That's the Germanest Thing I've Ever Seen!

[vovat]

This past weekend, bethje and I finally got around to watching the Netflix movies that had been sitting around the house for weeks. One was My Baby Is Black and Checkerboard, a double feature of French exploitation films that were pretty boring, and we ended up not watching all of either of them. The other was Rocky IV, which was pretty heavy on the Cold War propaganda. I mean, Ivan Drago is a terse, pitiless, steroid-addicted, government-promoted freak. How much more anti-Soviet can you get? Another reflection of its mid-eighties release date was that a robot appeared, and for no apparent reason at that.

Other viewing so far this week has included Fox's Sunday night lineup. I found the American Dad episode, with Andy Dick moving in with the Smiths, to be rather reminiscent of the Family Guy where James Woods moved in with the Griffins. It seemed like Woods being a lunatic was kind of absurd, however, while as far as I can tell Andy Dick really IS a lunatic. I don't think he did his own voice, either, while Woods did. The conflict in the Simpsons episode, with Homer stealing the glory for Bart's accomplishment, never amounted to much, but I think the real highlight of the episode was how many different kinds of animation they parodied. Also, we got a few appearances by celebrities who did riffs on how annoyingly self-absorbed they are. I generally like Ricky Gervais pretty well, but his bit went on a little long. I've also heard that, since he's lost weight, he's started hassling other people about being overweight. What the hell, Ricky? Actually, his part in the Simpsons episode made a good point about that, which is that we CAN'T all afford physical trainers. But anyway, yeah, not much plot to the episode, but pretty fun anyway. And I like that they brought back Angry Dad instead of coming up with a new reason for Bart and Homer to be famous. I also liked the Family Guy episode, but I was probably mostly just amused by the bad pun of the guy who went by "Gutentag" having the real name "Schlechtnacht." The old man fight was funny, too.

I really should start to plan things out more in advance. There's an event in New York tomorrow, I kind of want to go to, with both Michael Showalter and Neko Case at a bookstore. I have to work tomorrow night, though, and now it looks like Beth won't be going either. I have to wonder what it'll be like, though. I mean, I'm a fan of both Michael and Neko, but they're from different worlds! What's next, Frank Black performing at Oz convention? Wouldn't that be awesome? Well, maybe only for me. By the way, Neko is on Twitter, and she does a lot of retweeting, but hasn't retweeted anything of mine yet! I have to suspect that the retweets are all of people she knows personally, but it would be a pretty big thing for me if she DID acknowledge something I wrote. I'm sure the other 7397 people who follow her but she doesn't follow back feel the same way, though.

Comments

[poisonyoulove.livejournal.com]

I've also heard that, since he's lost weight, he's started hassling other people about being overweight. What the hell, Ricky?

I watched his most recent HBO stand-up special and about a third of it was fat jokes and a rant about how fat people are fat because they let themselves be (which is a vast oversimplification, dammit). Some of it was funny, but some of it was just mean.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

You'd think someone who WAS overweight would know better than to blame it all on laziness.