Straight Up, Wait Up, Hold Up

It's 2011! And I'm writing here! I hope everyone had a nice New Years. I hung out at D's with a few good friends. She promised us fireworks outside, but when we went outside, it was just the noise of creepy people being loud. Eh, good enough.

I've only decided on one resolution so far, and that's to successfully learn all of the lyrics to "Shoop" by Salt 'N Pepa. Once again I must praise the radio gods over at 106.7 for reminding me that it's a song (the prude in me doesn't think it's necessarily radio friendly, however! -) that I know the majority of the lyrics to. But not all. Goals are great, you guys. (And on a sidenote, I must praise them for playing The Macarena twice, in the span of a weekend. Stations just don't do that enough.)

I guess another Resolution that won't take less than 4 hours is to sit down and actually learn and appreciate all of the music that came out in 2010 that I know I'll like. New-ish Spoon, Matt Pond PA, New Pornographers... stuff that I haven't had to time to actually focus on, besides throwing one or two songs on a mix for a car ride. Like I said, it's been a lot harder to truly listen, post-record-store.

I will say, the songs that have been leaked from the soon-to-be-released new REM have been fantastic.



I managed to watch the Golden Globes the other night (bolded, since I think I'm going to talk about it a lot), since I think Ricky Gervais is delightful. And, yikes. I can't believe the amount of backlash he's getting. Make one joke about Sandra Bullock, and people lose their minds. Plus, it wasn't like he brought out a powerpoint or something to show how Scientologists are bonkers - his joke was the equivalent of a weird, brief comment your Aunt says, where you focus too much on figuring out if it was a compliment or an insult when all in all, it was just words.

If people truly wanted to feel pissed off at comments made towards Scientologists, I'm sure there are about 900 dorks with a webcam who have made lengthy videos. YouTube it!

And since I mentioned Sandra Bullock - didn't she seem pissed at the world? Maybe it was the bangs. I've tried bangs like that before, and they're great, if you don't want to see things well. (I'd mention Angelina also looking pissed at the world, but Angelina looks that way all the time.)

Seriously, you guys. Am I the only person who doesn't watch Glee? Did I take that poll here before? I feel like I did, but I can't believe the show has been so popular between all of my lack of posts. If I didn't say it before, I sure have thought it a lot. And felt silently angry about it.

Okay, okay, I get why people like it. But winner for the Best Comedy category? Are you 4 realz? I know it's technically Comedy/Musical, but come on, awards show! Separate them, or something! As someone who at one time wanted to be a comedy writer, I know there's a fine art to comedy. It's why they have auditions for SNL, and still end up failing most of the time.

Ahem. Anyway.

It's always nice to see Katey Sagal, even though I've never watched Sons of Anarchy. It was equally fun pretending that Leela was winning the award, by closing my eyes during her speech (perhaps that's why Sandra had those bangs.)

I have about half a sentence to say about the rest of the show, so here are some fragments.

Awesome to see win: Trent Reznor
I knew he was cute when I saw The Social Network: Andrew Garfield
But also, he has an accent, and stumbles over words like WE do!: Andrew Garfield
Andrew Garfield's co-star who scares me with his hair and face: Jesse Eisenberg
Interesting Dress: Natalie Portman
Interesting Speech Topic: Natalie Portman
Interesting Laugh that simultaneously gave me night terrors: Natalie Portman
Dress That Looked Like My 8th Grade Dance Dress: Michelle Williams
Best In Show, Audience Participation/Presentation-Wise: Emma Stone

And in final Golden Globes news, it was cool seeing Christian Bale steal Conor's most recent hairstyle, and Conor steal Christian Bale's award-face.


Anyway. Know what's scary? I'm turning 27 on Saturday. That means I'm going to spend this week lamenting over the things I didn't get to do when I was 26 - namely, "hug a koala". It was my one goal that I figured 26 was the year for, but sadly, the koala population in Lancaster, PA is at an all time low.

This Friday I will hopefully gather with friends, and NBC has been nice enough to schedule the season premiere of Parks & Recreation the Thursday before. Remember when I was lamenting about it not being on till next January? Scroll down, it was probably like, 3 entries ago.

My sister actually already thought I was 27, so this isn't big news for her. She mentioned this to me back in mid-December, during our Belz pre-Christmas Christmas celebration, so hopefully she was just rounding up, and not under false pretenses for the majority of 2010.

If anyone who reads this is over 27, please let me know what I should expect in my 27th year of living. I can offer information for the years of 25 and 26, but in summary, it'd sound a lot like "Bummer, man. 21 through 24 were the glory days." Hopefully I'll fall into a cake, like Dawson Leery did.*

Thus, as a conclusion to my most-likely last entry of my 26th year, I'm going to share with you one of the few things that has made this year more charming. Here's an animated gif of Jason Sudeikis dancing. What Up With That.


You're welcome.

* (See? I told you I'd mention it again. And since YouTube pulled the clip, and since I don't want to spend more than 3 hours googling "Dawson Leery Falls Into a Birthday Cake" - which sadly this blog is already on the first page for... maybe you can borrow a friend's DVD set to see what I'm talking about.) (Oh, your friend totally owns the Season 2 DVD of Dawson's Creek. Trust me.)