Emmy Coverage 2007 by Me

4:38
I am very excited for the 2007 Emmys. Very excited. So many fantastic television shows are nominated, so many of my favorite people are going to be there, television has come so far in my lifetime. E! is doing pre-red carpet coverage, which is horribly boring.

5:07
E! is talking endlessly about shoes. I don't care, E!! I'm really hungry. I really want indian food for dinner tonight.

5:41
Even though I'm not crazy about Beyonce, I do like her new commercial for Giorgio Armani. Diamonds are definitely a girls best friend. I can't believe Ryan Seacrest is hosting. I really don't like him, I don't know how he made it anywhere in this world. I really liked that other guy who hosted the very first season of American Idol. Whatever happened to him?

Hey, it's Zachary Quinto! AKA Sylar, AKA the new Spock! He's tasty!

And there's TR Knight! He's so adorable. I'm rooting for Grey's Anatomy, not because I watch it but because my Dad's best friend writes for it, and Mark is a good guy.

Oh thank god, proper red carpet coverage is starting.

5:56
Edie Falco is very pretty, but her dress looks like a six year old made it. And Juliana Ransick (sp?), an E! correspondent has clearly overtanned.

6:07
Did I just see Al Gore?
Ali Larter is wearing a pretty dress. She's so pretty. I love her. Uhg, Ryan is such a douche.

6:11
Rainn Wilson is adorable, and he's nominated for the Office tonight, and I'm so happy for him.

6:17
JON STEWART! I love him. So much. I really want his babies.

6:21
Elmo is talking to Tina Fey! That's so cute!

6:38
Hayden Panettiere looks great, I love her. We're the same age! GOooooOOOoooo Heroes!

6:34
WTF is Tom Selleck doing there? I guess if I was listening with sound I would know. I'm going to get food.

6:57
While I was eating, we saw STEPHEN COLBERT and Al Gore and now they're talking to Filliam H. Muffman, who looks really cute. Stephen was great. He always is. And now it's the other Steven! Steve Carell, man I love him too. His wife is awesome too, she's such a good comedic partner.

7:04
HEROES CAST!!!! Plus Kirsten Bell, who is part of the new season. Man, they're all so attractive. I ADORE them. Masi is so awesome. Gosh I really really just want all of them in bed. My love for them is unmeasurable. And Nathan's hair is CRAZY!

7:12
Minnie Driver is wearing BRIGHT YELLOW. Like a highlighter. Hugh Laurie also just showed up on the carpet, looking dashing. Oh dear lord, Vannessa Williams is wearing a green bird! Girls, don't put feathers on dresses! It's awful!

7:18
I think Jeremy Piven is gay. No idea why. Just a vibe I get. Sandra O is wearing a really pretty dress.

7:31
Jon Stewart is hosting the Oscars again! I thought they were all just talking about two years ago. Good for him! And now they're talking to Helen Mirren, and she's delightful. And now Katherine Hegel! She looks nice, her dress is kinda odd. James Gandolfini looks like a mobster, suprise suprise. X-tina looks okay. She's performing tonight. Aw, Katherine is so cute.

7:43
WTF is up with Charlie Sheen's hair? I think he's high. Sandra O's shoes are great!

7:54
Kanye West has a lot of the same mannerisms as Ben Duffy. Weird!

8:05
Man, the editing here is awful! Ryan keeps clapping his hands! WTF? Man, I don't like him. But Conan's hair is great! Ray Romano's hair is terrible though. Where are the prompters in this round theater? Why is Ray Romano doing a whole bit? We don't care!

8:07
No wonder that guy looks like Matt Dillon, he's his brother! Oh, Jeremy Piven can suck it, Rainn deserved that. GAYYYY!

8:10
Supporting actor.....c'mon let's give it to one of our Lost boys or Hiro!!!!! Masi Oka rocks. It doesn't look good though....
YEAH LOCKE!!!!! WE LOVE YOU!!!!! SO MUCH!!! HOOOOOOORAY! I'm pretty surprised the Sopranos guy didn't get it. Masi Oka would've won if it was up to me, but Locke is pretty great.

This is the longest Macys ad EVER. And the raciest Cadillac ad ever! Damn, Kate Walsh knows how to work it.

8:31
Good comedy montage. I'm laughing, that's good.

8:31
Katherine Hegel wins for best supporting actress and is really cute about it. Her poor mom, haha.

8:39
Conan wins against Jon and Stephen! WTF? I love Conan, don't get me wrong, but WTF? and who in hell is making these Cadillac commercials?
Oh god, what if Jon doesn't win anything? That would be so awful! He definitely deserves it. He's got to win. Stephen does too, but he hasn't won for like four years in a row now.
Dennis Hopper, why are you making Ameriprise commercials? That's so sad.

8:48
X-Tina and Tony Bennet sounded pretty good.

8:50
Ali Larter just referenced Joseph Campbell!! I feel so smart. And Robert Duvall wins an Emmy! He's standing with his feet very far apart.

9:00
Roots tribute. The whole cast is there! 30 year anniversary. Lamar Burton! We love you! They're presenting outstanding miniseries, and if The Starter Wife wins..... oh thank god, Broken Trail won. I was gonna say, to go from Roots to The Starter Wife we would've all felt terrible. But good, Robert Duvall wins again.

9:07
The Sopranos wins for directing. That's good, I'm glad they've won something. Oh and they won for writing too! I think for the last episode, lol.

9:16
Steve Carell! I love him. Haha, so do Jon and Stephen. YAY JON WON!!!!!!! Man, Tony Bennet is raking em in!

9:39
Damn, the Sopranos has a huge cast! Aw, everybody loves them so much.
NEW GEORGE CLOONEY MOVIE! WOOOOOO!

9:44
Sally Field looks great! YAY WE LOVE YOU HELEN MIRREN!

9:54
Masterpiece Theater won three in a row!

9:59
Masi Oka!!!!! and Tom? YAY AL GORE! Man, it feels like the Oscars all over again, with Helen Mirren and Al Gore winning. Aw, they got a standing ovation

10:04
FUCK TONY BENNET! THAT WAS STEPHEN'S!
Whhhyyyyyyyy does he win? I am really pissed. SO PISSED. booooooooooooooo.
Now Heroes has to win for things to be okay.

10:10
Ugly Betty won for directing! Good for them!

10:13
The Office wins for writing! Yay!

10:21
A good comedy bit with Rainn and Kanye. Very funny.

10:30
Stephen now has a leaf blower! Charlie Sheen looks confused. Aw, now him and Jon are fighting. They're so cute! AND THEN STEPHEN, STEVE AND JON HAD AN ORGY.

Congratulations Sally Field! Haha I think she just swore and the thing cut away. Heehee.

10:48
America Ferrera won! YAY! She's so excellent. She so deserves it.

10:51
HOLY SHIT. James Spader won! That's incredible! Against James Gandolfini and Hugh Laurie. Well, fuck me. Seriously, James Spader can fuck me, I really love him.

10:58
30 Rock wins best comedy. Never seen it, but I like Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin. Uhg, another commercial break? I hate how they increase as the show goes on.

11:03
Here we go, outstanding drama series. Let's go Heroes......c'mon, even though the sopranos will get it.....damnit they did. Well, it was their last season. They deserved it. Everybody is giving them a standing O. Because everyone loves the sopranos. And with one last jab at Bush (there were so many of them! Hollywood hates the Bush administration!) it's all over.

What a weird selection of winners. Not at all who I would've picked. Damn Tony Bennet. Damn him.

(and this was just what I would've said to you had you been talking to me while I was watching. This is not in any way supposed to be a sample of my writing, this is just me being happy or angry.)

Reviews for Disturbia and The Host

For my first real post, here are two movie reviews. I have no idea how to make a cut like thing, and there are some sort of spoilers here, so if you haven't seen it and don't want to know, don't read it.

I was kind of pissed when I heard about the premise of Disturbia. You can't ripoff Alfred Hitchcock and make a teen thriller. You ripoff Alfred Hitchcock, hell, you even just remake Alfred Hitchcock, you better win an Oscar. Especially with a movie like Rear Window. You don't touch that unless you intend on making a masterpiece.

Anger aside, I wanted to watch something with my sister and this was a tolerable choice, so I rented it. After Transformers, I have a new appreciation for Shia LaBeouf, so I saw this as an opportunity to enjoy more of his breakthrough past Disney. And that's what it was.

Disturbia hooks your attention right from the start by showing you the saddest thing it can think of (Watchmen advice anyone?). Young Kale, our hero, is fly fishing with his father in the most beautiful surroundings the SFX crew can find. On their car ride home, with Kale driving, they get into a terrible car crash and poor Kale watches his father die. We flash forward to a year later to the last day of school where our hero punches his Spanish teacher in the face for harassing him over some homework. Even though he's commit ed assault two, the judge lets him off and gives him house arrest, because "losing a parent is a difficult thing". Messed up kid trapped in his house all summer long, something is bound to happen.

Now that Kale is stuck in his home, all the plot points have to come to him, so he can view them through his binoculars. For example, a lovely thin blond girl moves in next door and doesn't really mind that Kale watches her undress, fight with her parents, and go swimming in the tinniest bikinis I've ever seen. In fact, she likes it enough to become the romantic interest for the film. Unfortunately, on the other side of the house is a serial killer. He does not like being watched.

Now the movie keeps trying to convince us that Mr. Turner, the non bikini clad neighbor, does not kill people, that in fact he is just shy and doesn't have many people skills. If that were true, the movie would be far more interesting. Think, a kid goes crazy in his own home, no one believes him, we root for him, the girl roots for him, his best friend roots for him, his mom looks depressed but wants to believe he's sane, turns out he really is nuts and gets sent away, leaving everyone behind him feeling heartbroken and a little silly. Sadly, they don't make movies like Caligari anymore. Anyone with brains knows that Mr. Turner hacks up women long before the conclusion, and the movie doesn't have the balls to make us feel dumb. The corpses are terrible too.

All that being said, Shia LeBeouf is a delight. He's bumbling, he's awkward, he's a little too sure of himself, and what he lacks in looks he makes up for in goofy little smiles. He also makes a great noise when he kisses the skinny blond girl. Really, his sexual body language is just on the mark. I'm glad we're going to see more of him in the future. He makes this movie worth watching. Which is sad because Carrie-Anne Moss is in it as his pathetically oblivious mother, and we all know she can be a lot more bad ass than that.

The Host came roaring out of Korea last summer, and no one wanted to go see it with me. So I finally got to rent it, and while it wasn't as good as I was hoping, it managed to send me on an emotional roller coaster and showcase one of the cooler beasties I've seen in a while.

A stuffy American scientist orders his assistant to dump hundreds of bottles of toxic chemicals into the Han river because they are dusty. Soon after a creature half dinosaur half Predator comes busting out of the waters and begins to terrorize the population of Seoul. A young girl is taken by the critter and her family goes on a mission to save her, which is made increasingly difficult by the government who claims the monster is the host to a deadly virus and anyone who comes in contact with it must be quarantined.

It's funny, it's gross, and then it's really sad, but the thing I liked and disliked most about this movie was its "the government is the real monster" theme. You've got this fantastic creature eating people and throwing up their bones, but the real horror is the American and Korean government who begin to dump Agent Yellow on thousands of people to try and be rid of the beastie. The movie comes close to beating you over the head with the stupidity of the government, but narrowly avoids it by pushing heart-wrenching family moments in your face. Still, I can't help but enjoy watching the government get trashed, being so unhappy with my own. If your going to bash the establishment, now is certainly the time.

It is the mark of a film made somewhere besides Hollywood that things end in the worst way, but The Host sneaks out of this mold, even if only slightly. It's not the happiest ending, far from it really, but it's cute and it's satisfying. There is nothing unresolved here, and in a monster movie, that's the way it should be.

Hey, I'm gonna post my writing, photography, art, and what's going on in my life.