Do you like the list blogs? I have a short attention span, so I actually like pictures best. Nevertheless, here's my list blog for the month:
5 Things Everyone Else Loves but I HATE
1. Woody Allen. I hate his movies and although I haven't met him personally, I hate him, too (he married his stepdaughter... he MARRIED his STEPdaughter). Self-important, angst-filled and ineffectual. My least favorite kind of man. Why on earth would I choose to watch him?
2. Snowmobiling. I don't think it's fun and you can't make me.
3. The Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Their music gives me the creeps. It makes me want to skip Sunday School class and get a nose piercing. I have spent a lot of time thinking about this and here is my self-psychoanalysis as to why: the music I like best is passionate and personal and expressive. I feel like everything about the MoTab choir is about conformity and suppression. And I don't think that represents Mormonism at it's best (we believe in personal revelation for crying out loud).
4. The Dangers of Global Warming. I just can't believe that human beings are as powerful as they say we are. I smell a rat. I adore Dennis Miller's rants on this subject. "There's a lot of differing data [about global warming], but as far as I can gather, over the last hundred years the temperature on this planet has gone up 1.8 degrees. Am I the only one who finds that amazingly stable? I could go back to my hotel room tonight and futz with the thermostat for three to four hours. I could not detect that difference.
Then people ask me if I'm worried about the effects of global warming on my kids. Well, obviously I love my kids and I want them to live to be a 100. So that's another 1.8 degrees. My kids’ kids? Three point six. I'll just tell them we moved to Phoenix."
More reasons why I like Dennis Miller (he is the opposite of Woody Allen):
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101031222-561278,00.html
5. Cell phones. I just hate them. It drives my technophile husband crazy. I tried hard to love my Razor, but I don't. It's like another child I have to feed (charge) and talk to at the most inopportune moments.
5 Things Everyone Else Loves and I Love Too
1. Obama. Yes We Can. I know what you're going to say and I don't care. He represents change and hope and that's how I want to keep it.
2. This blog: http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/ I know I'm late to the dance, but there it is. It's funny.
3. My iPod Shuffle. I am not over it. I love it so much.
4. 30 Rock. Tina Fey is the most brilliant comedian of my lifetime. She seems like a real woman, not someone else's idea of what a funny woman might be like. I adore her writing and her show (but not her politics). And Jack Donaghy: another opposite to Woody Allen.
5. Blogging. Who knew? I resisted for so long, but I like having a place for my own little blurbs. Welcome to 2006, Rachel.
12 comments:
Obama is the Mormon Tabernacle Choir of liberalism. Just sing along Rachel...
"http://www.barackobama.com/issues/energy/#restore-us-leadership
Dennis Miller on Obama: “First, I’d have to see if he’s willing to pre-emptively kill radical Islamic terrorists (he showed footage of a man in Arab gear, fondling a rifle) because that’s all I’m really looking for in a president these days. Everything else is gravy.”
I concur. By the way, I love the rest of you post. Very funny and interesting.
Woody Allen: I know, right? I for some reason tried to watch some of one of his films recently and was done after a half hour. I was really done after 15 minutes (in the which an 17-year old played by Scarlett Johannson casually sleeps with a 45-year-old musician and then befriends a foggy old magician [played by guess who] to embark upon solving some mystery) but thought: He's an institution, maybe I'm missing something. Nope, an awful human being and I don't mind making the value judgment either. (Good to see you Randy.)
So here's a litmus test for ya: Dennis Miller v. Tina Fey. Who comes out on top?
-Jeremy (using Moll's account)
Is it sexist if I choose Dennis Miller? Tina Fey is funnier but I can't resist a rant. But I would choose 30 Rock over Dennis Miller any day.
LOOOOOVE the quote from Dennis Miller. That's awesome. Great list Rach! Could not agree with you more on Woody Allen. When people call him "brilliant" what they really mean is that he's one of those really weird people who if he wasn't rich he would be mumbling to himself in downtown Manhattan, begging for some spare change.
What I really want to know is whether Miller is as genius as he seems to be, or whether he is just really really prepared any time he is appearing somewhere. Colbert, for instance, is just as fast on his feet, but Miller can pull obscure references out of thin air--sometimes completely going over his audience's head.
Colbert on Clinton's bloggers pulling out of the race now that Obama is dominating the Dem race:
"They are getting the crap hoped out of them!"
Here's another one of my favorite Miller quotes: "Relax, we'll replace oil when we need to. American ingenuity will kick in and the next great fortune will be made. It's not pretty, but it is historically accurate. We need to run out of oil first. That's why I drive an SUV: so we run out of it more quickly. I consider myself at the vanguard of the environmental movement and I think the individuals who insist on driving hybrids are just prolonging our dillemma and I think that's just selfish. Come on, don't you care about our Mother Earth? Don'tcha?"
And I don't think he's genius: just smart and uber-prepared. A form of genius?
I know I'm probably really late to the conversation, but I just wanted to say that Tina Fey is one of my heroes. And I LOVE 30 Rock (and Barack)!
Niece Rachel
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