Academy Awards
If you can't say something nice, post a poster.
March 7, 2010
February 27, 2010
Sonya in "Uncle Vanya"
Brooke Smith, portraying Sonya from Chekhov's masterpiece, "Uncle Vanya"
Snippet from "Vanya on 42nd Street."
February 21, 2010
Save Ferris!
February 20, 2010
Do You Realize How Good Celine Is?
Jennifer Warnes Revisited
I know it's kind of sappy, but on a Saturday when a lot is going wrong and right with the world, I like remembering snippets. Maybe somebody out there will remember this quiet piece of music.
Or possibly you will be under thirty and hear it for the first time in your kitchen or bedroom or just wandering about your house.
But I'm wondering, does she have a headache or what?
Jennifer Warnes
"Dave" is Not Here!
<-- This never fails to crack me up.
And to all my policeman friends out there (you know who you are) - I have nothing to do with illegal drugs.
It is just funny, and I'd be surprised if Cheech and Chong were not a staple behind the scenes of "Cops."
February 17, 2010
Christine McVie
Christine McVie deserves more recognition.
We all know how good (and weird) Stevie Nicks is, but come on, Christine had bad luck of coming in second behind the strange one.
Both sang their hearts out for years.
I grew up with them.
I love Christine McVie. I want to give her props.
Also, this song, "Little Lies," was misunderstood by my girlfriend's son at the time in mid-80's.
"Tell me sweet little eyes."
As a father figure, I told the kid,
"someday you will grow up to not understand."
February 1, 2010
They Dance Alone
Sting is still one of those people who buy into the Al Gore super-myth that the world's climate is actually governed by a thermostat industrial nations control, not to mention warping young minds with the biggest lie ever created.
However - dude made a good song or two, including this one.
"The Dance Alone" hit occupied my passion for the surreal back in 1990 or 1991. My pleasure to reproduce it here.
Resolve? Meet Elizabeth Bennet
On a very strange day before Groundhog Day repeats, I thought I might pull out one of my favorite Jane Austen scenes.
Anyway, if you ever feel insulted, both men and women should pay attention to this withering destruction of Lady Catherine.
I would probably never speak to a person like this in my life, unless pushed to the brink of humiliation, which is exactly the wrong position to place Elizabeth Bennet into.
Okay, so with that, Monday awaits. And I know my homeowner's association does not want to call me about a certain matter of twenty-eight cents. Because if they do...
January 31, 2010
Jess Klein
She opened at Threadgills in Austin, TX, on New Years Eve for Jimmy LaFave.
Here is a studio version of "Postcard" No video, but it sounds great.
Forgot How Good Celine Dion Is
You do realize they built an entire palace for her in Las Vegas.
Perhaps you misunderstand. She did not appear in a palace in Las Vegas. They built one JUST FOR HER, and she sang there four nights per week for ten years.
Back to you Bob.
No Crying in Baseball!
Shawn Colvin
Petticoat Junction
Where is Uncle Joe?
We heard he was moving rather slow.
At the junction.
No sex at all involved with these girls and a very, very happy canine.
Life seems to be more tame now.
January 30, 2010
Summer Days
<back when vinyl, actual vinyl scraped beneath fake diamond needles.
Time of your life, kid.
The Big Sleep
But I love the bookstore girl here.
Bogie and Bacall... did it ever get any better?
Now we have Blue-Ray comic books. Not the same.
January 17, 2010
She Owns Her Own Mr. Softie Ice Cream Truck
<-- for some reason, this hilarious film reminds me of me, if I would ever visit New York City.
January 15, 2010
Top of the World
I miss Karen Carpenter.
I am very happy right now, world, and hope to the bottom of my heart you find your dreams and cherish them before your eyes.
Life is not a dress rehearsal, but what takes place while you make other plans.
Kelly Clarkson Inspiration
Sometimes YouTube is too humorous to ignore. Such as MYTOECOLD. At first glance, when you review MYTOECOLD's repertoire of accomplishment, you might think the girl has no life. But that would be after you crawled up from the floor after laughing yourself silly.
This chick is so funny, I want to buy her breakfast at iHop. So without any further adieu.
Ya know, we all wanna be stars.
We all wanna be super stars in our heart of hearts, parodying the world, or even winners of America's Greatest Talent show, or whatever spurred Kelly Clarkson to fame.
Learn, ladies and gentlemen. Learn.
Here is the song from the real Kelly Clarkson that MYTOECOLD repeats on her iPod, trying to suck out inner meaning from the lyrics:
Cannot remember if Simon was mean to her or not.
I am sure she remembers his birthday, though.
January 14, 2010
To Have and Have Not a Big Sleep
"The Big Sleep" owns one of the most convoluted plots in film noir history.
Who the hell was Sean Regan anyway and why do I not care about him?
Film full of dating lesson for weird looking dudes with detective badges obtained from comic books.
Okay, okay - so Bogie was legitimately "cool."
He had Ingrid Bergman to prove it too in that North Africa flick whose posters decorate my guest bathroom. Look what found its way to the cutting room floor.
But back to the real deal.
Looking for a good weekend romance from days when risque did not hit you over the head?
You either have it, or have not.
December 20, 2009
Natalie, from "Love, Actually"
THIS
remains one of my most popular YouTube videos, something I scrapped together last year.
Endearing. Merry Christmas everyone. :)
Hi - This is my Blog
Dear world,
This is my blog and I'm keeping it.
I know it's not literally literary, but a gem or two might be stumbled upon.
Despite Facebook, and that confounding "twitter" thing, I'm going to keep the Reflections because I paid Movable Type mucho dinero for setting it up in the first place, and Fluid Hosting serves as a great webhost.
I guess the latest news about me is I'm ready for Christmas, so will post links to favorites along that line. Don't ask me why I spent $29.99 for "It's a Wonderful Life."
on Blue Ray. Limits to B&W high fidelity. I won't watch the colorized version.
George Bailey, it is all so simple. Listen to me with your good ear.
If you piss off Donna Reed and are a piece of plastic that goes round and round to scrape out tinny music - you are in danger of being broken.
I hope everyone out there has a safe and Merry Christmas.
Notice I did not say, "happy holiday," because I am not politically correct.
The reason for the season is Jesus Christ.
I share his redeeming love with you, into next day, next year, and the rest of your life. :)
Creechman
December 13, 2009
Houston Rhapsodizing
<--- is it just me, or are these people weird?
Not seen the movie yet. Just starting to read reviews. First instinct is to declare this man unfit and waywardly non-ready to don cardboard glasses and plop down in a theater to watch a lot of wicked, wild 3D motion, even if it is James Cameron, Lord of Kate Winslet on the floating door (I know two people could have fit on that door!).
Sunday morning and I'm still moving to the charm of that Matchbook 22 song.
You didn't fall for it, did you? Rob Thomas of "Matchbox 20." I was only trying halfway to sound insincere and vapid and desultory with feeble mind panacea and general retrograde into senility, but wait - that would be the coach of the Dallas Cowboys, who are going to throw their season into the toilet today against the San Diego Chargers.
Where was I? Oh yes, rhapsodically bouncing my way back to a theme or central point.
I really have nothing but good things to say about myself today.
Got a decent night's sleep. Did not go blind from yesterday's terrible misfortune of putting contact lenses in my eyes before washing mentholated cream off my fingers first. Most of your Christmas presents have been delivered and wrapped.
Another pregnant, stray cat has ensconced herself on my back patio chair each night. Timid little thing. I've thought about putting a can of tuna out there or something. Bad idea. She's either extremely fat on wild birds, or ready to give birth to ten kittens. Don't they know the consequences of unprotected sex? Meow. I'm sure father cat is standing by with a solid job.
I am slowly letting most of my magazine subscriptions expire. I only read the Mac ones. Flipping through Architectural Digest only makes me bitter. And "Star," if you want to know the truth - they embellish articles about famous people. You heard it here first.
December 12, 2009
Think Life Through
<--- what Kate does not know,
won't hurt me.
Probably.
December 11, 2009
ABBA - Unbelievably Great
December 10, 2009
Alison Krauss (and the other guy)
<-- sweet rendition of "Missing You."
Has any music actually been made since the 80's? Just wondering.
Men of a Certain Age
You might want to check this out
if
A: you are in your mid-40s like me
B: you are a wife or girlfriend about to throw a vase
And it is on TNT network, an original series with a big star. Goes to show how the TV medium is expanding.
I DVR'ed the pilot episode Monday night.
Basically, these guys are what happens to Brady Bunch dudes after going through their blind twenties and "what was that?" thirties.
The point is, you find yourself unbelievably in the "middle" and wondering what to do.
This show might be the Ally McBeal for men.
That's it for now from Creechman
PS Good bacon. Package dated "open not before 2/14/2010". But there is a catch: "once open, use within 7 days." How does this reflect life, I ask you?
December 9, 2009
Four Christmases
<-- I like this.
December 5, 2009
Joan Cusack's Black Cat, Friday 13th Sort of Feeling
This is why I did not enjoy my 20th high school reunion.
Sergeant Pepper.
They asked me to my 30th reunion.
I declined.
Yes, I am 99 years old.
If you must know, Minnie Driver was not the D.J. - but girls exist out there who got stranded on prom night, and most of them are now CEO's of vast corporations.
Else go crazy with radio power.
December 4, 2009
60's Song Angels
Petula Clark.
In a fun war of "who was cool from 60's," I just won.
The other girl said, "bye, gotta go - because her nominee could not compete."
I say, it snowed in Houston today, and I have the primary 60's girl in my pocket, and nobody can top her.
How can you lose?
The lights are much brighter there,
You can forget all your troubles, forget all your care,
and go
DOWNTOWN, things will be great.
December 1, 2009
Tell Me You Do Not Miss Her
What is Her Number?
Who is this chick with cat eyes?
Her number is only divisible by itself and one.
Prime candidate for a brilliant surgeon.
Joanna Quits (again) Not Enough Flair
November 30, 2009
Jenny Agutter
"House" on Fox
A little late to the game, but this guy (mom was a realtor?) is quite amusing.
As for girl with cat eyes.
One might be dismayed to find out she is bi-sexual.
Can't get enough of both things, and brilliant surgeon.
I'm going to have to let political correctness slide just this once.
Plus, her name is "Thirteen."
What were her parents thinking, prime number?
November 29, 2009
ABBA Comes out of Nowhere
Just "a high school song."
Then why, as I approach age 24,356, do these guys still hang around?
Facebook.
Must be Facebook.
Old people trying to let young people in on something.
Shhhssss. Can' t reveal.
Jumping Rope
It cannot be that hard.
Where is their metronome? How could they hear it over the din? How can that many girls, over a long routine, not one mess up?
Excuse me while I consult my company's HR department.
November 25, 2009
Hello World
"Hello World" is the first C++ program they give you.
After that, pure classes and objects and misdirected assignments any high schooler can perform, which is why we should not attempt the I/O.
My bags are packed for Thanksgiving road trip. You all take care, and not too soon to revisit:
November 20, 2009
I'm a Klepto and Spock's Mom
Winona Ryder.
Sue her.
What most men in America can agree on is this jail bird's IQ is not exactly Jodie Foster, and therefore we all feel superior and invincible.
I must admit, watching the new Trek film, I did not even realize Spock's mom was the same girl who not only stole finger gloves from Macy's but danced around that weird Beetlejuice House.
Are her boobs starting to drag, or is that just an awkward position?
<-- scary on so many levels
Not Winona, the other woman from circa-1967 as Spock's mom. Yikes.
<-- still eye shadow a bit much, don't you think?
Truth is, Geena Davis, Jodie Foster, Sharon Stone - all those certified Mensa women?
Nothing to worry about.
<-- car? who parked what car? Hey, did you drive me over here?
Pretty lights.
Silly Love Songs
So before I sit down (which has actually happened), let me put a nice song in your brain.
November 19, 2009
Is Russell the Best "Survivor" of all Time?
Fair question.
This guy came off like Coach or Johnny Fairplay or a number of other evil characters, but Russell, the dude, keeps finding immunity idols.
The women, and some remaining are still pretty good - they have no clue. None.
The other guys, just not very impressive.
Russell, you bad ass - keep talking and walking the talk. Great home theater, and as you know, it's for a million dollars.
November 15, 2009
"Grease" Lip Sync
Thanks to Kathy Howe on Facebook for putting this up. These guys are in France? The school looks like a corporate graduate school for elites (per Bing).
Good choreography here, however. I guess they could all be seventeen.
November 13, 2009
Boredom Personified
Once upon a time, a man was bored.
In "Breakfast Club" vernacular, one does is not born bored, but strives to achieve boredom waiting for contractors to make noise in the attic replacing A/C ducts.
It is almost as exciting as it sounds.
Talk to me, world. I beg you.
<-- I am a dog person.
The fact I plopped in a bored cat should convey the degree of my absolute boredom and boringness.
Oh sure, sometimes I move to the kitchen or look out the front window for the truck which will never come.
Sometimes I start to read other blogs, then I get really bored.
It's just all pretty boring.
Save me Facebook.
November 12, 2009
Elizabeth Bennet
Once you start with Jane Austen, you really cannot stop.
Her name was Elizabeth. She bloomed in the early 19th century and never dated Tony Romo.
Back then, they wrote letters in ink crossways and sideways to preserve paper.
Letters were everything.
Hope.
What impresses me most is alongside her beauty, Lizzy showed guts at the end, telling off Lady Catherine.
The personification of dignity and honor and ability to cough up the words when you most need them.
<--- I'm not even a female and I wish I could tell someone off like this once in my life.
Five for Fighting knows what I'm talking about.
Pride and Prejudice on Blue Ray
Jennifer Ehle, in high definition. The amazing thing about her is she has actually read the book in her hand.
November 10, 2009
Is Reese Witherspoon Everywhere or What?
A little catalog from Avon, which I might have been dimly aware of most of my life, now shows up everywhere.
Office space coffee counters.
Door knobs.
Okay Reese. We get it. You are beautiful.
I knew she was going to be a star while on a trans-Atlantic plane flight, 1991, "Man in the Moon." I think she was fourteen.
Then my plane landed, my Amsterdam hotel staff held me waiting five hours, Reese went on to star in stuff and magically now has created a new perfume I am wondering if any of you ladies have tried.
Gabriela Sabatini travelled this sensuous olfactory road herself a few years back in Argentina.
Oh Reese, why is it whenever I see you, I crave peanut butter cups?
November 1, 2009
2012
This movie looks pretty cool. John Cusack is the man.
Yet, how many "end of the world" stories can we possibly enjoy? I am still not over "Knowing."
Psst, Nik Cage and John - why don't you two dudes get together over a beer and remember how many sweethearts you are going to lose from destroying all life as we know it.
Isn't enough Paula Abdul got tossed? Please.
YouTube Viewers Astonish Me
Anne Heche just moved ahead of my classic "Annie Hall" snippet.
Okay, okay - so Woody and Diane actually acted the scene, but the world would never have seen it without pedestrian assistance.
What's funny about the Anne Heche clip below, with 29,050 views and counting, is that the music used to be Rod Stewart's "Downtown Train," which once upon a time moved nicely through the act of my Mac's iMovie creation.
**** COPYRIGHT VIOLATION CREECHMAN ***
They nailed me. Not the first time either. I have literally had gorgeous masterpieces of plagiarism ripped away from a non-adoring public, and for what crime? Not like I am making a dollar on a hot dog here.
Thank you very much, Mr. Production Studio.
So anyway (btw - "anyway" is a favorite line lately everywhere. Have you noticed?)
Anyway, rather than be sued or sent to prison, I altered Anne's background music to the tune of a cool synthesized number..
One last piece of eye candy before heading to Home Depot.
Don't tell me Jamie Lee Curtis is broken-hearted.
If she couldn't kill that Jason dude and save us all from painful sequels, then she deserves babysitter "below minimum wage" money.
All glory is fleeting.
I forget who said that, but he was probably famous.
October 31, 2009
Jamie Lee Curtis Rocks
The perfect babysitter.
Here she is, after her boyfriend asked her out to Pizza Hut.
Take it easy.
So I promised a steak dinner. Dad stole my wallet.
What are you going to do, kill me for it?
How much do they pay babysitters these days, because in my heartfelt opinion, it really is not up to par.
Okay, okay, so the frozen dinners sucked, and 4 TV channels on a dark night.
Plus that weirdo is wandering around to the strains of music, STRINGS, bugs the hell out of me - enough already with the vibrant discords.
So Jamie Lee, after this is all over, and you kill him for the first and possibly not last time, wanna go to Sonic?
Like, where is your iPhone?
"Avatar"
This is going to be so cool.
"Terminator" was nothing.
"Titanic" was, okay, something.
But this, this.... in a world collapsing around us, the idea of becoming someone else in virtual reality.
Fill in the blank otherwise known as two weeks in a row of disappointing "Survivor."
"Avatar" looks like the next biggest thing since "Lord of the Rings."
October 26, 2009
How I Feel about Flair
Sometimes you wear flair.
Sometimes you post flair on a cubicle wall.
Most of the time, you really hate flair.
Especially the kind which is thanking your for service.
That flair is different from ordinary flair, ordinary fare flair invented to make customers uncomfortable.
I am speaking of flair as badges of honor, Byzantine icons of appreciation, well-meant in deliverance, but really, what am I supposed to do with this junket?
Ridiculousness of flair appears not only upon uniform of a cute waitress, much less on pretty boy, Stan.
I say, keep Byzantine perks of plastic in Turkey. No icons needed here.
October 18, 2009
"Evolution"
As I wake up this morning, struggling to convince myself it is not Monday, to my utter shock I am correct. If the TV onscreen guide says it is Sunday, if the computer agrees, then unless the entire internet is involved in collusion or run by a cabal - I trust to not be late to the office.
I happened to flip on HBO while waiting for instant coffee to dissolve, and stumbled upon a movie I had never heard of, "Evolution."
Comedy, Sci-fi farce with a bunch of big stars. It is so awful that I find myself liking it, in a Caddyshack sort of way. Orlando Bloom Jones has got to be one of the funniest people on earth.
Check it out sometime and tell me if it appeals to other warped senses of humor such as the one God gave me.
This was made in 2001? How did that get past me? But then again, "Earth Girls are Easy"
escaped my attention for several years way back in the day.
My whole life is one long series of catching up. On the positive side, I enjoy finding novelty every time my head turns this way or that.
*Ding* goes the microwave, which means coffee preparation is ready for consumption.
Have a great day. Perfect weather in Houston, finally. Glorious.
October 17, 2009
Back by Popular Demand
Would be nice if I thought I had a choice for this post.
However, my existence as a sympathetic figure on the internet hinges on the fact we face no good music for the past twenty-five years.
All too huge for me.
Had planned to talk about chess, or how Blue Ray is holding up, but a certain section of the Seattle area threw down a demand.
So here it is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REElUors1pQ
At behest of the entire northwestern coast of the United States of America, I have to give it up to ABBA.
I can't place my finger on this entire obsession. Certain people do not understand that this ensemble recently turned down a billion dollar comeback deal. And they are old.
(Who are you calling old, buster?)
A billion dollars. They said "no, thank you."
Let me repeat that, so you fully understand. These four individuals said "no" to a billion dollars.
I can understand that in a theoretical way, like, if you've done it the best in your life, why disappoint.
All understandable.
But still...
Sue Me
<-- I actually think this is a rational purchase.
We've got the Jennifer Connelly "too young" angle.
We've got David Bowie, who I might say is rather strange, weird, and kind of cool.
We've got Jim Henson's puppets, muppets (they took a break from Crystal Gayle).
Plus, the whole movie is so old, I wonder what Blue Ray can bring out in high definition.
Dog Day Saturday
Emerson is fifteen years, three months of age, chalking up a litany of medically marvelous misfortunes, as do we all (but seven times slower).
I find myself gazing at the little tribble to see if he's still breathing. Because if that stops, it will completely ruin my day.
Hopefully rest will once more get him past whatever is bugging him.
Cannot be a dropped jalapeno. All non-dropped peppers steered an acid course into cheese sauce over nachos last night, comprising the perfect bachelor evening intake of nourishment.
Cool weather finally in Houston. You can almost see Mother Nature dribbling out the drabs to scabs such as we. Good God. A two day break. Thanks.
While I nurse verbal malefactions towards the slowness of Mr. Sun to peek over the horizon, October pre-dawn constellations - like Orion - offer great binocular opportunities.
My iPod went through some sort of hissy-fit yesterday, internal squabble with iTunes. Long re-synch story. I "think" I've got all my podcasts, photos, and music back. Not sure what happened. Another mystery of life. Perhaps part of my home network crash?
Never fear. Back online. Free once more to blog and bug people on Facebook, especially those who fall asleep without realizing they are still logged on. Facebook has a special smiley face for you guys.
On tap today, if my dog doesn't make me drive him to the emergency ward, I need to organize all my IDs and passwords. When was the last time you did that?
I KNOW you memorize all your passwords, else keep them safe, secure, and never repeated from YouTube to who knows what.
My ID for PayBully is "Mcreech_coldfront" and the password is "About2time$." Feel free to perform identity theft and steal all the money formerly reserved for Crystal Gayle tickets.
Notice how people in video clips never age?
October 16, 2009
Catherine Hicks
One of those "Star Trek" movies involved whales (way before Al Gore invented the internet).
And this woman keeps popping up.
I'm a liar if I say I would not throw myself at her, but she did the reverse with Captain Kirk, beaming herself up from San Francisco.
Okay, who can blame her?
We never saw her again after that magical, romantic, interlude.
Here is a good interview.
Godfather, Part Two
This in my mind is better than the original (although the two together represent the whole picture).
Forget about "GF#3"
After it's all over, you realize that not every tragic tale has its hero redeeming in the end.
Juxtapose the young Don Corleone in early 20th century New York (Robert DeNiro's great work), and what he became, against the son who inherited his mob empire.
Then the feeling of empathy changes (insofar as one can feel for killers).
Michael Corleone lacked some element of humanity his father had, and in the end, left him bereft of love, happiness.
He was so cold and ruthless. Al Pacino's masterpiece.
I'm not sure we are supposed to take away a message about life from this movie. Watching it is an experience. Thanking God you were not there is another experience.
The point is, unlike most Greek tragedies, where the protagonist is undone by his own weaknesses, this story shows what happens to a man who conquers everything, and ends up a destitute morsel for Satan to find a spot somewhere in Dante's circle of Hell.
October 10, 2009
Jennifer Ehle knows C++
You cannot fault the United States of America for loving Jennifer Ehle.
"Pride and Prejudice" on Blue-Ray is unbelievably pristine.
As pristine as Liz's chastity before meeting Mr. Darcy.
I refuse to spoil it for you. Read the book. Jane Austen knew what she was doing.
Later, many young promising actresses, hundreds, were sent home weeping.
Movie making is a harsh business, and tell me you do not love this show.
Best site.
http://www3.telus.net/yve/
Later, and a reprise of this famous slam-down.
http://www.youtube.com/user/creechman#p/u/11/mC0BctA0hLo
She is really not very pretty, and who wants a woman smart enough to enquire, "hey dude, wasn't that electric payment due ten days ago?"
Creechman
October 9, 2009
Can't Argue With This
<--- here is the real Nobel Peace Prize winner
October 5, 2009
Belinda Carlisle
She is prettier than most of her album covers.
Just a fun chick with great voice.
Disastrous Movie about Disaster? 2012
Obviously these critics
were spared from watching the Dallas Cowboys blunder away another game yesterday.
Let's hope this movie is not as bad as they say it is.
I like my apocalypses with popcorn and dots, anything to take mind off what was my 401K.
October 3, 2009
I Might Be Moving to England
Reason number 1: They have Wimbledon.
Reason number 2: They do not have Obama
Reason number 3: Jennifer Ehle
Looking ahead at jobs, I have C++ down now, complete with integrated development environments, not to mention Project Management skills.
Talents such as these might keep me in Texas, possibly moving back to Austin.
However, living in the People's Republic of Obama, complete with insipid press and naive voting public, steers my eyes East.
Across the Atlantic, where babes talk great and look better.
Lady Catherine got shock treatment the way you and I wish we could deliver to telephone tech support.
<-- Demure eyes translation:
"This sparkling thing on my finger better not be fake."
Ka-Boom!
< So Matthew McConaughey takes a break from ten thousand adoring women, gets a Navy crew cut - makes life decisions.
And have you heard those depth charges on your stereo?
BOOM, BOOM, BOOM.
It's like my ex-girlfriend wanting her ring back.
September 26, 2009
The Telling off of telling off
You go Elizabeth.
<--- classically beautiful.
<--- girl next door with thesaurus in her brain.
<--- Perpetually "thirty."
<--- Probably loves a guy with a huge flatscreen TV and Blue-Ray.
Ghostbusters - Whaddayu Want?
<-- clearly Walgreen's eye glasses
Oh My God!
<--- this is unbelievable.
Ever heard of "BD Live?" I did not, until yesterday.
The freaking DVD player connects to the internet over your home network.
I am in bliss.
Saturday morning. Who are you going to call?
"Ghostbusters, whaddaya want?"
September 25, 2009
Milla Jojovic is not all that
This is what happens when you suggest Taco Bell for a date. Or at least the second date. Because the first date, it's all casual and "hey, how is your dog?"
But the second date, when you take a girl away from her iPhone...
Then you miraculously live.
Subject comes up, do you want children?
Apparently, yes.
"Didn't you know that Mark?"
"Um, no."
"It is really not that bad, bringing a child into this universe, if you abjure sleep."
"If I abjure, what am I? To abjure?"
"The thing that makes me want to kickbox men is their total lack of vocabulary."
"Right, I know what you mean."
I don't know what the big deal is. She has ZERO breasts.
That should give hope to many, yes the many women standing in line, whom after they have secured self-worth, feel it permissible to plant a bomb in my car engine.
I spent $69.99 on "Resident Evil" trilogy. If that is not baseless, bra-less love, with torridly horrid special effects, I don't know what is.
<- Victoria's Secret's deal was to grow into a "B" size. Wrong.
<- No big deal. Not like you have good eyes or anything resembling current waitresses at "Pei-Wei."
<- Tell me the last woman whose eyebrows were her own? Those are natural, right?
<-- Speaking six languages well is hardly worth comparing to three poorly, if you count the blackmailed college teacher.
Emerson! Where is that Blu-Ray DVD Trilogy? Not this again.
Resident....non-evil (Creechman soundtrack)
Samsung Rules
Welcome to Creechman's new home theater.
Hardest part was not expense, but getting rid of the old TV. Craigslist was actually amazing. Some guy scooped it up in under four hours. We'll see if same holds true this weekend for castoff DVD merchandise.
But to the point. :) Like? Like?
Stop swooning, because Creechman spend-fest is hardly over.
Blue Ray DVR - and the internet WORKS!
This picture and sound is so ridiculously good, I may not eat for ten days.
The remote is cool (operates both TV and Blue Ray), but if you hit the wrong button - Paula Abdul comes up.
I have searched and searched users manual, and can't seem to stop her.
It must be in the firmware.
I don't know why everybody hates her. She's pretty cool.
I ran this blog post past my canine editor.
Emerson is like, whatever.
September 20, 2009
Beethoven's Ode to Joy
is considered possibly the most magnificent expression of muppet, I mean music.
Elizabeth Bennet Tells off Lady Catherine
This scene always cracks me up.
<-- The actress could hardly stop laughing between pompous takes. Masterpiece.
And here, gals, are the words you WISH YOU WOULD HAVE SAID.
Anne Heche
Have you noticed Anne Heche is like, "back?"
Where do people go to come back from?
You would not recognize her now - longer hair, ever the demurring stratospheric IQ.
She doesn't look forty, but neither did I eight years ago.
Neither did Harrison Ford, twenty decades ago, and yet I hear another Indiana Jones movie is in the works.
Anne is fighting with some wannabe called Rachael Weisz over the damsel-in-non-distress part, and from what I can tell on the Producers' Twitters - the girl fight ain't pretty.
Oh Anne, let us just remember you with blue, blue, blue, bluest eyes, beneath hair cropped and tears.
Let us remember the time, when you went "OH MY FREAKIN GOD, WHAT AM I DOING?" with Ellen Degenerous, who stayed a lesbian while you found out you were not one.
So what if she got the "American Idol" gig. It's only twenty million dollars.
Let that go, and remind us of the power of a cool girl trying to comfort an over-acclaimed actor who can never seem to remember his lines, and why weren't the last words out of his mouth,
"Yes dammit, I will be your secretary!"
September 19, 2009
Lauren's Perennial Screen Test
All right, all right.
You know me, I am a sap, dusting over old movies, sifting magazines and those archaic plastic coasters formerly called "DVDs."
Waiting on FedeX guy supposed to be here by 7PM.
Hello? 7:30PM?
Meanwhile, Lauren BaCall has got the look.
Just Whistle, Steve
I'm a sap, waiting on Fedex for computer stuff.
Pulled out the old movies.
I really don't see why people find this scene memorable.
Fingers Tired?
Try this.
Eric Johnson did not do it with guitar hero either.
Eric Johnson did not do it with guitar hero either.Nintendo, XBOX360 - they all said, he's too good for our audience.
September 13, 2009
Christine McVie
Hey fans with volume control.
(i.e. turn it up)
Fleetwood Mac still stands awesomely.
Wouldn't you love to see (or have seen possibly during "Rumors" time) them in concert?
September 12, 2009
Ellen Knows Music and Dancing
I have never witnessed one episode of "American Idol."
Go Ellen.
Only five more days until "Survivor"
Creechman
PS Jeff Probst has got a gig or what?
August 31, 2009
My Least Visited YouTube Clip
40 views in ten months.
This actually surprises me, because "After Hours" is a darned funny movie. I can see myself in this poor dude's situation, which is why I seldom visit Soho.
I have posted 34 videos on YouTube. This is the overlooked, red-headed stepchild of them all.
Therefore, of course - shamelessly promoting my ability to violate dozens of copyright statutes.
What else am I to do on a Monday, a work day for most serious human beings, a school day for most serious adolescents? Hey, I needed it. And we've got tennis later.
So now, I give you Paul before his "road to Damascus" moment of revelation.
August 30, 2009
I once met a blonde
Then the brunette pretty much took everything over.
Worst Actor to Work With
By all accounts, a puerile ego.
Val Kilmer threw his career out the window for no understandable reason, sometimes showing up in recent years as a fat, middle-aged secondary character.
Remember "Ice" in a Navy jet?
Or Jim Morrison, whom I mention only because everybody thinks he was all that and I never caught on.
Doc Holiday was Mr. Kilmer's tour-de-force, and unfortunate to speak of him this way, as in eulogy. The guy isn't dead. Just his career.
Enjoy a couple of clips.
August 29, 2009
Top Five "Prettiest Women of all Time"
To reprise:
Number five: Lauren Bacall
Number four: Teri Garr
Number three: Cybill Shepherd
Winking her way in at number TWO,
Immortal Jeopardy champion and coolest witch, Elizabeth Montgomery.
She strove for love throughout a brilliant career.
Gorgeous and IQ off the charts.
And before she could say, "wait a minute," cancer snuffed out her life.
August 16, 2009
Natalie
<--- this clip is the biggest YouTube hit I have ever had.
Christmas movie.
Remember when weather was actually cold? Snowflakes? Jimmy Stewart contemplating river diving techniques?
I cannot talk over the dehumidifier groaning on and on upstairs.
Rumors of Autumn are fables.
Flash, I Love You! But We Only Have 14 Hours to Save the Earth.
Sunday morning, after turning off Fox News and finally getting a little sleep thanks to the Zarkoff pill.
This just in.
Juliet Huddy is back on Fox News and taking names for the looming intervention required of all fans of anorexa nervosa, skeletor bodies, fleshy upper arms, and the girl speaks like six languages.
Oh, they never found any of her ex-husbands. Jersey mafia is mystified.
Gretchen Carlson is not exactly freaking out.
Sounds from her trailer eerily reminiscent of words like "nooooo!!!"
"So Heraldo, were you just talking about yourself again or did Obama get in the story I may have missed?"
Alison never worries about anything.
<--- when you've got "The World's Most Colossal Cupcake" on TV, "How dare you declare my plunging neckline might wreck families in fly-over territory."
Whatever, Alison.
We can always cut to Janice Dean, astonished at the weather.
The guys on set are like, "Okay Rupert, I'm not having any part of this."
Fair and balanced.
August 14, 2009
Elizabeth and Darcy
This is a nice DVD to plop in over the weekend, before all DVD's go the way of 8-track tapes, cassette tapes, CDs, et al.
Cool chick flick, where guy next to you on couch says, "wait a minute baby. We don't need another order of nachos just now. I want to see what Elizabeth does."
This, of course, leads to a huge emotional argument about commitment and wayward attraction, but I digress.
August 9, 2009
Dance and the Weekend is Not Yet Over
TV Viewers Terrified by Swedish Supermodel
August 7, 2009
The Breakfast Club
July 31, 2009
Shakespeare Festival Coming to Town
mentions a few of the fun facts about the bard. I need to reread one of his plays sometime this summer, if only to reset my brain from the daily mish-mash otherwise known as mainstream media websites.
Probably, "As You Like It," or open the book at random. That is fun to do.
July 29, 2009
Mt. Rushmore's Nip and Tuck
Testing import from blog to notes on Facebook, including picture and associated link.
Blogs themselves are becoming increasingly less relevant.
July 26, 2009
ABBA Weekend
Mamma Mia was so bad, and now....I can't STOP.
Not my fault.
Some forces in nature harbor small resentment to pitiful walls of opposition.
These guys were offered a billion dollars for one more tour.
They said, "no."
July 25, 2009
I Think I Love You
You clicked?
You are here?
I have only five words to say.
July 19, 2009
Save Ferris
July 18, 2009
There is No Crying in Baseball!
July 14, 2009
Summer is Definitely Here
If there was any doubt, the daily torpid heat is seemingly here to stay in H-Town, forcing indoor activity from 80% to about 95%. I should not be surprised, and admittedly am not.
Ah, the mutual hum of dehumidifier and A/C in blended harmony.
Sunday I ordered a new FlipVideo camera, just to have it. Maybe I'll make a video blog and stick it on here? Also needed a new external hard drive for backing up the main computer. Then I can use the other one to back up the MacBook. Can't be too careful. Had a scare the other day when I became over-zealous deleting directories, including some system folders I actually needed.
Ooops.
Have a good one out there.
June 27, 2009
Jenny Agutter
Not every guy in WWII was this lucky.
June 20, 2009
"The Husband"
Thrilling page turner for bedtime reading.
Just one more chapter, just one more chapter.
Then the clock reads 3:00AM and so much for biorhythms.
June 15, 2009
Sam the Cooking Guy's LAST Appearance on Today Show
oops!
Bad call Sam.
June 14, 2009
One More Rendition
Live performance. Enthusiastic. Nice to see someone not faking anything. She has the pipes and is loving every minute of belting out her talent when so many others never get such a shot.
The Classical Production
You have got to love the part where she says, "I know I've got issues, but you're pretty messed up too."
June 13, 2009
Sting
No clue how he comes up with this stuff.
Sting is a musical genius.
How is somebody that good?
I'm talking bass, rhythm, chord transitions, unity.
The end result is marvelous.
Add vocals like melted chocolate over ice cream.
June 7, 2009
Judy Davis
Wow.
June 6, 2009
Mary Steenburgen
Fifty-six is the next twenty-four.
Or thirty-four.
Or forty-four.
Stop counting. The woman is gorgeous.
While wondering how Ms. Steenburgen does it, kick back with a little Mozart.
June 5, 2009
Reese Witherspoon
Don't you love her?
She is unbelievable.
This next looks like a good movie.
Girl can look gaunt.
Reminiscence of a shocked Linda Hamilton.
You know, Reese's IQ is almost as high as Jodie Foster's, which is off the charts.
Jodie does Madam Curie.
Reese might be the next female billionaire, if she plays cards right.
Ms. Johnny Cash.
Or this little uprising....
I saw her in "Man in the Moon" on a flight from Houston to Paris in 1990 I think.
Blew me away.
June 4, 2009
The Sims 3
I actually bought "The Sims 2" out of curiosity, but never played it.
I figure I need to mix in a family game amongst the war bloodshed, but surprising to a younger self - I don't play many games at all.
Takes TIME.
Still, the technology is improving all the time.
May 25, 2009
Random Jane Austen
Elizabeth Bennett needs to be a guest at my next staff meeting.
May 23, 2009
It's a Cool, Cool Summer
I am ready for summer.
Are you?
How's your tennis?
Crystal Gayle
I realize women like short hair after the advanced age of nineteen, but some of them are still willing to put up with conditioner.
<--- Behind-the-scenes stuff waxes golden in Muppet Land.
May 22, 2009
That Guy Looks Like My Chem Prof at U.T.
Dude on the right, of course.
Wonder what those balloons are all about?
Hey, I have not yet seen "Star Trek." Either I am falling behind or waiting for PPV or HBO.
Anyone who sees this (after "WALLe"), let me know if they performed another veering swing. Pixar loves to do that.
May 18, 2009
Reprise: The Battle at Kruger
Several months ago, maybe even a year, this video was all the rage and I blogged about it.
But just in case you are new, or missed it, or wandering by wondering - fascinating footage.
Keep an eye on the Discovery Channel or National Geographic, and you might see the documentary. In the meantime, here's the website link.
Enjoy!
The YouTube Gods Have Let me Keep this Clip :)
I don't know what it is about this British chick.
She is not THAT pretty.
True, the girl owns a certain "stoutness," but remarks about thighs like tree trunks would be going too far.
She is just normal, not some anorexic mannequin with pristine tinkertoys otherwise known as limbs.
I have never seen her since this movie about ten years ago. Yet the YouTube hits are fabulous.
May 16, 2009
Trek Trek Trek
Or will it be another, "wait for Kirsten Dunst on HBO?"
There is a non-sequitur for ya.
May 10, 2009
Audrey Hepburn - Take Two
Just for fun.
Audrey Hepburn
I made the mistake of re-watching "My Fair Lady" yesterday. Classic film of course. The mistake part was imprinting this song in my head, which I am glad to share.
And you thought those radio jingles were endlessly repeating...
May 9, 2009
There's a Spider in the Bathroom
People seem to love it.
May 3, 2009
C-Span Rocks
Amid the noise and haste, I like on Sundays to tune to C-Span 2's "Book TV."
Most of the speakers are impressive for good reason. It is educational, instructional, a pleasant diversion that offers the mind glimpses into insights maybe formerly not considered.
Sometimes a person will say things I do not agree with. When that happens, I like to examine why the person is saying something I oppose.
Most of the time, their stories stem from personal experience and dedication to something, the reach for a goal that matters to them - and the insight is hardly ever found wanting.
May 2, 2009
1977 Flashback
Kindle 2 Update
Yes, I am loving it.
But how much can anyone read? Especially with Facebook on this planet.
So we have got all of Shakespeare, The Bible, The Divine Comedy, Jane Austen, John Steinbeck, Isaac Asimov, Dickens.
Add to that "The Wall Street Journal."
Have you ever tried to wade your way through that newspaper for even one day?
For kicks after that we have "Frankenstein," and ten free volumes of "The World's Most Famous Books."
Who has time to Twitter?
May 1, 2009
I Miss Ally McBeal
Where does time go?
Remember lazy nights watching.......
Where No Man Has Gone Before (redux, again)
No pretensions to comparing it to any of the other originals. Scary to realize that "Next Generation" itself has now seen our earth circle the sun nearly twenty times.
Hopefully a good action-packed story with a young Kirk and Spock, elements of human drama.
Think there will be any girls in it?
Time and time again, they try and fail to surpass the heart wrench of the best 50 minutes of the original "Star Trek," episode #28, production #28, first broadcast on April 6, 1967.
April 29, 2009
Hang it Up Brett
And not for another interception.
Even you Favre fans must be cringing at this point. Let go from now from the N.Y. Jets after coming back from a tearful retirement and blowing his good image from all those years with Green Bay.
Now, what's to prove except to limp over to the Vikings and end up joining the club of embarrassing superstars who outstayed their glory?
April 26, 2009
Taylor Swift
Think she will turn thirty in about thirty years?
Star Trek 2009
April 18, 2009
Alison Krauss
This rendition is that good.
And if anyone out there knows the Rubic's Cube secret to replacing windshield wipers, clue me in to the puzzle.
April 11, 2009
Dinara Safina
Way to go Dinara.Not just Marat's kid sister anymore.
Number one. Ever seen her play? She is quite good.
Girl not a short stack.
Despite rumors to the contrary, tall girls are nice to date.
Just know she can always beat the crap out of you if your glance drifts the slightest wrong way.
Then big brother wants answers.
I really don't need the hassle.
Fun fact: Never have a brother and sister in professional tennis both been number one in the world.
April 5, 2009
I Owe You
If you page down, the North Korean piece is really the best I have to say at the moment about world conditions.
But in our more comfortable and secure Sunday night world, I wish to not remain alone with observations about things I cannot change.
Let's remember snippets of hope. We have all had them. This is one of mine.
April 4, 2009
Nostalgia Attack
I was just updating my iTunes library for the ipod and ran across a bunch of 70's songs.
This one got me at the time and still stands up.
April 3, 2009
Jane Austen
Men are allowed to like "Pride and Prejudice." We tend to have a little of both ourselves.
The site on the link is a good encapsulation of the BBC production with Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth.
God love Keira Knightly, but that recent movie, to try to condense the story into a 100 minute movie, left newcomers feeling it "dragged."
It needs six hours to race.
The World's Best Actor?
I know a lot of people like Brad Pitt, but sometimes the press goes a little over the top.
It's been known to happen before.
Witness the general news media every day, but I digress.
I'll give this movie a chance, because WWII has pretty much been fully explored.
But I was not a "Pulp Fiction" fan, nor am necessarily a Tarantino fan. Edgy does not always mean good.
March 29, 2009
Sheena Easton
Something just very sweet about this girl.
March 28, 2009
Breakfast at Tiffany's Final Scene
Everyone loves a Saturday night heart wrench.
You see, Holly Golightly is the lost cat.
The Power of Love
This is a really cool song.
I remember 1985, when 30 years in the past begged a future.
Time flies, and "Star Trek" communicators have nothing over iphones.
Sure wish I had a transporter sometimes.
Take for instance, the actress Claudia Wells
who played Jennifer. Thanks to her agents and parents, she never saw a good look at another acting role ever, and probably sweeps floors now at a local Dunkin Donuts.
The point and message is - when you have hold of a golden ring, do not throw it away.
She could have been the next Reese or Kirsten or any of a number of standout magazine stars while we wait in the checkout line.
She lost it all through contract negotiations, banal adults. Sad, because she can never get it back.
Girls kill for one chance like that, and she let the wind blow it away like a tumbleweed.
I love you Claudia. Jennifer rocked, and Marty found you time and time again.
No overs in life, however.
This Kind of Makes Me Sad
But even Roger Federer cannot stay on top forever.
It remains to be seen if he will ever be able to win another grand slam. And if he does not, well - it is pretty cool for Switzerland to make a stamp with your face on it.
Mirka still loves him.
I hear she is some sort of genius or something. Anybody can speak seven languages fluently.
Let's not write the man's obituary yet.
But face it. With Raphael Nadal on this planet, never giving an inch, Roger's window might have slammed shut.
He threw the kitchen sink at Nadal and lost the French Open three or four times, Wimbledon, and the Australian Open.
Now the gawky Andy Murray is crushing him like a roach, and Djokovovojojokivic. You remember that dude? Parodies service style of Maria Sharapova (another lost cause) and John McEnroe?
You knew none of this, nor did you conceive a penchant to ever stumble across unmined tennis diamonds in the rough.
But that is what I am here for.
March 27, 2009
Ashton and Demi, Twittering in a Green Tree
These two make a cute, if rich, couple.
But why do the telegenic Hollywood types all have to buy into the concept that man is responsible for planetary weather variations?
It's like some weird mea-culpa mania that has gone way too far.
Mix in 4.5 billion years of cosmic history, and possibly the sun please. Good grief.
Yet they Twitter.
She is forty-six.
He is thirty-one.
I'm not nearly as envious of him now as I was when their home appeared in "Architectural Digest."
March 21, 2009
Webb to go 'Underground'???
Morgan Webb, recently of "Webb Alert" podcast fame, heads back to X-Play to "get the lowdown on strange but true pop culture news."
I am sure tens of people will see that.
Is anyone over age twenty-four watching G4TV?
Maybe Morgan is just ruminating for her next serious gig while grasping with the loss of all fashion sense.
<---- what the heck is this cloth-like torture device?
Here was her goodbye note:
March 17, 2009
Kelly's New Song
March 14, 2009
When Will the Technology Stop?
Quite interesting.
Just type in an artist's name or song title.
For instance, I entered "Faithfully" by Journey. It brings up the album with that song, playing another one.
This is for them to avoid copyright violations.
But from there, you can listen or click ahead four or five times to experience a full parade of music that matches thematically what you were looking for. :)
High definition music, not completely unlimited to fast clicking or free from ads. But it is FREE to explore.
Anyone remember vinyl disks that would spin round and round, with a needle dragging through grooves?
Have a great weekend everyone. :)
March 7, 2009
Just When I Was Getting Boring
February 22, 2009
Kate Howard - "General Hospital"
Kate on "General Hospital."
When are you going to stop ridiculing me about this?
I did my time today, studied statistics for upcoming work class, shuffled tax folders, walked the dog, microwaved dinner.
A bachelor can only stand so much scorn!
And no, I am not watching the political parade otherwise known as The Academy Awards tonight and pleased to declare I have seen none of the movies in nomination.
Go Kate! (the other one)
Star Trek - Appearing When Again?
It may not be the most quiet of Edith Keeler dialog movies, but I am ready for it all the same.
I think the ship is well structured and Deanna Troy, and if I am mixing up centuries - sue me.
For Those Who Can't Leave the "Brady Bunch" Well Enough Alone
Barry has an interesting blog, complete with topical observations and reminiscences on what it was like to be Greg Brady in a house where kitchen counter tops were orange.
I Can't Wait. No Really.
"Look who won, honey!"
"zzz..."
February 15, 2009
This is Pretty Cute
February 14, 2009
Change Your Mind
Caught it again recently.
If we are all going to the devil, let it be Elizabeth Hurly.
Cool end song in the park where she plays chess with an angel and swaps pieces while he gazes at the stutter framework the film producers pulled on him.
Check out this tongue-in-cheek movie. It gets better every time I see this sweet, silent gem.
Thanks also to Sister Hazel who nailed a perfectly constructed musical blend.
February 10, 2009
Televisions to be fitted in contact lenses within ten years
I like my TV as much as the next junkie, but this is ridiculous.
February 7, 2009
Blast From the Past
appears lately on one of the Starz or Encore channels.
Christopher Walken is a genius. Never fails to crack me up. His voice. His impeccable timing.
Oh my God, how hilarious with the taped-over-nose eyeglasses in the fallout shelter for 30 years with Sissy Spacek sipping enervating workout juice from a martini glass.
Then Brendan Fraser gets Alicia Silverstone, but that is beside the point.
Allow us in morning reverie to revisit a few geriatric dance moves, especially the hands-in-pockets part.
January 30, 2009
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Just came out on DVD, which means PPV soon, but I haven't bought a "real" DVD in over six months. Would kinda like to add another to my Woody Allen collection.
Any opinions about this sweeping story and spectacle across panoramic Europe?
in this year's cinematic clutter.
January 24, 2009
Brendan Fraser Talks to a Lamp
offers an interesting slant on how CGI meets acting performance in modern movies.
We are at the cusp of tilting the scale to the director's imagination beyond simple background scenery or the occasional digital scene partner or transition effect.
Computer effects are so strong now, and getting stronger by the day, that virtual adjustment of real people can be done without detection, to enhance a particular expression or mood.
I'm wondering where this will all lead, and when a motion picture can produce a near complete sense of reality with people and surroundings, with hardly any genuine connection with the actors.
If so, obviously an element of human reality will be lost. If this next step fast modern editing techniques can fool eyes and ears, will perception also be open to manipulation? Remains to be seen.
January 20, 2009
Mary Jane Watson
January 15, 2009
Jane Austen Commentary
is probably the best kept devotional website to the original A&E miniseries and useful advice to many a young man in the world.
It runs about six hours on DVD, available everywhere. Much better than the condensed, though well-tried, movie version with Keira Knightly.
At length and yet with a combination of tight drama and loose elegance, this particular presentation caught gold from the novel. I find myself so interested in the subplots and "minor" characters that I sometimes forget what is really at stake with Elizabeth and Darcy.
That final scene with Lady Catherine-de-Berg is awesome (to employ a technical phrase).
Now on to the NFL playoffs, crushing heads in freezing weather.
Or more tech geek speak.
January 10, 2009
"Streetcar Named Desire"
January 9, 2009
Revolutionary Road
I'm not sure I want to see a movie about disillusionment. There's enough of that going around as it is.
But at least Leo does not look like a kid with a grown woman anymore.
Kate Winslet is a superb actress.
DiCaprio? Verdict still out on Howard Hughs. (IMHO)
January 8, 2009
Shatner's Raw Nerve
Captain Kirk has an interview talk show on the BIO channel.
This is why I love surfing the 200's on DirecTV, just to see what is there.
Very good Tim Allen appearance, great chat format. Check it out.
I must hand it to Shatner. He's always happy to make fun of himself since "Star Trek." Now on Boston Legal, after several series. Written many books. Now this show out of nowhere, never advertised that I have seen.
So we all look a little chubby after fifty. Sue us! (I'm speaking in the very NEAR future tense)
Rumor has it he still finds tribbles in glove compartments and such.
January 6, 2009
You Know U R Having a Bad Day When...
December 31, 2008
Spiders
Too classic to not repeat.
"There is a spider in the freaking bathroom!"
Two of them, the size of Buicks.
December 30, 2008
My Sister-in-law Made Me do This
She says, "Mark! Women are not going to visit your blog if you continue to post insanely beautiful pictures of Jane Seymour. Give us our own eye candy please."
What can I say?
She's right.
Jane won't return my phone calls because she may have been stuffed into a cellar by this woman.
Helena, always Dracula dramatic about losing at "Clue."
December 29, 2008
Life as a Seven Year-old Genius
Humiliating Whipping
I don't really blame the quarterback for this wipe-out loss to Philadelphia.
I could not even watch the second half, preferring instead to re-witness "The Sound of Music."
No strains of harmony nor discord could disguise the fact that every time Dallas snapped the ball, then 1.5 seconds later some defensive player was in Romo's face.
No adjustments. No personnel replacements. Just complete ineptitude. Just like last week, getting blown out on their special "last day" at Texas Stadium by Baltimore.
Am I bitter?
Not really.
They don't know me. I obviously do not know them.
Jerry Jones put together a collection of misfit, high-priced players around linemen who missed forty chances out of forty to simply bump into the other guy for two seconds.
Sandbox of neo-non-stars.
Gotta hand it to Dallas. If you are going to go down, please flame out in the most pathetic, miserable, non-redeeming semblance of suicide possible.
It would make me sick if I cared.
December 27, 2008
Post-XMAS Job Considerations
Flair...
December 21, 2008
Good Lord
Awful, just awful.
December 14, 2008
Wouldn't You Just Love to Work at Pixar?
Let's watch out for our bees.
December 13, 2008
Bonnie Hunt
December 12, 2008
Holiday Games
<----- Stocking stuffer.
We live in a time of national crisis.
Blokus the only answer.
Blokus will save us.
Does anyone know how to play this?
Stay tuned for "It's a Wonderful life" videos.
Until then, my love favorite (to the tune of 15,000 YouTube hits)
And no amount of honor can be properly granted the incredible Rod Stewart for the theme.
Anne Heche, who refuses to return phone calls.
As for being "over the hill" after forty...
Ashton!
Dude, you rock.
How did you find and keep her?
You do realize this is Demi Moore you are sleeping with?
And where did you get that dog?
He looks like he is ready to split the atom or redefine string theory.
Where are tickets to a breast crush?
December 10, 2008
SNOW!
It is snowing in Houston, SOUTH Houston.
Hours and hours, piling up on grass and bushes and doorsteps.
Emerson dog is like, "what the heck?"
Church youth group whooping it up across the street.
Thick flakes fall through lamplight.
Oh my God!
Yesterday's high was 78.
I'm not ready for Christmas, although I am ready to one day get my car back from engine work.
Not ready yet for Christmas, but it would be nice to not worry about roof tarp subject to ten hours of midnight wind howling.
For Christmas, hardly ready, but office XMAS luncheon fed me for a day.
The weather is ready for Christmas.
Traffic is definitely ready for Christmas.
Here it comes. But at least I have hot water and a worry-not attitude.
December 8, 2008
Credit Where Credit is Due
The following praise is hereby bestowed upon the tenacity of the Dallas Cowboys' 4th quarter effort yesterday.
December 6, 2008
Donna Reed
Time in a capsule.
Home is an Option
December 5, 2008
Bogart at Lunchtime
December 3, 2008
Do You Suffer From TIVO Guilt?
I can relate to this article.
In all honesty, I only give myself an hour or two per evening of TV. The recorded programs stack up. My deletion-to-keep ratio is probably 3-1.
Who imagined this "problem" five or ten years ago?
November 30, 2008
All For the Love of Sunshine
Investments gone bad?
Lost 35% of your mutual funds in one year?
Perhaps you need to diversify your portfolio.
<--- YouTube
Ted Talks - Why Are We Happy?
On the theme of our brains pre-experiencing pro/con decisions, I would have to say that my frontal lobe failed to steer me clear of ...
Well now I won't say, because every con is a pro, in context of providing concrete provision for conversant protest or contemporary proclamations to conditions of profound confounding.
Tell me your brain has never slipped.
November 23, 2008
More Bonnie Hunt Frolics
I must work half of next week, so you are getting all my Mac iMovie humor NOW.
Be animated.
YouTube version:
Who Says the Devil Wears a Red Dress?
All right, all right.
Last day of weekend.
Must do chores involving scaldingly hot water.
And for you "Star Wars" junkies...
November 22, 2008
Bogie and Bacall
Saturday with DirecTV's millions of channels.
These guys were not very good.
November 16, 2008
My YouTube Video Rankings
My YouTube publishing days are still young.
Enough now to earn a countdown.
As we sit, right this moment, here are the top five all time hits from "creechman," consuming disk space somewhere on a server (probably in Bangalore).
Number five: "There's a Spider in the Bathroom."
Number four: "Love, Actually"'s Natalie
Number three: "Anne Heche"
Number two: the immortal "Joanna Quits."
And the number one hit, with nearly 13,000 views...
Free peek at new addition.
November 9, 2008
Olivia Meets ELO
Some girls dance with an aura. And who is that brunette, spinning out of existence a kajillion years ago?
November 8, 2008
Anne Heche
10,000 viewers can't be wrong, or maybe just searching for "Heche Lane" in a small community in the Hamptons owned by Jerry Seinfeld.
And no, she has not written me (yet). Her "people" have yet to register this display.
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Maybe it's just me sayin, but Anne should eat more KFC and Taco Bell. I know I always do.
Aliens Among Us
Tidbits from "Annie Hall."
You are God.
Create yourself from flake of meteor, splashed into ocean, grow up into carnivore, herbivore, omnivore cell creature. Inspire civilization.
I remember "Space Invaders" as a video game.
But now, gaming process mirrors a certain life last week of failed appliances and cars.
Such a shame, Acura service waiting room offering no free computers for blog browsing.
This coffee conduct after hours of killing time, venturing in to Baybrook Mall (once every five years), observing shuddering high school dress and behavior.
I don't recognize kids these days, or their clothes.
Have you seen the ridiculous pants 13 year-olds are wearing, crotch below knees?
<--- young ladies, if you really like this, more power to the next generation.
I doubt these guys could kill a spider in the bathroom.
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November 6, 2008
What I Learned from the World-wide Web This Morning
October 31, 2008
ABBA
A consortium offered $1,000,000,000 for one last tour.
ABBA declined.
If you change your mind...
And of course the immortal...
October 23, 2008
What is "Spore?"
Time for a little fun, you know?
I can't resist finding out how my choice of cell creature in primordial soup translates into a galactic empire.
Parallels to real life, or at least any given day - be it productive or ultra-slacker.
In other words, I need something do waiting for delivery of a new washer/dryer.
This game will be a good test of patience, because my attention span seems to wander more and more....
I also feel in the Bermuda triangle of pyramid zen, to mix metaphors, sitting in front of the computer, equidistant from a number of household chores in any given direction.
October 19, 2008
Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live
That was surreal.
I died laughing.
I don't know who might be proclaiming the death of "Saturday Night Live." I laughed, heart-wrenchingly through last night's show and replaying it this morning.
The humor.. oh my God. Just perfect.
And I hope you'll agree that Sarah Palin deserves some credit for her appearance.
They were "hands off," but still great of her to show up.
When she crossed the podium with Tina Fey, I thought I might swoon.
btw, Alec Baldwin is looking a little chubby with rosy-red alcoholic cheeks, don't ya think?
Tina explains how she emulates the typical Alaskan windsong.
Oh those "Reese Witherspoon-in-Election" upper midwest R's and dropped G's from hinterlands so close to Russia you can almost see it from your doorstep.
The classic press conference.
October 15, 2008
Dennis Miller Website
In other news, every time it rains in Houston now, alarms go off beneath roofs with blue tarp and temporary fixes.
Hurricane Ike was a month ago, but it will take well into (and through?) the holiday season for minions like me to bubble up on the list of contractors.
Did I say "holiday season?" Does not feel like it, but the calendar is inexorable. Two months from today, we will be at ten piper's piping. Some of you will experience snow. Half of us in the cold winter of post-election discontent.
The Dallas Cowboys meltdown will be nearly complete.
And I'd better have gotten my overdue eye exam, because current contact lens supply will definitely have run out.
But do not rush time. It usually takes care of itself.
October 12, 2008
Karen Lynn Gorney
<-- remember her from "Saturday Night Fever?"
She has been reincarnated on "General Hospital.
Same eyes.
Same cheekbones.
Same hair.
Same chin.
Same..... desperation.
Meet Olivia Falconeri ----->
THEY ARE THE SAME PERSON!
Thirty years apart.
New Jersey accent is to cry for.
Judge for yourself.
Harsh streets, pummeled backgrounds, loose associations...
Incredible allure.
And if Olivia can dance like Karen, let's just say life moves in cycles.
I put faith and trust in SoapZone
October 11, 2008
Saturday Night Immortal Music
Jackson Browne
October 6, 2008
Grosse Pointe Blank
October 4, 2008
Tribute to Kathleen Turner, Sarah's Wink, and Anne Heche
Does Sarah have something in her eye?
Or is this wink tendency a secret Alaskan code, meaning, "honey, let me finish with Senator Biden while you put the kids to bed."
Maybe just a leftover twitch from the Katie Couric interview.
Joe sixpack knows what that means.
Finally I have some time to revisit the incredible powers of this Mac Pro.
Dusting off iMovie, for instance.
Remember this?
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I don't know if you lose sleep over Anne Heche wallpaper, but... what exactly is she holding on to?
A train about to crawl away?
What kind of pathetic girl tries to stop a train with her bare hands?
Too metaphorical, and the other half of that dress?
On track to being lost, and these are things I'm willing to get to the bottom of.
Have a nice weekend everyone. :)
Finally, a tribute to what a blonde Demi Moore can do to a guy.
October 2, 2008
"Pushing Daisies" is Back
Too busy emailing home repair contractors, then settled into bed with a mystery short story.
Actually, I completely forgot the show was on. TV not much of a priority this week.
So it should be a nice escape into visually arresting fantasy: pies, life and death, pithy writing.
Nothing like national news or debates.
September 28, 2008
Who is this Chick?
Just saw Duffy on "Saturday Night Live."
I like it!
This groovin song will get my mom tapping toes around the living room, if her son is any indication.
Live performance had a particular charm.
Good, tight music, great drummer.
You get the essence
Itunes, here I come.
btw - I still like watching SNL, recorded after I go to sleep, replayed Sunday mornings, despite the crushing satires of Palin and McCain to Obama's tidbit moments.
Makes me laugh.
You've got me begging for mercy. Why won't you release me?
September 19, 2008
Jane Austen Rules
The Jane Austen book club.
This is the "Breakfast Club" of our time.
I am one of those guys who does not admit to admitting he admits to reading Jane Austen.
My mom can't figure her out. Jane. 1812. A long time ago.
Why do her books sell by millions?
Curiosity? Or after a few pages, reconstructing your LIFE?
The most pretty woman in this film, her name is Prudie (Emily Blunt).
Oh my God.
What would Jane do? Her decision blinks on crosswalks.
Jocelyn is hard to get.
That kind of makes me mad.
But Grigg gets her in the end, stepping stone by stepping stone.
This movie is the " Big Chill" of our time.
A toss-up between Sylvia, Jocelyn, and Prudie.