It's hard to pick a category for this one. Earlier today, I watched Friday's episode of Cold Pizza which included an interview of a Canadian woman going by Lucie Tyc, a former Raptor's cheerleader whose appearance the show teased earlier in the week without explaining why. As this article chronicles, she was fired from the Raptor's dance squad for pictures she claims were taken a couple of years earlier, before joining the troupe, that now appear on this site.
More thoughts on this story if time allows and ideas warrant, but a few things.
Why did Cold Pizza have her on the show? I imagine for purely titillating purposes - and I'll go into why I find this funny later.
She claims that she only got paid a couple of thousand for the photos/video and hasn't received a dime since. If this is true, what a horrible deal that appears to be. I guess the supply must be pretty unlimited, but it seems like an unfair deal.
4.0 on the MovieLens scale
Since so many partial births of reviews litter the drafts of this blog, here are some quick and dirty thoughts about Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
I went in thinking it would be a 4.5 or 5, left deciding between a 3.5 and 4 (knowingly trying to correct for a tendency to give high ratings). Dunst's trailer promised scenes of dancing in her underwear did bump it up.
I'm no expert on scoring a film, but the music really seemed to distract me from the story. Some parts that were designed for introspection were made to just seem slow with the constant sounds of a piano in a background.
Acting kudos all around. Best acting I've seen by Winslet. At times you forget that is Jim Carrey on the screen which is hard to do. I never could separate Dunst from her character, but who would want to? Great job in a small role for David Cross.
Very good dialogue. Some great editing and movement between shots. Moments of humor. The flow while purposely jagged at times could have been better.
When I heard from the kissaboo founder yesterday that Kentucky had gone down like pansies in the second round (and yes maggette, i see the irony here but my team was not the overall one), I selfishly only thought how this affected me and my failed brackets, but I didn't realize how it affected the co-founder.
Kentucky as the one seed gave hope to one and all that there would be Ashley Judd sightings for a possible SIX games. All the bouncing and horrible acting you could want. However, the world was not so lucky when Ashley was stolen from them in the second round.
for more wittisms on the topic, check out:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=thinking/040322/kentucky
This looks to start a series of rant postings. I read in today's Salon's Fix, realize some of you can't view this link but haven't found the story elsewhere, some odd comments attributed to Mark Burnett, creator of Survivor, in a magazine called "Produced By".
Somehow Mark spouted his views on "mind control" - whether this was in reference to the participants on the show or the audience at home is anyone's guess - and credited the Catholic Church with some of the best such techniques in the world due to convincing its followers that one must speak through the priest to God and the apparent intimidation into unison created by dim lighting and candles. He then goes on to say Hitler used similar techniques.
Now I do not know how Burnett has gained his authoritative knowledge of Catholicism, but any Catholic can inform him that we do not believe that God only listens to priests. There is this thing called prayingthat one can do completely independently with no priest in sight. Also the purpose of the "dim" lighting and candles is to facilitate an atmosphere of respect and reverence, not fear and intimidation. Plus, while I am no expert on the Nazi era, I distinctly remember footage of Hitler speaking outside during the day in the bright sun and not in the middle of the night surrounding people with torches.
The only reason that I mention his views here is to help clear any misconceptions that people apparently must have of the Catholic religion. As a person who has watched every episode of Survivor, I still plan to watch Survivor since I can separate his personal views from the messages and entertainment I derive from the show.
I discovered this tonight, but apparently the USA network will be showing the first 10 minutes of Dawn of the Dead sometime during Final Destination at 8 pm on the 15th. While the remake of Texas Chainsaw only managed to be more gruesome and less psychological than the original, this "new" vision of what is considered a horror classic appears to be at least "Scary As Hell" (which 28 Days Later fell short of) even if it lacks the social commentary on capitalism that some saw in the original.
P.S. apparently the box on Blair Witch Project also claims it to be "Scary as Hell", how often is this phrase used?
The tradition continues as Radio Edit will once again be participating in ESPN's Tournament Challenge (ESPN needs the link). If you are reading this, then you are most likely in the group, however if you are not, feel free to comment for the password. My first try at picks have already been submitted, and while I would love to document my significant insight here, it will have to wait until the brackets are final. However, here are a few quick remarks.
I'm a homer for two teams in the tournament, so hopefully this will be the year it pays off. When the brackets came out and the predictions held true that Charlotte could play St. Joseph in the second round, I literally screamed for joy. I'm actually more worried about Texas Tech than St. Joe's, but Knight's recent tournament resume has been less than impressive. Let's see how Jameer Nelson does against a Demon!
I'm quite shocked that Duke and North Carolina are in the same region. If it's not an unwritten rule, than they should write it down that the two should never be in the same side of the bracket and thereby taking away the possibility for the greatest final of all-time.
It looks like a trip down memory lane for Duke.
2nd round: Seton Hall (lost in '89 final four) or Arizona (beat for '01 National Championship)
Sweet Sixteen: Cincinatti (blemish of '99 regular season) or Illinois (played alot recently)
Elite Eight: North Carolina / Texas (beat like a drum on a netural court earlier this year) / Louisville (lost '86 championship) - though I don't think any of the 3 will make it
Final Four: UConn (lost '99 Championship) - Good job selection committe of putting the two best teams in the same side of the bracket!
Championship: Kentucky (on the positive side, Lattener in the regional final, on the negative side the 1998 regional final collapse)
Possibility of UConn vs. NC State in the Sweet Sixteen, which was one of the best games of the 2002 tournament.
Btw, if there is a better resource let me know, but this person has a collection of the brackets since '97 (look at the bottom for the other years).
For final four results, I'll save you a few clicks and give you the direct link.
Sounds of silence recently on the site, but I will break it with this mention of technology in action. As a person passively fascinated with the rise of camera's on cell phones (fascinated enough to spend a few bucks to buy an attachment for my phone that I've used 5 times), it dawned on me that the most compelling reason for this invention would be to send the pictures to a collaborative website where users could rate these entries. No need to build it - it already exists: moblog
I have not actually registered for the site, so I'm no expert on its functionality. One can apparently rate these pictures, but I am unsure for what purpose since ratings appear to be my "most viewed". The plan for my site would be to suggest new pictures that one might like based on personal preferences, but perhaps everyone likes the same picture.
Btw, looking at the Most Viewed Page there are no surprises to what photos are most popular.
For friends of the site, here is a direct link to Linda Tran's page.
As always, this occurence encourages me to implement my own ideas before somebody else beats me to it. If anyone has any interesting ideas for uses of cell cameras, let me know.
I was all set today to write my critique of the GT/Dook game last night, and believe me, I had alot of joy thinking about it, but instead, I give you, the Avid Kissaboo Reader, a choice. Hear me rant about Dook for the rest of the season (so that's saturday, ACC tourney, and NCAA tourney - and let's face it, most of the summer too) OR you can shut me up by sponsoring me on the Revlon 5K (a Cancer walk to benefit Women's Cancer Research). the choice is yours, dookies, the choice is yours...