152 insights into my soul

Hmm, so in addition to releasing the songs the Friday before, now the show has started releasing some of the performances from the next ep on youtube? Its odd that Fox does the stupid 8 day delay for non-Dish/non Hulu-plus subscribers on all their shows, but they're fine with releasing the actual musical numbers beforehand? I guess they're trying to generate buzz. In any case, here's Brit doing Beyonce's "Run the World":



For one thing, just like when Rachel did Rihanna's "Take a Bow" way back in season one, this is one of those songs where I prefer Glee's version to the original. Though that seems to be the case with a lot of the more Urban music they do. Also, as I've said countless times before, HeMo looks infinitely hotter with her hair down. And finally, how the hell does Kurt have a chance in hell of winning the election after this? The chyx feel all empowered, and the dudes are mesmerized by the hotness.

Speaking of hotness. decided to try my hand at a "Hottest list". I've always found it very difficult to narrow things down to a certain number. But decided to just sit down and look at a list of all the TV shows I watch regularly, the music I listen to, the movies I've seen, other "hottest lists" and first grab all the ladies I liked on those, then take that list and whittle it down to 50 by choosing the ones I felt more strongly towards.

I don't want to say its a "50 hottest chyx list", perhaps it would be more accurate to call it my top 50 favorite hottest chyx: (in no particular order, because its hard enough shortening the list to just 50. Having to order them to would be un-possible!) ( under the cut )

I was too lazy to actually link to pics. If you're reading this, you have access to the net. If you're curious what one of them looks like, google it yourself! In any case, I put their ages next to them just to help me with seeing trends.

And what trends did I find? Well, I have a definite preference for brunettes- of the 50, 33 are dark haired, with only 10 blonds and 7 redheads. And it should be no surprise I favor the snowflakes- 44/50 are white, with the last 6 being equally split between Latina and Asian. Of course, I didn't count Alexis Bledel as Hispanic, even though she actually is, despite her fair skin and blue eyes. Odette Yustman might actually count as Hispanic also. But chyx like Selena Gomez and Kristin Kreuk are practically snowflakes so the numbers are nebulous.

Age-wise, only 2 are under 20 (but still over 18), with 27 in their 20s, 20 in their 30s, and 1 in her 40s. (Hmm, I wonder if I plotted it out, would it look like a bell curve?) It should be no surprise that 43 of them are younger than me, but hey 7 older, that's not too bad. Though I guess 29 of them were playing high school age characters when they first came to my attention. (Although I shouldn't really count Evangeline Lily, because I first had the hots for her on Lost, and it was only later that I found out she was an extra in Freddy vs Jason. But technically, the first thing I saw her in, she was playing a HS-er)

Just hit the mall and got Samurai Warriors 2:XL and used the gift card I got from Auntie this past Christmas to buy some new dress pants and socks, since I'd been using the same pair of pants for every special occasion the last five years.

Tuesday TV commentary:

( Jericho, Part B )

Tuesday night TV commentary:

( Jericho )

Heh, you're prolly thinking, you mean that wasn't you in high school? There was a guy like that, and he was Asian, but it wasn't me. Though I wonder, if I went to school in the advent of the WB and their popularization of the teen drama, if I woulda been that.

But while on the subject of quotes from Family Guy, I always found the one where Peter imagines himself on the Dating Game if Lois ever left him weird. Because the chick is all, "I'm an ice cream cone, how would you eat me?" And the first guy is all, he'd invite a friend over and give her a double dip. That would be quite a risque thing to say on the Dating Game! I think if someone actually said that on the show, it would be as scandalous as the infamous supposedly really only urban legend "In the Butt" answer on the Newlywed Game. I mean, my own opinion on the Devil's Threesome is quite well known (totally not gay!), but it seems the 2 girls and a guy threesome is considered the more socially acceptable form of the threesome.

Owel, just taking a break from studying up for Friday's test, I'll be glad once that's out of the way. Had a dream last night where I took a trip to Europe with some peeps, and saw some cutie on a train that one of the peeps with me was crushing on. Apparently, she left her I-pod nearby, and I went to return it to her, and we hit it off, making the person really mad because he thinks I stole her away from him. So he like threatens to blow up the train with this bomb he has, but I talk him down and he realizes he's acting like a crazy person, and now his life is totally ruined because he threatened to blow up the train. I felt kinda bad for him, so I just thought really hard, and I re-wrote "history" so he hadn't done it.

Like I've said in a previous dream entry, my ability to groundhog day may way out of bad situations in my dreams, seems to have evolved into just re-writing the dream reality with my mind. The dream me is never "consciously" aware its all a dream, but I wonder if subconsciously I realize I am dreaming, hence me being able to change things that happen in the dream that I don't like.

Quick TV commentaries:

( OTH )

( Jericho )

Speaking of old DWM, saw a commercial during Kyle XY the other day that apparently there's a Cutting Edge 3 showing on ABC Family in a few weeks. Cutting Edge 2 of course had CCR of Even Stevens and Kim Possible fame, but it looks like the twist on Cutting Edge 3 is that its the guy who's a figure skater and the girl is into hockey? Genius!

And what's with French movies? They always seem to be about some assassin guy who has a thing for his underage prostitute cousin. Well, except for Amelie, that was a cute little movie that made the girls and emo boys (Oh, you people reading this know who you are!) cry at the end.

And do all of Feist's videos have to be artsy and clever?

Geez, what's up with it getting so cold all of a sudden!? Its like freezing out there!

Hmm, today is Valentine's day. I'm fairly neutral towards the holiday- I mean, being all, "its just a marketing ploy by the chocolate and greeting card companies" is so prosaic! Besides, it seems one's attitude on the day varies on whether one has someone to celebrate the holiday with.

But cool, the writer's strike is over, and some shows' seasons can be salavaged. Jericho started up again Tuesday night:

( Jericho )

Almost done with s1 Dexter, and have my hands on s2 to watch. Heh, I watched the next to last ep of the first season before going into work, and that was a sucky place to have to stop at, since that's the climax of the season. Argh! I've also started reading Bendis' "Powers" series. Is it me, or is there not enough time in the day?

Things that are corny: couples romantic slow dancing to music only they can hear in like the middle of some public place!

Things that are dumb: Just taking someone not showing up as an end to some romantic endeavor. Sure, some may think of it as noble or classy for not dragging something out, but its dumb! I mean, you assume its because they can't find the words to let you down, but for all you know, some relative of theirs suddenly died and they can't meet you or some psycho stalker has just kidnapped them! And then when certain people see these not-showing-up people again, they don't even bother asking for an explanation! Who lives their lives on assumptions!?

Also dumb: Not finishing attackers off. Nothing pisses me off more in these horror thrillers when people have their attacker down, but then they like wait for them to get up! Stomp them into the ground while their prone, and they won't have a chance to get up and kill you! Morons!

Had dinner with clevemire and C-note at the Olive Garden, or the OG as I like to call it. mbv('Don't call it that') Hadn't been there in a while. I was sure they'd forget C's stuffed mushrooms since the waiter didn't even write our orders down and had to come back to ask C what his entree was. But they surprised me and actually did give him his stuffed mushroom caps.

Anyways, a new OTH after like months. I find it hilarious that the description in the channel guide says "Peyton is delayed going to prom" when in the last ep, her psycho stalker showed up on her front door step, knocked her ass out and kidnapped her! They make it sound like she'll show up later and be all, "Oh, sorry I'm late to the dance, I was busy escaping from a homicidal maniac!" ( OTH- You call it madness, but I call it love )

( Jericho- Coalition of the Willing )

( Lost- the Brig )

Got Sam and Dave's for dinner when the usual suspects came over. That's some good eatin'. Oh, and I was re-watching Smokin' Aces, and I didn't realize that one security guy with the really bad toupee and moustache was Matthew Fox! (Or if I did, I've totally forgotten) Seriously, HA!!! I mean, I knew there was something familiar about the character, but I didn't think it was him. Heh, that hairpiece and moustache are as bad Peyton Manning's in the one commercial.

( Lost: Catch-22 )

( Jericho- Casus Belli )

Was it me, or was this past SVU like a bad after school special? But what's with the Everwood casting as of recent? First Amy, now Hannah? And how odd that she's still able to play a high schooler.

And I don't know much about In Case of Emergency, but I do know they dress Kelly Hu in some pretty nice outfits. Plaid skirt with long boots, two piece too short Oriental dress looking deals? HOTT!

( The Unit: The Outsiders )

( Lost: Left Behind )

( Friday Night Lights: Best Laid Plans )

( Jericho: One Man's Terrorist )

I really hate it when I need to wake up early but can't get to sleep.

Had pre-Lost dinner with the usual suspects at the Eye-talian Kitchen. Service was slow as usual. And then we come back and the frickin' digital cable and internet conks out! I mean, I was able to get a signal in my room as it doesn't go through the box, but its still annoying. It looks like its some sort of upstream filtering problem as the boxes were still getting program info and the cable modem indicated the downlink data stream was fine. And the home office could remotely reset the boxes, confirming data was going to the boxes. But the house server couldn't get out. It did start working again at midnight at least, and is currently working as I type this (though I prolly just jinxed it and I won't actually be able to post this). I did noticed the problem intermittently during the day, for like periods of 10 to 20 minutes, but things seemed to be working fine before we left for the Kitchen. And I kept using the hiptop to connect to the house server throughout dinner to make things were still up. So I thought things were fine.

Owel, called the cable peeps, and they should be sending someone today, hence me needing to be asleep right now so I can get enough sleep before the guy is scheduled to come. (Of course, its working right now, but hopefully they can figure out what was causing the problem because I don't want it to occur again tonight or the next day.) Hopefully writing this all up will tire me out so I can get some frakkin' sleep. I wish the sleep function on my TV worked, that way I could leave it on as I tried to go to sleep, because the noise helps me drift off to sleep. (You know how I can't stand the silence!) Surprisingly, there's actually passable viewing choices at this time in the morning. TNT has Angel and Charmed, Buffy's on F/X, Roswell on Sci Fi, DC on TBS.

As I said, the cable came back up in time for me to catch the midnight showing of South Park, and Jericho and Crossing Jordan actually recorded, and Lost is of course available on ABC's website, so I didn't end up missing anything.

( Lost )

( Jericho )

Had pre-Lost dinner with the usual suspects at this pizza place on Powers Ferry near 285. When making my order, I did a double take because the chick behind the register looked like pr0n star Ariana Jolle. I still haven't seen a whole ep of Extras even though clevemire and phatjoe say its hyterical. And I will say the parts I have seen were pretty funny. They were referencing this scene with David Bowie tonight, I figured I could find it on youtube to see what it was about:



( Lost )

( Friday Night Lights )

( Jericho )

Finished the Ultimates volume 1. I'll have to say, the Ultimates is definitely pretty cool. I didn't really read the Avengers, but the Ultimates seem way cooler than them. Also 3 eps away from finishing up FMA. Its really been a compelling series. The Elrics go through so many effed up things, and not everything is black and white, as even some of the bad guys are sympathetic.