No Particular Pattern

Sorry I've been so dormant. As I may have mentioned before, the house is going through some major remodeling. The construction has been done for about a week and as defacto, self-appointed interior designer, I've kinda gone off my nut with the decorating and fixing up. You'd think it was my house for all the thought and work I've been expending. So I've kind of screwed the pooch on the posting lately. I won't bore you with another list of the stuff I really really am going to write about (it's safe in my head), but here are a few random things I've been thinking about this last couple of weeks.

• "Friday Night Lights" got renewed for 2 more seasons! I was absolutely expecting this to get cancelled (especially as NBC is giving Leno the entire 10pm time slot next year, meaning fewer shows are gonna get picked up), but was so pleasantly surprised that they worked out the 2-year deal with Direct-TV. Both seasons 4 & 5 will be 13 episodes, and air first on Direct-TV, just like this season. YAY! Still don't know what the story's going to be about as the end of this season brings about the graduation of Saracen, Tyra, Riggins and Lyla (that's more than half the teens! plus Street and Smash left this year too!). I'm hoping we'll see a little bit of all these characters next year, even if they won't be returning as series regulars. At least we still have Coach and Tami!
• Just watched the original Die Hard over the weekend and forgot how fucking awesome it is! Bruce Willis is amazing. I remembered he bloodied up his feet, but I had forgotten he was barefoot for the entire movie. Alan Rickman's villain is a classic (just made EW's Top 20 Villains list), and "Yippie Kai Yay, Mother Fucker" is one of my favorite lines ever. When we visited Grauman's Chinese Theater on my senior class trip, I took a picture of Bruce Willis' handprints just because he has written that quote on the cement! And there is really something to be said for the slow, deliberate pacing, the so '80's references and music, and even the random topless nudity at the Christmas party - reminded me of the random topless nudity at the beginning of Lethal Weapon - I think that was a late '80's/early '90's trend. I caught Die Hard on TV - on one of our new channels in the improved cable package (we also finally have DVR!) and it was so great I had to put in on again later that night. Needed to savor it a little more. Also, how creepy is Alexander Godunov as henchman Karl? With the long, flowing, bleach-blonde hair. So handsome, yet in an entirely unappealing way. I spent years thinking that he was actually Dolph Lundgren - my bad!
• Speaking of good ol' Alex, have you seen the trailer for the new Sandler/Rogen flick Funny People? Check it out here - contains an amazing shoutout to Alexander Godunov in my favorite joke of the trailer, as well as featuring Ringo Starr's song "Photograph." Yes. Plot doesn't look particularly original, but I like Sandler when he tones it down, I am disturbingly in love with Seth Rogen, and Eric Bana is the bad guy/tool in a seriously amped up Austrailian accent! Love it!
• Have been listening to LIVE's "Hold Me Up" non-stop (also Beyonce's "Halo," but for reasons I'd rather not get into. I'll just say shipper...). It plays over the intimate sex scene in Zach and Miri Make a Porno and surprisingly works really well. Which has me thinking: awhile back I was listening to Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb" while talking with Abby about making the Ultimate Makeout Mix Ever (it was a rather grandiose dream). "Comfortably Numb" made me think of it because every time I hear that song, I rememer how hot Leonardo DiCaprio is in the sex scene from The Departed; therefore, instant makeout classic. Other obvious choices would include "Let's Get It On" by Marvin Gaye and "Let's Stay Together" by Al Green. On the basis of the sex scene in Zack and Miri I am seriously considering including "Hold Me Up." Also, there's this great Coldplay song called "Sex with White Folks" that is supposedly playing in the background of the Mexican threesome scene of Street, Lyla and Riggins in season 2 of "Friday Night Lights" but I can't find it anywhere. You guys have any suggestions for The Ultimate Makeout Mix?
• I fell in love with another paint splattered Beauty Shot on "America's Next Top Model." Part of me really wants to get a hold of these shots and display them as art, but since I've had to actually watch these girls on a reality show and have regrettably learned way too much about their annoying personalities, I couldn't actually do that. But maybe I could get some paint-splattered pictures taken of myself? Or of someone I know? I've always thought my sister Andrea was beyond beautiful...maybe she's be willing to fierce it up like this:

(Sarah, I found this interview with Nathan Fillion at EW and it make me giggle. Just for you.)