scary sherry: sorority girls do not make good toast
1. As much as I like their music - they're about the only thing on the radio that I can actually tolerate, these days - I cannot figure out what is going on with the Flobots' music video for "Handlebars". The animation is all kinds of cool and I like the storyline (?!), but it doesn't have anything to do with the song. I always saw it as something like Jann Arden's "Love Is A Battlefield", a Claire/Elle theme anthem-for-the-young sort of thing: celebrating the little things, all the dorkiness and fail and win and mundane. Is it possible that this song is about something completely different, or were the music-video makers simply dying to use the blood-spatter technique they stole off Sin City? (& as far as said storyline goes - I can honestly say that this is the first music video for which extensive slash fanfic could be written for. Or, at least the first one I've seen. I mean... I like it. I want graphic novels and fics and fanmixes about it. Is that strange?)
2. Been working my way through all the episodes of Psych I've missed - and for only two seasons, there seems to be a lot - and I have had two revelations. Shawn/Lassie = ♥, and despite being kind of out of sync with the rest of the series, "Scary Sherry: Bianca's Toast" was the best Psych episode so far. Without doubt.
The vague creepiness, Mary Lou, how the myth of Scary Sherry wove through the whole thing; that the significance of it kept going, even after they revealed that Sherry never jumped...
- The editing gave me chills; the flashback technique Psych uses is always good, but there it was just so... creepy. Off-putting.
- The fact that if Shawn and Gus hadn't started the myth, Doreen might've still been alive.
- Doreen herself.
- Even though she was a deranged pyromaniac with fluffy hair, I loved Alice. I think the question she raised - "what would you do?" - was especially unsettling, especially since we learned what Shawn would do, which was to make fun of a friend who is, in their mind, in a highly dangerous and frightening situation. & the rings just broke my heart.
- (The candles! Don't forget the candles!)
- Lastly, the scene with Lassie and the crew, at the very end. Where Lassie learns how his co-workers think of him, and his disappointment, his alienation... and then someone tosses him the cookie, and he gets that little smile on his face... I didn't like "From Earth to Starbucks" even though a lot of people say it is the quintessential Lassie episode, because I felt that though they got off on the right (drunken) foot, they spent most of the episode making fun of him. Like, it wasn't Shawn & Co. helping Lassie because they felt badly, but because they felt the need to highlight the "Lassie is a bad detective who obviously can't handle his cases on his own" angle even more. But with "Scary Sherry: Bianca's Toast", they did more with four minutes and a fortune cookie than the whole fifty of the other. In an episode mostly about the consequences of our actions, the end was surprisingly touching, from almost every angle you could look from.
3. I do not know what's going on with this. But then again, it is French.
From the French TV channel "Canal Plus" for English week, November 2007. The add apparently says "Together, let's warm up French/English relations". The French are represented by the frog; the English by the roast beef. And I do not think there's anything I could say to make it even more ridiculously funny than it already is.
2. Been working my way through all the episodes of Psych I've missed - and for only two seasons, there seems to be a lot - and I have had two revelations. Shawn/Lassie = ♥, and despite being kind of out of sync with the rest of the series, "Scary Sherry: Bianca's Toast" was the best Psych episode so far. Without doubt.
The vague creepiness, Mary Lou, how the myth of Scary Sherry wove through the whole thing; that the significance of it kept going, even after they revealed that Sherry never jumped...
- The editing gave me chills; the flashback technique Psych uses is always good, but there it was just so... creepy. Off-putting.
- The fact that if Shawn and Gus hadn't started the myth, Doreen might've still been alive.
- Doreen herself.
- Even though she was a deranged pyromaniac with fluffy hair, I loved Alice. I think the question she raised - "what would you do?" - was especially unsettling, especially since we learned what Shawn would do, which was to make fun of a friend who is, in their mind, in a highly dangerous and frightening situation. & the rings just broke my heart.
- (The candles! Don't forget the candles!)
- Lastly, the scene with Lassie and the crew, at the very end. Where Lassie learns how his co-workers think of him, and his disappointment, his alienation... and then someone tosses him the cookie, and he gets that little smile on his face... I didn't like "From Earth to Starbucks" even though a lot of people say it is the quintessential Lassie episode, because I felt that though they got off on the right (drunken) foot, they spent most of the episode making fun of him. Like, it wasn't Shawn & Co. helping Lassie because they felt badly, but because they felt the need to highlight the "Lassie is a bad detective who obviously can't handle his cases on his own" angle even more. But with "Scary Sherry: Bianca's Toast", they did more with four minutes and a fortune cookie than the whole fifty of the other. In an episode mostly about the consequences of our actions, the end was surprisingly touching, from almost every angle you could look from.
3. I do not know what's going on with this. But then again, it is French.
From the French TV channel "Canal Plus" for English week, November 2007. The add apparently says "Together, let's warm up French/English relations". The French are represented by the frog; the English by the roast beef. And I do not think there's anything I could say to make it even more ridiculously funny than it already is.