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okay, i was kind of obsessed with sleeping beauty when i was a kid. i looked it up and i see that it was rereleased theatrically in 1979, but i feel like i saw it on TV. anyway, i remember buying the soundtrack record, and not long ago, when someone asked the question if you had to have a wedding song what would it be, my first thought was the song from sleeping beauty that goes “i know you, i danced with you once upon a dream” (i think my actual answer to that question, though, was “if you gotta go, go now” by bob dylan. a little cooler.)

anyway, i do love disney movies, i grew up on them, but sleeping beauty always felt to me like the best animated one. sleeping beauty has the best villain–maleficent is scary as shit, like even now i think she’s scary. and dont even try to play like the witch from snow white even comes close or any recent villain. please, ursula? she’s kind of a joke.

so now theyre releasing it on DVD in the original 70mm format. i saw a commercial today and i was shocked by how much i wanted it. do you ever get over the things you loved as a child? i mean, you can look back at them and reevaluate their worth but do you ever get over that awe of your first favorite movie?

okay, i am obsessed with this show. i dont know why. well, i know partly why. but i read a bad review today and i could see some of the points they were making. i think that most of the negative reviews, though, were written by people who only half watched the show. they all seem to be latching on to this “the new sopranos” BS and i dont know where it’s coming from. this isnt the sopranos at all, the similarity ends at the crime family. sons of anarchy is really the story of jax, who finds an unpublished manuscript written by his late father that seems to suggest that the crime empire direction the club is going in is not what he as a founder intended. okay, fine, it sounds totally far-fetched when i say it. but it really works! this is one of few shows ive seen that you dont immediately know whats going to happen as soon as a character opens its mouth. there arent obvious plot points dropped in every 5 minutes. the characters are really interesting and complex, even the small parts are fleshed out to a believable extent. reviewers have also been harping on this “hamlet” thing which in this case boils down to the fact that jax’s mother married his father’s best friend after the father dies. so, i am guessing at some point in the future we will find out that jax’s dad was murdered. but i probably wouldnt have made that conclusion if the reviews hadnt all insisted on this. there are a few other characters that if forced, i could place as characters in hamlet–laertes and polonius but it IS a little forced. it’s more like a greek tragedy than shakespeare, in my opinion.

whatever. katey sagal is so good in this, as are charlie hunnam (i would like to see him in everything from here on out), maggie siff, and the entire supporting cast. as the show goes on, though, im finding that im liking ron perlman less and less but i dont know if its because he is getting clunkier lines than the rest of the cast or what. he’s kind of up and down.

anyway–here’s the link. watch it.

Sons of Anarchy on hulu.com

one of my favorite games to play while watching a bad movie is “recast the movie.” my friends tim and jon and i are always playing the game. our ideas and choices are so brilliant and perfect that i decided to set it up online.

first post is the book i just read, the terror. jon is still reading it and tim read it a while ago, but this is the consensus of tim’s and my ideas.

you should really read this book, it was so good.

we should cast this

if youve never caught the chabad telethon, let me tell you–youre missing out. it is truly an amazing thing. the first one i saw kept me up into the wee hours of the morning and i saw it from two separate apartments.

you can catch it on NY55. there are celebrities galore and it’s actually a good cause. the one aspect i know about it is that they have a lot of substance abuse recovery programs. im sure they do a lot more.

it is totally unpolished, which is the beauty of it. however, i have a DVD with some bob dylan chabad telethon performances, and i have to admit that i wish i had never watched them. they were not from a good time in uncle bobby’s life.

this is what informed my sense of humor and irony.  i laughed out loud twice watching it tonight.

do yourself a favor and look up your favorite sesame street characters on you tube.  they really dont make em like they used to but actually sesame street has done a good job remaining fresh.

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oh my gosh, if only life were really like a jane austen novel.  i fel like such a girl sometimes, but really…

such fluff, northanger abbey, but so enjoyable. the great thing about jane austen is that purity equals beauty and always finds its match.  makes me feel like a pollyanna, but it IS pretty much the ideal.  isnt it?  it’s mine at least.  down to the man on the white horse. classic.

pretty much, ugh.  i can see american gladiators being fun, but the budget is probably way too high.  i liked the ghetto-ness of the old one even though at the time i dont know if i would have admitted it.

the parking wars show looks pretty cool.  sort of like the airport series.  however, since it’s on a&e i am pretty much guaranteed to never see it.  im not sure what channel it is.  i want to say channel 44 but that may have been a few cable companies ago.  i like reality shows that arent competitions.  and that arent on mtv.  and that arent about people being stupid and vile.  here we go–i like NON-FICTION shows more than reality shows. 

the jezebel james show looks interesting although i dont have high hopes.  it’s the same creator as gilmore girls, a show i personally loathe and dont understand the appeal AT ALL.  the premise is a bit…but JJ has a pretty great cast, parker posey and lauren ambrose star, dana ivey and dianne wiest are both in it too.  so it’s got something going for it.  hopefully they wont be as precious as the gilmore girls.  and maybe amy sherman-palladino wont have an alliterative title for her next show? 

do you remember when you were little and the networks used to have a special presentation at the end of the summer showcasing all the new shows?  and im pretty sure they had a special one that was just the new saturday morning cartoons.

i sort of feel like things used to be special and now theyre just hum-drum.  but maybe they werent that special and we were just young and fresh?  as usual, im going with the answer “combo”

so amazing, the new show snoop dogg’s father hood is my new favorite show.  i cant wait for the marathons.

i love this sketch.  tracy morgan is some sort of comedy savant.

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okay, i used to love this movie and i had such a crush on jeremy. so now i see this for the first time in 20 or so years and man, is he a little twink. it makes sense, though. i also liked luke more than han. how embarrassing. whatever. at least gay little jeremy has a better haircut than mean old hubert.

if anyone manages to find me a copy of the ghosts of buxley hall on DVD i swear to god you will forever be my favorite person.