In my So You Think You Can Dance recap, I asked for your help in finding the video of Phillip Chbeeb (and I couldn’t remember his last name) and his crazy poppin’ that made Shane Sparks tear up.
Emily, avid reader and SYTYCD fan is like a human google because she had this video to me in seconds! Go Emily, we love you!
One thing is abundantly clear after two weeks of auditions on Fox’s summer smash So You Think You Can Dance. A lot of idiots do indeed think that they can dance. None of those idiots however have the last name of Schwimmer.
Seriously, what is in the Morman water out west that’s helping produce these genetic dancebots in the Schwimmer clan? Season Two Winner Benji Schwimmer was accompanied in the final four by his Cousin Heidi. Last night, he returned to the show not as a Judge like many of us had assumed but as a dance partner for his little sister Lacey Schwimmer. Benji’s just a character and I love him. His sister was equally as talented and she’s like the Youth Swing Dance Champion or something. Love her and she needs to make it to the Top!
Loved that Yesi girl who auditioned and had Shane Sparks jumping for joy. Girl’s got some girth but she can move like you wouldn’t believe! She’s got a great energy, spirit, and technique and I cannot wait to see what she brings to the table if she makes it past Vegas. Go Girl!
While we’re still talking Shane, can we talk about Phillip, the Pop-Locker that actually brought a tear to Shane Sparks’ eye? Tears folks, a grown macho hip hopping man was reduced to tears at the unreal talent this kid has. I’ve never seen popping like this, he was sick and I swear he’s got rubber for bones. His arms would wave in ways noone’s arms should be able to wave unless they’ve just broken it in 14 places skateboarding on MTV’s Scarred. This is the video I’ll be searching for most today. If someone finds it first, please email Ducky and let me know!
I loved the two alternakids that were doing old school dirty 20s style swing dancing. The tragic couple where he’s sickly in love with his dance partner yet she’s betrothed to another back in NYC and in her eyes they’re “just friends.” There was something about their unpolished and nasty swing that made me love them. First of all, they’ve both got personality out of the ass and they’re just darn cute. I hope one or both make it in Vegas. I know some will criticize them because they’re not the polished package that Benji and people of the West Coast Swing are but I think this is a great alternative to the norm and if they can pull it off, wonderful! I’m rooting for them.
Here is a really poor quality video from the funniest moment in So You Think You Can Dance history, Mary Murphy’s ridonkulously hysterical laughing at the Dancer who’s had the hiccups for the past 7 years.
The part where Mary turns her head and lets out the cat whine of a strained laugh is seriously one of the funniest things I’ve ever listened to. I had tears streaming down my face last night when I watched it and rewatched it and then watched it for at third time. I know that a lot of people find Mary’s laugh and screams to be really annoying but I find them to be quite brilliant!
Last night we were introduced to yet another descendent of the Schwinging Schwimmers, Lacey. Yes, the So You Think You Can Dance Winners’ sister can shake her bon bons as well.
Here are some quick videos I found of Lacey Schwimmer online. The first is of Lacey and Benji together at the DEMAND benefit that Benji has been working on. This is a fairly recent video because she looks as she did on the show last night!
Another Benji and Lacey clip from the Reno Dance Sensation 2007. It starts with Benji doing his thang then we get some Lacey:
Here’s one of Lacey and Benji as well as a whole dance troupe.
And finally, a clip without the help of her brother, here is one from the 2006 Swing Diego showcase with dancer Pete Green. Rocking the blonde!
I’m pretty sure we’ll be seeing lots more of Lacey Schwimmer as Season three of So You Think You Can Dance progresses. The girls got the genes!
My favorite video online today is a wonderful video of Michael Cera auditioning for Knocked Up. Obviously Cera is a comedic genius (see Arrested Development) and this video is a joke released to mock the now famous video of Lily Tomlin freaking out on Director David O. Russell. Knocked Up opens tomorrow and stars the shaggy and loveable Seth Rogan as well as the way too pretty for Seth Rogan, Katherine Heigl.
Not only is Michael Cera pitch perfect, Katherine Heigl rocks it out as the pained and stuck in the middle costar. Genius! Frakking Genius! This is the biggest internet geek squad marketing campaign for a movie made by a bunch of self declared geeks and I for one cannot wait to see Knocked Up this week.
Despite appearances, GiveMeMyRemote and I have not given up the dream of taking over the internet with our TV podcasts. Life, being what it is, has prevented us from podcasting the past few months, but we are coming back…I promise.
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Hell has frozen over, planets have collided, frogs have fallen from the sky, and rivers are running red because Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie have reunited for another season of debauchery on The Simple Life.
This season, the girls have made up and are heading to summer camp! I know what you’re thinking… Nicole Richie around a bunch of horny camp kids? The boys will be making out with each other and going gay, the girls will be getting lessons on driving down the freeway in the wrong direction, and the counselors will be sexually molested. But much to my delight (and slight dismay) the first set of campers the girls encounter at Camp Shawnee (Smith?) are all adults.
I almost died though when it was revealed that it was Fat Camp. These adults are coming to Camp Shawnee for inspiration, motivation, and discipline to help them change their lifestyle habits and to lose weight.
One of the heavier woman nailed it on the head when she stepped off the bus and saw paper thin Nicole Richie and that sad sack of gonorrhea potatoes Paris Hilton standing there. “Oh Hell No!”
Right? Seriously…
You’d think this is a recipe for disaster. Not only are Paris and Nicole taking over someone’s summer camp, they’re now going to help counsel overweight adults when they can barely take anything seriously? Surprisingly, they took to the task with amazing maturity.
Okay, mature for them… they had to give colonics to all the campers and at first it was gross and they didn’t want to do it but after the first camper they were more than willing to shove a plastic tube up someones ass. Nicole had to hold huge butt cheeks open for insertion, she told one guy that it wasn’t any worse than getting anal and when he said he’d never had anal she said, “Oh I assumed you swung both ways.” It got a chuckle and his cheeks spread like the red sea! Too bad Paris is on a ladder holding the huge bag of fluids and taking pictures of their big bare asses with Nicole posing next to them. I was rolling!
The show is at its best when Nicole is being her wise cracking, prank playing, crazy self and when there is as little Paris Hilton as possible. Unfortunatly the show continues to try and make Paris into a real human being with real feelings and to put her up on a pedestal in order to make Nicole look like the devil (which she sometimes is). Luckily, they balance each other out somewhat and continue to bring me laughs.
Within seconds of meeting the family that runs Shawnee, she tells their 10 year old son he’s Sexual and calls the hot buff head counselor her requisite “Hey Bitch!” These people never see it coming and that makes me laugh!
There’s actually a touching moment between some of the overweight campers and Nicole where they grill her about her weight issues and the tabloids. She comes clean about her weight issues, the reasons and once again claims it has nothing to do with an eating disorder. I for one believe her, but I also have a soft spot for her. It was a sweet moment and she gained trust from these people and from then on, they were their friends and helping the campers break into a pad locked fridge and all.
Wait, did I mention that Susan Powter from the 90s, crazy shaved head Susan Powter is at the Camp too? Yeah, that’s her in the picture up top to the left. A little different, no? Go Girl with that crazy and the tattoos!
In case there’s any questions, this is Nicole’s show. She’s the smart one, the funny one, the willing one, the outgoing one. Paris is just a follower and a dead piece of pretty skin hung on some worthless bones. I’m happy these girls made up only so I get more Nicole Richie in my life. Is that wrong?
The Simple Life is back and it’s sure to be a summer of immoral campfires and devil’s smores. Grab your sleeping bag and settle in.
Big huge shout out to reader and fellow So You Think You Can Dance obsessee Emily for sending me this video of My BF Travis Wall and GMMR’s Jailbait Ivan. As you probably know by now, Travis and Ivan moved out of their respective states and hit the Hollywood hills together. They’re shacked up together and it seems like they’re the new Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, the new Stiller and Meara , Steve and Edie, Punch and Judy…
Here are Travis and Ivan performing at the 2007 New York Dance Alliance.
My BF Travis is looking a little bigger in the upper body area and there ain’t nothing wrong with that! Jailbait looks like Gumby next to Travis (sorry GMMR) and that means he’s string bean city because Travis is a wee little man.
Let the obsession continue, here’s another video of Travis performing at this years NYCDA.
And another video of Ivan performing a KILLER routine. This is the video to wet your pants over; this kid is amazing!
Don’t forget that tonight, the audition process for Season 3 continues in Los Angeles and Chicago. Two hours of Nigel, Mary, and Cat! Who can ask for more than that? Oh you can? Well, how about Season 2 winner Benji Schwimmer? Oh yes fans, he will be back for the auditions process tonight and we cannot wait to see him!
I know this is a TV blog and all but sometimes I just can’t help myself. I’m sitting here listening to Sirius and a song came on that I simply adore from my high school years and I had to just quick post because it made me so happy.
It’s such a great poppy alt song from well before 1990 but it reminds me hardcore of driving around in my Renault Medallion (circa 1990) with my friend Mo (no that’s not short for homo).
Wow, another amazing one just came on… The Replacements I’ll Be You which is one of their poppier tunes but take my advice, Paul Westerberg is a god! This is one of the first 80s alternative bands my brother Bob got me into when I was barely pubescent. Good times.
Is there anyone else out there that always completely forgets that some of these holidays should be accompanied by some sort of fanfare and get togethers? I seriously never remember to plan something and apparently I don’t know anyone that does anything fun either because as of Friday I didn’t even realize it was a long weekend and one that usually leads itself to some form of cookout or something. No, not for me. Same goes for the 4th of July. I always forget to do something. Same with Labor Day, nothing… I guess if I lived in a rural area or in the burbs or near my family I would be more apt to plan something or at least do something traditionally American on those days. HA!
Instead, I saw a lot and I mean a lot of television in between shopping for desks and leaning mirrors. Charm School was watched numerous times. Those bitches are crazy and I love them. Some Home Shopping, haha. What else? HGTV is now in HD in Boston so I watched a good amount of that. How Its Made was on a marathon so I saw lots of that too.
Saturday in the 95 degree heat we had in Boston (end of the world anyone?) I sat inside and watched The Last Days of Left Eye on VH1. This is a film that some of us on staff wanted to get for the Independent Film Festival of Boston but it didn’t pan out because of television distro, etc. If you get the chance, you must watch it. You don’t even need to be a fan of TLC to enjoy it. There is little TLC information in there.
It basically starts by painting Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes as a misunderstood but relatively together and spiritually in touch strong woman. By the end of the two hour documentary you realize that she’s sick. She’s delusional, seeing things, and convinced that an evil spirit is after her. It’s incredibly sad to watch her demise but along the way we get some great stuff!
There is a pretty in depth section on her setting her boyfriends house a fire. Remember the “I’ll torch your cheating ass’ sneakers in the figerglass tub” pyro situation? Amazing! (more…)
On The Lot, Fox’s newest reality show where aspiring filmmakers get a crazy shot at a million dollar development deal with Dreamworks kicked into full gear tonight. Last week they widdled the competition down from 50 contestants to 36 and then halved it again to their competition quantity of 18 contestants.
The remaining 18 contestants were sent home and given one week to write, shoot, and edit a 60 second short Comedy piece. All the rules of story needed to apply. A beginning, a middle, and an end really needed to be present as well as the execution and direction.
Tonight, all 18 films were screened in front of a studio audience, in front of us, the television audience and in front of the Judging Panel. Carrie Fisher, Garry Marshall, and Disturbia director DJ Caruso. To my knowledge, Carrie Fisher is the only permanent Judge, the others will rotate on any given week. Disturbia being such a huge success earlier this month I’m sure granted Caruso a spot.
Anyway, I wanted to talk about some of the films we saw tonight. Having gone to film school, I feel like I can critique them on an educated basis for once. Usually I’m sitting up here on my crystal thrown spouting about dancing, or singing, or cooking, or fashion, or hell even survival tactics when the only exposure I have to these things involve a brief stint as a go-go boy in the early 90s, singing in my car, vegan and vegetarian meal preparation for the last 17 years, and having a book on fashion models from my super gay days. Films, I actually know something. Hot diggity!
By now you all know that Kelly Clarkson is the one and only American Idol in my opinion. Not just because she was the first but because for the life of my pop hating life, I love this girls music. I guess its the gay in me coming out!
With all the drama surrounding her new album “My December” I just can’t stop thinking how great it will be because a pissed Kelly Clarkson is a good Kelly Clarkson. Watching her this week on Idol perform her stellar single “Never Again” just reinforced that she’s ripshit and ready for all of us to know it!
Here is the incredible video for “Never Again.” It’s hysterical how close she is to this man’s ear in the car. Love it. It’s sexy yet angry and creepy and seriously his hearing after all that yelling will be less than nothing! Oh and her Stepford Wife shots are pretty damn funny!
Just thought I’d take a second and pass it on that iTunes is now offering 5 song EP’s from our American Idol Season 6 Finalists Blake Lewis and Jordin Sparks.
Blake’s EP includes his cover of Bon Jovi’s “You Give Love a Bad Name” as well as some Maroon 5 and his great cover of “Time of the Season.” Jordin’s includes her unbelievable version of “I Who Have Nothing” as well as the Songwriting Competition winner “This is My Now.”
Click on the banners to download some Blake and/or Jordin… You know you want to!
The Ghost Whisperer is entering its third season over on CBS and for the life of me I can’t figure out who the hell is actually watching this show. Sure Jennifer Love Hewitt has a diverse following but to my knowledge these folks are not the demo the shows catering to.
You have those of us that loved her as Sarah, Bailey’s on again and off again love on Party of Five. You have those that still know what she did last summer. You have those oddballs that love her “music” and then you have those that love her two humongous… eyes. The horndog males heart Love’s greatest assets.
So we’re talking females and gay males between 28-35 for Po5 and IKWYDLS. The deaf folks for her music (ages unknown because not enough records were ever sold to chart that sort of thing) and males 18-40 for those two Golden Globes of hers. Are any of these people home on a Friday night?
Okay, so I am and I fall into the first category but I swear I’ve only watched this show once. I’m not lying, shut up! Once and that was with fellow blogger Rae while we were in Vancouver visiting the set of Supernatural. We were waiting to go out for dinner and somehow got sucked into this web of crap that The Ghost Whisperer is spinning.
First off, what the hell is the tone of this show supposed to be? It’s so not supernatural in tone and it doesn’t even seem to fit into the drama mold either. It seems a tad bit lame quasi-wacky screwball comedy mixed with really forced dramatic flair. Love is all over the place personality wise, Camryn Manheim is pointless on the show (and from The Practice and Romy & Michelle days, I love me some CamMan) and seems like the dippiest spaz since Screech. Then there’s the once pretty and once Ducky obsessed David Conrad. I love love loved this guy back in the mid-90s when he was on Relativity. Here he just looks old and bored. Is he the only one besides Jay Mohr that knows she can do what she can do?
And what is it that she can do? I’ve seen no whispering and she ain’t had a lease to any of these ghosts like Cesar Milan so I don’t know what this whole Whispering deal is.
Someone please tell me the appeal of this show and if you watch it, please leave your age and demo in the comments section. This things a mystery I can’t crack.
The Season Finale of LOST killed off a number of characters so I thought I’d share some of those with you.
First, our beloved Charlie who drowned a hero (or an idiot because seriously you could have closed the door BEHIND you just as easily but what do I know…)
Then those crazy women down in the Looking Glass Hatch.
The Seven Others that Sayid, Jin, and Bernard took out!
Naomi, we barely knew thee but Ben certainly warned us of your motives. Was he correct? Did Locke go ballistic and kill you for no good reason? Only time will tell.
Oh this one made me the saddest. I’ve always had a soft spot for ZekeMr. FriendlyTom. I never believed he was completely bad. He was no Ben but I can’t say I really trusted him as he was a pretty big flip-flopper. Oh and Ryan, how was getting run over buddy? Hugo and his Mystery Machine!
And finally, will Mikhail ever die? Seriously, he’s got more lives than Paula Marshall has failed television series’.
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