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3 months ago
Oscar Night 2012
After tedious helping on making some guacamole at night, we settled in to a Netflix movie to buy some time before watching the Oscar’s on delay with TiVo. I was able to watch the full 3-hour program in 45 minutes. And that’s with catching up to ‘real time’ (I don’t know why but my TiVo thought it was going to be 2.5 hours long so I calculated my delayed viewing for that).
I found myself fast-fowarding through everything except for presenters that I liked. Those include - J. Lo/Cameron Diaz, Robert Downey, Jr./Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Stiller/Emma Stone (but just Stone), and of course The Bridesmaids.
Billy Crystal was good. Seemed the Oscars tried for years to “hip and cool” for the younger demographic but I think year was an attempt to bring the younger generation up to the “sophistication” of adults and their culture as opposed to lowering himself to a child’s level. I think it worked! Definitely much better than what I remember from years past. Don’t try so hard. Just do. And so they did. =)
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3 months ago
This is why Oprah is the fricken woMAN!
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3 months ago
I personally thought the Super Bowl was just regs. I didn’t care for both teams (in fact, I hate them!). But it’s just another reason to get together with family and friends and your faces off on junk food. So as I took a seat on the couch with my pizza, spaghetti, bacon mushroom rolls, lil’ wiener buns, chips & dip and poke, I found watching my sleeping nephew more entertaining that the game itself. Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert were uncharacteristically stiff and boring singing “America The Beautiful” while Kelly Clarkson sang the National Anthem - without forgetting any lyrics (take that Xtina Aguilera!) - in her own style that still fell flat to me.
I suppose we’re all conditioned to get up and do other things when there’s a commercial break for the game. A handful of times, I found myself about to get up as soon as to cut out to commercial when I realize that watching commercials is also part of the Super Bowl game event. But even they came up short! I was happy my nephew woke up by second quarter so I had entertainment before halftime (where we bust out the red velvet cake).
My favorite commercial of the day? Definitely M&M’s featuring the brown (and red) M&M.
Some mentionable ones:
- Dog trying to lose weight - VW. (good)
- Jerry Seinfeld getting a car - Acura. (bad)
- Ferris Beuller-esque Matthew Broderick cut day - Honda. (just regs)
- Polar bears - Coca Cola. (got old years ago)
- Car stunts - Chevy. (good)
- Nerd gets seduced - Fiat. (good one)
- Vampire killing headlights - Audi. (good)
I can go on and on. For a full list (and all the vids) of the Super Bowl commercials, Mashable did a great job sorting through all of them.
As for halftime; I’m so glad I was stuffing my face with red velvet cake that I didn’t even completely pay attention to Madonna’s shame performance of her basically grasping for her young. I give her credit for doing choreography. It’s that she was trying to do choreo like she was 23 again. No honey… don’t do that! It was funny and cringing to watch. So I got another slice of red velvet.
By the last 2 minutes of the fourth quarter I found playing ‘Scramble with Friends’ on my iPhone far more interesting. Doesn’t help that I was ready to kanack after eating all afternoon. I did pause to see if Tom Brady’s last ditch heave into the end zone would fall into the hands of another Patriot. We all know what happened then. Back to ‘Scramble’.
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Notes: 2 / 4 months ago
Maybe I should stop watching full performance previews of musical numbers for Glee before the episode airs. I think I had this really hyped up version of what the Michael Jackson tribute episode was going to be like that it fell really short when aired last night. This was a song-filled episode with more music than ‘real’ dialogue. Thus, it’s best reviewed by song:
- “Wanna Be Startin’ Something” (Blaine) - As an opening number I thought it was the best song of the episode (until I saw ”Human Nature”). Blaine has such a strong voice; it was good for him to anchor the song. And why was Finn wearing that football jersey again?? I don’t get it. This was the first video I saw as a preview before the episode aired so I had high hopes for the tribute to MJ.
- “Bad” (New Directions/Warblers) - I soooo wanted to love this number. The song rendition was just ok. The garage scene could have been a thousand times funner that it turned out to be. Seemed they were trying to hard to really recreate the video as opposed to taking and Glee-ifying it.
- “Smooth Criminal” (Santana & Sebastian, Warblers) - Definitely in the top 3 songs of the night. The “cat and mouse” kind of set up with each other with the dueling cellos in the middle was spot on. I love Santana’s voice and thought she did a great job with the scene. Definitely enjoyed it for sure.
- “Scream” (Artie & Mike Chang) - I’m sorry but this was probably THE worst video that they could have done. I couldn’t get over (and stop laughing) that basically Mike was playing Janet [Jackson] in the video. It doesn’t help that they’re both skinny bitches that in some scenes, they did actually look like girls. The eye guyliner wasn’t helping with it either. I’m sorry but Mike (Harry Shum, Jr.) can’t sing. Just stick to dancing please. And it was actually a bit weird to see Artie standing and dancing with without his glasses. It’s like I was watching a whole different person. But I must admit, from what I could see after concentrating, he is quite a dancer as well.
- “Never Can Say Goodbye” (Quinn) - Honestly, thought it was a waste of time and space. If the had to have it in there, it could have been cut short by a minute. I was bored with it. But congrats to Quinn for getting accepted to Yale! =)
- “Human Nature” (Sam & Mercedes) - I knew that Mercedes would fricken kill this number. I hadn’t heard a preview of this song before the episode. I did know that Chord and Amber would be doing this as a duet and was excited for it. Boy, did they deliver. Seriously, BEST song of the episode and probably for the whole season (it ain’t over yet). I have it repeat, listening to it as I type. Loving the stripped down version of this song. Very well done. Almost makes up for “Scream”. LOL!
- “Ben” (Rachel, Finn, Kurt) - Ok, first of all, this is a song about a rat. Secondly, I can’t deal with the three of them singing to Blaine in bed with an eye path. How am I supposed to take this song seriously?? Of all the songs in the MJ library…. they pick THIS one?! EPIC FAIL! Shame on you Ryan Murphy.
- “I Just Can’t Stop Loving You” (Rachel & Finn) - I was hanging on by a thread with this couple while everyone else jumped ship on them. But this was my last straw. So irraz and vomit. Fine, they’re getting married (which I don’t think is sending a good message for the kids) but you guys can stop the lovey dovey gag shit already!
- “Black or White” (New Directions) - See now I was expecting some epic finale number with this song especially since I felt like they killed it with the Madonna episode and ending with “Like A Prayer”. And what happened? Nothing. Not even sure why the choir was needed there when they weren’t even highlighted. Waste of budget. The Black or White-esque video with the morphing was kinda cool but that was it. The song itself didn’t have the awesomeness like the Madonna ep or even the “Somebody to Love” song ep. Lame finish.
Overall, I was quite underwhelmed with the episode. Aside from a few good songs, it was just a regular episode that happen to have MJ songs in it. Didn’t even come close to the Madonna episode nor even the Britney Spears one. Sucks!
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4 months ago@jess_because
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4 months ago
I watched the series pilot preview of Smash (as can you, with the above video) before the premiere on Monday, February 6, 2012. Before even watching, I’m already thinking this is going to be like Glee. While it is in the sense that it’s a musical show, it’s definitely standing on its own.
Set on Broadway, it has a good mix of lite drama as well as sharp verbal wit. I love Debra Messing and I’m not much of a fan of Katharine McPhee but I have to admit that she did a good job here. Before I knew it, 46 minutes was up and it didn’t feel like it was dragging along.
My favorite part? Seeing Alex Wong from SYTYCD in the ‘baseball number’ of their Broadway musical they’re piecing together, Marilyn [Monroe]. Speaking of musical numbers, the original scores and songs is commendable. I LOVE the ‘real’ broadway aspect of the show.
There’s a level of sophistication and perhaps even ‘originality’ to the musical compared to Glee. Don’t get me wrong - I love Glee but Smash is another breath of fresh air in the musical show realm. Two different shows that can’t really be directly compared.
See for yourself now. You can also download the pilot for free on iTunes (and in HD, too!).
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4 months ago
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4 months ago
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