TVLaNd

Like most socially, culturally, and mentally normal people out there, I absolutely love TV!!! Have I mentioned before what a TV whore I am!!! Well, then let me take a second before I let out a long breather of shows I’m keeping up with this season…starting Monday…

Glee
Lie To Me
American Idol
LOST (ABSOLUTE FAVVVVVorite…and hello! Could this season get any freakier!!!)
Glee (I hart Matthew Morrison; I want to marry him!)
V (that short-haired woman is quite an interesting creature!)
Modern Family (can’t stop laughing…)
The Middle (yea, yea, I like eccentricity in life!)
Flash Forward
Supernatural (FAN since Day 1)
The Office (Michael makes me cry…in pain!)
ABDC aka America’s Best Dance Crew
The Amazing Race (starting Sunday…yeeeaaaaa)

And then all the DiY and NatGeo shows when my parents snatch the remote away from me and I’m left to their mercy!

But what’s been really interesting this season is American Idol. Like many of you, I thoroughly enjoy the first half of the season enriched with all the fun stuff, you know, auditions, weirdos, some who CLEARLY were sent on a dare, others completely oblivious to their pathetic existence, and then some who we bet our lives will go all the way only to be conveniently dumped in Hollywood before even making it to Top 12. What’s been more exciting than all this is the overwhelming display of celebrity judges in the show recently and all that jazz about Ellen DeGeneres. Well…just the topic I needed to move on to next which is "Celebrity Judges". My question for producers is who picks these judges & based on what criteria?! Take JC Chasez on ABDC for instance…was Randy Jackson watching one of ‘N Sync’s performances and said, yeeeeah I need to go for this JC guy, he’s so unfamous, totally the talent I’m looking for?? Or he saw Lil Mama hangin out with her homies sayin "I is gangsta" or "y’all are swag!" & "y’all kilt it" or better "you brings it"…and thought wow she’s totally the idol young kids need to look up to these days. Hey, I’m all about gangsta sh*t and Hip Hop! I grew up in Hip Hop! I grew up in Alief Texas…I still live in Alief Texas…enough said!!! But…these judges should be held up to more standards than just being celebrities before being put on the Judge Pedestal.

So here’s my thought on American Idol judges this season:

Neil Patrick Harris – besides his few performances on the Broadway, I really am not getting the whole musical vibe from this dude. Nevertheless, he was entertaining with his remarks…okay…liked that he was the no-nonsense type of guy, and he just seems like a nice dude, you know the type you wanna hang out with…like he really will listen you and give you the real world sh*t kinda thing…

Avril Lavigne – not the best singer out there but I totally have respect for singers who are musicians as well! Plus I admire the fact during auditions, she was honest to people with kids about what they would be giving up once they step into showbiz… I’m talking real "expectations" for those who just may not be seeing the long road ahead…for that, you’re my girl Avril…you rock!

Mary J. Blige – I’m not a big fan of her music but everyone and their mama wants to have a duet with her so I’m assuming American Idol wanted a piece of her too…good for them!

Shania Twain – Shania who???

Victoria Beckham – as much as I adore the Beckhams (yes, they’re the true Royal family of England after Diana…don’t get me started…), I can’t seem to shake my mom’s comments out of my head every time I see her on TV…"yeh khaati kya hai" Translation in English: "does this 'thing' feed itself?". BUT I still love you V in spite of your 32lb bod!!! You’ll always be my Spice Girl…how can I forget…I went to your concert where I was the only adult over 16!

Katy Perry – big head for little talent…kinda like Rachel Bilson…does anyone know of a Rachel Bilson? Ugh…and yet she manages to clog up each and every page of my InStyle issue…that’s one girl hooked up to a good agent...I think PINK should hire her agent…

Joe Jonas – first, let me ask you, WHAT’S THE DAMN HYPE ABOUT THESE 3 BOYS??? Every time I switch on the radio and hear them sing, I imagine Simon Cowell rippin them apart…with words like "horrendous" & "rubbish"…they sound just as bad as Taylor Swift…which leads me to Taylor Swift…my next topic…one *hyphenated* word: OVER-RATED!!! Oh I HATE her so much she can get a whole blog post out of me!!! I’ll save that for another day!!!

Btw, Ellen rocks!!! And I agree with Kanye West...!!!

signed: Thinker-Bell

WORD OF THE DAY!

I love it when I use the "Define" capability of Google to look up a definition of a word or phrase and then find myself looking up the definition of the definition. Whatever happened to putting the meaning in simple English! For instance, today, amidst my research on "Climate Change", I came across the term "Sustainable Development". I went on Google and typed Define: Sustainable Development. The first result was from Wikipedia so I’m thinking Yea, Wikis know what they’re talking about. This is what I get:

Development which seeks to produce sustainable economic growth while ensuring future generations’ ability to do the same by not exceeding the regenerative capacity of the nature. In other words, it's trying to protect the environment.

Can someone read the first 2-mile sentence and figure out what the heck they’re talking about?! I must be ADD because they lost me at "by"…what was wrong with just "protecting the environment"?

But...I’m still not sure about the term "Sustainable" because Wiki decides to define a term by using the term itself in the definition. So I click on the word/link "Sustainable" to see what happens next:

Able to be sustained

Aaaaggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Frustrated…clicking on the link "Sustained"…:

Simple past tense and past participle of sustain

Whoever said Internet made things easier! I miss the days of having a 50-lb Oxford dictionary in my bagpack...do any of you remember that??? Yes, before they came out with the pocket-size version, Oxford published the big daddy!!! I love my “research” life! It took me 4 clicks and a forced SMILE to get to this word today…hence this will be my WORD OF THE DAY:

SUSTAIN: to maintain (something), or keep it in existence; to provide for or nourish (something), to encourage (something); to experience or suffer (an injury, etc.); to confirm, prove, or corroborate (something).

Ciao!

signed: Thinker-Bell