Lil Bit o Greek

The title has nothing to do with what I'm about to write, except that I have been thinking about that since I started writing my Greekaps.  

I only finished the episode a few seconds ago.  I haven't even gotten to scenes for next week yet.  But I wanted to start immediately because they made one of my favorite jokes yet.  

Here it goes:

Rusty: I kissed Jordan.

Cappie: Who? Michael Jordan?  Jordan Knight?  Jordan Catalano.  Don't tell me that you kissed Andy's Jordan.

Rusty: I wish that I kissed Michael Jordan.  No it was Andy's Jordan.

I'll put up the rest of the Greekap tomorrow.  I just couldn't hold in my joy over that exchange for another second.  Especially because I wish I kissed Jordan Catalano.

Four Tabs

I love that browsers have tabs these days.  It used to be so annoying to minimize a page every time I wanted to see another.  Now I can just "command T" and I got my new page up.  

Right now I have four pages up.  One is to write this blog entry, one has season 3, episode 14 of Buffy on Hulu, one is Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, also on Hulu, and one is the latest episode of Party Down.  Three different shows up at the same time. 

Why would I do that?  Why couldn't I just pick one and stick to it?  It's not like the shows don't entertain me.  I really like them all, but my attention span just isn't loving the idea of 44 minutes of the same.  I guess it's good that I opted out of watching a movie.

The problem with Netflix is that if I leave it paused for too long, the player shuts off. So I have to make sure that I flip back to Party Down more often than I flip to the others.  But I don't always want to flip to that.  I like to see where my currently distracted brain wants to go.  Does it want the wise-cracking, uber violent high schoolers?  Or would it prefer to watch the adorably evil Neil Patrick Harris sing a duet with the obstetrician from Waitress (Nathan Fillion, I know his name, but I'd rather project the imagery of NPH singing with the OB)?  Alas, I keep returning to Starz newest project, directed by Kevin Arnold.  Kevin Arnold is fictional.  Sorry.  Fred Savage.  I still prefer Ben, because Boy Meets World is more my generation than The Wonder Years.  But I think Fred was cuter, plus he was in The Princess Bride.  I don't think I have ever seen Ben in ANYTHING else.  But I still prefer him.  And right now the brain prefers Buffy, but I have to hit Party Down anyway.  Later.

I'm Totally Wigging

For the past week, I have been watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer.  The show, not the awesomely bad 80s teen movie.  That's actually from the early 90s.  I am watching the second season finale right now, and having a minor moment of panic about what will happen next.  Willow just came out of a coma, Xander has a broken arm, and Cordelia just went to the library to get the tools to help Willow curse Angel.  Plus Spike is working with Buffy.  Just wanted to say that I loved him from the start.  And Buffy's mom just threw her out of the house when she left to go save Giles.  Gah totally freaking out.

Also, I'll write about Netflix next time, Brezel.

The Wedding Greekap

Rebecca kissed a girl and started thinking that she might want to swing the other way. That was a twist I didn't see coming, but I thought it worked.  There is no guy that ever really made her happy and she seemed to be really into the new girl.  That Cappie is into also.  I think they are going to keep going with that angle, because it's kind of cool. Lesbian Rebecca is a character that I could enjoy. 

Max totally freaked me out though.  The proposal seemed imminent.  I have no idea why he would want to lavalier Casey, since he isn't Greek.  I mean he isn't in the Greek system.  He was Greek in Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.  Like, when Evan lavaliered Casey, they had a whole dramatic ceremony with all of Omega Chi present.  And then he gave Casey his house letters.  Max just gave Casey the ZBZ letters.  I totally don't get it. How did he even get those letters?  I also don't get why the ZBZ girls and Frannie weren't more freaked out about the Max turning down a full scholarship at his dream school for Casey.  Ashleigh was freaked out, and that's maybe why I love her. But she was annoying this week.

Rusty was actually cute this week, but Jordan keeps getting worse and worse.  She just kept leading Rusty on, while he tried to stay cool about it.  She asked him to be her date to a wedding, kissed him on the cheek, gave him a lean in, before running away, and then got even worse.  She made some lame line about how she decided whether or not eternal happiness in heaven is worth temporary bliss on Earth.  And proceded to kiss Rusty.  And then run away again.  Um, I thought she decided whether or not it was worth the risk.  She needs to make up her mind and stop destroying Rusty in the process.  It's not like she even calls Jesse McCartney her boyfriend.  She just calls him "the Kappa Tau Pledge I'm Dating."  So it can't reeeally be cheating.  Rusty would probably be the only one in the wrong had he put the moves on Jordan, but he didn't. She kissed him and now I'm mad.  

I think I'm just mad because I was frustrated with the episode.  Jordan was dumb.  And I hate when Dale isn't around because he mixes things up.  And I am anxiously awaiting a new Calvin storyline, because he hasn't had much to do this season.  I think I need to write more posts other than just the Greekaps.  I want to write about Taylor Swift's new music videos because they are awesome and I want to talk about how mad I am that my sister has free passes to the Eric Hutchinson concert on Thursday and isn't taking me.  All in due time.  Until next time!

Uneducated

A few nights ago, I was hanging out with my friend and her boyfriend, just sitting around, showing off my intensive knowledge of 90s music and watching youtube clips, when something shocking happened.  I mentioned something about Seth Rogen in conversation and my friend's boyfriend, Tim, had no idea who I was talking about. 

At first, I presumed he was joking.  I mean, come on, everyone knows who Seth Rogen is.  But after he kept up the "I Don't Know Who Seth Rogen is" jig, I pushed him, to show him that of course he knows who Seth Rogen is.  Come on, he was in Knocked Up and The 40-Year Old Virgin, and Superbad, and all of the most popular comedies of the past 3 years.  How could anyone not know my dear Seth?  Let alone a 23-year old college boy with a decent sense of humor.  

Tim continued testing my limits by admitting to me that he had never seen The 40-Year Old Virgin OR Superbad.  I actually still can't believe it.  I mean, I saw them both in theaters multiple times and own the dvds.  What's worse, Tim googled Seth and didn't even recognize him from pictures.

I got even more aggravated when Girl I Don't Like That My Friends Force Me To Hang Out With tried to show Tim who Seth was by saying that his last movie was Pineapple Express.  Ugh, I'm still annoyed about it.  Come on, Seth had half of the title role in Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Observe and Report JUST came out, and he lent his voice to Monsters vs. Aliens.  Seth is everywhere.  He has clearly been in a movie since last summer.  

I clearly can't expect everyone I talk to to see every worthy movie, I mean, I haven't even seen Casablanca, but missing Seth Rogen?  That's like missing a major cornerstone of this generation.  I finally watched the entirety of The Office because I was tired of missing out.  Apatow is now.  Become a part of it.

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.