Random and often meaningless posts about my wonderful loving family written in an incoherent manner using run-on sentences with poor grammar...and other stuff
I'm a big fan of Pushing Daisies, although I can see it jumping the shark pretty quickly. One of the cool things about the show is that you really don't need to watch any of the previous shows to get it, you can jump right in like picking up a magazine to kill some time on a flight. Plus Kristin Chenoweth is a nice side dish for show, I'll let you google her yourself.
So anyway, if you enjoy TV shows like Pushing Daisies, Northern Exposure, Twin Peaks, and if you have 38 minutes free and don't mind watching TV staring at a computer monitor, check out the link below for a show called Wonderfalls. I think I'll ask Santa for the DVD of the first and only series for Christmas.
Getting back to Pushing Daisies...more thoughts on the show...
- The Pie Maker, one of the greatest domain names I've ever heard of. I curse myself a thousand times for not thinking of it.
- Lee Pace - who plays Ned - where have you been all my life. Although your eyebrows kind of freak me out.
- Great costumes, very 1950s. And I love the overuse of cleavage. I'm seeing a trend on that aspect with other shows...and I like it.
- The show is a lot of fun right now, but the party can't last. Not sure how they are going to sustain the tempo, but I'm enjoying it while it lasts.
I am very picky with how I spend my TV time, which becomes harder to devote to Dave with my kids getting older, projects around the house pile up, work gets busier and my inexplicable desire to watch anything political on TV is getting worse, so committing to a new show this year was big. I gave a few shows a shot and only this one made the cut. It's not for everyone, and if you hated Edward Scissorhands, then skip this one. But for a great voice over, simple story lines, bright colors and Disneyland-like sets, then this show is for you.
I have to admit, now that I've had a couple of days to think about it, that I am really disappointed in the ending. I know the show broke ground with television programming. And I know that the artist community probably thinks it's a wonderful ending. But I, personally, wanted some kind of closure to the series. After all, it's not a Sundance Film Festival winner. It's a TV show about the mafia.
I will admit the ending was unusual for a show that has been for the most part terrific. I have heard some of the theories about how it would have ended if the final 30 seconds were not a blank silent screen, but I think the creator, David Chase, wanted to leave it up to the viewers to decide how it was suppose to close out. I like that idea. So my ending is something like this.
AJ crashes his BMW into a Newsday delivery truck and goes to work for the Girl Scouts
Meadow fails her bar exam after finishing law school and goes back to Nassau Community to get a degree in computer science. She ends up single.
Carmella spends time at a condo in the Bahamas she bought with money she made selling homes.
Sil gets better, takes guitar lessons, and joins a rock band.
Tony is shot, again, but survives, again, and leaves the mob to sell software for a large technology company.
Hey Diana, looking good on American Idol last one. One nit though. The word is "Enunciate", not "Pronunciate". You could have said "You need to work on your produnciation" but you were grammitically incorrect when you said "you need to pronunciate".
was watching Star Wars Return of the Jedi on HBO-L, the Spanish language HBO channel that Comcast thoughtfully provides for the 6.2% Massachusetts population that speak Spanish at home, ages 5 and over.
Surprisingly they have Darth Vader with the same low baritone James Earl Jones voice that is in the English version. It's even a slow paced speech pattern, not the rapid fire language that most Latin-based, Latino, conversations sound like and has that menacing heavy breathing that is signature Vader.
While Luke Skywalker doesn't sound like Mark Hamill, the other characters are fine.
They even made that short garbage can robot who speaks in a digital voice add a Mexican sounding accent to its garbled nonsense.
Jaba the Hut is no different than the English version although he does seem more SEHHHXY. TOOO SEHHHXY. The odd thing about Jaba is that when he is speaking in a made up language, the subtitles are in English, not Spanish. So unless those 6.2% speak Jaba, or read English, they will have no idea that he is saying "this bounty hunter is my kind of scumb".
Some of the trivial creatures that appear throughout the movie keep their sinister voices but in Spanish.
I just love hearing "El Capitan Solo blah blah blah" since the only Spanish I speak is how to order a hamburger with cheese to go please and como se dice, one beer please.
I think I might watch El Juego de la Verdad on next, whatever that might be.
I might be way out of line here, but is THIS guy really the person you want promoting a Dunkin Donuts drink that has 340 calories and a breakfast sandwich that has almost 700??
PS. Dear Mr. Goodman, "Roseanne" is still one of my favorite shows all time. Keep up the good work.
As some of you might remember, the TV show Ask This Old House did a segment on my home a couple of years ago. Tom Silva did the work and Richard Trethewey, the plumber, also came by to have lunch. It was fun.
This past Saturday Patti and I were at the Wrentham Outlet stores and while walking through the Ralph Lauren store, I see Roger Cook standing there, holding a couple of bags, looking a little bored. Roger is the show's landscaping expert. My guess is he was waiting for his wife to shop.
So I walk up to him and say "Are you Roger Cook?" He said he was indeed Roger Cook. I told him that the show did a thing on my house and of course he remembered the episode, who can forget me, and Patti and I talked to him for a few minutes. We only had Emerson and he was in a good mood, smiling at Cook and acting like a nice little baby, not screaming or pooping or anything. He was a really nice guy and it was nice meeting him.
On a similar, note, a few weeks ago I was on the Delta Shuttle when Steve Thomas walked on the flight. I was already seated so I didn't talk to him. I saw him later that day at the airport returning from NY but he was on a different flight.
I only have one more person from the show to meet and I am done.
