Anime, HGTV Design Star, Next Food Network Star, So You Think You Can Dance
The Cornwall Cam has lots of pretty pictures of flowers today.
I watched one episode of Bleach and half an episode of Death Note this weekend. I couldn’t get into either of them. In their defense I jumped in midstream and had no idea what was going on. Death Note looked like the more interesting of the two, but by then I was tired of trying to figure them out. Maybe I’ll Netflix it.
Speaking of Netflix, I didn’t watch any movies this weekend.
I did watch
HGTV Design Star
I think I only like one of these people. If the guy who did the “four poster” beds in the downstairs bedroom is the same OCD guy with the cool board in the audition show, then I like him. Everyone else is kind of awful or extremely awful.
That said, I think they let the wrong person go. That bedroom was boring and ugly, and no I would not want to sleep toe to toe with someone, but it was not nearly as fugly as the dining room. Those girls should have both been cut for painting that lovely table and mantel, using a bad color in the room and not finishing (and maybe for the “artwork”). I wonder if they couldn’t figure which of them to cut so they just cut boring bedroom guy instead.
The pool table may have been a good buy, but it was stupid. And the sunroom had other problems as well. It should have been a color that reflected sunlight rather than absorbing it and there should have been more than one seating area. And some plants. I would spend no time in that room as it is.
The living room was somewhat less awful, but it was bland.
The main thing I noticed about this bunch is that there is no one with any really creative vision, outside of OCD guy, maybe, if he’s the guy who did the four-poster thing. I didn’t like all of the designers last season, but at least most of them had something about them to either like or not like. The guy who lost to Kim Myles in the final did a lot of really wild creative stuff that sometimes didn’t work, but at least it was creative. And I didn’t care for Sparkle Josh, but at least he had some sparkle. None of these people are going to end up with nicknames. None of them are the least bit memorable.
and
Next Food Network Star
Mashed potato pizza? Gross! The raw potato and pancetta gratin? Gross! Those cheese fries looked hellaciously fattening but good.
I personally would not cry over Martha Stewart, but to each his own. I guess her image has been somewhat rehabilitated.
Most of those products looked pretty lame. I could easily throw together something better out of stuff I’ve got on hand at home. The Cherry Gak stuff sounded repulsive. The peanut seasoning and seasoned salt both sounded pretty sad. The cheese sauce looked glumpy and nasty. The barbecue whatever was probably okay, but my grandfather’s is better. The only two that sounded at all good and newish to me were Lisa’s marmalade and Aaron’s salad dressing.
Lisa’s going to win this thing. She annoys me, her behavior embarrasses me and I can just tell she’s going to win.
And to summarize both shows: That was a heck of a lot of crying.
At the end of last week I also wrote up and entry on SYTYCD, but after sitting on it for a few days, I realized it was mostly me whining about how awful the female solo dances were and how I was angry about having to watch a dance choreographed to Soft Cell’s Tainted Love ohgodhowIhatethatsong!!!! It was so overplayed during the 80s and it keeps right on being overplayed. Blech!!! and that I was mostly okay with the bottom three and the team that got cut so, meh. But I am enjoying this season, other than having to listen to That Song.
I watched one episode of Bleach and half an episode of Death Note this weekend. I couldn’t get into either of them. In their defense I jumped in midstream and had no idea what was going on. Death Note looked like the more interesting of the two, but by then I was tired of trying to figure them out. Maybe I’ll Netflix it.
Speaking of Netflix, I didn’t watch any movies this weekend.
I did watch
HGTV Design Star
I think I only like one of these people. If the guy who did the “four poster” beds in the downstairs bedroom is the same OCD guy with the cool board in the audition show, then I like him. Everyone else is kind of awful or extremely awful.
That said, I think they let the wrong person go. That bedroom was boring and ugly, and no I would not want to sleep toe to toe with someone, but it was not nearly as fugly as the dining room. Those girls should have both been cut for painting that lovely table and mantel, using a bad color in the room and not finishing (and maybe for the “artwork”). I wonder if they couldn’t figure which of them to cut so they just cut boring bedroom guy instead.
The pool table may have been a good buy, but it was stupid. And the sunroom had other problems as well. It should have been a color that reflected sunlight rather than absorbing it and there should have been more than one seating area. And some plants. I would spend no time in that room as it is.
The living room was somewhat less awful, but it was bland.
The main thing I noticed about this bunch is that there is no one with any really creative vision, outside of OCD guy, maybe, if he’s the guy who did the four-poster thing. I didn’t like all of the designers last season, but at least most of them had something about them to either like or not like. The guy who lost to Kim Myles in the final did a lot of really wild creative stuff that sometimes didn’t work, but at least it was creative. And I didn’t care for Sparkle Josh, but at least he had some sparkle. None of these people are going to end up with nicknames. None of them are the least bit memorable.
and
Next Food Network Star
Mashed potato pizza? Gross! The raw potato and pancetta gratin? Gross! Those cheese fries looked hellaciously fattening but good.
I personally would not cry over Martha Stewart, but to each his own. I guess her image has been somewhat rehabilitated.
Most of those products looked pretty lame. I could easily throw together something better out of stuff I’ve got on hand at home. The Cherry Gak stuff sounded repulsive. The peanut seasoning and seasoned salt both sounded pretty sad. The cheese sauce looked glumpy and nasty. The barbecue whatever was probably okay, but my grandfather’s is better. The only two that sounded at all good and newish to me were Lisa’s marmalade and Aaron’s salad dressing.
Lisa’s going to win this thing. She annoys me, her behavior embarrasses me and I can just tell she’s going to win.
And to summarize both shows: That was a heck of a lot of crying.
At the end of last week I also wrote up and entry on SYTYCD, but after sitting on it for a few days, I realized it was mostly me whining about how awful the female solo dances were and how I was angry about having to watch a dance choreographed to Soft Cell’s Tainted Love ohgodhowIhatethatsong!!!! It was so overplayed during the 80s and it keeps right on being overplayed. Blech!!! and that I was mostly okay with the bottom three and the team that got cut so, meh. But I am enjoying this season, other than having to listen to That Song.