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So, what’s a blogger to do when his partner in crime goes home for the weekend? Does he go on an all-out bender? Get all emo? Repress the emotional turmoil? Or, does he call up two fine young ladies and start an AIMcast? Yeah, that’s it. Join us as we discuss: 90210, How I Met Your Mother, Shia LeBeouf, Miley Cyrus, Twilight, American Apparel ads, Sia, Spring Standards, pop rocks, and waaaaaay more. Extra special thanks to my guests Rohini and Kirsten.

AIM: boomcity 8/3/08 8:14 PM
Neal has joined this chat.
Kirsten has joined this chat.
Kirsten: I meant to have the season premiere of Mad Men watched by now
Kirsten: but I don’t
Kirsten: I don’t want any spoilers
Neal: OK.
Neal: Well, let’s get started and hopefully Ro will pop in.
Kirsten: So what’s up?
Neal: Well, let’s see - NASA discovered - or claims to have discovered - water on Mars.
Kirsten: Liquid water?
Neal: Ice. But maybe a little liquid too?
Neal: I mean, even ice is a big deal
Kirsten: I thought we knew about ice?
Kirsten: I’m not super up on my Mars discoveries though
Kirsten: I thought there were traces of polar ice caps
Neal: I think no matter what, if we ever get people there it’ll just be like that movie Event Horizon
Neal: i.e. blood. dead bodies. and zero G fire
Kirsten: I never saw Event Horizon
Kirsten: so I don’t know
Neal: It was unnecessarily scary.

Kirsten: I think it would be long enough before we could have colonies that it’s not really an issue for our lifetimes
Kirsten: Therefore, I am bored
Neal: Well, speaking of things that will be happening in our lifetimes (like how I turned that around?) - that Harry Potter trailer is least revealing trailer ever.
Kirsten: It’s just one scene
Kirsten: but that’s fine with me
Neal: It’s not even an entire scene
Kirsten: I’m sick of trailers that reveal too much
Kirsten: like the eighty bajillion trailers for Dark Knight
Kirsten: I had to stop watching, it pissed me off
Neal: There is no new information in this.
Kirsten: I don’t want new information
Kirsten: I’m going to see the movie anyway, I’d rather it be a surprise
Neal: They could have made this trailer 4 years ago.
Kirsten: That’s fine
Kirsten: Wasn’t the book already out four years ago?
Neal: Well, let me revise my statement - there is nothing that reveals the movie.
Kirsten: So?
Kirsten: What do you want revealed?
Kirsten: It’s so tiresome to have seen the movie before you see it
Neal: I don’t know - new characters? I love the new professors they bring in every movie.
Neal: I haven’t read any of the books.
Kirsten: But you’re going to see the movie, right?
Kirsten: So it’s better to not see bits of it beforehand
Kirsten: Just enough to get some atmosphere
Neal: Yeah. Maybe this is just the teaser trailer
Kirsten: Oh, it definitely is
Kirsten: I’m sure there will be about eight more before it opens
Neal: Oh! Oh! I was at B/N today, and as I was checking out, I noticed there was like 500 copies of the same book behind the counter and I asked, “Was there a book signing?” and the cashier said, “Nah, those are pre-orders for this new book that came out, it’s about some girl who falls in love with a vampire”
Kirsten: Oh
Kirsten: Twilight?
Kirsten: I think that’s the name of the series
Kirsten: The third book just came out recently
Kirsten: Apparently it’s super super emo
Neal: Ugh. Why are vampires such a thing with teenagers?
Kirsten: They’re sexy
Kirsten: but dangerous
Kirsten: I would have been totally into it in high school
Kirsten: Right between my Anne Rice and Buffy obsessions
Neal: Haha. AHAHA. ANNE RICE! Who are you? Kirsten Dunst?
Kirsten: Shut up
Kirsten: Like you never liked anything that sucked
Neal: I’m just saying, vampires are lame.
Neal: Ever since Joss Whedon tried to make them cool, they have totally sucked.
Kirsten: Buffy is good
Kirsten: Angel was pretty sexy in season two
Neal: Alyson Hannigan was good. Not Buffy.
Kirsten: The Anne Rice thing is completely dorky
Neal: Anne Rice reminds me of like, people who are into Xena and Bab 5 and Ren-Faires
Kirsten: I used to watch Xena when I was wee
Kirsten: But apparently Cedric, of the Harry Potter movies, will play some guy in the Twilight movie
Kirsten: There was an EW cover that I saw somewhere
Kirsten: http://gofugyourself.celebuzz.com/go_fug_yourself/2008/07/fug_the_cover_the_twilight_cas.html
Kirsten: They look horrrrible
Neal: See, this is what I’m talking about.
Neal: I don’t see a single redeeming thing about this.
Kirsten: Me neither
Kirsten: I agree which pretty much all of the fug girls’ criticisms
Kirsten: Supercreepy, and not in a sexy way
Neal: Wait - I think I’ve seen the trailer for this.
Neal: Well - what about Wolverine?
Neal: They give Hugh Jackman his own movie to go berserk and slash up dudes.
Neal: I’m not sure I really care a whole lot about that either.
Kirsten: I still couldn’t find that trailer
Kirsten: but I can’t get excited about it
Neal: Yeah. Looks like Marvel has gotten a bit assy and sent out takedown notices.
Kirsten: I’m pretty much done with Marvel
Kirsten: even though I was always a DC girl
Neal: Are you serious?
Neal: DC?
Neal: What the hell
Neal: Why are you into 80 year old crappy archetypal superheroes that haven’t evolved in 60 years?
Kirsten: Batman, mostly
Kirsten: Maybe I’m not a DC girl
Kirsten: It’s pretty much just Batman
Kirsten: I used to like Spiderman, before the movies
Kirsten: I was into the XMen thing but I don’t need it to continue
Ro has joined this chat.
Ro: Hi
Ro: Sorry sorry!
Kirsten: Hey
Kirsten: What’s up?
Ro: Not much
Ro: How are you guys?
Kirsten: Good, good
Kirsten: Or about the same, anyway
Neal: Oh, so since our last AIMcast there have been some changes.
Neal: Ro got a new job.
Ro: Yep
Kirsten: Lucky
Ro: And got rid of all extraneous men
Ro: which is always good
Neal: And now she wants to dress like a hipster.
Neal: It’s her life’s ambition
Ro: LOL
Ro: Right
Ro: I’m just not cool enough to be a hipster
Neal: That’s totally not true.
Kirsten: In what way with the hipster?
Kirsten: Not skinny jeans
Kirsten: Please tell me no skinny jeans
Ro: What’s wrong with skinny jeans?
Ro: I think if worn properly, they look good
Ro: if you wear boots over them
Neal: They shouldn’t look painted on.
Kirsten: Skinny jeans are from hell
Kirsten: If you’re eight feet tall with stick legs, I say go to it and good luck
Kirsten: Everybody else looks wretched in them
Neal: Yes. Clearly Satan manifested them into places like Hot Topic and American Apparel just to fuck with us
Kirsten: Manifested?
Kirsten: Satan runs American Apparel
Neal: Kirsten.
Kirsten: I know, he’s an alum
Neal: Haha. Yeah.
Neal: I still can’t get over how they put him on the cover of that one Choate alumni mag
Kirsten: Did they?
Neal: Yeah
Kirsten: I haven’t looked at a Choate magazine for a while
Neal: And this was like 3 years AFTER the whole “masturbating in front of reporters and getting sued for sexual harassment by everyone who worked at the company” thing.
Ro: Ick
Neal: Still, the guy makes good t shirts.
Kirsten: Does he?
Neal: Yes.
Kirsten: I’ve never bought anything from them, I thought the quality was supposed to suck
Ro: Apparently
Ro: he’s now hiring porn stars as his models
Kirsten: Oh, why not?
Ro: There’s an article about how he is just now selling sex
Ro: Not clothes
Ro: but just straight up sex
Kirsten: I don’t have a problem with that
Kirsten: I feel like, if you’re paid to do a job, you either do it or quit
Neal: See
Neal: He doesn’t really pay his models
Neal: except perhaps in trade.
Neal: Or coke.
Neal: Although, that last one is just a rumor.
Neal: Yes. Well, before it was just workers and young girls.
Neal: Maybe if Sasha Grey worked for him - she’s cute
Neal: despite being pretty raunch on film.
Kirsten: Don’t know who that is
Ro: She does
Neal: She does what?
Ro: Pose for AA
Neal: No surprise really. She’s also in music videos, fashion mags, etc
Kirsten: Who is this Sasha Grey person?
Ro: I think a porn star
Neal: Look her up
Kirsten: Ugh, no, I don’t care enough
Neal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasha_Grey
Kirsten: I feel like, if you’re willing to accept coke as currency, go ahead
Kirsten: Although really, how hard is it to sign a check and then cash it for coke? And slightly more legal
Neal: The stores are notorious for serving as coke ‘dealerships’
Neal: Well. Annnnnnnyway
Kirsten: Yeah
Neal: Shia LeBeouf - DUI - and Transformers 2
Kirsten: To be expected
Kirsten: Although I’ve always liked him, as a Disney kid who made good
Kirsten: He’s also been supercandid in some interviews, it seems like he’s had a really rough childhood
Ro: He was a Disney kid?
Neal: Dorkems McDorkenstein
Kirsten: Dorkems?
Neal: Yes, I just coined that.
Kirsten: To what does it refer?
Neal: Shia being a dork.
Neal: I don’t buy all the hype surrounding him. Indiana Jones was ok - but whatever.
Ro: He was in Indiana Jones?
Neal: The new one. He was Indy’s son. Where have you been?
Ro: I don’t really think there’s any excuse for a DUI if you’re a celebrity
Ro: Well, there isn’t in general
Kirsten: Yeah
Neal: Yeah. I don’t get it - don’t these celebrities shit gold? Clearly they can afford drivers.
Kirsten: I get that it’s them trying to exercise control over their chaotic lives
Kirsten: but whatever
Neal: Getting shitfaced and driving is exercising control over their chaotic lives?
Kirsten: No, just driving
Kirsten: Getting shitfaced is just fun
Neal: Whatever, I’m not sure I care if transformers 2 is being delayed due to this debacle.
Neal: Michael Bay can eat a dick.
Kirsten: I don’t really understand why there is a transformers two
Ro: I didn’t see the first one
Neal: Pretty much any movie that can be made into a trilogy will be.
Neal: This is the Matrix’s fault
Kirsten: Really?
Kirsten: I would have thought Star Wars
Neal: No, wait.
Neal: I meant the Lord of the Rings
Neal: Because that was the first one in recent memory to do it well
Neal: and everyone thinks they are Peter Jackson
Neal: which is funny. because Peter Jackson’s other work fucking blows
Kirsten: What has he done?
Kirsten: That movie with Michael J Fox
Kirsten: The Frighteners
Kirsten: which I like
Neal: He did this ridiculous horror film in New Zealand.
Neal: and uh… King Kong?
Neal: and Meet the Feebles, Bad Taste, Dead Alive
Kirsten: I forgot about King Kong
Kirsten: Not bad really, but at least an hour too long
Ro: I really have seen none of these movies
Neal: Rohini, how is it that you are so totally disconnected?
Ro: I really don’t know
Neal: I mean, Peter Jackson movies sure.
Neal: Those are obscure enough. but it’s like you don’t particularly care for media period.
Ro: I mean I do
Ro: but right now I’m pretty disconnected from everything in general
Neal: So - I take it you aren’t going to invest any energy in the 90210 remake?
Ro: LOL, not really
Kirsten: I said this earlier
Kirsten: but I feel like 90210 was groundbreaking and changed television
Kirsten: and there have been some good imitations
Kirsten: like the first couple seasons of the OC and current Gossip Girl
Kirsten: but I don’t see a reason for it and its imitations to be on at the same time
Neal: Whoa - changed television?
Kirsten: Yeah
Kirsten: It basically invented the primetime soap
Kirsten: Changed the face of teenager-oriented television
Kirsten: Led to the creation of the WB dramedy
Kirsten: Etc.
Neal: There was nothing like it previously?
Neal: Weren’t after-school specials a somewhat precursor?
Kirsten: Interestingly
Kirsten: 90210 started out as a kind of prolonged after-school special format
Kirsten: with message episodes
Kirsten: but then became more of a soap
Neal: All family friendly sitcoms are message driven
Neal: except for Two and a Half Men - and those involving popular comedians.
Kirsten: I don’t like to see Two and a Half Men singled out in any kind of positive way
Kirsten: It’s an intolerable show and I don’t know why it’s still on, let alone winning awards
Neal: You have a problem with Charlie Sheen?
Kirsten: Doesn’t everybody?
Neal: Jon Cryer is a douche for sure. but Charlie Sheen is a model actor.
Neal: My only problem with Charlie Sheen is that he’s not in anything resembling an action movie anymore - or doing the kind of humor we got in Hot Shots
Kirsten: Ugh
Neal: Rohini - back me up here
Ro: Sorry, I can barely read the screen
Ro: Give me two seconds
Ro: Gonna take out my contacts
Kirsten: I hate that
Neal: Well - while Ro handles some ocular hygiene - please tell me, Kirsten, how would you improve/fix 2 and a Half Men?
Kirsten: Oh my God
Kirsten: Like I watch and analyze it
Kirsten: I would cancel it
Kirsten: That would be an improvement
Neal: Haha. So harsh!
Neal: Somewhere a network executive is crying.
Kirsten: More of them should be
Neal: What would YOUR personal fall lineup look like?
Kirsten: Oh, I don’t know
Kirsten: The only good show CBS has is How I Met Your Mother
Kirsten: So maybe that for two hours a night, seven nights a week
Neal: Yeah? I’m getting kind of sick of it. It needs to end.
Neal: I love NPH - but I’ve been over Jason Segel for about 2 years now.
Kirsten: Not I
Neal: I think I’d prefer it if Ted just found this girl already. but they’ve set themselves up for at least two more seasons with him proposing to Sarah Chalke
Kirsten: I hope Sarah Chalke isn’t her
Kirsten: Actually, it can’t be
Kirsten: because there’s been no yellow umbrella
Neal: Exactly
Neal: Also - there would be a third kid then
Kirsten: That’s true
Kirsten: unless one of them is her kid from before
Kirsten: But I kind of want it to go for as long as it can be funny
Kirsten: It hasn’t dried up yet
Neal: Maybe.
Kirsten: It’s still pretty
Kirsten: wait for it
Kirsten: awesome
Neal: That was really lame.
Kirsten: Sorry, man
Kirsten: I should have said that it was legen-
Kirsten: wait for it
Kirsten: dary
Neal: Yeah - that would have been better.
Neal: I am excited that Barry and Robin are going to get together
Kirsten: Barney?
Neal: Sure
Neal: Whatever his name is.
Kirsten: Yeah, I like that
Kirsten: I just want it to happen without Barney becoming lame and serious
Kirsten: Did you see that Sesame Street with NPH?
Kirsten: With him as the shoe fairy?
Neal: No
Neal: I did see the one with Feist.
Neal: Robin was just OK in the L Word. So this is a much better role for her.
Kirsten: I never saw the L Word
Neal: The L Word is starting to test my patience.
Neal: I used to think Jennifer Beals was hot, but now I’m overstimulated and they make her look dumpy.
Kirsten: I don’t know anything about it
Neal: Oh, and there is NOTHING separating it from Queer As Folk. It is exactly the same show
Neal: Same stereotypical personalities, same drama, some B.S.
Kirsten: Again, haven’t seen it
Neal: Yeah - you aren’t missing a whole lot. But now I have to finish watching it. Cause I’m 3 seasons in.
Kirsten: Okay
Neal: Oh - and the Jenny character is the most insufferable character….. ever.
Neal: Whew. OK. I’m done with that.
Kirsten: Okay
Kirsten: That’s better
Neal: Let’s move on.
Kirsten: Let’s
Neal: Ladies’ choice
Neal: (Topic)
Kirsten: Um
Kirsten: That’s pretty much everything on our prechat list
Neal: Everything except MILEY CYRUS and her new video and makeout pictures
Kirsten: I don’t know what pictures you’re talking about
Neal: Just some pictures of someone looking like Miley making out with a dude.
Neal: I mean, I’ve the seen pictures of her that leaked from her phone. In the shower. In the green bra - You’d think she would be a little more careful about that stuff.
Kirsten: Um
Kirsten: What’s the big deal?
Kirsten: So she sometimes makes out with boys and also wears underwear
Kirsten: Is this news?
Neal: You can’t make a big deal about the Vanity Fair cover and then have those pictures leak
Kirsten: I didn’t make a big deal out of the Vanity Fair cover
Neal: Neither did I! But her whole camp did
Neal: And then those pictures surfaced too
Neal: And it’s like, well OK, what’s the big deal if she is already taking pictures like this?
Kirsten: I kind of think it was other people making a big deal out of it so they had to too
Kirsten: Otherwise they looked like they were destroying the innocent whatever
Neal: I guess. She should just cowgirl up and say, “Fuck off”
Kirsten: I say whatever
Kirsten: I like the song though
Neal: Really? I think the shahs are annoying
Neal: though you kind of like them
Kirsten: I like the shahs
Kirsten: I think they’re actually like the best part
Neal: Oh - Miley cant dance. Just BTW and all
Neal: Her final dance battle thing with the dudes from Step Up 2 is on tomorrow.
Kirsten: You know who really can’t dance?
Kirsten: Selena Gomez
Neal: Who is that?
Kirsten: Another Disney kid
Kirsten: They have this video that they play on the channel of her covering Cruella de Ville
Kirsten: and she’s so so so so awkward
Kirsten: Standing in a corner and twitching
Kirsten: Pretty much how I’d be
Neal: She looks like Rachael Ray
Neal: only 20 years younger
Neal: AKA a chipmunk
Neal: Her eyes are too small. And her nose. But her mouth is enormous
Kirsten: Her face is too small for her face
Kirsten: But she’s only like fourteen
Neal: She’s 16.
Kirsten: Whatever
Kirsten: She’s young
Ro: Oh goodness
Ro: Rachael Ray cut her hair
Ro: Did you guys see that?
Kirsten: No, i pretty much avoid everything Ray
Neal: http://www.sptimes.com/2005/05/11/images/large/FLO_1_fd11ray18__0511.jpg
Neal: Is that not horribly disturbing?
Kirsten: Is she cooking clocks?
Kirsten: Is it like the tea party in Alice in Wonderland with the butter and jam in the clock?
Neal: Who cares what she’s cooking?
Neal: She looks like a demon
Kirsten: That’s nothing new though
Neal: Who knows. Giada De Laurentiis still takes top honors
Neal: in my book of good looking food network personalities
Neal: Although, her pasta cookbook is terrible
Kirsten: She’s so bobbleheaded
Neal: Whatever
Neal: http://michaelscomments.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/giada-delaurentiis-3-08073.jpg
Neal: She looks kind of like a tall Hayden Panetierre
Kirsten: Whoa
Kirsten: Is she bathing in blood?
Kirsten: Or barbecue sauce?
Kirsten: Which is more disturbing?
Kirsten: She’s dipped the ends of her hair in it
Neal: Maraschino cherry syrup?
Kirsten: Ew ew ew
Neal: It must be tomato sauce
Neal: Being Italian and all
Neal: If vampires WERE cool
Neal: they’d be like her
Neal: and not all gothy and gross
Kirsten: I suppose
Neal: Any musical discoveries of late?
Ro: actually!
Ro: I went to the Old 97s concert
Ro: and the opening bands were cool
Ro: I can’t remember their names
Ro: LOL, I suck
Kirsten: hm
Neal: Seriously Ro - you need to take some gingko - balboa or whatever that stuff is called
Neal: Some GINSENG
Kirsten: Look it up?
Kirsten: Does the venue have a website?
Neal: I’ve been rocking to Sia all week
Kirsten: I like Sia alright
Neal: Little Black Sandals is probably the best track
Kirsten: Is that the same album with Breathe Me?
Kirsten: That’s the one I have
Neal: No. This album doesn’t have that song.
Neal: Oh, and the Ting Tings - they are ok, even if they sound a little bit like the White Stripes.
Kirsten: I loathe the White Stripes
Neal: You loathe a lot of things.
Kirsten: It’s true
Ro: Spring Standards
Ro: was the first opener
Neal: Spring Standards - what kind of band?
Neal: Ro?
Ro: I guess like alt rock
Ro: I don’t know
Ro: No no
Ro: Alt folk pop rock
Ro: LOL
Neal: Alt folk pop rock… did you just combine the Indigo Girls and Maroon 5?
Ro: LOL
Kirsten: Pop Rocks are yum.

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