Little Mosque - 9:20

I made it to 9 minutes and 20 seconds into Little Mosque on the Prairie before I decided it wasn't for me.

Little Mosque - 9:20

I made it to 9 minutes and 20 seconds into Little Mosque on the Prairie before I decided it wasn't for me.

I got Tag (Body Sprayed)

Seeing other blogs getting tagged by the "5 things we don't know about you" game of blog-tag that's been going around, and not being tagged myself, made me so very depressed.  Not because I wasn't getting tagged, but because I knew I ultimately would be tagged, and then I'd have to choose whether to go along with it and join in, or ignore it.  Well, I was tagged and now the question is:  will I or won't I?

Well, here's my answer:

1) I am bothered by that Brita television ad.  You know the one: There’s a glass of water on a table in an apartment (or house?).  We hear a toilet flush, and see the water in the glass lower and then rise up, as if it was a toilet.  The woman comes out of the bathroom, sits down at the table, and goes to drink the glass of water.  The text comes up and says something like:  The same water that goes to your toilet goes to your kitchen tap".  I get bugged when I see that ad because I don’t like the way it manipulates people.  It implies that the water from your tap is dirty because it’s from the same source that goes to your toilet.  So what if the same water goes to your toilet and to your tap?  As long as the water isn’t going from your toilet to your tap, then no worries about the toilet, right?.  That bugs me.  (And don't even get me going on those forest-shitting bears who wipe their hairy asses with toilet paper!)

2) In the entirety of my life to date, there hasn’t been a lot of death in my family, or even my extended family.  Now, though, many of my relatives (parents, aunts, uncles, brothers) are getting up there in age.  For the past few years, I’ve been preparing myself for an onslaught of death to people I love and the emotional mess that this will cause me.  Any time a phone rings at home, at an unusual hour, I expect and prepare for it to be a call telling me so-and-so just died.  I’ve got death on my mind.

3) There are a few words I continually mis-type, every time I type them.  For instance, I always type it "Charlottetwon".  Not as bad as Rod, the guy I work with.  He always types "discount" as "discocunt".

4) I just turned down what may have been pretty easy money on a potentially long-term, periodic acting gig because I wasn't very impressed with the material or the .  I am torn between feeling good for having standards and feeling bad for not taking the easy money.  I will probably hate myself when the project succeeds and improves, and I am left with nothing.

5) I rarely arrive late to things. While this is often a good thing, sometimes I take measures too far to ensure I arrive on time or earlier.  I have begun to allow myself not to be on time if doing so causes me too much agitation.  I have begun to be more selfish.

So, I've done the first part of the assignment.  I will not, however, forward the request to others.  This arm of the 5 Things Meme ends right here.

I got Tag (Body Sprayed)

Seeing other blogs getting tagged by the "5 things we don't know about you" game of blog-tag that's been going around, and not being tagged myself, made me so very depressed.  Not because I wasn't getting tagged, but because I knew I ultimately would be tagged, and then I'd have to choose whether to go along with it and join in, or ignore it.  Well, I was tagged and now the question is:  will I or won't I?

Well, here's my answer:

1) I am bothered by that Brita television ad.  You know the one: There’s a glass of water on a table in an apartment (or house?).  We hear a toilet flush, and see the water in the glass lower and then rise up, as if it was a toilet.  The woman comes out of the bathroom, sits down at the table, and goes to drink the glass of water.  The text comes up and says something like:  The same water that goes to your toilet goes to your kitchen tap".  I get bugged when I see that ad because I don’t like the way it manipulates people.  It implies that the water from your tap is dirty because it’s from the same source that goes to your toilet.  So what if the same water goes to your toilet and to your tap?  As long as the water isn’t going from your toilet to your tap, then no worries about the toilet, right?.  That bugs me.  (And don't even get me going on those forest-shitting bears who wipe their hairy asses with toilet paper!)

2) In the entirety of my life to date, there hasn’t been a lot of death in my family, or even my extended family.  Now, though, many of my relatives (parents, aunts, uncles, brothers) are getting up there in age.  For the past few years, I’ve been preparing myself for an onslaught of death to people I love and the emotional mess that this will cause me.  Any time a phone rings at home, at an unusual hour, I expect and prepare for it to be a call telling me so-and-so just died.  I’ve got death on my mind.

3) There are a few words I continually mis-type, every time I type them.  For instance, I always type it "Charlottetwon".  Not as bad as Rod, the guy I work with.  He always types "discount" as "discocunt".

4) I just turned down what may have been pretty easy money on a potentially long-term, periodic acting gig because I wasn't very impressed with the material or the .  I am torn between feeling good for having standards and feeling bad for not taking the easy money.  I will probably hate myself when the project succeeds and improves, and I am left with nothing.

5) I rarely arrive late to things. While this is often a good thing, sometimes I take measures too far to ensure I arrive on time or earlier.  I have begun to allow myself not to be on time if doing so causes me too much agitation.  I have begun to be more selfish.

So, I've done the first part of the assignment.  I will not, however, forward the request to others.  This arm of the 5 Things Meme ends right here.

Ugly Bitty

Is there anyone in the entertainment world uglier than Rosie O'Donnell?  And I'm, in no way, talking about physical appearance. And then to get embroiled in a ridiculous, petty argument with Donald Trump, who himself is downright ugly.

I've been trying to avoid paying attention to this dispute, but it's so gloriously ugly that I'm finding myself enjoying the one-downsmanship.

Oh, and Barbara Walters is ugly too.

Ugly Bitty

Is there anyone in the entertainment world uglier than Rosie O'Donnell?  And I'm, in no way, talking about physical appearance. And then to get embroiled in a ridiculous, petty argument with Donald Trump, who himself is downright ugly.

I've been trying to avoid paying attention to this dispute, but it's so gloriously ugly that I'm finding myself enjoying the one-downsmanship.

Oh, and Barbara Walters is ugly too.

Ow! My Balls!

I watched Mike Judge's ("Beavis and Butthead", "King of the Hill", "Office Space") latest film, "Idiocracy" the other night.  The movie was completed in 2004, but the studio basically abandoned it and chose not to promote or distribute it in any meaningful way.  Apparently, it was released only in seven cities, three of them in Texas, none in New York.
First off, I can understand if someone watched this movie and hated it.  I laughed way more than I thought I would, and I quite enjoyed it.  It's got some down-time moments, and there are scenes that don't quite work, but I suspect some of that may have been a result of Judge not getting money from the studio to polish those scenes.
Luke Wilson plays an average guy who is hibernated for 500 years (Maya Rudolph plays his average female co-hibernator).  They wake up in the year 2505.  In the interim, the population of the world has been totally dumbed down.  Imagine a world where the height of culture is a TV show called "Ow! My Balls!".  Idiocy, crass commercialism, and instant gratification rule the day and everyone is a moron.  So, compartively speaking, Wilson's character is seen as the smartest person in the world.  He has trouble fitting in, though, since language has devolved to such a state that someone who speaks even semi-coherently is considered "faggy".  Wilson is terrific, and Rudolph avoids playing herself as an SNL character and plays it straight and effectively.  There are also some terrific performances by others in the cast who are playing the idiots.
I was pleasantly surprised by this movie.  Grateful for the laughs it gave me, I was able to look beyond the few trouble spots it has.  Definitely a comedy worth searching out.


Technorati Tags: idiocracy, review, criticism, film, comedy

Ow! My Balls!

I watched Mike Judge's ("Beavis and Butthead", "King of the Hill", "Office Space") latest film, "Idiocracy" the other night.  The movie was completed in 2004, but the studio basically abandoned it and chose not to promote or distribute it in any meaningful way.  Apparently, it was released only in seven cities, three of them in Texas, none in New York.
First off, I can understand if someone watched this movie and hated it.  I laughed way more than I thought I would, and I quite enjoyed it.  It's got some down-time moments, and there are scenes that don't quite work, but I suspect some of that may have been a result of Judge not getting money from the studio to polish those scenes.
Luke Wilson plays an average guy who is hibernated for 500 years (Maya Rudolph plays his average female co-hibernator).  They wake up in the year 2505.  In the interim, the population of the world has been totally dumbed down.  Imagine a world where the height of culture is a TV show called "Ow! My Balls!".  Idiocy, crass commercialism, and instant gratification rule the day and everyone is a moron.  So, compartively speaking, Wilson's character is seen as the smartest person in the world.  He has trouble fitting in, though, since language has devolved to such a state that someone who speaks even semi-coherently is considered "faggy".  Wilson is terrific, and Rudolph avoids playing herself as an SNL character and plays it straight and effectively.  There are also some terrific performances by others in the cast who are playing the idiots.
I was pleasantly surprised by this movie.  Grateful for the laughs it gave me, I was able to look beyond the few trouble spots it has.  Definitely a comedy worth searching out.


Technorati Tags: idiocracy, review, criticism, film, comedy

Sore Neck

So, last week I spent two afternoons dressed up as a giant cigarette.  It was for some TV ads for Smoker's Helpline.  It was a great looking costume.  However, for one of the ads, I was required to be in the back seat of a minivan.  At over 7 feet of cigarette and me, I didn't really fit, so they had to take the seat out and I kind of crawled in and perched myself on the floor. It wasn't that uncomfortable a position, but I came out of the experience with a sore neck.  Kind of like a pinched nerve type of dealy.  That was Thursday, and today my neck is still sore.
Part of the problem is that I've been having difficulties with my pillow in bed.  It's too flat, yet if I combine it with a second pillow, it's too tall.

Anyway, is there any way I can sue Big Tobacco for my sore neck problem?  Successfully sue, I might add.

Sore Neck

So, last week I spent two afternoons dressed up as a giant cigarette.  It was for some TV ads for Smoker's Helpline.  It was a great looking costume.  However, for one of the ads, I was required to be in the back seat of a minivan.  At over 7 feet of cigarette and me, I didn't really fit, so they had to take the seat out and I kind of crawled in and perched myself on the floor. It wasn't that uncomfortable a position, but I came out of the experience with a sore neck.  Kind of like a pinched nerve type of dealy.  That was Thursday, and today my neck is still sore.
Part of the problem is that I've been having difficulties with my pillow in bed.  It's too flat, yet if I combine it with a second pillow, it's too tall.

Anyway, is there any way I can sue Big Tobacco for my sore neck problem?  Successfully sue, I might add.

PEI Revue!!!!

Hey!  Did you know that the first annual PEI Revue is less than two weeks away?

What's the PEI Revue, you ask.  Well, it's a comedic look back at the year that just passed by on PEI.  It plays at the Carrefour Theatre Jan.18-20.

It's gonna be pretty funny, I think.  More details to come as the event approaches.

PEI Revue!!!!

Hey!  Did you know that the first annual PEI Revue is less than two weeks away?

What's the PEI Revue, you ask.  Well, it's a comedic look back at the year that just passed by on PEI.  It plays at the Carrefour Theatre Jan.18-20.

It's gonna be pretty funny, I think.  More details to come as the event approaches.

The Illusionist

After a couple of roles where I kind of got turned off of Paul Giamatti, I'd like to thank him for his performance in The Illusionist.  I thought he was terrific.  And I quite liked the movie, too.

And speaking of illusionists, those who are into being deceived and misdirected and befuddled, and who know how to find things on torrent sites, well, you should download search out "Derren Brown: Something Wicked This Way Comes".  It's a taped performance of his most recent stage show.  It's quite enjoyable, and the ending should really impress.  Thanks, by the way, to DaveM for turning me on to Derren Brown.

(See how I misdirected you there?  I started off by talking about Paul Giamatti in the movie The Illusionist, but I ended up selling you a pitch for a video.  Sorry, no links in this post)