Watching TV on the web

If you're bored and want watch TV on the web, here's a whole bunch of ideas on where to look.

You have a myspace page?

I am sad to admit to you all that it turns out that the tomcat has MySpace page. Yes, he does. No, he's not a 14 year old girl who is obsessed with Teddy Geiger because "He'z so HHHHHOTTTT!!!!!!!" He claims he created the page because one of his "friends" also has a myspace page in order to talk to some girl that he was e-set up with. But seriously, how do you not mock someone for a myspace page? Also, please note in the comments that the tomcat has finally given in and his comments show as up as the tomcat. I've broken him down.

My impression is that I don't think I know many people with myspace pages. Am I wrong? Am I wrong to mock? The self-doubt is beginning to creep in. Perhaps I am the only one not on myspace? What if there is so much fun to be had on myspace and I'm missing out, or no one liked me enough to invite me? This could be crushing to my self esteem. Luckily, I've done quite well on the Big Brain University games so at least I have a big brain weight to fall back on.

Girlfriend Getaways

I love perusing the magazine rack and the latest weird find was Girlfriend Getaways. There have been a slew of new magazines coming out, but I'm not sure if they'll last. I flipped through this one, but it wasn't even compelling enough to purchase. But I just thought it was funny that there could be an entire magazine on girlie trips. I think there is a definite market for girlie vacations, but do you need a magazine? Not sure on that one. The best quote ... "as long as no one gets arrested, anything goes." Okay, I'm not sure I want that type of girls vacation.

'Heroes' pilot will appear on iTunes

You will be able to download 'Heroes' for free on iTunes before it premieres on NBC.. I guess I'll be able to space out watching some of the new shows since the networks appear to be in some contest to the death to get their shows out first. Maybe someone will just show their premiere early just to try to get a jump on thing.

Although I have to say that offering it free definitely seems like the way to go. I can't believe they're actually charging for Aquaman. I mean, they killed the show before it went to series, so it can't be that good. Why would I want to pay $2 for something that is already dead?

Disney Afternoon

If you were a fan of the Disney Afternoon or Saturday morning cartoons, you might be excited to know that the Gummi Bears series is coming to DVD. Sadly, I'm rather excited about this.

Big Brain University

Now that the tomcat has achieved the perfect brain age of 20 and refuses to test himself again, in case he gets a lower score, he has now purchased Big Brain Academy to continue the fun. I think I might have to steal his DS before he goes home.

Cathy: Spokescartoon for USPS

Oddly enough, the Cathy cartoon is apparently the way that the United States Postal Service wants to talk to you. Who knew that that was going to be the voice the post office would use? If I had my pick, I'd have James Earl Jones, or at least Woodstock from Snoopy be my voice. "'' ''' ''''' ' '''" (translates to "Put your name on your damn mailbox if you want to receive mail in an apartment building"), which is what I think my "friendly" postal delivery person would say.

TiVo gathers data on skipped ads

TiVo is gathering data on what ads are skipped. It will be interesting to see if this affects how people design or position in the ads within the commercial breaks to get people to watch. I have to say that I do brake for movie trailers, if it has an actor that I kind of like.

Arrested Development will be shown on MSN

MSN has the online syndication rights to Arrested Development

What's My Brain Age?

The tomcatt recently got a Nintendo DS Lite and has been trying to persuade me that I would like it, although since I hadn't seen it, it was hard to judge. However, this weekend, I finally got my hands on it, and started playing Brain Age and I have to say that I'm kind of hooked. It appeals to my super-competitive side, and I'm out to beat the tomcat. My brain age (which sadly started at 54) is now down to 31, and I think I can beat out the tomcat shortly (he's 30 as of yesterday). I'm also striving to take the high scores! Luckily, he never reads my blog so he won't know about my evil plan. Maybe I'll have to get a DS Lite of my own.

Review: Lovespring International

I'm embarrassed to admit that I actually TiVo'd a show on the Lifetime channel. (Although the WE channel with Bridezillas and the Macy's reality show is starting to see rather appealing...) Sigh. So, I watched Lovespring International since I had seen a few positive reviews and since I liked Miss Match, which was also about a dating agency, I thought I might like it. Anyway, it's intermittently quite funny, but uneven enough that I revoked its season pass after watching four episodes. The vapid secretary was probably the funniest character. The upside, I also forced the tomcat to watch a couple episodes so he's completely emasculated now.

A celebrity Stanford fan!

Hilary Duff is a Stanford fan! Or, uh, knows someone who goes there and got it for a freshman year Christmas present.

The transcript from the Comic Con session for Veronica Mars. No big spoilers. VM will run for nine straight episodes in the fall (no reruns will break it up!) and then will return for a straight run of new episodes in 2007. And apparently, there was some fan there who is living in Kristen Bell's old apartment and delivered a package to her. Heh.

Amazon will have a tv and movie download service.

The Aquaman pilot, the Smallville spin-off that didn't get picked up, will be available on iTunes. Perhaps this will start a trend for next year where normal people can watch pilots and vote on whether they should go to series. Of course, democracy isn't always good in things like this, so the good shows still might get left behind, or might get left behind even more...

Comic-Con and TV

Here's a link that squishie pointed me at which talks a bit about the increasing importance of Comic-Con to popular culture outside of its original purpose, which of course is comics.

Shows like Heroes will obviously have a direct link to the audience of Comic-Con, but it seems as though the annual San Diego convention is becoming an increasingly important venue for initial promotion of all kinds of things that readers of this blog are particularly interested in. I am so going to go one of these days.

Is it bad that I'm drawn to Duets, the fall reality show which will pair normal people with singers so they can perform duets? I guess this doesn't have that same element of danger that Skating with Celebrities really had...

Heroes: Pilot review

I took a look at the pilot for NBC's Heroes, one of the new shows in their fall lineup. Nyanko has blogged briefly about this show already, specifically posting to a preview on thefutoncritic.

I'm not going to get into anything that actually happens in the pilot, since that'd be spoilery, and you are all going to watch this show eventually so that wouldn't be very nice. Heroes is bound to draw some comparisons to Lost, and I believe one of the producers left Lost to join this show.

In case you haven't figured out yet, Heroes is about some ordinary people who seem to suspect something is different about them, and end up discovering that they have superpowers, basically. These are not all good people, and all but a couple of them so far wish that they didn't have these powers, or don't even know what to do about them.

It's always fun to watch regular people be awesome and fight crime, but Heroes is much darker than you might expect. It starts off with some spiel about how these heroes will do more than just save the world, so you expect some fight against alien invaders, but it obviously isn't so sci-fi. The darkness comes from the fear and lack of understanding that most of the characters have concerning their powers, and of course there is always the overarching mystery that covers the series. Oh, and there's blood.

In this series, the big overarching mystery is not just how they got their powers and what will they do with them, but the fact that everyone is linked somehow, and there seems to be a mysterious organizing out looking for them. I suspect subsequent episodes will reveal more about their powers and how they learn to harness them and reveal them to others, as well as more about who's out looking for them, most likely trying to control them for their own diabolical purposes.

Heroes is premiering September 25th, airing on NBC Mondays at 9 pm. This blog was not paid for by anyone, unfortunately.

Although it is always embarrassing when you tape a show on WE, Oxygen or Lifetime, this reality show about how Macy's is run looks kind of interesting. Although I don't think WE is part of my cable package. Sigh.

Tragedy alert: A Duff sisters movie with a title drawn from a Madonna song that the sisters have also rerecorded.

Update: No trailer is posted on the site. That cannot be a good sign.

Michael Ausiello has seen the first script for the new season of Gilmore Girls and says it's pretty good! That seems promising!

Transcripts of the TV show panels at Comic Con. Posted so far are Heroes, Lost, Battlestar (pretty spoilery, although I'm not sure if all the stuff is shown in the season three trailer). Veronica Mars will be posted eventually as well.

More info on the upcoming season of Battlestar, including the fact that there will be webisodes starting soon. Uh oh, the blog is beginning to look a lot like a Battlestar fan blog. I better find some other things to write about, and fast!

Is it bad that I find this blog post about a Canadian take on different reality shows very funny? Driving in Montreal! "... in or ooot." Gotta love those Canadians.

Nobody's Watching, the pilot from the creator of Scrubs has been resurrected and given a six script order after it surfaced on YouTube and got watched by lots and lots of people. (via tvtattle) I guess I really should sit down and watch the pilot. Or maybe I can wait if it makes it to series...

The season three preview of Battlestar is on YouTube. I have to credit totoro for finding this, and I haven't watched it yet because I'm trying to decide if I can resist the spoilers or if I should just give in now.

I should apologize for the recent fixation on Battlestar and the Amazing Race. TV news is a bit bleak because of the summer. The news from the summer press tour has been interesting, but not really interesting enough to blog about. And I've been working a bunch so I haven't had time to watch much truly terrible stuff. I watched Rize last night, which was interesting but not great. And Princess Diaries 2 is on tap, which totoro totally warned me away from (he watched it on a plane), but it has the actor who played my favorite character in Dead Like Me, so I clearly have to watch. It's inevitable.

Apparently, there was a preview for the new season of Battlestar in the series premiere of SciFi's Eureka. (Spoilers in the detailed description of the preview. Duh.)

Even I'm appalled that there's a Battlestar Galactica credit card

Dwight + Lost + Battlestar = Pretty funny

The NBC pilots Studio 60 on Sunset Strip and Kidnapped will be available on Netflix starting in early August. I just added them to my queue. (via tvtattle)

Update: I have to say that I'm a bit disappointed that the pilots are on separate discs and that they will take up a disc in my queue. I'd like it if there was just one disc, and that you could get it as a freebie on your queue since NBC is using it as an ad campaign. I also hope that there won't be a really long wait to get the disc, because I might just give up in that case.

I went on a fairly rigorous hike with my roommate gecko this weekend and the last part of the hike, we were both feeling a bit grumpy because the hike was pretty steep going up and thus pretty steep coming down, and the trail had gravel so it was like walking on ball bearings. Anyway, we were getting tired and started talking about Treasure Hunters, where one of the contestants, Kayte Fogel, is always complaining extremely loudly. On the last episode, she kept screaming (while crying), "I'M IN SO MUCH PAIN. I CAN'T GO ON!" I actually thought she might be hurt because I couldn't figure out why she would be yelling and crying that much if she wasn't actually hurt. And since it's a reality show, you really can't tell. But it honestly seems like maybe she's just a drama queen. Anyway, FYI, if you're feeling kind of grumpy while hiking, doing a fake-screaming impression of Kayte Fogel is surprisingly entertaining. I think that entertained us for at least 15 minutes. Yes, I know, we were doing Treasure Hunters impressions. It really is a sad state of affairs.

There will only be six episodes of Lost this fall; the remaining 16 episodes will play uninterrupted in the spring.

An all star version of the Amazing Race may be afoot. (third item)

Apparently, a few of the ABC and CBS pilots have surfaced on BitTorrent, if you're still using that. If anyone gets their hands on these, you'll have to let me know what you think. (via tvtattle)

More details on the teams for the next season of the Amazing Race

I had heard that the SciFi channel was debuting a pilot online and letting fans vote on it. The show is called The Amazing Screw-on Head, but this review is the first I've heard that it might be fun and good. So maybe I'll have to check it out sometime this week.

CBS will have ads printed on eggs. Scary.

Also, congratulate totoro on finally finishing season 2 of Battlestar. He's all caught up so I can gossip with him about the season!

The tenth season of the Amazing Race begins in Seattle and features a very diverse set of teams. I'm already so excited!

You can read a running live blog of the summer television press tour, which all the major networks are doing this week. There are details about each session (each show has a session), including some gossipy bits about tension between the different CSI shows, and some snarky comments on the crappy shows.

The premiere dates for Gilmore Girls and Veronica Mars have been set for Sept 26 and Oct 3rd respectively. I guess that gives me an extra three or four weeks to clean down my TiVo and check out some of the other new shows on the fall slate.

Showtime's new show "Brotherhood" will show on CBS this Saturday

Is it bad that I'm a bit of an Ethan Hawke fan still? Anyway, the trailer for One Last Thing also looks like it might be kind of entertaining.

This is a total aberration for me, but I actually like the trailer for The Holiday, even though I usually do not like Cameron Diaz and Jack Black, but the trailer makes the movie seem really sweet. At least I'm not running screaming from the trailer, like say for My Super Ex-Girlfriend.

Continuing in the tweenybopper theme, I watched High School Musical last night. Apparently, the original Disney movie is a hit with 8 to 14 year olds and a sequel is already in the making. It was actually pretty cute and the songs are catchy in a generic pop song/musical kind of way. It was funny in a kiddy kind of way and I enjoyed it. So if you like kid-approved romance, dancing and singing, you'll enjoy this one.

OMG, Tricia Helfer (Number Six from Battlestar Galactica) has a blog and is the host of Canada's Next Top Model!

The actors from the Office modeling Puma golf clothes. So cute (the pictures and the clothes!).

I watched the two Office webisodes, and I have to say that they weren't all that. They are the right length (two minutes) for furtively watching at work, but don't really capture the hilarity that most of the real episodes actually have. I guess I'll just have to hold out until the fall. Or until they replay the last season two episode that I missed.

I watched two episodes of the VH1 World Series of Pop Culture show. Any thought in my mind that I might have a reasonable grasp of pop culture were dashed, when I was watching the rounds. Unfortunately, I was not pop culture-y enough when I was a kid, so I need another twenty years before I'll have a broad knowledge. Of course, if the category was Lindsay Lohan exploits, I'd probably do embarrassingly well, because she's so overexposed. Anyway, the show is reasonably well structured (but not great), and the questions and categories are fun, although the contestents seem weird and largely annoying (I don't think they get out enough - too much TV and movies, I guess). So it's a fun show to watch while you're eating dinner or doing your ironing.

I ended up watching a bit of The Hills because gecko and her friend pl were watching, and now I really have no qualms or questions in my mind about what I'm missing. What I'm missing is the equivalent of sitting at a restaurant next to people who are having the most annoying conversation EVER. There was conversation about a six month anniversary, and whether a girl should talk to a guy she went on one date with. It was the most painful thing ever.

I definitely wonder how much MTV is setting up situations with the main character's job to mess with her, and how much input the actual teenagers get into the plot/situations. Anyway, I'm now going to run screaming from any episodes of Laguna Beach and the Hills.

The Guardian: Hilarious or Earnestly Touching?

I want your opinion! Go watch the trailer for the Guardian and tell me whether you think it's going to be terrible, fabulous or if it's going to make you a lifelong Ashton fan.

Sadly, I'm a big fan of teenybopper movies, and this was one of my first forays into tweenybopper movies. Last night, I watched Aquamarine, which had Emma Roberts (niece of Julia), Jojo (the pop star, who looks Lindsay Lohan circa The Parent Trap) and Sara Paxton (the crazy girlfriend from Summerland). The main characters are eighth grade girls, so obviously, we're skewing pretty young here. But I thought the movie was cute and sweet. It's predictable and sappy, but not too painful and seems appropriate for the age range. For instance, [SPOILER] (heh) the romance plot does not directly involve the eighth grade girls - they help the mermaid, who is presumably older, find love. So the secondary story mostly revolves around the friendship between the two girls. Also, Arielle Kebel (Dean's wife from Gilmore Girls) is the villain and has now appeared in my posts on two consecutive days. I guess I now know what she's been doing since Gilmore Girls.

Anyway, you might not seek it out, but if it ends up on the Family channel and you're home sick, you might enjoy it. Who doesn't love mermaids? Also, the shell phone/cell phone pun from the trailer? Always funny.

Wow. There are plans to do a remake of Adventures in Babysitting

A guide to Lost for those of you who are suffering from Lost withdrawal.

Michael Ausiello reviews the fall pilots (at the very bottom of the article). Beware of spoilers within the column though.

The Office webisodes begin today.

So, the trailers before the Devil Wears Prada were an extremely mixed bag. First up, and the most sensible match for the movie's audience was John Tucker Must Die, which actually seemed like it might be funny and was notable for starring a bunch of women who are mostly marginally famous. It was the girl from American Dreams (Brittany Snow), the girl who played Dean's wife on Gilmore Girls (Arielle Kebel), the girl who got the quickie divorce from Chad Michael Murray (Sophia Bush), and some other girl (Ashanti Douglas) who may or may not be the singer. But the trailer was interesting enough that I'd put it on my Netflix queue.

Second at bat was My Super Ex-Girlfriend. This should have been a good match (stars Luke Wilson and has a girl superhero), if the trailer didn't suck so much that even if it got fabulous reviews I still probably wouldn't watch. That's how scarring this trailer was. It was painfully long, not funny, and Uma's character is a psycho girlfriend. So, the question is who wants to watch this? Most women don't like to admit they are nuts, so I'm not sure they want to go, so maybe the target audience is men who think it will be funny to see Luke Wilson get stalked by a superhero. Hmm. Maybe?

And third up, and the most surprisingly entertaining was the trailer for the Ashton Kutcher, Kevin Costner action-drama The Guardian, about Kevin training the newbies for Coast Guard helicopter rescues. The money quote: "How do you decide who gets to live?" I don't know, Ashton, how do you? Kevin says he "just swims as fast as he can, until he can't swim anymore." The trailer is brilliant. I can only hope that it reaches the level of hilarity and super cheese that Armageddon does. I am so there.

So my friend SC and I went to see The Devil Wears Prada last night and I have to say that I really enjoyed it. SC knew three people who had actually liked the movie, which overcame our fears about the mixed reviews the movie had received. The movie was cute and entertaining, and everyone looked beautiful. And of course, my takeaway from this is that I need to go shopping.

The actual message/moral of the film seems pretty muddy - I'm not quite sure what it is and I'm not sure if I like the message (since the friends seem to chastise the main character for taking her job seriously). There was this assumption that the main chracter had sold her soul, but if she had, that wasn't communicated very well in the movie.

I also really liked Anne Hathaway. She's all grown up! Princess Diaries + sequel (so painful!) and Ella Enchanted didn't cement me as Anne Hathaway fans, and her part in Brokeback Mountain wasn't exactly something that makes you go "Ooh, I love Anne Hathaway movies", but I think this one might have done it for me. I'll have to see what else is on tap for her. Gotta have a new girlie idol since Rachel McAdams has decided to live a normal person life and just go to the grocery store and walk her dog with Ryan Gosling. Maybe Rachel will have a spectacular wedding with adequate coverage in InStyle Weddings to make it up to me.

In closing, if you like entertaining chick flicks, and you aren't too nitpicky about weird and gaping plot holes and character development (and really, what chick flicks are really good at this?), you'll enjoy this movie.

I hadn't realized that Adrian Grenier was in the Melissa Joan Hart movie Drive Me Crazy, which means he also ended up in the Britney Spears' Crazy video. (It's at this point that I have to apologize yet again to my friend CS for dragging him to see this movie because I was convinced that Britney was going to be in the movie. I was apparently delusional, because I wouldn't have dragged anyone to see this movie on its own merits.)

I'm a Mac/PC

Engadget has a nice post about some VH1 spoofs of the ubiquitous Mac/PC commercials that Apple is putting out these days. I really think that Apple is shooting themselves in the foot with these commercials, all they do is reinforce the stereotype that Mac-lovers are pretentious geeks with a superiority complex.

Original Apple ads

Engadget post

Direct link to the Best Week Ever spoof

Since I'm always into crime procedurals, I of course watched the USA show Psych which premiered last Friday. The verdict is that it's entertaining and pretty good. Some of the coincidences/plot contrivances to get the main character to be a police consultant were hokey, and I'm still not quite sure how the mystery was really solved, but believablity is not key to this type of show. The writing is fun and Dule Hill's character is particularly entertaining. I also love the little European-size car they drive - I think it might be a Yaris. Anyway, the show isn't brilliant, but it's pretty fun and I'll keep watching.

In other news, I think Treasure Hunters appears to have the worst luck in terms of random, but somewhat serious injuries to contestants. It's not fun to watch people getting treated by medics. However, they do have a hilarious twist to the game in the latest episode where [SPOILER] they make the teams choose whether they would like a time advantage and will leave behind one member of their team for the rest of the show/game, or whether they want to take the time to pick up the third person on their team. Cold!

Apparently, my two favorite puzzle games have released new versions - Bejeweled and Eggstreme, which is just making me want a smart phone. However, it's probably a good thing that I don't have access to these, because I would pretty much guarantee myself a case of repetitive stress injury. I even fall prey to the cheesy game that comes on the TiVo that is surprisingly fun.

I remember either tomcat or totoro telling me I should enter VH1's World Series of Pop Culture, but alas, I did not. However, I think I may have to watch!

Pirates and Trailers

Well, I made my contribution to the record-breaking weekend for Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest. The movie was much more popular than I would've expected, especially considering the mediocre reviews. As an extra bonus, we got to sit next to someone who greatly resembled Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons.

The movie was not bad, and I was entertained for a good period of it, but one of the highlights was the set of previews before the movie, possibly one of the better trailer lineups in recent memory.

First of all, there is Invincible, Yet Another Cheesy Feel-good Disney Sports Film, this time with Marky-Mark as a regular guy who becomes an NFL player. I continue to be a sucker.

Next up there is Fearless, billed as Jet Li's last major martial arts film, and again with the time-tested plot of one man up against great odds. In this case it's Jet Li up against a bunch of thuggish looking Westerners who want to break the spirit of China, or something.

Finally, there's Rocky Balboa. Highly anticipated "end" of the Rocky franchise, and a trailer that is not yet online. More underdog story goodness. I don't remember seeing Milo in the trailer, but Jess as Rocky Jr. has got to be funny.

There is a hilarious Save Marissa (from the OC) campaign and the blog for it has possibly minutes of entertainment. Oh, I don't think they intend to be hilarious, but that just makes it even more funny.

The summer TV press tour, which hypes the fall season, begins today, so we should be seeing lots of news about the upcoming shows.

To go with my obsession with Domino magazine, there's now a Domino Home Registry so that maybe you can con your friends and family into getting you home items that you want.

There really are talks about an Arrested Development movie!

The SciFi channel is airing Dark Angel, in case you missed it the first time around. Watch where Jessica Alba really got started, see the guy she was engaged to when she was like 19 (Michael Weatherly) and watch the absurd brilliance of having Jessica's character go into heat (James Cameron - genius!).

There's going to be a totally 80s version of Trivial Pursuit. Woo! Although I think I would do better on the one on the 90's or the pop culture one...

I have fallen into the evil clutches of Flickr. The tomcat and I have been looking at friends' Flickr albums and enjoying browsing their pictures, so we decided to get on the bandwagon and put all our pictures up. We're in the midst of editing and tagging all our pictures since we went digital, which means that we are very close to already running over our upload quota for the month (we're sharing one pro account). And this has prompted me to consider scanning all of my existing photo albums and making them digital. It might be fun... So that may be my summer project. Gecko, the roommate, may also join me in a photo-themed summer project as well, to put all her pictures in albums. At least it will give me something to do while I'm cleaning the last of Charmed and Gilmore Girls off the TiVo... Anyway, if you want to see the pictures, they're marked private so email me and I can hook you up.

Wow, in the UK you can program your DVR via text message. That would be awesome!

Timberlake

I don't think I've seen or heard anything about him (unrelated to Cameron Diaz) since the infamous Super Bowl incident several years ago. It seemed as though he was going down the route of Gavin Rossdale and planning to spend the rest of his days hanging with his famous significant other.

Guess not: Justin Timberlake Brings Sexy Back

Heh. "FutureSex/LoveSounds"
Is that supposed to be like "Love.Angel.Music.Baby" or... who knows.

I know that nyanko is going to download this as soon as she sees this post.

You know it's a slow news day when Alexis Bledel's love life gets covered. It's not like she's regular front page tabloid fodder... And to add insult to injury, Milo Ventimiglia doesn't even get his name mentioned in the title of the article. He's just 'boyfriend.' That's kind of sad, because seriously, it's not like she's way more famous than he is. Although she is a star on a show, albeit on a netlet...

Online Celebrity Gossip

There seems to be a proliferation of celebrity gossip type blogs these days, many of which are mostly indistinguishable from the others. The best way to describe these is a type of US Weekly with the occassional NSFW picture and captions that you could only find on the internet. Those of you who are interested may be want to check out sites such as:

http://www.idontlikeyouinthatway.com/
http://www.thesuperficial.com/
http://www.wwtdd.com/
http://www.socialitelife.com/

The first 3 are basically the same site with approximately 70% overlapping content and even somewhat similar commentary. The last one is less scathing and seems to have more variety.

Feel free to add your own.

Warning: Be prepared for an excessive amount of content concerning Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Jessica Simpson, and the other top tabloid stars of our day.

I keep getting sucked into whole bunch of new magazines that have come out recently. I pretty much just buy one issue when I see something new, but it's been kind of fun. The latest one I looked at was travel + romance, which is basically travel + leisure, but with a wedding spin, and if you know me, you know that I am a sucker for wedding "porn" and have been subscribing to wedding magazines for years. Unfortunately, the magazine was pretty light on content and on wedding info, which was very disappointing. They had features on some beautiful locations though, including a few that I haven't really thought about as vacation spots. But really, it ended up being more interesting for fun vacation information, so I think a real travel magazine would be a better resource and more fun to read.

The other magazine that I'm totally obsessed with is domino. I am so excited when it comes in the mail (although I just flipped through the latest issue and wasn't as excited about this one, so try another issue before judging). Anyway, I'm so excited about someday buying a house now! Plus, it has the great little post-it-like stickers for marking pages, which is borrowed from its sister magazine, Lucky.

I looked at the first issue of the Martha Stewart magazine Blueprint, but thought it had quite a bit of overlap with domino and wasn't as exciting as domino. Plus, the Martha Steward ethos isn't as appealing to me.

And in case you're also looking to indulge in reading about weddings, the classic good wedding magazines are Martha Stewart Weddings and InStyle Weddings

Season 4 of MI-5 will start playing on A&E on September 15th, in case you're interested.

Another dance movie, that doesn't look that great, but which I'm sure I'll end up seeing

And here's a movie with Rachel Bilson. She's so purty!

Battlestar Galactica starts season 3 on October 6th, with ten consecutive episodes and the remaining episodes in 2007. Start the countdown! And that gives all the slackers enough time to catch up on seasons one and two. Captain Apollo is soooo dreamy. (swoon)

I also realized that there's a project at work code-named Apollo and I'm trying to decide if it followed the traditional computer geek protocol of naming servers, etc. after Greek and Roman gods, or whether there's an out of control Battlestar geek on the loose (definitely not that unlikely)...

And I'm continuing to watch Treasure Hunters, but really it's because I miss the Amazing Race so much. So it's basically the methadone for my Amazing Race heroin, the one thing keeping me from going on a blood-soaked crime-filled rampage. Or maybe it's just one more show that's keeping me from finishing the April backlog of crap on my TiVo.