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You broke my heart.

SPOILER ALERT. Or something. It's in bullet number one, if you actually care about Top Model.

• Wow, Lisa [1]. I'm actually surprised, but not so much, because she was really starting to bug me lots in recent weeks. And frankly, I considered myself a pretty big supporter of Lisa. Every time Mena would say, "Ben likes her, but he's an idiot," [2] I'd say, "But she takes such great pictures!" But then it just stopped mattering, because she was so annoying.


• I've been listening a lot to the Dios (Malos) album, which is unexpectedly one of my favorite albums of this year. Going in, I didn't have any reference points or comparisons for it [3], which lack of baggage may be part of the reason why I'm enjoying it so much. But it's this great fun pop music, sort of sad, sort of relaxing in a druggy way, but at the same time—maybe even inexplicably—happiness-creating.


• I am, admittedly, a little bit obsessed with The Godfather: Part II. It's a fucking long movie, and usually, even a 90-minute movie is too much of a commitment for me. And not only that, but it's a really, really depressing movie. I mean, you know this, I'm sure, having watched it (right?), but it's really depressing! That look on Michael's face at the end? It kills me, every time, but I just can't stop watching it.

[1] Who, I think, I liked better with dark hair. But that's just me.

[2] This is a total exaggeration.

[3] Except for the really obvious ones, which don't really affect me that much, because I'm not a big fan of either the Beach Boys or Neil Young.

I'm a Bad Sportsmanship

You can tell you're writing a lazy post when the first thing you type is <ul>. [1]

• Best episode of "Survivor" in a long time, tonight. The sexually charged screaming match between Jamie & Bobby Jon? Amy getting trapped under the ball? Judd denying that Yaxha was a "bad sportsmanship"? I love personal conflicts, therefore I love Judd. Q.E.D.
• Oh fuck no, not Housequake! [2]
• This is not so much television- or music-related, but I loved Joel's post about Web 2.0 today, just as as I loved Anil's post about Web 2.0 last week. Every post about Web 2.0 should mention Billy Madison or Bow Wow!

[1] HTML jokes are so lame—but lists are just so easy to write.

[2] By which I mean, Coryn. We started calling her Housequake for some very bizarre reasons—basically, because she's got some vaguely Prince-like characteristics (those cheekbones, etc), & she's from Minneapolis, and so Mena & I were like... what if?

No, admittedly, it doesn't make much sense when you actually think about it. But it amused us saying things like "Damn! Shut up, already" every time Coryn would come on the screen. And now, that joy is gone.

"Get outta my jungle."

Oh, TV. You're just awesome. [1]

• Tyra Mail! "You should just keep making all those mistakes, and hope that we don't notice the ones you think we will." [2] That's, like, a life lesson.


• Oh Gary, don't lead the life that they made for you... "I'm totally gonna deny that I'm Gary Hogeboom." Hey: No one fucking cares that you're Gary Hogeboom!


• The Go-Betweens in general ("16 Lovers Lane" in particular). I guess that subconsciously I'm trying to set a record for the number of times I write about The Go-Betweens, both on this blog and on my LJ. But they're just amazing. The best band from to come out of Australia, ever. That's what I'm saying tonight, at least. [3]


• Dusty, Dusty, Dusty. You never cease to impress me. When I first heard you on "What Have I Done to Deserve This?", I basically said, that's a pretty fun & clever song, and it became my favorite PSB song. And then I bought your Best of, and there were some pretty incredible songs, but I worried that your voice was being drowned by the somewhat melodramatic production on some of the tracks. And then I heard Dusty in Memphis, and I thought, OMFG. So here's to "Breakfast in Bed."


• I'm so excited, because I'm getting a haircut tomorrow—I hate it when my hair's too long, & makes me feel all lethargic—and then I'm going to go to Amoeba, and there are so many albums I want. Yay!

[1] And music, I haven't forgotten about you! You're awesome, too.

[2] That's Tyra on disclaimers. And yes, this is probably far from an exact quote. In fact, it's a paraphrase, because I don't remember the exact quote, and we already deleted the episode from TiVo. But I think the sentiment is fairly accurate.

[3] Speaking of which. Every week on Rock Star: INXS (sorry, I'm not going to bother to make the "X" all red with a star in it), what got me was the fact that Tim Farriss would always say, "You're just not right for our band, INXS" (emphasis mine). Like, why the continual need to point that the band is INXS?

1. The show is called Rock Star: INXS.


2. You're obviously fucking Australian, and how many well-known bands from Australia, are there, anyway?

Really, it got rather ridiculous, to the point where it felt rather desperate, as if someone were continually saying, "don't forget to reinforce your brand!" And what I thought was basically, how sad that they felt that they needed to do that. If Michael Hutchence had been alive—well, sure, I understand that they wouldn't have been looking for another singer, but other than that—would they have still felt the need to continually remind us that they're INXS? Who do they assume has forgotten that fact while watching the show, over the course of an hour?

"Two Words: Umm. Eww."

Okay, I'm so fucking unashamedly excited about the new season (or "cycle") of "America's Next Top Model".

But let's go meta for a second: Mena & I were talking this morning on the way to work about how much we love the show, and I said I was going to write a post about it. And she was like, just don't start it with a bunch of exclamation points and "How much do I fucking love America's Next Top Model!!!"

And I said, well, what if I include this conversation as a sort of disclaimer re: my masculinity? [1]

I said it sounded like a footnote, but she said it should be front & center in the post.

And so there we had an agreement on my post about ANTM.

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But anyway: wow. What a show!

My very early-on favorite notes:

• I really like Kim, but I don't think she'll last that long. Call me crazy, but that walk just won't cut it.


• Makeovers! [2]


• This week's episode hit home with me, because I have a recurring nightmare where James St. James is chasing me down the street with a bullhorn. [3]


• Yay, they destroyed Cassandra! I liked it when she was crying about her hair getting cut: so good! And then someone was like, "No more beauty pageants" in the background, while they were cutting her hair. That was funny.


• Big D! This video is awesome, particularly the part at the end with J. playing all like a gangsta, & doing a strangely convincing job of it.

If I had to vote for a winner today, I'd vote for Lisa. Though I'm not sure about the blonde hair.

[1] And, you know, if I also drank a beer or something while watching the show. Which I did!

[2] I have a really, really awful confession to make, one that I'm actually embarrassed about: I used to watch TLC's A Makeover Story every day with Mena about 4 years ago. Every. Single. Day.

Now, I can't even watch that show, because the makeovers are just so bad, relatively.

[3] Well, not really, but that was scary, wasn't it? I kept thinking about that Simpsons episode where Homer makes the clown bed in Bart's room. "Can't sleep, clown'll eat me..."