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My love/hate relationship with New Now Next on Logo continues...
Granted, they introduced me to The Gossip, so I am grateful. I just wish they'd revise their standards when it comes to airing a video strictly based on the sexuality of the artist.
Take for example... this video by "T.H.E.M."
Besides the Betamax-quality video, the song just blows. It's a blatant ripoff of 'Blue Monday,' and the, eh, guy singer couldn't hold a note to save his life. Then there's the pointless guy/guy making out. It's less artistic and more, "Hey! Look at me! I'm kissing a guy!"
I just wish they'd spend more time looking for artists like The Gossip, or The Cinematics (yay!), than showing a shitty video like this. God, play another Madonna video if you have to...
I guess I shouldn't be surprised this is coming from the same channel that airs "Nemesis Rising." Eek.
I rebuilt my baby this weekend.
My Sempron 2500 was replaced with an Intel Core 2 Duo, with an Intel DG965WH motherboard and NVIDIA 7600 GT video card. Swapped out the 400 watt power supply for a 500, just-in-case.
I also loaded Vista RC1, but couldn't stand it and how it crashed Need For Speed: Carbon after virtually every race. At one point, I had RC2 somewhere, but I think I deleted it.
Soon, I'll have my new TV tuner card, and I'm going to finally replace my old Jensen powered speakers with a proper 2.1 system. I'm also debating a 10,000 RPM Raptor drive. We'll see...
Garbage annouced that it will release a greatest hits set 'Absolute Garbage' on March 19, 2007. An insider has claimed that it will be a box-set, consisting of the GH CD, a mix CD, an enhanced CD, and perhaps the second most coveted item of all time, a DVD of all videos.
They're debating a new song... and the inclusion of IAOBTC, which was never a single, is odd. Diehards seem to be clamoring for "Hangin' With The Bitches," a song Shirley alluded to in a diary entry a few years ago.
Back to IAOBTC, if it is included, it portends the actual end of Garbage. There's no other reason to release it. It's a subpar ballad, and the weakest track on BLM.
Tonight involved more than a few conversations about urination, em dash vs. en dash, a guy who made 'Girlfriend Stew,' a Mormon girl referencing John Holmes, and Chazz Palminteri. Like, the living, breathing Chazz Palminteri, who walked past us at The Palms. He was alone, and no one recognized him... except for me. We then followed him to the Playboy tower, but were woefully underdressed to follow him in.
Later we found ourselves at a 24-hour Starbucks, and came face-to-face with the Starbucks photography ban as the counter barista girl freaked out when Jalaine started taking pictures of us. Weirdos.
How do you top the Best Week, Ever?
How about...
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs covering The Rentals' "The Love I'm Searching For!"
ACOUSTIC!
AAAAHHHHHH!!!!
I've been over every emotion in my head.
From the grasp of his cold, damp hands, I think I've ran the gamut. The basics: anger and fear and schadenfreude. The complex. But when it all boils down, there's nothing left there. No resentment or anything. Inexplicably empty. I couldn't muster it.
But I fought it. I walked around with bravado, championing the cause. But in the end, it was resolved a long time ago. It is water under the whatever.
Don't get me wrong, it isn't an imagined slight. I just think a decade is enough time to dwell. Even that's not true, as I don't look back on my high school days with any resentment, really. I loved high school, loved my friends, loved almost everything about it. I think he gave me something I needed: an enemy. He was someone I could compete with and hate, someone I could use to manifest all those things I hated about myself.
I just don't think I can hate him anymore. Indifference? Yes. Apathy? Of course. But the appeal of a nemesis is gone.
A sincere thanks to the following people:
Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, George Bush, Mark Foley, Randy "Duke" Cunningham, Dennis Hastert, Tom Reynolds, Jack Abramoff, Elizabeth Dole, George Allen, Michael Steele, Conrad Burns, Tom DeLay, Bob Ney, Katherine Harris, and Jim Talent.
Without you, we never could've done it! Thanks a million!
I'm participating in MoveOn.org's Call for Change today, and I highly recommend it.
They give you targeted numbers to call to remind voters to get to the polls. So far, I'm only calling New York, but I've gotten a good response a few times from people who are amazed that some guy in Nevada is calling them to remind them to vote.
I'd love to get NV-03 numbers only, as I want to see Hafen smash Porter.
Speaking of mancrushes, let's talk about Rahm Emmanuel.
Aka, the chair of the DCCC. His palpable anger at Elizabeth Dole on Meet the Press Sunday morning was awesome. She made another claim that the Dems don't want to see victory in Iraq. You could see his blood pressure spike. She tried to steamroll over him, while smirking and ignoring the obvious, but Rahm made the points that mattered.
I was glad that Pelosi's first 100 hours proposal got some airtime, because I think it should have played a much larger part of the overall DCCC campaign.
Lobbyist reform, minimum wage increase, student loan interest rate cuts, implementing all the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission and allowing the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs. That's a powerful plan, but it got little recognition between all the Republican gay sex scandals.
But yeah, I can't wait for Tuesday night. I'm making two different types of ice cream (coconut and strawberry cheesecake) to celebrate with my sister.
I'm hoping for a female sweep in Nevada, with Hafen, Derby and Titus taking the reins.
What, you say? Will Kirby?
A few months ago, when NPH surprised the houseguests with Christmas in July, I seem to remember Dr. Kirby covering himself up because of a certain... tumescence.
Oh, but what's this? Neil Patrick Harris is gay? You don't say.
You're next, Doc.
Stereogum caught an acoustic set from Nina and Peter at the Knitting Factory during CMJ.
If you're quick, you'll find two acoustic tracks... "Lovefool" and "My Favorite Game." MFG is amazing.
So we knew Shirley had plans to work with David Arnold (of TWINE fame) and Paul Buchanan of Blue Nile, but two new names have surfaced that plan collaborations with my patron saint.
Who? Only Jack White and Billy Corgan! According to this article in The Sunday Mail, Buchanan and Manson will start recording their track in December.
We also know, from today's Defamer PrivacyWatch that she was spotted in Santa Monica a few days ago.
The chance we might have her solo release in 2007 makes me CRAZY with anticipation...
So here's the skinny:
Go rent/buy Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang. The ex was totally right about how much I would like this movie. He was so right, I momentarily wondered if I made the right decision by dumping him. After a few seconds of pondering, I came back to my senses.
Then, Sunday, the very next day, I ran into him. Well, didn't run into him so much as stumbled upon him and his new job. Ten years ago, I would attribute this to fate. I'm smarter now.
Yeah, so... I called Eden as evil on Heroes the first time I saw her. I got the geekiest chills, though, when she called Issac a "precog." Wonderful.
Speaking of wonderful, or Wonderfalls, Tim Minear's pilot called Drive is being thrown into production and we can expect it early next year. Hopefully it won't find a home on Friday night or be cancelled after four aired episodes. (ahem.) But, like Wonderfalls, FOX is looking to give it a post-American Idol slot. Supposedly a cross-country race drama, (Magnolia meets Cannonball Run!) we'll see what the ex-Angel, ex-Firefly wunderkind can think of next.
