It's a totally different head

As the sun begins to peak out at me I scurry indoors to avoid mowing the lawn or playing with my dog to put in a shameless plug for my beloved store CDPlus. Recently the genius company that I work for decided to put a bunch of old television shows on two for thirty dollars. Shows such as "News Radio", "T.J Hooker", "Different Strokes" and "Silver Spoons" but the crowning glory of this sale is definitely "Square Pegs". Before Sarah Jessica Parker made "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" or adopted her "SATC" Carrie Bradshaw persona she was Patty Greene, a bright eyed freshman at Weemawee Highschool. Patty and her best friend Lauren are hopelessly dorky and determined to be a part of the popular crowd. Other major players in the show are blank eyed "valley girl" Jennifer DeNuccio and her beauty but boneheaded boyfriend Vinnie Pasetta and their token black (to the max) friend LaDonna Fredericks. Patty and Lauren become fast friends with aspiring comic Marshall Blechtman and his quirky "new wave" cohort Johnny Ulasewicz a.k.a Johnny Slash. The show was obviously created before political correctness was a big deal as LaDonna embodies almost every cliched stereotype of black women in popular culture; the school's mascot is also an "Indian" and they throw around native stereotypes like its going out of style (I'm pretty sure I heard the word Squaw more than once). Despite these P.C setbacks the show is freaking hilarious. As Johnny tries to dream up names for his "New Wave" band that's been virtually created overnight and Patty and Lauren try and weasel their way into the good books of the popular crowd (though they continually fall flat on their asses). There are also lots of guest appearances from bands such as The Waitresses ("I Know What Boys Like") and Devo and today I was completely titillated when Bill Murray walked in as a substitute teacher! Anyways, if you want proof that Sarah Jessica Parker wasn't always a dried up old hag and you want to watch some television in the vein of "Freaks and Geeks", "Degrassi" and "My So Called Life" then you should go buy this show so I can have someone to discuss with.

I'll give you blogifide lovin!

My life has been filled with sadness and misery since my beloved computer went to sleep and never woke up again. I attempted to update from my iphone but to no avail. When my computer decided to go toe up I had just watched "Kickass" and was super stoked to review my latest theater adventure. In that month long technologically challenged period I actually saw almost nothing noteworthy but I thought I would try and round up a couple of my thoughts on what sweet little pop culture exposures I did have.
mmmmmmmk brain, do your worst!

Kickass
Firstly, the comic was WAYYYY better. But fortunately the film managed to capture at least an iota of the awesome making it one of the better movies I have watched in a while. My only complaints were:
-Aaron Johnson is wayyyyyy to dreamy to play Dave Lizewski.
Johnson looks like this:

While Lizewski is supposed to look like this:

uhhh yeah, i think you get my point. But Johnson did manage to capture the "essence" of the character despite his glaring hotness while masking his British accent masterfully.
-They gave many of the characters redemption that should have been left as the loserly sell outs they were revealed to be in the comic. Oh Hollywood, you do it every time.
-The jet pack. Seriously, it was overkill.

Other than those few details, I was completely enthralled with the movie. It's nice to see a superhero movie/comic where the hero takes as many beatings as he hands out, if not more.

Sex and the City 2
Dear god, don't watch this movie. Ever. I spent the last half of the TWO AND A HALF HOURS writhing in my seat with my sweater pulled over my head. I really liked the show so for me watching this movie was like having all the shitty superficial aspects of the show barfed in my face (especially the eyes, oh the burning) for a ridiculously long period of time. The clothes were terrible and that was supposed to be the saving grace, I foolishly thought that at least there would be some fashionable eye candy but no, these ladies were dressed like a bunch of gaudy old hoes from Miami. Also they pretty much heckled Muslim religion and customs throughout the whole film without actually taking any sort of political stance. Their only qualm with the whole burqa was how stupid a woman looks eating fries. I would rather be bound, gagged, put in a sack and dropped to the bottom of an icy cold river filled with super sharks and piranhas than lay eyes on this abomination ever again.
DO NOT WANT!!!!!!!!!!