Meh.

[eggwards]

Meh.

I say Meh. tonight to the fact that "Dreamgirls" didn't get nominated for Best Picture Oscar. I guess I'm one of the only gays who hasn't seen this movie and doesn't plan to. Good for Jennifer Hudson, but personally I'd love to see Amber Breslin win for "Little Miss Sunshine".

I say Meh. tonight to President Bush's State of the Union speech where he just rehashed a whole domestic agenda that he's proposed before. Lot of big statements with very little answers to them. So you want to provide more healthcare to people by cutting their taxes...yeah. Once he got on to the whole Iraq/War on Terror part I tuned away to "The Stepford Wives."

I say Meh. to last night's "Heroes" for being dull. Too much of the I've got powers and they're ruining my life bit. Thank goodness for the actor playing Hiro or this episode would have been unbearable.

I say Meh. to the fact that I can no longer find Beef Romanov flavor Hamburger Helper in the store anymore. Some of the new flavors aren't as good, and I don't like that they changed the Beef Taco flavor's pasta. why the change? It's not healthier or anything.

I say Meh. to Sirius Satellite Radio for deciding that they want to have a "Jamie Foxx" channel which will move OutQ to another station on the dial as they want the "Foxxhole" to be next to the other comedy channels (including "Blue Collar Radio"). More channels I have no reason to listen to.

I say Meh. to the "controversy" of Grey's Anatomy star Issac Washington calling TR Knight a "faggot" or maybe he didn't, who the heck knows. Just friggin' apologize properly, go into rehab for a while and try to keep your job. Still, i guess I wouldn't be taken aback so much by being called a faggot, really.

Speaking of that, Meh. to the Donnie Davies/God Hates Fags thing. Poor guy just couldn't get a date, I suppose, so now he's Ex-Gay - or something. I have to agree with Matty that it's a farce since the band and the ministry websites were recently created and he said the band has existed for some time. I call shenanigans. Or stupidity. whatever.

Meh. to the Red Hot Chili Peppers (all your songs sound the same) and to Rage Against the Machine (all your rants sound the same).

Meh to the controversy of Dakota Fanning being in a movie shown at Sundance where her character is raped. Not something I'd see for sure, and everyone will stay away if she screams like she did in "War of the Worlds." Still, if her parents were cool with it, and she was, then by all means. She'll probably need therapy for many things later on, why not one more.

Lastly, I say Meh. to the guy who made me get up and go to work an hour and a half early to give a speech about his group and their business plans which didn't include us. I certainly know what his group is going to do, but I don't know what my group does to support his agenda. it also doesn't help when you create acronyms that aren't industry standard and you don't explain them. I wish I could have slept through your meeting.

Now let's hear it for getting some sleep.

Comments

[bendawg.livejournal.com]

Oh great. Now I have to re-set my OutQ preset. Dumb company. The comedy channels can be nice on a (lonely) long drive, but I doubt I'll like what runs on the Jamie Foxx one.

[eggwards.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure when the unnecessary Jamie Foxx channel premiers. It says "sometime this spring." I guess when they name a date, the OutQ channel change will be announced. All of Sirius Channels have moved around a bit since I've started subscribing. I guess they just want to keep the comedy channels together. I bet they will move it closer to the Cosmo and Martha channels.

I know that they are trying to get another bit of niche programming, something you can't get on regular radio (hence OutQ in the first place), but I'd gladly lose NASCAR and Maxim and a few others to get a more complete '90s channel and a true Adult Alternative channel - the Pulse doesn't quite cut it. It's something that XM has that I wouldn't mind having on Sirius. Oh, and better dance/electronic channels.

[rowgun.livejournal.com]

thank god i'm not the only one that was repulsed by Dakota Fanning's screaming - War of the worlds would have been an alright movie if it had not been for that.

boo on having to change my sirius presets. And boo on sirius for making OutQ have to change all their promos now.

[eggwards.livejournal.com]

War of the World just didn't make sense. I understand what Spielburg was doing, try to take a family in crisis and put them in a situation that is a sci fi metaphor for terrorism and war, but the movie just didn't work. Cruise trying to play action-hero-as-dad and Dakota whelping all the while just didn't set the right tone. Lastly, I get the whole thing of having the creatures ships underground - more of the terror from where you least expect it, but it so didn't make sense. No one found these things while surveying or digging? Crazy.

Yeah, I guess OutQ has some work to do. hopefully they will find a replacement for John McMullen's show too, replacing it with that sappy love songs junk is terrible. I can get that on Sirius Love if I ever wanted it!

[scotbear.livejournal.com]

Dreamgirls? Haven't seen it yet and don't know if I will. I saw it twice on Broadway and any movie will have a lot to do to measure up. I'm afraid it won't transfer well to film. And Jennifer Hudson may be great, but no one hold a candle to Jennifer Holliday, who originated the role.

Heros? Lost interest long ago!

Greys Anatomy? I've never seen it and don't care.

Sirius? WHY???? It's bad enough I have to pay for TV...I'm definitely not paying for radio!!

[eggwards.livejournal.com]

I'm sure Dreamgirls is fine, it just isn't something I run out to see. As far as musicals go, I like the classics, Kiss Me Kate, Finnian's Rainbow, Oklahoma!, and the Music Man. A lot of the moderen ones don't really hold up in terms of great songs. I do like Evita, and I like a little bit of Phantom, but it's really overdone - especially the film -awful. I liked the Producers, but it envoked the older style of musicals. I'd love to see Avenue Q, though.

Well, it depends on how you use media. If you have cable and you actually watch shows on the far flung channels like Bravo and Food Network and FX, then it's worth it. You get so much choice and diversity. Same goes for Satellite radio. We don't have a left-leaning talk station in Dallas, or gay programming here in Dallas, but Sirius does. that also goes for New Wave, Bluegrass, Broadway, Dance and electronica. While broadcast radio sticks to the hits, and radio for the masses, sattelite radio programs for niches. It's definitely worth it...and the music channels don't have commercials!

[grunter.livejournal.com]

I double your "meh" to Coachella. RHCP? RATM? The last time I checked the calendar read 2007, not 1993. To make the perfect trifecta of "alterna-suck," why didn't they just cap the line-up off with Green Day?

Ugh.

[eggwards.livejournal.com]

I'm a fan of Green Day. At least they've made a relavent album in the last five years - even if it's overplayed.

You want to talk about alterna-suck, let's throw in My Chemical Romance, Good Charlotte, Fall Out Boy, and 30 Seconds to Mars - good greif, stop whining!

[bearpawly.livejournal.com]

That quite a lot of meh-saying.

But, some occasions are more meh than others.

You sorta covered things for me, so now I don't have to.

Bush just wants lots of good soundbites...people quoting him saying good things, media buzz about his plans. He wants that immediate buzz like a sugar rush, hoping nobody notices when he doesn't follow up on it. And, if they do notice, maybe it'll be close enough to the end of his second term that he can shrug and shuck and jive his way through it.

Now, I say meh.

[eggwards.livejournal.com]

Bush has always been a soundbite guy. He has writers for a reason, and he's not allowed to go off script very often because - well, we know the results. Still, he's not a strong speaker by any means. Sadly, many people saw this as a point of identification with the President - as if valadating being idiots together. It's embarassing.

Unfortunately neither Gore nor Kerry were able to come across as less than aloof, and they lost points even though they can actually communicate. It's sad whith what we put up with, playing to the average rather than expecting better.

At least the majority of people are starting to see what we've gotten ourselves into.