AGT. I like Howard Stern. I liked Piers Morgan for the same reason. It needs someone somewhat impartial to balance Sharon's and Howie's biased preferences. Stern seems to be handling that pretty well. Haven't seen any amazing talent yet. What they have put through is boring. No amazing singers or anything. A lot of the acts were pretty lame.
"Horse" made it through 1st cuts. Really? Come on. This is a dumb shit of a teen (I don't think he's a teen anymore) who went YouTube viral as the king of nutshots. I've seen him on other viral video clip shows like Web Soup and Attack of the Show. He started with pulling a heavy load with his dick, and then taking hits to the crotch. How is this a Vegas act? There wasn't any other act better than this to put through? Yes, there was. This isn't talent, this is fucking stupid. I thought this was supposed to be a family show. You'd think the show and judges would like to inspire youth, but they should do this? Hopefully the young "men" who think this is a way to get famous won't be able to procreate. Can Horse even get it up? He's been doing this for so long Numbnuts is a more fitting nickname. And the young ladies who think guys like this are cool? Yeah, they shouldn't be having babies either.
You may have heard about the war vet who scammed everyone with his sob story. This guy wasn't more than a mediocre guitar strummer/singer to begin with. Wisely, the producers decided to not give this guy any more air time and the judges voted him off with no fanfare. There was just a quick shot in the rejection montage of him crying without even mentioning his name. Good, well handled.
Why do the producers waste so much air time on the back stage drama if the people don't make it to the live show? Well, ok, sometimes it's funny. Like when someone really thinks they're good and go on about how unique and million dollar Vegas worthy their act is...but isn't. But the sob stories? Why do we need them? Save it for later if the act makes it to the live show. Or not. I hate the crybabies because I think it's all faked to earn sympathy votes. That guy proved that. You sob story doesn't make you a headlining act.
SYTYCD should be really good this season. Really really good. I complained that last season was rather boring with too much contemporary, but maybe they heard (read?) me? The top 20 debuted in their 1st routines and it was awesome. A 3-way cha cha (2 girls, 1 boy), a 3-way ballet (2 boys, 1 girl). Very cool routines. If you're excited about "Magic Mike", you need to see those 2 ballet boys. Oh baby. They've got pretty faces to go with their pretty bodies. If they mix up the dance styles they way they mixed up the dancers, it's going to be great. Besides the 3 ballroom and 3 ballet dancers, and the usual contemporary and jazz dancers, there's a belly dancer, a stepper, a martial artist, and an animator. Animator? I've seen the style but hadn't heard the term before. It's like the robot dance on steroids. There's also a new format. There won't be results shows. Not sure how eliminations will work, but apparently there will only be one episode per week (boo) and in the end there will be 2 winners...a boy and a girl.
One day in the checkout line at Walmart. After looking at my options, I chose the lane with 1 nearly empty cart. And waited. I had got behind 3 people shopping out of the same cart. It was almost a comedy act. It appeared to be a mom, her son, and his girlfriend. Turns out there were 3 separate bills in that cart. None were that big, mom's was the biggest and partially loaded in another cart at the end, but for some reason it was awfully complicated. It's possible there was another bill for a person not along for the shopping trip.
I realized half the complication was their eating. They had hit the in-house McD's before they checked out. They were trying to sort out and pay their individual bills while stuffing their faces and bickering the entire time. Mom never shut up! It looked like things were just being moved around. Here, this goes in this bag. No, wait it stays in that cart, and this goes there. The girlfriend was the only one who seemed to have it together, and she looked a bit embarrassed by the mom/son routine. You know how you try not to be rude and stare? This was one of those things you had to try real hard not to be obvious about watching and listening, but it was so fascinating that I couldn't not watch and eavesdrop. I wonder how people like that function in life.
Dallas! What fun! Maybe you aren't old enough to remember Dallas. Back in its day, it was a BIG DEAL. It was one of the first primetime soaps and the most successful. Well, it's back! TNT has revived it, and it picks up where it left off 20 odd years ago. Money and power, and schemes, scams and shady characters. This reincarnation has brought back many of the original actors in their former roles, including Larry Hagman as the now elderly but no less sly and evil J.R. Ewing. It's not a remake, it's the story continued.
Brand X. This is Russell Brand's little show on FX and I just caught it last night. I like him. Not his movies, those were awful, but I like his stand-up. His hilarious British accent has a lot to do with it. I'm not sure how much was scripted and how much is ad-libbed. I think it's 50/50. He's basically doing a 30 minute monologue for a live audience with a guest and a graphics screen off to the side to help him. This first show the guest was a young political analyst or something. Brand wanted to know what the American equivalent of the Dali Lama was. So he ran through various American politicos and celebrities with the guest explaining how some might fit the role. He's really very astute with a quick wit. I liked it. It probably won't be a long-lived show but I'll watch while it's here.
Grass. I have the mowing down to an hour. 1 hour! That includes getting off to open and close 2 gates. The mandatory safety features on the tractor require that the mower deck is disengaged, trans out of gear, and the brake set before you get off the seat, or it stalls. So that takes up a little time. Sometimes there's an extra stop when I forgot to move something out of the way before I started. Still hate to cut the grass, but I guess I can handle an hour every 2 weeks. 2 weeks? Yep, pretty much. The last time I mowed was 13 days ago. It's more often during spring but as summer goes on, it needs it less often. I mow no lawn before its time. After the current baking heat wave and lack of rain, I shouldn't need to mow again for a while.
Good morning.
