my opinion matters

The Creative Arts Emmys were given out already, because that’s the way they do it. I’m not going to list all of them because you can just google it if you want to, but I will highlight some of the important ones: Mad Men won Best Casting for a Drama, which is exciting because I love that show and it should win everything. Even more awesome is Modern Family won for Best Casting for a Comedy!! More later… laptop is dying.

I know I’m a little behind with predictions this year, but if you’ve read some of my other posts, you know I’m on detail for work this month, and I’ve been working a LOT. This year I’ve decided not to worry about what WILL win, and instead concentrate on who I think should win. It makes it much more fun for me that way, and even though I’ll be disappointed, I no longer care. The same stuff wins every year, anyway. I am also posting comments on some of the awards that never get mentioned during the live show, just for kicks. So here goes: Outstanding Short-Format Animated Program - The nominated shows are Adventure Time, Chowder, Disney Kick Buttowski, The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, Robot Chicken, and Uncle Grandpa. I have seen Chowder and Flapjack several times, and Ryan tells me Adventure Time is great and I should watch it. I seriously think that Flapjack is one of the best cartoony kind of shows I’ve seen in awhile, and it’s hilarious and the animation is funny too. It’s m...

So there.

I remember at the Golden Globes a few years ago, this show called Mad Men won a ton of awards and nobody had ever heard of it. But, of course, because apparently I’m resistent to change, I refused to watch it only on that basis. But it always sounded like a really good show, and it’s set in the late 50s early 60s, and that’s cool. I used to love that show American Dreams (remember that show? It was awesome until it got to be the late 60s and bummed everyone out) and I figured Mad Men would be a lot like that. And it kind of is, two episodes in. The first episode was okay, but was mostly riddled with “hey! check out this doctor smoking!” and “hey! everyone drinks at work!” and “hey! photo copiers don’t exist yet!” moments, which was fine but got a bit tedious. Largely, the story (as of the end of the second episode, at least, which is how much I’ve watched so far) is about this guy who is an ad executive and is possibly one of the most perfect looking people alive. I’m not saying he’s n...

When 30 Rock first started, I watched the first episode, maybe the first two, and I thought it was stupid. This is the same reaction I had to The Office when it first started, and I have discovered the awesomeness of that show. Because I’m on detail in New York and have little else to do, I started watching 30 Rock because I was tired of watching episodes of Buffy on the Netflix instant queue. Seriously. Anyway, it’s hilARious! How did I miss out on this show? Alec Baldwin is a freaking genius and Tina Fey rocks. I don’t really care about Jane Kra-whatever from Ally McBeal, but I recognize that she’s a good sidekick character. I’m convinced I’m the only person left who doesn’t like this show, but if you’ve been boycotting it for no reason like I was, give it a second chance. You won’t be sorry. Also, Big Brother pretty much blows. It’s the only thing on in the summer, but unless you pay to get the live feeds and read bbdish.blogspot.com and are basically obsessed with the show, it’s no...

I’m in New York for the month of August on detail for work, which is fun kind of, but I miss my boyfriend and my dogs a lot. I am currently watching Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami and I think it’s the most addictively awesome show I have ever seen. I don’t even care about the stupid Kardashians, but this show is hilarious and full of drama, and I’m pretty sure that guy Scott is the guy Christian Bale played in American Psycho. Seriously, the psycho. If you have a free half hour sometime, they always play the episodes on E!, so watch one sometime. It’s hilarious. Anyway, other than that it’s work work and more work. We are working more overtime than normal because we’re on detail and they put us up in a sweet hotel. Speaking of working, I am super tired and am going to go to sleep pretty soon. Yawn.

Okay, so I’m a huge fan of the Twilight series – not so much the movies, but definitely the books. The third movie in the series just came out and I just returned home from seeing it. It was… okay. The acting was horrendous, and they put everyone in this super thick makeup that was insane. Bella looked way too made up, like it was an attempt to make her look more attractive, but succeeded only in making her look like a drag queen. Plus, her eyebrows weren’t the same, and that is distracting. The acting from her was, as always, crappy. Slightly better than the last movie, but marginally. Edward acted… weird the whole time. I don’t know if they made him act differently or something, but the connection between him and Bella just wasn’t there. This is something that kind of bugs me about the series when they adapted it to film. When you read the books, it’s Edward all the way. You kind of feel bad for Jacob but not really because it’s so obvious that Edward and Bella are supposed to be tog...