Okay, I am in love with Dawn French, and simultaneously very embarassed that I haven't seen any French and Saunders until approximately this moment. It's very silly but some of it is SO funny, and unlike Fry and Laurie it feels a bit new, not like something I've entirely seen before.
And: it's strange. I'm a bit of a fan of Wallace Langham. Mostly, I think his voice is really lovely. (Plus his face has a nice androgynous ring to it, sadly unexplored in all his work I've seen.) But I'm not at all into CSI, so when I clicked on one of those music video tributes it was largely as a joke. Imagine my surprise when I dug the song by Girls Aloud, a group I'd only heard of. Again, it's silly and it's British, but damn is it fucking catchy as hell. I feel like I haven't heard a legitimately catchy song in ages. Anyway, enjoy:
So last night I watched an extraordinarily sexy scene in an an amazing episode of my favorite tv series. I recommend whatever you've got time for. To watch the series, start here. To see the episode watch Part One, Part Two, then the video below. The scene, meanwhile, starts on the video below at 3:12 and ends at 5:00. More heavy petting at 7:58.
I don't want to spoil anything or confuse anyone. If you like context, you should definitely watch the whole episode, which is amazing. If you watch the show, even better. This is such a perfect denouement for both characters.
Anyway, it's hotter than anything in Brokeback. And Scott Thompson? Fucking spectacular.
Fun news! I've been invited to write for the blog of Film Freak Central. Check out my first post here. It's an analysis of the video for Britney Spears's "Womanizer," the joke Sarah Silverman made at the VMAs that got her into trouble, and how those two events integrate themselves with our ideas of female agency. Also, why the concept of female agency would ever be hard to grasp in the first place.
Is the joke about acting methods? Does Kevin's character end up having an affair because he's just that terrible at substitution? How obscure. Of course, what would be really obscure is if Kevin wrote this entire sketch as an elaborate comment on his own acting ability, which he tends to denigrate whenever he is interviewed.
The thing is, I really hope this sketch is about acting. Otherwise it's about the senseless, gross stupidity of human sexuality. I hope it's not that. I doubt it. I don't think even the Kids in the Hall are that Canadian.
Here are some things which have recently made me laugh.
This anecdote: The story went on to describe Emanuel indulging for a moment in some recreation--on the bike path in Washington's Rock Creek Park, shirtless and in tight shorts, shouting "left!" as he zipped past "hapless yuppies and their children... Emanuel rides as if he's being chased by the headless horseman."
YOU HAVE TO WATCH THIS. It is Barack Obama delivering a roast to Rahm Emanuel, in 2005. It is the motherfucking funniest thing ever. The jokes are AMAZING. I am not joking.
"Has he ever flashed that little stubby thing at you? That's appalling." LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
RIP. May I just say, I have never not seen a written piece where the last line needed more badly to be switched with the first. Shame on the editor for prizing tabloid trivia over the man's actual accomplishments. Surely, he deserved better.
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