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Just When I Was Ready to Cast the Hills Aside

Political Wars on the Hills

As I am sure most of you heard, Heidi Montag of the Hills "endorsed" Senator John McCain for president last week. (In a slightly less embarrassing moment than that, it turns out that Heidi is not even registered to vote. But I am sure that if she were, she would totally vote for Senator McCain.) In a bold move, sure to create a huge rift on the Hills set, Brody Jenner "endorsed" Senator Barack Obama for president today, saying "He's just cool!" Jenner tells E! "I mean, he's young, and I think people would take us more seriously with Iraq and everything." I agree, Brody, we do need a president who will take things more seriously, what with Iraq and everything. No word as to whether Brody is actually a registered voter.

Oh, and BTW, this is my new favorite blog - http://www.justinbobby.com/

Sequels = Awesome x 2

Last night I stumbled onto the magic that is Save the Last Dance 2. I fell asleep before its dramatic conclusion - mistakenly thinking that if it was on MTV last night, it would be one 13 more times this week, but my Tivo can't find it. Anyway, while watching this artistic gem, I was reminded that sequels are often more awesome than the originals. This is definitely true with STLD2, which picks up where STLD ended - with our heroine going off to Juilliard. (Remember she was at the first try out for Julliard when her mom died in the car accident?) Anyway, Julia Stiles was unavailable for this movie so there is a new blonde, who has the same jungle fever, this time for a hip hop loving Julliard drop out guest lecturing at Julliard. (Don't think about that one too much.) So what other movies fit this mold, you may ask? Well, we've already covered the Cutting Edge trilogy and I am hard pressed to not say that CE3 was not the most superior. I've heard say that Step Up 2 was better than Step Up. And Toy Story 2? By far my favorite. The moral of this story - STLD2 totally worth a Netflix queue.

Teri Hatcher - Before He Cheats - Idol Gives Back 2008

This week was the second Idol Gives Back special, which is really no different than any other tele-thon. You know, except that its so much more awesome. There was a lot of greatness but there is one performance I would like Idol Takes Back to take back.
Teri Hatcher and the "Band from TV" performed Carrie Underwood's "Before He Cheats." It wasn't good. And there was so much going on, it was distracting. I kept waiting for Teri Hatcher to stop "singing" and say, just kidding, but she didn't. Like a car accident I was unable to turn away, or fast forward the Tivo, through this performance, but as I watched, I kept discovering more things to stare at - like a Where's Waldo picture where you realize that in the right hand corner there is a monkey stealing one of the balloon seller's balloons and floating into the air to try to reach the bunch of bananas in the tree. But anyway, the "Band from TV" was really from TV. Greg Grunberg on drums, James Denton on guitar, Bachelor Bob on backup vocals. According to wikipedia, many other celebrities claim membership in this band, I only spotted those four, but that was special enough. Enjoy.

What is up with the Hills?

I am not ashamed to admit it, I love The Hills. Yes, the pseudo-reality show on MTV that follows the true like escapades of Lauren Conrad ("LC") and her friends, Audrina and Whitney, plus her nemesises - nemesi? - Heidi and Spencer. I thought last season, though a little predetermined, was pretty good, right down to the idea the Brody Jenner had spread the vicious nasty rumors of Lauren and the great fight scene at Les Deux. But this season, starting in Paris and now back in LA, I just find that the Hills is lacking something. Maybe its because everything has already been talked about in US Weekly. Maybe its because Lauren's non-acting acting is getting quite bad. Maybe its because they've asked Heidi to improve coming up with such stories as - "I'll never forget when Spencer and I were here for breakfast and he said 'I'm going to get the Muscle Breakfast' and I said why because you have no muscles and he said 'Shut up.' It was so funny." It early in the season, tonight is LC's birthday so maybe something exciting will happen. Or maybe the promise that Kristen might stop by the show will come true. Anything to save the dull dull dullness that has become the Hills. Even last week's declaration from Whitney's new boss - "You have to wear black. Everyone here wears black," didn't hold my interest. Hills, I expect better.

American Soldier

When I started this blog I promised myself that it would not become a place to voice my feelings about my job or my position as an Army wife or my husband's role as an IRR member. So it won't. But I just want to say, I love Toby Keith. I love his song "American Soldier" and I wish more people had his dedication to the USO and the service. Him and LT Dan. They love Soldiers. And they rock. Oh, and Denzel Washington. He loves Soldiers too. Good for him. Boo Jesse Bradford.