February 2009
27 posts
I’m pretty sure I don’t fit into the show’s target demographic, but I’ve gotten myself hooked on Skins. Yeah, it’s a teen drama, but I think it’s really, really good. I haven’t seen the first two seasons, because I kind of just jumped in with this latest season, since it’s got a whole new cast (except for Effy, apparently), but I’m liking...
Michael Johns and Brooke White - “Life is...
Even though this second group of contestants still seems unable to pick songs that suit their voices as they sing to Muzak tracks (seriously, the dueling piano player is bleating “Viva La Vida” right now), I am so glad that American Idol nixed having family members in the red room.
Okay, seriously, I remember thinking this piano player guy was pretty okay in the Hollywood round. What...
Jim Noir - “I Me You I’m Your”
Awesomesauce: The Giants’ first spring training game on Wednesday is going to be on the MLB Network.
Notsoawesomesauce: I won’t be home to watch it.
SADNESS.
I suppose I will have to make do with consoling myself by listening to Jon Miller call bits of the game as I drive around in my car.
I have the overwhelming urge to shoot some film. I have a bunch of rolls of black and white film of various speeds that are just calling my name right now, but I don’t have the time right now to shoot them.
I miss mixing things up and developing everything in the garage while rocking out to some good tunes on my iPod.
I need to see about taking a day to shoot a bunch of film here soon. ...
There’s a Lifetime movie on right now starring Meredith Monroe (aka Andie McPhee on Dawson’s Creek). I was curious to see what else she’s been up to lately, so I looked her up on IMDB. I can’t believe that she’s 40 now or that she was 30 when she was playing crazy Andie McPhee. If her age is correct, then she looks really, really good for her age.
The Silver Seas - “Imaginary Girl”
WatchHelpless (via Vimeo)
This makes me want to pick up a tilt-shift lens. So cool.
It’s 1:34am, and I’m hungry.
Now I’m thinking about pizza.
This isn’t helping.
Lily Allen - “Who’d Have Known”
It’s official, everyone! Season 8 of American Idol is going to be nothing short of miraculous. Sick folks will be healed at the end of each and every results show. The economy will get rescued during a special Wall Street-themed edition of ”Idol Gives Back.” Randy Jackson will become articulate and concise before the beginning of April. And we’ll have one person to thank:...
Okay, really, American Idol? If you want to create suspense, you don’t have Danny “I Have a Dead Wife” Gokey and Tatiana “Batshit Crazy” Del Toro as the last two on the stage. WHO WILL BE GOING THROUGH? You should have just led off the show by saying Danny is in the top 12. Hi, that’s a no brainer.
Now, the big question is will the show totally try to up...
Since the rain came back, my hair has been like a perma-frizzball. I’ve been trying to work with the unruliness by attempting to tame my hair into waves instead of trying to straighten it, but dude, the frizz just comes back.
If I was on the Macbook I’d use Photobooth to show you the massive frizzball ponytail on the back of my head right now, but alas, I am not, so you will just...
I just froze my face off and got soaked watching the Amgen Tour of California pass through my neighborhood. It was over pretty fast, but it was still pretty nifty. I’m thinking I probably only got one or two photos that are keepers, but I can say I WAS THERE.
Matt White - “Love”
Happy...
BRETT! TOMKO! lives! →
I’ve been contemplating maybe taking the plunge and getting the new Adobe CS4 suite using my super nifty student discount while I still can. I guess I still have a couple more months to ponder this over. I still think it’s lame that if I want to be able to import the RAW files from my 5D Mark II into Photoshop, I have to have CS4. Because of this, I’ve been using Lightroom a...
Geek Proposes With 'Romantech' iPhone App →
Awww.
This is probably an unpopular thing to say (or maybe other people are thinking it, but don’t want to say it, because they don’t want to feel like they’re eviiiiil), but the blind dude on American Idol? The one Ryan tried to high five and then had an “Oops! My bad!” moment and tried to cover it up?
I don’t think he’s all that great. He’s not...
I can’t be the only person who finds The Secret Life of the American Teenager to be a totally squicky show. It makes 7th Heaven look like Masterpiece Theatre.
“Manny’s a great hitter, but we do not need a one-dimensional...”
– - Will Clark on Manny Ramirez
(And this is why he’s so awesome. I can attest to the fact that when he said this, the crowd erupted in cheers.)
So it was really nifty to be back at the ballpark today, and even niftier to see my all-time favorite Giant, Will Clark (my inner ten-year-old died of happiness today), in not one, but two interview/question and answer sessions. However, it was seriously not cool that some of the people in the club level made the place smell like feet. That’s a problem. If you’re packed in a crowd,...
The Giants’ Fan Fest is tomorrow (okay, technically today), and it goes without saying that I’m beyond excited about it. Once I found out when Fan Fest was going to be (I think this occurred somewhere around Christmas), a part of my brain decided to go into full-on baseball mode. The first time I went to a Fan Fest, they had it in January, which was fine, but it got me in the mood...
And the carnage continues. →