my opinion matters

It has been almost an entire month since I’ve posted, and I blame my job because it’s easy to blame things on. I recently started a bookclub with my sister, and the first book we chose was The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo because I already read it and thought she would enjoy it. We will see. Nothing pop culture related has really been happening. New season of Survivor, etc but nothing outstanding. The Social Network comes out soon, which is a movie about Facebook written by Aaron Sorkin. If you live in a cave, Aaron Sorkin wrote The West Wing which is the greatest show ever, and also wrote A Few Good Men and Sports Night. He is amazing. The movie itself looks pretty bad because the people in it suck, like Justin Timberlake and that douche-y and annoying kid from Zombieland, but I love Aaron Sorkin and the script will be great no matter what. Also, Facebook is awesome so how can they really go wrong? TV has been lame lately, and I’m still watching the train wreck that is the Kardashians...

ROBBED. Terry O’Quinn or Michael Emerson should definitely have won for LOST. Nobody gives a crap about Breaking Bad and I bet that show sucks anyway. I don’t care how crappy the final season of the show was, it’s over! Give them a freaking award. Ugh. Modern Family and Mad Men are doing okay, but I am so upset about Supporting Actor category that I don’t even care. Congrats for Jeff Probst, though. Oh for crying out loud. The dad from Malcolm in the Middle just won for Best Supporting Actor, besting both Don Draper and Jack Shepard. Lame. Robbed. Stupid Emmys, it’s always disappointing, I think. Jane Lynch won for Glee, which was nice. But I guess Breaking Bad is good or something. Stupid stupid stupid. And sorry to my parents, but thank goodness The Amazing Race didn’t win again – hooray for Top Chef!!!

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...

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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...