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.

Oh hey

Gah I haven't written in so long and I missed my cute little blog.  But I don't really have that much to say, because the only thing on my mind is B.J. Novak's new blond hair. He is amazing.  The way he is so cool with making himself so hatable, even though you know he totally isn't since he writes/produces like half of The Office.  Oh, I'm also thinking about Zac on SNL and about HannahMovie, but I'm all jittery since I've been in the car for a while so I can't concentrate enough to write anything legit.  Ya dig?

My Night Amongst the Stars

The title is a lie.  I totally didn't hang out with the stars, but I did hang out with these crazy worthy name droppers, the editors of Seventeen Magazine.  Big Sister took me out with her bosses on Friday night (I know, totally anti-Shabs), and introduced me to all of her bosses.  Pretty cool, I know.  So they provided me with the low-down on all my favorite celebs, having all been on many a red carpet, movie set, or in their own office conducting interviews.

So obviously I first asked about Gossip Girl.  Serena, or Blake Lively as I was snootily corrected (duh, I know, but character names are more fun to use) is apparently really nice, in a very Hollywood way.  And uh yeah, I didn't know what that meant, because not really in with a Hollywood crowd.  But The Name Dropper informs me that it means she is really nice, great at interviews, but acts like she believes she should act.  Instead of acting like herself, she acts like Blake Lively, the actress from Gossip Girl  and Pants.

Next up, my best friend, Selena Gomez, from my mom's favorite show, Lizards of Waverly Place.  Yeah.  Totally cute, they all think she's beautiful.  But a product of Disney.  Acts only how Disney would want her to and answers her questions in the pre-programmed way that don't give anything real away.  Apparently Miley is way more legit.

Zac Efron is flamboyant

Robert Pattinson is a moron

Alexis Bledel is a Rudebin (sucks, in Fink terms)

America Ferrera is nice, but starved

Kostos is hot

Chase Crawford touched Molly's friend

So I can't remember what else, but if I get to live the glamorous life at some point, I'm all about sharing more.  Feel free to be appalled about any of them.

Difference of Opinion

My best friend told me that she didn't like my last blog entry.  She said that even though Zac looks super hot on the Rolling Stone cover, he never should have gotten that cover, and he has never again looked that hot.  She also told me that he is super gay and untalented.  She didn't mean gay offensively as she is a theater student and has no straight friends.  But she did mean the Zac comments offensively and I got mad and hung up on her.  

Both my older sister and this best friend have questioned why all of our low-culture interests are totally different.  Danit loves Twilight and that weird love story Australia while Molly likes The Real Housewives of New York City and The Hills.  And as anyone who has read this blog, or who has met me knows, I like Disney Channel and the best of the 80s.  That's the problem with guilty pleasures.  Even though I may love them, they are guilty for a reason.  Some people will hate and mock them. Fortunately, most of my guilty pleasures are pretty wide-spread, so I am able to share and discuss them with lots of people.  But I still need to anticipate the Danits who will make me angry with their Zac-bashing.  

The trick is to avoid to disputable topics and try and stick to things that you have in common.  Maybe I'm just not a debater.  With my conservative Southern friend, I try to stay away from discussing homosexuality and similar topics because we will drive one another crazy.  Save it for a time when you are ready to defend yourself and the things you care about.  I care about Disney Channel.  Pathetic as I may be.  But you need to understand that I get that it is low-culture.  I have further interests.  Swear!  So don't judge fully based off of my so-called guilty pleasures.  Love you.

The New American Heart Throb

I don't know whether or not heartthrob should be one or two words.  I think that one word looks better, but my Rolling Stone poster on my wall of Zac Efron makes it look like two words.  And since that poster with that boy is what I'm talking about, I'll follow its example.  Even though he isn't the newest heartthrob (I still like one) anymore, he is certainly one of, or maybe The biggest.  Not fattest or tallest, but most beloved/famous/beautiful/most talked about hotties in the country.  

I wonder why hottie has always been spelled with an IE.  It could easily be spelled hotty, but no one does that.  

I know that Zac is an obvious topic to discuss, for all of the famous/dreamy/publicized crap I just spewed, but I am a victim to his looks and can't stop looking at pictures or watching videos of him.  My iPod is already fillllled with all of the pictures from his EW photo shoot, from paparazzi of him at the beach, and with that shirtless shot from the trailer for Seventeen Again (in which he makes out with Leslie Mann.  Weird.).  But I decided to see Zac from the beginning, thanks to youtube and I saw the not-yet-hot, gap-toothed boy of yore.

My older sister recently visited the set for the new Fame remake and she talked to one of the stars, Kay Panabaker, who I recently saw on Grey's Anatomy.  I know that I admitted that the show is bad, but I still keep up.  Kay (may I call her that?) told my sister that Zac Efron was her first kiss, back when they were on Summerland together. Seriously, imagine kissing some awkward guy in one of his first roles and he turns out to be The New American Heart Throb (went back to two).  It was not just her first onscreen kiss.  I mean her first kiss.  His first onscreen kiss was with the girl who plays Dinky in Sydney White.  It was in The Derby Stallion, which I have no interest in seeing.  But yeah, I watched their kisses on youtube.  It was cute.  Thank god my first kiss is not searchable on youtube.

Zac is hot.  On seventeen.com (I admit, I read it.  But it's not that weird because my sister writes for it.) there is a slideshow of Zac blooming from cute(ish) kid to crazy sexy dreamboat.  Seriously.  So hot.  So so hot.  But unlike Perez, it doesn't make me like Vanessa any less.

MTVBKA

Hear MTV Awards, thoughts go to Best Kiss, right?  Well, in Tropic Thunder, there is a line in a fake trailer saying "starring Academy Award Winner Kurt Lazarus and MTV Best Kiss Award Winner Toby Maguire."  Is the upside-down spidy kiss the best of all time? It might be, but two other MTV best kisses stand out in my mind to combat it.  Could it be the salavatastic girl on girl action that we see in Cruel Intentions or can it be the sweet, sexy, pre-coitus lovin between real-life loves, Rachy and Ryry, in The Notebook. Truthfully, I bet there are better on-screen kisses out there than any of them.  The Rachy/Ry one works because of the fab acceptance, the SMG/Selma one is obvs, because of the lezlove.  

In my mind, the only true winner is the one of the little superhero, who costars with Australian moviestar, Kurt Lazarus.  Kirsten Dunst and Tobey MaG sort of changed the whole meaning of movie kisses.  They spawned countless imitations (including a supremely sexy one between Seth and Summer, second season of TheOC), and showed how fab an anonymous makeout sesh can be.  I actually have no recollection of any other MTV kisses ever.  Because maybe they are totally unmemorable.

Ah, but TV kisses, that's another story.  Veronica and Logan, first season, after they battle my second grade crush, JTT, ah now that is passion.  And the following few episodes just keep getting better.  Ryan and Marissa on the ferris wheel.  Ryan and Marissa over and over again.  Just youtube best kisses, and you will see for sure, that TV, for some reason, expresses much better kissy passion than movies.  Maybe because movies can show sex, so they don't put as much pressure on the power of some lip action, as non-HBO/Showtime channels do.  Ross and Rachel outside the coffeeshop anyone?  How about Rory and Jess at Suki's wedding?  Okay, some movies can do it (we have all seen Titanic, I get it), but unless you are Zac and Vanessa, or in a cartoon, TV has the category topped.

What's the Big D?

I sort of have so many things that I want to write about.  As the queen of random thoughts, really, countless ideas have gone through my head since my last post.  But, as probably everyone in the universe knows, except the kids that Slumdog is about, the Oscars were last night.  And I'm obvs supposed to discuss, since my first post ever was about the Oscar nominations.  Ohhhh but where to start?

How about with Hugh?  

Speaking of Hugh, my sister pointed out to me how chickflick appropriate Hugh Dancy's name is.  Part Hugh Grant, part Mr. Darcy.  Anyway.

Hugh Jackman is the Hugh I mean.  duh.  I know that they tried to pick a theater performer instead of a comedian this year, but I sort of missed the whole comedian route.  Like, everyone tries to make the entire show, except for the death and lifetime achievements, funny, so shouldn't funny be better with a comedian?  He tried to make every bit on the show into a funny musical.  Like Avenue Q.  Without puppets.  Some of it worked really well, while others made me cringe a little.  Everyone knows that I love Mamma Mia and HSM and Zac and Amanda and Vanessa and a little bit Dominic, but the whole musical montage, choreographed by Baz, was sort of a weird jumpy mess.  I would also like to point out that usually my opinions are generally swayed by reviews or my friends' opinion but I haven't heard any yet, so this opinion is pure-Sandy and subject to change.  The Anne Hathaway/Nixon bit was sort of funny, but they needed to decide whether or not she planned it or was surprised better, because she kept changing her mind.

I don't want to talk about the musical numbers anymore.  Normally the musical numbers are my best part.  But this time, I'm actually getting bored of them.  This from the girl who found Mamma Mia online every day and skipped to the songs.  

I would rather talk about Seth Rogen and James Franco's comedy bit.  Because, as I said, comedians are funnier than Broadway actors.  Ummm it was funny.  But it also made me think, was Seth Rogen in ANYTHING this year?  I know that he was in Zack and Miri but I didn't see it, so it like barely counts.  Okay, I could keep going but I am hungry and have written enough anyway.  I'll come back later to discuss the winners and whatever.  Adios.

13

It is very possible that I was born about 7 years too early.  And that in reality, I should be 13 right now.  Most people think that I was born about 10 or 15 years too late, because of my fondness for 80s teen movies and Degrassi, but I am fairly certain that the HSM, Disneycrazed era was pretty much made for someone such as myself.  I mean, I think that Nick Jonas is cute, there is very little I find funnier than Wizards of Waverly Place, and I can totally relate to 12-year olds.  I am 20 and I still watch not-stop movies and tv about high school.  Granted, I also watch shows about college, but there aren't that many, so generally, it's much more high school.  

In the People's Sexiest Man Alive issue this year, they had a whole section on all of the sexiest 21 year olds.  Perfect age range for me.  And yeah they were totally some of the sexiest men alive (hellooo Zac Efron just keeps getting better) but I still think the prepub Benny (the Jet) Rodriguez is mad hot.  And Leo at any age.  I suppose that the 13-year olds probably don't know who Benny is, so maybe I am a product of my time. But I still wish it wasn't so lame of me to like the Jonas Brothers.