New Sonic Addiction: Russell Brand

I am over 30 now, and I find myself blissfully ignorant about pop culture. The one downside is when something fun and interesting actually comes along, like Russell Brand, I fall behind.

I am a huge sucker for British accents, probably due to a childhood watching Masterpiece Theater on PBS. Russell is frenetic, unpredictable and more hysterical than most any other comedian I've listened to.

Click here to try the podcast of his BBC Radio 2 show.

Welcome to Dillydale

I love my TiVo. It's been recording The Mr. Men Show on Cartoon Network. It's such a retro cartoon complete with all my favorite characters from the books I read as a kid.

Super Liza

I love Logo Online.

Check Out Super Liza Minnelli from the Big Gay Sketch Show.

My thoughts on the oscars

So, I just finished watching the Oscars(r) through the glorious invention of TiVo.

Some random thoughts:

• TG Juno won something. My sister Kath calls best original screenplay "The grand booby prize" that the Academy gives out when something's really good, but there's still a better "Best Picture" movie. In this case, since an ex-stripper wrote the film, it really is a grand booby prize.
  
• Daniel Day-Lewis can suck it. The whole bowing to Helen Mirren was soooo last year. His "method acting" of taking years to prepare, blah blah is kind of interesting, but really, I'm so tired of his schtick.
• The montages of past year's clips were probably the most charming parts of the evening.
  
• John Stewart's Wii game with the little choir girl was lame. It smacked of product placement.
  
• John Stewart was funnier than the last time, but still not quite funny enough.
  
• Enchanted's songs were really good, but the song from Once was way better. August Rush was kind of pedantic and stale, even with a prodigy songstress.
  
• Jack Nicholson can just never come up on stage again. He seemed totally out of it. He definitely needs some Geritol or something (speaking of product placement).
  
• It's a Class A Felony that Hillary Swank has 2 Oscars and Laura Linney has yet to receive one. LL Cool Lady is an incredibly passionate and versatile actress.
  
• I really want to see La Vie En Rose. I love Edith Piaf's music. I actually have had it on my Nano for over a year.
  
• Paul Thomas Anderson's movies intrigue me. Even though DDL is in it, I may have to see There Will be Blood. What the hell is drinking a milkshake have to do with oil?
  
• The Coen Brothers movies are fascinating. I just saw Big Lebowski a few months ago for the first time. Fargo was amazing and Lebowski was enchantingly strange.
  
• NCFOM is still putting me off because Tommy Lee Jones is in it. The only movie I like that man in is Coal Miner's Daughter. He can suck it with DDL.
  

Iraq and a Hard Place

The Iraq War is such a touchy subject. I supported the decision to go to War because I believed that there were WMDs in Iraq. Obviously, that was at best an error in judgment by the administration, or at worst a fabrication of the administration's clandestine influences.

The hard choice is that now it's time to pick a totally new administration. As I speak Romney has thankfully pulled out of the race. But that leaves us with a slightly more congealed Republican party versus a stylistically divided Democratic Party.

I just read Margaret Cho's blurb on Huffington Post.

Her levity made me smile, but it truly minimizes the dramatic social impact that this election will have.

I would be happy with either Senator Clinton or Obama winning. If the winner of the convention doesn't name the other as running mate, they will definitely lose the election because the democratic party will be in shambles.

I admire Senator McCain because I believe he puts the interests of the nation before the interests of the Republican base. That being said, he lately seems to be bending over backward to please everyone, and that worries me that he will wind up in some unholy alliance with whoever the next Karl Rove is in the party.

Another interesting note: Frank Schaeffer, one of the biggest names in the Pro-life movement is proud to support Obama for his life-affirming stance on issues, even though Obama is admittedly pro-choice. His argument for Obama is lucid and logical, something that one may not expect from the fire and brimstone rhetoric of a religious writer.

I will vote in the primary, I'm just stuck as to whom I will choose. I'm glad I still have a couple of months to make up my mind.

tonight's disappointment

Pink Five has finally released the second volume of Return of Pink Five, the hysterical Star Wars Fanfilm that follows Stacy, the valleygirl Jedi(tm). The fan film series has actually become part of the Star Wars canon.

I will warn you before you click the link, Volume 2 is not the conclusion. It's still hysterical.