Fruit from the Poisoned Tree - My wife was hurt while trying to get Oranges this weekIt's been a busy week in Mr. Mike land, so here's to catching up:
Orange Tree Pain - My wife had an accident while picking Oranges this week and hurt her arm. It's still healing but at least it's not broken. It's been a painful week for her, hopefully it will heal faster than the Doctor said. Poor Bunny :(
Dream On, Michael Johns - Simon wanted Michael Bolton but got Steven Tyler instead and saw Johns suffer the fate most people who go on first with immediate elimination. Johns was given a double whammy in the fake out from Ryan Seacrest by being led to believe the Idol Gives Back no elimination clause would be enacted before the axe dropped.
Give 'Til it Hurts - American Idol's Idol Gives Back telethon was well intentioned but the performances seemed as scattershot as the regular show. Carrie Underwood gave a nice version of George Michael's "Praying For Time" while handing over her major hit "Before He Cheats" to...Teri Hatcher? Heart tag teamed Fergie on a charged "Barracuda" with Fergie doing everything she could to upstage the Wilsons. Towards the end, Fergie even resorted to singing while doing one handed flips across the front of the stage. Myley Cyrus played two songs aimed way below my age group and comedians Robin Williams and Jimmy Kimmel both tested my patience (hearing Simon Cowell's nipples compared to peppermills? I could have lived without that). Fortunately I recorded it so I was able to fast forward the boring parts and viewed about 15 minutes in total. At least you can't question the intent or the positive feelings that went into the telethon.
Wanna Be On Top? - With her hurt arm, my wife has been into watching marathons of America's Top Ego-I mean, Model featuring Tyra Banks. The show consists mainly of catfights and backstabbing in between pretty pictures. The best part of the show is when Tyra feels the need to recreate her model posturing as object lessons. C'mon Tyra you can do it, don't you know there's nothing to it?
Unskinny Bop - Rock of Love 2 just wrapped up with Bret Michaels finding the woman who loves his selection of headbands the most. He selected Amber, the level headed one who is actually closer to his age. In the first Rock of Love, Michaels chose his fallen angel only to be rejected on the closing reunion show. Will Michaels' rose have a thorn or has he found something to believe in? Can I work any more Poison song titles in? Talk Dirty To Me! Not really, just having Nothin' But A Good Time.
Left Turn Clyde - I finally saw the movie Harold and Maude (1971) on Tv, it tells the story of an alienated young man with a preoccupation with death falling in love with an 80 year old woman with a lust for life and survivor of a Jewish concentration camp. It starred Ruth Gordon who I know mainly from Clint Eastwood's Every Which Way But Loose movies. Harold and Maude lived up to its reputation, the characters felt real and the story got you caught up in their lives and unusual romance.
The First Heat of Summer - Amid the recently warm weather in California, the first barrage of Summer movie advertising has kicked in. Iron Man looks like a winner. Speed Racer still looks bad, at least they've added the nostalgia of including the booster leg sound (ch-ch-ch-ch) in the commercials. Made of Honor looks like junk, it appears to be My Best Friend's Wedding with Patrick Dempsey in the Julia Roberts role. Dempsey made a slew of failed rom coms in the late 80's, looks like history is about to repeat. Prom Night debuted as the #1 movie this week with Brittney Snow in the traditional Jamie Lee Curtis role (wasn't there a Prom Night movie in the early 80's? Seems familiar). One more reason not to go to prom. Forgetting Sarah Marshall has some potential except in a case of irony I keep forgetting about it. Street Kings also hit the screens starring my wife's least favorite actor, Keanu Reeves. Whoa.
No Life 'Til Leather - The posting earlier with Some Kind of Wonderful got me wondering if there were any videos of Metallica with Dave Mustaine before that fateful coast to coast van trip that led to his firing. To my surprise there actually were some. The one below is "The Mechanix", a Dave Mustaine song that Metallica rewrote after firing Dave and retitled "The Four Horsemen". The video and audio quality isn't great, but here's early Metallica in all their head banging glory.
Metallica "The Mechanix"
4 comments:
Sounds like I've caused you a bit of pain by watching too much America's Next Top Model. It was just filler while I studied. Sorry honey.
Dave gets kudos from me for being able to bang his head like that while intoxicated. I would be tossing my cookies. Seriously, have you ever done that Mr. Mike? It can be a painful experience, trust me.
Poor Bunny. I'm with you Mr. Mike, I hope she heals up really fast. Darned old orange trees. They are sly, they are. Always looking for the chance to injure someone. (grew up in FL, know all about those sinister orange trees)
Thanks for tracking down the old Metallica. That was a treat, even is the quality was a bit off. HA!
Our poor little Bunny. You take care of her, you hear! :)
Hi Mr. Mike, I hope your absence from your blog means you are taking especially good care of poor Bunny and her booboo. :) Come back when you can. We will await your next blog with patience. See ya!
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