Daily View, 5/08

Note: the abundance of movies titles in this post that begin with the word CAN'T was unintentional.

• Lions and people must learn to get along already. I'm all for it.


• If I were a boy, I'd be the geekiest, because I'd only go out in public wearing video game polos like these. And I liked that whole goggles trend a few years back, a la Seth Green in Can't Hardly Wait (ack, 1998!). So basically I'd be a total dork. I'm okay with that.


• When people do stuff like this murphy desk, why can't they ever get it right? Think I'm putting my computer on that thing, only to have it crash to the floor on a nightly basis? Sigh.


• As a former perfume pusher, I'm flabbergasted by this unifaith fragrance.


• Dan Smith is real? No way.


• This is the most gloriously gay thing I've ever seen in my life. My IGM is drunk with it's fabulousness: Can't Stop The Music


• This article about Mark Mothersbaugh seems about three years late. "Suddenly" he's everywhere?? He's been everywhere for a while now. Come on...


• Origami beer labels would give all us unfortunate twitchsters something to do with ourselves instead of pick the paper off the bottles, that's for sure. I do this totally unconsciously, and it's always mildly embarrassing, especially in situations that resemble dates. Sigh.


• I'm totally expecting to see the pet umbrella on the streets of Manhattan any day now. Now pets can put out the eyes of other pets, just like we get to do with our own species. Woo!


• Am intruiged by these Scott Westerfeld books, though I haven't read any of them. Uglies turning into pretties... isn't that what good drag is for?


• Random musing: I have very mixed feelings about Patrick Dempsey. Loved him in Can't Buy Me Love in the 80s, of course, but damn he's made some bad choices along the way (not even the combined forces of Dempsey's rooster-wielding college DJ, the generally underused Moira Kelly, and a hit Madonna single on the soundtrack could save that Joe Pesci/Brendan Fraser steampile about the Harvard Bum) and is reported to be something of an egotistical asshole (apparently he used his Ivy League education to make his costars on Mobsters feel inferior... haha, like it would really take that much to intimidate poor Richard Grieco...). After a mainstream hit with Sweet Home Alabama, now he's on Gray's Anatomy and his name pops up all over the place, prefaced by inane nicknames like "Dr. McHotness". Much more of this and I'll have to strike him from my watchlist entirely. Sigh.


• Sorry, random Patrick Dempsey item continues, in a way... I just recalled a (pretty awful) movie of his I saw long ago called Some Girls, which also starred a young and still ignored Jennifer Connelly. I bring this up because those girls had a room in their house at the end of the hall that was accessible via a hidden door within a painting of the famous unicorn tapestries. I always thought that was cool. Someday I've got to make enough money to build some sort of hidden door or secret passageway into my residence.


• What the hell is this??? As someone with an interest in dragons (which I rarely admit to and which manifests itself in other ways... ahem, T. Rexes), I am ashamed that this exists.


• I dig the new violent Jetta ads, but then I'm one of those people who never looks away from the screen in the theatres. Do they make me want to buy a Jetta? Not really. But, perversely, they do make me miss driving. I had a twinge of an urge to move back to the Midwest and buy a car. Sure, maybe a VW. Sigh.