Less than awesome: a slick subway ad, inset with a close-up of a man photographed in black and white with downcast eyes, under the text (I'm paraphrasing) "Maybe there was something I could have done to help her" accompanied by the tagline "Abortion changes you" with accompanying URL. More background in a 2008 National Review article here; I liked the part about how "Men tend to send in song lyrics to express their stories."
Also seen on the subway: Ads for the scaled-down 2010 Whitney Biennial (reviews here, here, here). Something about the design of the ads (black text, white background with blocks of bright neon-ish yellow and especially the slashed zeroes in 2010 ) feels very dated, but I'll still check out the show, along with the controversial New Museum show curated by Jeff Koons drawing from a billionaire's collection.
Also less than awesome: having to dial in for three hours' worth of an all-day face-to-face-except-for-me meeting in dreary Crystal City. If I'd gone down, I could have checked out the mega-exhibit of New Brow so-called underground art G-40: The Summit afterwards, but frankly I'm kind of sick of that whole aesthetic and the self-congratulatory hype surrounding it.
Still pretty awesome: this week's LOST, wrestler Rob Van Dam back on TV (though sadly on TNA instead of WWE), rewatching episodes of The Thick of It (which unfortunately makes it hard to take Alan Cumming's character on The Good Wife seriously, as he's no Malcolm Tucker).
Not yet or not quite awesome: the first few episodes of Sons of Anarchy (but I hear it gets better), MTV's faux-reality show My Life as Liz (but still worth checking out).
Not really awesome: Vampire Diaries (why did I let myself believe that it might be a modern day Dark Shadows: The Next Generation?)
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What do you think of Southland, BTW? I described it as engaging in the classically bad idea of trying to re-make The Shield with people who are supposed to be nice.
I haven't seen Southland, since it sounded like a watered-down and therefore unsuccessful version of The Shield. Though I did see a Southland vid last summer which almost made me change my mind; I can't remember who it was by, but it focused on a female character.
But yeah, I was looking for something very specific from VD that I didn't get, so YMMV. I watched the first three episodes with diminishing attention, then skipped ahead to see if it picked up later -- all told, I only watched (as in eyes on the screen) the equivalent of two episodes. And admittedly, Skins has raised the bar for me viz. writing & acting in teen shows, and the anime Vampire Knight set a very high standard for high school vampire shows.
Ultimately I just didn't find the characters that compelling -- neither Ian Somerhalder's character or his brother is the next Barnabas Collins.
Much as I like Eli Gold, I agree, he's no Malcolm Tucker. But then, who is? (I'm going at this ass-backward -- I watched In the Loop first, and plan on DL'ing The Thick of It as soon as my main computer gets fixed.)
I watched In the Loop after I'd seen the TV series, and was vaguely let down (the episodes, being briefer, feel tighter to me), but I'll have to rewatch it with a more open mind, if only for the beautiful swearing.
Nice to see you with some good news :D
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I only know Alan Cumming from watching one of the X-Men movies on the plane with the sound off, and also having him pointed out to me at a Zadie Smith book reading. And wasn't there some mock cologne commercial that he did? So the comparison to Malcolm Tucker is more based on how the role in The Good Wife is written, plus incidental Scottishness on the part of the actors.
Nice to see you! I read your posts avidly, even if I'm mostly comment-shy these days. ;)
Oh, art world, you do so crack me right up.
I'm not necessarily opposed to athletic-looking fellows in tights, but I think it's a bit pretentious to call them art. Maybe if they were fancier tights.
Her most recent performance, VB65, took place at PAC in Milan in March 2009, and featured a "Last Supper" of African immigrants, legal and illegal, dressed in suits, eating chicken without cutlery.
Oh, yes, because your average African doesn't know how to operate a fork. *sigh*
Yep, yep, you do, honey. The sad part is how you don't seem to want to fix that.
I don't even know where to go with that one; having been a nursing mother for, what, four of the last seven years, the idea of leaving any child I was nursing, whether born of me or fostered, before they were weaned seems appalling, and yet she did it four times? I don't have a reasonable way to approach that sort of narcissism.
Fanservice...it's not just for White Collar anymore.
"Well, I thought we'd put the entire cast in tights and shoot the ep like that."
"What?"
"It's art."
"You don't think we could just put them in a shower scene and do towels or something?"
"Oh, yeah, see, here, after the third commercial break, they all get out of their tights and get in the shower."
"Together?"
"Of course not! This is a family show!"