and um…it’s turkey day

so I found out today (thanksgiving day)  that this girl…from america’s next top model …

was dating one of these guys from the shins

 and lost interest as soon as I started searching despite the fact that she is quite possibly one of the only interesting people who have ever appeared on that stupid show… so happy gobble gobble…

The first to use their arms loses…

I was addicted to Kenny vs. Spenny from the first episode.

Wim Wenders predicts the future…

“Until the End of the World” was released in 1991 and, as fear mounted about Y2K at the turn of the century, it was possible that the film was a preminition of the future. Despite the fact that “the” sattelite didn’t crash and ruin us as a modern culture, this film was on point in terms of technology. All of it’s gadgets at the time seemed so mind blowing at the time and each one came to be part of our daily lives less than a decade after it’s release. Video phones, virtual image cameras, sleep chambers in Japan, watches that can take your picture, digital cameras, heat sensors, and night vision. Wim Wenders vision has manifest ten-fold. The only thing that remains to be seen is the ability to record our dreams.

Oh and the U2 song for the film is still pretty great.

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The Young Ones…

Yo peeps…Okay I know that’s a lame way to start a blog post considering I try to keep the fare relativley evolved around here (okay thats bullshit when you consider the Boyence’s girdle thing), but I figure if you are reading this you are probably one of my friends  and I’ve pounded into your head that I have a blog.

Anywho.

During my 9th grade year  I used to fall asleep at my desk almost every Monday morning. In part because I went to a D.O.D.’s school in Cuba and the teachers seemed to be talking only to pass the time, and partly because I was up late the night before watching 120 minutes on MTV.

MTV used to have this show that came on before 120 minutes called Cutting Edge Happy Hour  with Peter Zaremba (of the brilliant Fleshtones…hello garage band fans…) Which was this awesome show where Peter Zaremba would host parties in a rotating banquet room atop a Holiday Inn somehwere in Ohio. He would walk around like he was at a party and talk to guests like Iggy Pop, Henry Rollins, and Tom Waits. In between all of the action there were a few music videos by off-beat artists and “underground” bands. The show only lasted a few months but it was one of  my first clues into what hipster night life was all about.

This show was replaced by  a BBC show called “The Young Ones.”  My impressionable 13-year-old  mind quickly morphed my crush for Mr. Zerumba into a a quest for a ”boyfriend just like Rik.” This could otherwise be known as the beginning of the end for what would be my ability to choose men with any sort of normalcy.

But that’s beside the point.

The fact is that The Young Ones was a fooking brilliant show.

In each of the roommates there is a stereotypical representation of every “alternative” character you know, and despite knowing that this show aired in the 80’s the characters are time tested and true. I mean we all know a ”hippie” and a ”self- important-pseudo-intellectual” and a ”punk”  but here there is even “the hipster ladies man” with his sharp threads and smooth talk.

I will always hold a soft spot in my heart for “The Young Ones.”

 Anyone who has seen the show knows why, and for  those who haven’t seen it, I’m sorry to report that`you missed out…

 If your wondering what it is that I am going on about here is what I pilfered from a random website…

“The Young Ones is a British-made television sitcom made in 1982 and 1984,
about four totally mis-matched students sharing a house together in the
early 1980s.

But like all classic television programmes, it transcended its’ roots to
become the classic British comedy series of the early 1980s, helping to
launch the then-alternative comedy scene into mainstream TV culture.

Like Monty Python in the 1960s and The Goodies in the 1970s, it
occasionally went into surreal sketches and characters that retained a
vague, at best link to the main narrative.

Almost every significant “alternative” British comedian of the late 1980s
and 1990s were featured in The Young Ones, either on screen or behind the
scenes. People such as Chris Barrie, Robbie Coltrane, Ben Elton, Dawn
French, Stephen Fry, Hale & Pace, Lenny Henry, Hugh Laurie, Norman Lovett,
Griff Rhys Jones, Tony Robinson, Jennifer Saunders, Mel Smith, and
two-time Oscar winner Emma Thompson got their first starts on television
through The Young Ones.”

And so…Behold…”The Young Ones”

Genius…

I came across this show on the Sundance channel and loved it because it questions and exposes all the bullshit about organized religion…it’s brilliant. 

Ha…It happens.

I am all about the glam and what not but I really can’t stand (borderline loathe) this woman. Therefore I was pleased to come across this particularly unflattering photo of her and her ”body-shaper-girdle-fat-sucker-inner”

I’m sorry…what was that?

Sometimes the most unlikely people…

I am not making any promises, but I will do my best to never post a “top 10″ or “100″  list here. The reason I can not promise is due to the fact that once the Gin starts flowing there’s not telling what will happen. Having said that, if I were to get drunk or lose all sense of reasoning and post a “top whatever” list, among the entries would be the 1985 Peter Bogdanovich movie “Mask” starring Cher and Eric Stoltz.

I have seen this movie a number of times throughout my life and love it every single time. I even remember what I was doing and where I was in my life each time I happen to catch it on t.v..

I remember my mothers crush on Sam Elliott, and as an adult I now understand her gushing over the rugged hog riding “Gar.”

Cher as Florence “Rusty” Dennis is, as usual, a sexy badass who lives hard, but loves her son so much that her maternal energy jumps from the screen.  Not to mention her fashion sense as a motorcycle momma is  fucking fierce!

 Eric Stoltz’s performance as  the sweet but suffering tenth grader Roy L. “Rocky” Dennis turns me into a blubbering mess before the two hours are over, and sometimes within the first 15 minutes. 

So if you come across this classic movie watch it.

That is all.

Ginger got it sooooo wrong this time!

I have always liked Sharon Stone. She wasn’t one of those actresses that has always been around but I run hot and cold with (Oh hey, Drew and Cameron D. nice to see you guys are friends…).

Even in interviews and things that I read about Sharon I always thought she was (as my mother would say) a pretty neat lady.  But this just pisses me off…

It is so blatant and so wrong on so many levels that I am astounded and will not look at her the same way. So how many animals do you think it took to make that?