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[liptonrm_backup]

While with the Baylors last night we watched the MTV Movie Awards on TiVo. It was, we all agreed, the best MTVMAs we'd seen in a while. There was a great meta bit where Superman gave Batman the award for Best Hero and Samuel L. Jackson talking about Snakes on a Plane (BTW, you will never not sound crazy when you try to explain the whacky fun that is the internet anticipation for Snakes on a Plane so don't worry about the weird looks because Samuel L. Jackson understands and that's all the approbation anyone needs =D). The only downside was a problem that happens a lot when I'm over there. As a group we had the awesome idea that Adrian Grenier should've been a presenter but he should've presented as Vincent Chase (his character on Entourage). He would've been introduced as Aquaman and come out on stage with all of his boys because Vinnie doesn't do anything without all of his boys. That would've been the height of incredibleness and for the rest of the broadcast I was vaguely disappointed this didn't happen.

You know what sucks? The fact that Entourage season three has started and none of us has HBO.

I was talking to my mother the other day about HBO original shows (oh, that's right, Garret Dillahunt was a murderer of the week on L&O and I brought up his many murderous roles on Deadwood, anyway ...) and I might brand myself as a prude by saying this, but for all of the great things that HBO originals have going for them it's kind of funny how they think that just because they can show naked people and drop a couple f-bombs it makes them so much better then everyone else. I can think of a few times where a random sex scene took me completely out of the story and at least once when a sexual relationship was used as a kind of storytelling shorthand to gloss over the fact that the writers just didn't care to give the characters any other sort of rationalization for their actions and it range false. Does this mean that HBO is kinda like fandom in the way that fandom would be happiest if everyone were sleeping with everyone else all the time? Probably not but the combination of the two probably says a lot about modern storytelling tropes which might make an interesting paper if someone were so inclined to write it.

I hope that meandering bs has broken up everyone's Thursday afternoons a little bit. Afternoons are always dead on lj but Thursdays are always the worst, for some strange, inexplicable reason (my money's on aliens, or the Stonecutters). I now return you to your regularly scheduled Thursday afternoon slump.

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[writerj.livejournal.com]

I might brand myself as a prude by saying this, but for all of the great things that HBO originals have going for them it's kind of funny how they think that just because they can show naked people and drop a couple f-bombs it makes them so much better then everyone else.

YES thank you. I thought I was the only one who thought HBO either overrated or lacking the execution to match the ambition.

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

I think they're problem is that they've spent so much time being 'edgier then thou' that they've never tried to create a show with characters that are actually relatable. Or, I don't know, maybe it's just that HBO thinks that it's better then all of us and that snobbery bleeds through into their programming.

Heck, I think the only show on that network that works for me on all levels is Entourage and that's kinda funny. It is what it is and it's not trying to change the world but there's lots of pretty people so that's all just fine. ;-)

[zixi.livejournal.com]

I GOT THE THING YOU SENT!

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[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

You are SO WELCOME, OMG!

And I am not nearly as awesome as you are. =D