BroHood

The other day I wrote about Calvin hitting on a quasi-straight guy on Greek.  I forgot to mention the best part.  Calvin went on a mini rant on how it's so hard to tell who is gay in this society with all the metrosexuals (Zac Efron; I still maintain he likes girls) and bro movies (Jason Segel; I know their are others but I think he is the best bro).  

I never thought about it, but Calvin is totally right.  If I can still believe that a guy who wears his hair like Zac Efron or who wears pants like Kevin Jonas is straight, than imagine how off-kilter gadar must be.

In the pilot episode of How I Met Your Mother, there is a hilarious little bit when Barney is telling Ted that he doesn't have to wait for a signal to kiss a girl.  He demonstrates this by kissing Marshall with no warning (see, I told you Jason Segel was the best bro).  Now, it's still not totally normal for bros to kiss, but it also isn't totally outlandish.  Even though people def gasped when they saw Barney kiss Marshall, since most people watched it after NPH had already came out.  

I have been going to overnight camp since pre-puberty, and I have seen the most touchy-feely guys imaginable.  They hold hands, snuggle, and occasionally (every day) shower together.  Yet, no one thinks they are gay, because it's normal for them.  How is Calvin supposed to determine who to hit on when his gadar is going off in every possible direction.  

Truthfully, I think bro hood is a pretty cool advancement, because it shows people who aren't afraid to be miscontrued as gay.  Paul Rudd even talks about how he is like one step away from being completely homosexual in an interview in Entertainment Weekly. But it's gotta be hard on the Calvins of the world.

Randomosity

Normally, I write a title before I write my post, and write an entry that corresponds to the theme I mention in the title.  But I have no idea what I'm going to write about, so as of now, the title is still blank.

It's Monday night and there was a new Greek and as always, it was great, but I was playing solitaire during it (just regular solitaire), so I didn't give it my normal amount of attention.

There was also a new How I Met Your Mother (no Gossip Girl this week), but it wasn't very good and Lily wasn't in the episode, so I don't want to discuss it.  Except to mention that the guy who played a hottie that Casey dated in one episode of Greek was in it, and it was weird, because he dated Robin, who is an adult in my mind, and Casey, who is my age.  I still can't come to terms with the whole "becoming an adult" thing.  

Everyone around me is growing up to. Which I guess makes sense, because time exists. Blah, I'm bored with thi sentimental crap. Lately everything I watch uses the word "right" constantly.  Like as a question a la "right?", but moreso as a statement like "I know, right." It's everywhere.  And I use it all the time too, but I can't remember it being so prevelant in the past.  I love how my lingo changes like every couple months without me even realizing.  After last year at school, my accent started to change a little bit too.  My midwestern and Texan friends got me into that.  Drove my fam crazy.

BTW, I just put up a title.  When I wrote it, I was thinking of Kevin's band from The Office, Scrantonicity.  I did this quiz today about fictional bands and Scrantonicity was one of them, which I thought was hilarious.  I thought about switching my facebook music into all fictional musicians

For example:

Pop!, The Shagarattes, Here Comes Treble, and other fictional musical groups

But Miley screwed up the whole notion of fictional music groups with her alter-ego. Hannah Montana completely blurred the lines between reality and fiction, because people became obsessed with her character's music, and therefore loved Miley Cyrus's music.  More to come on Miley later.  

Wait for my next Greekap coming tomorrow.  I'm going to rewatch it and make it AWESOME.  Yeah?  Cool.

Yo, Kostos

I just watched Grey's Anatomy from Thursday.  I know that I have complained about this season and last season Grey's but I obviously still watch it, because how else will I know what fatal illness Izzie has (p.s. now I know)?  Well, in walks a family of three siblings. Totally precious, being one of three.  Well, the younger sister was on two of my shows. Like my ultimate shows.  She played Ted's screw up sister on How I Met Your Mother and the bartender who was obsessed with Rusty's fake ID on Greek (two more weeks!!).  So yeah, she was the younger sister.  The older sister was a stranger, who looked vaguely familiar, but I don't care that much.  And the brother, ah the brother.  My dearest, darling Kostos.  He is just taking over my life. I love that he is taking over my life, because although I'm weirdly not attracted to him, not unattracted, just not attracted, I really love him.  All that's left for him is to venture into Juddland and he will be everywhere that I love.  Well, he could also hit up Camp Ramah b'Poconos or the Nederlander or Taste of Thai, but for now, he is all set.  Say hi to Clark Duke and Patrick Dempsey for me! 

Things I Bought Over Spring Break

This is only so far, since I still have two days left of break and I'm going to spend them in Manhattan and the BK.

Oh also, other than gas and food, mainly Wawa.

New Kelly Clarkson CD

The Final Performance of Rent on DVD

Dogma Special Edition

The dvd of Rebecca on sale at Barnes and Noble

First season of How I Met Your Mother

First season of Scrubs

The Sure Thing/Valley Girl  double feature

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, totally special featured up

The Witches of Eastwick because I've never seen it, Michelle Pfeiffer is pretty, and Jack Nicholson is too cool to understand

Ferris Bueller: Bueller Bueller Edition, because I only ever had the vhs and it was getting ridiculous.  Actually I may have the dvd and that could have been a bad purchase.

Neon blue sunglasses that I'm totally excited about!

Why am I telling you this?  Mainly so I can show off my wide variety of movie tastes, because I'm always bragging about my random preferences.  And Rebecca is completely different than Valley Girl.  Booyah playa.

The Blog

I have been doing this really embarrassing thing lately, where I take things that I write here and then I mention them in public.  It's bad, because then I have to say oh yeah, it's on my blog, you should totally read my blog.  Because although I want people to read it, it's horrifyingly Barney Stinson to talk about your blog in public.  

When I talk about The Blog, I make sure to put on this slightly sarcastic, self-mocking tone, so that people know that I understand the implications of writing a blog.  It's not like I'm giving people life advice.  Just advice on what movies to see and what to watch on Wednesday nights.  I am not Barney Stinson.  I do not pretend that I am 80 and try to seduce girls my age (20).  Now I have to go dry my new hair cut.

The Show Remembers its Title

The show that I refer to is How I Met Your Mother.  I have mentioned before how I started watching it last month and am now obsessed with it.  Because it's great.

It was really hard for me to pick a topic to discuss today.  I am really supposed to be writing about this operation in the Vietnam War in January of 1967, but this is more interesting to me.  All of the other topics I had to talk about were genius brilliance and I still plan on writing about them, so just wait for another entry.  This one can't wait, because pretty soon it won't be news to anyone.

Right now my facebook status is a link to an article on Entertainmentweekly.com that validates that the How I Met Your Mother season finale will reveal who the ellusive mother is.  I know that some people have already seen the link on my facebook.  But I am so excited.  I was so sure in the pilot episode that Robin was going to be the mother.  The show seemed to have forget the premise that Ted (Bob Sagot) was telling his kids the story of how he met their mother, in exchange for a more fun plotline, telling the story of Ted and his ridiculous friends.  While I love all of the storylines, it's seriously exciting that the show remembers its goal.

One thing I was always most impressed with by this show was its ability to remember everything they have said or done in past episodes.  Ted's accidental tramp stamp didn't go unnoticed, nor did his claim to be "vomit-free since '93," or the infamous "slap bet."  It's smart writing and I cant wait to see what they have next.

NOT FUNNY

OH MY GOD THIS STOPPED BEING FUNNY.  Pause, this blog is doing a remodel.  Prepare. For some awesome.  I'm sorry, but awesome is on my mind because I have been watching too much How I Met Your Mother.

I Like Lists; Volume 1: Sitcom edition

On my wall, I have a pathetic piece of paper labeled happy list, which I made years ago at camp.  It has maybe a hundred different things that make me happy, but none of those things make me as happy as simply making the list.  

Great Things About Sitcoms:

They are short

They tend to last for many seasons, unless they suck or are underappreciated

Even the most serious episodes try to make you laugh out loud

Popular shows bring in pretty sweet guest stars

They have a formula, so there is always an idea of what to expect

You get to know the characters over time

They can meld comedy and drama fairly well

Friends is one