Good Bloggie -- Now With Vigor!

Upon learning that my blog is important to at least 4-7 people on a semi-regular basis (when they're not too busy studying or drinking or petting their dog or washing ther car or washing their dog or petting their car) my zeal for blogging has been renewed! YAAAY!

Eh, it's not that I stopped liking to blog, it's just that I have become the world's most boring person. I'm scouring dollar stores for a trophy of a girl laying in a prone position on a couch to buy for myself. Alas, dollar stores only have ribbons and not trophies, so I bought "World's Best Dad." I felt it was fitting.

One of my most devoted readers, Heather, positively insisted that I include this link in my next post. Apparently, she spends a lot of time surfing Ebay for odd auctions and came across this:
http://cgi.ebay.com/REAL-WITCHES-BROOM-MUST-SEE-BUY-IT-FLY-IT-MISTEREMAN_W0QQitemZ290031806229QQihZ019QQcategoryZ1469QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Yet another example of someone with far more time than me.


So I've been watching Scrubs a lot lately. It is on (no joke) four times a day, most of which I record on my DVR and chuckle heartily to. I decided that, as much as a lot of people dislike him, I like-a-the Zach Braff. David sent me an article from TV Guide that had an interesting Arrested Development tidbit in it that would be so cool to see:
Ausiello: What's this I hear about David Cross coming on as his Arrested Development character?
Braff: That's what I'm trying to broker. I'm a huge fan of his and so is Bill, and our idea was that he would play Tobias in an episode. Obviously, we have to get that cleared by a lot of people, like [Arrested creator] Mitch [Hurwitz] and Fox, but that was my pitch. David wants to do it.
Ausiello: Is it your goal to get the entire Arrested Development cast on Scrubs?
Braff: [Laughs] Yeah, one by one. I was such a fan.
http://community.tvguide.com//thread.jspa?threadID=800005418
I try to get my grubby paws on anything AD, so I would be really excited to see that. Probably in fucking 2009. Because that's how it works.

There is absoloutely no way I can describe this clip from YouTube. Just watch, it's awesome.



While prodding at my brain and trying to come up with what else to write about, my roomate asks me, "So, do a lot of people read your blog?"
Fuck. Fuck fuck fuck.

Anyways, on to music news.

There is -- brace yourselves, this is going to be good-- a band from Scotland named :(. No joke... :(! Good god, that is probably the coolest thing ever. What happens when an audience wants an encore? "We want...colon half-parentheses! We want.... sad-faced-emoticon! Ach! "

So Rolling Stone used Fergie's new album's first week numbers as their target in an entry on their website:
"Honestly, we don't understand why it didn't chart higher, because the record is alarmingly un-shitty and the woman and her tweed shorts are everywhere. Is it the pee thing, the meth thing or the face thing?"
Lol. The face thing. I agree, hey Fergie -- who said it was okay for you to pretend to be black?! Whatever happened to Wild Orchid?! What about your white girl dreams of tapioca pudding and cardigan sweaters?! Coincidentally, Rolling Stone's blog removed the "face" part of the entry a few hours after a comment section melee ensued, and removed the entire post a day later. Hmm.
And yes, Mark, I did download "Fergalicious" and yes, Mark, I like it. Too bad they couldn't make it stretch for 54 minutes longer. Oooh. Too much?

Chalk one up for Fergie though, because the advance reviews of the new Killers album are terrible. Apparently no one really enjoys the thought of Brandon Flowers in a bolero and eyeliner. I guess Rolling Stone gave it like, 2 stars and the rest of the reviews describe it as "overreaching" and "overthought". Sad... I had really high hopes. I guess I'll have to hear it for myself on October 3rd.

Wow, I had nearly forgotten about "Yours to Keep" by Teddybears Stockholm. It was a song I was obsessed with around christmas this year and took me weeks to find a good version. Sadly, it was iTunes' download of the week a few weeks ago, although my saving grace was that it was a really, really terrible version. There isn't a good version on YouTube so download it -- "Yours to Keep" featuring Paola. You won't regret it. It's awesome.

Did anyone else hear that Clay Aiken's new album was expected to outsell J.T.'s Futuresex/Lovesounds?! The legions of Clay fans must be literally buying these things en masse in order to get those kind of numbers. But.... why?!

Two more things before I go, because this has turned into a fairly large post and I wouldn't expect your 21st century attention spans to make it this far, but I read something the other day on The Plain White Tees. I saw them open for Yellowcard in 2003 at the Aggie and they were terrible. Well my friend Matt, whose friend works for the recording studio in Chicago, told me that TPWTs actually brought in studio musicians when they recorded their latest album. That's ridiculous. If you can't play your own shitty music, don't just get someone else to do it! Goodness.

And! Have you heard ot Lily Allen? She's the british singer who is (I think) fairly popular in the U.K. She has this simple, happy, upbeat, dancey, reggae, poppy vibe that you will totally dig. Here are two videos.

Mark = Awesome

"I've recently became enamored with blogs. I used to think were a ridiculous waste of time, but then came upon a blog that completely changed my thinking. Her blog is one part celebrity gossip, healthy doses of music and movies, random hilarious things from the net, then toss in some of her personal life and you've got Good Bloggie.
I read every single word of good bloggie, and check for new posts a lot more than I'd actually like to admit. (Every time she celebrates higher numbers on the hit counter I sheepishly want to say "hey! Wow, good for you!") It's so much fun, very well written, super entertaining. Go read it, you'll like it."

I think this is the part where I don't stop grinning. Mark, you made my day. :)