Attention EVERYONE: This is now required viewing. (It gives rise to my theory that if we're going to get Poldi to be Pool Boy, we're going to need Schweini [Bastian Schweinsteiger] there to sex him up.)
The shots with the guy with the crazy hair are from a really popular German show called "Wetten Dass?" Usually there is only one guest, but because they get anxious if they are not within shouting distance of each other, they are on together.
posted by The Artist Formerly Known As "Katherine" @ 5:09 PM2 comments
more about a movie I didn't really like
Oh, yeah, and in "The Omen," there is an unintentional shout-out to "Yossi & Jagger."
Thought some should know.
And Germany advances to the semi-final round.
posted by The Artist Formerly Known As "Katherine" @ 2:17 PM2 comments
Thursday, June 29, 2006
I would have rather stayed in my hotel room and watched 90 min of porn
Saw "The Omen" yesterday. Maybe if I had gone in expecting to be frightened, it would have gone better. The little boy was standard stare-ahead-and-don't-speak horror movie child. I forget who played the mother, but she was ordinary. I was not impressed by her acting, and the whole ending was anticlimactic. It ended the same way as "Ghost Ship," which gave me such a better tingle than "The Omen." The father was a better actor, and he was oddly attractive, but I was still nonplussed.
HALEY! THE GUY WHO PLAYS REMUS LUPIN IS IN THIS! He plays a sketchy photographer. And has a pretty big role in the movie.
posted by The Artist Formerly Known As "Katherine" @ 4:53 PM1 comments
podcast-y business
Lukas P. for poolboy has been moved and seconded. The floor will now entertain debate.
I suggest that the podcast title be "If We Were in Germany, We Would Be Naked." Or we could shorten it. Working title.
I am working on the album art. If we had a show, I would write the show notes. I think it's time to design an outline and decide what the podcast is actually going to be about.
I think I'll start a blog for this podcast. MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
posted by The Artist Formerly Known As "Katherine" @ 2:11 PM2 comments
Monday, June 26, 2006
WHO THE FUCK LIGHTS FIRECRACKERS AT 2 IN THE MORNING?!?!
TERRORISTS AND MY HEROINE SNIFFING NEIGHBORS, THAT'S WHO.
posted by The Artist Formerly Known As "Katherine" @ 1:46 AM1 comments
Saturday, June 24, 2006
this has to be a record for meaningless entries in a day
If your name was "Christian" could you fuck someone named "Christijan"? I don't think I could. Especially when they're pronounced the same way.
Think about, getting down to business, a whispered "Chris," as you realize the Sock Gap is closing... I would freak out.
I get philosophical late at night.
posted by The Artist Formerly Known As "Katherine" @ 1:25 AM2 comments
Friday, June 23, 2006
I'd love to put a joke about IKEA in here
I move that Lukas Podolski be our poolboy. But I'm open to other suggestions.
And if I know my neighbors, and my neighbors have a pool, then by the transitive property, I have a pool. Or I have a pool by association.
Either way I need a wet boy shirtless in my backyard.
I think we should begin writing the podcast now. We are offering free advertising for the first one. I don't even know what the podcast is about. Maybe nothing. This will be the Seinfeld of podcasts.
The Swiss played great soccer today. The Degen twins are hotter in live action than in still photographs.
I was in Stop & Shop today, and I thought I saw Mr. Hungerford. Although he would not recognize me if he ran over me, I hid behind the bread display. I'm not sure this irrational panic was the correct response. Discuss.
Also, it might be time we moved this whole operation to Germany.
posted by The Artist Formerly Known As "Katherine" @ 8:20 PM1 comments
this will interest probably none of you
I now have an official blog for all this World Cup business.
http://worldcup-ger.blogspot.com
There will be excessive posts about Dutch people. And maybe the German team, too, because I pick them to win the Cup.
I will explain this complicated game in the same clear fasion as those on ESPN, because they are the only reason I can sound like I know what I'm talking about.
And, to the percieved interest of one particular reader, I will post as many pictures as I can of ambiguously attractive players in compromising situations.
Is Germany's strategy that they have no strategy? The fights in the stands are more organized. And they would have about 20 goals if they didn't keep kicking it high. A bunch over the goal, when they totally had it. This #20 Podolski, he has quite a thing for drawing fouls and almost making goals.
All Ecuador has to do is not lose. Germany has to win, which means that strategically, Ecuador has an advantage. It's a classic situation, and defensive warfare is always easier. If Germany doesn't win they get second place in Group A and then must face second place from Group B, which is England. From all the talk, I didn't think this was much of a threat, but the announcers are talking about it like Germany should be concerned.
This is the best of English football. Fear them.
(And, from internet speculation, they are the gayest of the gay of English football.)
I have still not really learned anything about the tournament
The Degen twins, Philipp and ...Timothy?, are only the fourth set of twins to compete in the World Cup. They play for Switzerland.
posted by The Artist Formerly Known As "Katherine" @ 6:42 PM0 comments
Sunday, June 18, 2006
this looks minorly uncomfortable
Well, there go my Dutch... I COUNTED ON YOU, NETHERLANDS!
posted by The Artist Formerly Known As "Katherine" @ 1:05 PM0 comments
I've got a new sport, and we're the only country in the world that disregards it
So, seeing that... the rest of the world... is in on this soccer thing, they're having a great time with the World Cup. I feel I'm missing out on that.
For the next few however long soccer can hold my attention days, this blog will chronicle my attempt to be enthused by soccer. I've played before. I've spent dedicated minutes in front of the television that one time the US women did something spectacular (and then their league was dismantled, because we don't need women succeeding more than the men, that lowers morale).
I've decided to pull for the Swedes. I mean, yeah, I'm all for the USA, but I need a team to root for AFTER we're eliminated. At least we qualified. With support for soccer the way it is here, we should just count that as a victory, take our cleats and go home. (I would root for the Norwegians, but I don't think they're in the tournament.)
EDIT: The Netherlands made it AND I'M GOING FOR THE DUTCH!
So... yes. Soccer. Or football, if you're an asshole.
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Thursday, June 15, 2006
to Columbia Uni. Class of 2006 and others
Alright. This just needs to come out.
War is wrong. We get it. Throwing stones at each other is not going to help whatever problem we've got. But asshat college students do not need to be making their pathetic little shows of civil disobedience, because it does NOT make you look like you stand for something, it makes you look like a fool who follows what the TV tells them.
The graduating class of Columbia University turned their backs on Sen. John McCain as he gave their graduation speech. Those little ungrateful fuckers. They have NO idea what he went through in Vietnam. Republican or not, he deserves more respect than those little jackasses will EVER earn in their LIVES. If they were TRUE patriots, they would know that he understands better than probably anyone in Washington what war is like and why it should be prevented. It is the same thing he saw returning from Vietnam, which he did, unlike thousands of other soldiers.
When veterans of WWI and WWII came home, they were given parades and bonuses at work, most had a job and a girl waiting.
When veterans of Vietnam came home, they were SPIT UPON at the airport and on the bus and on the sidewalk. They were taunted and mocked and screamed at, and college students like Columbia University's Class of 2006 walked by with posters calling them "Baby killers" after they had just spent a year or more fighting and dying for these ungrateful wretches.
I went with my father to our town's Memorial Day ceremony, where this year they would be honoring Vietnam veterans in perticular. Sen. Liberman, that jackass, talked about himself and his policies. Nothing about my father's 19 year old friend Jack C. who was killed when his jeep ran over a landmine and they couldn't find enough of him to really count, and nothing about his high school classmate who is STILL missing.
We don't need this to be another Vietnam. I'm glad to see our troops are being treated better, and are actually WELCOMED home now, but we have a long way to go. Do not hold up signs saying "Bring our troops home." Alright, so they know you like them, but how are they going to feel if they know that you think what they're fighting and dying for is crap? They VOLUNTEERED to fight. Maybe they do want to come home, but they have a job to do and NO soldier, if a true soldier, will ever crap out before the job is done.
Demonstrating against war has become the new black. I do not like Bush. But it is time to start showing some support and pride in our country and our troops. We have become too self centered. Americans think the sun rises and sets on their asses, and their biggest problem is what they're wearing. They have the time to be interseted in their hair and not dodging bullets, thanks to our country and our servicemen. But everyone's so concerned with being hip and individual that they can't get their heads out of the cloud of their own self interest. It is not HIP or COOL to show displeasure with our troops. You are not being original. Everything people are doing now has been done better before. It is time to unite and show the world that our nation has not sunk into the ruin of rap music and Seventeen magazine.
This country has gotten to fucking apologetic for it's own good. Remember why we went to Iraq in the first place? They pissed us off. Now everyone says that Bush just went for revenge. Damn right he did. But remember WWII? Why did we get into it? Because Japan kicked us in the balls in Pearl Harbor, and we weren't just going to take that. We weren't even INTERESTED in Germany and her friends until Hitler declared war on us. We weren't even going to go over. Until we had a reason.
We had a reason in Iraq. Yes, Bush is a dumbass. Yes, there were no WMDs. And that can't be ignored. But I think that as a country on a whole, we have forgotten our true purpose in our clever little catch-phrased "War on Terror."
We started this war for vengance, but that's how ALL wars start. And whether or not you believe in it, it's time to get our heads out of our asses and SHOW SOME UNITY AND SUPPORT.
I honestly have no idea where I get these movies. Really. A few days ago I watched a movie about homosexuality that contained a sizeable segment following a Nazi boy-toy. Then I saw the same actor in another film (Firewall) in which he was less of a Nazi but just as much of a boy-toy. Then I watched a Swedish movie set in Finland about Germans dubbed in German and subtitled in Korean. It was an international affair! Then I watched the part of Blonde where Jensen Ackles is involved in a threesome. Good times. Now I honestly can't stop listening to NPR. It's like a sickness, and I know just who to blame. (But honestly, it's hilarious beyond words. Especially if you don't like Bush.)
And a little fact for those of you for whom the internet is your only faux human contact: after a survey of 27 countries, researchers found that Austria had the most sexually satisfied population at 70% of adults saying they were happy with what they had. Japan came in dead last. (Which I imagine is part of the problem.)
posted by The Artist Formerly Known As "Katherine" @ 6:30 PM1 comments
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
The Last Drop
I'm afraid I'm terribly in love with this movie. Not just the great camera work, the great acting, the great writing, but...
THEY PLAYED ROCK MUSIC TO THE GERMAN DEFENSE OF HOLLAND!!! The Wermacht is marching to electric guitar.
I have more friends on LJ.
And I will include favorite TV shows in Favorite Movies, because blogspot hates television.
I watch soccer. Please do not let this affect your decsion to associate with me.
