Time to get a bunch of "things I want to blog about" out an into the actual blog...

Now I can't say I'm not a cultured person for never having been to the theater. A while back my family went and saw Spamalot. OK, so it wasn't exactly Broadway, but it was a super fun time nonetheless. Now, of course I think Eric Idle is one of our great comedic minds, and everything about the show was brilliant...but for some reason I want to complain that the show got a little self-referrential, especially in the second half. But I can't, because that was just as brilliant as everything else. And the show did suffer a little bit of the same thing I experienced with the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie, in that I was so familiar with the dialogue that I pretty much knew what was going to happen and where things were going. But, not as much as the H2G2 movie, because of the whole "re-writing a lot of it to work it into a Broadway musical, plus make the story flow better" thing.


The only new movie I've seen in recent weeks is Ice Age 2. (That should change soon, with the summer blockbuster season upon us). Overall, I was entertained...as long as you can ignore some of the plotholes.
*SPOILER ALERT*
Such as: if the whole point of the first movie was to make it to a safe place before the Ice Age begins, why has it appeared that no more than 10 years have elapsed between movies? I mean, that must be the shortest Ice Age ever. Also, when the glacier finally crumbles, where did all that water go? And why didn't it drown any of the mammoths that came through the crack it flowed through?
*END SPOILER ALERT*


Looking at the ads for the new Lara Croft: Legends game, I can't help but think: is it me, or is Lara Croft beginning to look more and more like Angelina Jolie?


Why does it seem like Comedy Central puts together some kind of "Blue Collar Comedy Weekend" every other week? Granted, they have a lot of material to work with, but c'mon guys...space 'em out a little further apart. Let me forget the last one.


At work, one of the new phones set up in our once-and-future conference room (it had to be made a makeshift lab while we're renovating, and I'm assuming it'll return to being a conference room) is a two-handset cordless dealie. Much snazzier than the standard model most people have that have been part of the same phone/voicemail system for the past 30 years. Anyway, this snazzy phone has some feature called "CallerIQ". Which is just a funny thing to be called. As if when someone calls, the phone will display "The person calling you is an idiot.", so you can mentally prepare before answering the phone, or something.


One of the new songs the kids are listening to these days is "Girl Next Door" by Saving Jane. I'm not 100% sure exactly what kind of message I should be getting from this song...I mean, I understand the point ("I feel jealous of this other perfect girl"), but she just complaining about this other girl? Or is she trying to get over her insecurities and feel better about herself?
Let's take a look at what the song says about this other girl:
homecoming queen / lovely / perfect skin, perfect hair / perfumed hearts everywhere /prom queen / cheerleader /Miss America / Senior class president /A backseat debutaunt / Everything that you want / etc...
The picture she paints of this girl, I think "Meh...", as if she's too perfect, like she's gonna be high-maintenance or too busy for you or something. Perhaps it was the kind of high school that I went to, where the parameters of popularity are a lot more vague than Hollywood's standards. (Also, now that I look up the lyrics... "backseat" debutaunt?)
Now, on the other hand, we have our "girl next door". Well, she doesn't say much about herself, except that she's in the marching band. Given the tone of the whole song, my heart just goes out to her, since I am the shy geek type, and this girl would most certainly be more my type than the cheerleader. Besides, I've known some pretty hot girls in marching band...

Also, is it really fair to write a song like this when Marti Dodson (the lead singer) is so damn hot herself?
posted by Tim at 2:13 AM