Videos of the Day

Sometimes watching TV fails to entirely keep my attention, which is why watching TV online was invented.  I am so talented at doing both at the same time!  Here are some funny ones I stumbled across today:

-This is the Office's newest webisode: http://www.subtlesexuality.com/main.shtml.  It's a music video featuring some of my favorite characters from the office, and I just think it's one liners are the funniest.  it's like an SNL digital short meets destiny's child meets me and my cousins used to put on productions like this (though not as suggestive of course).

-this one is from the late show with Jimmy Fallon: http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/blogs/2009/10/jimmys-scary-lamp/.  I'm pretty much obsessed and have watched it like five billion times.  I love sketches that push the boundaries of sanity. 

-This video is Taylor Swift on Ellen, http://ellen.warnerbros.com/2009/10/taylor-swift-taylor-lautner-1029.php/.  I really like her music as of recent, aka cannot stop listening/belting "you belong with me" on repeat. and she's just like the most adorable person in the whole world. I'm putting her on the list of my imaginary best friends.  And Perez looooooves her a lot so therefore I do too.

Enjoy!

Things that start with K

I love the reality shows Keeping up with the Kardashians and Khole and Kourtney Take Miami for some reason. I just think they are so funny.  However, I only really watch them while I'm at the gym.  For those of my readers who are less in tune with celebrity gossip, and especially unfamiliar with those who are famous for no particular reason, the show centers around the four Kardashian siblings, their mom, their stepdad (Bruce Jenner--yes, his son Brody is on the hills, and is their step brother), and their two little half siblings.  Yesterday, I watched the True Hollywood Story on the Kardashians at the gym, and now I love them even more. Here are five reasons why:

1) Kourtney and Rob Kardashian (the oldest and the youngest of the crew) went to college.  So did I!

2) When the mom, Kris, married Bruce, they had eight children among the two of them! Then they had two more!  That's ten kids! It's like a modern Brady Bunch.  I've considered moving to LA to live with the Walsh family on 90210 for some time now, but I think the Kardashians might be more interesting...if they only have a room available for me.

3) While it might be true that the fam is famous for no reason, this isn't entirely accurate.  All the girls have their own business ventures--including owning and running a couple of boutiques.  Kim made a name of herself doing personal styling.  It makes me feel better watching them, knowing that they do real things.  Unlike me, but if it helps I'm trying really hard to do real things.

4) On true hollywood story, they showed lots of pics of them when they were younger....which is fun because I love seeing what people looked like when they were babies/toddlers.  And they were super cute! and what a coincidence, i was super cute when i was little toooo!

5) Lastly, I love them because they are all crazy in a normal kind of way. You feel as if your family is just like them, but they also seem kind of pretend.  Like if you were to write a TV show and make up characters that would predictably act according to their character's prototype--that's kind of how the show feels like.  But it's not a bad thing.  Like this one episode, Khloe had a DNA test to see if she was actually her mother's child.  I wonder too since she doesn't really look anything like the rest of the family (she has totally different coloring and is like, a foot taller)...but the test showed that she was in fact, related.  that was a pretty silly thing to do, but i feel like we've all wondered if we were adopted at some point in our life...

Soapnet 101

My favorite cable channel in the entire world is SoapNet. Contrary to popular belief, they don't just play daytime soap operas (while they do play my favorite daytime soaps--all my children and one life to live at 8pm and 9pm...and during the weekend they play the whole past week's worth of episodes!). They also play reruns of One Tree Hill, the OC, and most importantly, Beverly Hills 90210. The best part is that they play all the seasons 1-10, 2 episodes a day, 5 days a week, IN ORDER! Which I watch everyday from 11-1pm depsite the fact that I have many of the seasons on DVD. And today is VERY EXCITING because season 2 has officially begun!!!!

Season 2 of 90210 starts off during the summer...with half the characters at the Beverly Hills Beach Club and the other half in summer school...which makes me sad because it's no longer summer, yet I am still living in a summer frame of mind. Everyday I wake up late, and pretty much sit on the couch for the rest of the day. Yesterday I thought it was Wednesday. I don't know why time is moving faster in my mind when everyday is pretty much indistinguishable from the last.

My favorite part of watching 90210 is seeing now famous people when they weren't famous, and previously famous people that are no longer famous. For example, on today's episode of 90210, we see Ted from Hey Dude... if you recall is a Nick show from our childhood, that may of us had huge crushes on. I have to admit, his presence on the show made me very excited but I couldn't quite remember why I loved him so much. I guess that's what imdb is for, reuniting me with old friends that only really exist in my imagination.

In other news, I never really watched One Tree Hill when it started during high school, but I became kind of interested recently for two reasons. One, my friend Jacki made me watch the past couple episodes on my computer because she doesn't know how to use surfthechannel or fancast. Two, they play One Tree Hill at 3pm on Soapnet when I don't have anything to watch after One Life to Live (General Hospital has yet to sufficiently get me hooked). So for two days now i have attempted to watch, but they played the same episode yesterday as they did today! What's up with that! If it happens again tomorrow, I'm giving up. but maybe not because hulu has some of the episodes online: http://www.hulu.com/one-tree-hill. Watch with me!

All in all, I give Soapnet two and a half thumbs up! It would get three, but in light of the One Tree Hill mistake, in addition to the fact that the morning's episodes of 90210 are the same as the evening's, I cut half of a thumb off. It also has kind of weird original programming. But I seriously appreciate how they play my favorite daytime shows at all hours of the day, use my favorite characters from AMC and OLTL in their promos as real people, how I can watch old primetime soaps, and lastly, it gives me things to look up on IMDB! you can only check perez for updates so often ya know....