We had a bit of backup on the DVR in regards to American Idol, so we ended up staying up later than usual to burn through it since we'd get spoiled anyway ( Read more... )

From the February 17, 2011 Rolling Stone interview with Elton John, conducted by Austin Scaggs:

You've helped Eminem on his path to sobriety.I love him. I don't see much of Marshall, but we speak a lot. He's really worked very hard at [sobriety], and it's changed him so much. I just saw a picture of him in a magazine, and he looks like a 17-year- ( Read more... )

Hey kids ( Read more... )

Some recap of the past week or so ( Read more... )

But honestly, this was kind of hilarious:

Oh yeah, we saw the trailer for The Karate Kid. Yep, they changed the name again, back from Kung-Fu Kid, even though the movie is set in China and karate is from Japan and Jackie Chan knows kung fu/wushu not karate but I guess they thought the bankable name was more important. Except that isn't the selling point of this movie that it has Jackie ( Read more... )

Went to my parents' house yesterday to pick up some stuff and hopefully attend a 5-year-old's birthday party; the party was cancelled and it ended up being too much crap to bring home in one trip anyway. Plus, my mother refused to let me go out last night, and it was warmer over there anyway, so I spent the night ( Read more... )

Sometimes it's worth it to watch Saturday Night Live... you know, actually LIVE. Because then you're actually surprised by things like Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, and Leonard Nimoy appearing on Weekend Update:



And then there's the skit that ended the season, which can't go up on Hulu for obvious legal reasons but makes me grin like an idiot:

What's that? Enough already? You're stick of all these posts about music? You want to read about something else?

Well, on Saturday I did have a lovely walk in the city, ate some banh mi and then saw Dragonball Evolution, which was just as bad as we thought, except for one surprising thing: I think it was better than Twilight. Maybe we just ( Read more... )

Started a new project: listening to every song that has 0 plays in iTunes. It's not that I've never listened to these songs; likely I've listened to them at some point before I did a scorched earth with my iTunes, deleting and re-adding every track. If you remember, iTunes used to do this annoying thing where if you added a folder that you'd ( Read more... )