We hope everyone had a nice Christmas and looks forward to a Happy New Year.
Instead of wasting a post while most of you remain out of the office, I threw together a “Best of” for 2005 from a post I never used at the end of the summer and planned on putting in the DVD extras for the blog.
Best story: Everybody is getting married and I’m not talking about the celebrity kind. It’s been a great experience over the summer attending weddings and learning several sets of our friends will be joining us next year at the alter. Congratulations and best of luck to everyone.
Worst Story: Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. Holy cow, is it me or is Cruise getting as nuts as Michael Jackson? Someone really needs to clue him in that a religion created thirty years ago by a person who writes science fiction novels should not be the foundation for people to stop requiring medical assistance. I feel this guy should be hanging out in his parents’ basement wearing his Legend of Zelda t-shirt painting figurines and talking to his Princess Leia life size cardboard cutout instead of having sex with girls half his age and babbling about being a self-proclaimed expert in psychology.
Favorite Film: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. As mentioned in my previous review, I thoroughly enjoyed this vision of Tim Burton and cannot praise Johnny Depp enough for his portrayal of the wacky confectioner. I found this to be a film featuring the fun factor from start to finish and look forward to seeing it again. On a side note, I give The 40 Year Old Virgin the nod over Wedding Crashers as the better movie because WC tried to get serious for the last twenty minutes while 40 YOV saved it for the final twenty seconds.
Best TV Shows: How I Met Your Mother(CBS Mondays 8:30), The Office(NBC Tuesdays 9:30), Lost(ABC Wednesdays 9:00), and Veronica Mars(UPN, Wednesdays, 9:00): If you’ve run into me in the past few months the odds are in favor of me boring you with a forty minute presentation on how the sitcom has returned to television. And yes, I do watch Lost and tape Veronica Mars. It’s really bothered me how after the end of Seinfeld and the first five seasons of Friends people try to claim CBS’s dumb dad/hot wife lineup (Bethany’s joke) and NBC’s Will and Grace qualify as good comedy. I apologize if you enjoy this programming, but it’s poorly written and uses laugh tracks to mask bad jokes.
Worst TV Shows: Taradise(Formerly Wild on Tara) and Nick Cannon Presents: Wild ‘N Out. I have already explained how awful the Tara Reid program can be and I am not quite sure why E! recently changed it’s name aside from trying to trick people into thinking they would be watching something else. Once again, this awful theme song really needs to be heard, but please change the channel the second you see raccoon eyed Tara talking about the history of Monte Carlo. As for my second program on the list, it appears someone at MTV decided allowing Nick Cannon to hold a high school talent show every week would make for great television. There’s quite a few people out there who made everyone in their family or fraternity laugh, but if an average person can’t follow 75% of your material than it’s time to go back to making television shows for Nickelodeon.
Best song: Don’t Cha by The Pussycat Dolls. While this song will not(and should not )make an appearance at our wedding I really enjoy the beat along with the catchy chorus. I also feel for the female lead on this song because she clearly has talent, but her first taste of success involves no one knowing her name while performing in her underwear. I hope she doesn’t have some sketchy contract and will be able to have some well-deserved future success on her own.
Worst Song: Hollaback Girl by Gwen Stefani. During our party at the beginning of the summer I downloaded the unedited version of this song and ended up stopping this embarrassing excuse of creativity before it finished. It’s not that I’m morally against swearing, but this performance proves to be totally unnecessary and unacceptable. I find it amusing Stefani decided to protest attending the MTV Video Music awards because they did not ask her to sing live on stage and then proceeded to show up once she realized nobody cared.
Breakthrough Singer: Kelly Clarkson. From American Idol Champion to having men screaming her lyrics in bars without fear of embarrassment. Enough said
Have a safe New Year and we'll see you in 2006
Instead of wasting a post while most of you remain out of the office, I threw together a “Best of” for 2005 from a post I never used at the end of the summer and planned on putting in the DVD extras for the blog.
Best story: Everybody is getting married and I’m not talking about the celebrity kind. It’s been a great experience over the summer attending weddings and learning several sets of our friends will be joining us next year at the alter. Congratulations and best of luck to everyone.
Worst Story: Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. Holy cow, is it me or is Cruise getting as nuts as Michael Jackson? Someone really needs to clue him in that a religion created thirty years ago by a person who writes science fiction novels should not be the foundation for people to stop requiring medical assistance. I feel this guy should be hanging out in his parents’ basement wearing his Legend of Zelda t-shirt painting figurines and talking to his Princess Leia life size cardboard cutout instead of having sex with girls half his age and babbling about being a self-proclaimed expert in psychology.
Favorite Film: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. As mentioned in my previous review, I thoroughly enjoyed this vision of Tim Burton and cannot praise Johnny Depp enough for his portrayal of the wacky confectioner. I found this to be a film featuring the fun factor from start to finish and look forward to seeing it again. On a side note, I give The 40 Year Old Virgin the nod over Wedding Crashers as the better movie because WC tried to get serious for the last twenty minutes while 40 YOV saved it for the final twenty seconds.
Best TV Shows: How I Met Your Mother(CBS Mondays 8:30), The Office(NBC Tuesdays 9:30), Lost(ABC Wednesdays 9:00), and Veronica Mars(UPN, Wednesdays, 9:00): If you’ve run into me in the past few months the odds are in favor of me boring you with a forty minute presentation on how the sitcom has returned to television. And yes, I do watch Lost and tape Veronica Mars. It’s really bothered me how after the end of Seinfeld and the first five seasons of Friends people try to claim CBS’s dumb dad/hot wife lineup (Bethany’s joke) and NBC’s Will and Grace qualify as good comedy. I apologize if you enjoy this programming, but it’s poorly written and uses laugh tracks to mask bad jokes.
Worst TV Shows: Taradise(Formerly Wild on Tara) and Nick Cannon Presents: Wild ‘N Out. I have already explained how awful the Tara Reid program can be and I am not quite sure why E! recently changed it’s name aside from trying to trick people into thinking they would be watching something else. Once again, this awful theme song really needs to be heard, but please change the channel the second you see raccoon eyed Tara talking about the history of Monte Carlo. As for my second program on the list, it appears someone at MTV decided allowing Nick Cannon to hold a high school talent show every week would make for great television. There’s quite a few people out there who made everyone in their family or fraternity laugh, but if an average person can’t follow 75% of your material than it’s time to go back to making television shows for Nickelodeon.
Best song: Don’t Cha by The Pussycat Dolls. While this song will not(and should not )make an appearance at our wedding I really enjoy the beat along with the catchy chorus. I also feel for the female lead on this song because she clearly has talent, but her first taste of success involves no one knowing her name while performing in her underwear. I hope she doesn’t have some sketchy contract and will be able to have some well-deserved future success on her own.
Worst Song: Hollaback Girl by Gwen Stefani. During our party at the beginning of the summer I downloaded the unedited version of this song and ended up stopping this embarrassing excuse of creativity before it finished. It’s not that I’m morally against swearing, but this performance proves to be totally unnecessary and unacceptable. I find it amusing Stefani decided to protest attending the MTV Video Music awards because they did not ask her to sing live on stage and then proceeded to show up once she realized nobody cared.
Breakthrough Singer: Kelly Clarkson. From American Idol Champion to having men screaming her lyrics in bars without fear of embarrassment. Enough said
Have a safe New Year and we'll see you in 2006
1 comment:
some great stuff mentioned here. Thanks again for turning us on to "How I Met Your Mother." Finally some good comedic writing on TV again. Neil Patrick Harris is classic! I have to add "House" to the great TV of 2005 list, and I really enjoy "Grey's Anatomy" and "Numb3rs".
I'm looking forward to 2006 with "24", a new season of "scrubs" and "4 kings". Jury is out on "4 Kings" but the previews are crackin' me up.
See you New Years to discuss everything else that happened in 2005.
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