love/hate

So I just saw Iron Man and at the end of the movie, i found myself disturbed by this new trend in movies -- actresses i hate making themselves likable. It first started with Juno. Jennifer Garner, who i previously hated (for some unknown reason, honestly, i have no idea why i don't like her, i just know that i don't) i found myself liking. she played that part perfectly. Now with Iron Man, i found myself liking the once detestable Gwyneth Paltrow. I couldn't imagine another actress playing the role of Pepper Potts or playing it better. I think she did everything right in that movie. Which is really hard to do, seeing as it's a movie based on a comic book and it's really easy to play your part sorta gimmicky. This really makes me angry, because i previously found her utterly deplorable. Now i'm like, hmmmph, she's not that bad. Just when you think you know somebody, and know that you hate them, they make you like them. it's quite frustrating.

On the flip side, I just finished watching SNL this morning. I don't know why I thought Usher was sorta kewl before, but now i think he's soooo lame. He totally went from cool to tool in my book. Everything about the first song - the sound, his dance moves, everything was a total rip-off of Jamiroquai. Usher is the new black Jamiroquai. And i don't know why i thought he wasn't so full of himself before. if it wasn't evident before, it totally is now. I was blind, but know i see. Maybe all of his stupid dance moves, his choice of clothes (which you soooo know he thinks he's so cutting edge and slick and spends hours putting together his wardrobe) his little hand and leg gestures, and everything else about him wouldn't have come off as so atrocious if the song was good. Or even half-way decent. He could have gotten away with it if he had sung "Yeah!" or "Burn" but not with his new song. Made me want to kill myself after watching a minute of it. I totally FF'ed it to Weekend Update.

On a high note for SNL though, in one sketch they managed to both make shout-outs/jokes about Anna Nicole Smith and Aaliyah. Unfortunately, the sketch wasn't that funny (the two A-holes thing is getting kinda old) but those two jokes made for a great episode!

ride it hard

I'm trying to remember the train of thought here.....so at lunch this week, we were talking about American Idol, and someone was talking about Syesha, and then someone else mentioned about how she sang a Whitney Houston song, to which i broached the topic about how apparently Whitney just gave a concert in England this week and the word on the street was that apparently "the old Whitney was back." Then i started talking about how i liked the new Whitney - the one all cracked out and who was acting as ambassador to Israel or something. Then i mentioned how she's riding the white horse. To which everyone at the table thought was funny. but then it sparked a question about what the white horse pertains to -- crack or heroin. So after lunch, i scoured the internet for the answer, to which the answer was heroin. So i e-mailed everyone about it, which led to more crazy e-mails that are probably not allowed in the workplace. We started talking about "Chasing the Dragon" which is burning the heroin and inhaling the smoke. and then someone thought riding the white horse (or pony if you prefer) was about a girl having her period. someone responded back that, no, that's riding the cotton pony. That person also thought that riding the white pony meant that the girl was in reverse cowboy position. Crazy work e-mails. I don't know why people have to sully e-mail conversations. We were having a nice clean simple conversation about doing drugs, and then somebody had to turn it all sexual. i shake my head to that....