Inflatable-Five!

I’ve got a fever and the only prescription is more Mustard!

So another week come and gone and January is almost over. Thank God. I mean does anyone really like January? It starts off bad right from the bat as you spend the first day recovering from a hangover you earned closing out December. And though Martin Luther King Day is a nice holiday and everything, you usually don’t go nuts celebrating it (unless you’re Lauren and throw a party. And it was a mighty fine party let me add). But other than that it’s a month of crappy weather, no real fun holidays, usually not much else to go on. I’m depressing myself just thinking about it. Anyways…

So wow, Disney bought Pixar and Steve Jobs just simultaneously landed on Disney’s board and gave one more middle finger to Bill Gates on his quest to take over the world. Seriously, at this rate we’re headed for an apocalyptic showdown between Jobs and the ever expanding Google over the fate of the planet. This is pretty cool though as maybe Disney can become the kind of company people give a crap about again. Also the fact that Mr. Pixar himself, John Lasseter is going to be both Chief Creative Officer of the animation studios as well Principal Creative Advisor (aka new theme ride creator) is hope to be a little more optimistic about the future of the company that thought “Home on the Range” looked like a surefire winner.

And where the hell did the merging of UPN and the WB come from? And what does that mean for a lot of shows on those networks? Granted, aside from Veronica Mar and from, what I’ve heard, Everybody Hates Chris, the UPN hasn’t really put out anything halfway decent since Buffy moved there halfway through the series. But it will make for interesting matchups. Honestly, a Gilmore Girls/Veronica Mars night? Best night of TV ever! True, that might possibly interfere with Scrubs, but let’s face it the way NBC works, Scrubs won’t come back til halfway through the season. Stupid NBC.

Finally saw the 40-Year Old Virgin. Honestly, I was a little disappointed. I mean I enjoyed it and it had some pretty funny moments (Age of Aquarius? So random. So hilarious.) but I don’t know. Maybe it was just a little over-hyped. I might also enjoy it more with subsequent viewings as with Anchorman which I was also very disappointed after seeing it the first time but which I enjoyed much more having seen it a couple more times.

Also caught Memoirs of Geisha. Beautifully shot movie. Great score by John Williams. Good performances. Quite frankly, it just didn’t do it for me. I mean it just seemed to move a little slowly. And the super terrific happy ending didn’t exactly thrill me. I mean I don’t need to have every movie end in tragedy but this just seemed a contrivance to make everyone happy. I’ve never read the book so I can’t comment on the source material, but this just wasn’t the greatest movie I’ve ever seen.

News and Notes:

100^th episode of Scrubs = awesome. Making Toto role in the Wizard of Oz to be the band Toto was comedic genius. 101^st episode of Scrubs = Ostriches are freaking hilarious.

Strip – still going. Seriously, we’re heading towards the end and I just don’t know what I’ll do with all my time. *tear*

I saw March of the Penguins. Other than “penguins are cute” and Morgan Freeman narrating, I do not see the draw here.

I’m caught up to of all my shows! Yay me! Also starting watching Season 2 of Entourage. Ralph Macchio cameo was brilliant!

Oscar nom come out next Tuesday. Expect the next blog post to rant.

Until next time:

“I just want to say something nice about him that's actually true!”

“You go do that and I'll go, find God, quit drinking, get in touch with myself emotionally and we'll meet right back here at half past impossible.”

Betrayal-Five!

Mustard: Who knew?

Alright, so I’m starting to run out of football teams to root for. Seriously, every team I’ve gotten behind has just dropped out of the running faster than I can pick a new one. At this point I feel too bad about cursing them to root for anyone new.

So the Golden Globes have come and gone. The only difference between them and the Oscars/Emmys is that for one, the Hollywood foreign press is basically 90 people pissed that they don’t get to vote in the “real” awards and two, instead of just being the industry all patting each other on the back, the Golden Globes get everyone drunk and then have them all pat each other on the back. But Steve Carrell’s acceptance speech was hysterical.

Also I know the pre-shows are all big cause you get to see what everyone’s wearing but can’t we get some interviewers who aren’t complete jackasses? I mean holy crap, was I the only one who almost spit out my drink when Isaac Mizrahi told Charlize Theron that she always looked like a “buck-toothed dyke” in all her movies? Granted, I hate the idiot pandering that most interviewers do (*cough* Star Jones *cough*) but holy crap man, it’s called tact, learn to use it.

Doesn’t look like Arrested Development is coming back on Fox though Showtime seems to be the favorite new home. And being the douches they are, Fox is supposedly airing the final four episodes in one 2 hour block on a random Friday night. Damn you Fox!!!

Ok, so I have no idea if anyone is actually listening to these but here's week 2's contest:

What do all these songs have in common

http://webjay.org/by/hibbleton/week2

Yeah, this probably won't be so hard for most of you, but give it a whirl anyways. You might like it.

Music You Should Be Listening To:

Stars – Set Yourself on Fire

Imagine Ben Gibbard of Death Cab teaming up with Imogen Heap. Perfect match I’d say. Starting off with excellent Your Ex-Lover Is Dead, which seriously could have come right off Death Cab’s Transatlanticism, the pace starts off slowly before jumping up a notch with Set Yourself on Fire which is more than a little reminiscent of the Postal Service. The album just makes excellent use of strings and piano while adding in a little electronica to make things interesting.

Patrick Park – Loneliness Knows My Name

A little Old 97’s-esque alt-rock, some of the songs almost have celtic twinge to them ala Carbon Leaf. Both Your Smile’s a Drug and Something Pretty have such a ridiculously catchy tune to them you almost forget they’re about heartbreak. This album may not be the most upbeat all the time, but man is it just so easy to listen to.

News and notes:

Currently reading “Lamb” by Christopher Moore and holy crap it’s hilarious. And you thought Dogma was irreverent?

24 is back and man, they are just killing off major characters left and right. Awesome.

I’ve decided Lost is basically about throwing in as many complicated twists and red herrings as humanly possible in order to show that nothing much actually happens in an episode. Now that that’s said, I’m going back and watching last night’s episode 50 times to find all the clues.

Scrubs makes me happy. ‘Nuff said.

Until next time:

“What if our daughter wants to get her ears pierced?”

“Irrelevant, we’re not having a daughter!”

“Well what if our son wants to go dancing while all his other friends are going to play football?”

“He can dance if he wants to. He can leave his friends behind. ♪ Cause his friend don’t dance and if they don’t dance, then they’re no friends of mine! ♪”

Jason, when you're filling out a female patient's exam report, her breasts can be healthy or unhealthy never 'bangin' double D's'

Mustard: why not?

Welcome back people and I hope all your recoveries from the holidays have been restful. In the past week all I’ve done is watch the good majority of Season 4 Gilmore Girls, Season 2 Scrubs and Season 1 Entourage. It was glorious.

So let’s just not speak of the Giants.

Interesting NFL draft coming up with both Vince Young and Lendale White declaring. Both of which looked better than Reggie Bush in the championship. Think Matt Leinart is wishing he went last year when he was the 'it' person of the year? But these departures mean 3 things: USC losing Leinart, White and (probably) Bush is going to drop their preseason ranking way the hell down. The loss of Young might actually send Ohio State into the preseason number 1. And Brady Quinn just shot to the top of the heisman candidate list.

By the way, how ridiculously exciting is that Sept 9^th game against Penn State gonna be next year (and good luck getting tickets might I add)?

Trying something new here. I don’t know how long this will last due to yahoo recently purchasing the company and the fact that these music file locations could change at any time (I at least make sure they’re all working at the time I create the list) but:

Jeff’s Playlist of the Week:

In honor of my top 10 albums of 2005 a few weeks back I’ve put up a playlist with a song from each one of them. Just click on the link and click play page (select windows media player for the easiest way to listen. Itunes doesn’t load the full playlist).

http://webjay.org/by/hibbleton/week1

If people actually like this I’ll try and do different things every week. But feedback would be appreciated.

News and Notes:

How happy am I that Scrubs is back? I didn’t stop laughing between and 9 and 10 last night.

I never thought I’d say it but I’m actually kind of excited about the new season of 24 starting up. I’ve just been hearing a lot of good things.

Trying to catch up with the OC but my God it’s been like pulling teeth. Now they’re recycling a storyline on one character before they even finish it with another!

With Oscar time approaching I’m sure I’ll be catching up on movies soon.

The Strip: who doesn’t love a shameless plug?

Until next time:

“I honestly believe in hospitals, there's like this balance, you know? It’s like when one person dies, another person gets a chance to live. I like to call it the circle of life.”
”Oh my God! You must stop watching "The Lion King".”
”I like that baby lion cub. What's his name?”
”Simba.”
”Trick question! You like it too!”

Okay, Lindsay, are you forgetting that I was a professional twice over— an analyst and a therapist. The world’s first analrapist.

Mustard: so tasty you’ll resort to begging to get more of it.

Please tell your friends about this show.

Ok, if you don’t get that joke, start watching Arrested Development. Monday’s episode had me rolling on the floor laughing and that’s immediately following a Fiesta Bowl which had me reaching for a gun I don’t even have.

New Years has come and gone and Crowley has fallen! Sure it took a little help from his friends (right now Crowley is saying “jerks” and flipping me off). But damn if it wasn’t fun. Booter’s Buffy Power Hour = Awesome. Killing the keg in 27 hours = Also awesome. Having a Battle of the Sexes questions which actually asked: In cooking, what do you beat until stiff? = Priceless. And we even managed to not send my sister running off screaming into the night. For more priceless quotes, please visit Crowley’s blog.

So three things from the fiesta bowl:

1. Wow, Ohio State looked pretty damn good

2. Wow, Notre Dame got its ass handed to it.

3. Wow, Brent Musburger needs to be taken out back and shot because holy crap, his commentary actually had me cheering for the clock to run out on ND. That was the absolute most inane commentary I’ve ever heard. Oh, and did you know that Brady Quinn’s sister is dating OSU’s AJ Hawk? I think I might have heard Musburger mention it once or twice during the game.

Super quick reviews;

King Kong – Love it. Crazy fun adventure that still stays true to the original.

Family Stone – Decent enough romantic dramedy. Though excellent shout out to Royal Tenebaums at the end. Craig T. Nelson working to keep the career alive after The Incredibles.

The Producers – Pretty much the Broadway show. Good for being that but the original is superior. Will Ferrell is pretty damn funny though. Stay through the credits for the best Ferrell song since “Dust in the Wind”.

News and notes:

Scrubs is back! Holy crap those were hilarious episodes last night. When J.D. loses one of his “Man” cards because his urinalysis comes back positive for birth control pills, I almost peed myself.

Giants in the playoffs! Woooo!!!

Lazy Sunday. Yeah, everyone’s seen it. See it again. It’s the best the SNL has done in the last decade. And it might be another decade before they do another this funny.

Strip updates coming back online.

Seriously watch Arrested Development. It’s funnier than the King of Queens. I promise.

Until next time:

“Couples therapy is killing me.”
”I don't know how you do it! Make love with your lady in front of some old dude who's filming you?”
”That's not couples therapy, Todd.”
”Then what did I do?”
”You did amateur porn!”
”Sweet.”