Street Light People

So glad that Laguna Beach is back in full swing. All in all a good episode this week, what it lacked in drama it more than made up for in technique. I have been raving over this show for what seems like a lifetime.

I thought it was so well made that it couldn't be reality. I then thought, it was too well acted and never contrived to be scripted. So I studied it deeper, and honestly there is a lot going on for this show. It looks like film most of the time, and that's unusual for reality, which is really cool. I'm sure its not film but its some damn good DV.

Anyway the technique may have been one happy accident and certainly some skillful production and editing. Watch the party sequence again with this in mind: there is no discernable dialogue, and really we feel like there are. Sure there are people talking and we get answers to those questions. But there are no situations where we see a one on one interaction for more than 12 seconds.

The second is my favorite moment of the show in its two years. Its so simple its ridiculous. See the scene where Stephen (pronounced stEE-Ven) and Lauren are jamming Journey on the ride home from eating din-din. The pure genius of Steve Perry should be enough...but the accident or accidentally on purpose moment is the shaky "poor" quality video. The image goes grainy and might not be at its standard 30 frames per second. It is the most beautiful two seconds of television MTV's had in awhile. Its hard to describe, maybe I lust LC too much, maybe I love Journey too much ( they are vastly underappreciated, so f'in what his voice is good the band rocks). Give it a second look, its pretty obvious, but quick. It gives me a warm feeling.

Journey if available might be my Wedding Band, if not the Dan Band wouldn't be bad.....

www.thedanband.com

I say, I say, I say I was wrong....

To this very day I believed Foghorn Leghorn was called Froghorn Leghorn. I never thought of Foghorn, and I didn't grow up a big Texas Christian Univ fan either....

http://members.aol.com/howardsays/foghorn/fogbio.htm

Word Gets Around

Heart is awesome!!! I love that friggin band. I forgot how much I love Dreamboat Annie. We all love Magic Man, and Barracuda, Crazy on You et al. But What About Love was pure 80's, and Alone, c'mon. Alone will never be the same for me. That's when I fell for Carrie Underwood, she murdered that night. Anyway time to gush over something maybe even more queer.

I just watched Remember the Titans. I liked it a lot. But with one caveat. I hate seeing flips and helicopter tackles. They just don't happen that often, even at very high levels of high school ball.

Laguna Beach people. It comes back into our lives like a lost love. Actually by that description I'm not sure if that conveyed happiness or sadness or anger. For me it is sheer joy. I will be sitting fully engaged senses aroused. I love love love this stuff. Can't wait to see how awful Kristen will be this year.

You ever think about what our lives would be like with out a backspace?
You eever think aaobut what our lves woul be like withoe su a back space!!

I've got Ace Frehley/I've got Peter Criss

In the Garage...Weezer
Surf Wax America...Weezer

Jet Pilot...Son Volt
10 Second News...Son Volt

Dreamboat Annie...Heart
All I Wanna Do is Make Love to You...Heart

Meeting my Made Coach

I want to be Made. I really like MTV reality shows that aren't about seven strangers. I loved the college Laguna Beach, whatever it was called. I obsess over True Life, and I like Made. I recently decided to place an application into MTV's electronic mail shute claiming my needing to be Made.

It went a little something like this.

Dear MTV,

I want to be Made. I'm already good looking and a ballerina. I did BMX but still can't pull a 720 fakie from a transistional, but that doesn't keep me up at night. I made my high school football team and was a sensation in drama, but what alludes me is gambling. I wanna be made into a bookie. For the bookie has a job with great hours and Italian suits. Usually they live in big pro sports areas and know some players. Also they like strippers, and usually know the old ones. That might not be bad. So MTV make me into a bookie, or a shylock.

Sincerely

Calvin

good stuff

I like this:

www.thebunnyblog.com

www.atlantabread.com

I think I will like this:

www.elizabethtown.com

NO DOUBT:
http://www.mtv.com/onair/laguna_beach/season2/main.jhtml

What I will be doing for the next forty days:

http://www.gamecockhistory.com/content/Seasons/1921Season/1921Clemson/Newspaper/1921Newspaper.jpg

Under the Bridge

I was a little surprised by the weekend box office results. I didn't see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory grossing 55 mil. over a weekend. I also found some surprise in the Wedding Crashers also. It makes a huge difference when films get released. If Crashers had been released in April no one would have seen it. But 33 mil. is pretty good bank for second place.

If you like these "Frat Pack'ers" look for "Outsourced" to be in the theatre next summer.

Let me also take a second and beg Charleston to start saving for the new bridge today. Take an extra dollar on my taxes next year and invest it please. In 120 yrs we will have our bridge paid for, by the brillance of planning ahead.

later

A woo woo, a wooo wooo

I'm fond of radio station names, much like I like band names. I heard a good one today...The Foxy Monday's. All Chicks.

I also was bored and scanning my radio stations locally when I predicted the name of a radio station. I probably knew subconsciously but, still I impressed the me.

So it had me thinking...

Why do radio stations not use letters like L or J or E. It's always Z, X, Q, B, ?
And why are so many classic rock stations called Fox?
Urban stations like to use Z, Power, Hot, Jam, and Magic.
Country stations like to be animals, and rock stations like to be weird things like The Edge, or Extreme, and really like to use X because of generation X.

Here are some stations I made up I bet you will be able to guess a genre
90.3 The Cross
Hit 96
Power 101.1
B104
106.5 The X
98.7 The River


I really like John Mayer's Clarity. Just saw it live on PBS a few weeks ago and gushed over it. I like him only as a friend though. He would be a fun dude to hang with...his comedy skills are underappreciated as well.

Pizza Poppers or Some Extreme Fajitas?

Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner...

I can't stand the fact that I've slacked in my posts. To the true followers thanks for being patient. What I've got for you is small.

First, went to a good wedding this weekend, got blitzed.... not feeling good the next day.

Second, I am obsessing over Jesus of Suburbia by Green Day. Great song, especially the first movement.

The Caddyshack of the 90's is on... Office Space.

I'm reading Chuck Klosterman's Sex, Drugs and Coccoa Pebbles... good stuff. I should examine pop culture for a living.

I watched via Netflix, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas the other day and loved it. Burt Reynolds was really good, but Dolly Parton was unbelieveable. I bumped 9 to 5 up in the queue to take advantage of the moment. Also in the queue I feel I should recommend is Mr. Show with Bob and Dave. If you never saw the skit show on HBO with David Cross and Bob Odenkirk you should grab this. If for nothing other than the "Taint Magazine" photoshoot.

I haven't done this in awhile...

Ruby Tuesday, Rolling Stones
Square One, Coldplay
The Hardest Button to Button, White Stripes
Ten Second News, Son Volt
Substitute, The Who
It's My Job, Jimmy Buffett

Peace Out

Amen Omen

Not a thing to write about right now.

I guess I can drop some political stuff.... Alberto Gonzalez is the choice of liberals for the Supreme Court, and I can't disagree with the choice. He would fufill the ideals of O'Connor and replace the first of a minority with a new first of a minority. It could be a huge middle of the road move for Bush.

I gotta tell you the Bobby Brown show annoys me. That dude is ridiculous. Its as much Whitney as any one. Aghhhh!!!

Seen any good movies lately? Me neither. I am waiting for some Netflix. I went on a diet of documentaries, be they rock or surfing. I'm tired of those, and need some scripted comedy and drama.

Upcoming....Laura, and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.

You Gotta Wonder

Hey Y'all,

I've spent all day watching Live 8 and it has been great. I don't want to go too much into that, except for saying the two best were Madonna and Pink Floyd, by far the best.

Here is the subject of this post. Saving Private Ryan the tremendous film by Steven Speilberg is playing now on TNT. I just heard the F-Word about five times, and forgot that it was basic cable. Why is this okay? I don't get it. You can't say about fifteen things on TV and the F-Word is one of them. Why can I hear it in this context? Because it is history or realistic. I already despise the amount of cursing I hear on TV anymore. You get commercials with ass in them, you get promo's with bleeps. When did this become okay? I can't stand it because it is slack vocabulary.

The difference comes in when we do stop censoring things like Saving Private Ryan, and censor things like Go. Go is a movie made by Doug Liman about kids in LA going to a rave and taking some drugs. Its about drug dealers and their clients, and guys having a good time. You will not find this movie uncensored on TV because of its reality. Saving Private Ryan is equally as good a movie as Go in my honest opinion. Both were absolute triumphs in reality and in movie making. I felt as if I understood WWII better by seeing Ryan, but I also related heavily with Go.

Why is one better than the other? War is better respected than partying I understand, but both are just movies. Both tackle subjects of everyday life. Why don't we get Black Hawk Down unedited? Why don't I see Apocolypse Now with all of its language, or Good Morning Vietnam?

I bet if Go were played tomorrow on TV it wouldn't even get bleeps like the rest of the regular TV world gets just for emphasis.

I guess my second question is which is worse to show to kids drug use or war? Neither are pretty sights.