Ananas

Just a heads up, 2 episodes tonight. Looks like they're looking to burn the episodes off as quickly as possible? What are they going to substitute, leftover Method and Red episodes? Fucking dolts.

Best moment was the Season 4 finale of Angel, when Lillah handed Wolfram and Hart over to the gang. The whole "you do evil better than we do" was the ultimate insult". As for Buffy, I'd say the end of the episode in which Spike found out he could still use violence against other demons. The way he was suddenly more excited about fighting demons than Buffy was hilarious.

This really sucks. How did a show like "North Shore", which did similar numbers and was only half as good make it to the fall schedule, while a gem like this bite the dust so quickly? I guess this means we won't even get to see the episode with Amber Benson until the DVD release.

Ugh, can't they plant weapons on Knight already? He's so irrelevant at this point.

1. AC/DC 2. Metallica 3. Queen 4. Rush 5. The Guess Who 6. Rage Against the Machine 7. Journey 8. Matthew Good Band 9. Our Lady Peace (4 fantastic albums, so I can forgive Gravity) 10. Oasis Only had to change 2 bands from the first list. EDIT: Left the Beatles on accidentally.

My favorite Lajon/Sevendust song remains "Angel's Son", but this song is a worthy single. I do second the hope that the whole album isn't like this, though.

All-Time: 1. Firefly 2. Angel 3. Scubs 4. Late Night with Conan O'Brien 5. The Black Adder 6. Cosby (Oh yes, I mean the second one) 7. The Drew Carey Show (I've chosen to ignore the seasons which came after Christa Miller left) 8. The Simpsons 9. Buffy the Vampire Slayer 10. The Office (UK Version) Current: 1. Scrubs 2. 24 3. Late Night with Conan O'Brien 4. Lost 5. Veronica Mars 6. Corner Gas 7. Arrested Development 8. American Dad 9. Family Guy 10. The O.C.

Tom Hanks, because in general, the guy doesn't make bad movies.

1. Led Zepplin 2. AC/DC 3. Metallica 4. Queen 5. Rush 6. The Beatles 7. The Guess Who 8. Rage Against the Machine 9. Journey 10. Matthew Good Band

For anyone looking to watch some of these ads again (for whatever reason), you can find the last 3 here. To the brief list Scott McFly had started, I can also add N.E.R.D, as I remember a remix of Rockstar being featured in one of the commercials from last year. EDIT: Add Jet's "Are You Gonna Be My Girl", Stereogram's "Walkie Talkie Man", Ultramagnetic MC's "Poppa Large" and the Black Eyed Peas' "Hey Mama".

Who's insulting Bowie's old work? Morrissey's just saying (and rightly so) that instead of trying to do anything particularly relevant, Bowie's been willing to instead try and write stuff that sounds like the music that made him famous.

Note the "Once More with Feeling" reference. Some people also think the two people in the poster are Nathan Fillion and Morena Baccarin.

Anyone catch the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" reference this week? Anyway, awesome episode; the best so far.

National Lampoon's Gold Diggers - * (2/10) When people reminisce about the name "National Lampoon", they think of Chevy Chase, John Belushi and even (in the case of some younger fans) Ryan Reynolds. Many will recall how groundbreaking films like "Animal House" and the "Vacation" movies were; back when the title of "National Lampoon" meant something. Now it's not to say that back in the 80's all of the titles with the "National Lampoon's" label attached were great. Do the titles "Joy of Sex" and "Class Reunion" ring a bell? No? Well that's probably because history is always kind to film series' and when weighed against the genre changing "Animal House", it seems somehow more tolerable to forget that the lesser NL films of the 80's ever happened. Nonetheless, there's a reason that we're able to live with those films while we mourn the slow and painful death of a series today; at least back in the 80's a couple of bombs would be followed up with a blockbuster hit. Nowadays the "National Lampoon" series has been in a freefall ever since the marginally successful "Van Wilder", and films like "Gold Diggers" will do nothing to rectify the situation. Taking a break from cheesy campus comedies, the series this time takes the form of a cheesy crime comedy. Fresh out of the last NL bomb Dorm Daze, Chris Owen (American Pie's "Shermanator") stars with Will Friedle (the latest "Boy Meets World" cast member to fall into this trap) as a couple of dimwitted criminals looking to score a big inheritance off of marrying two elderly women. What they don't know is that the women themselves are broke, and have a plan of their own: to marry the boys, only insure and eventually kill them. I could probably go a bit further into the plot details of this movie, but I don't see the point. Most of you already have the good sense to not even consider checking this film out, and so anything I really say beyond this is going to sound more like bitterness at having to endure this trainwreck than an honest review. To be honest, the screenplay is full of dull cliches, the performances are disturbingly unconvincing and, unlike previous films from the series, are seemingly without any real appeal to younger audiences. The "National Lampoon" series is no longer merely beyond it's prime; this train has run off the tracks. It's time to put a cap on dishing out the label to anyone with the cash to pay for it. I know that Paris Hilton's already filmed an upcoming "Lampoon-labeled" film called "Pledge This". I also know that production on "Dorm Daze 2: Semester at Sea", the most unnecessary sequel since the George W Bush presidency, is well underway. So we're going to have to endure at least 2 films beyond "Gold Diggers" (there was also a film called "Blackball" released in the United States this year in February with the label, but it was produced years ago without it so I don't consider it NL). Fine, let those films be made. And then stop it. Stop the bleeding before John Belushi spins so fast in his grave that he starts some kind of fire. For those of you still wondering, thumbs down.

Sounds like "Feel Good Inc" by the Gorillaz. Is it the iTunes commercial with the roller skaters? EDIT: Err, beaten to it.

I can only hope next week's episodes exhibits a little more originality. Last night's was, with the exception of the S&M subject matter, pretty much a rehash of the pilot. The only difference this time is that at the end, the self-righteous one didn't turn out to be the murderer. Adam Baldwin was badass as usual again; does anyone else notice that the best scenes are the ones with Finnernan and Balwdin, the two actors Minnear brought back from previous projects?

A Dirty Shame - * (2/10) John Waters has never actually had what you would call a "hit" in Hollywood. Sure films like "Cry Baby", "Hairspray" and "Polyester" were hits with critics, but at the box office he's never really shined. In fact, in his 40 odd years of directorial work, Waters has never had a film gross 10 million dollars at theatres. This is almost certainly due to his tendency to make racy films that attract NC-17 ratings, but he has also made several PG films, which only had slightly more success. "A Dirty Shame", his latest 90 minutes of debauchery, is one of his raciest films yet and, although Waters tries his best to make the tried and true formula work, we're left more underwhelmed than shocked. In "A Dirty Shame", Tracy Ullman stars as Sylvia Sickles, a sexually repressed Baltimore housewife of Vaughn Stickles, played by Chris Isaak. The Stickles family are a "normal", "boring" family who of course come with the undersexed husband and family baggage (a term that quite literally describes their ludicrously endowed daughter Caprice, played by Selma Blair). Keeping their daughter, who is on house arrest for some unmentioned reason, from returning to her lustful ways is a full time job for the Stickles, which interferes with their work at the family convenience store. All of this weighs on Sylvia's mind as she's driving to work one morning, until her car fails on the road, and in the process she is knocked out, suffering a concussion. It is here that we meet Ray Ray (Johnny Knoxville), some sort of sexual messiah. His "magical tongue" has a tendency to both heal and awaken sexual tendencies. These methods work in spades with Sylvia, and she becomes what some of us "close minded people" would refer to as a whore. From here the movie becomes a seemingly never ending string of sex cliches and bad gross out humour. Is the concussion that released Sylvia's innate sex addiction an awakening, or is it simply an excuse to hedonism? Waters starts to ponder this question, but after about 30 seconds he gets back to more of the same. It's hard to describe what's wrong with this movie in much detail because, in short, there's not much in the way of redeeming qualities. When producers asked the MPAA what would need to be cut in order to obtain an R-rating, they responded that if all the necessary cuts were made, the film would run at about 10 minutes long. It's not that the subject material is really that shocking; the opposite is probably the movie's biggest problem. If anyone is shocked by the film's subject matter, it is probably because they have nothing else to focus on. Despite Waters' NC-17 aspirations, this is a dog with neither bark nor bite. It's just sort of there. You can find better examples of sex comedies every other week at the box office, and they are met with much greater success. In the end, the most shocking aspect of this film is not that it is so sexually explicit, but rather that in 40 years of film making, it seems John Waters hasn't learned a thing. Thumbs way down.

Well, with a mother whose reputation makes it perfectly believable that she'd doctor her children's testimony and a lawyer who's been hell bent on getting Jackson in jail for a decade and has seen the photos investigators took of Jackson's penis the first time, how hard is it to believe that testimony (which proved to be riddled with inconsistencies) was in fact less than honest?

One of the FOX News correspondents called him the "teflon molester". Let's have three cheers for unbiased journalism! Cynical bitch.