Heaven for the blogger.
A couple random things:
1. My current favorite song is "Heaven For The Weather" off the Streets' new album everything is borrowed (yes, it's purposely lowercase. No, I don't know why). I've never been big into Mike Skinner's slacker white-boy Brit-rap (except for "The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living," off the album of the same name), but this song's beat is the dictionary definition of "infectious." Check it out:
Gotta love that chorus hook, too. everything is borrowed comes out next Tuesday, Oct. 7 on Vice. Go buy it.
2. Zach Tipton, formerly of Moros Eros, just sent me a link to his new band, Young Coyotes, and I gotta say these songs are really good. They remind me of Portugal. The Man, Wolf Parade and even a little bit of the Shins or a stripped-down Arcade Fire. I particularly recommend "Hell Is" and "Momentary Drowning." They're currently unsigned, but I doubt they'll stay that way for long. Tim, if you're reading this, put 'em in AP&R pronto!
3. One of my all-time favorite TV shows (if not my absolute favorite) was this:
I mean, c'mon, just look at that cast! Felicity Huffman pre-Desperate Housewives, Peter Krause pre-Six Feet Under, Josh Malina pre-The West Wing, Sabrina Lloyd pre-Ed, Josh Charles (of Dead Poets Society fame) and Robert Guillaume (aka Rafiki from The Lion King) -- had this show been made today, I doubt producers could afford all of 'em. But this blog isn't meant to convince all of you to watch what is one of the most brilliant television comedies in the history of the genre (seriously, watch this show, it's only two seasons so you can plow through the whole thing in a weekend); I'm instead writing about this show as I got all sorts of weirded out while watching tonight's episode of Law & Order: SVU.
See, tonight's episode featured Josh Charles as a guest star, as well as Teri Polo, best known as Pam from Meet The Parents and its sequel, Meet The Fockers. In my mind, though, I know Teri Polo as Rebecca Wells, Dan Rydell's love interest in the second season of Sports Night. (I know Josh Charles only as Dan Rydell -- I like to pretend S.W.A.T never happened.) And not only were Josh Charles and Teri Polo both guest starring on the same episode of SVU, they were a married couple, Sean and Dana Kelly! "Okay," I told myself, "Danny retired from sportscasting, popped the question to Rebecca and they changed their name to avoid the paparazzi, also having two kids in the process."
Of course, the happy-family bubble I concocted was quickly popped when the storyline of the episode had the couple's older son accused of raping his 5-year-old stepbrother. Then, in retaliation, his father (aka Josh Charles, aka good ol' Danny Rydell) sodomized his son with a homemade baseball bat -- but not before you learn, in an incredibly awkward scene, that good ol' Danny's been using his 5-year-old's T-shirt as a cloth to clean up his semen in the bathroom, as he and his wife are estranged; thus, the police start investigating him for potential molestation.
WHAT. THE. FUCK.
Thank you for completely and utterly ruining my perception of two of my favorite TV show's favorite characters, NBC! I mean, at least you didn't have either of them kill their pedophile son (that was left up to another pedophile who was mad at him), but otherwise, tonight's episode was a complete and utter mindfuck on so many levels. Has anyone else ever had this problem, where they grow so attached to a character in a TV show that when the actor or actress winds up on another show, you just can't compute it?
1. My current favorite song is "Heaven For The Weather" off the Streets' new album everything is borrowed (yes, it's purposely lowercase. No, I don't know why). I've never been big into Mike Skinner's slacker white-boy Brit-rap (except for "The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living," off the album of the same name), but this song's beat is the dictionary definition of "infectious." Check it out:
Gotta love that chorus hook, too. everything is borrowed comes out next Tuesday, Oct. 7 on Vice. Go buy it.
2. Zach Tipton, formerly of Moros Eros, just sent me a link to his new band, Young Coyotes, and I gotta say these songs are really good. They remind me of Portugal. The Man, Wolf Parade and even a little bit of the Shins or a stripped-down Arcade Fire. I particularly recommend "Hell Is" and "Momentary Drowning." They're currently unsigned, but I doubt they'll stay that way for long. Tim, if you're reading this, put 'em in AP&R pronto!
3. One of my all-time favorite TV shows (if not my absolute favorite) was this:
I mean, c'mon, just look at that cast! Felicity Huffman pre-Desperate Housewives, Peter Krause pre-Six Feet Under, Josh Malina pre-The West Wing, Sabrina Lloyd pre-Ed, Josh Charles (of Dead Poets Society fame) and Robert Guillaume (aka Rafiki from The Lion King) -- had this show been made today, I doubt producers could afford all of 'em. But this blog isn't meant to convince all of you to watch what is one of the most brilliant television comedies in the history of the genre (seriously, watch this show, it's only two seasons so you can plow through the whole thing in a weekend); I'm instead writing about this show as I got all sorts of weirded out while watching tonight's episode of Law & Order: SVU.
See, tonight's episode featured Josh Charles as a guest star, as well as Teri Polo, best known as Pam from Meet The Parents and its sequel, Meet The Fockers. In my mind, though, I know Teri Polo as Rebecca Wells, Dan Rydell's love interest in the second season of Sports Night. (I know Josh Charles only as Dan Rydell -- I like to pretend S.W.A.T never happened.) And not only were Josh Charles and Teri Polo both guest starring on the same episode of SVU, they were a married couple, Sean and Dana Kelly! "Okay," I told myself, "Danny retired from sportscasting, popped the question to Rebecca and they changed their name to avoid the paparazzi, also having two kids in the process."
Of course, the happy-family bubble I concocted was quickly popped when the storyline of the episode had the couple's older son accused of raping his 5-year-old stepbrother. Then, in retaliation, his father (aka Josh Charles, aka good ol' Danny Rydell) sodomized his son with a homemade baseball bat -- but not before you learn, in an incredibly awkward scene, that good ol' Danny's been using his 5-year-old's T-shirt as a cloth to clean up his semen in the bathroom, as he and his wife are estranged; thus, the police start investigating him for potential molestation.
WHAT. THE. FUCK.
Thank you for completely and utterly ruining my perception of two of my favorite TV show's favorite characters, NBC! I mean, at least you didn't have either of them kill their pedophile son (that was left up to another pedophile who was mad at him), but otherwise, tonight's episode was a complete and utter mindfuck on so many levels. Has anyone else ever had this problem, where they grow so attached to a character in a TV show that when the actor or actress winds up on another show, you just can't compute it?
posted by Scott Heisel at
12:35 AM
3 Comments:
Frankly, I still think of Mario Lopez as the drummer in Kids Incorporated. The same with Ryan Reynolds when he tried to start a band on Fifteen.
I really only watch cartoons so I don't really have that problem. But I'll hear a voice and be all "That's Krumb from Aaaah!!! Real Monsters, and freak out.
I don't watch enough TV shows that I ever see any actor in more than one series. So I can't really sympathize with ya, man.
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