Tapered jeans are back, my friends. Back with a vengeance.
Sunday, October 15, 2006
Friday, October 13, 2006
Tapered Scrubs, The Lost Lost Writer and Other thoughts
I think I"m going to hold the line among the male blog contingent and refrain from delving into the depths of my dorkiness, mostly because there's just so much, I wouldn't know where to start--the time I was slow dancing with a girl in high school and somehow managed to get my gum stuck in her hair (really no way to get out of that smoothly, though I still think it was her fault), the time in elementary school swimming lessons when they threw us in the water with pants and shirts on over our swim suits and we were supposed to take them off and then swim to the side and my suit came off with my pants and the rest of the class was full of girls , and--oh did I mention I used to use a blow dryer and hair spray to do my hair--anyway, I should just stop, now. Pictures aren't even necessary........
Speaking of dorkiness--the scrubs here are tapered, not just slightly taped but like 80's peg- your-jeans tapered. They are also really short for their respective sizes. This is especially a problem if you are wearing Dansko clogs which have really thick soles........the only way for me to avoid spending somewhere upwards of 80 hours a week looking like I'm wearing man capris is to wear XL or XXL scrubs, which means I'm constantly one added belt accessory away from my pants falling off, if I ever have to carry two pagers, I'm going to need a set of suspenders.
In respose to Chad's post.
1) All I've heard from Sam's town is the While You Were Young. Which is great tune. Although I do have to say that for some reason it sounds A LOT like Springsteen's Born to Run. My first thought when I heard it, actually my second after, "cool the new Killers' track" was that it sounds like someone put the Cure and Springsteen in a blender and hit frappe. I don't hear the comparison to U2 (and I listen to a lot of U2), but then I haven't heard the other tracks on the album yet. My only other qualm is that on some level even thought they aren't using it in a take-the-Lord's-name-in-vain kind of context, any time I hear the Savior's name in a pop song that many times, it starts to feel a bit uncomfortable. Anyway, I'm exited to hear the rest of the album.
2) Lost: I have developed my own Lost theory based on the first episode of this season. There were some odd parllels to the first episode of last season. You end the previous season with something really suspenseful, like "what's down the hatch," or "where are the Others taking them," and then you start the next season with something totally unrelated and weirdly domestic like a guy making smoothies and working out on an excercise bike or a woman making muffins and having a book club, and you have to have a 70s singer-songer writer soundtrack to the scene. The soundtrack is important enough you have to acutally show the person putting the music on to emphasize the fact that it's part of the scene. From there you just go in some totally mind blowing new direction, and the rest of the season is set up. Anyway, here's my theory. These first episodes are so weird, so out there, so totally not what you expect that I think they have a special writer just for these episodes. He's probably so busy dropping acid or eating shrooms the rest of the year that he's too busy to contribute much, but they sober him up, and bring him in for the first 10 minutes of the first episode of the year. The more I think about this writer, the more his necessary charteristics become clear. He's got to be really really weird, he's got to have a time for decaying 70's and 80's decor, he's got to have a knowledge of island life and some experience with the cognitive disconnect of running around shirtless in the jungle with a big beard and then being thrown back into real life where people do things like cook and have book clubs. He's also got to be a very creative writer. I put all this together and come to one conclusion............ Frank, our Frank, is writing for JJ. Not much, just the first episode of the year when they can sober him up, chase the cats out of the house and make him focus. Maybe he met JJ when JJ went to Hawaii on a trip, maybe JJ stayed at the Na Pulani' O'hana. I don't know. But I really think that Frank, beard, plumber crack and all, is the man who put Desmond on that excerise bike and decided that the Others are members of the book of the month club............
Speaking of dorkiness--the scrubs here are tapered, not just slightly taped but like 80's peg- your-jeans tapered. They are also really short for their respective sizes. This is especially a problem if you are wearing Dansko clogs which have really thick soles........the only way for me to avoid spending somewhere upwards of 80 hours a week looking like I'm wearing man capris is to wear XL or XXL scrubs, which means I'm constantly one added belt accessory away from my pants falling off, if I ever have to carry two pagers, I'm going to need a set of suspenders.
In respose to Chad's post.
1) All I've heard from Sam's town is the While You Were Young. Which is great tune. Although I do have to say that for some reason it sounds A LOT like Springsteen's Born to Run. My first thought when I heard it, actually my second after, "cool the new Killers' track" was that it sounds like someone put the Cure and Springsteen in a blender and hit frappe. I don't hear the comparison to U2 (and I listen to a lot of U2), but then I haven't heard the other tracks on the album yet. My only other qualm is that on some level even thought they aren't using it in a take-the-Lord's-name-in-vain kind of context, any time I hear the Savior's name in a pop song that many times, it starts to feel a bit uncomfortable. Anyway, I'm exited to hear the rest of the album.
2) Lost: I have developed my own Lost theory based on the first episode of this season. There were some odd parllels to the first episode of last season. You end the previous season with something really suspenseful, like "what's down the hatch," or "where are the Others taking them," and then you start the next season with something totally unrelated and weirdly domestic like a guy making smoothies and working out on an excercise bike or a woman making muffins and having a book club, and you have to have a 70s singer-songer writer soundtrack to the scene. The soundtrack is important enough you have to acutally show the person putting the music on to emphasize the fact that it's part of the scene. From there you just go in some totally mind blowing new direction, and the rest of the season is set up. Anyway, here's my theory. These first episodes are so weird, so out there, so totally not what you expect that I think they have a special writer just for these episodes. He's probably so busy dropping acid or eating shrooms the rest of the year that he's too busy to contribute much, but they sober him up, and bring him in for the first 10 minutes of the first episode of the year. The more I think about this writer, the more his necessary charteristics become clear. He's got to be really really weird, he's got to have a time for decaying 70's and 80's decor, he's got to have a knowledge of island life and some experience with the cognitive disconnect of running around shirtless in the jungle with a big beard and then being thrown back into real life where people do things like cook and have book clubs. He's also got to be a very creative writer. I put all this together and come to one conclusion............ Frank, our Frank, is writing for JJ. Not much, just the first episode of the year when they can sober him up, chase the cats out of the house and make him focus. Maybe he met JJ when JJ went to Hawaii on a trip, maybe JJ stayed at the Na Pulani' O'hana. I don't know. But I really think that Frank, beard, plumber crack and all, is the man who put Desmond on that excerise bike and decided that the Others are members of the book of the month club............
Monday, October 09, 2006
Friday, October 06, 2006
Sorry, no "dorky" post, just a dorky post
I have a few random thoughts that for some odd reason, I feel like sharing.
1. Lost: The first episode of Season 3 was everything I was hoping for. Loved it. This is the best show to ever be on television. To those getting frustrated with "waaaaah, they never give us enough answers," um, yes they do. We learned more about the Others from this one episode than we did the previous last 2 seasons combined. We finally got closure about Jack's past with his ex, Sarah. We learned where the polar bears and sharks on the island came from. I could go on. Anyway, yes - there are dozens of new questions raised, but that's what's so great about the Lost mystery.
2. The Killers: I will always feel a connection to this band, not only because they are good, but thanks to my Reynolds connection. Hearing their demos, seeing them with 30 other people (including Dave's parents) at Gabe's. I mean, "oh my gosh, I totally met and talked with Brandon Flowers, he was SOOO hot. I almost DIED! And so sweeeeeeeet." Yes, I'm a little uncomfortable with how popular they have become with the teenie boppers, but what do you do? Anyway, what do you guys think of Sam's Town? It has received a lot of "strong" opinions, which was inevitable with a second release from a band that blew up with their first. And Brandon F. didn't help things with all the talk about it being on the best releases of the past 20 years. Here's a nickel's worth of free advice to musicians. Don't ever say that kind of crap. Stick with "it's the best we have ever done," but don't go beyond that to compare it with other artists or past history. It just puts a huge target on you and people want to see you fail.
Anway, about Sam's Town. So definitely a bigger sound. But not really buying the whole, "they are completely ripping off Springsteen and U2." A couple of cringe worthy lyrics here and there. But overall I really like it. I would say it's Hot Fuss 2. Not that they haven't evolved their sound, but just in the fact that it's an album, like Hot Fuss, that has 4-5 great songs, with the rest ranging from OK to good, but, impressively, none that are bad. In the "great" catagory, I would put the title track, While You Were Young, Read My Mind, Bones, and Why do I Keep Counting? The rest are pretty good. The coolest thing of all: Tim Burton is doing the video for the next single, Bones!
3. For me to post a "Dorky" post, I would have to undergo hypnosis regression therapy to bring those memories back, as they have been buried quite deeply now for some time.
1. Lost: The first episode of Season 3 was everything I was hoping for. Loved it. This is the best show to ever be on television. To those getting frustrated with "waaaaah, they never give us enough answers," um, yes they do. We learned more about the Others from this one episode than we did the previous last 2 seasons combined. We finally got closure about Jack's past with his ex, Sarah. We learned where the polar bears and sharks on the island came from. I could go on. Anyway, yes - there are dozens of new questions raised, but that's what's so great about the Lost mystery.
2. The Killers: I will always feel a connection to this band, not only because they are good, but thanks to my Reynolds connection. Hearing their demos, seeing them with 30 other people (including Dave's parents) at Gabe's. I mean, "oh my gosh, I totally met and talked with Brandon Flowers, he was SOOO hot. I almost DIED! And so sweeeeeeeet." Yes, I'm a little uncomfortable with how popular they have become with the teenie boppers, but what do you do? Anyway, what do you guys think of Sam's Town? It has received a lot of "strong" opinions, which was inevitable with a second release from a band that blew up with their first. And Brandon F. didn't help things with all the talk about it being on the best releases of the past 20 years. Here's a nickel's worth of free advice to musicians. Don't ever say that kind of crap. Stick with "it's the best we have ever done," but don't go beyond that to compare it with other artists or past history. It just puts a huge target on you and people want to see you fail.
Anway, about Sam's Town. So definitely a bigger sound. But not really buying the whole, "they are completely ripping off Springsteen and U2." A couple of cringe worthy lyrics here and there. But overall I really like it. I would say it's Hot Fuss 2. Not that they haven't evolved their sound, but just in the fact that it's an album, like Hot Fuss, that has 4-5 great songs, with the rest ranging from OK to good, but, impressively, none that are bad. In the "great" catagory, I would put the title track, While You Were Young, Read My Mind, Bones, and Why do I Keep Counting? The rest are pretty good. The coolest thing of all: Tim Burton is doing the video for the next single, Bones!
3. For me to post a "Dorky" post, I would have to undergo hypnosis regression therapy to bring those memories back, as they have been buried quite deeply now for some time.
Thursday, October 05, 2006
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Good old Linda
Somewhere out there beneath the pale TV light
Someone's watching the LOST premiere and loving it tonight
Somewhere out there someone's saying a prayer
That the VCR worked and post-call he can watch without a care
And even though we know how very far apart we are
It helps to think we might be watching that same TV star
And when the show is over and it's time to go to bed
It helps to think we're mulling the same show 'round in our head
Somewhere out there if LOST can see us through
Then we'll be together sometime next year
During Thanksgiving, it's true
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