The Smiths Crossbred With The Supremes = Really Good, Akshully

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i guess this was a big hit in the UK (i've never heard it before today), and smiths fans supposedly LOATHE it, but i am DIGGING IT, and i personally think that theintegration of the lyrics from the Supremes classic 'You Keep Me Hangin' On' is GENIUS, and honestly, it sounds like those words have always been in that song. There's something about it that makes it sound like it's an old O'Jays song or something that came out of Philly 30+ years ago (that got remixed).

Video's pretty good, too... the UK video, not the SHITFUL 'international video' which is basically a fat slice of dirty ass. You know what else is weird, is the pic of mark ronson on the cover of 'versions' is reminiscent of the old smiths album cover 'hatful of hollow.' it's pretty evocative of smiths cover art in general, actually. probably intentional.


and HERE is the original song from 'strangeways here we come' which is probably one of my VERY favorite smiths albums, after 'the queen is dead', of course.

The Smiths Stop Me If You Think
by Celtiemama

Rabbit

Among the finest of cautionary tales. Here's dude's website: http://www.runwrake.com/.

Who's The Boy You Like The Most?

i love this band. Here's a GREAT remix of my favorite song from their album "Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix." Below is the original song. Below that is a spin.com session where the band performs the songs "Lizstomania," and "1901." Get into this shit, yo.

"You Must Leave Society And Live In The Woods As An Animal, Never To Return."

This was inarguably the showstopper for last Saturday's SNL... as opposed to last Sunday's SNL, i suppose.

Not So Still Life With Monkey and Cigarette

Charla Nash is the lady who got her face torn off by a monkey last year. Oprah had her on last week, and did a "Big Reveal" where they had Charla in a wide brimmed hat with a black gauzy veil obscuring her face before having her take it off. Does anybody else think that Oprah reads as manipulative and exploitational for the last several years?

It's made all the worse by what i think of as "aggressive compassion," which is when a person uses somebody who is FUCKED UP in some way and then makes a HUGE deal out of lionizing them in a public manner in a way that aggrandizes themself. it's sort of Oprah's MO- see Mackenzie Phillips, Mike Tyson, Whitney (talk about SOFT SERVE, Oprah!) et al.

ANYWAY, you can go HERE for Newsweek's cover story about how Oprah has quite simply JUMPED THE FUCKING SHARK. At this point, the nicest thing i'd make a point of saying about her is that at least she's not TYRA. Actually, that's sort of my go-to compliment for anyone who has a deficit of human qualities.

Me, i'm watching Wendy Williams. That show is FUN, and she is TRASHY, but she knows it and as she would say, "it is what it is." No posturing for her, she regularly concedes that she is a hardcore gossip, she's a blatant, unapologetic climber, and she even makes jokes about how she looks like a drag queen.

The ultimate, though, was when some crappy C-list guest that was supposed to come on opted to do a phone in interview at the last minute. Wendy acted BORED AS HELL, and proceeded to cook a SLIM JIM with a BIC LIGHTER, while being apathetically dismissive and making back handed comments about her not showing up. ahhh, wendy... i wish you guys could have seen it.

OH LOOK! i FOUND IT!

Bummerama

Joss Whedon's (often painfully erratic but potentially AWESOME)'Dollhouse' has been put back in the box. It's said that fellow Fox sci-fi show 'Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles' was cancelled to make room for the doomed 'Buffy' scribe's high concept meditation on um... (human trafficking? ethics in technology and science? eliza dushku's vast array of facial expressions?) whatever?


Summer Glau in a promo poster for Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

This SERIOUSLY sucks for actress Summer Glau (Firefly, the Firefly movie known as 'Serenity'), who starred in T:SCC, and was recently announced to be joining the cast of Dollhouse as well. Also unhappy: heterosexual geekboy virgins, who will surely refer to 2009 as the "Year Without a Summer," or "That time that Fox gave me blueballs for 7 consecutive months."

Joss was not at the top of his game with this show (blame fox if you want, but he just didn't BRING IT as much as he normally does), but i am choosing to focus on the forthcoming Whedon-helmed horror film "Cabin in the Woods," which is boasting the following marketing campaign. It's nice to see that JW still has a sense of humor- the absence of which is why almost anybody that watches all his shit likes 'Buffy' the best.

Holy Crap

The Peace Corps REALLY hooks it up, especially for education benefits. I haven't even gotten admitted to a University yet (currently thinking NAU, but also thinking of sticking with my goal of UofA) although i should be done with my prerequisites by the end of summer/end of Fall 2010 semester at latest, but i guess it can't hurt to start thinking Master's Program, huh? my current timetable has me getting my nursing BSN in spring 2013, possibly Fall 2012 if i push harder, and if i were to be accepted into a public health graduate program at someplace like Tulane U in New Orleans, i could do the three or four semesters in LA, and then do a 2 year medical resource development/general nursing/health care commitment abroad (which is what i want to do professionally anyway) and come back with a Public Health degree + 2 years of international experience. HOLY SHIT, that's an AMAZING deal. Plus, your education is almost certainly super cheap or free, PLUS you get the hookup with all these job opportunities when you get back, you get preference for federal jobs, etc etc etc. My mind is sort of reeling from all the different possibilities right now... it's the first time i've started really looking into them in any real depth and i'm impressed. Damn.

Velveeta Melts Better Than Cheddar

This is the crazy part of the semester- a lot of people would say finals are the worst, but i find it's the last month before finals, because it's really common for teachers to be behind in their course material (typically because of really stupid students who are either VERY VERY STUPID or worse, because they intentionally drag their feet through the easier, earlier in the semester material because they seem to think that if they gobble up enough time, the teacher will HAVE to drop material from the class, but IT DOESN'T FUCKING WORK LIKE THAT, ASSHOLES) and you've gotten to the difficult material by then, and PLUS there's a time crunch, so it's just hell. Finals to me are pretty easy (so far- knock on wood) because if you've got an A by the last week of class, then you've worked hard enough all semester for the final to not be that bad, if you are capable of even moderate retention and/or recall.

ANYWAY, i thought i'd post something. i feel bad when i don't blog, but as i have said before, i am a very guilt oriented person.

I don't like Celine Dion, but this old chestnut is pretty funny. It is also the first official selection for my new feature, "VELVEETA VARIETY!" which will focus on bad taste and overtly tacky subject matter. I doubt that anyone would argue against the reality that Celine Dion is a partially rehydrogenated processed cheesefood (from CANADA, no less!), and exemplifies the medium. These kind of posts are great because they're easy to write, they require little to no emotional involvement from me, they're fun and fast to read (or they are intended to be, at least... not to be PRESUMPTUOUS), they're fast to slap together, AND let's face it- there's a LOT more shit out there than there is high art- and part of me (not all of me, but PART of me) might argue that the processed cheese-esque foodstuffs of the world are a lot more fun.

so without further ado...

Enjoy!

"I DON'T NEED TO RUMMAGE THROUGH A DUMPSTER FOR A PLAYBOY!"

HOLY CHRIST.