Archive for April, 2009
Tonight I got to watch “Seder Everything” - the newest episode of Gossip Girl and my personal highlight came right a
round the beginning when Cyrus is preparing food for the Sedar in his totally fabulous apron that says “Schmutz happens” I love Cyrus and I think he is the coolest Stepdad and that he should have way more screentime. Him standing there with that Apron made my day. And I apparently wasn’t the only one thinking that way. Anyway the apron got me really excited considering that I spend most of my hours in the kitchen and I googled it trying to order it somewhere online. I then discovered that there were already several posts and reviews about this episode named “Schmutz happens”. And I thought I was being original. BTW I found this awesome GG website. There’s so much information on there that I know exactly what I’ll be reading tomorrow at work.
Well.. back to the episode apart from Cyrus I was also very much attracted to Gabriel who supposedly broke up with Poppy while they and Serena were in Spain and then in the spur of the moment got married to Serena when Poppy had left. Now that they’re all back in NY Gabriel then came for Serena who was attending the Seder and confronted her about why she had left him so suddenly. Dan who was trying to earn the money for his Yale tuition was catering at the Waldorf residence naturally was all in the middle of this. Long story short. Rufus found out what Dan was doing, sold a painting and decided to sell the Gallery since he doesn’t want to work there anymore - I guess this takes care of Dan’s tuition problem. Serena after having denied that there was anything going on with Gabriel in front of her mother eventually started to get real feelings for Gabriel (He is definately hotter than Dan) who later met up with Poppy again…let’s see where this will be going next week.
Blair broke up with Nate and made up with him at the end of the episode. It all had to do with his Grandfather being responsible for his father’s arrest and Blair wanting to be a bridesmaid etc.Is it just me or is anybody else missing Chuck and Blair? It was funny, when Nate mentioned to Blair that he was so proud that he got into Columbia by himself, my first thought was ” yeah right, because Name and background doesn’t play a role to the admissions board at Columbia.” Seems like Em had the same thoughts that I had :-) I agree with her that I was overall very happy to have Gossip Girl back and can’t wait for next week when hopefully Dorota will be back as well!!
One other show I would like to mention was this week’s episode of Brothers & Sisters. S3X (strange title)was in my opinion the best episode of this season and is up there among the best episodes of all seasons so far. I loved the scene where Kevin and Sarah go shopping and he convinces her to buy that eye-catchng dress so that she can seduce some men at work because she is so ready to get back on the horse and find herself a nice man. When they notice Chad across the street they both are so hilariously funny. Kevin getting all confused and Sarah getting all hot for Chad and eating him up in her mind. I was laughing out loud all through this scene especially when Chad came over to them and introduced himself and asked Kevin how he was doing and he answered “I’m married”. So funny”
Sarah was incredibly hilarious at the Ojai Office. She saw Cal the accountant and knew exactly what she wanted and went for it. I loved her messed up hair when she stood at Kevin and Scotty’s door eager to report her office sex to to her brother. Kevin was dealing with his own share of sexual drama. Chad had suggested that Kevin and Scotty and him go out for drinks and since Scotty turned out to be a fan of Chad’s “work” he was all for the idea and surprised Kevin with his enthusiasm. During drinks the conversation somehow turned into an interesting direction where Chad invited the married couple home to play. I think they went home to him but I’m not sure. When they got back home they somehow had a three-way with Chad on their mind. That whole scene was awfully funny especially when Sarah turned up at their doorstep.
Nora trying to take her mind off of Tommy and his return was replanting and rearranging her garden all through the night. She was wearing this lamp around her head which looked just so funny. My mom bought me one which she wanted me to wear when running in the dark but up till now I’ve been too embarassed to wear it because it looks so stupid. Anyway Richard shows up and informs Nora that he divorced his wife and loves her and wants to be with her. They decide to give their relationship another shot. Them being together was so romantic and Nora being all happy the next day when sharing the news with Kitty was so cute that I really hope that nothing gets in between those two and that she gets to have her new romance at last. Especially now that Tommy seems to not be coming back for the time being.
While Rebecca and Ryan seem to get closer and are apparently now roomies Kitty and Robert are distancing themselves from each other. While Robert has acknowledged that something’s wrong (Kitty doesn’t want to have sex and he does) Kitty isn’t ready to talk and is still avoiding confrontation.
There was so much in this episode that I haven’t mentioned but if I were to mention all the great scenes I could just post a script of the entire episode in this blog since all 42 minutes were excellent. This is a great review that’s more detailed than mine. I love this show and the acters and can’t wait for next week.
I just found this great video on youtube. I wanted to write something about the second season of Damages this week. I’ve been wondering what the name of the song was that is played during the opening credits. It is called “When I am through with you” and the band is VLA. This song is absolutely awesome!!!
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TV Shows, life, Brothers & Sisters, Gossip Girl | April 21st, 2009 by admin | 1 Comment
It’s Monday and I would like to trade my car for a new C30 Volvo and yes the car did come to my attention when watching Twilight for the first time and no I don’t just want it because Edward has one in the movie. It just is such an elegant and fast little car and I would speed through the city not caring about the other cars or the police arresting me. My friend recently commented that I am the only one of her friends that would buy a car just because it had looked good when being driven by a vampire in a movie. I think she’s exaggerating just a little but 
Have you seen the newest Harry Potter trailer? I have and it is just so awesome. I must admit with all this Twilight hype going on my excitement about the new Harry Potter movie in July wasn’t really at its peak yet but when I watched the trailer everything came back. And boy there seem to be some really great scenes although I couldn’t quite assign half of the scenes on the trailer to the respective part in the book. I can’t wait to see all the characters back in action. I think I should read the books though and watch all the movies just to be prepared. Such an exciting time!
I’ve been watching The Tudors on Showtime and is it just me or does anyone else not get what’s happening with those riots and all those people demonstrating against King Henry? I’m feeling a little stupid and perhaps should watch it all over. The second episode of the season reminded me a little of my history lessons back in school. I always tried to pay attention and then I usually caught myself thinking about what I was going to watch on TV that night and what I was going to eat while watching TV and so on. That was sort of what happened with The Tudors. I really like the scenes with Henry and his wife because I like the actress that plays Queen Jane - I think her name is Annabelle Walis - and I thought Jonathan Rhys Meyers looked really sexy lying on his bed with that wound on his leg. Here also I do not have the slightest idea what that is and how he got it. Must have missed it. But still - can’t wait to watch the recorded third episode tonight.
And some more news of the day: Ellen Pompeo is pregnant. It should be interesting how they work her pregnancy into the show. As long as she stays on the show I’m good. You never know with Greys…
Have a good one.
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Greys Anatomy, Movies, Books, twilight, Harry Potter | April 20th, 2009 by admin | No Comments
Finally Friday. A short week is coming to an end. I had the best dream. I was hanging out with my friends and there was this castle and we were all dancing somewhere inside of it when the sister of my friend just picked up this guy for me. He was totally perfect and we spent the whole day together and I’ve never seen his face before. It was sort of magical. But at least now I know how he looks like when I see him… And no I’ve not seen another episode of The Tudors and therefore am dreaming of castles and I also do not see any connection between my dream and the novels of The Black Dagger Brotherhood I am presently reading. This was purely coincidental and a premonition so to speak. I saw on the Specials part of the Twilight DVD that Stephenie Meyer had a dream of the characters that later turned out to be Edward and Bella lying on the meadow and that was what gave her the impulse to write Twilight. Quoting her on her homepage: ” I woke up (on that June 2nd) from a very vivid dream. In my dream, two people were having an intense conversation in a meadow in the woods. One of these people was just your average girl. The other person was fantastically beautiful, sparkly, and a vampire…” She began writing the chapter where they spend the day on the meadow and then wrote the first part about how they got there and then the second part about what happened then. And look how it turned out: Four successful books (with Midnight Sun hopefully five) and one Blockbuster Movie with New Moon on the way. This just to clarify what meanings a dream can have. I will now keep my eyes open especially in the proximity of castles or similar buildings which so numerously can be found in my city. Just kidding of course but it sure is incredible how real some dreams can seem.
Back to Twilight. With New Moon now fully in the works I checked out Chris Weitz’s profile on www.imdb.com. Check it out here. I must say I consider myself relatively open when it comes to new directors that direct one movie out of a series. I liked some of the Harry Potter movies more and some less. You could always clearly recognise the handprint of the director behind the movie. I liked the fifth movie the best by the way.I know there are a lot of people that criticize Catherine Hardwicke’s adaptation of the movie but then again criticizing is always easy. I think she did a great job and after having seen the extras on the DVD I must say that she seemed very committed to the story and wanted to get it right and also it didn’t seem as if she expected not to be doing New Moon afterwards. I hear and I am not certain that this was the real reason she’s not doing New Moon that she wanted more time for pre production i.e. adjusting the screenplay and for the challenges particularly connected to this second part of the saga for example the long absence of Edward. She said she did not want to jeopardise the balance of the movie since the story of Edward and Bella with all its chemistry was so vital to the movie’s success. Apparently she and the studio had different schedules and they wanted the movie to be released in November 2009 and she wouldn’t have been finished by then.
But what I was originally getting at was whether I liked Chris Weitz’s work so far and I don’t. “About a Boy” was one of the few movies I could hardly watch until the end and I do watch most movies until the end. Most recently the highly disturbing movie with Kim Basinger called “While she was Out”. But About a Boy I just didn’t like. “American Pie” was a funny movie and when we were teenagers definitely quite entertaining. But I think it takes a little bit more than that to transform the second Twilight book into a successful movie. But who am I to criticize his work before it’s even finished. From what I’ve heard they’re shooting scenes with Patterson where Edward will appear in Bella’s thoughts everytime she plans to do something dangerous. So that seems to be a good idea to avoid keeping Edward out of the picture for too long. We’ll just have to be patient until November. Such a long time… But since the date has been set for Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince just this week for July 15th we have something to look forward to for this sommer and it’s been too long since The Order of the Phoenix so I really can’t wait. I don’t even remember how everybody looks like!
What I also wanted to talk about before I release myself into the weekend is how great House has become during the last weeks and not only because most of the other shows have yet again inexplicably disappeared into another hiatus and therefore left me with no other choice than to focus my whole anticipation towards House. No, the show has improved. I must say that I was getting a little tired of the repetitive storylines last season and even fell behind in watching the episodes which normally NEVER happens. But ever since that great episode House’s Head (or something like that) at the end of last season I was again totally into the happenings at Princeton - Plainsborough. So Kutner has committed suicide since Kal Penn got a job offer from D.C. he just couldn’t resist and therefore had to be written out of the show. The docters and especially House have to deal with the aftermath of Kutner’s death and some deal with it differently than others. House questions his mojo since he didn’t see Kutner’s death coming and he normally sees everything coming, Wilson starts over and puts Amber’s death behind him which suddenly makes her appear in House’s mind…but that’s another story and finally Chase proposes to Cameron. Oh and I almost forgot, we see Taub crying in the hall which was so heartbraking that I joined in and cryed as well. That’s what I do. The last episode ended with Amber appearing leaning on House’s piano while he’s playing and while most of us are certainly happy to have Anne Dudek back the Greys Anatomy viewers of us surely hope this won’t turn into a Denny/Izzie Ghost sex sequel. I must say I couldn’t take it. But according to the producers it won’t so let’s just stay tuned to what they have planned for us. And by the way it wouldn’t do any harm if the other shows came back right about now. Yes Greys, Housewives, Gossip Girl, Brothers & Sisters - It’s you I’m talking about
C-ya
P.S. I just read on Twilighters.org that when asked on his homepage whether he will be making the music for New Moon Carter Burwell commented that Chris Weitz has hired somebody else to compose the music for the Twilight sequels. Without having listened to the previous works of this Alexandre Desplat I am quite disappointed. I love the Score by Carter Burwell and actually am presently listening to it.
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Uncategorized, Greys Anatomy, TV Shows, life, Movies, House, Brothers & Sisters, Books, Gossip Girl, twilight | April 17th, 2009 by admin | No Comments
It’s been ages since I’ve logged on. Summer’s on the way and together with the temperature the mood increases. I’ve been sick for some months now and am gradually getting better. I lost a molar on the way which was frustrating but there are worse things so I’m just dealing with it. Of course I haven’t neglected watching TV which I had more time for than usual since I wasn’t able to run that much or do anything in this direction for that matter. To make things worse my Chinese doctor advised me to do without meat, wheat, oats or milk for a while since apparently that weakens my immune system. So there went everything I loved to eat. Obviously there is worse but still it was quite an adjustment.
Oh, yeah I’m a Twilight fan now. It was bound to happen and I watched the movie first which I liked and then I started to read the books. Now I bought both of the soundtracks which are really great and get you in the mood of the movie. And last week I finally got my Twilight dvd special. Got to support the industry with New Moon on the way. I heard the casting is final and it seems they got a great cast together. All names are listed under news on the Summit’s website I really like must of the characters and couldn’t pick out one favorite although I can particularly identify with Alice and I love Ashley Green playing her. But then again there couldn’t be more chemistry between Kristen and Rob and I also love Esme’s character played by Elizabeth Reaser. When I first saw Reaser in the Movie I was suprised of how much I liked her character and how much I disliked her character in Greys Anatomy when she played Ava. It shows what a great actress she is and I guess that’s a good actor’s intention - that you connect her person with the character she’s playing. Yesterday I watched the movie with the audio commentary by Rob Patterson, Kristen Stewart and Catherine Hardwicke. It is really worth watching and I find it so interesting to find out want happened behind the scenes, how they filmed what, the difficulties, inside jokes etc. I found this article on www.ew.com where Mandy Bierly lists all the bests parts of the audio commentary. So go ahead and read it and then watch the real thing. Afterwards you will know “everything”.
Apart from Twilight I’m also very excited about the new third season of The Tudors on Showtime. I loved the first two seasons especially because of the character of Anne Boleyn played by Natalie Dormer. Last season’s finale was just awesome and really well acted and should have won all sorts of awards. Did itby the way? I’m not sure. Since I’ve only watched the first episode of season 3 I’ve just been able to get a first impression. I like Jane and how she tries to influence King Henry into doing the right things. I heard that Stephenie Meyer originally had Henry Cavill who playes Charles Brandon in mind for the role of Edward Cullen and then later for Carlisle Cullen but he had to decline both times. I think the casting choices both for Peter Facinelli and Robert Pattinson were just right and Henry Cavill has his good place with The Tudors. The problem with historic series is that you normally know whats going to happen except if you’re not well-aquainted with that specific part of history. And is it just me or is King Henry really the must awful King there was back then. Yes I think that is a fact and he had this bad reputation and I’m just really uninformed. But since I am I can go into this season absolutely spoilerfree and excited.
And my last thought for today is this weeks “Ask Ausiello” on www.ew.com I was reminded that my dear “Privileged” has not been renewed for a second season yet and that we won’t know anything until the beginning of May. I hope they make the right decision. Should they renew the season EVERYONE has to tune in. I liked the show from the beginning although I must admit it didn’t have that much depth in the first episodes as it could have had. But over the course of the season the storylines have really evolved as have the characters and it would be such a waste to cancel the show. It is a relief that I’m not standing alone with my opinion and that Michael Ausiello plans to do whatever it takes to convince Dawn Ostroff :-))
So long!
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Greys Anatomy, TV Shows, Privileged, twilight, The Tudors | April 16th, 2009 by admin | No Comments