entering the sublime

Stereogum is one of my favorite music blogs.....I've been a fan since before I knew what a Blog was.

Today's post is a super cool little tool to set the final scene of the Sopranos to any mp3 that's online.

Because I'm obsessed with the new Spoon album now (produced by Jon Brion, no less!!), the choice of Underdog is too perfect.



Scoring movies and tv shows has always been one of my dream professions. I love when music is such a prominent part of films (thanks Mr Tarintino!). One of my favorite films ever, Wim Winders' Until the End of the World stands out because Wenders gave the screenplay to his favorite musicians (REM, Lou Reed, Nick Cave, Elvis Costello, Daniel Lanois) and had them write songs inspired by it.

*whew* that's enough cross-linking for now.....

cant wait for Sunday, when I can spend the evening with Vinne Chase again.
and a napkin to catch the drool.




party pics from ONTD

I love that Turtle is photographed next to a hottie

We're in the midst of a massive TV service provider overhaul in our house.

Currently, we have Millennium Cable as our Cable and internet provider.
Who's Millennium? EXACTLY.

Our neighborhood is a small bubble* that isn't part of the Comcast Monopoly, and that IS a bad thing. We're paying $160 (should be $120, but the promotion that we're on expired) for internet, 1 HD DVR, one cable box (free), and nearly all of the channels. Our bill actually goes up if we drop all movie channels except for HBO. AND we have no on-demand. And only HD networks and movie channels (no Discovery, Food, TNT, etc)

Plus their service sucks the big one, BUT we can't just drop Millennium as a whole....we can't get DSL or any other internet in our 'hood. SO, dialup?


We ordered Directv (install is in 2 weeks), but have second thoughts about it (the ol' $$$ issue). And again,we're still beholden to the crappy cable company for internet, which will probably jump to $100/month because we won't have any other services with them.

To be honest, we only watch about 3 cable channels: CNN, the weather channel, HBO. I'll watch food, bravo, discovery, A&E, TLC and Judd watches Spike for the Ultimate Fighter stuff. We can get nearly all shows that we like from Xbox marketplace or itunes or other websites if we had to/wanted to. BUT just getting 3 channels isn't an option, thus we have 80 channels of crap. At least with Directv, you can program the remote and menu guide to not show the channels that you never watch (I'm thinking of you, QVC!)

ooooho Fios, please come my way**







*If/when we move, having a 'hood that has cable competition is a serious item of consideration


**our county has approved FIOS, but Verizon has no plans to install fiber in our area any time soon. I call monthly, and they say "not this month!"

my day was crap
work was hell
ben spent way too long in daycare, and I ran too many errands on the way home
(he was a dream, though, snuggled in his Ergo carrier)

Judd's still out of town
I have a billion things to do before Friday
my 'rents come on Friday, house is a mess

however......

I am giddily watching the Project Runway season finale (usually I just DVR it, but not tonight)

tonight I'm watching live, and and sipping on a glass of Amaretto.


yum

and
GO JEFFERY!
(oho, how I want the green striped dress w/ the zipper piping. yum)

So I'm loading up my netflix list for the next couple of months -- not so much movies, but nice easy to digest 25-45 minute shows that I've never seen

Thus far, the only thing I have on there is Gilmore Girls -- there's like 6 seasons - I should just start w/ season one, right? Or is it like Buffy, where the first year was a little lame, but then really picked up speed in year 2. Also going to add the 1st 2 years of Scrubs, as I usually missed them.

Anything else? I see that Project Runway is on DVD - I never caught that when it was on.....worth it?

I've seen most, if not all of
Buffy
Angel
Sopranos
Sex in the City
Curb your enthuasiam
Entorague
Six Feet Under
Arrested Development

I'm not a huge fan of 24, Alias, or the the CSI/law and order type shows

Dunno how many of you are watching Big Brother 6, but gathering from the posts on big_brother_6 and other bb's I find it funny (not to mention awesome) that the viewers love the Muslim/Iraqi Kayser much much more than the Las Vegas Firefighter Eric.

Part of it is that Kayser pulled of the most strategic power play I've ever seen on reality tv, also Eric's followers who are left in the house have dubbed him "Cappy" and are annoying as hell.

The public gets to vote one back in. Go Kayser!