Granted, it was a gay boy and his boyfriend. Though, 'boy' is probably the wrong term, but still....
Listen, it's Spring. You know. Just in case you were wondering. So, essentially, what I'm saying, in very short form is, "Mama's horny."
So...I've succumbed to some society pressures that I previously mocked. That might essentially be speed dating for one. And emailing a Republican.
Let me explain. I had no idea he was Republican until I googled him after we met at a party and he was all, "get in touch with me." So I decided to stalk him. And found out that at least he was a fan of McCain. Which? WTF? Seriously. I know you're cute and we connected, and you're from Indiana, but still? So yes. I emailed him.
And went speed dating. Which deserves a post of its' own. But yet. Didn't do fantastically.
My problem is that I did the AIDS Walk today in NY and I got a number. A gay man's number. Because per usual I can pull the gays like no other. It's...embarrassing. I do better than gay men. But..yet...can't score the straight man.
Sigh.
"Mama horny Michael." - Lucille Bluth, Arrested Development. I love you Arrested Development.
Just in case that wasn't clear.
P.S. My legs do fucking hurt after the walk.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
how bad is cupid?
So bad that with only about 5 channels to choose from - I'm choosing not to watch it. And let me just say that the competition is not fierce (sorry Tyra, I'm not bogarting your word. I promise) at all.
Let's take a look shall we?
CBS (Or should I say the network for those collecting their SS): "Without a Trace."
NBC: "The Biggest Loser." Which? Okay. If it was a "Death is Not an Option" kind of situation, I would in fact choose "Cupid." Sadly, my mother would not.
FOX: The local Fox News. So you know, it's fair and balanced and classy. Because, yes. They're now talking to people on the street about glad they are that Carrie Prejean (sp?) did not lose her crown. Like, really? This is news. But yes. More interesting that "Cupid."
ION (Yes. It's really a channel. With programming. With actual shows [that have all been canceled by other networks, but still.]):
C-SPAN: Rep. John Boccieri supposedly speaking live. Like, where Ohio boy? Do you think anyone is still paying attention at 10:28 East Coast time?
Telemundo: I can't understand a damn word. But I know it's more interesting.
My9: Evening News. I'm assuming a touch classier than Fox - though they are talking about auctioning off Yankee stadium items. Yankees suck.
NY1: News as usual.
PIX11: News. Probably as classy as Fox. Shockingly, I'm getting to now see about Carrie Prejean again. Awesome. Because I was so enthralled the first time.
PBS1: A documentary about the Bloods and Crips. This is actually really interesting. Who knew this blog post would be helpful.
MNN (Didn't know this was a channel): A woman is seemingly singing in gibberish at a performance playing a cello and from this angle it looks like she's naked. Oh wait. She's not. Weird dress. Awful acoustics. And supposedly this is "Erin and her Cello." O-kay. I still can't tell if she's singing gibberish or in English.
PBS2: I don't know. But it's British programming. (So, by the accents, automatically more interesting.) [Ed note: Flipped back during commerical for "My Boys" and there were two women kissing now. Defintely better by merit now.]
TBS: "My Boys." Automatic win. Even when I first started this blog and it was an "Office" repeat.
When watching something in another language that I have no hope of understanding is more interesting - you have got a problem.
There are just so many tragic things about this.
The first being that "Cupid" version 1.0 was actually kind of awesome. It had Jeremy Piven before he douched out. Though...he's always been close friends with my high-school famous boyfriend (John Cusack) who I tragically found out (and I'm still semi-pretending isn't true) was a complete and utter douchebag. Like, supposedly in "A Thin Line" he shat his pants, stepped out of them and let some poor PA deal with the after effects. Like, really? Ew. So...perhaps they've been friends for so many years because they're both d-bags? Anyway. He was absolutely charming in the role. And it featured Paula Marshall, before she was a show killer, and before she was cast as the stereotypical stroppish female character on a poorly written CBS. Thanks CBS. Paula must hate herself. Any. Way. I liked both of them, and the both had some serious chemistry. Though...I might have been the only person watching the show since it was canceled rather promptly.
The second that I first fell in love with Rob Thomas (the writer/director - not the Matchbox 20 singer) was season 1 of "Veronica Mars." I...there are no words. The show had me at "Hello." It was brilliantly acted, brilliantly written, and the story-arc was insanely good. When I started researching one of my new favourite shows ever, I found out Rob Thomas had created "Cupid," and thought, "Huh. This man makes television I like." Plus, not only is he incredibly talented, from the interviews I've read he also seems like a nice and likeable. Something that you always like to see in people who you respect. Hating this remake sullies my love a little. Granted, you always forgive people for their transgression, I get the feeling that getting the taste of this show out of my mouth (and I've actually tried watching. Quite. A. Few. Times. So it's right up in there.) is going to take quite some time. Thanks. Rob. Thanks...
Another, is that I really like the stars of the new "Cupid." Bobby Canavale and Sarah Paulson are very likeable people. Sarah Paulson is usually one of the best things about everything that she is in, such as "Down with Love," (funny side story: she played the love interest of David Hyde Pierce in that movie [which came out in when? Like 1995?] - when both of them were still in the closet. Which? Kind of funny. Right?] and "Studio 60." Bobby is hot. And I've heard that he can some some range. But unfortunately there is no chemistry whatsoever between the two. Which is sad, because sometimes awesome chemistry can leap past bad writing, bad plotting, and bad story-telling. Essentially everything that is wrong with "Cupid." I'm actually a touch flummoxed as to how it is possible for "Cupid" to suck as much as it does. Because, seriously? It seemed as if everything Rob touched turned to gold. Clearly, this is not the case.
And I guess lastly (because I love Rob, and it hurts me to hate on Rob a little), it limits my viewing options. I have so few channels (because half those channels don't even count) and there are very few that come in with decent sound quality. And by very few, I mean two. And they're TBS and ABC. The other have that shitty, no cable fuzz sound to them. So you can imagine it can often make watching those channels intensely annoying. Though, I'm an addicted (to TV), desperate bitch, so I still will watch. So to have something be so shitty with good sound quality thereby forcing me to change the channel pisses me off.
Why Rob? Why? And I really do think, "how"? I just...am flummoxed. I like shitty TV. So it's almost as if bad TV doesn't exist for me (except for most of the shows on CBS [except of course HIMYM (a show I've loved since the first episode aired. Secret: I watched from the very first episode because Cobie Smulders was on "the L word" and...I watch anything that anyone who was cute on "the L word" does. I mean I watched "Teachers" or whatever the fuck it was called for Sarah Shahi. Granted, I would go through fire for her, because everything she touches does turn to gold. Case in point: "Life."), "The Big Bang," "The New Adventures of the Old Christine," and I'll always watch "Cold Case" and "Two and Half Men" (a show that can shockingly be pretty funny. Shut it.)] So...it takes a lot for me to stop watching a show halfway through.
So, yeah. It's that bad.
So as to clear any bad taste in my mouth, let's talk about good things. My daily music obsession: the unsigned and awesomely named "Dance Yourself to Death." Immediately going in, you're thinking, "This is going to be a great band." And you won't be wrong.
I have undying love for 80's music. Granted, it dates me, but I will always love 80's music, and not just because it's nostalgic for me. Tell me "Careless Whisper" isn't awesome. Or try telling me that you can't get Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" out of your head with of the "Glee" commercials running non-stop on Fox. Wait. What's that? You don't need to watch commercials? Fuck you. I firmly believe that some of the best, timeless music has come from that era. So any music that will somehow evoke an 80's tone will always draw me in. Which is definitely in part why I love the Babasonicos song, "Microdancing," even though I can't understand a word.
Anyway, DYTD is a Canadian queer-pop-rock (or is that rock-pop) band that has some of the catchiest tunes that I've heard in a really long time - and definitely evokes an 80's feel. Go to their myspace page to check out some of their music from their first album "Ready for Love." They're first 'single' if you will (as much as they can have one considering they have self-released their album. Definitely why I'm not posting any of their songs for free download. They actually need the support), "We Are All Made of Stone," is ridiculously catchy.
I can't endorse them enough.
Download and discover them, so that when they're all over the radio later this year (or next) you can be all, "Ooooh, I've been listening to them forever. Where have you been?" In a perfectly pretenious tone. It'll be fun. I promise.
Let's take a look shall we?
CBS (Or should I say the network for those collecting their SS): "Without a Trace."
NBC: "The Biggest Loser." Which? Okay. If it was a "Death is Not an Option" kind of situation, I would in fact choose "Cupid." Sadly, my mother would not.
FOX: The local Fox News. So you know, it's fair and balanced and classy. Because, yes. They're now talking to people on the street about glad they are that Carrie Prejean (sp?) did not lose her crown. Like, really? This is news. But yes. More interesting that "Cupid."
ION (Yes. It's really a channel. With programming. With actual shows [that have all been canceled by other networks, but still.]):
C-SPAN: Rep. John Boccieri supposedly speaking live. Like, where Ohio boy? Do you think anyone is still paying attention at 10:28 East Coast time?
Telemundo: I can't understand a damn word. But I know it's more interesting.
My9: Evening News. I'm assuming a touch classier than Fox - though they are talking about auctioning off Yankee stadium items. Yankees suck.
NY1: News as usual.
PIX11: News. Probably as classy as Fox. Shockingly, I'm getting to now see about Carrie Prejean again. Awesome. Because I was so enthralled the first time.
PBS1: A documentary about the Bloods and Crips. This is actually really interesting. Who knew this blog post would be helpful.
MNN (Didn't know this was a channel): A woman is seemingly singing in gibberish at a performance playing a cello and from this angle it looks like she's naked. Oh wait. She's not. Weird dress. Awful acoustics. And supposedly this is "Erin and her Cello." O-kay. I still can't tell if she's singing gibberish or in English.
PBS2: I don't know. But it's British programming. (So, by the accents, automatically more interesting.) [Ed note: Flipped back during commerical for "My Boys" and there were two women kissing now. Defintely better by merit now.]
TBS: "My Boys." Automatic win. Even when I first started this blog and it was an "Office" repeat.
When watching something in another language that I have no hope of understanding is more interesting - you have got a problem.
There are just so many tragic things about this.
The first being that "Cupid" version 1.0 was actually kind of awesome. It had Jeremy Piven before he douched out. Though...he's always been close friends with my high-school famous boyfriend (John Cusack) who I tragically found out (and I'm still semi-pretending isn't true) was a complete and utter douchebag. Like, supposedly in "A Thin Line" he shat his pants, stepped out of them and let some poor PA deal with the after effects. Like, really? Ew. So...perhaps they've been friends for so many years because they're both d-bags? Anyway. He was absolutely charming in the role. And it featured Paula Marshall, before she was a show killer, and before she was cast as the stereotypical stroppish female character on a poorly written CBS. Thanks CBS. Paula must hate herself. Any. Way. I liked both of them, and the both had some serious chemistry. Though...I might have been the only person watching the show since it was canceled rather promptly.
The second that I first fell in love with Rob Thomas (the writer/director - not the Matchbox 20 singer) was season 1 of "Veronica Mars." I...there are no words. The show had me at "Hello." It was brilliantly acted, brilliantly written, and the story-arc was insanely good. When I started researching one of my new favourite shows ever, I found out Rob Thomas had created "Cupid," and thought, "Huh. This man makes television I like." Plus, not only is he incredibly talented, from the interviews I've read he also seems like a nice and likeable. Something that you always like to see in people who you respect. Hating this remake sullies my love a little. Granted, you always forgive people for their transgression, I get the feeling that getting the taste of this show out of my mouth (and I've actually tried watching. Quite. A. Few. Times. So it's right up in there.) is going to take quite some time. Thanks. Rob. Thanks...
Another, is that I really like the stars of the new "Cupid." Bobby Canavale and Sarah Paulson are very likeable people. Sarah Paulson is usually one of the best things about everything that she is in, such as "Down with Love," (funny side story: she played the love interest of David Hyde Pierce in that movie [which came out in when? Like 1995?] - when both of them were still in the closet. Which? Kind of funny. Right?] and "Studio 60." Bobby is hot. And I've heard that he can some some range. But unfortunately there is no chemistry whatsoever between the two. Which is sad, because sometimes awesome chemistry can leap past bad writing, bad plotting, and bad story-telling. Essentially everything that is wrong with "Cupid." I'm actually a touch flummoxed as to how it is possible for "Cupid" to suck as much as it does. Because, seriously? It seemed as if everything Rob touched turned to gold. Clearly, this is not the case.
And I guess lastly (because I love Rob, and it hurts me to hate on Rob a little), it limits my viewing options. I have so few channels (because half those channels don't even count) and there are very few that come in with decent sound quality. And by very few, I mean two. And they're TBS and ABC. The other have that shitty, no cable fuzz sound to them. So you can imagine it can often make watching those channels intensely annoying. Though, I'm an addicted (to TV), desperate bitch, so I still will watch. So to have something be so shitty with good sound quality thereby forcing me to change the channel pisses me off.
Why Rob? Why? And I really do think, "how"? I just...am flummoxed. I like shitty TV. So it's almost as if bad TV doesn't exist for me (except for most of the shows on CBS [except of course HIMYM (a show I've loved since the first episode aired. Secret: I watched from the very first episode because Cobie Smulders was on "the L word" and...I watch anything that anyone who was cute on "the L word" does. I mean I watched "Teachers" or whatever the fuck it was called for Sarah Shahi. Granted, I would go through fire for her, because everything she touches does turn to gold. Case in point: "Life."), "The Big Bang," "The New Adventures of the Old Christine," and I'll always watch "Cold Case" and "Two and Half Men" (a show that can shockingly be pretty funny. Shut it.)] So...it takes a lot for me to stop watching a show halfway through.
So, yeah. It's that bad.
So as to clear any bad taste in my mouth, let's talk about good things. My daily music obsession: the unsigned and awesomely named "Dance Yourself to Death." Immediately going in, you're thinking, "This is going to be a great band." And you won't be wrong.
I have undying love for 80's music. Granted, it dates me, but I will always love 80's music, and not just because it's nostalgic for me. Tell me "Careless Whisper" isn't awesome. Or try telling me that you can't get Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" out of your head with of the "Glee" commercials running non-stop on Fox. Wait. What's that? You don't need to watch commercials? Fuck you. I firmly believe that some of the best, timeless music has come from that era. So any music that will somehow evoke an 80's tone will always draw me in. Which is definitely in part why I love the Babasonicos song, "Microdancing," even though I can't understand a word.
Anyway, DYTD is a Canadian queer-pop-rock (or is that rock-pop) band that has some of the catchiest tunes that I've heard in a really long time - and definitely evokes an 80's feel. Go to their myspace page to check out some of their music from their first album "Ready for Love." They're first 'single' if you will (as much as they can have one considering they have self-released their album. Definitely why I'm not posting any of their songs for free download. They actually need the support), "We Are All Made of Stone," is ridiculously catchy.
I can't endorse them enough.
Download and discover them, so that when they're all over the radio later this year (or next) you can be all, "Ooooh, I've been listening to them forever. Where have you been?" In a perfectly pretenious tone. It'll be fun. I promise.
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