Thursday, March 06, 2008
Proj Run! Ian beat me to the official rundown, read on if you want to hear more post-finale ramblings. Christian took it all, which was totally expected even having known in advance that his collection would be the least wearable and even more "costume" (read: couture) than Chris's stuff ever was. I knew he would win as soon as Jezebel deliciously leaked each of the collections (note: ringers Chris AND Sweet P. presented!) as well as the fact that Posh was the guest judge. The networks lurve a boy genius. Soo yeah, Jillian's knits were interesting, though I liked the idea of them more than I actually would like to wear them. That sweater with the cut-outs? Can you say J.C. Penny junior dept. sale rack? Nevertheless, I adore her. And not just cause she's a neurotic, over-careful, quietish girl from my home territory of Lawnguyland. The best part of all is that she seems so much nicer than the Mean Fashion Girls I went to high school with -- their personalities were much more akin to Christian's, actually, which is hardly a surprise. I expect very cool things, and many amazing jackets from Jillian in the future and I hope her boyfriend proposes to her asap because he seems to be very much in love, which warms my heart. Did you see how sweetly he kissed her while she was crying over her loss? It was like the cameras weren't even there! This is what I live for. But anyway, the real success of the Bryant Park show was Rami. Mr. Drapey McDraperson is an expert tailor, who knew! So WHAT if he likes "Brady Bunch colors" (read: jewel-tones, which I love)? Mike Kors, you're such a jackass. Rami really is the most cerebral and I think he'll have just as much post-show success as Christian will. He may even be the Clay Aiken to Christian's Reuben. We shall have to wait and see. Love you, Rams. Love you even more when you trot after Christian when he says, "Come on, girl!" To squelch my sadness over having no more PJ for months and months, I've been catching up on the Bravo blogs. There's an incredible post-win Q&A with Christian here, and I urge you to read it in its entirety. (It also includes a fucking great mini-photoshoot with Christian and Heidi, as seen above) For posterity's sake, here is the ultimate, most amazing, best quote ever -- and so true. Christian, you're a sassy, foul-mouthed little bitch with high-maintainance hair, but you know your shit: Did you just know that Victoria Beckham would like your collection?
In the back of my head, I’m not going lie, I was like, “Victoria’s the judge. This is me.” She’s who I design for! She’s English, she’s from Europe, she’s very very into high fashion, and some of her favorite designers are McQueen and Chanel and Lagerfeld, you know? I knew there was no way she was not going to like what I did. It was amazing because she’s someone I would actually want to try to dress. I actually think I said when we first started and Bravo asked us all who we’d want to dress, I’m pretty sure I said Victoria Beckham. Well, and I said Britney, but actually I said I wanted to save Britney! My new goal in life is to come up with my new reality show called Project Britney where I transform her and I save her life and make her the most fabulous person ever! She needs a gay! She has no gays! Have you ever noticed that? She has no gay boys helping her! She only has straight people and, no offense, but straighties don’t know how to fix the divas! It’s so weird! I’ve never seen any gay stylists working her.
The perfect ending to a delightful Season Four: The Tim and Christian walk-off!!
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Friday, February 15, 2008
From the inbox, updating a previous item:
WORLD RENOWNED RECORDING GROUP
AEROSMITH ROCKS THIS WAY TO GUITAR HERO®:
AEROSMITH®
Epic
Collaboration Creates First Music-Based Game to Feature One
Band Santa
Monica, CA – February 15, 2008 – Fire up the fret
board, crank the amp to 11 and get
ready to rock this way with Activision, Inc.’s (Nasdaq: ATVI) Guitar Hero®:
Aerosmith®, the first game built around the legendary music of
America’s Greatest Rock ‘N Roll Band: Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Brad Whitford,
Tom Hamilton and Joey Kramer. Slated for release this June, this latest
installment from the franchise with the #1 best-selling video game in 2007, puts
players in the shoes of Perry (guitar), Whitford (guitar) and Hamilton (bass),
as they rock out alongside frontman Tyler and drummer Kramer.
Gamers will experience
Aerosmith’s GRAMMY® winning career, from their first gig to becoming rock
royalty, in a way that no other entertainment vehicle
offers.
We maintain that this is not a good idea for many reasons (not the least of which being that Aerosmith has already had a video game), but we want to highlight Steven Tyler's quote from the press release (emphasis mine): Steven
Tyler says, “Any band that can go from ‘Don’t Want to Miss A Thing’ (Aerosmith’s
#1 smash hit) to the ass-kicking ‘Sweet Emotion’ to the cheekiness of ‘Love in
an Elevator,’ to the classic ballad ‘Dream On’ shows why Activision chose us to
headline this game based on the diversity of the Aerosmith catalog. Not only is
songwriting a bitch, but then it goes and has puppies.”
Just wow.
Monday, February 11, 2008
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
It seems like the Heroes writers were so busy packing their premiere with plot that they neglected to consider that they were also making it unwatchable. A character had barely enough time last night to finish his/her lines before we were whisked off to the next character’s scene. Ok that’s an overstatement. But you get my point.
Surely, last season had the same insanely crowded feel to it — so, why oh why is the approach only getting on my nerves just now?
stuff I didn’t like:
Kill the cheerleader already. They keep moving Claire Bear from town to town, but all roads inevitably lead to Dullsville.
While we’re at it, kill the Petrelli mom as well.
No Kristen Bell. Where is the sassy star we were promised?
The show’s insistence that we were experiencing limited commercial interruptions courtesy of Nissan kinda made me feel like burning down a Nissan dealership.
The random trivia question in the middle. Because I didn’t know the answer.
stuff I liked:
Save the cheerleader’s creepy Dad. The scene in which Jack Coleman kicks his boss’s ass killed me last night. Man loves his coffee breaks!
Nathan Petrelli’s beard. Dynamite.
The argument between little Molly Walker and her mind-reading new daddy Matt Parkman as to whether the latter actually cheated on his police exercise by using his powers to ace his scene.
Hiro finding out that his own hero, Takezo Kensei, is a white Brit and a drunk to boot.
Ned Ryerson as Goldenstash
Hmm, although simple mathematics says otherwise, I still say the premiere stunk.
How I Met Your Mother didn’t fare much better last night. In fact, it was so bad that I was embarrassed to be watching it in front of my girlfriend, whom I invited over to watch it for the first time.
stuff I didn’t like:
The huzzah over Ted’s so-called “tramp stamp.” Wow, guy gets drunk, wakes up with a girly tattoo. There’s a new one for you. Let’s all shit our pants over that one.
The casting of gorgeous Mandy Moore as Ted’s one night stand — one of those experiments that sounds like a hoot on paper — turned out to be a major flop.
stuff I liked:
The casting of Enrique Iglesias as Robyn’s new boy toy may have on paper been a terrible idea, but in practice his scenes worked out much better for the show than Moore's did. The scene where he’s feeding Robyn and says with feeling, “taste the food,” raised a rare laugh from me. And the one where the camera moves from friend to friend, all of them visibly smitten with Iglesias’s character, was also funny. Especially when it stopped at the batty-eyed Morgan. I’m still convinced the former freak on Freaks And Geeks, Jason Segal, is the best thing about that show.
Monday, September 17, 2007
Dragonforce, "Through the Fire and Flames (Guitar Hero 3)"Some site called Megatonik is claiming to have the complete set list from the upcoming Guitar Hero 3. Looks to be in line with everything we've heard about the game so far. That last level looks sick to us: "Number of the Beast," "Raining Blood," "One," and for the finale, "The Devil Went Down to Georgia." Also exciting: "The Seeker" and "Kool Thing." Less excited about tracks by Disturbed, Slipknot, Muse, Rise Against, Bloc Party, and Social Distortion, but you take the good with the meh. Still won't be as good as Rock Band.
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
 I'm not sure there's any way I can attempt to take a rational look at the recent revelations of the Patriots' videotaping tactics in a way that will make me look like anything but a homer, but I'm going to try. What happened on Sunday was against the rules. And the Patriots got caught doing it. Whatever penalty the league decides to hand down in this case will have to be something we as fans accept and move on. It's only fair. That said, let's not go overboard here. This is not " the worst NFL scandal yet." Here's the thing: if the team's reputation for these antics was truly as widespread in the NFL as people like Mike Tomlin and LaDanian Tomlinson have been saying, then shouldn't teams have prepared accordingly? Hell, in that same article in which Tomlin discusses the simmering backroom discussion of the Patriots "family" and their usage of underhanded video, an unidentified Steelers coach says words to that exact effect: One assistant said the Steelers changed their defensive signals
whenever they played against New England because of their suspicions
And, let the record show, that since 2001, the Steelers' video-counter strategies have led to exactly one win over the Patriots. So were the Steelers the only team doing something like this, and poorly at that? We somehow doubt it, especially if the cameraman was as blatant as the photo document suggests. Compare these hijinks to baseball, in which stealing signs is common. As a result, teams think ahead, and do things like cover their mouths in conferences on the mound (like Joe Kerrigan used to do when he was the Sox' pitching coach) or, more simply, change their signs during the game. Also, consider Tampa Bay coach Jon Gruden, who beat the Raiders in the Super Bowl thanks to his advance knowledge of the Radiers' playbook (from when he was the Raiders' coach) - was that somehow unsportsmanlike? We're not trying to completely exonerate Belichick. Certainly his bending of the rules in this case was a little sleazy, following a pattern of sleazy behavior dating back some time. And we can understand why the legions of Patriots non-fans are enjoying this right now, and we don't blame them for that. But at the same time, any team that wants to blame their losses to the Patriots entirely on some video tape is going to come off reeking of sour grapes. Those teams probably should have prepared better for such things. UPDATE: King Kaufman says it better than I could.
Monday, August 20, 2007
Peter Kadzis talks to FNX about Cindy Sheehan here.
Read the original editorial "Say it ain't so, Cindy Sheehan: Plus, the turd's blossom has finally fallen off" here.
Monday, August 13, 2007
 Not the scene at Gillette
Earlier, we discussed the impending arrival of David Beckham in our fine ... region. Lara Brotheim, who does marketing here (for a very, um, specific client base) was there, and gave us this account: Yeah I
know who David Beckham is, former Captain of the England national
soccer team, FIFA player of the year 2 years in a row, former Manchester United
and Real Madrid midfielder. But, whatever. I mean ok, he’s good but really, he’s
hot. So when I got tickets to last nights New England Revolution v. L.A. Galaxy
game, I was psyched, not so much to see him play but to see him play (fingers
crossed) without his shirt on. Well he didn’t play, nor did he move all that
much. He sat on a bench (lucky bench) for 90 minutes. He drank blue Gatordade.
He ate some snack food, possibly nuts, maybe sunflower seeds, I’m not sure. He
smoldered, he brooded, he occasionally stood up and stretched. As my friend and
I sat and stalked, being the only people there over age 13 with binoculars and
not knowing what was happening on the field we were serenaded by a torn crowd.
There were the chants of “Beckham sucks” answered by a group of young girls with
“no he doesn’t”. There was the guy directly behind me who can only kindly be
described as David’s Beckham’s physical polar opposite, screaming. “Where’s
Beckham, in the locker room putting on his panties?” There was the full minute
of booing as David Beckham’s face appeared on the jumbo-tron. But by far the
several minutes of the crowd chanting “Posh Spice” was the most entertaining.
There were moms with “Will You Marry Me David” signs sitting next to sons
holding “Go Revs” signs. There were husbands in Revolution jerseys sitting next
to wives in homemade I heart Beckham tees. There were fans hoping to see him
play and fans hoping he’d go back to England. Yet thru it all he sat, and
sat, and sat some more like the $250million dollar international soccer star
that he is. They hate him, they love, either way he is an (attractive)
attraction. Is he good for MLS? Will he save American soccer? I don’t know,
hell I don’t even know who won the game.
Sounds like MLS has done what they set out to do, here.
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
The kids love the Halo 3. Apparently so do the video game blogs because they've all got about 20 posts up there today with various ephemera regarding the most popular and (over-) hyped FPS for the 360, Microsoft's flagship franchise (even if BioShock will probably be better than this is). The big news: four-player online co-op on 360. Good news for sure. Also, check out these screenshots.
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Two weeks ago, the Phlog reported on Rudy Giuliani's replacement of his disgraced South Carolina campaign chairman, Thomas Ravenel, with the alleged coke dealer’s dear old racist dad, Arthur “NAACP=National Association of Retarded Persons” Ravenel. Recently, the presidential hopeful’s hiring policies have been called into question yet again.
In March, Giuliani reached out to social conservatives by naming Louisiana Senator David Vitter his campaign’s Southern Regional Chair. Vitter, a prominent far-right republican, has sponsored abstinence-only education bills and stated that the need for a national gay marriage ban is the most important issue facing the country today. On Monday night, this upstanding man issued a statement apologizing for a “very serious sin in my past.” The apology was apparently spurred by a phone call from a Hustler magazine editor, who asked about the revelation that Vitter’s phone number has been found among the records of D.C. madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey. Vitter has had problems with this particular vice before: during his short-lived 2002 gubernatorial campaign, a New Orleans prostitute named Wendy Cortez confessed to an extramarital affair with the politician. Vitter denied the allegation then, but Jeanette Maier, the former madam of the Canal Street Brothel, said on Tuesday that Vitter had indeed used the services of her New Orleans establishment.
Hustler’s owner, Larry Flynt, has long been on a mission to out hypocritical politicos, and ironically had an inadvertent hand in Vitter’s rise to power: a pending Hustler article prompted the resignation of Bob Livingston, a U.S. Representative who demanded that Clinton step down during the Lewinsky scandal and was then himself discovered to have had an adulterous affair. Vitter succeeded Livingston after winning a special election in 1999, but apparently didn’t learn much from his predecessor’s fall from grace.
The scandal’s unfolding this week was accompanied by the announcement of yet another interesting addition to Team Rudy. On Tuesday, Giuliani’s Presidential Committee announced that Norman Podhoretz will serve as a senior member of his foreign policy advisory board. The veteran neocon, who has described the war in Iraq a “triumph” that “couldn’t have gone better,” is the ardent advocate of an American bombing campaign in Iran.
Should we be surprised by the company Rudy is keeping? After all, this is the guy who appointed his former chauffer/body guard, Bernard Kerik, to the post of NYC Police Commissioner (Kerik brought honor to the position by using an apartment donated for Ground Zero recovery efforts as his personal love nest). But perhaps the problem isn’t with Guiliani: maybe there simply aren’t any conservatives out there who don’t spew utter nonsense or keep large stashes of skeletons in their closets.
--Jackie Houton
Team Rudy's latest digrace
Thursday, May 24, 2007
So that Doc Martens ad campaign with the dead punk icons? Yeah... those dudes got fired.
The concept was not approved and a press release from the shoe company stated, "Dr Martens did not commission the work as it runs counter to our current marketing activities based on FREEDM, which is dedicated to nurturing grass roots creativity and supporting emerging talent."
Not sure if any of that is code for "everyone hated it so we decided to cut and run." ( thanks to Sharon for the tip)
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