Lost for words
This will be a random thoughts update.
GIRLWATCH 2003
This is not going so well! I got an offer to write for a game site, a compliment from Care Gaston and a proposition from Jack Kentala who is decidedly not a girl.
All you ladies out there: I am completely serious about this offer! You can date ME! I have a TV and a DVD player! What’s not to love?
Mario Kart: Double Dash
This is the best game ever. I’ve only had it for two days, but I feel confident in that review. It is beyond fun. I know people like to bitch about the randomness and the so-called “cheating AI” in Mario Kart games, but dude, that’s part of the fun!
Now I just need to convince my generally non-video game-playing friends to play with me. Oh, North Pole Bay and our marathon games of NHL Hitz and Time Splitters 2, how I miss thee.
Robots
Decided to write a story about robots. We’ll see how it goes. Did you know that all physiology breaks down to very tiny robots powered by love? It’s true. Ask any scientist. Except that one.
Confusion
It’s 4:23 p.m., I’ve been out of bed for at least three hours, and I’m still not dressed! The weird part? I can’t think of a single reason why! I’ve done very little in these three hours.
It’s not really that surprising, though. I’ve suffered from a massive lack of drive the past week or two. I just don’t really feel like doing much of anything other than lazing about and watching whatever’s on TV or, more recently, playing Mario Kart.
It’s November, I think. It’s a bitter and lonely month which fills me with a sense of dread. Which is sad, really, because November starts so strongly what with my birthday and all. But damned if this month hasn’t just felt cold and distant to me. It’s a sort of statis feeling, like being locked in place. I know that no matter what happens on a day-to-day basis, I’ll end up back here, alone and listening to the same 81 songs on my DVD player while trying to figure out a way to intro a story about robots.
If I wasn’t already going to start a worldwide trend this week (see below), I’d start one that begins with every person leaving their desks, beds, couches and kitchens and going to the nearest open window and yelling “FUCK NOVEMBER!” in unison at the top of their lungs. I think it would do us all some real good.
Trendy
I am going to start a worldwide trend this week at some point. My hope is that it will bring all peoples of the world together in a bond of love, closeness and kinmanship. What is the trend going to be, you ask? You’ll find out when it goes wide. Worldwide.
TV shows I watched this week
NBC’s Ed: Hmm well this is the much-hyped ‘proposal’ episode so it should be good, but MY OH MY WHO IS THAT but BURT FUCKING REYNOLDS. As Mike Burton’s father, no less! What a cool dad, even if Dr. Mike Burton did not so much enjoy his father’s antics. C’mon, Mike, yeah, he burned down your house, but he did it with a fucking rope-and-pully system which takes a lot of skill and a really awesome mustache!
The Eli/Jennifer story is still ambling along rather slowly, but they seem to finally get to the point this episode, which was nice to see. I really liked Ed’s proposal, and I was quite surprised they went with her saying yes. Are they assuming the show will be cancelled after this season? Where else can the show go after they get hitched? The focal point of the show will be gone and we’ll pretty much be left with “bunch of quirky people in a small town.”
NBC’s Friends: I just realized I only watch shows on NBC for whatever reason so I probably should stop specifying the network name. This was a decent episode in the tradition of all decent Thanksgiving episodes featured on this program. Phoebe was completely out of character with the whole “Let’s enter Emma in a beauty pageant!” plotline, but that’s all right because usually she just stands around being unfunny and marrying guys who starred in Clueless.
So far this season has seemed to have had the overt goal of winning David Schwimmer an Emmy nomination, as he’s undoubtedly been the funniest actor on the show. Joey’s still getting some good lines, too. Chandler has become extremely tame and wimpy since his marriage, but I guess that’s to be expected. I don’t know why they’re taking so long to start building up the Ross/Rachel relationship again. I mean, c’mon, that’s gotta be your end-of-series moment, so let’s get to it already.
And yeah, I watch Friends. I also watch Gilmore Girls and Hugh Grant movies by the bucketful. I am not ashamed!
NBC’s Scrubs: This show seems to be seesawing this year. Some episodes just leave me cold, to the point where I wonder if the show’s lost its edge, but then I’m brought right back into things with a great episode like this week’s. LOVED the Erik Estrada cameo — “Dude, that was us.” KILLER.
Tara Reid is still annoying, but Dr. Cox’s face when he spilled the beans at the top of the ferris wheel was GOLDEN. You know Tara is just going to have some really weird quirk that leads to J.D. breaking up with her, anyway. She’s just the newest in a long tradition of crazy blonde girlfriends of Dr. John Dorian.
NBC’s ER: Haha, that was comedy gold. A helicopter fell on him! I hope they rebuild him as some sort of RoboRomano — why can’t ALL his limbs be robot limbs? And he could have wheels! They could just show him rolling around the hospital insulting everyone while accidentally grabbing nurse ass. I’d watch that show.
As an aside, TelevisionWithoutPity’s ER recaps are my new favourite thing to read at 4 in the morning.
Songs of the Moment
- The Cure - Letter to Elise
- Joe 90 - Drive
- Duran Duran - Perfect Day
- Oasis - Don’t Look Back in Anger
More later!
Matt
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I NEED to know: Would Rocket Romano’s beard be bionic?
I watched this week’s Srcrubs completely out of order. I was taping it for housemates so I was alternating between it and Crank Yankers. When I rewound the tape tonight to watch it, I didn’t go far enough and started watching half way through - I thought I had a completely new episode that magically produced itself in the tape! So, it was much to my surprise that the show was only ten minutes long and ER came on so I forgot about the whole ordeal and watched Romano take on a helicopter all by his one-armed self!!! This is must-see TV to the max!
Did you know the CNIB is taking on ER for the blind man suicide of last week?
The Scrubs thing was true. I almost choked on my stir-fry.
I’m not sure if science has progressed to the point where it can produce bionic beards, but he definitely could have a beard composed of ROBOT BEES which would probably land him in the Guiness Book of ROBOT records.
Scrubs was indeed great. Erik Estrada could make ANY show hilarious.
A beard of robotic bees on Erik Estrada - I think that would be wonderful.
Is there a record for the most Guinness consumed while reading the record book?
Do you know about 80sarchives.com? It’s a great 80’s toy site! I’ve just been checking out Silverhawks and Bravestarr, but most importantly CAPTAIN POWER! It’s making me oh so very sad…
Here is another offer to write for a game site. You might have heard of it, it’s called Nintendorks.com. You remind me of this guy who used to write for them. We miss him.
By the way, Joey getting his head stuck in the door was by far the best scene in that episode.
I think that the “Ed” (put in quotation marks so as not to confuse the show with the character) writers were assuming that the show would be cancelled at the end of last season. Which it probably should have been, considering how WEIRD it is for Ed and Carol to actually be together. The Eli/Jennifer angle is the most interesting subplot now. Oh, and is it wrong that I liked Carol’s New York friends in that episode a couple of weeks ago better than Ed?
I actually like Tara Reid so far in Scrubs, which is sort of surprising — when I first saw she was guest-starring, I immediately assumed that the show was going to COLLAPSE from the mere fact that she had walked on the set.
Scrubs sidenote: What exactly are you supposed to say if a girl says “I think I’m falling in love with you”? “I think I’m falling in love with you too” just sounds lame.
And since leaving two comments seems to be a requirement for this update, what is the deal with that songs of the moment list? I don’t know Joe 90 and the Cure are all right, but Duran Duran? Oasis? What’s next, STARSAILOR? CELINE DION?!
Hey, that Duran Duran song is a Lou Reed cover that was used in the overdose scene in the movie “Trainspotting.” It has really nice lyrics. The Lou Reed version is good, too, so get that one if it makes you feel more pitchfork.
And yeah, despite Oasis doing nothing of note for several years, _What’s The Story, Morning Glory?_ was a great album, with “Don’t Look Back in Anger” being my favourite track. ’cause, oh, Sally can wait…
“Ed” — yeah, it WAS cancelled until like a couple of weeks into the summer, I think. I’m thinking this season will really be the last — unless Ed and Carol somehow break-up — because with them together, and MARRIED, the show has no real place to go.
Tara Reid hasn’t been terrible, but her voice still makes me tremble with rage. The correct response to “I think I’m falling in love with you” is, in fact, “You made-out with Jerry O’Connell, Carson Daly and the kid from Rookie of the Year, you worthless skank!”
The way their new “Top 100 of the 90s” is looking, I’m not sure I want to be more Pitchfork. But thanks for schooling me anyway.
I will try using that response to the next (first?!) girl who pulls the “falling in love” line on me. Hope it’s Tara Reid or I’ll look silly!
Well, Matt, I am frankly appalled that you did not come play the Friends game with Kendall and I last year. I need more people who actually watch the show and remember random trivia to be a competitor. It’s painful when I win so easily.
Also, since when do you watch GG? And not tell me? I need to keep tabs on people who share my obsessions, it keeps me somewhat grounded.
I’m not a big Scrubs fan, admittedly… but on Carson the other night (when Phantom Planet were on. Sigh.) one of the guys from the Sopranos was a guest, and he started off the night with a great “Tara Reid public drunkenness” story, and you HAD to see Carson’s face. That poor dogfaced man. Tsk tsk. Then he and Moby stooped so low as to make fun of Hanson. SERIOUSLY! Like they’re anywhere near topical right now, aside from Ike being in the hospital with a blood clot in his arm for excessive mastur– guitar playing. What was funny about that was that 2 of the Phantom Planet guys are guest artists on Hanson’s new CD. Suckers!
Oh– and TWP is the most useful website ever. I miss reading Buffy recaps. *sigh*
I remember being invited to play that Friends trivia game a time or two, but always something came up which led to me missing it. It’s sad, because we actually OWN the game at home, and I have to say — I’m really really good.
I started watching Gilmore Girls not very long ago! I’ve only seen like two episodes, but I really really like the witty dialogue. Oh, those girls.
Carson Daly still hosts “Later”? Last time I saw it, they were trying to cram like three guests and two bands into a half-hour timeslot and it was just this huge clusterfuck. I remember he interviewed John Stewart once and succeeded in sucking all the humour out of the interview! He’s like a black hole of suck, that Carson Daly.
I’m pretty sure that in a couple of years, he and Tara Reid will get back together. They’re two annoyingly vain ‘idols’ desperately trying to hold onto to their youth — if that’s not a recipe for love, what is?
WAIT A MINUTE!
Graphic_V> Hey Luke how come you don’t watch The Sopranos?
LukeIsTerrified> I don’t really watch serious TV shows.
LukeIsTerrified> Though the Gilmore Girls is pretty heavy.
Graphic_V> Great, MBJ is a druggie and you’re a woman.
Graphic_V> Whatever happened to the sports-den crew.
Whatever happened is right!
(There should be a forum or something for this kind of discussion.)
Hey, I still maintain that it is a girly show. It’s just that I, Matt, am girly.
The forum is only for decorative purposes.
*points over there, in the general direction of my room* The Friends Game. Yes, I too ACTUALLY OWN IT.
I think there should be some sort of gaming.
And yeah, GG’s a girly show. But I like that Rory’s in uni now. I was sick of her being a 20-something actress stuck in highschool.
And bonus points: This Wednesday’s cameo = MICHAEL YORK! W00t!