If you watch TV‘s Parks and Recreation, you probably know that Ron Swanson is one of the greatest characters ever to appear on television. Here he is drunk, infinitely so. On my screen, he’s currently been drunk and dancing for 842 seconds. (It has a timer).
LOS ANGELES — Sophie Clarke slayed the competition on “Survivor: South Pacific.”
The brainy 22-year-old medical student from Willsboro, N.Y., overcame 39-year-old “Survivor” veteran Benjamin “Coach” Wade of Susanville, Calif., and 26-year-old high school baseball coach Albert Destrade of Plantation, Fla., to win the CBS reality competition’s $1 million grand prize Sunday. Clarke earned six votes from the nine-person jury of former players.
READ MORE via Medical student Sophie Clarke crowned winner of ‘Survivor: South Pacific’ – The Washington Post.
Actor Karl Slover, best known for playing a Munchkin in the 1939 classic ‘The Wizard of Oz,’ passed away Tuesday. He was 93. You can see Slover playing the lead trumpet when the Munchkin mayor arrives in the land of Oz. According to the AP, the actor was born Karl Kosiczky in what is now the Czech Republic. He moved to the United States in his late 20s and joined a circus vaudeville group called the Singer Midgets; the group would later be cast as Munchkins. Over the years, Slover has made appearances at ‘Wizard of Oz’ reunions and fan festivals.
via Karl Slover Dead: ‘Wizard of Oz’ Munchkin Dies at 93 – The Moviefone Blog.
Watching this now. I’ve seen the first and second seasons, but I think there’s a third season out now, which I haven’t seen any of due to not having full cable…but I have Netflix streaming! My girlfriend hasn’t seen the show, so that’s why I’m re-watching episodes I’ve already seen.
I’m finding all kinds of good documentaries on Netflix for my Instant Queue. The Horse Boy is about a kid with autism who seems to calm down when he’s on a horse. His parents decide to take him on a horseback adventure to visit Mongolian shamans when other therapies are not successful.
When conventional therapies fail to help their autistic son, Rupert and Kristin Isaacson travel with Rowan to Mongolia in the hopes that a combination of traditional shamanic healing and horseback riding will benefit him. Director Michel O. Scott’s documentary juxtaposes scenes of the family at home in Texas with their journey on horseback across the breathtaking Mongolian countryside in search of reindeer herders and a powerful shaman.
From Netflix:
Filmmaker Taggart Siegel paints a fascinating portrait of a man who refused to yield. By transforming his farm into an experimental haven in the late 1960s, John Peterson attracted hundreds of artists, hippies and other political radicals. But when the agriculture crisis of the late 1980s led to the farm’s eventual collapse — and his neighbors publicly branded him a devil worshipper — most locals thought he’d call it quits. They were wrong.
Another awesome documentary I just watched streaming on Netflix.
Before the Civil War, preparing the dead for burial and funeral rites generally fell to friends and family members of the deceased. The 20th century saw the rise of the professional undertaker, a trend that changed American attitudes toward death and distanced grievers from their loved ones. This eye-opening film uncovers a growing movement advocating a return to a more traditional, personal approach to honoring the dead.
Watching this now,streaming it on Netflix. It’s about a few of the well-known graveyards in the United States. Pretty interesting.
Writer-producer Rick Sebak serves as your tour guide for this hourlong journey through America’s most notable cemeteries, examining the history and artistry of headstones, crypts, monuments and family plots. Stopping in Florida, Alaska and numerous points in between, this fascinating program explores humans’ diverse methods for honoring the departed — and the myriad ways in which graveyards relate to modern culture.
Watching this documentary now on my Netflix instant queue. I will go to Burning Man one day. Yes, I will.
Rented the newest Red Riding Hood movie from Redbox. Watching now.
Yeah pretty much if you haven’t seen this yet, you need to. I’ve known people like this who live around the same areas I’m from.
Sitting here working on the laptop, while the girlfriend is watching a documentary on Netflix called Dad’s In Heaven With Nixon. So far it actually looks pretty interesting. The dude who made the documentary, Tom Murray, has an autistic brother, Chris, who is the subject of the film. Chris is 50-years old in the film. He is an artist. He is a rad, nice dude. Their dad had anger issues, but they loved him. As Netflix described the film, “Using his artistic brother’s colorful art as inspiration, documentarian Tom Murray paints a portrait of his family’s complex struggle with his brother’s brain damage, his mother’s unwillingness to accept it, and his father’s inability to cope with it.”
Don’t get the wrong idea from the Netflix description though, the family loved each other, and his mom seems like a cool old lady and mother, regardless of her “unwillingness to accept it.”
Here is a better review than mine, a NYTimes article about the film: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/06/arts/television/06dad.html
My girlfriend is currently in bed watching Celebrity Rehab season 4 on Netflix, streaming it on the Wii. I’m here at the laptop, watching it with her. What a trip. Eric Roberts is such a puss. Dude is having “cannabis withdrawals” and crying all the time. Seriously? Keisha Coles mom is about to kick everyones ass. Evidently she is a crackhead. I haven’t figured out who the big fat gay dude is yet, but he just now got sent to his room by the “Shelly” chick who works there. I’m pretty sure Shelly did the crack and heroins in the past, but she’s clean now and works at the rehab place. I’m going to bed.
“Although television gets a bad rap for its association with inactivity, mindless snacking, and weight gain, there is an oft-overlooked upside to tuning into many of today’s popular programs: health education. “In 2004, just over half of top primetime shows featured health-related storylines. In 2010, about 80 percent of shows did,” says Sandra Buffington, director of the Hollywood, Health & Society (HHS) organization, which, through its partnerships with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Cancer Institute, and the University of Southern California Annenberg Norman Lear Center, works with entertainment writers to responsibly portray health storylines on television and in film.
Fans are paying attention to the plots, which address everything from Asperger’s syndrome to cancer. “According to our research, more than two-thirds of viewers learn something about health from the shows they watch, and one-third of those viewers take action,” says Buffington, such as scheduling a doctor’s appointment to get their own symptoms checked out. Here, experts point out the most informative and inspiring health-related shows on the tube today, and why you should tune in — or add them to your Netflix queue.”
READ MORE via A Healthy Dose of Primetime Drama – EverydayHealth.com.
Should’ve seen this already, but I haven’t. Watching now. Interesting film about the elusive graffiti artist Banksy.
I’m watching it now. Yes, I’m that much of a nerd and documentary geek. Some of this origami will blow your mind. It is an art, and is being used by scientists. Right now, you’re picturing what you think is origami. Well, this film chronicles 10 artists who create some unbelievable masterpieces. There is a cool little historical piece about Sensei Akira Yoshizawa (14 March 1911 – 14 March 2005) who was the grandmaster of origami.
My opinion, origami is pretty rad.
I’ve seen it years ago, but my girlfriend said she hasn’t seen it so we’re watching it now from Blockbuster. Juliette Lewis, Brad Pitt, David Duchovny etc…
Currently watching EVERY episode of Trailer Park Boys on Netflix. Funny stuffs.
Screen legend Elizabeth Taylor has died. She was 79 years old.
Elizabeth Taylor, the violet-eyed beauty whose hectic off-screen love life often eclipsed her most sultry film roles, has died. She was 79.
She died today at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, her four children by her side, according to a statement from her publicist. She was hospitalized six weeks ago for treatment of congestive heart failure, a condition that had stabilized, “and it was hoped that she would be able to return home,” the statement said. “Sadly, this was not to be.”
Read more via Bloomberg.com
Watching now. I watched a few minutes of this Saturday night but the UFC was on, so I was more into the fights on that night. However, Peewee is great, and always has been.
Johnny Knoxville has been rumored as one of the frontrunners for the Farrelly Brothers’ long-gestating Three Stooges movie before only to be debunked the Farrellys themselves. And now Knoxville, apparently, has the role.
Variety says Johnny is on the verge of signing a deal with Fox that would have him as Moe, the lead in the Three Stooges movie. Their sources claim the part was offered to him and the Farrellys have been sitting around for awhile waiting on him to accept. So the question here is, were Peter and Bobby Farrelly lying or is something else going on here?
via Johnny Knoxville Is Moe In The Three Stooges – CinemaBlend.com.
Gary Busey is guest starring…lol, awesome.
Watching this 1986 movie I got on dvd from Blockbuster Online. Stars Harrison Ford, River Phoenix, Helen Mirren, and Martha Plimpton.