An Entertainment List

1. We finally got around to watching the third installment to the documentary series Up. It's basically taking the lives of select British children from different reaches of class and culture and watching how they grow and develop through a new documentary every seven years. More than just seeing the countless dreams of being jockeys and physicists crushing around these poor kids, it's about the dedication of the film makers and the kids coming back every seven years to do in depth interviews that's really amazing.






2. A bunch of smelly boys came over tonight and we had jackolantern (Firefox spellcheck doesn't believe jackolanterns exist enough to have an adequate, common spelling) sugar cookies and watched Feast and Monster Squad. Of Feast, I have to say: watching Jason Mewes have his face ripped off by big slimy monsters birthed by Ben Afleck and Matt Damon through Project Green Light was really fulfilling for me personally.






3. Monster Squad though, that's one of those kid movies from the 80's that hits you like an entire house when you watch it all grown up. I especially love how they didn't even bother naming the mandatory fat kid anything other than just "Fat Kid." Wow, I found the cast of Monster Squad all grown up too. HOW WEIRD. I remember making a special midnight trip to Walmart about this time last year with Daniel and Brandon to get the super new released DVD.





4. Halloween always brings Hocus Pocus scheduled to run by the hour on family channels. I've yet to see it ONCE. Shit. This is important to my annual Halloween experience. Also - wow, Thora Birch just got hot.





5. After a couple years of seeing commercials for It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and then telling myself, in my inner monologue British voice, I should really watch more of that show. So, thank you, Hulu. I'm doing so now. I've really taken an interest in Charlie so far. I seem to always go for the awkward, short, neurotic, and hopeless romantic ones.






6. I made Daniel look all over his parents' house in search of our third season of Doctor Who over the weekend. Turns out it was under the cabinet right beside me this whole time. I refuse to move and/or open things when looking for other things. I also refuse to hyperlink Doctor Who. It's pointless. This is the internet. BUT I am really looking forward to this new Christmas special, The Next Doctor. Who doesn't love David Morrissey? Tennant definitely does.

Jewish Dexter Makes Me Laugh

Dessler - Jewish take on Dexter's morning routine from Dan S on Vimeo.

What Are You Doing Here?

Greetings and Salutations,

Doctor Who asks you what you are doing here. A WHOLE LOT.

It's kind of long and only has audio in some parts, but it's still totally worth it.



Daniel shot back with the video Heroes Unite: The Ulitimate 80's Tribute (which is also pretty awesome and nostalgic).




I suppose, speaking of nostalgia, I should mention that it's Brandon's birthday today. So it's just a little bit of a sad day. A couple weeks ago Daniel asked off of work for today, but they didn't give it to him, how thoughtful. He super needs a new job. But we do get to see Brandon's little girl, Ayla, this weekend. I may not be able to make it due to lots of stupid school work and bullshit. Also, to be honest, I think part of my decision to stay home is because I'm so emotionally exhausted. I realize everyone else around me is equally emotioned out, but it's hard for me to function even with normal emotion levels.

It's weird and frustrating to think that a year ago today we took Brandon out to Hooters and A Nightmare Before Christmas 3D.

The years are getting faster. Or shorter.

Sincerely,

Domo

Greetings and Salutations,

I drove down to Valdosta this weekend to make-fun and play-fun with Jenny Poopface. This weekend was probably the most fun I've had and the less stressed out I've been in 2008.

Percentages of How We Spent Our Time

Force-feeding Doctor Who to Jenny - 50%

Researching how big elephant penises are on youtube - 15%

Making awful videos of ourselves that may or may not find their way into my blog - 20%

Pooping - 5%

Eating - 10% (I know, it does seem like the percentages of pooping and eating should be equal. No thanks, Activia. I'm quite happy with my irregularity)

Laughing and giggling without a purpose - 15%

Sleeping - 2%

Thinking about sleeping - 40%

Adding up and balancing the percentages to make sure it equals 100%. - 0%

I'm not all up for the hot chin-on-chin action.

When I got home from a very long drive back that involved some car sickness and the loss of a sandwich along the way, I came in to find a Domo-Kun sitting on my bed waiting for me. It really did make everything better. Daniel also got me a sticker that says, "Oh well, I wasn't using my civil liberties anyhow." HOW GREAT IS THAT?

We're so surprised!

I'm nomming him!

I also had to cave and get some nerd glasses. I realized whilst driving down to Georgia that I can't see shit, so I've got some in-the-mean-time glasses. Bah. I think they make my face look stupid.

Also, here's my review for Spore:
Making penis monsters > Finding ways to kill your Sims in the most creative ways.

Sincerely,

Hungry

Greetings and Salutations,

What does it mean when one ovary starts twitching hardcore? AM I HAVING A TUBE BABY? (that creeps me the fuck out)

Daniel is meticulously doing his cracked.com job tonight, which means I'm bored as balls. I'm entertaining myself by taking picture after picture to see what angle makes me look better. HEY I love my ego just as much as my ego loves me. Totally normal, man.
Also, I'm enjoying a good hair day. It's rare, but usually results in a happy Menda. WHAAAT.



So, house hunting is getting suspenseful, with pre-approval, financing, loving the shit out of a couple select homes, and trying so hard not to get my hopes up again. I'm generally just excited about the future right now - that's extremely rare. I can be a very laid back and calm individual while simultaneously stressing myself out to the limit over a couch cover being slightly skewed or knowing that my boyfriend is spending the entire day at work with his socks inside out (I could write a bible about the repercussions of putting your socks on inside out infront of me). I don't think it's stress so much as clinical OCD. Whoops.

But yes, is it wrong to buy a house just because of the plants in the yard? I THINK SO TOO. But I can't tell myself a damn thing. It's lovely though. Really. I'm already planning where the furniture will go. I'm also planning what room the ghost of the old, crazy woman who died in the house will stay in. Hint: IT'S NOT OUR ROOM. God, I feel like I'm going to wake up with a ghostly cheek pinch or two. But like I said, it really is lovely.



Also, here is an interview with Paterson Joseph at the National Theatre in London. There's talk that he may be the 11th doctor following David Tennant (depending upon his departure after the 2010 series of specials, which is likely, sadly). Joseph was in a two parter in the second series of Doctor Who, and also starred in Jekyll (which was such a brilliant miniseries also done by Stephen Moffet (upcoming lead writer - Girl in the Fireplace, Blink, The Empty Child, The Doctor Dances - my favorites).



So it's all very exciting. Apparently black is the new white. A possible black president and a possible black doctor. Change really is exciting.

Even if it's just a change in season.

Sincerely,

Go Team Stomach Pains!

Greetings and Salutations,

I got home from seeing Quarantine earlier. Damn. Seriously. It was obviously very predictable, but still fun and entertaining, except I don't really understand the appeal of that Cloverfield/Blair Witch Project kind of camera work. It doesn't make it any more threatening or real. It makes me look like I'm doing the What Is Love Night at the Roxbury head banging bullshit.* It's very disorienting for me and the large black man sitting beside me. It was so packed in theater that everyone forgot about my personal bubble of comfort and knowingly there was a particularly jumpy and scary moment in the movie where I smacked the hell out of this big and burly guy sitting beside me. HOW ADORABLE WAS HE. I love that through public embarrassment, I tend to make friends. Jennifer Carpenter (ala Dexter) did an amazing job in the movie, I THOUGHT. The ability to show complete terror and fear while simultaneously making the whole audience laugh and empathize at that level of "Oh shit, you're going to die but I've totally been scared like that before and it IS funny to the people around you. I should apologize for getting so mad at Gary laughing at me that one time in the cornfield maze."

While trying to find a Night at the Roxbury clip on Youtube, I ended up playing the first two seconds of that terribly annoying song repetitively for a good five minutes (DEDICATION!!). Daniel counteracted with the song 'Everybody's Free (To Feel Good).' Unfortunately the video attached to that song was the most amazing thing I've witnessed in my pseudo-adult life. I particularly like the ironing of the pants part. I have to say, though, talking about that song, what an amazing opening that made on The Venture Bros. Honestly. I am so Dean Venture (apparently so is this shmuck). Daniel actually says I'm more like Pete White (I should be offended, right?).

The title is due to a Zaxby's (Xazby's? Dude, it's really wrong that I don't know) salad for dinner.

Sincerely,



*It really is sad that I feel the need to turn my head sideways if the image is sideways. I think it's the same thing as when I'm playing a video game and I'm attempting to jump or turn a tight corner and I end up moving my torso in the direction of wishful thinking that the joystick operating the camera actually works.

New-Clear

Greetings and Salutations,

Currently watching C-Span's coverage of the Veep Debate.

Something that I didn't realize before or see on CNN CONSTANTLY, was the fact of a very intelligent mispronunciation. I was so worried that once Bush would be out of office, we would never get to hear the political word - "Nucular."

But alas! Look who has taken after Ol'e Bushy! Oh Sarah Palin, I love how you say Nucular in your backwoods, moose-slaughtering Fargo-esque accent.


Say it again. Just once. Oh, Sarah...say it.



Sincerely,

Eating Twizzlers

Greetings and Salutations,

I loved the interview Des (popwreckoning) had with Tegan Quin of Tegan and Sara recently. I especially love the political chat. It's nice to know how many others find Sarah Palin horrifying to every extent of the word. Excerpt:

"PW: I wanted to know, because you guys do spend a lot of time in the US, how the current political climate affects you.
TQ: It’s terrifying. The idea of John McCain and Sarah Palin getting in makes me rethink my whole life. I’m just kind of like, “Can we really go down to the states and tour another four years with a government who’s fundamentally against who we are as people?” That’s really tough for me. It used to bother me, but now it’s actually affecting me.
Emotionally, I feel really upset—panicky, almost. We just dissolved Parliament in Canada and they’re calling a new election. It’s so confusing. The show, I swear, the political show we shoot this fall, should be called, “You Think Your System’s Confusing, Imagine What Ours is Like.” It’s so difficult, the way it’s set up. It’s just so confusing. I’ve lived here 28 years and I feel like I don’t understand what’s going on. I’m like, “You can dissolve Parliament?” Anyway, the US, comparatively–I feel like, no matter what happens, the way our government is set up is really different. In America, it’s a popularity contest and it’s literally left or right and it’s really hard for me to swallow. It’s hard for me to understand. I just can’t imagine over the last few years, how on earth you guys would collectively come together and allow them to run the country. It’s so horrifying to me, it makes me sick to my stomach. I can’t imagine why a gun loving, anti-gay, anti-choice—I just don’t understand how it’s happened. It seems like a nightmare to me. It just feels like time is going by so quickly. I just feel so upset and like I wanna go smack the Democrats around and be like, “Hurry up, get it together! What’s happening?” I just feel so upset about it, so I definitely feel like there’s gonna be a lot of venting on-stage. But who am I venting to? I’m preaching to the converted. I say that, but I was just in New York and I was venting on-stage and went off about how I wanted to sleep with Sarah Palin, like, you know, antagonizing. This girl came up afterwards and was giving me a piece of her mind, ripping me a new one about how she was a Repulican and how I didn’t understand and blah, blah, blah, and I was thinking–this is a 25 year old girl at a Tegan and Augusten Burroughs show in a book store raising money for an AIDS organization. It was like, “Who are you? Why are you at our show?” So I say that I’m preaching to the converted, but I’m not. And obviously, with the way that our fans are, after every show there are a million YouTube videos, so I’m hoping that we can make as much change as we possibly can with what power we have. We put the Rock the Vote widget up on our MySpace page and they were saying that, out of all the bands that did it, more people came from our page to register to vote than anywhere else. So I know we have a really progressive, alternative, excitable young audience, but I think that they actually do have a lot of power, so we’re definitely gonna try and use that voice as much as we can in the next couple of months to inspire people to wake up. I thought people were awake and then I was in New York when they announced Sarah Palin. I was just like, “Oh, God.” Like, “Oh no, this is going to be so stupid. ” This whole thing is awful.
PW: That woman is terrifying.
TQ: Terrifying, terrifying. The confidence and the patronizing attitude and the whole thing is so insane. My mind is blown. I’m having a hard time articulating what it is that bothers me more. So horrifying.
PW: I feel the same way. I’m a gay woman and I’m terrified to live in my own country.
TQ: Yeah, absolutely. You should be. Everyone should be. I was watching John McCain on The View when he was talking about how they were going to elect people to the Supreme Court who were going to follow the Constitution as it was written and Whoopi [Goldberg] was like, “Can you say that again? Should I be worried? We amended the constitution for a reason. Are we going to have slavery again? Am I gonna be a slave?” People should be that outraged that he’s saying that. It is unfathomable that we would be taking steps backwards at this point in America. We’re already so backwards, how can we go any further? We’re like, two steps away from going back to slavery, it’s true. I just don’t understand. At the same time, you have Barbara Walters being like, “How many houses do you really own?” And I’m like, “Yeah, Americans are stupid.” Barbara Walters is an example of the complacency and the obsession with fame and fortune, rather than someone’s actual belief system and what that actually means on the whole, in comparison to the way the rest of the world is run. What Americans claim to hate so much is exactly what they are. It’s incredible to me. So anyway, blah, blah, blah."


I truly couldn't imagine being judged and outlawed in your own country. Lucky me, I'm white, straight, and a U.S. citizen; however, yes.. I'm a woman, I'm pudgy, and I'm liberal in Alabama. But when I choose to get married, I won't have to worry about it being ILLEGAL. When will they begin to realize that gay people aren't going away and you cannot CANNOT cannot Pray Away the Gay. Dumbest thing I've ever heard, I swear. Don't make me break out my old school research project on it. OH OKAY IF YOU INSIST.

Homosexuality isn't typically a choice to sin or offend your god, it's a characteristic and a way to live. It's a trait....
The color of your skin is a trait. And America has never judged that.

OH WAIT.

Sincerely,

Robot Pants

Yeah, so who here has read Flowers for Algernon?

--About the kid with all the chains, and the goggles, and at the end he gets killed with a shotgun??

-BOOSH!!
-BOOSH!
-BOOSH!!
-BA BA BOOSH!

No, that's Harrison Bergeron


--HOLLYWOOD SQUARES!!

That's Tom Bergeron.

--Brother of Menelaus!!

DAMN IT! THAT'S AGAMEMNON!!

-BOOSH!



-boosh!