Recently in T fucking V Category
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lust Seriously. Sounds like an outtake from Nilsson's the point.
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gluttony The Pointer Sisters on vox. I'm anti jazz, but this ok. No cookie monster for gluttony. too easy.
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wrath This is fucking rad.
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greed this is a metaphor for something. i just don't know what.
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pride i really don't think this is funny. but i don't think it's good.
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envy ok this is from the muppet show, but I think that fits in with envy.
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sloth I can't find the video of the hippy long hair who gets a haircut finally, and his friends drown in an ocean of golden curls. anyways, grover know's what's up. fuckers trying to make him work.
..bonus sin below..
Want to find out which show you will be lamenting the cancellation of? Watch The Knights of Prosperity on ABC. Its all online, and tons of laughs. But I get the feeling that it isn't going to last. So watch it, or else it will be replaced with another police procedural. CSI:Extreme Home Edition.
ALSO: HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAM'S DAD
Like knowing how stuff works? Science? British People? Animation? Like tv shows from 1988-1993?
Yes? You do? Yeah, who doesn't. Then The Secret Life of Machines, which you may be able to deduce is a British programme from '88-'93, which explains how ordinary things work through experiments, diagrams, history and animation, might just be for you.
Some subjects you have to look forward to are fax machines, vaccum cleaners, elevators, quartz watches, and refridgerators. But that's just the tip of the proverbial iceberg, my friends (Don't you hate and preversely kind of love the douche bags who says proverbial like that?)
The tv series was created by and stars Tim Hunkin (who has an extensive site of his work Here. He has done all kinds of awesome stuff, including mechanical animated piggy banks, simulator rides, arcade machines, interactive exhibits, and lots of other neato stuff, worth your browse), and the show was based on a comic strip that he drew for the Observer newspaper for 19 years. He also wrote and illustrated a book of science experiments for children 8-80 called Hunkin's Experiments.
To watch, simply type The Secret Life of Machines into your friendly neighborhood Google Video, and you're on your way. Also visit the secret life of machines website to see all of the orginal comics.
And just because I know you're lazy, I'll start you off. Here's The Secret Life of Machines...THE CENTRAL HEATING SYSTEM!
I have discovered a treasure troph with the potential to take all jaded parts of my personality and wipe them clean. The hater in me could actually die. If I only I had a PC. (Curses Apple, your streamlined asthetics have foiled me again!) In2tv, Aol's little tv downloady site has a vintage section with episodes of my favorite shows as a kid. I'm serious, when Welcome Back Kotter first came on Nick at Night, it was shown at 4am, and I would go to sleep and have an alarm set for 4am so I could wake up and watch it. (I don't know why I didn't just tape it....) On In2tv, such delights as Welcome Back, Kotter, Perfect Strangers, Growing Pains, Our Gang, Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, and Wonder Woman are ripe for the picking. Unfortunately, I missed this when I sold my soul to Apple. Will someone with a PC please enjoy Balki bailing Larry out after one of his hairbrained scemes goes awry for me? I promise it will be rich with slapstick and cultural misunderstandings.
If you, too, are a Mac user, you'll just have to settle for a page of Balki-isms, like this classic: "Well rub my chest and call me Vix"
Do you like:
-The Simpsons
-South Park
-Futurama
-Family Guy
-American Dad
Well, okay, no one likes American Dad. But now you can watch every episode of every season of every one of these cartoons to your hearts content (except American Dad, because, again, no one likes it. They were really reaching with the alien that leaks gross liguid and the German trapped in a goldfish's body, I mean, jesus. If you're going to do surreal avant gardy cartoons, at least employ nice character design! That show is just so ugly. And the family itself is thinly veiled copy of Family Guy, which is a weakly disguised reprint of the Simpons, except this time around, they are completely non-likable characters. Worse, it's not even funny!...but I digress).
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Just as I was losing hope of ever seeing this show in an enjoyable quality format, the first season of The State has just dropped to itunes! According to the official website, MTV will release subsequent seasons based on the first season's sales, so buy now! This is probably one of the funniest sketch comedy shows ever released and the show that spawned most of today's most hilarious entertainment like Wet Hot American Summer, Stella, Reno 911, and The Baxter. Highly recommended. (Thanks to Liam for pointing this out to me!)
Link (To The State on itunes Store. It will open itunes automatically. Sorry.)
Remember when I was all like, "OMG, Carnivale is the best show in the whole wide world? Well, After finishing the second season (the post was written after viewing the first season) I'd like to state that the second season kind of sucks. Apparently Carnivale was supposed to have a 5 season run. Then HBO was all, hey, now it's going to be three seasons, so condense that story. Which resulted in a corny-baloney plotline where a squillion things happened in every episode and it became silly. Absurd, even. The element of mystery was gone, and suddenly, you just didn't care about the characters that much. Completely unlike the first season, they really didn't focus on the characters, they focused on trying to fit a five season story into three, which, incidentally, turned into two, and now I have to admit, I can understand why HBO cancelled it. And if you remember, I said that HBO cancelled it because it had come to a natural ending, and then I said after reading essage boards, instead of coming to an ending, it actually ended in an even bigger cliffhanger. Well, now that I've seen it, I can say it's true and it's not. It kind of did come to a natural ending, but then in the last minute, it was like, but wait...maybe he's not dead....!! The second season was a like a bad made-for-the-Sci-Fi-channel-movie, complete with cheesy effects (although it was still quite beautiful). I mean, you can blame HBO for making them condense 5 seasons into 3, but you can't blame them for cancelling it when it started to suck. There, I've said it.
Oh jeez. Next season's Survivor is the worst idea ever. There will be four teams...broken up by race! That means whites, blacks, latinos and asians. Perhaps an intersting social experiment, but I have a feeling it's going to be nasty. My vote is for the blacks. Survivor doesn't have a lot of math problems to do, so that pretty much counts the Asians out. The Latinos will be busy sweeping the sand off the white team's hut doorstep and cleaning their coconut shell bowls, so they won't have time to compete. And the Whites can't win, because black people would be PISSSED! First slavery, then segregation, I figure at least one of them's got a million dollars in game show money coming to him.
Doesn't it seem creepy that viewers at home will be rooting for their "team" to win? It just doesn't feel right, does it?
I hit the booze a little hard last night, and have been exceptionally cross all day. I tried listening to This American Life, I tried looking at Cute Overload, looked at the pictures from Justin's birthday celebration from last night, read up on trashy celebrity news at Pink is the New Blog, drank some coffee, ate some candy, looked at the collection of bookplates on Biblio Odyssey, but nothing seemed to be working. Until this:
Julie over at Goodie Monster wrote an inciteful article about our generations lexicon that also makes me look like a douche bag. Please, go see for yourself
So there's a new reality show. I know what you're thinking...I don't give a crap. Well, I don't really care for your tone, but I'll try to pretend I didn't hear it.
It's Who Wants To Be A Superhero?! It's on the Sci-Fi Channel.
The winner's suerhero becomes immortalized in a comic book by Mr. Stan Lee! Wow, such a cool prize.
Too bad the auditions are over, because I had all kinds of plans.
This warmed my heart, it did. A two legged dog that walks upright like a human. God Bless You, Montel Williams. You've done it again.
I really wanted to watch HBO's Carnivale when I saw the first commercials previewing it, but I was in college at the time and couldn't bring myself to watch it on the communal tv next to the snack bar. It smelled greasy there. A few weeks ago, a friend of mine informed me that she had the first season on dvd, and kindly lent it to me. And here are my findings: It is the most original tv show I've ever seen. It's set in the Great Depression and the costume/set design alone is astounding. The characters progress seamlessly and are complexly layered, the scripts and acting are masterful, and the plotline is like no other. It doesn't rely on excessive violence, sex, or swearing, it just uses the power of good storytelling. It's refreshing, and addictive. I like 6 Feet Under and The Sopranos just as much as the next guy, but Carnivale is truly unique, and an extremely difficult storyline to pull off. With magic Realism abound, mysterious curtains hiding mysterious creatures, ghosts, telepathy, mind reading, healing powers, religious phenomenon, and of course, a midget, things could quickly and easily get corny. In fact, I was waiting for it to. But it never did. It just got intense. Super intense. Right up until the season one finale, which was the cliffhanger of all cliffhangers. I felt like crying, first of all knowing that the second season doesn't come out until July 18th, and second of all knowing that season 2 ends with and even bigger cliffhanger, and then there's NOTHING! Because HBO cancelled the series!!!! WTF?
