A Note About Ryan Cabrera

As I promised my dear friend C, I would dig out my Ryan Cabrera poster from college. Look at that beautiful, smoldering man! And he's got a sweet voice too. Let's bring back Cabrera!

A Note About Netflix Instant

I've been watching Netflix Instant on my brother's Wii the last few weeks with great joy. Yes, the "new to Netflix" movies are not usually first-run (Junior was just added, as well as the full run of Family Ties). I now have the joy of watching the early seasons of shows like WEEDS (yes, I never had SHOWTIME as a child). I also have caught up on childhood classics like Hey Arnond! and Rugrats. I just found out all seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, among other shows, are on netflix for instant watching (take that Hulu!)

A Note to the Texas Rangers (Not the baseball team)

The early 2000's were rife with movies starring teen stars that were major box office disappointments, a.k.a. failteens. Texas Rangers (2001) was one of them. For more examples of failteens, see Crossroads, The Rules of Attraction, Sorority Boys, and Longshot. For the record, Rotten Tomatoes gave Texas Rangers an average rating of 3.2 out of 10 (and 48 of the 49 reviewers did not like the movie). It was highly hyped on the pages of teen magazines like J-14 at the time and boasted the names of teen stars like James Van der Beek, Rachel Leigh Cooke, Usher, and Ashton Kutcher, but it flopped. So imagine my surprise when I found it on Netflix Instant! I watched the long-awaited movie and I will now explain why its my favorite western (in western form) and a GOOD bad movie. Yes, there are GOOD bad movies, and then there are BAD bad movies. This definitely falls under the GOOD type of bad movies.

1. People experienced death in a multitude of fashions in the old west.
Cowboy speak: They gone and killed those outlaws by hook or by crook.
There were no less than 6 ways to be killed in the old west:
- hanging
- stabbing
- shooting
- rifle poke to the stomach
- throwing people off a ledge into the Rio Grande (drowning)
- dynamite

2. A giant "set piece" happened within the first 7 minutes of the movie and an entire cast of extras was dead.
Cowboy speak: Those outlaws murdered a town so we had a goshdarn potline.

3. These five words:
- Alfred Molina as the villian.
^ Like in Spiderman, but with a horse instead of octo-arms.
- Dylan McDermott wears cowboy hat
^ This is why i have dubbed DMD the original "McPretty Eyes"
- Dawson crying like a girl.
^ It made him a youtube senation.
- Usher Raymond as an actor.
- Ashton as the dumb one.

4. Classic movie moments and quotes:
- "Don't move or I'll shoot." - Ashton
"What happens of I do move?" - Dawson

- The big rangers recruiting town Brownsville proves its swanky; it has its own windmill.

- Vigilante fighter (cocks gun): "Hey preacher, vote's in."
Dylan McDermott then shoots the man and refuses to give last rites.

- "Would you like that in English, French, or Latin?" - Dawson
"I only know Spanish, Cherokee, and Comanche." - Dylan McDermott

- " You rope yourself a woman and I'll drink the Rio Grande." - Usher to Dawson
Dawson later ropes a woman. Amazing foreshadowing in the script in that scene.

- Ashton is so impatience to take a bath, he jumps in Dawson's bath. Rachel finds them together in the tub and is oddly disturbed. She calmly walks away.

5. Best use of country-type actor in country movie!
- RANDY TRAVIS as the second in command of the rangers.

A Guest Note About GLEE and Fleetwood Mac

My dear pal and loyal blog reader, JavaInducedComa, asked to post about this week's Fleetwood Mac themed GLEE. Sadly, we both have only seen the previews thus far.

Enjoy her thoughts, er, rant!

anyways. i am not a music purist in the slightest. i enjoy covers. but one song that should never ever ever in the history of life be touched is "Go Your Own Way"by Fleetwood Mac. Rachel berry's cover for GLEE is soooooo far off from the true meaning of the song, that it sounds naive and clueless. it is not about teenybopper romance. it's about having your heart torn up by your cheating hussy of a band mate. it's about the pain, the emotional anguish, how one man deals with losing the woman he loves because of her cheating ways. there's so much emotion in that four minutes. especially live. And imagine Stevie Nicks, backing up Lindsey Buckingham, knowing the lyrics are directed at her. So much angst.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE7sGbnbqxk

Further explanation from songfacts.com :

Lindsey Buckingham wrote this as a message to Stevie Nicks. It describes their breakup, with the most obvious line being, "Packing up, shacking up is all you want to do." Stevie insisted she never shacked up with anyone when they were going out, and wanted Lindsey to take out the line, but he refused.
Stevie Nicks told Q magazine June 2009: "It was certainly a message within a song. And not a very nice one at that."

While the Rumours album was being recorded, the marriage of John and Christine McVie (both of them Mac members) was also coming to an end. With two couples breaking up during the sessions, recording could be quite tense. They were also doing lots of drugs at the sessions, making sure there was plenty of Behind The Music material.

also read the full story of the song at fleetwoodmac.net

http://www.fleetwoodmac.net/penguin/interpretations/g/goyourownway.htm

Final thought: Ryan Murphy you suck major balls. And are clueless.

A Note About the Best Bad Guy Name Ever

Truly, you cannot compete with the minds of Buffy. They gave us legendary vampire henchman:
<-----Mr. Trick.

How many people are evil henchmen and referred to as Mister? Not many. Plus he got an episode named after him- season 3's "Faith, Hope and Trick."

Would you mess with this guy? I wouldn't. And yes, he got dusted and all his plans were foiled, but he was good.