Is This Thing On?
Hey everyone, I have been crazy busy lately, sorry for the lack of updates. Did you know that Jen and I have been looking to buy a house? That requires a bit of legwork, ya know?
Anyway, just thought I would update you on a couple things that I have been watching.
This movie wasn’t really very good. It wasn’t totally awful, but it was weird and somewhat self-important. It was recommended to me by Netflix because I liked Donnie Darko. I can see why it was recommended, but stay away even if you did enjoy Double D. I still don’t totally get it, but the fact that I don’t really care means that the movie probably wasn’t very good.
This is a PG kids movie about some superhero parents (Kurt Russell and Kelly Preston) and their son, Will, who is coming into his own and starting at a superhero high school. Yeah. It is a kids movie. It is one part X-men, one part The Incredibles, and one part Camp Kukamonga (made for TV movie with a stellar before they were stars cast). It definitely isn’t as good as The Incredibles or anything like that, but it was fun and just what I needed on Sunday night.
Finally, I probably won’t watch it tonight, but I will be Tivo’ing the only episode of American Idol that I watch every year. That’s right. The American Idol Rejects Edition Shows. You might remember that I wrote an article a while ago about a past year’s reject edition.
Oh, and I also am looking forward to watching Love Monkey. I liked the other show that that dude was on, Ed. Although it got old. Just not enough story lines to carry it on forever. Anyway, it should be interesting to see what happens with this show. It got me to thinking about a theory that I haven’t really thought through all the way yet, but I will give it to you anyway.
Of all the successful TV shows that you can remember, how many of them had creative names? How many were boring titles and successful.
Cheers
Seinfeld
Lost
ER
The Simpsons
The Brady Bunch
LA Law
Dallas
How many shows that caught on were given a shortened name, and/or nickname?
90210
Melrose
Malcolm
Raymond
Anyway, I am not sure what this says for Love Monkey, but I hate the name even though I want to see the show.
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i was thinking of legally changing my name to Love Monkey Latanich. The only setback is people would call me love.
I totally forgot about the Love Monkey show…I dug Ed while it was on, and the chick in it is from one of the greatest HBO shows of all time “Mind of the Married Man”…I’ll set myself a reminder for next week…or maybe catch a very special encore presentation as networks are inclined to do with new shows.