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listen all y’all this is sabotage

March 20, 2010 By in Uncategorized Tags: , , 1 Comment

This fanvid has been floating around on the internet for a couple of weeks now, but I just now got around to watching it and it is indeed awesome. From Gizmodo:

Battlestar Galactica is one of the best TV shows of the last decade. And the Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage” video is one of the best music videos, well, ever. What happens when you combine the two? Sweet, sweet perfection.

If you really want to be impressed, check out both the BSG remix and the original side by side here to see just how faithful they were to the original.

I’m not actually a huge Beastie Boys fan (actually I don’t really like them at all), but I am emotionally attached to “Sabotage” because it was in the new Star Trek, and we all know how I feel about that, and that I can get pretty damn weird about things I love, as any true fanfreak does. But I just have to love this mash-up, not only because it is absurdly well done, but because it is also absurdly absurd. When this popped up on the screen, I had to pause the video I was laughing so hard:

(If you’re not familiar with fan-speak, HBIC stands for Head Bitch in Charge.)

And to screencap it for posterity, of course.

UPDATE: I have just realized that I accidentally posted this on the one year anniversary of Galactica’s final episode. I miss you, dear friend. Oh, how I miss you. And how in the holy Hell has it already been a year? Frak.

the 2009 Ashley Awards

July 17, 2009 By in blogging, Me, TV, Movies, and Books Tags: , , , , , , 18 Comments

defaultsettingsRemember how yesterday I wrote a whiny post about my childhood dreams being shattered by THE UNFAIRNESS OF LIFE and everything was awful and horrible? Well, I’m over it. I bounce back quick. I’m a fighter. I mean, I’m still upset, but I’ve thought about this a lot. I was talking to Hal about it (cats are good listeners). He was just laying in his box and I was squishing him with my head and I was like, what should I do, baby? What should Mama do? First he gave me his serial killer face and then he meowed at me to get off of him, but then I had this brilliant idea. I mean, no one ever fixed anything with whining (although, wouldn’t that be AWESOME?), so I figured I should be proactive. It took me about three seconds to invent The Ashleys, as you can probably tell, but I think it’s a nice name.

Here’s how this is going to work. I provide you with a list of categories, you provide me with names. A week from today I will post an official ballot, which you will have until September 19th to fill out. We are trying to break down barriers here, so nominate at will. Cartoons, sci-fi shows, Robot Chicken, whatever. If it’s good TV, it’s welcome at The Ashleys. WE DECIDE WHAT IS AWESOME. That’s our motto; tell all your friends.

Each category will have five nominees (six if there’s a tie), and yes, I do reserve the right to add people at will to be nominees. It’s called The Ashleys for a reason, people. But the important thing for you to remember right now is that I am not omniscient and I did not see every single TV show to air last year. That’s where you come in. The only rules for nominations are as follows: 1) Be fair, and 2) The nomination must come from a show or actor to have graced us with their presence in between July 31st, 2008 and July 31st, 2009. Emails should be sent to narfna at gmail dot com, with the subject line THE ASHLEYS: NOMINATIONS. Here are the categories; this is going to be SO MUCH FUN:

CATEGORIES FOR NOMINATION

Best Drama Series
Lead Actress in a Drama
Lead Actor in a Drama
Supporting Actress in a Drama
Supporting Actor in a Drama
Best Guest Role in a Drama
Best Comedy Series
Lead Actress in a Comedy
Lead Actor in a Comedy
Supporting Actress in a Comedy
Supporting Actor in a Comedy
Best Guest Role in a Comedy
Best Reality Program
Best Writing for a Drama
Best Writing for a Comedy
Best TV Movie/Mini-Series
Best Foreign Import
Best Musical Score
Best Costumes
Best Use of Creative Cinematography/Photography
Best Visual/Special Effects
Best Kick Ass Fight Scene
Best Use of Serialized Storytelling
Best Internet Presentation
Best Show That You Loved That Doesn’t Go Anywhere Else
Best Person That You Loved That Doesn’t Go Anywhere Else

Well, what are you waiting for? Get to it!

Edit: Please do not post filled out forms in the comments. I have a filter set up on Gmail to catch all of your emails, so remember, subject line: “THE ASHLEYS: NOMINATIONS.” It just makes life easier for me.

ashley and the emmys file for divorce

July 16, 2009 By in TV, Movies, and Books Tags: , 10 Comments

big_blue_binThe first thing I need to say is this isn’t about anger. No, this is more about soul-crushing, childhood ending disappointment.

If you’ve been paying attention to me at all, you may have heard me say once or twice or a thousand times how if Mary Fucking McDonnell wasn’t nominated for an Emmy this year, I was done. Well, I wasn’t kidding. Maybe some context will help illuminate the situation.

When I was in seventh grade, I discovered the TV Guide. It was a revelation. People write about TV! There’s a whole magazine! Every week! About TV. I read it cover to cover every Wednesday (grocery day). And when I say cover to cover, I mean that I read the listings, the horoscopes . . . everything. (I also used to collect covers. At one point, I had about seventy of them squirreled away in my closet.) When the Fall Preview issue would come out every August, I’d set my life by it, pick the new shows I wanted, make an official, painstakingly hand-made schedule, etc. And this was before the internet, mind you. I was all alone, and the TV Guide was my bible. So of course, come September, the Emmys were top of the list.

As a kid, you have a simple faith in the world that translates well to award shows. You have an inherent faith in the nature of things. For example, when the Oscars or Emmys claim that they are awarding THE BEST, then damn it, they are awarding THE BEST, no matter how much it hurt my feelings. It wasn’t until much, much later in my life that I realized the farce I had been playing along with. Quite simply, if the Emmys are an institution that refuses to acknowledge the revolutionary awesome powers of everything about Battlestar Galactica, then they are not worth my time. I had to learn it the hard way, but the Emmys are a place where THE BEST is perennially left out in the cold.

Battlestar Galactica isn’t the first stellar television ever to be snubbed by the Emmys (with the exception of Star Trek: The Next Generation, sci-fi has never gotten its due), and it won’t be the last. Hell, it wasn’t even the only quality show snubbed this year. Conspicuously absent are also The Wire, Friday Night Lights, and The Shield. Me and the Emmys, we’ve been having trouble for years, but it’s time to say goodbye and no amount of therapy is going to fix it. This year’s nominees may not have included the usual suspects (Spader, Piven, etc.), but I fear with the onset of the reign of Mad Men and 30 Rock (as good as those shows may be), the Emmy PTB have just replaced one head of the class with another, and that, quite frankly, is something I just don’t want to be around to see.

(Read The TV Squad’s take on this here. Couldn’t have said it better. In fact, didn’t.)

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