Month: March 2011

Drunken Recollection… Wait, That Was Her? And What’s Her Deal?

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I’ve mentioned it before – I love IFC’s Portlandia.  It’s finished its six-episode run, and will be back some time next year, but one night while drinking, I learned something about one of its guest stars, Aimee Mann.  Here’s a sample of her appearance:

I thought I never heard of her, since I never saw Magnolia or heard her song from it:

But as I said, I thought I never heard of her…

I had no idea the lead singer from ‘Til Tuesday was the same person in Portlandia!

Also, another drunken night, I watched Letterman or Fallon and this performer came on:

Soooo…

I had no idea the lead singer from ‘Til Tuesday was the same person in Portlandia!

InASense, Lost… A Cheese And Crappers Double Whammy

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I rarely watch commercials, but these are two recent ones I’ve caught while watching Star Wars: The Clone Wars on Cartoon Network who know’s what.  One reminded me of an old childhood wish, and the other made me wish I was never born.  I’ll let you figure out which wish is which.

Happy Re-Find… Batman & Robin Shortened To The “Best” Parts

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I saw this film once before, long ago, and ever since, I’ve been trying to forget it.

I saw this video a while back, and it trudged up all kinds of awful memories, so I repressed it.

I’ve been in therapy for a bit now, and my doctor told me it was a good idea t o face down my demons and share.  Enjoy the hurt:

JusWondering… Why Cast So Many Lookalikes In The Lincoln Lawyer? (Say That Three Times Fast)

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There’s a new flick riding into town next week entitled The Lincoln Lawyer:

I didn't get the name 'til seeing the poster. Thanks, Poster.

It’s based on a book (Hey Poster, now that we’re buddies, you got my back on this one, right?  Cool…), and if I learned anything in all my years as a writer is you need to make your characters’ names unique.  They need to stand apart from each other.

(SIDENOTE: Yes, I am an as-yet-unpublished writer, aside from this blog.  The reason I’m not published isn’t because I haven’t finishing anything I’m completely happy with yet…  It’s because I have authoritis.

*bows head* *tips hat*

Pardon the interpuntion.)

For example, use names like Mickey, Ted, and Louis.  As a reader, these names can’t be quickly mixed up.

(SIDENOTE: How pretentious is Author! Michael Connelly for naming his main character Mickey?  That’d be like George Lucas naming his main character George Skywalker instead of — oh…)

So it’s left me wondering why in the backseat of a Lincoln would the film’s producers cast three (sandy) blonde-haired, blue-eyed guys that look very similar in the same movie? You get not only Matther McConaughey as Mickey, but Josh Lucas as Ted, and Ryan Phillippe as Louis:

Three Peas in Courtroom Thriller

The only actor missing is this guy:

He's been voted, "Most Likely to Have You Naked by the End of a Song."

Because The Lincoln Lawyer already has this guy:

Nope. Doesn't count. He has green eyes.

Musical Musings… More Liberal Borrowing To Report

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My job is getting easier and lazier easier.  Since officially declaring my mission to be the champion of originality, I thought:

To illustrate how musical acts steal, er, liberally borrow from others, is there no better way than for me to liberally borrow previously produced mash-ups to illustrate my point?

This was stumbled upon one night while driving to the bar with friends.  The Alan Parsons Project’s Eye in the Sky came on the radio – somehow – and we noticed a striking similarity to Lady Antebellum’s Need You Now.  Here’s the work of another:

As for this one, I read about it on the TripleDoubleU, but I’d be a very sad panda if I didn’t include any mention of how Justin Bieber’s Love Me liberally borrowed the chorus from The Cardigans’ Lovefool:

Fortunately (for him), my arch-enemy Dr. Luke had nothing to do with either of these songs… Although DJ Frank E (what is it with all these tools and their stupid names) produced Bieber’s tune, and he once worked with Dr. Luke to produce Flo Rida’s highly original Right Round (which also introduced the world to Ke$ha)…  Hmmm…

I'll get you next time, Dr. Luke... Next time!

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So, Duh! Pop Quiz… Songs Written By Other Artists Edition

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Battle of the Brands

I’ve been trying to figure out how to go about this edition of the So, Duh! Pop Quiz, so I decided to be graphic.

Graphic… in the sense I’m using pictures of both artists or groups that share a bond.  Namely, their bond is a song the one(s) on the left wrote and the one(s) on the right made famous.  In most of the cases, the one(s) on the left still made their own version, as it wasn’t initially intended to be for the one(s) on the right.

Get it?  Got it?  Gut it. Git-R-Done.

1) Neil Diamond and The Monkees

Forever in Blue Jeans (Not Leather or Knit Caps)

2) Rivers Cuomo of Weezer and Cold

So Dork and Brooding

3) Avril Lavigne and Kelly Clarkson

Different Photographers? U B the Judge

4) Prince and Sinead O’Connor

They Could Be in a Sci-Fi Film

5) The Beatles and The Rolling Stones

Remember When Everything was Black and White?

(Answers – and videos – after the jump) Read More

In My Brain While Sleeping… Worse. Interview. Ever.

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Immediately after waking up from this dream, I knew I had to make the video using Xtranormal.  You’ve probably seen videos from that sight, used in Geico ads.

Anygekko, I knew it wasn’t that entertaining on its own (that was kind of the point of the weirdness), and in text form, it would be xtraboring.  Enjoy Terrible Radio Interview with Sean Penn:

God bless the musical fruit…

Awful Battle… Fairy Tale Updates

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I don’t know if these movies have been released yet or not because I didn’t care to double-check (although the preview for one hints that it was supposed to come out last summer), but it’s an Awful Battle of fairy tale proportions…

Red Riding Hood and Beastly are obvious updates of their respective stories (if you can’t garner the source from their titles, you’ll have to bear through their previews):

(SIDENOTE: Unlike Twilight, which these films are for some reason aspire to be like, I would probably watch either of them if nothing else was available.  Mostly because I’ve seen Beastly star Vanessa Hudgens nude, and Red Riding Hood star Amanda Seyfried have sex with Julianne Moore and make out with Megan Fox.  Mjusayin’…)

(ANOTHER SIDENOTE: Doesn’t Mary-Kate Olsen look a lot like Ke$ha in her preview?)

We R Who We R

Coinkydink Or Coinkydonk? Traffic Light Vs. Perfect Couples

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Hey, gather ’round and let me tell you about a mid-season replacement…

Get this.. there are three guys… and they all went to college together… you see, that explains how they became friends… and then they all have significant others to varying degrees… begin ensuing hilarity!

That pretty much sums up the basics of two new shows – NBC’s Perfect Couples and Fox’s Traffic Light.

Light Couples and Perfect Traffic would be awesome.

But the Coinkydinks or Coinkydonks don’t end there…

  • Both feature cast-offs from other sitcoms

Well, this isn’t an uncommon thing, especially in the world of sitcom manufacturing.  There’s a lot of a throw it at the wall and see if breaks through mentality that goes into producing hits.  So let me clarify…

  • Both feature cast-offs from other sitcoms that I like

On Perfect Couples, we get Mary Elizabeth Ellis (Amy/The Waitress) from FX’s It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
On Traffic Light, you get both David Denman (Mike/Roy) and Nelson Franklin (Adam/Nick the IT Guy) from NBC’s The Office.

BONUS COINKYDINK OR COINKYDONK!
NBC and Fox/FX swapped Actors!

  • Both derive humor from the statuses of each relationship

Well, come to think of it, that might be a bit off as well.  Howzabout…

  • Both attempt humor from the statuses of each relationship

On Perfect Couples, you have the perfect couple, the regular couple, and the crazy couple.
On Traffic Light, you have the red light couple, the yellow light couple, and the green light, um, single guy.

  • Both shows have an Actor! that starred in another show called “Heist”

Sure, one was made in America and the other in Britain, but David Walton (Vance) of Perfect Couples and Kris Marshall (Ethan) of Traffic Light both happened to be in TV shows called Heist.

BONUS COINKYDINK OR COINKYDONK!
Perfect Couples’ Kyle Bornheimer and Hayes MacArthur
(Dave and Rex) were in She’s Out of My League.

  • Oh yeah… both shows have Asian hotties

Olivia Munn (formerly of G4’s Attack of the Show, concurrently of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show) and Liza Lapira (formerly of Fox’s Dollhouse) both portray the better-half of the highest level relationships.  Munn’s Leigh is in the perfect couple; Lapira’s Lisa is in the red light couple.

As Charlie Sheen might say about Olivia Munn, "Winning!" (Sorry Liza...)

BONUS COINKYDINK OR COINKYDONK!
Their characters’ names are Leigh and Lisa.
That’s pretty close…

Worth 1002 Words… Robocop Video Edition

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Vodpod videos no longer available.

KID ROBBED

(SIDENOTE: Seriously, how could Peter Weller miss Kid Rock in his list of famous Detroiters?  He’s one of its staunchest supporters!  For shame, Robocop, for shame…)