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pretty good use of athletes in an ad. best not to let them near an open mic.
billyball tonight on tcm.
incredibly two people nearly instantaneously came up with this realization about a new character on a geeky show i watch. dont know which is sadder, them realizing it or me mentioning it. anyone that considers spies like us a classic is definitely lamer than me. they win.
"Emmett Millbarge?" Hmmm...
I thought the name sounded familiar until I realized it was a mash-up of the two main characters from the 80's classic "Spies Like Us" with Donna Dixon and Vanessa Angel. Ah, memories... Oh yeah, Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase were in it too. (Yes kids, Chevy Chase used to appear in classics.) Chase was Emmett Fitz-Hume and Aykroyd was Austin Millbarge, the lead characters, but it was hard for a 19 year old to notice them when either of those women were on screen.
For Jiml at least: Netflix begins testing streaming service for Macs. Should be available to everyone by the end of the year.
So I'm watching the Bee Movie. A talking bee I can buy; a swarm of bees suspending a wide-body jet, sure; but a florist who can afford a penthouse on Central Park? That just makes no sense.
first episode of 30 rock posted a week before broadcast.
mad men has near critical acclaim. one notable standout is james wolcott. here is his most recent broadside.
Apropos of nothing, I'd also like to insert into the Congressional Record that season two of Mad Men, for all the Zeitgeist hype, has been almost uniformly so-what in its sliding nowhere malaise, the most recent episode a hodge-podge of watered-down baptismal redemption cliches and clumsily integrated flashbacks that reduced Don Draper to an existential everyman in an Antonioni for Idiots exercise. The only pleasurable element is Pete's snappish irritation over ever hoop he's being made to jump through (his outburst over his travel expenses, for example), which is also just about the only recognizable bit of human behavior that's managed to squeak through the show's alienation effect--its trafficking in period stereotypes and talking mannequins at the expense of individuality. At its draggiest Mad Men is like some square's idea of Douglas Sirk, a graduate thesis with its head stuck in a fishbowl.
season two ends on sunday. how soon til lost kicks in?
I don't guess I was watching much TV in 99 because I don't remember this at all, although the quirky intro is vaguely familiar and I'm sure was off-putting to me at the time. But I have watched all 13 episodes now and I think the show is great.
ever hear of the mtv show Scratch and Burn?
wassup rockers on sundance now
punishment park on sundance now (wikipedia)
CNN is diving into the increasingly crowded arena of news-driven comedy, tapping comedian D.L. Hughley to host a show that will offer a skewering take on news and events.
watching the jacque tati night on tcm
season premieres of sarah silverman and south park tonight @10 on comedy central.
tomorrow night on tcm tati tati tati & tati.
"sherman, set the tivo for tcm oct '08"