Say What You Need To Say
Kelly Clarkson has a new album out, and while I wasn’t particularly thrilled by neither her last effort, “My December”, nor by the first single “My Life Would Suck Without You”, she has managed to win me back over with “All I Ever Wanted” (not quite with the album cover, though – my eyes, my eyes!).
Eliza Dushku is one of my favourite actresses – be it as Faith on “Buffy” & “Angel”, as Missy in “Bring It On”, as Tru in “Tru Calling” or the feisty daughter in “True Lies”. Alas also, let’s be honest here, in a lotta roles she can’t be very proud of (at least it was partly painfully to watch: “Soul Survivors”, anyone?). More importantly though, she can be caught on the small screen right now every week, as Echo in Joss Whedon’s new show “Dollhouse”.
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lucie silvas, myspace
In my ongoing quest to revel in anything British (well, not anything – also, Germany has its own tabloids already…), I have ordered the following books:
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There is a town called Reading between Oxford and London, and everytime I pass it on the train, I keep wondering why the “Read” part is pronounced as in the past tense of the verb “to read” and not the present. Until now – because currently I’m reading “The Oxford History of Britain”, and they have a handy explanation: “Reading” means “the people of Reada” and stems from the Anglo-Saxon period of settlement of the British Isles, Reada being a ruler at the time. I know it’s only a little thing but I love it when seemingly meaningless things are suddenly explained logically!
I saw “Milk” a few days ago, the Oscar-nominated drama about Harvey Milk, first openly gay city council of San Francisco.
… that the second X-Files movie would suck quite so much but unfortunately, it did. As a huge fan of the series I was very disappointed that this confused sorry excuse of a thriller/horror movie should carry the X-Files brand name. Shame on Chris Carter, who as co-writer, co-producer and director botched “I Want To Believe” completely up. Warning: spoilers!
Lily Allen’s single “The Fear” from her current album “It’s not me, it’s you” (very recommended!)
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- lily allen, ohrwurm, youtube
One more reason not to cancel this show: heard this song on “Ugly Betty” and immediately fell in love with it – Elliot Smith’s “Angel in the snow”.
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- ugly betty, youtube
…to wash Jenny’s car to this tune (huh?), who am I to disagree: Those Dancing Days with “Run Run”:
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- the l word, youtube
…hilarity ensues! The final season of the world’s most famous soap opera about a group of LA lesbians is currently broadcast on Showtime, and if you feel like you’ve had enough of Ilene Chaiken hitting you over the head with clever references, in-jokes and characters that return from the well of lost plots, try Afterellen’s fantastic in-a-nutshell The L Word meets Facebook recaps for season 6 and before.
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Worrying news about one of my favourite shows, “Ugly Betty”: it seems the broadcasting channel ABC will ‘bench’ it in favour for some sitcoms and return it at some unspecified date.
