Born To Resist

Since I starting watching Freaks & Geeks, I’ve had a few dreams where I was back in high school. In one such dream I was riding on the bus with James Franco’s character, Daniel (he doesn’t ride the bus anyway) and he was totally  crushin’ on me, but I was like “No way. I’m going to get married someday.” I love that my dreams are still incredibly grounded in reality.  I’m so sensible.

It seems that all my favorite shows are cancelled or they get cancelled and then return many years later (I’m looking at you FUTURAMA!). In my adulthood I’m discovering that most TV genius is not truly appreciated by the masses. How could pure brilliance like Arrested Development only last 3 seasons? Freaks and Geeks only one? It’s unfair. I’m also wondering why these shows were on when I was in high school and really didn’t watch TV? I would have been one more audience member! I would urge you to watch Freaks and Geeks. It’s. just. so. good.

P.S. For those of you that fall into the “geek” category, F&Gs has the special bonus of including  guest stars Joel Hodgson & Trace Beaulieu.

Puck. Puck. Puck. I love you because you look like a little baby Peter Furler who is cruel to others.

I got a cat today. I went to the Riverside Animal shelter and picked one out. He’s a long haired orange tabby. I named him George Oscar Bluth. G.O.B. for short (it’s pronounced like the book of the Bible, Job). If you aren’t familiar with my cat’s namesake, you haven’t seen Arrested Development which is one of two TV shows that win in my book for best ever, Arrested Development (Mystery Science Theater 3000 being the other). I named him G.O.B. while trying to think of something clever and relevant to my life at the moment. I was going to go Biblical, but then changed my mind because that could ruin a future child name (I named one of my cats Maggie. I really wish I would have saved that if we have another girl). Then I went pop culture. I already had a Simpsons named cat (Maggie Moe), a TV show dog (Earl), a song name dog (Penny Lane), a TV show cat (Meaty) and a rescue cat that I named out of a Stephen King novel (Nadine).  Ta-Da! G.O.B. came to me. I said it outloud and Josiah kept calling him G.O.B. Perfection. It’s easy and it suits him. He’s tall, handsome and probably pretty good at illusions. I imagine he’s got a deep gravely voice, too.

I’m a nerd. I like certain Sci-Fi things. I really like Star Wars and I really, really like Futurama. I LOVE Bender the Robot. I have a mint in the box Bender toy on my desk. It’s beautiful. So, I found this on Freakingnews.com and about fell out of my chair with the sheer level of enjoyment I experienced.

I don’t know if you were all aware of this, but it’s the FUTURE! Except I do not have a bending unit robot as a sassy side kick (*YET*).

I got my first text from Target  for coupons on my iPhone. That’s the future, baby.  They just scan the barcode on your phone.

Here’s the link to sign up: Target Phone Coupons.

Now if they could just work on getting me a Bending Unit.

I had to blog about this.

These are not the cool new clothes I got my husband for his birthday. These are in fact the US Olympic Snowboarding Team’s uniforms. Burton designed them and I love them! I’m a Shaun White fan and Josiah is pretty stoked on watching him in the Olympics. I just have to say that this is really well executed and perfectly representative of snowboarding culture in America.  You can read the article here.

P.S. If you want to read about a ridiculous and whiney snowboarder, go here. It will make you laugh. A lot.

I wasn’t expecting this, because lightning doesn’t strike twice.

Bill Corbett responded to a tweet of mine.

I’m on my own little celebrity cloud!

I said something to him a few months ago and he responded, and today when I tweeted (Goodness how I hate that term), about how fantastic his Twitter is, he responded again! That’s pretty swell. It’s not everyday you get a Twitter update from Crow T. Robot.

P.S. If you aren’t familiar with MST3K, please get that way.  Hulu.com has a few episodes and if you are a member of Netflix you can watch them instantly. FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY! WATCH MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000!

The other day my brother Aaron walked in and said “You know what I’m looking into?” I quickly responded “Sleeves?”

Why? Because my brother owns about 30 shirts. 2 of them have sleeves. After watching this, I’m rethinking that remark. I’m thinking sleeveless shirts are the new style for today’s rock star on the go.

I haven’t watched anything from the Grammys last night. I wasn’t terribly interested. I’m thrilled that Kings of Leon won awards, but then baffled by The Black Eyed Peas winning anything. EVER. Then I’m utterly dismayed that Nickleback was even nominated. How do I take you seriously Grammy Awards??

There is a love hate relationship between me and Award shows. When it goes my way I celebrate, when it doesn’t I find solace in the idea that what I like isn’t main-stream enough to win. Aren’t I sort of a media snot?

Two years ago Cameron and I got to go to part of the Grammy Awards. I say “part” because we weren’t inside the Staples center, but outside in the Nokia theater area. We stood there for hours and hours. I was pregnant, I had to pee, I was tired. I had been puking my guts out the day before with morning sickness. Yet, I stood stalwart. I did not move for about 6 hours from one spot. You see, Cameron had won tickets to this… this magical moment. We were going to see the Foo Fighters preform. Not only was I to be 10 feet away from Mr. Grohl, but JOHN PAUL JONES was going to be there! In the words of GOB Bluth, “C’MON!” Who would not want to see this? This was long before TCV was on the horizon and it was pretty special to see a member of Led Zeppelin on stage. I enjoyed rubbing it in my brother’s face until he got to go last year and see both of them preform a full concert, now I don’t say much of anything. Anyway, Cameron and I waited. We watched them bring out equipment, set stuff up. We listened to the TV people lie to us about how many songs the Foo Fighters were going to play. We heard stupid people that had won from KROQ complain that alchohol wasn’t being served. We heard people asking who John Paul Jones was. I even heard these two exchanges:

“What band is the guy from?”

“The Sex Pistols I think.”

and

“Who is preforming with them?”

“John Bonham.”

Can I just say to the first one, GET OUT! Leave the area immediately and go play in traffic.

To the second, unless we were waiting for a magical drumming seance to occur, I don’t think that’s going to happen. (If you don’t know, John Bonham was the drummer for Led Zeppelin, he died in 1980.)

Added Bonus to our evening of awesome was Jason Bateman was the emcee. When we finally got to see the Foo and JPJ preform it was fantastic. I was stunned and couldn’t believe how lucky my hubby was when it came to winning Foo tickets (that’s not the first or last thing he’s won). Screaming along to “The Pretender” on live television was about as rad as it gets for a fan.

Here’s the link to the video:

Foo Fighters at the 2008 Grammy Awards.

Frankly, I think this cause will usher in a new era of bipartisan politics and hope for our country.