Lady Gaga showed up in an egg - so no major fashion statement on the red carpet. Boo. She had the first performance slot (beyond the opening number) and so I figured that there would be glitter and glam. She had so much time to get ready as she gave no interviews. Nope. It was like watching Madonna doing Express Yourself (yeah, everyone is saying this, I know). Double boo.
Thank you Cee Lo for bringing the crazy back to the Grammys. It looks like Muppets are very in right now. They are slotted to be guest judges on Top Chef this week, and Cookie Monster has been lobbying for a host spot on SNL.
I will say, while I love them, Gwenny should have reconsidered those heels. She can barely walk in them, let alone move. The version she did on Glee was particularly fun because she was able to spin and dance around. I was a little bummed that she wasn't able to have more fun this time, I mean who wouldn't want to dance with the puppets! Loved the pink earrings. The set was crazy fun, and it wouldn't make any sense to compete with Cee Lo's parrot outfit. But the little splash of color helped out the all black.
"A Very Glee Christmas" was on this week. It was quite possibly my favorite Christmas episode that I have seen on tv. The episode touched on the classic Christmas videos with music from Rudolf the Red-nosed Reindeer and The How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and themes from the latter. Brittney made a fantastic Cindy Lou Who, this was the best image I could find of her.
The whole episode brought me tons of joy as they cast constantly broke out in the Christmas songs I love, starting with "The Island of Misfit Toys" and ending with my all time favorite "Welcome Christmas".
Seriously, I get goosebumps whenever I hear this play. It is also one of those things that I don't really think Christmas is coming until this song plays - similar to how I don't acknowledge that I am home in RI until I see the Brooks (or Rite Aid now) that is 2 miles from my parents house. Those Whos really know the meaning of the holiday. Just thinking about the song and my arm hair is sticking up again!
American Idol annoys me. Apparently, it currently annoys America, too. From what I hear, the contestants are pretty terrible this season and I can only assume this is why Glee's new time slot has been scheduled to immediately follow this disaster.
I don't care that Glee has been moved, as the power of DVR lets me continue with my life without ever having to miss an episode. What I care about is if a show is placed after some reality crap that involves voting, my show won't necessarily start on time. The DVR is not that smart and begins to record at 9 pm and stops at 10:02 based on the tv guide. Unfortunately for me,the mindless banter ran a little late which pushed back Glee's start time by about 4 minutes. This in turn means that I missed the last 2 minutes of my show. Grrrr. I hope I didn't miss any particularly witty remarks, as this week was full of some great lines. Here are a few of my favorites!
"What you call insanity, I call inspiration. Let me break it down for you. It has been the biggest dream of my career to pay homage to Madonna the woman most responsible for my take no prisoner demeanor and my subconscious tendency to always be desperately looking for someone named Susan" "What would madonna do? Well the answer that question is usually date a younger man" "Girl, don't look at me. The last guy i liked was the mayor of gay-town" "Lindsay Lohan looks like something out of lord of the rings..." "When I pulled my hamstring, I went to a misogynist" "Everything about you screams virgin your as sexy as a cabbage patch kid. It is exhausting to look at you" "You have all the sexuality of one of those pandas down at the zoo that refuse to mate" "Just come out so we can talk, or sing about it"
"you may be two of the stupidest teens i ever encountered and that is something, i once taught a cheerleading seminar to a young sarah palin"
"take five everybody, drink a redbull"
"have a seat boy hips"
"sometimes i forget my middle name
Glee is back! I actually forgot some of the things that had occurred in the last episode and so it took a moment to get back into all of the crazy plot lines. A few minutes in, it was like there had never been a break. As excited as I was for the show to start up again, I will admit, I had higher hopes for the musical numbers. But at least next week is the all-Madonna episode...
Today was totally an ordinary day. Nothing particularly exciting happened. But for some reason I had an urge to dance. I think my need dates back to Saturday night. A friend of mine had her birthday celebration and in the invite there was mention of dancing. I had a phenomenal hot pink dress (complete with a tutu skirt) and HIGH heels. Totally ready to dance. The rain kind of put a damper on the plan as the bar didn't get crowded enough for the dance floor to pick up before I left. Then Sunday I did a little abc.go.com tv watching trying to let my body recover from the drinking. (For some reason "classy" beer likes make me hungover, it is kind of a pain)
As you may have heard, Ugly Betty has been banished to the least desirable time slot - Friday evenings! I figured I should watch episodes to see if I feel like I can handle yet another show on the DVR. Safe to say I can. One of the episodes features Betty having to find a date to a work party and in the end decides to attend by herself. Of course the final scene is of her dancing to Dancing with myself which is one of my favorite dance songs. I used to have to take the bus to work, I would often listen to it and dance on the corner. Those mornings I got a lot of smiles.
In addition to hearing that song on Sunday, I had pandora playing on my computer this afternoon and You can't stop the beat came on from Hairspray. If that isn't a catchy song is, I don't know what is. I mean
And so I'm gonna shake and shimmy it/The best that i can today/'Cause you cant stop/The motion of the ocean
Such a great beat. Try and listen to it and sit still. Dare you
With all this music bubbling up inside of me, I basically had to let loose. On the way home from the grocery store I 100% started to dance up the street. Arms flying, hips swaying, some hopping and possibly some head bobbing. One guy in his car at red light yelled out "hey girl, you look happy!" I had to reply "I am". There was just so much energy in my body. I did race back to the apartment and had a one person dance party to the 10 minute movie version of You can't stop the beat. Without my grocery bag on my shoulder I definitely had more free range of movement so hair flips and body waves were just all over my living room. I am thankful for my shag rug now for two reasons. It feels good on my feet, but it also absorbs the shock of me dancing and hopping around up here.
Yeah, I can't end this post without including the Glee version of Dancing with myself.
Today was a day for dancing. Therefore, today was a good day. I might just need to dance myself to bed now.
As I have posted previously, I made a great dinner on Wednesday. I had planned out how I was going to leave my office at 5 pm, walk home, unwind/change out of work clothing, cook, clean, and hang up some pictures all by the time my guest arrived for a 7:30 dinner. Part of my plan involved simply placing on the TV so that I had background noise and company while running around. I get to the point that I want some fictional company and no signal. I try the computer so that I can get something playing off that - no internet. Thankfully iTunes does not require an internet connection.
I left the tv on to see if the connection would just fix itself. After a while I called Comcast and requested a power boost signal thing that is supposed to be your first step in solving cable/internet problems. (Requesting this is the equivalent of turning it off and on your computer before you call IT)
After about 20 minutes I check on it again, I find that there is still nothing. So as I am scrapping potatoes I grab the phone again and try to speak to a representative. I will give Comcast credit, I did not have to wait on hold for long, but after a slightly awkward conversation it was determined that there was simply a blackout in my area. So no tv.
That was fine, I was only using the tv for company and would have simply put on stuff from my dvr list. It wasn't until my guest showed up and I told him about the issue as I was unable to look up something on the internet, that I realized the horror of no cable signal...
Without signal, no DVR powers. With no DVR/cable that meant no GLEE!!!!!!
I know that hulu is there for just this type of problem, but man. I use my DVR so that I don't watch crap tv and only watch things I am actually interested in, and I was about to miss out on the best new show of the season.
While we were dining I saw out of the corner of my eye my modem light up. This provided much relief. GLEE was in my near future after all. After my friend went home to study, I cleaned up and was able to retrieve an episode full of some fantastic mashups.
Yeah, I know tv is out to get me and mush up my mind. But I am surviving just fine for now. Maybe some day I will become a person that "doesn't need tv". As for now, please, bring on Real Chance of Love 2, GLEE, and the new Melrose every week :)
Nothing better than a bunch of high school football players doing the "Single Ladies" dance by Beyonce. If you didn't watch last night. You need to now!
