I watched Pushing Daisies and I understand the hype. It's a very good new show. And if you, like me, missed the first episode and are worried you won't know what's going on if you start watching the show now...you can watch the first 2 episodes here free.
You're welcome.
I love Friday Night Lights. I just watched the season finale and I am just in awe. Those of you who aren't watching...you suck. You're going to allow a great show to die before you ever got a chance to experience it. If NBC doesn't renew the show, I will be incredibly sad. But perhaps the best thing they did with this show was to end this season in such a way that if it is the only season, it will have been fulfilling for the faithful viewers. There are some loose ends, but no big ones.
I think the show is available for download from NBC. Check out what you've been missing.
Those of you who aren't watching this show are totally missing out. It's always good but tonight's episode was so, so fantastic.
Today after finally sleeping a nice long time I am taking nice long hit of fluff TV and boy do I need it. Men In Trees, Grey's Anatomy, Brothers & Sisters, Friday Night Lights. Like crack to a junkie. I was practically in withdrawal as all my shows were on winter hiatus and now I can just bask in the brain candy glow all day if I want to. Sweet!
Then it is off to Lenox Mall for furniture and clothes shopping. I have my eye on some dining room chairs that I need to check out, and if I'm going all the way to the mall anyhow I might as well buy some clothes or shoes or makeup that I don't need. (Yes, this is how a shopaholic thinks. Don't judge me!)
Tonight I will probably go have a beer or two with some pretty (and not-so-pretty) boys, and then to a party. So, there will be no more blogging today, but enjoy the blogroll!
I get on a plane at almost noon tomorrow (actually, today I guess) and I'm not going to work before then, so I am staying up late to drink beer and be irresponsible. And watch Men in Trees, which continues to mimic the best and worst in my life in some seriously strange ways. Tonight's episode was actually difficult to watch on many levels.
I probably won't have time or ability to blog from New York, so enjoy your weekend and hopefully I will have pretty pictures and fun tales of the city for you by Sunday night or Monday morning.
I've seen a ton of hits to this blog lately by people wondering if Men in Trees was cancelled. Nope, not cancelled, just being re-launched tonight in a new timeslot right after Grey's Anatomy.
This article explains the charm of the show and why it should win viewers over. If you missed the first 8 episodes you can probably find them for download via bittorrent, or hopefully ABC will rebroadcast them at some point. But don't worry--it's not a complicated enough show that you will feel like you missed a lot. I urge you to check it out.
So my new source for music I wouldn't otherwise hear has been Men in Trees, but this past Friday was an exception. They had Jewel on as a special guest star and she performed what I presume is about to be her new blockbuster single. Normally I am not a huge fan of hers, but I really liked this song. Maybe just because it's where my head is at right now. Anyhow, check it out.
Good Day
Jewel
I say to myself
Self, why are you awake again? It's one a.m.
Standing with the fridge door wide open, staring
Such a sight, florescent light
The stars are bright
Might make a wish
if I believed in that shit
As it is, I might watch TV
Cause it's nice to see people more messed up than me
I say to myself, as I smile at the wall, let myself fall
It's gonna be all right, no matter what they say
It's gonna be a good day, just wait and see
It's gonna be okay, cause I'm okay with me
It's gonna be, it's gonna be, it's gotta be
I shiver, shut the door
Can't think standing here no more
I'm alone, my mine's racing, heart breaking
Can you be everything I need you to be?
Can you protect me like a daughter?
Can you love me like a father?
Can you drink me like water?
Say I'm like the desert, just hotter.
The point of it all
Is that if I should fall
Still your name I'll call
It's gonna be all right, no matter what they say
It's gonna be a good day, just wait and see
It's gonna be okay, cause I'm okay with me
It's gonna be, it's gonna be
As long as we laugh out loud
Laugh like we're mad
Cause this crazy, mixed up beauty is all that we have
Because what's love but an itch we can't scratch, a joke we can't catch
But still we laugh
I go back upstairs, turn off the TV
You say "I'll be okay baby, just wait and see."
It's gonna be all right, it's gonna be okay
Gonna be a good day, just wait, just see
Gonna okay, cause I'm okay with me
It's gonna be, it's gonna be, it's gonna be...
I am so happy, the show I have been pimping so hard for months now, Men in Trees, will not be cancelled as so many predicted. Instead, it not only got a full season order but it will be moving from the wasteland that is Friday nights to the plum post-Grey's Anatomy timeslot on Thursday nights. Sure, there's some competition there, but this is a chance for people to discover this really good show and keep it alive. Yay! Check it out, please!
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I downloaded a ton of new music yesterday from a bunch of artists I'd never heard of before. It all started after I was trying to find a song I heard on the show Men in Trees (they have the best music on that show!), and that led me to a bunch of searches that led to more artists, etc. I just made a CD for my best friend that was the strangest amalgamation of musical styles but I so totally love it! Reggage, country, Pop, cabaret, it was all over the place.
And so I've decided that on Mondays I'm going to post about a new artist or group each week (when I remember and don't feel lazy.) Today's artist is Alice Peacock, whose song Leading with my Heart was on Men in Trees a couple weeks ago. It really hooked me in no small part because there is a verse about learning to walk before she could crawl, which is actually what I did as a baby. (Silly reason to like a song, I know, but oh well. I liked it.)
Here's her website where you can hear some of her stuff (it will start playing automatically or you can search her Music page.) I'll just be posting the lyrics to 2 songs I really love:
Leading With My Heart
Leading with my heart again,
I'm leading with my heart again.
I don't know if I'll lose or win,
But I'm leading with my heart again.
Putting my mind on hold.
Yeah, I'm putting my mind on hold.
I could be risking my very soul,
But I'm putting my mind on hold.
Yeah, I must admit,
There's just something about your kiss.
And I can't explain
Wouldn't want to if I could anyway.
I'm leaping before I look.
Yeah, I'm leaping before I look.
It may not be the same chance you took,
But I'm leaping before I look.
Walking before I crawl.
Yeah, I'm walking before I crawl.
I might tumble, I might fall.
But I'm walking before I crawl.
I know it's dangerous.
I know it's foolish.
But thinking it over,
You can't make me do it.
Yeah, I must admit,
There's just something about your kiss.
And I can't explain;
Wouldn't want to if I could anyway.
Leading with my heart again,
Yeah, I'm leading with my heart again.
I don't know if I'll lose or win,
But I'm leading with my heart:
I'm leading with my heart again.
Yeah, yeah.
Leading with my heart again.
It doesn't really matter at all.
Different From the Rest
Heard you're getting married today
Well that's just great and I'm okay
Cuz' everyone deserves a day in the sun
And I'm not the type to come undone
I hope she loves you
I hope she cares
And when you need someone to hold you
I hope she's there
God speed, God Bless, I guess
You were different from the rest
I still can remember that night
On the hill
I wore your bomber jacket
The one with all the patches
You asked me if I could tell the truth
I said I could and that I didn't love you
I hope she loves you
I hope she cares
And when you need someone to hold you
I hope she's there
God speed, God Bless, I guess
You were different from the rest
I've often wondered how I'd feel
To finally let you go
I said I'll cross that bridge
When I come to it...when I come to it
So all day I really didn't have much to say, and now I'm just going to jabber for a bit before taking a nice long bath, doing my nails, and going to bed.
Tomorrow morning I'm getting up bright and early to drive to South Georgia where hopefully I will not find a deer being bled before my very eyes. Then we'll be driving to Tallahassee for the FSU/BC game. I really hope it goes better than the Clemson game because I'm goin to be mighty pissed if I spent $600 on season tickets that only get me into ones we lose. After the game we're going to my favorite Mexican restaurant in the whole wide world, but my companion doesn't know that yet. Hopefully he won't mind too much.
Tonight I caught up on TV I'd missed, including Grey's Anatomy and My Name is Earl, and of course Men in Trees. I find it amazing and poignant how the show keeps echoing my own love life in certain small ways, like someone is trying to tell me something. Since the ratings are steadily improving every week I hope the show will get a decent timeslot soon.
I have a new secretary and she's wonderful. I earned the nickname Murphy Brown at some point for my endless stream of bad secretarial pairings, but we finally got me a new one and she's so good I keep waiting for her to reveal that she's psychotic or moving to Alaska or something. Hopefully that won't happen because I already just want to lavish her with gifts for being so awesome.
I made dinner tonight...well, sort of. See, I didn't really want to full-on COOK so I decided to make pasta. Only the basil I had in the fridge was no good, so I cooked this pasta with garlic, olive oil, pignoli and red pepper flakes. It was tasty, but not the healthiest thing I've ever eaten. Oh well, beats ordering pizza or getting fast food.
I miss Samantha. I miss Renee. I miss having girlfriends to be catty bitches with when someone has the misfortunate of playing an adverse role in my life, even if they're perfectly lovely people. I miss getting drunk with Sam and just talking shit about everyone and laughing all the way through it. I miss both of them talking me into stupid crazy shit that I would normally NEVER do, and yet somehow they get me to do it effortlessly. Take your clothes off in the street, sure why not? I feel so alive, so free, so unencumbered by anything in those moments. I simply must visit New York soon. Maybe for that conference in December...
Why yes, I've been drinking some wine, thanks for asking. Pfffft if you got a problem with that, it's beena long week.
OK time to sign off before I say anything embarassing or manage to accidentally delete my post...again. Good night, Moon. Don't expect many updates this weekend because a girl can only pack so much fun into one crazy weekend.
Dammit ladies, you should be watching this show! I just got done watching last night's episode and now I'm a strange combination of atwitter from all the sex and verklempt from all the relationship-y stuff at the end. That's largely due to some parallels in my own life's relationships these days (no I'm not a hooker who's suddenly sleeping with my married ex-boyfriend...you figure it out), but it's still a really good show. I promise. You with DVRs, record the damned thing on Friday nights and watch it over the weekend or on a slow night when there's nothing else on. Trust me.
If it doesn't start getting better ratings or get moved to a night where it has a shot at decent ratings, I fear this show will be cancelled. It's been doing OK for a Friday night show, but filming up on location cannot be cheap and there's some recognizeable faces in the large cast who I am guessing also do not come cheap. And this show deserves to live, dammit!
I just watched Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. Aaron Sorkin is back and in rare form. I can tell this is gonna be a good one.
Only problem I see so far is that I cannot stand Amanda Peet. Hopefully her recently announced pregnancy will cause her role to be written off the show.
It has been just an insane day, the kind of day where you set out with one goal to accomplish and so many things come up along the way that you find yourself swamped and at the end of the day you still haven't even started on the things you meant to accomplish. I hate these sorts of days. I could stay here til midnight and not even get done all of the things that need to be done today. I could stay here until midnight tomorrow, no sleep whatsoever, and I might possibly maybe get to a point where I can breathe again. I know it's just a situation where I need to work through it and keep grinding until I see daylight again, but staring at the foot-high piles of paper on my desk, it doesn't feel like daylight is on the horizon anytime soon.
I am also starving. For a hypoglycemic type like me, this is dangerous. This is when we start shaking or crying while trying to edit a document. I could seriously be declared criminally insane when my blood sugar gets too low--I'm that whacked out when I get past a certain point. Thankfully I'm not there yet...but it's lurking.
The good news is I've had so little free time today that I haven't even read any stories that made me want to blog about them. Oh, there was Pat Robertson calling for Bush's impeachment because he hadn't stopped the illegal immigration "invasion" but that's hardly even worth the effort of a mention. Pat Buchanan's motives couldn't be more blatant if he walked around carrying a sign that said "No More Brown People" on one side and "Will Pander For Airtime" on the other. We get it Pat. You have a history of trying to topple Presidents named Bush, too. So you're just playing your role.
In other news, I watched the second episode of Men in Trees on my DVR last night and it was actually even better than the first. It's so very, very Sex and the City, though...complete with romantic relationship realizations voiceover at the end. Look, it's not highbrow and it asks for some pretty big willing suspension of disbelief, but it's funny and cute and I like it. I need my fluff, dammit! I cannot stand to watch another lawyer show and I put my reality show cieling at 1 show per season. (With Project Runway occupying that spot so I am not taking other offers.) Since HBO has no good original series on right now, this is as close as I can get to a hit of SATC goodness. Even if it is starring Anne Crackpot QuasiUnLesbian Heche.
I just got back from a mini-vacation and I already need a vacation. Such is my life.
So I got home tonight, made some dinner, and sat down on the couch to see what was on TV. I saw the last 5 minutes of Dancing With the Stars (I don't actually watch it but wanted to see what scores this group got...ha ha Tucker! You asshat!) and then saw a commercial for the next show, which was a premiere of a "dramedy" called Men in Trees. It starred Anne Heche who I don't like, but the premise was intriguing enough to give it 5 minutes to impress me. It's about a woman who is a bestselling relationships author, who's about to get married when she discovers her fiance is cheating on her. She discovers this while on a trip to Alaska and decides to stay there and hide out from the bad publicity while she studies the guys for her next book instead of writing only about women.
Now, it sounds crappy, right? And it probably is. But the first episode had me thinking hmmm...this reminds me a lot of Sex and the City with the setups, the dialogue, the style. Lo and behold, one of the writers of Sex and the City is the creator and an executive producer. And then I see in the credits James Mangold...wtf? The same James Mangold who directed Walk the Line? Yep, the same...he's a producer too.
So basically this all intrigued me enough to watch the episode, and it's not terrible. In fact there are parts that are total cliche, but there are parts that aren't half bad too. I'm giving it 3 viewings on the DVR before I keep or dump.
In fact there are a SCARY number of shows on the DVR for the standard 1 or 3 viewing audition this fall. I really need to hate most of them because I simply won't have time to watch all this TV! However, I dumped Desperate Housewives (it became unwatchable) and stopped watching Survivor for good last season, and I'm thinking Lost might get dumped this season. So maybe there's room. MAYBE.
It's sad that summer is almost over, but fall brings 2 wonderful things (in addition to slightly less scorching temperatures): college football, and new seasons of my favorite TV shows. The summer has been a barren wasteland of bad TV, with only 3 shows making it onto my DVR: The Closer (shush you, I like that show!), Project Runway, and Deadwood. But Fox has already jumped the gun and started premiering their series starting this week, and within the next month all the other networks are following suit. The full list of premiere dates is here, but these are the ones that will be getting a spot on my DVR:
Aug. 30th: Justice
Sept 18th: Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Sept. 20th: Criminal Minds
Sept 21st: My Name Is Earl and Grey's Anatomy (and maybe Six Degrees)
Oct 4th: Lost
Oct 11th: 30 Rock
