Monkey Thoughts

I was reading an article in the UK edition of People just now. I read a few lines in my head and stopped. Something wasn't right. Read a few more. Stopped. What IS that? Then I realized- I was reading it with a British accent. In fact, I couldn't read it without hearing a British accent in my head. (Am I the only person that "hears" things in her head when she's reading or typing? God, I hope this is a normal occurrence.)
I'm a little ashamed of myself at the moment. Just how long have I been going on faking accents in my head?

I'm glancing at my TV that is tuned to "The Search for the New Doll" on the CW. I'm not sure how it ended up on this program as I wasn't watching the CW in the first place. But that's besides the point. This show is painful. It makes my head scream. I guess some people *connect* to the contestants or whatever, but the majority just came off as twats to me.
Ooh. Someone has a virus. *gasp* The drama. Let's all cry about it. Some more.
C'mon, now...what IS this crap? And why are they showing them all puke??

Speaking of nonsensical crap...right before this show I caught the last few minutes of "Gilmore Girls" in which they were watching "The Pursuit of Happyness" on a TV. Either a) the show takes place in the future or b) I missed some major plot point in which they reveal their ability to watch current movies from the comfort of their TV. I've never actually watched the show in it's entirety, so I'm unable to say which of the two is the more likely of scenarios.

Silent Hill 2 Announced

I'm giddy. I really enjoyed the first one. I hope they keep Christophe Gans, as he seems to have a grasp of both the game and the necessity of not making the film geared towards the under 18 audience. But what I really hope is that they continue the story with Chris Da Silva's character and make it like Silent Hill 2 (the video game version). That makes the most sense in my head.

I was reading an article about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's Definitive 200, which is a ranked list of "must owns". The author was quite pissed off about it, and I chuckled thinking he must be one of those "music nerds". Then I checked the list myself and I gotta tell you, he is right on. It was the must irking shite I've seen in a while. Someone tell me, in what freaking universe would Avril Lavigne or Nelly be on a "Top 200 Must Have" list?
I'm thinking perhaps someone was drunk or paid off well when they composed this.

Take a gander Here

If there's one person who I wish would not have articles written about them, it would be...

Surprisingly, not Paris Hilton, or Anna Nicole, or Britney...

But Rosie O'Donnell. Yes. I am tired of hearing her views on every topic and how it relates to her. What's that? Someone died? Quick! What does Rosie have to say about this?? Britney's in rehab...quick, someone ask Rosie!

Aside from all that...I'm come across excerpts from her blog once and had to check for myself to really get the full effect. Now I'm not one to speak in terms of grammar, etc, but Rosie's blog is so painful to "read". It's like reading a 12 year old's Live Journal, assuming that 12 year old is a girl who is a fan of emo and is failing/barely passing school.

Yeow. I think at some point (and that point being almost 45), it should be a illegal to write like a pre-pubescent.

I once worked with this woman who reminding me of Rosie. I ran into her last year. And here's what I have to say to her:

ahem...

big head
stupid laugh
i have ur yearbook still
ur not getting it back
ever
hahaha

Sean Connery is just freaking cool in every movie he's in, and he gets those lines that no one else would sound right saying?
Like "Shit on a stick".
No one else could say that and sound remotely cool enough.

Dog and Monkey 4ever

But I'm in the mindset that the purpose of attending school is to receive an education. Radical thought, isn't? When I read stories about this Bong Hits 4 Jesus situation, I have to roll my eyes. There's a part of me thinking "Ah..youths, thinking they know everything...rebelling against 'the man'." Then I remember I'm not old as hell yet, so why the hell am I saying "youths"??

To me it seems very cut and dry. You're in school, you follow the administration's policies. It's not a place to be "expressing" yourself or having the full benefit of freedom of speech. Debate club, yes. But a school function? C'mon already.

Without policies and structure...well, kids might as well be on a playground all day. And it's not the whole "drugs are bad" thing that gets me about this case. Frankly, I couldn't care less if he was promoting drugs or if it was an "Eat at Joe's" banner. Hell, I'm pretty sure Jesus would love a good bong now and then. It's that people believe school is the soapbox for all this sort of shit. There is a code of conduct for a reason. Schools aren't stepping on any toes by taking an anti-drug stance and not allowing clothing with pro-drug messages, or clothing with violent/sexual images and messages. It is simple code o' conduct basics. Now random drug testing and random searches--I see a problem with that. Hell, I have a problem with ear/eye/blood pressure tests at school without my consent. When I was in school, they used to do tests for scoliosis. Nothing weirder than having to take of your shirt and bend over for a complete stranger. But isn't there a reason people have doctors? Do the majority of folks not take their kids to a yearly check up and that is why someone along the line decided that we needed to check blood pressure and scoliosis at school? What the hell was the thinking process here? Let's make kids lives at school as awkward as possible?

But I digress... (I still have some pent up irritation due to a blood pressure check in high school during my study hall. And the scoliosis thing still gives me the creeps.)

This jackass even goes to say he was trying to piss off the administration. So because he got in trouble for being a little shit, he decided his rights must have been violated. Oooh. The controversy.

All I have to say is this: If you're 17 and feel like making a lame statement, do it on a Friday night far away from school grounds. Then you can bitch and moan when your civil rights are violated, if indeed something happens.

This was mentioned in CaffiNation's recent podcast (kick ass podcast, by the way) and considering I had just had a conversation about Eddie Izzard not more than 2 hours prior to listening to the podcast, I thought it was a zany coincidence. And since I dig Eddie Izzard, I thought "Hell, I'm a gonna post that".

I'm digging his new show The Riches too. Good stuff.

This is the first Thai movie I've seen...and it blew my mind. Not the movie. But the Thai-ness. I don't think I've ever heard Thai spoken at any length and, to me, it sounded like a bunch of vowel sounds. I wouldn't be surprised if it's a very difficult language to learn, cause it sure the hell sounded like it would be.

So..the movie. It was a whole black magic revenge plot sort of movie. Except, it was hard to understand why the woman was plotting against everyone in the first place. It went like this: woman bangs dude, gets pregnant by dude, demands money from him. Dude has his friends get some cause he figured he paid for it. Woman asks for more money, dude says no. Dude's friends die horrible death. Dude dies horrible death. Dude's family (who had nothing to do with the woman) die horrible death. Then the woman starts all over with the dude's ex wife and her kids.
Why??
By the dvd cover, it claimed to be gruesome and shocking. Maybe I'm getting jaded from all the horror movies I've seen, but I didn't see it particularly gruesome or shocking.I found it kinda dull and confusing at best.
Bleh.

I was watching "H20" today and thought "Man, "Resurrection" fucking sucks". And yes, it does. For a lot of reasons.
But my main reason is because it destroyed everything "H20" created. Yeah, it was a little f'ed up that "H20" expected the viewer to pretend that 4-6 didn't exist. I'm fine with that. I enjoy those movies, but they are quite inferior to 1 & 2. "Resurrection" wants the viewer to accept that the end of "H20" was all messed up. And frankly, I can't do that. Why Jamie Lee Curtis agreed to do "Resurrection" is beyond me. It was a total fucked up mess of a movie, even more than "Curse of Michael Myers" managed to be.

In other news, the Rob Zombie version has wrapped up shooting. I'm equally excited and dreading it.

I always find it interesting when the protagonists of a film are folks you generally wouldn't root for. Go pimp! Woo! But Hustle and Flow does a damn fine job of getting you to really feel for the characters. I missed the first 30 mins of this but since it wasn't on ShoDemand and wasn't scheduled to air again until Thurs, I decided to watch where it started. Even missing those first 30 mins, it still managed to draw me in. Hell, I don't particularly enjoy rap music. But this was damn entertaining. Kick ass cast- Terrence Howard, Anthony Anderson (who I'm always expecting to say something funny. This was a more dramatic role than I'm used to seeing him in), DJ Qualls, and Taryn Manning. Oh, and Ludacris as "Skinny Black". He was a bit of a bastard.

Anyway, well worth the watch. And one day, I'll catch the first 30 mins.

Actually, I loved the first two episodes of this show.
But I had a disappointing time watching it. See, I heard an ad that the first two episodes were available on "Free Movies On Demand", so I was there. While watching episode one, I saw the first getting it on scene. Then something caught my eye...or failed to. You see, there were no nipples. The woman was completely topless and yet her nipples had been blurred out. Yet, you could see the man's nipples. (Seriously, what is the hangup over nipples? How is a man's nipples not seen as 'offensive' as a woman's? They look the same, for fuck's sake!) I was peeved. How dare they trick me with lack of nipples!
Regardless, I watched both episode 1 & 2 on the free station. Afterwards, it dawned on me that maybe the episodes would be on Showtime On Demand. Sure enough, they were. I just wasted 2 hours of my life watching blurred out nipples FOR NOTHING!
I did what most rationally thinking people would do and turned on the non-edited versions of the show, speeding to the nipple parts so I could see them. Cause dammit, I was owed nip!

*sigh* Overall, it's a damn fine show so far.