Who watches Top Gear on BBC America? I think it airs on Monday nights, which means I missed it this week. We tend to watch it after the initial air date anyway. The other day, we saw an episode in which Jeremy, Richard, and James are given the task of building their own RV, and are sent off on a road trip to go camping. Naturally, because they’re building their own creations, there were stops on the side of the road for rv repairs and such, but the funniest thing was that Jeremy’s creation was three stories tall, and wouldn’t fit under the roof at the petrol station, and barely cleared overpasses on the highway.
I can’t find clips of this right now on you tube. But I’ll keep searching, because it’s just too funny. Andy Garcia was the guest star on that episode, perhaps I should include his name in my search parameters. Hmmm… nope, but there’s this funny clip:
This show constantly has me cracking up. That recent episode where Jeremy was driving a three-wheeled vehicle that flipped over every time he attempted to navigate a turn! LOL! And then, their tame racing driver, the Stig gave it a go the following week on the race course and promptly flipped it.
Seriously, if you’re not watching this show, you should. It is super funny.
Blah blah blah, some ice cream flavor I’m not interested in.
While this commercial does not make me want to run out and buy whatever flavor they’re hawking, it does make me run to the other room and grab a certain prickly girl and lavish her with affection.
I want to glue little pink bows to her quills and get balloons for her to pop. Only, she would be terrified of popping balloons, based on how much she freaks out when we’re playing pool in her room, and how even the sound of me ripping paper upsets her. But oh how I’d love to see my little Pinelope popping balloons like that cartoon hedgie!
Miss Pinelope was absolutely thrilled to spend quality time in bed with mommy and daddy last night. Grumpy girl! I expect she’ll be harrassed every time that commercial comes on… so, a lot.
We went to Universal Studios Saturday night for the Pat Benetar / REO Speedwagon concert. Eleven years ago, shortly after we began not-dating, sherlock and I went to an REO concert out at UCF. I only vaguely remember it. And I’m fairly certain, at that time, I was pretty much unfamiliar with REO. Over the years, we have seen Pat Benetar in concert twice. We’re all about free concerts, so we braved the rain for this double-header.
a handful of pics below the fold. And I’ll get some videos uploaded, too. The pictures were taken by my husband utilizing his Pentex W80. Videos taken with my Nikon Coolpix S203. Read the rest of this entry »
this person sneaks a video camera into shows and records them, then posts them online without identifying them, I assume to keep from having his material yanked. But it makes it difficult to identify sometimes. So, I’m going to go ahead and make a directory for myself so I can come clicky when I have time to watch what I want to watch.
Broadway musicals:
In the Heights (which, truth be told, I have zero desire to see, based on the music I’ve heard) is video 11
Billy Elliott (which I also have no desire to see) is video 10
I’ve not had much to do this week, and so I have re-watched season 2 and finally watched all of season 3 of The Guild on you tube. It is so much easier watching it on you tube than it was when it was only offered on whichever site it used to be limited to.
If you love Felicia Day, and you should, and if you’re a tiny bit geeky or nerdy or whatever, you might like The Guild.
Here’s a music video that features their avatars.
And also, if you heart Wil Wheaton, he joins in either the end of season 2 or at the very beginning of season 3.
Back in college, we used to go to country bars and do country line dancing. I don’t think I ever looked quite this ridiculous. Then again, having no rhythm, I don’t really remember attempting to line dance more than twice. But I always supported my friends who were more coordinated than me.
We arrived at Universal around 740a. The park opens at 9a. Harry Potter was supposed to open at 1030a. We couldn’t take the Element, as when I drove it on Wednesday, the part that’s broken has apparently shifted, as now there’s a horrible burning type smell when we drive it, and sometimes there’s smoke. So the Element is out of commission until that money tree starts producing. The worst thing about taking the scooters to Universal is the two zones of 55 mph, for a combined distance of 1.7 miles of stress, as the scooters only do 40 mph. The best thing: motorcycle parking is super close and we avoided the queue of traffic to get to the third level to park.
I posted 149 pics on facebook, but likely won’t throw that many into this post. I suggest you sign up for FB and friend me. Read the rest of this entry »
Friday night, we went to see the A-team at the downtown theater. I’ve fallen in love with this movie theater, and it is now the only place I want to see movies at. It’s super nice, the seats are so comfortable, and it’s a restaurant and bar. The parking garage is crazy steep and narrow. You can imagine it must be a great theater if cheapo me is willing to pay for parking to go see a ridiculously expensive movie. But, if you get your ticket validated, it’s only $2 to park. Except when it’s $18 and you pitch a fit in the middle of the parking garage at the parking attendant. But that’s another story.
Because we were planning to get some dinner before the movie, and because I was disinclined to have another $18 parking fee at that garage, we found free parallel parking along Rosalind and walked a couple blocks to the theater. I parallel parked beautifully, and on my first attempt, which is unusual when people are in my car and I’m downtown on a Friday night.
We had dinner at Bento, a hip Japanese restaurant located below the theater. It’s really a reasonably-priced restaurant, and we wanted to take RTY there. Then, we went upstairs for the movie.
I really enjoyed the movie. It was stupid and silly, and I liked it. I can’t say for sure what the plot was, though. Either there wasn’t one, or I was too busy arguing with the bitch in front of me to pay attention.
The first four times she was text messaging, I ignored her, hoping she’d be done now that the movie was in full swing. The fifth time, I kicked her chair. The sixth, I leaned forward and said, “that’s really annoying.” She said something back, but I couldn’t hear her as I was scootching back into my comfy chair. Read the rest of this entry »
A text message conversation with my cousin regarding the musical Spring Awakening. We’ve been texting song lyrics back and forth to each other for a couple hours, which meant that was what I started listening to on my iPod.
She: Left Behind gets stuck in my head most
Me: Touch Me is always in my head
She: Yeh, that was in my head yesterday. It’s a pretty f-ed up story. Crazy Germans.
Me: I’m surprised how much I like it, since it hits all the taboos.
She: Bah! You’ve committed half those taboos. LOL!
Me: That doesn’t mean I’m comfortable with them!
This conversation is only amusing to me, I know, but my blog, my brain dump.
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