5 posts tagged “tv”
True Blood is a new show HBO will air sometime this year, I believe. Here are links on it ...
From IMDB ... The series follows Sookie Stackhouse, a barmaid living in Louisianna who can read people's minds, and how her life is turned upside down when the Vampire Bill, walks into her place of employment two years after vampires "came out of the coffin" on national television.
Sookie Stackhouse is played by Anna Paquin.
The guy behind it is Alan Ball, who did American Beauty and Six Feet Under.
It sounds kind of cool, but I am confused about why it is taking so long to air. I think it has something to do with the writers' strike. When you read the message board on IMDB, though, it sounds like people have already seen episodes of this show, but maybe it just seems that way (edit ... maybe they have just read the books).
The show is based on Charlaine Harris' "Southern Vampires Mysteries" books.
There are two videos on the internet that show Alicia, the daughter on the 1/2/08 episode of ABC's reality show, "Wife Swap". Alicia is portrayed as a spoiled princess who doesn't have to do chores or homework. Her mother does her homework for her. She also complains to her mom about breakfast cereal being bad, and she is rude to the wait staff at restaurants.
Here is the YouTube video ...
Here is a video from The Huffington Post website (it will be the first video that comes up) ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/04/this-weeks-must-see-vide_n_79615.html
The video is pretty outrageous and hard to believe, but I think it is true for the most part. However, they left out some important parts of the show. Alicia's mother switches with a very feminist mother who homeschools her children. The feminist mother actually gets along with Alicia in the end, and Alicia learns how to cook and she does her own homework. Therefore, it may be Alicia's parents who have the problem, not Alicia. Also, the feminist mother is not perfect. She kind of shelters her children from the real world by keeping them at home all the time. She does give in a little at the end, though, and lets her young daughter dress up like a beauty queen. The top two videos are still pretty funny, no matter how much they leave out. You can download the entire episode if you want. Just search for "wife swap torrent", and make sure you have a program on your computer like bittorrent. When the search results come up, look for the "season 4, episode 1 wife swap" or some kind of result like that. You can find a torrent of just about anything if you search enough.
In 1976 Glen Campbell and Olivia Newton-John had a TV special called "Down Home, Down Under" (according to Wikipedia). I would actually pay money for a high-quality DVD of this show, but I don't think it's available (I will look on Amazon later). Olivia sang one of my favorite songs of hers, "Greensleeves", during one segment of the show. Greensleeves is an extremely old song, of course, and it has been done by tons of artists, but Olivia's is my favorite version. The scenery in the video is pretty nice, too.
Here is the YouTube video of it ...
The funny thing about that YouTube video is that it was just uploaded yesterday by an Olivia Newton-John fan. The video was available over a year or two ago on YouTube, but it was taken down for some reason (as if people can purchase it somewhere else ... which they can't as far as I know). I have a feeling it will be taken down again so I will post it again below for posterity ...
Update ... There is another good video of Olivia Newton-john on YouTube that was uploaded by the same person who uploaded the "Greensleeves" video. The video is Olivia singing the song, "Amoureuse", at a 1974 Nana Mouskouri concert. The video, along with Olivia's look and expressions, has that quintessential 70s look that reminds me of movies like "Carrie". The song is good, too.
Here is the video again just in case it gets deleted from YouTube (which happens a lot!) ...
I know there is a German version of "Xanadu". It's by a German singer named Irene Sheer. I used to have it on my computer, but I don't anymore. I really need to archive this kind of stuff somehow so I don't lose it.
I posted that I had some Joost invites to spare, and I got tons of emails so I just wanted to let everyone know out there that if they want to try out Joost, then they can get an invite easily by going here ...
http://joost.com/presents/gigaom-newteevee/
I found out about this by going to the very cool tech site, Gigaom.com ...
http://gigaom.com/2007/05/07/get-joost-invites-from-gigaom/
If anyone out there needs a Joost invite, email me at xanadistic@gmail.com, and I will gladly send you one. If you don't know what Joost is, well you can read about it at http://joost.com. It's basically TV on your computer that you can pause and comment on while the program is going. It has a ton of potential, but it definitely needs more channels besides JumpTV Arabia's "Hekayat Zoug Mouaser" (a show that has the longest intro/theme song in the history of television, and I am not exaggerating!).
