Monday Madness - TV

Currently, what television commercial is your least favorite?

I don't like a lot of commercials, actually...but I can't think of one that I actively dislike right now.

And which commercial is your most favorite?

The skittles one with the singing rabbit. It cracks me up EVERY. TIME.

Of the sitcoms that are on during "prime time" how many do you watch on a regular basis? Please share.

How I met your Mother, 24, the Office, The Sopranos and Entourage.

Is there a television series that you enjoy watching that is ending this season?

I just got into the Sopranos, so it sucks that it's ending...I'm not even all caught up yet!

Is there any type of program you'd like to see more of on television?

No, I'm pretty happy with the current lineup. Maybe more Gilmore Girls, but shows like that have a tendency to flop. GG is really hard to recreate, I guess.

Is there any type of program you'd like to see less of on television?

Reality TV and bad game shows.

Is there a series that is no longer aired that you wish would come back?

Joan of Arcadia.

Do you watch re-runs of anything on television?

Judging Amy. ANTM....loads of others.

Don't you know it's hard, quite, in the time of confusion?

I'm feeling a little off today and I don't know why.

Have you had a chance to check out the Spiderman 3 soundtrack yet (PS - It's Indie-tastic)? If not, you should head on over to this MySpace page and have a listen. My current favorite is "Sealings" by YYY. If my heart could sing, it would sound like Karen O.

Speaking of the heart...Aside from listening to the Spiderman samplings today, I've been listening to a pretty consistent soundtrack of one song: Big Chair by Travis.

Now you know that I heart everything about you
And that's why it's quite hard to get through this alone

You're the only one I can talk to about it
In my darkest night I will be on my own

These walls that we climb are hard to recognize
They fall when I say your name

Here we go
Fast and slow
On the big chair

But we don't know
Where we're going
On the big chair

Don't you know it's hard, quite, in the time of confusion
To tell you that I love you

You see it could have been me instead of you
It could have been me if I wanted to
But it wasn't
So we'll have to face the truth

These walls that we climb are hard to recognize
They fall when I say your name

Here we go
Fast and slow
On the big chair

But we don't know
Where we're going
On the big chair

Time to pull the shutters down
Breakin' clouds don't make a sound?

Here we go
Fast and slow
On the big chair

But we don't know
Where we're going
On the big chair

Read into it what you will. I've never been one to be completely literal with this, since it's kind of like dreams.

I wonder when they're going to play the Walkmen song in the Spidey movie.

This is Not A Love Song

This song has been haunting me for the past week, and I can't seem to do anything about it.

I haven't been coordinated enough to put it on my ipod, and so every time it seeps into my brain, I haven't had the luxury of listening to it. Instead of making the problem go away, this is making it worse, and by the time I can get to the song, I'm hungry to hear it again.

I saw Kaiser Chiefs at Avalon on Monday night, with the Walkmen. It was one of the better shows I've seen, and even though I've got some sort of plague or the SARS or a black lung, or whatever it is, I still enjoyed the show tremendously. I have been dying to see the Walkmen live for...oh, forever, and they did not dissappoint (except for their six song set. That tiny little number disappointed a bit), and even though I was a little scared that the Kaiser Chiefs show was going to be awkward (the lead singer seemed like a bit of a ham at first, and the crowd was not buying it...for about half a minute, then he riled us all up and it was awesome), it was amazing.

And still.

I cannot get this song out of my head.

It's like this urge that I'll get, and when I get it, I have to have a fix. And when it pops into my head, I always have to pause to figure out which song it is, and it burns inside of me until I do. And my heart sinks when I realize that the only place it lives is on my computer at work, and it will be anotehr several hours before I can listen to it again.

And so I wait. And every time I listen to it, I think, "Well. This song is good, but it's not great. It's catchy, but it not a brilliant musical masterpiece. Why?" But it eats at my soul. It rocks me in all of my hidden places, it finds the darkest corners of my mind and drives me crazy.

This must be what it's like to fall in love.

Cheetah Attack

"Hurry! You're missing the intro! You're missing a zebra, chasing a bunch of gazelle"
[silence]
"And elephants!"
[more silence]
"And seals! And a cheetah!
[nothing]
"Eating a penguin!"

"...Wait. A WHAT? All I heard was a zebra and a gazelle...A bunch of stuff I'm not interested in...And cheetahs eating penguins."

Later...

"Look at those penguins just sitting there like jerks! Lazy penguins."
"You know what they need? A good old fashioned cheetah attack."
"The Discovery Channel should bring their own cheetahs to the penguin colonies."
"That would show them."