Let's Spam It's My Day Off
I think it's safe to say that over the past year I've been out of the loop with regard to my Hollywood obsessions but there are still those little things I happily go back to every now and then.
First
Orlando Bloom and this Australian model Miranda Kerr.
She's pretty and calls Orly a sweetheart.
I fail since this article was in February already.
But it seems he met the parents already.
Congratulations to them. They make a lovely, lovely couple. I wish them happiness.
Second
Gavin DeGraw's new album. I have no idea how "new" it is but I'm just about to look for it. Utter failure. His guesting on Ellen's show reminded me to get it because so far I've only heard In Love With A Girl (and it seems he's actually dating Kristin Cavalari... why? hehe) and there's an acoustic version of She Holds The Key in the new album. *flails*
I think I mentioned it before that besides Amel Larrieux's Make Me Whole Gavin's We Belong Together is another song I'd like to be played in my wedding.
Ever since I Don't Wanna Be I've been absolutely in love with his music and I just saw a 2 Disc special edition of Chariot. Gah too behind. He has just released this new album after 5 years (according to Ellen's show last night). I'm happy he decided to drop another album. I swear I'd be first in line if he ever decides to visit my part of the world. *prays*
Glass just has to be my ultimate favorite Gavin song just because it hits close to home and breaks my heart each and every time I hear it.
Gavin's songs are those that make me want to fall in love. He's amazing!
I so want to see him perform live.
Third
Amazing grace came in the form of a slap in the face.
Now I don't believe what I see anymore.
'Cause it's all the same...
We wander in and out of love like it's meant to scar us and we never change.
No we never think to change...
--Messiah by MoZella
If Gavin's songs make me want to fall in love then MoZella makes me want to rip someone's heart out. Her lyrics are so biting and amazing but it looks like her last album was I Will back in 2006. I know nothing about her besides her music. I think I saw a picture of her once but really what just struck me about her was her music.
***
And something that has charmed the pants off me recently.
As he stared at her, he reached around his back and held his own hand, pretending he was holding hers.
And at that very moment, she was pretending to be holding his.
It could be the fairytale, the bright, colorful cinematography, the quaint story, or the witty dialogue but seeing the first episode of Pushing Daisies made me fall in love with American television again. It helps that it's just a nine episode show (obviously got cancelled... BOO.) because my jdrama watching has reduced my patience for long dragging dramas (except for One Tree Hill as you can see... but the show has been pissing me off somehow... anyway...). I wish the made it longer but oh well I'll take what I can get now. I'd love to see this as a movie. ^_^
The story as told by TV.com:
This romantic comedy shows us the fairy tale like world of Ned, a man who can bring dead people back to life through the power of his touch. The same touch he must use to 'kill' them after no more than a minute or another person will die. With the help of Emerson, a local PI, Ned uses his ability to solve murder cases and cash in on any rewards. But things get complicated when a murder victim turns out to be Ned's long lost childhood crush and he decides to break the rules and let her live.
Or maybe there's hope for it yet... according to wikipedia:
Due to the 2007-08 Writers Guild of America strike, the show completed only nine episodes of its order of a full 22-episode season. On February 11, 2008, ABC picked up Pushing Daisies for the 2008-09 television season.
I sure hope so.
Some bits of the dialogue I just adored:
Ned: What if you didn't have to be dead?
Chuck: That would be preferable.
Ned: I wish I could give you an emotional Heimlich so you could cough up that fear and anxiety, but I can't.
Emerson: (About Leo's "alleged" murderer, his dog, Cantaloupe) Cantaloupe was framed; someone put a part of the victim in her mouth.
Ned: Huh.
Emerson: Hey, docile as a kitten, says the family.
Ned: Despite it being a Chow, the breed most likely to turn on its owner?
Emerson: Hey, hey! That's racial profiling.
Emerson: You know what? We all have childhood issues, okay? Believe me, I got the full subscription, okay? Horror stories!
Ned: I kind of killed her dad when I was ten.
Emerson: Maybe not horror stories
Ned: You died for a pair of plaster monkeys?
Chuck: Deedee said they weren't worth much, their only value was sentimental.
Emerson: Those must have been some emotional monkeys.
Emerson: How’s he look?
Ned: Fine, but my threshold’s pretty high so you have to take that with a grain of salt.
Emerson: That ain’t a grain of salt, that’s one of them blocks they give cows to lick.
Emerson: Well, who died instead?
(Ned shows Emerson the funeral director's obituary.)
Ned: It's sort of a random proximity thing.
Emerson: Bitch, I was in proximity!
Chuck: Thanks for calling me "Chuck." Do you know no one's called me Chuck since...since you.
Ned: I used to, when I lived next door to you, I had a cr... I was in...You were my first kiss.
Chuck Yeah? You were my first kiss, too. Do you wanna be my last kiss? First and last? Or is that weird?
Ned: That's not weird; it's magical.
Ned: I hate to be a bad host, but I'm sort of exhausted from chasing your coffin.
Chuck: Was this really an act of kindness? Me. Here. Were you really trying to do something good for no other reason then to help me?
Ned: I was being selfish. I'd love to tell myself I was being unselfish, but I know deep down in my primal sweet spot I was being unselfish for selfish reasons. I just thought my world would be a better place if you were in it. --Can I just say AWW...
Chuck: You can't just touch somebody's life and be done with it.
Ned: Yes I can, that's how I roll.
Chuck: Do you believe in reincarnation?
Emerson: Hell no. The planet's falling apart. Right now, it's the children's problem. We reincarnate, it's our problem.
Chuck: I suppose dying's as good an excuse as any to start living.
Chuck: (after Ned falls asleep) I'd kiss you if it wouldn't kill me.
Emerson: Sounds like you're a narcoleptic.
Ned: I suffer from sudden and uncontrollable attacks of deep sleep?
Emerson: What's the other one?
Ned: Necrophiliac.
Emerson: Words that sound alike get mixed up in my head.
Olive: Me, too. I used to think "masturbation" meant chewing your food. (awkward silence) I don't think that anymore.
Ned: I asked you not to use the word "zombie." It's disrespectful. Stumbling around squawking for brains? It's not how they do. And "undead"? Nobody wants to be "un"-anything. Why begin a statement with a negative? It's like saying "I don't disagree." Just say you agree.
Emerson: Are you comfortable with "living dead"?
Ned: You're either living or your dead. When you're living, you're alive. When you're dead, that's what you are. But when you're dead and then you're not, you're alive again. Can't we say "alive again"?
Oh I love this show.
First
Orlando Bloom and this Australian model Miranda Kerr.
She's pretty and calls Orly a sweetheart.
I fail since this article was in February already.
But it seems he met the parents already.
Congratulations to them. They make a lovely, lovely couple. I wish them happiness.
Second
Gavin DeGraw's new album. I have no idea how "new" it is but I'm just about to look for it. Utter failure. His guesting on Ellen's show reminded me to get it because so far I've only heard In Love With A Girl (and it seems he's actually dating Kristin Cavalari... why? hehe) and there's an acoustic version of She Holds The Key in the new album. *flails*
I think I mentioned it before that besides Amel Larrieux's Make Me Whole Gavin's We Belong Together is another song I'd like to be played in my wedding.
Ever since I Don't Wanna Be I've been absolutely in love with his music and I just saw a 2 Disc special edition of Chariot. Gah too behind. He has just released this new album after 5 years (according to Ellen's show last night). I'm happy he decided to drop another album. I swear I'd be first in line if he ever decides to visit my part of the world. *prays*
Glass just has to be my ultimate favorite Gavin song just because it hits close to home and breaks my heart each and every time I hear it.
Gavin's songs are those that make me want to fall in love. He's amazing!
Click to viewI so want to see him perform live.
Third
Amazing grace came in the form of a slap in the face.
Now I don't believe what I see anymore.
'Cause it's all the same...
We wander in and out of love like it's meant to scar us and we never change.
No we never think to change...
--Messiah by MoZella
If Gavin's songs make me want to fall in love then MoZella makes me want to rip someone's heart out. Her lyrics are so biting and amazing but it looks like her last album was I Will back in 2006. I know nothing about her besides her music. I think I saw a picture of her once but really what just struck me about her was her music.
***
And something that has charmed the pants off me recently.
As he stared at her, he reached around his back and held his own hand, pretending he was holding hers.
And at that very moment, she was pretending to be holding his.
It could be the fairytale, the bright, colorful cinematography, the quaint story, or the witty dialogue but seeing the first episode of Pushing Daisies made me fall in love with American television again. It helps that it's just a nine episode show (obviously got cancelled... BOO.) because my jdrama watching has reduced my patience for long dragging dramas (except for One Tree Hill as you can see... but the show has been pissing me off somehow... anyway...). I wish the made it longer but oh well I'll take what I can get now. I'd love to see this as a movie. ^_^
The story as told by TV.com:
This romantic comedy shows us the fairy tale like world of Ned, a man who can bring dead people back to life through the power of his touch. The same touch he must use to 'kill' them after no more than a minute or another person will die. With the help of Emerson, a local PI, Ned uses his ability to solve murder cases and cash in on any rewards. But things get complicated when a murder victim turns out to be Ned's long lost childhood crush and he decides to break the rules and let her live.
Or maybe there's hope for it yet... according to wikipedia:
Due to the 2007-08 Writers Guild of America strike, the show completed only nine episodes of its order of a full 22-episode season. On February 11, 2008, ABC picked up Pushing Daisies for the 2008-09 television season.
I sure hope so.
Some bits of the dialogue I just adored:
Ned: What if you didn't have to be dead?
Chuck: That would be preferable.
Ned: I wish I could give you an emotional Heimlich so you could cough up that fear and anxiety, but I can't.
Emerson: (About Leo's "alleged" murderer, his dog, Cantaloupe) Cantaloupe was framed; someone put a part of the victim in her mouth.
Ned: Huh.
Emerson: Hey, docile as a kitten, says the family.
Ned: Despite it being a Chow, the breed most likely to turn on its owner?
Emerson: Hey, hey! That's racial profiling.
Emerson: You know what? We all have childhood issues, okay? Believe me, I got the full subscription, okay? Horror stories!
Ned: I kind of killed her dad when I was ten.
Emerson: Maybe not horror stories
Ned: You died for a pair of plaster monkeys?
Chuck: Deedee said they weren't worth much, their only value was sentimental.
Emerson: Those must have been some emotional monkeys.
Emerson: How’s he look?
Ned: Fine, but my threshold’s pretty high so you have to take that with a grain of salt.
Emerson: That ain’t a grain of salt, that’s one of them blocks they give cows to lick.
Emerson: Well, who died instead?
(Ned shows Emerson the funeral director's obituary.)
Ned: It's sort of a random proximity thing.
Emerson: Bitch, I was in proximity!
Chuck: Thanks for calling me "Chuck." Do you know no one's called me Chuck since...since you.
Ned: I used to, when I lived next door to you, I had a cr... I was in...You were my first kiss.
Chuck Yeah? You were my first kiss, too. Do you wanna be my last kiss? First and last? Or is that weird?
Ned: That's not weird; it's magical.
Ned: I hate to be a bad host, but I'm sort of exhausted from chasing your coffin.
Chuck: Was this really an act of kindness? Me. Here. Were you really trying to do something good for no other reason then to help me?
Ned: I was being selfish. I'd love to tell myself I was being unselfish, but I know deep down in my primal sweet spot I was being unselfish for selfish reasons. I just thought my world would be a better place if you were in it. --Can I just say AWW...
Chuck: You can't just touch somebody's life and be done with it.
Ned: Yes I can, that's how I roll.
Chuck: Do you believe in reincarnation?
Emerson: Hell no. The planet's falling apart. Right now, it's the children's problem. We reincarnate, it's our problem.
Chuck: I suppose dying's as good an excuse as any to start living.
Chuck: (after Ned falls asleep) I'd kiss you if it wouldn't kill me.
Emerson: Sounds like you're a narcoleptic.
Ned: I suffer from sudden and uncontrollable attacks of deep sleep?
Emerson: What's the other one?
Ned: Necrophiliac.
Emerson: Words that sound alike get mixed up in my head.
Olive: Me, too. I used to think "masturbation" meant chewing your food. (awkward silence) I don't think that anymore.
Ned: I asked you not to use the word "zombie." It's disrespectful. Stumbling around squawking for brains? It's not how they do. And "undead"? Nobody wants to be "un"-anything. Why begin a statement with a negative? It's like saying "I don't disagree." Just say you agree.
Emerson: Are you comfortable with "living dead"?
Ned: You're either living or your dead. When you're living, you're alive. When you're dead, that's what you are. But when you're dead and then you're not, you're alive again. Can't we say "alive again"?
Oh I love this show.