually agree with) said it wasn't the bees knees. I think that she can sing, but she has a problem pronouncing her words. She adds a 'shh' to the beginning to most everything. And also, not to mention at the end of every song she goes "yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, YEAH." A little much, dear.
Jasmine Trias did a respectable version of 'Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me.' She flubbed two little notes, but I didn't think she was all that pitchy. I really like the tone of her voice. Honestly, I don't understand the judges sometimes. Last week, when Jasmine sang 'You're All I Need,' while decent, she was no Kelly Clarkson and will never come close. It was a bit stupid to sing a song that Kelly performed so well during season 1. It's just setting yourself up for comparisons. The judges thought it was a great comeback from the terrible Faith Hill disaster. I just thought she was a bit blah. Now, the comments for this week are that she was just OK. I don't get it.
Both Latoya and Jennifer were pretty fantastic. I think that Latoya was a bit shaky in the beginning, but picked it up around the middle. The direction of Jennifer's set took away from her hyper-active facial expressions. Which is a good thing. Her performance felt less like gospel hour than in previous weeks. Good performances.
JPL, John Stevens, and Diana Digarmo - They pretty much stank. I didn't think John Stevens was as bad as said though. I thought it was one of his better performances. That being said, he still doesn't belong on American Idol. He's not all that good, kids. Amy Adams should be singing instead of you, dude.
Who I think will America choose for the bottom three:
Camille
John Stevens
Diana Degarmo
Who will be eliminated?
Bye, Bye Camille.
What did you think?
Tuesday, April 06, 2004
Where did you get those shoes? 1992?
Beach Vacation 2004
My 8 day Vacation was great. We relaxed by the ocean on many a night, looked for sea shells throughout the evenings and made a few sand castles that could have won some major sand castle-like awards, whatever they may be.
Who am I kidding? The ocean served only as the backdrop to Adventure Mini Golf, eating, boozing and watching American Idol. Ahhhh...vacation. Just how I like it.
Highlights of our Beach "even though we didn't step a foot on it" Vacation 2004:
Betty's Seafront Restaurant: For a terrible meal, eat here. Poor Gypsi...she thought she was doing good. The hushpuppies tasted like void. Seriously. It was like eating battered pieces of air.
South of the Border: The tackiest place on earth. Or, better known as the best place on earth. Ever. From the broken English billboards, to the giant Mexican sombrero tower, the place just reeks of illegal immigrant design. I wanted to take a picture outside riding on a giant animal sculpture, but decided against it when I tried to hop on top and realized it was made of paper mache. The animal would have never recovered.
Ripley's Haunted Adventure: I had convinced Gypsi and Chuck both to go with me in the Haunted Adventure, but Gypsi got last minute jitters. Forcing her to go in by laying on the guilt, I now have a rather large bruise on my arm. Where did I get that bruise you might ask? I got it from my hyper ventilating, crying like someone died cousin. Imagine being in a group with a total of five people in a line, with one hand on the shoulder of the person in front of you, in the complete dark. Imagine scary man with chainsaw behind you. Imagine sobbing cousin running in sheer terror to the front of the line to get away from scary man. Good times, good times.
The Various movies we saw at the theater (Dawn of the Dead, Taking Lives, Hidalgo): After one movie, standing outside we saw what had to be the youngest hookers ever. Not a day over 13. Not only did this provide much amusement for my party, but the tennis shoes they wore had soles which were at least 45 feet tall. 1992 Sketchers all the way, baby.
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Don't worry, be happy
New blog entry coming soon with vacation 2004 photos!
Tuesday, February 03, 2004
Wednesday, January 28, 2004
So addicting
Has anyone played the Retail Aphabet game? Fun for the whole family, I say! I'm stumped on quite a few of the ones in the newest game. I've gotten about half of them right. I did pretty well on the others.
The humiliation begins..
I may be alone in this, but weeks upon weeks of bad performers on American Idol? I prefer the actual competition. I can only listen to so many wretched people before my eardrums begin to bleed. Not to say this isn't good television, though. I enjoy laughing at other people just like anyone else.
Paula seems to have gotten a little tougher this season, which is good. I'm expecting her to have a breakdown during one of the shows (other than the one she's already had.). I give it another week before she goes crazy again and leaves the room. Either that, or Randy is going to get really hungry and eat her. Take your pick.
The American Idol machine has also pumped out one of the most wretched songs in recent memory. 'Sorry 2004' by Ruben Studdard has to be one of the worst titled, worst written songs I have ever had the pleasure of listening to. “I’m sorry, I ain’t gonna do it no mo’, this is my sorry fo’ 2000 fo’. I see a grammy in Ruben's future.
Or a BET award.
Boo, Kurt Nielson. BOO!
On to topics that I havn't covered in my absence:
Kelly Clarkson lost World Idol - Boo I say! BOO! While on second listening, she did sound a bit sick (reports confirm that she was) her performance of 'Natural Woman' was far and beyond any other performance that night. Kurt Nielson, the eventual winner, while good, just didn't have Kelly's voice. Did anyone else notice the expessions on Kelly's face when they were reading back the results, almost like she was getting upset? I think that the media had her convinced that she had the competition in the bag.
I'm housebound
Well, this snow is kicking my butt.
The roads, while cleaned up immensly, still have wet/slick spots all over them, which is sure to melt and refreeze tonight. I haven't been to work since Friday.
Looks as if I'm going to be buying one big meal and splitting it across the next two weeks. My paycheck is going to be enough just to cover my gas to work. Sadness, I know.
On the other hand, it looks beautiful outside with the sun shining and the snow/ice on the ground.
Monday, December 29, 2003
hmm.
Dewb1999 [2:05 AM]: i could've made mother theresa a ho
Saturday, December 27, 2003
Go Kelly!
Anyone catch 'World Idol' Christmas night? Kelly blew the roof off the hizouse.
Review coming soon.
Thursday, December 25, 2003
Merry Christmas!
Hope everyone has a safe holiday!
But, Geoffrey's my friend
Little Robert, Christmas shopping for one of his cousins, decided he would buy a talking Geoffrey Giraffe in Toy-R-Us. Clutching the doll in the extremely long checkout line, he thought it would be amusing to make the stuffed doll talk. and talk. and talk. "Animals are people too!" I heard Geoffrey proclaim 20 times. Finally, after having enough of the animal, I snapped the stuffed doll from him and had to endure screams of "you're hurting it! Stop holding it's neck like that!"
After annoying pretty much the entire front half of Toys-R-Us, we all checked out, and proceeded to the car. "Don't you dare put my Geoffrey in the trunk!", I heard as I slammed it shut. "I don't want my Geoffrey to get hurt! Something will fall on Geoffrey! Geoffrey will SUFFOCATE!"
At this point, what exactly do you say when he proclaims he won't get in the car unless his stuffed animal is beside him? You leave him in Durham at 9:00pm, outside Toys-R-Us in the cold. Yes, that's it.
We couldn't just leave little Robert there. He would get mugged or surely abducted by some dirty old man. So we drove around a little bit. Finally we made a bargain with him: We'll take Geoffrey out of the trunk and let you hold him if you get in the car.
When he did get in the car, a big argument followed in the backseat with my cousin, Gypsi. "How could you do this to Goffrey?", he asked. "I wanted Geoffrey in the back-seat with me!" "Geoffrey will mean a lot to my cousin!" "You would have been mad if you bought Geoffrey and I put him in the trunk!" Gypsi argued her point of how crazy he was acting as I hysterically laughed in the front seat. How could someone this old be upset over a little stuffed animal?
Oh, did I forget to tell you? Little Robert is 18.
Tuesday, December 16, 2003
Tuesday, December 09, 2003
Happy Birthday to me! UPDATED
On December 6th, God created many things. There's a slight chance he regreted one.
Gifts so far:
-A green Nintendo 1-up tee-shirt
-A horrible "dancing smilies" e-card
-A leather Tommy Hilfiger mobile phone case - Which my StarTac won't fit in
-A Smores Wizard - without graham crackers, marshmallows, chocolate or cooking fuel
-A $50.00 gift card to Best Buy which I pressured Robert into buying.
-Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 5 DVD
-Married with Children: Season 1 DVD
-I Love Lucy: Volume 9 DVD
-25 pack of DVD+r discs and cases
Monday, December 08, 2003
I can't stop laughing
Look
Saturday, December 06, 2003
Ha
Auto response from snapplepop [12:22 PM]: It seems like only yesterday when Brent was drinking pureed french fries out of a sippy cup. Well, happy birthday big guy. The old days are gone, but the french fries remain.
My shoes are steel toed.
Alright, I realize that I'm short. It's something that you can't overlook. But, I think the name "Thigh High" is taking it a wee bit too far.
I may be short, but I'll kick you where it hurts.
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I am a fan of bad movies.
I love French Fries.
I enjoy laughing at others.
I am short.
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