I wish everyone woud stop comparing heroes to the 4400. it's a different mythos people. that's like saying the wire is the same as law and order. butitsnot.
What TV show(s) will you be watching this season? Why?
Submitted by ducnly.vox.com.
From what i can remember off the top of my dome:
Monday: Prison Break, Heroes, Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip
Tuesday: Gilmore Girls, possibly Friday Night Lights
Wed: Lost, Biggest Loser and/or America's Next Top Model
Thursday: My Name is Earl, The Office, The Ultimate Fighter (When new season premires)
Friday: Battlestar Galactica, Best Week Ever
PS: Do we have to wait until next year for another season of Project Runway? I also got into it very recently, and discovered it as the best reality show on TV, and since Heidi Klum got knocked up again, do we have to wait even longer?
Show us someone who inspires you.
What's your motto?
they're not so much mottos, as lyrics (and boy do i feel like a 15 year old again) from Andrew W.K. whose messages extend more than just the, "party hard, party hard, party hard" gimmick. he speaks a message of positivity and never giving up. i would have to say that the lyric that i can identify most as a motto would have to be more his sophmore album, "the wolf" on the track, "totally stupid".
Would you give up all you want
To keep the things you got
To keep the things you gotAnd would you give up all you got
To get the things you want
To get the things you wantAll the things we want are here
We have to face our fear
We have to face our fear.When we look into the future
To the place we haven't gone
See what we haven't done
We have known it all alongIf we wait until tomorrow
Will tomorrow ever come?
This is where we're coming from
And we're not the only onesWhen we find ourselves in trouble
We can find outselves a way
You can find a place to stay
And the place is always safeIf you have a heart that's in pain
Don't be afraid
You're not to blame
There's a better world inside of us
Where we always thought it was
You don't need to hide
You can open up your eyesAnd you'll discover
That there is another, world.
it's pretty self-explanatory, no?
i am in the process of rebranding my show commercial free paolo in preparation for our move from uth-tv to podshow. and the first thing on my list is an actual theme song (we never had a real opening sequence, we just used something my friend mandel whipped for the pilot back in january). it excites me greatly to present to you, the vox community and whoever reads this, the rough draft of the theme song for commercial free paolo:
As awkward as a thanksgiving dinner at those relatives you don’t really wanna see, but have to, fisticuffs, pregnant chicks, and Sally Hemmings and radical dancing, we’re not sure if it’s really about anything, but we know for sure that:
We wanna be COMMERCIAL FREE!
COMMERCIAL FREE!
COMMERCIAL FREE!
COMMERCIAL FREE PAOLO!
please take note that i have no experience in songwriting or any sort of music-theory writing whatever. but i think it serves it's purpose.
it also excites me to possibly work with my friend jeffrey's sister's band, whom you may have heard of in the local music scene, two seconds. hearing their song, steadfast kickdrum (which i am featuring here) was the reason i wanted to work with them, as i think their style can fit the lyrics of the song. or something. or whatever.
it goes deep, majestic 12, the top levels of our government, sumner redstone. a dash of da vinci code, pinch of x-files, you're starting to get the idea.
it's funny, when you alienate half the people you know, and slash your buddy list by about 80 percent, you have no right to whine about why nobody im's you, or wonder why nobody calls you.
this entry was supposed to be longer, but my writer self-consciousness kicked me in the balls.
What was the last game you played?
being a former computer games/world war 2 nerd, i jumped at the chance to play the new "enhanced" demo of Company of Heroes, from Canadian developers Relic who also brought us the classics Homeworlds 1 and 2, and Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War.
Company of Heroes is yet another world war 2 themed game, but don't hold that against it. from what i can tell, it is a departure from usual RTS experience of amassing a giant economy and spamming units (OMGWTFBBQ NO ZERG RUSH 10 MINUTES KEKEKEKEKE) and pwning your opponent.
Company of Heroes has an emphasis on tactics, such as using cover and outflanking your enemies, one example being having two sqauds of allied rifleman, one draws the fire of a german mg-42, where the other squad sneaks around to the side, outside the mg's line of fire and throws a grenade, effectively killing the mg-crew. squad level tactics like that, to a degree.
and yeah. i absolutely fucking suck at the game. getten beat by easy AI skirmish. i never was a great gamer to begin with.
i'm also playing the most dangerous game of all, love of course.
tonight is the season 4 premiere of nip/tuck and i honestly don't know how i feel about that. season 3 was definitely in shark jumping terrority what with the trans-sexual/white power storyline (akin to the probie homosexual storyline on this season's rescue me), and the carver, and then the carver reveal.
And now, all that season 4 can seem to offer me are guest stars! guest stars! guest stars! guest stars that play gay people, guest stars who want amazing procedures done on them, guest stars who are addicted to sex!
nip/tuck has made no excuse in protraying seedy, sordid, trashy charecters and storylines, but redeemed itself with heavy charecter driven plotlines and an aesthetic so slick (crisp suits, big sunglasses, and dance music to disgusting scenes), it makes all the negatives things i said disappear.
does it happen where style one-ups substance and the resulting trainwreck is a beatiful disaster set to a goldfrapp track? not that i'm hoping that it will, but i'm expecting it to.
What's your favorite song to sing karaoke-style? If you don't have one, why not?
I think the question is more, what don't not I don't like not to karaoke to? As a Filipino i feel that the activity is in my blood, my heritage. and with that heritage, one of my absolute favorite karaoke songs is the seminal Filipino wedding song, Bizarre Love Triangle by New Order, one of my absolute favorite bands ever.
But mostly, anything i can eek a performance out of, that's the thrill for me mostly.have the audience react to puesdo-seduction:
faux-rock destruction swagger:
lack of shame:
these were all taken at my last giant karaoke throw-down circa 2004, at my 18th birthday party, at san francisco's japantown's do-rei-mei. funny this post is containing pictures from my birthday, when today (sept 4) is also my birthday. which is also the day the majority of america found out about steve irwin's death.
real life shout out to the CFP (commercial free paolo) and my podcast (fun with manic depression) this had me floating on air, and took the sting out of being alone.
Commercial Free Paolo. His show is Fun with Manic Depression. Ths guy is a comic genius. He is going to be more bizzare over time, but I doubt he can be funnier than now. We're going to do some crazy stuff with this guy. Dig him here:
http://www.podshow.com/listeners/?listener=paolo
http://www.podshow.com/listeners/?mode=detail&post_id=1470
in case nobody believes me.
