Clueless

The other day, I was reading trivia about Clueless on IMDb and it kept mentioning things that appeared in the trailer that did not appear in the movie.  I was really curious to see any additional dialogue from the movie, since the dialogue that is normally there is so implanted in my mind, so I checked out the trailer on youtube.  

It all started out with Cher's brilliant debate on why the United States should allow the Haitians (accidentally mispronounced by Alicia Silverstone) to stay in the country.  One extra line in the speech about how the chairs at the garden party were mismatched.  It was a really mini line, so I'm okay with them cutting it.  Especially since I have the speech memorized the way that it appeared in the movie.

Then, the trailer cuts to Tai telling Cher and Dionne that they talk like grownups.  Nice transition, but that's where the artistry ends.  

Ugh, a word bubble pops up declaring "Beverly Hills High School."  No 

no, my fair trailer.  We are all well aware that the hip kids from Clueless attend Bronson Alcott High School.  Named after Louisa May Alcott's weirdo father.  

For the rest of the trailer, the cuts are choppy, the music doesn't match the video,

and the lines are sort of different than the way I know them.  For instance, the line "I totally paused," moves the intonation to totally instead of paused and freaks me out. Lines like that keepacomin. New words enter sentences, new scenes show up, bizarro Clueless. Maybe it's good that I was like 6 when this movie came out, so that I didn't have to deal with this crap trailer.

It's not just that some of it is different than the movie. I can handle that.  But after watching some really amazing trailers over the years, and seeing The Holiday, where Cameron Diaz's really annoying

character owns a trailer making company, I expect better.  I mean, word bubbles declaring "it's a jungle out there," have nothing to do with Clueless and also seriously annoy me.  I want everyone to watch the trailer and see if they can count all of the additional things in the trailer that differ from the movie.  I gave you two freebies, so see if you can take it from there.

New Tomboy in Town: The Greekap

I have been raving about Jordan for the past several weeks.  She is pretty, nice, and can hold a conversation with one of the most awkward humans alive (Rusty) and not have an awkward pause.  But then this week, she shows up at KT, chugging beer, playing poker, and emasculating Cappie, Beaver, and the rest of the gang.  Nooo idea where that came from.  She seemed to have a pretty good handle on the whole "being a girl" thing before this episode.  Her hair always looked perfect and she managed to be the perfect girl for Jesse McCartney.  Now, she has three brothers, plays softball, and decorates her room in the drabbest of possible colors.  

Pros and cons of this week?

Prepare yourselves.  FYI, I'm aware that this is similar to the reality index, but it works for them, so why not give it a shot.  

Cons, of course, must go first, so that I have something to look foward to.  

• As I already mentioned, the whole making Jordan a tomboy thing was kind of annoying.
• Casey was weirdly annoying and girlie throughout the whole pledge meeting/Sir Purrsalot giveaway.  I know they were trying to contrast Jordan from the ZBZs, but it was sort of overkill. Plus, I don't like it when I have to get annoyed with Casey because I love her.
• The Dale storyline was also totally pointless.  I don't care if he stays shut in his apartment.  What's the big deal?  It made little sense.
• Oh, speaking of Dale, how did his telling the landlord that he is saving himself for marriage come off as a turn on?  She is older.  No way she is going to date a purity pledger.
• Did anyone else forget that Rusty and Max were friends?  Yeah, random that they included him in Rusty's plotting.  I guess they just wanted to give him something to do this week.
• The idea that Rusty's issue tied into Dale's.  Apparantly he has been spending so much time at the apartment because he is currently avoiding the KT house.  But he was there at the beginning of the episode, invited the brothers all over in the middle, and was back there before the end.  The episode seemed to take place over like a three day span, so tell me, when was this alleged avoidance of the house?
• Biggest qualm of the episode was the case of the missing Rebecca Logan.  The episode seemed incomplete without her.

I think those are all of my issues.  I'm way more excited to talk about my loves.

• I finally realized why I love it when TV shows mention Facebook and pop culture. I realized it the moment Casey called Dobler's their Peach Pit.  It makes me feel like I'm in on some sort of inside joke.  I love it when I understand little things that I never would have caught when I was younger.  Starts with the Peach Pit, goes on with Jordan's softball friends all going to Smith, "if you know what I mean."
• Going along with those little things, Dale just got his 700th friend on Facebook. Not bad Daley.  I totally got you beat though.  Around 1,000 now?  
• I liked the Frannie/Evan thing this week.  I don't totally understand why he is suddenly an emotional money wreck, but I'll go with it.  I liked Frannie's story about her mom's Virginia plantation.  But still, show no sympathy to the Frannie monster!  We will not have a season 1 repeat.
• Although it was fabulous when she said her mother was beautiful, like her. And then Evan called her on it.
• It was so cute when Ashleigh was all afraid of getting hit during dodge ball and when it happened it "wasn't that bad."
• "It's torture to see the girl of your dreams on the arm of some other guy.
• I know I'm forgetting some things, but I can always add them on later.

And OH who saw the preview for next week????  I actually shrieked a little.  

5 Famous People

Last night, on Facebook, I was trying to list 5 famous people whom I have met.  Did I want to seem lame?  Did I want to show off?  Does it matter?  I figured my list could be crazy awesome, because I am known to brag about celebs that I have met.  Freshman year, my friend and I even played a game where we tried to figure out who could see the cooler movies if we could only see movies with the people we have seen in person. She had Elijah Wood on her list and I still won.  

But last night, I couldn't make my list seem legitimately cool.  Most likely because I never actually met Matt Damon.  I suppose screaming his name while walking through his movie set doesn't count.  So instead, on my list, I put Anthony Rapp, Angela Lansbury, Liev Schreiber, Cynthia Nixon, and Dr. Ruth.  All decent choices.  But why isn't my list cooler?  Should I have replaced Liev with Camryn Manheim?  I mean, she has gueststarred on Hannah Montana AND How I Met Your Mother.  Or should have I swapped Dr. Ruth for the girl who plays Mia on Degrassi?  That's sort of a joke question because obvs Dr. Ruth is da bomb.  But Mia is a series reg on one of my fave shows.  Have I met cooler people that I'm blanking on?  Or is my celeb list pathetico?

Jay Baruchel

After I saw Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, I forgot about how much I love Jay Baruchel.  He was just such a convincing toolbag in that movie, that any of his endearing stuff just faded away.  And I had already watched the complete series of Undeclared!  It was sort of a shame, because after that, whenever I watched Knocked Up (which was a lot, since HBO picked it up), I could only see the douchebag.  

Fortunately, I just watched the movie I'm Reed Fish, which was a cute indie romantic comedy starring the precious Jay Baruchel.  It was about a love triangle between him, Alexis Bledel, and Schuyler Fisk (Sissy Spacek's daughter who I know from playing Kristy in the Babysitter's Club movie).  Alexis Bledel was horrible annoying, but Jay was so crazy endearing that I remembered the N&N douche role was just an acting gig.  He totally still can be Steven Karp from Undeclared.  Score one for Jay love!

Guh Reek

Welcome to my friendly neighborhood Greekap, the weekly recap of the incredibly awesome Greek.  So far, my Greekaps have been a little shotty, so I decided to loser it up and take notes during my second viewing of the episode. Here goes nada!

Totally a decent episode.  Not as good as the first, better than the last.  I give it a white gold star.  That is beneath platinum, and right above yellow gold.

First off, I feel the need to mention some of my qualms with the epi.  The Kappa Taus had some lines that seemed completely uncharacteristic of the notoriously riotous fraternity.  It started out pretty mild.  Wade said do do and the boys all laughed, which made total sense.  But then Cappie took it another step further and said "you said doo doo." Unnecesarry.  We caught the doo doo.  We caught the giggle.  You didn't need to point it out.  I laughed anyway.

After the doo doo, the KTs had some more cute banter.  But again, dampered by Beaver's sad story about Scooby.  Cappie explained how the Beaver's last li

ttle brother had to leave because he was a reefer fiend.  Now I know that tv shows have some trouble showing pot unless they are on Showtime or HBO, but The O.C. got through it unscathed.  It just didn't make any sense to me that the Kappa Taus would have such a problem with a pothead.  They all seem like total stoners.  Now I know they say they just drink a lot of beer, but if they were real frat bros, it would be Marijuana Madness.

One more KT issue and then I'll back down.  It goes back to my last point, about how they are known as the crazy party frat.  They are beer guzzling, sex-crazed lunatics. Why are they so angry that Rusty made Jesse McCartney play beer pong?

They made Rusty play last year.  It is normal behavior for a Kappa Tau.  They need to figure out what their boundaries are.

Okay, tirade over.  Now I can talk about the nice things.  Like, it was nice to see Evan back.  He has been a complete tool lately, but it's good to know where it's coming from.  His big bro came to visit.

They sort of looked alike. The brother was cuter, but his cute presence made Evan look cuter than usual. I knew big bro looked familiar, so I imdbed and found out duhhh ex-boyfriend Justin from She's the Man.  I tried to show off my discovery, but Lindsay Fo had apparently known that

for ages. Plus, she knew his real name and several of his acting gigs.  Robert Hoffman. A very normal name.  He was kind of great. He was exactly how Evan's big bro should be.  Plus, he forced Evan and Cappie to hang out.  The show had sort of given up on any hint of warmth between those two characters, and it was cute to see them 

rebond.

Speaking of bonding, at big/little night at the Kappa Tau house, Cappie put Rusty and Jesse into a little light bondage. It was hilario, because every time the cuffs went on, the beers spilled on the pledges heads. Except in Rusty's case.  Because he is the lame active.  So beer spills on his head.  Fab. I did feel bad for him though.  He really likes the precious Jordan and she is fully in friend zone with him.  Even coming to him to help her decide whether Jesse should get a text or an under the door note.

Speaking of JMac, I think it's hilarious that the Kappa Taus actually do call him Andylicious.  Instead of something way cooler.  It's hard to get rid of a nickname if you already started using it.  Poor kid.  Stuck with the worst nickname of all time.  Ah and more speaking of.  Rusty refers to Evan as Bing.  His KT nickname that Egyptian Joe gave him when he was pledging Kappa Tau.  Not referring to Chandler Bing.  I loved that Rusty called him that.

Oh but back to Jordan.  When she is talking to Rusty after class, they have this cute little conversation about art history, in which she imitates Ralph from The Simpsons. And yeah, everyone has watched The Simpsons at some point.  But I have trouble

believing that she perfected her Ralph Wiggims impression. It's just a little anachronistic.  She is also weirdly embarrassed about a random hookup at a frat party. It's not the most embarrassing thing anyone has ever done.  

And what is with Jordan being Casey's little sister?  Yeah, I know that she is the main character and all, but Rebecca is already Casey's little sister.  Can she even have two. The Casey/Rebecca friendship was crazy adorable this episode. They had a couple tense moments, but it all seemed totally natural.  My favorite part was when Rebecca said Fisher was hot and Ashleigh said "touch him and I will cut you even faster than she [Casey] would."  It was adorable.

Other things I liked: 

When Patrick Chambers told Evan to break up with Frannie because she is just like their mom and it is "borderline Oedipal."  

When Rebecca said the first suspect is always the help.

Evan buying Cappie coffee.

Wade blowing the horn to get attention.

All so adorable.  One last problem though is that Ashleigh says Casey never does shots.  I don't buy it.  She is a college girl who spends most of her time in a bar.  She does shots.

Voila!  Covered so much of the episode.  Look for another Greekap next Tuesday!

The boys

A few years ago, back during the first season of Weeds, I wondered why no one ever talked about how cute the kid who played Silas was.  I imdbed him, of course. Hunter Parrish. For a while I just called him Silas.  Maybe because I didn't know his real name. Maybe because no one else did.  

But then last summer he got the lead role in Spring Awakening on Broadway. He also stopped wearing a shirt on Weeds and changed his hair.  And his character dated both Mary Kate and a hot older woman.  I guess with all of those changes, people started to notice him.  I didn't have to call him Silas anymore, unless I was talking to people who aren't huge imdbers.  

A few of my friends saw Spring Awakening over and over again, just so they could keep seeing Hunter sing and strip.  Because he has sort of a Zac Efronish singing voice.  And Zac Efronish look.  Apparently he knows it too, because on an interview with him with Chelsea Handler, he talked about how he originally auditioned for the role of Troy in HSM.  But he skipped one of his auditions for another role.  

It's sort of cool actually.  They both get to have awesome careers, just on separate paths.  Cutting edge TV and risque Broadway star vs. Disney/pop culture sensation/sex symbol/movie musical star.  I never thought I would see them in anything together considering how opposite those tracks were.  But then there they were.

17 Again.  Hunter AND Zac.  The bad boy vs. the good boy/dad/new hottie in school. Hunter had stupid chin hair and a weird neck tattoo.  But he also had some insane makeouts. Much like he always does on Weeds. But this time it was all with Michelle Trachtenberg, originally known for Harriet the Spy, but in the last year, transferred to GG's Georgina Sparks. Zac was just crazy hot.  Like crazy hot. Silas wasn't at his best. I know that was the point, but I guess I'll just have to wait until Weeds starts up again to get my full Hunter dosage.  But nice to see the boys finding a middle ground.

Ice Blue Chocolate

At least I think it's ice blue.  Whatever.  But it's the phone I have.  In fact, it's the phone that my older sister and I both got last June.  Originally I wanted an Orange En-V, because Blair had it on Gossip Girl, but it was a little too chunky, so I moved on to the Chocolate.  Plus, I think Serena might have had a version of the Chocolate.

But it's a good thing I picked this phone, because since I got it, it has appeared in

the most ideal of places.  I first got some big screen glimpses of it in High School Musical 3, in the hands of the lovely Gabriella, who only I like. Because the rest of the world hates her.  But I freaked out and my sister freaked out.

She even created a quiz on Seventeen.com that mentions Gabriella's adorable blue phone.  But it's a little hard to see in the movie, so even though I freaked out when I saw it, I managed to keep a mild cool.

The real freak out came last Saturday night, when the one and only Miley Cyrus appeared for the first time on the big screen in Hannah Montana: The Movie, blue Chocolate in hand.  It got a big screen shot too. Verizon must have paid a butt-load for that product placement.  But I think if I worked for advertisers, product placement is the way to go.  I mean, I almost got the EnV, even though I don't like it, just because the fabulous Blair Waldorf had it.  But at this point, I'm glad I went the Disney Channel way.