10 Things I Hate About You, which I got from Netflix last week. I love that damn movie. Fred came out to the garage while I was working out and watching the first part of the movie on Sunday, and said that he couldn’t decide whether Julia Stiles is pretty in an ugly way, or ugly in a pretty way. Heh.
Which reminds me, I need to go download more songs by The Donnas.
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Survivor 487 starts in less than a month, on September 16th! Whoo! There’s a girl from Gorham, ME on this one – hopefully she’ll do the state proud. I also hope to get a new Couch Tater up and running before then so I don’t babble in here about Survivor and put the non-
Survivor-watchers to sleep.
But since I don’t currently have a Couch Tater going, I’ll do a little talking about TV. Those uninterested in my TV babblings, go on and skip to the next section, ‘k?
We’ve been watching
Entourage on HBO since it started. I really REALLY like the show, although it makes me nervous. Because those boys are spending money like it’s going out of style, and Vince isn’t bringing in any money! And Drama, Turtle, and E are depending on Vince to keep them in the lifestyle to which they’ve become accustomed, and I suspect at some point Vince is going to wise up and kick them off the payroll.
Then again, Vince doesn’t strike me as all that wise, so maybe not. He’s adorable when he smiles though, isn’t he? Jeremy Piven as Ari is possibly the best casting I’ve ever seen, but all the casting in this show is perfect.
I finished season three of
Coupling last week, and I actually hooted, loudly, at the end of the last episode, the part that involved Patrick, Sally, Steve, and Jeffrey and the dancing. I’ll say no more so as not to ruin it for anyone who hasn’t gotten that far, but it was fucking BRILLIANT.
(I can no longer type or say the word “brilliant” without hearing Jeff saying it in my head. God I LOVE HIM.)
We’ve been watching
Things I Hate About You (
Jane mentioned it in an entry and made me want to watch it), and some episodes are better than others. The
very first one is my favorite, so far, because of the guy burping and the woman with her singing to the dog. I hope like hell that episode comes on again. And look! I see on the Things I Hate About You page that it’ll be on tonight! Y’all should check it out if you haven’t yet, because when the woman sings to her dog, Fred and I were laughing so hard we were crying. Also, Mo Rocca, media gadfly. Can’t beat that combination, nosir.
The only way it’d be better is if we could call and vote on who’s the most annoying.
And lastly, we’ve been watching
Trading Spouses because we are complete reality whores. I couldn’t be on this show at all, because there’s no way on earth I could walk into someone else’s house and try to tell their kids how to act. I’m no
Tammy Nakamura, after all. (Thankyajezus)
Okay, that’s it. I’ll shut up about the TV stuff now. You’re welcome!
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Hey, when do the Olympics start? Some time in September?
JUST KIDDING. We haven’t been watching the Olympics, but we’re aware that they’re going on now. I’m not so much of a summer Olympics fan, but we were flipping channels last night and came across the
BADMITTEN (I have no fucking clue if that’s spelled right) BADMINTON event. That right there is a sport – I should say “sport” – that needs to be yanked right out of the Olympics entirely. I mean, come on.
BADMITTEN BADMINTON is an Olympic event? We watched for two or three minutes and giggled like goons as the birdie (is it called a birdie?) floated gently back and forth between the two
badmitten badminton players.
It occurs to me that the only Olympic sport I have the slightest bit of interest in is figure skating, and then only the women’s figure skating and the pairs. The men I’m just not all that interested in – unless
Philippe Candeloro happens to be around. Does he even compete in the Olympics anymore? Did he ever? See how clueless I am?
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So, I’ve been wearing the same pair of sunglasses for, I think, a couple of years now. They’re sunglasses I bought at LL Bean, and they’re just the best sunglasses I’ve ever had – they’re comfortable and I don’t look like a complete dork in them.
The lenses, however, have gotten pretty scratched, because I just toss my sunglasses in my purse when I’m not wearing them instead of carefully putting them in the case they came with like I should. So I went to LL Bean’s web page and found that they not only no longer carry that particular style, they don’t carry any round-lensed sunglasses at all. The horror!
Which is why I spent half an hour online this morning doing nothing but looking at sunglasses. Did you know that for a mere $79.95, you can get
FOUR pairs of sunglasses, all of them modeled after the sunglasses characters wore in the Matrix movies? I kind of like the Neo sunglasses, but rimless sunglasses really aren’t my thing.
And then, my friends, and THEN I stumbled across
this gem of a page. They may look like Bolle sunglasses… but they are
NOT Bolle. They might RESEMBLE Ray Bans… but they are
NOT Ray Bans. It cracks me up, that “NOT” in all caps at the beginning of the name of the sunglasses.
I’m thinking about getting the
NOT Ray Ban Predator 2s, because I really like the style, but I’ll be damned if I’ll spend more $100+ on the real ones – I’m too rough on my sunglasses to be spending that kind of money. I’ll buy the cheap knockoffs and spend the money I saved on BOOKS.
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Speaking of things worth buying, when I was in Hawaii I bought a bottle of Kukui Moisturzing Lotion. I’ve been using it on my hands, and I think I’ve found the lotion I’m meant to be with for the rest of my life (which means they’ll stop making it aaaaany minute now. It’s not greasy, it sinks into my skin pretty quickly, and it doesn’t wash off the second I get my hands wet. Also, it smells pretty good.
If you want to give it a try, you can get it
here – I have the blue bottle, but I understand the brown bottle is fragrance-free.
Just thought I’d pass that along to y’all.
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“Who, me? No, I wasn’t about to go out the cat door. Nope, not me! I wouldn’t do that, nosirreebob. Nope nope. I was just standing here making sure no one else went out, is what I was doing.”
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Robyn, have you watched, or are you even interested in watching, Growing up Gotti (A&E)? I find it intriguing and addictive! They call them the “Hotti Gottis”!!! Poor Victoria has got her hands FULL.
Survivor! Hoo hoo! Can’t wait. Uh, looking at the “contestants” – I’m sure John K.’s mechanical bull operating skillz are going to come in real handy on a remote island.
i too haven’t had any gmail invites in quite some time. maybe they’re finally cutting down on them.
Also, regarding the olympics, I like watching the men’s gymnastics, cause the guys all look like popeye, after he eats his spinach.
Makes me giggle every time.
I love growing up gotti as well as Airline. Airline makes me happy with my job and so glad I don’t work for an airline company. People are RUDE!
Ms Robyn,
The proper name for the “birdie” in badmitton (sp) is a shuttlecock. Don’t ya just love the English and their goofy names????? Hello, could you shuttle that cock over my way? Oh sorry, lost my mind there! And yes, some of us are geeks and did play it competitively in high school (raises her hand). Don’t hate me for it!!
I totally can’t wait for the Olympics to be over. I love the winter Olympics – mostly for the figure skating – but the summer ones? Feh.
My husband *loves* that Airline show. It kinda gives me heartburn to watch it 😀 due to my many years of customer service, but it is pretty interesting.
(Oh – and not to be a pain-in-the-ass grammar bitch – but since you mentioned it, it’s badminton. In junior high, we always giggled uncontrollably because our PE teacher insisted on calling the birdie a shuttlecock.)
Also – the (probably rampant) typos are due to painkillers. Wheeeee!
Badminton? What the hell? Ranks right up there with Ping Pong as an Olympic sport. Next thing you know, they’ll be giving out gold medals for Playstation and Slip-n-Slide.
i can’t wait for the trampoline event. They actually classified trampoline as a type of gymnastics.
BADMINTON!
There! That’s how ya spell it! And I’ll have you know that everyone in jr.high in the great white north is subjected to the hell that is known as badminton right before the hell that is known as tennis. Can you say major wrist injuries?
(I excelled at gym 😉
Badminton can be a killer, actually. Are you sure the shuttlecock wasn’t in slow motion? ‘Cause those babies have been clocked at 90 mph. I still wouldn’t watch it, partly because racket sports just don’t excite me and partly because you just can’t see anything anyway except people swinging rackets and these indistinguishable blurs of air where the shuttlecock used to be. I watched a film of it once and was left going, “Did he hit that? Where is it now? What just happened?”
Not exciting television in my book.
i LOVE 10thingsihateaboutyou!
this movie cracks me up everytime I watch it– which is probably why I own the damn video.
glad to know someone else enjoys it too…
Jeff on Coupling IS fucking brilliant, isn’t he? When they lamely attempted the American version the Jeff made me want to slap him gack he was horrible. But so was the rest of the cast… I hate to break it to you but :'( Jeff isn’t on season 4. It’s truly heartbreaking; however, it’s still laugh out loudable but only 6 freaking episodes!
Have you seen Pirates of the Caribbean? The guy that plays Steve (something Davenport) is in it and I can’t get my head around the fact that he is not Steve if you know what I mean.
As for your sunglasses, if the frames are still in good shape try taking it to somewhere like lenscrafters and see if they can put in new lenses (tip courtesy Queer Eye)
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=15736&item=6701238682&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
yep- not sure if they are the right ones- or if they are not scratched already- but I am an ebay whore so had to try…
I had NO idea that cat was black-assed!
I’m the same with sunglasses, toss into a purse, thrown around the car, etc. I go to Wal-Mart or Target and spend anywhere from $5 to $15. About 5 years ago my BF couldn’t stand it anymore and bought me a pair that cost $75.00! Within two months they were broken and unwearable. He’s never bought another pair since.
What’s his name, Miller? The guy that plays the dad in 10 Things, has got to be the best thing in that movie. I love the whole thing (also own it) but he cracks me up everytime, also the geeky best friend when he goes over the side of the hill on his motorcycle, HA!
Spot looks like he’s wearing pants. Or is two cats put together as one.
Hey, that survivor guy Travis Sampson, wasn’t he on that show….my own sitcom….I want my own sitcom…..aghhh something about a sitcom…they showed two different families each week and the winner got their own sitcom. Now I’m gonna be up all night trying to figure this out.
I agree about BADMINTON! 🙂 However, my niece may participate in the 2008 Olympics playing BADMINTON, so I guess I have to like it.
I must also chime in about badminton, if only to defend the honor of my college roommate (lo these many years ago). She was the U.S. women’s champ (yes, there is such a thing) for many years and went to the Olympics (Barcelona I believe – lost in the first round). It *is* an outrageously fast and exciting game – when played by world class players – in fact, the FASTEST racket-to-racket sport there is (as my roommate pointed out more than once to me).
I also haven’t seen it on tv so I’m guessing it just doesn’t translate. But in real life, it’s surprisingly thrilling.
i was going to say that the “birdie” is called a shuttle cock, but someone already beat me to it. actually i just wanted to say shuttle cock, so there! haha!
I like Airline, but it does tend to make me say (multiple times) “what the fuck is *wrong* with these people?” And Growing Up Gotti is a kick, but I’d probably kill those boys in less than a week. It makes me laugh when they subtitle the eldest kid.
My current Netflix obsession is Dead Like Me. I love this show. Love. It.
Well, I knew it was a shuttlecock, too, but so does everyone else it seems. However, if you’re interested in an Olympic sport that seems even more weird than badminton, try beach volleyball. I watched part of it last night (waiting for the damn gymnastics to come on, but I had to finally go to bed)and I couldn’t believe it. Two gals in bikinis on each team and they just smashed the ball back and forth about twice for each serve. I don’t get it. Yay! Survivor is coming back!!! Can’t wait.
Love the sunglasses website. I’ll be adding it to my favorite. I unfortunately need prescription – contacts and I don’t get along – but I need to buy some for my nephew who just went to Iraq. I guess they are a hot items since life with broken or missing sunglasses is hell over there. Any ideas what would be cool for a 23 year old Army “boy”? OK MAN but he’s still my boy! I have planned mid-October for my first care package.
Check this out… I don’t get it, but there it is. the largest damn shuttlecock (tee hee) evah.
http://www.nelson-atkins.org/sculpture/shuttlecocks/olden1.htm