Tuesday, March 29, 2005

Point Pleasant Cancelled From TVTome.com: March 25, 2005; It's Officially No More ... Point Pleasant Off-the-Air; Fox Network executives announced that the show airing last Thursday was the final episode due to very disappointing ratings. A petition has been started for Point Pleasant. Off-the-cuff, I wrote: This show is hot, so much better than the OC. Totally fun combo of Buffy, Rosemary's Baby, Melrose Place type soap -- this show's great; you need to give it more of a chance. Give it a little time to catch on. As well, I mean you put it on opposite CSI, and with little fan-fare. Come on! Here is a decent site on PP's alluring star, Elisabeth Harnois. 8:47:07 AM    comment []

Carla Bruni Okay, here's some info on Carla Bruni from my site. And here's some info on her from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Wait, hold up. Before we get to that, let me say she's one of the world's all-time greatest supermodels, beyond beautiful, beyond everything. What we're writing her up here for is because she has happened to release an album where she sings. She may play instruments, she may write some of the songs too, but this stuff is gold. I mean, this gal is gorgeous beyond belief, and guess what she's got a great voice, and she can sing. What do you want? Meanwhile, I'm all freaked out about my age (I'm nearing 30! Shit!), and Carla Bruni Tedeschi was born on December 23, 1968 in Turin, Italy -- making her 36 as I write this. She was the heiress of a tire manufacturing fortune from her native city, and she didn't even need to pursue her modeling career which nonetheless has led her to be one of the 20 highest-paid models in 1998. Since the age of five she grew up in France and later attended a boarding school in Switzerland. She eventually returned to Paris where she dropped her classes at the age of 19 to become a full-time model. She became famous as an international model but she also became a tabloid staple by dating famous rock stars as Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, tycoon Donald Trump and actors Kevin Costner and Vincent Perez. Even though Costner is kinda old has made some lame films, and even though Clapton is older than him, and even though Jagger is older than him -- I still have huge respect for Carla. Now, the Trump thing hurts her credibility in my eyes a bit, but she's still (1) HOT, (2) hot at 36!, (3) super talented in re her hot album!, (4) French/Italian-style hot, (5) just buy her album -- male/female, gay/straight, hot/not hot, francophile/non-francophile -- you won't regret it. iTunes has it now (finally) too. In 1998 she left the world of fashion! Bruni since devoted herself to chanson (a French word for song) and in the year 2002 her debut album "Quelqu'un M'a Dit" was released, making her famous in Europe. 2:18:40 AM    comment []

Cockney Rhyming Slang There's this thing about cockney rhyming slang that I have a huge respect for; it's so cool, and you gotta be pretty smart and pretty witty and pretty on top of things to do it. My fav example of it is Don Cheadle in the Ocean's Eleven remake. Some people were bothered by his English accent, I wasn't. Cheadle played Basher Tarr; in one scene, he demonstrates this slang: Basher: We're in real barney! [everyone pauses] Basher: Barney Rubble? [they look bewildered] Basher: Trouble! So, here's how it works... Butchers - To have a butchers at something is to have a look. This is a cockney rhyming slang word that has become common. The reason "butchers" means a look even though it doesn't rhyme is because it is short for "butchers hook" and "hook" of course, does rhyme. Cockney rhyming slang - There are lots of words that make up cockney rhyming slang. These are basically rhyming words like "butchers hook" which means "look". If you are in London and you hear someone talk about a Septic they are probably talking about you - because it's short for "Septic tank" which equals "yank", which is the Brits' word for an American. How do you like that! Another good example is how certain cops are called The Sweeney. It comes from "Flying Squad." And here's how. Flying Squad = Sweeney Todd = The Sweeney! Get it?! For more on the Flying Squad, from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Flying Squad is a branch of London's Metropolitan Police force. It was formed in 1919 as the "Mobile Patrol Experiment", a branch of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), in response to a crime wave that followed the end of World War I. Its officers were originally nicknamed the "thief takers". It consists of police officers trained in high-speed driving, whose task is to prevent and detect armed robbery and similar crimes. The name reflects the fact that the officers operate across the boundaries of London's police divisions. In 1978 it was renamed the "Central Robbery Squad". Its most popular nicknames are "the Sweeney" (Cockney rhyming slang for "Sweeney Todd"/"Flying Squad") and "The Heavy Mob". The squad's work was dramatized in the 1970s British TV series The Sweeney (featuring our recently late, and taken much too soon, hero, played by John Thaw -- Inspector Morse!). This was the era in which the Sweeney's close ties with the criminal underworld, which had always been a necessary part of its strategy, were being exposed to public criticism. A number of scandals involving bribery and corruption were revealed by a secret investigation, Operation Countryman, which led to the imprisonment of the squad's Chief Superintendent. The squad is now part of the Organised Crime Group. 1:29:27 AM    comment []

Mary Lynn Rajskub You know who I love, and who I've loved since before 24, since Punch Drunk Love, in fact, where she is awesome as Adam Sandler's sister, is Mary Lynn Rajskub, who now plays Chloe on 24. 12:51:46 AM    comment []

More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes From Wordsmith.org, Mar 28, 2005, "Readers may be divided into four classes: 1. Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtied. 2. Sand-glasses, who retain nothing and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. 3. Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. 4. Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet, critic (1772-1834). 12:42:22 AM    comment []

Movie Numbers The Big Red One Two for the Seesaw Sergeant's Three Four for Texas Five Easy Pieces With Six You Get Eggroll Seven Days in May Hard Eight Nine to Five Ten North Frederick Ocean's Eleven Ocean's Twelve Thirteen Women Fourteen Days 15 Minutes Sixteen Candles Stalag 17 18 Again K-19: The Widowmaker Twenty Bucks Twenty-One Catch-22 23 Paces to Baker Street 24 Hour Party People 25th Hour [26] [27] 28 Days Later Track 29 -30- [31] [32] [33] [34] [35] 36 Hours [37] [38] The 39 Steps 40 Days and 40 Nights [41] Summer of '42 [43] [44] Love and a .45 Code 46 [47] 48 Hours Ladder 49 50 First Dates Dossier 51 52 Pick-Up [53] 54 55 Days at Peking 56 Rue Pigalle Passenger 57 [58] [59] Gone in 60 Seconds 61* [62] [63] [64] [65] Buffalo '66 [67] Sappho '68 The Fighting 69th Boccaccio '70 Dracula 71 Dracula '72 Winchester '73 Attilas '74 75 Degrees in July [76] Airport '77 [78] The Concorde: Airport '79 Around the World in Eighty Days Dancer, Texas Pop. 81 [82] Gypsy 83 84 Charing Cross Road National Lampoon's Class of '86 [87] 88 Minutes [89] Frankenstein 90 [91] 92 in the Shade [93] [93] [94] Dogma 95 - Idioterne Number 96 97 goo waak jai jin mo bat sing The Trail of '98 99 River Street 100 Rifles 101 Reykjavik 102 Dalmatians [103] [104] [105] Her 106th Birthday [107] [108] PT 109 Across 110th Street Room 111 [112] File 113 [114] [115] [116] OSS 117 [118] Christmas at Camp 119 Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom 12:25:11 AM    comment []

"Blind faith is the crutch of fools." -- Det. Francis Xavier 'Frank' Pembleton (Andre Braugher), Homicide: Life on the Street. 12:11:28 AM    comment []

Persephone Persephone, pronounced "per-seh-fun-ee" comes from Greek Mythology. She was "the daughter of Demeter and Zeus who was abducted by Hades but rescued by her mother and thereafter spent six months of the year on earth and six months in the underworld. She was made queen of the underworld by Pluto in ancient mythology; identified with Roman Proserpina." That info comes from dictionary.reference.com. I like the name, it's cool, perhaps this is based mainly on the fact that the astoundingly beautiful Monica Bellucci plays Persephone in the second Matrix film. Somehow Persephone is a cooler name than Monica. Anyway, Persephone is currently on my shortlist of names for my daughter. However, my wife is currently not expecting. Also of note, I have no wife, or even a girlfriend. I'm also in no rush to have any children, and I certainly don't want to have any "on accident." 12:07:53 AM    comment []