Blanche Devereaux 4ever

Rue McClanahan has new show! Suh-weeet! There are just not enough of the Golden Girls alumni on the tele. Premieres on July 23rd (happy birthday to me!) on Logo, which coincidentally my cable company just added to the line-up.

Read all about it here:
http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/24758036.html?mode=reply

pretty persuasion

Tonight, I will see R.E.M.


I am slowly getting really stoked. My decision to go to this show was kind of a half-hearted "Yeah, I used to really be into R.E.M. and the new record is actually pretty good..." But in the last week, I've been listening/thinking about them a lot more. I used to be REALLYREALLY into them, circa 1995. I also had a huge crush on Michael Stipe. Everytime I tell someone that, they are kind of shocked. But I think he's cute! Whatever. What-ev-ER. I saw them when I was 15 on the Monster tour and it was amazing. And 13 years ago...holy crap, I am old. But I digress...check out the setlist I found from that show (oh, helpful internet):

4 October 1995 - Civic Center, Providence, RI
support: Grant Lee Buffalo
set: Pop Song 89 / What's The Frequency, Kenneth? / Crush With Eyeliner / Drive / Wake-Up Bomb / Binky The Doormat / Losing My Religion / Bang And Blame / Undertow / Begin The Begin / Strange Currencies / Revolution / Tongue / Man On the Moon / Country Feedback / The One I Love / Orange Crush / Get Up / Star 69
encore: Let Me In / Everybody Hurts / So. Central Rain / Departure / It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

SO GOOD. Like...can you please play that same setlist tonight? Impossible, I know. Just for fun, I made my own dream R.E.M. setlist. Now, I am in no way an R.E.M. completist, so you won't find any wicked obscure gems on my setlist, but I think it's a decent survey of most of the albums, with the exception of the 3 that came before Accelerate because they don't exist to me. So without further ado, the DesiR.E.M. DreamList:

Drive / Man on the Moon / Radio Free Europe / Talk About the Passion / So. Central Rain / Pretty Persuasion / The One I Love / Pop Song 89 / Stand / Country Feedback (!!) / Low / Crush With Eyeliner / Tongue / Strange Currencies / Bang & Blame / The Wake-Up Bomb / Bittersweet Me

Boys, are you listening? Make me happy! Actually...just play "Country Feedback" and I'll be good. I might even cry. I read somewhere that it's Stipe's favorite song too, so there could be a chance. Talk about the fucking passion, mannn.

Oh, the 80s:

hollywood, PVD

In the past few years, Providence has been the go-to place to film a movie on the cheap. Always the Farrelly bros, more recent stuff like "Dan in Real Life" (featuring my non-sexual crush Steve Carrell) and "27 Dresses" plus that TV show I have yet to watch even though my neighborhood is featured prominently in it, "The Brotherhood." So...yeah...famous people. So far, I've only met one roaming around here. That would be Puddy from Seinfeld. You know, this guy:


Yeah, I totally hung out with him a Jerky's for 5 minutes. He was in "Underdog" which is a movie I will probably never see.

But aaaanyway, this is so not about Puddy. The biggest celebrity-o-rama film that Providence has ever seen has just started announcing the cast. OH BOY! It's "The Prince of Providence" about the belovedly shady RI icon/former mayor, Mr. Buddy Cianci. Oliver Platt is playing Buddy...I don't care. Whatevs. Robin Williams maybe involved too. NO! He annoys me, except as Mrs. Doubtfire, so I won't be seeking him out for hang time. Also Dermot Mulroney, Ed Burns...I'd let them hang out with me probably. But the star that I am totally going to make my BFF is Bradley Cooper. This is Bradley Cooper:


There are few reasons why I heart Bradley Cooper.
1. He played Bill Ze Bub in my second favorite Stella short. "He's SATIN!"
2. He got it on with Michael Ian Black in "Wet Hot American Summer" - then they were married by Janeane Garofalo! SEE!:


3. Um...I guess I only have two reasons. But they are damn good reasons.

Curious to see who else will be cast. Someone should give Rudd or Theroux a part. Just a suggestion...

newflash: blanche devereaux cops a feel on rose nylund!

...while dear Beat-rice (aka Bernice Frankel aka Dorothy Zbornak) looks on proudly. Did Blanche finally run out of men? I don't know if Rose is into the ladies, but there *was* that one time in St. Olaf...



I love these saucy elders! It's too bad Estelle Getty couldn't join the party. She ain't doing so well...
From her official website

This one goes out to Sophia Petrillo!



Seriously, fucking LOVE these ladies!

HA!

I just realized I am awesome because in the last post re: SATC, I ended by totally making fun of cosmos.

Then today, I put up a vintage 2006 Desiree phone pic of brunchy boozing, and what am I drinking? Oh yeah, it's a cosmo.

But, in my defense, I no longer drink cosmos. Just cos...they really don't taste that fucking great at all.

TEAM MIRANDA

Last night, I finally made the pilgrimage that millions of women have made since Friday - I went to see the Sex and the City movie. Overall, it was exactly what I expected. Okay, I read a ton of spoilers. So whatever. It's well-documented that I have zero willpower. Anyway, it was okay. It kept my attention. It was nowhere near as entertaining as the show. Where the show was funny and quirky and sometimes even real-ish emotion-wise, the movie is straight-up cheesy. Like, for serious intensely cheesy. Here are a few of things I take issue with (ps: this list maybe a bit spoiler-y):

1. The whole finding love/Cinderella motif. When Carrie asks Louise why she came to NYC and she replies "I came here to fall in love." ?! Who would ever...ever...EVER do that or at the very least, who would ADMIT to that? ON A JOB INTERVIEW? And the Love keychain. And Big's final proposal, not slipping a ring on Carrie, but a fucking Manolo in the huge closet of Carrie's dreams? Holy shiiiit. Super cringe-worthy.

2. Samantha gets "fat" because she's trying not to jump her neighbor's bones and replacing her sexual urges with cake. Okay, when she showed up in NYC and revealed her tummy "fat" and everyone drew in their breath...I honestly didn't get it. Until they spelled it out to me blatantly, commenting to Sam how much weight she had gained. Dude...she was no one near fat or chubby or plump or anything. She looked the same. PS: Awesome message for your impressionable teen fans, SATC. I blame you for the next generation's eating disorders.

3. Stanford Blatch and Anthony Marentino?! NO NO NO. No fuckin' way. These two hated each for the entire run of the series and all of sudden they're BFF and making out on New Year's Eve? Does...not...compute. Such a cop-out to put these two together just because they're gay. Also, not nearly enough Stanford in the movie. He got like two lines, tops. Argh!

4. The Fergie theme song. This need not be explained. Vomitous!

5. Carrie Bradshaw. She always borderline annoyed me, but Carrie on the big screen makes me wanna throw knives. BAHH!

Not to be an entry of complete negativity, I'll tell you a few things I liked: Miranda as always and the whole Steve/Miranda storyline, Charlotte as comic relief, and Samantha had her moments too. Okay, I liked everyone except Carrie. Wah wah.

PS: And yes, there were groups of girls there in their designer knock-off dresses and stilettos. HEY, DO YOU THINK THEY WENT OUT FOR COSMOS AFTER?