What do you do when your plans fall through on a Friday night?
You deny that playing along with National Bingo Night officially makes your life sad (even though, it really does. However, I did get Bingo. My prize? I get to be entered in a drawing! Hooray! It's a dream come true!).
You watch old episodes of The Office (The Fire, which brings up a good question, what would be your top 5 dvds on a desert island?).
And you update your blog.
As promised last time, I'm going to rehash the season finales of American Idol and Lost.
American Idol: An entertaining finale to a down year for the show. They need to do a much better job of casting next year. You never really got the sense that anyone really wanted to win. It's been proven that you can find success if you just make the top 10. In fact, Blake seemed a little relieved that he didn't win. They're gonna have to have more talented and more eager people on the show next year, or else I think the show is really going to risk becoming somewhat irrelevant by 2009 or 2010.
Lost: Wow. Just wow. Way to completely change things up. I'll go more in depth in a future post, but I'm really excited for the future of the show. This twist really worked because it wasn't a gimmick, it was just a simple shift of point of view. And that really works on a dramatic level. But this was a great finale. Full of suspense, full of emotion, just a great two hours of TV.
Kelly Clarkson: My friend Ian is, as he said, "half way in love with Kelly Clarkson." I don't blame him. She's really cute, amazing voice, can totally rock it out. I'm a little worried though. Ian has a tendency to get carried away. He's already created a life-sized replica of her, and also a giant-sized replica of her (he has a weird... fetish, i don't know, probably still longing to be an infant being nursed by his mother). Ian is a dangerous, twisted man.
Okay, everything past the words "totally rock it out" are completely false (unless Ian has some habits I don't know about). But yeah, point in case: Kelly Clarkson rocks and Ian wanted me to write about it.
Friday, May 25, 2007
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
a little preview for next time:
in my next coherent post: my thoughts on Lost's season finale (after my brain recovers, as the episode nearly killed it), American Idol, my friend's love of Kelly Clarkson, and auditioning...
until then... what the hell just happened on lost?
until then... what the hell just happened on lost?
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Hello World
Hey Everyone!
James here. This is the very first entry of JamesThoughts (which really is a working title... if anyone has any suggestions, let me know). As I sit here, jetlagged as hell, I can only think one question:
Why a blog? Why JamesThoughts? Why not IanThoughts as my good friend Ian suggested?
The last question can easily be answered by the fact that I already tried to blog Ian's thoughts a couple of months ago, and spending that much time in that man's mind proved to be dangerous to my health and society as a whole.
I have no clue what this blog will be like. Most likely, it will track the creative process as I take on new projects as an actor and writer. I might recap my thoughts on movies I've seen and some of my favorite TV shows, or I might philosophize on life in general. This will not be a log of how my feelings waver from day to day (I spent way too much time doing that on livejournal in highschool and my freshman year of college... it was a horrible habit, haha). It's just a place for me to share some thoughts.
I figure since I spend a good deal of time obsessing over TV shows, I might as well rehash/preview some of the Season Finales:
(Warning: The rehashes will include spoilers)
The Office:
Once Arrested Development went off the air, this became by far my favorite comedy on TV. Everything about the Office is great: the acting, the writing, the ability to mix silliness with the sentimental. I think this season's finale pretty much showcased all of these great elements. It's amazing that a show that can pull off jokes about Schrutebucks and Stanleynickles can still provide an emotional punch with a beautiful sequence where Jim find's Pam's "Don't Forget Us When You're Famous" note. As much as I really did like Jim and Karen together, it feels very right that Jim and Pam are now dating. It should be interesting to see how the writers handle them as a couple. Much of the show was built upon the tension of ther "Will They Get Together" question. Personally, I think the writers are skilled enough to make as compelling a story for Jim and Pam as a couple as they did with them apart, without going cliche and breaking them up early on (which would make me a very sad panda).
Other highlights of the episode were creedthoughts (which was the inspiration for this blog, and is actually posted on nbc.com... really check it out. Even for the internet, it's quite shocking), Pam being the secret Assistant (to the) Regional Manager, Andy's interviewing skills, and pretty much anything with Michael and Jan.
Overall, this episode gets 10 Schrutebucks out of 10.
Grey's Anatomy:
This was a disappointing end to an uneven season. I really did enjoy the first two seasons of Grey's, and I have to wonder if developing the "Private Practice" spinoff didn't stretch out Shonda Rhimes a bit. Meredith and Derek's relationship really did not make sense to me. The conflict that was mounting the past few weeks felt very forced, and Meredith declaration of "It's so over" was more pathetic than anything. The whole "Who's going to be the next chief" ended with a whimper, as an arc that took up the better part of the season ended with everything conveniently remaining the same! More over, this finale was just a bummer, and I don't feel the overpowering urge to know what happens (like I did after last season). I really hope Grey's finds it mojo again, because I miss it.
3 Schrutebucks out of 10.
Heroes:
I thought this really wrapped up the season nicely. I know the battle at the end was a little anti-climatic, but I thought it was really cool how everything came to a head at the end. This finale did everything I wanted it to: entertained me, provided a satisfying (if not a little predictable) conclusion to a great story, and left me wanting more and really looking forward to next season (despite the prospect of the cheesy spinoff: Heroes: Origins).
8 Schutebucks and 50 Stanley Nickles (or an 8.5 out of 10).
Now to prehash really quickly:
American Idol: I hate Blake. He's way too cheesy and not good enough a singer or performer to win the show. I absolutely despised his version of "You Give Love A Bad Name." Go Jordin!
Lost: Oh my freaking Lord, I cannot wait. I have no clue what's going to happen, and I like it that way.
Alright, well, I'm very tired and delirious and trying to figure out if farty is a real word.
Till next time,
James
James here. This is the very first entry of JamesThoughts (which really is a working title... if anyone has any suggestions, let me know). As I sit here, jetlagged as hell, I can only think one question:
Why a blog? Why JamesThoughts? Why not IanThoughts as my good friend Ian suggested?
The last question can easily be answered by the fact that I already tried to blog Ian's thoughts a couple of months ago, and spending that much time in that man's mind proved to be dangerous to my health and society as a whole.
I have no clue what this blog will be like. Most likely, it will track the creative process as I take on new projects as an actor and writer. I might recap my thoughts on movies I've seen and some of my favorite TV shows, or I might philosophize on life in general. This will not be a log of how my feelings waver from day to day (I spent way too much time doing that on livejournal in highschool and my freshman year of college... it was a horrible habit, haha). It's just a place for me to share some thoughts.
I figure since I spend a good deal of time obsessing over TV shows, I might as well rehash/preview some of the Season Finales:
(Warning: The rehashes will include spoilers)
The Office:
Once Arrested Development went off the air, this became by far my favorite comedy on TV. Everything about the Office is great: the acting, the writing, the ability to mix silliness with the sentimental. I think this season's finale pretty much showcased all of these great elements. It's amazing that a show that can pull off jokes about Schrutebucks and Stanleynickles can still provide an emotional punch with a beautiful sequence where Jim find's Pam's "Don't Forget Us When You're Famous" note. As much as I really did like Jim and Karen together, it feels very right that Jim and Pam are now dating. It should be interesting to see how the writers handle them as a couple. Much of the show was built upon the tension of ther "Will They Get Together" question. Personally, I think the writers are skilled enough to make as compelling a story for Jim and Pam as a couple as they did with them apart, without going cliche and breaking them up early on (which would make me a very sad panda).
Other highlights of the episode were creedthoughts (which was the inspiration for this blog, and is actually posted on nbc.com... really check it out. Even for the internet, it's quite shocking), Pam being the secret Assistant (to the) Regional Manager, Andy's interviewing skills, and pretty much anything with Michael and Jan.
Overall, this episode gets 10 Schrutebucks out of 10.
Grey's Anatomy:
This was a disappointing end to an uneven season. I really did enjoy the first two seasons of Grey's, and I have to wonder if developing the "Private Practice" spinoff didn't stretch out Shonda Rhimes a bit. Meredith and Derek's relationship really did not make sense to me. The conflict that was mounting the past few weeks felt very forced, and Meredith declaration of "It's so over" was more pathetic than anything. The whole "Who's going to be the next chief" ended with a whimper, as an arc that took up the better part of the season ended with everything conveniently remaining the same! More over, this finale was just a bummer, and I don't feel the overpowering urge to know what happens (like I did after last season). I really hope Grey's finds it mojo again, because I miss it.
3 Schrutebucks out of 10.
Heroes:
I thought this really wrapped up the season nicely. I know the battle at the end was a little anti-climatic, but I thought it was really cool how everything came to a head at the end. This finale did everything I wanted it to: entertained me, provided a satisfying (if not a little predictable) conclusion to a great story, and left me wanting more and really looking forward to next season (despite the prospect of the cheesy spinoff: Heroes: Origins).
8 Schutebucks and 50 Stanley Nickles (or an 8.5 out of 10).
Now to prehash really quickly:
American Idol: I hate Blake. He's way too cheesy and not good enough a singer or performer to win the show. I absolutely despised his version of "You Give Love A Bad Name." Go Jordin!
Lost: Oh my freaking Lord, I cannot wait. I have no clue what's going to happen, and I like it that way.
Alright, well, I'm very tired and delirious and trying to figure out if farty is a real word.
Till next time,
James
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