Read the E! Online article, if you’re interested.
Also, a very typical Amy Sherman-Palladino interview about leaving the show.
Even though it’s total chick TV, I’ve been watching Gilmore Girls since part way through its first season. I really like the dialogue, especially between Emily (“grandma”) and Lorelei (“mom”). I also love how fast the characters talk and the obsession with coffee (though fading a bit recently) is all-too-familiar (in a good way). In general, although the plots sometimes bore me, I think it’s a very funny, clever, and well-written show.
So the fact that creators/often-writers/often-directors Amy Sherman-Palladino and hubby Daniel Palladino are leaving the show disappoints me. In particular (as mentioned in the interview above), ASP has for several years said she has already thought out the final scene of the show. Well, geez, now we’re never going to get to see it and she’s not telling what it was. Very annoying.
I should say, GG has absolutely gone down hill the last season or two. Things are being dragged out more than ever, Luke-Lorelei is a disaster (as a plot line, although their relationship is also a disaster) and they’ve totally wasted a potentially great guest in Sherilyn Fenn.
My semi-namesake, David Rosenthal, who has been writing for the show this season and is a former head writer on Spin City, will be taking over. Obviously, it remains to be seen what he will be able to do with the show. Perhaps he’ll make it better. More likely, the kitsch that only Amy Sherman-Palladino, a former head writer on Rosanne and Veronica’s Closet, can bring will be missed greatly. In particular, the fast paced dialogue, which is very similar to the way Sherman herself speaks, will likely fall off a bit. (Sherman was interviewed in 2005 on Terry Gross’s Fresh Air. You can listen to that interview here.)
Anyway, I’m sad but hopeful. So, we’ll see how it goes next season.
That’s it for this one…
The Flaming Lips new album At War with the Mystics was released today!!! Yippee. I’ve listened to a bit of it on Rhapsody at work, but I can’t wait to go home to be able to listen to the whole thing. (You can listen to it and read description of each song on the Flaming Lips website.
The new album by Umphrey’s is out today, too. I’m also looking forward to that. And I think I’ll get the new Goldfrapp when I go to the record store to get Mystics, as well. I’ve liked that a lot when I’ve listened so far.
Ok, also, I watched Hotel Rwanda, which I enjoyed but thought was a bit overrated (though it is indeed an incredible and “life-affirming” story). My other two recent Netflix forays were Saved! and the first disc (episode 1 & 2, but not the pilot) of Twin Peaks. I’ve alreday seen Saved! a couple of times and I totally love it. This time was no different.
Hadn’t seen Twin Peaks in years; Sherilyn Fenn was sooooo hot (actually she’s still pretty hot). Lara Flynn Boyle looked so much like Winona Rider in Heathers. Twin Peaks also co-starred two future Gilmore Girls guest stars/girlfriends: Sheilyn Fenn, who plays the mom of the daughter Luke never knew he had, and Mädchen Amick, who played Rory’s temporary step mom off and on. Ok, enough babbling.
That’s it for this one…
…I will get back to posting. It seems that day is today. Or right now.
A bunch of my friends went to see the Flaming Lips yesterday at Bimbo’s in San Francisco at NoisePop. So jealous, but what are you gonna do? As the Polyphonic Spree says, “You gotta be good, you gotta be strong, you gotta be in two thousand places at once.” And the new Lips album comes out next Tuesday, so that’s a consolation prize.
I enjoyed the new South Park a lot. (I mean last week’s new South Park. I’ll probably watch this week’s episode Thursday or Friday.) Gotta agree, we don’t blame the members of the crazy club for leaving us, we blame the crazy club for taking them away. Personally, I’m not going to pick any fights with the Scientologists because I know better than to fight with somebody much bigger than me. But South Park is a lot bigger than me, so maybe they can take them on. Somebody ought to, anyway. (Please don’t sue me for libel!)
Not sure about the new Sopranos episdoes. The whole coma world thing is sort of clever, but for how many episodes are they going to drag it out?
Seen a couple of movies; watched Field of Dreams for about the eight millionth time. Not my favorite viewing, probably in light of my current disconent with baseball (possible rant on that in the future, but the gist is both steroids and the steroids investigation suck, and don’t call me a hypocrite!).
Then Thirteen, which was ok. I guess people have comapred it to Havoc, and I guess I see where that’s coming from, but really they are pretty different. Anyway, Nikki Reed is hot and she’s in the O.C. now so that’s cool too.
Then I watched the Bukowski documentary Bukowski: Born Into It (which isn’t on IMDB for some reason). It was ok, mostly a compilation of earlier documentaries and interviews. I think Bukowski’s pretty interesting, and the movie was ok, but it was more of a generic documentary and nothing particularly interesting or revealing comes across in the movie. Pretty average. (Wow, I am being so undescriptive, this reads like I’m a total idiot.)
Then I saw Good Night, and Good Luck. I really don’t think the title should have that comma (though it sort of reflects the way Murrow said it). I did not like it as much as I thought I would. It was watchable, but I felt like it was a real gloss, which seemed unnecessary because it covered such a short period of time. To me, not a great second directorial effort for George Clooney, after the terrific Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. Or maybe it was just a bad first writing effort by Clooney, who I normally like a lot. Overall, good acting in the movie though, probably just the script that fell short.
Tonight I watched Me and You and Everyone We Know, which I really enjoyed. I’m too tired to describe it now, but perhaps another day. I will say that I loved the music. Then come the credits and I see that it was Michael Andrews, who also did the fantastic score and soundtrack to the incomparable Donnie Darko.
That’s it for this one…
My boss went on vacation to St. Martin so I left at 6pm today. SUCH a pleasure. Of course, I have quite a bit of work to get done before she returns on Monday night, and I hope to take Saturday off (I usually work 7 days a week) if I get a reasonable amount done in the next few days, but it’s totally worth it anyway.
I currently have three things from Netflix:
Field of Dreams, which I love even as I’ve grown sick of baseball. It’s one of the only movies that can make me cry at all (more like a little tear when Doc saves Karin (whatever happened to Gaby Hoffman, anyway? And for that matter, whatever happened to Viva?) and when Ray introduces his dad to Annie and Karin)
(Update on Gaby, she appears to still be acting on the stage and she looks pretty good. See her here.)
The Godfather, which I think I’m about to watch, although I might get sleepy and go to bed halfway through;
The first disk (I refuse to spell the word disk with a “c” at the end) of season one of In Living Color. It’s still funny and not just because of how dated it is. I had forgotten a lot of the sketches: Keenan doing Arsenio (actually, I’d forgotten Arsenio altogether), homeboy shopping network, “James” Carrey as Chuck Woolery. Okay, and I never noticed (b/c he wasn’t famous yet, not that he’s very famous now, but anyway): DJ SW-1 is totally Sean Wayans, which makes sense. So, anyway, I’ve watched the first two episodes and I’m loving it and I feel like I’m at 13-year-old white kid in Oakland again.
So, I do actually rent movies I haven’t seen, I just don’t have any at the moment. I hadn’t seen any of the previous four movies I rented, which were (my netflix rating in parentheses):
The In-Laws (***) – The original; amusing enough but very stupid.
Vertigo (****) – Kim Novak was SO HOT, but the movie’s a bit overrated especially the famous final scene. As far as Hitchcock goes, I prefer Rear Window and North by Northwest; as far as James Stewart goes, I prefer Rear Window and The Philadelphia Story (which is one of the DVDs I own).
Finding Neverland (****) – I always seem to like Johnny Depp movies, but then again I avoid the ones I don’t expect to like such as Pirates.
Waiting for Guffman (***) – In my opinion a huge failure as far as Christopher Guest goes. Love most of his stuff, but nothing beats A Mighty Wind.
Maybe one day I’ll put IMDB links on all those movie names, but I’m feeling lazy tonight.
Okay, off to the TV.
