Tuesday 29 April 2008

Eddie Izzard is the bomb

I just got back, went down to Boston town with the mate and saw Eddie Izzard start his new tour.

He was 'the dog's bollocks'.

It was a good mix of college kids and older folks.

Some yelled out "I love you Wayne!"

And he looked down shook his head and said "I told them in Europe you understood irony. Don't prove me wrong!" HA HA HA.

Very funny. I resisted watching the Youtube stuff from his practice runs. I wanted everything to be new. Hopefully he makes a DVD like the last tours and we can rerun it over and over again.

I am still so hyped up on Eddie, I am to wired to sleep. Usually I am tired by now. But the Eddie goodness is like caffeine right into my veins.

One couple had brought their teenage kids. I thought it was great they got into it. I saw people who were grandparent age too. It was nice to see the diversity. There were people of all ages and colours having a great time. It was lovely. It seems so many acts are racial divided, still. That when I see a mixed crowd and mixed age all laughing at there not being a god it is all good.

I think only in a blue state will you get a great applause over saying there is no god. I wonder if he will change that for the red states.

It was a bit of a ride, but well worth it. The place was sold out. And the theater is so small. Meaning the seats are close, and everyone is cramped. It's an old theater. I had seen other acts in old theaters. I was glad this one had air conditioners that came on. Last time I was in an old theatre, it was in the hottest day of August that year, 500 people no air conditioners, because they were too old and you couldn't hear the band if they turned them on. But we forgot all about that and got drunk and sang along to the band. Funny how somethings that normally drive you nuts , can ad to the atmosphere in other occasions, and add to the story.

But if anyone is going to see Eddie this tour, other than saying he was his normal brilliant self, I wont ruin the jokes. It's part of the fun, for it all to be new. But it is worth the buckage to have some hours of laughter.

Lois, if you read this, you got to catch him!

And don't yell out "I love you Wayne!"

Sunday 27 April 2008

Christopher Walken

I was watching Eddie do an imitation of Walken doing Shakespeare when I realized how funny Walken is.

I had seen this movie "romance and cigarettes" some time ago and found the clip on youtube. VERY odd movie. Eddie in it in a bit part. But I really loved his song dance 1950-60's shirt and love spat and the whole West Side story theme.

"It was my first love, I traced her name in cow shit, she was my first, my last my everything."

This has got to be one of those memorable lines. The line I must use sometime.

BTW the whole move is very odd. Not your average musical. So if you think it will be funny or uplifting, as musicals usually are, it's not. But I think worth watching anyway.




trying for girly Frock

I went out trying to get a girly frock.

Instead I ended up with gardening equipment, plants, seeds, all helped picked out by the wee ones with some gummy worms to boot.
And got my self working on the tilling the soil by hand, cutting hedges, preparing new flowerbeds, planting new flowers I have never tried before, in colours the youngest one liked.

It was fun having the wee ones picking out their favourite vegetables to grow. Maybe they will eat them now. The youngest got so existed over the planting of tomatoes that they ate all my tomatoes in the fridge for my salads. When questioned, they said "but Mommy, You are going to grow more." As if tomorrow I will have more tomatoes. Silly how time is not real when you are 4.

So instead of girly, I was Mommy. Not quite the same.

Tomorrow, after the morning of planting things we bought today, I will do something girly.

First I will get into my Xena outfit, get my round killing thing and hunt down Mr. Death from the village, steal his frock and make Weevils bow to my presence.

That or something as equally girly.

I must admit I do miss watching Captain Jack. If Tourchwood was still on, family fun day at the grain and seed, general gardening and hunting and farming type country store might not have taken up so much of my time. Blah. I do like my little down time with a good story.

I did catch Lost this week. Is getting more intense. Always fun. But they actually pronounced Iraq correctly. I was surprised. They are usually off with Siheed's character in so many ways. This must mean they are doing more research in to Iraqi people. This is good. For the most part I think they did well with the characters. The Koreans are played by Koreans who speak Korean. I love how evil Ben is.

Other t.v.news; I miss Eli Stone. But I was glad they didn't leave him in the coma or worse yet had his brother pull the plug, and we wonder if he could make it out in time, with George Micheals' help.

I wonder what the pitch for that show was. "Hi, I have a t.v. show idea. It goes like this, Ali McBeal with a guy, but we explain right off that he has a brain aneurysm which makes him see and hear things no-one else does. But that's not all, we make him believe he is a profit from god because a Chinese acupuncturist told him so. Oh and to make sure it's never dull, 1 we will have flashbacks with his dad who had the same thing, but didn't know it." And ABC said. "sure make about 8 episodes or so and we will see. It will run if that writers strike ever happens." Great big smiles and snickering after the pitchman leaves. Several months later and all ABC have is reruns and reality shows. Ring Ring" Hello, did you make those episodes of the show you wanted us to run, we have space for a quirky show now, since we have no more episodes of "Pushing Daisies", and it seems America likes quirky again. "

Luckily for me, both Pushing Daisies and Eli Stone will be on next season. So good things came out of the writer's strike, somethings they would have never really gave a shot to, they did. Which means quirky me, got a little more fun in her life.

You would have thought the physical labor of tilling soil and general gardening would have tired me out sooner. Maybe the pain kept me up. My back has spent many months without the labor of gardening and is not used to it. But I am glad to actually get out and work in the soil again. It definitely keeps you healthier.

Saturday 26 April 2008

Hello Kitty

Hello Kitty, Hello Kitty...

You know I always saw the cute blankets and pillows and clothes but I never saw the show. The show that has been around since, forever.

My wee ones loved the hello kitty things, dolls, clothes, blankets and pillows. So I rented the Hello Kitty DVD. I have now been trying to ignore it for 5 days now.

My littlest wee one, watch it over and over and over again. And this is what wee ones do. I have been through this before. But not with DVDs that have a female voice that is driving me crazy!


She is talking down to the children. In real simple words. This is undoing all the trips to the art museums and documentaries on ancient cultures I have been for feeding them.

I fear the intelligence level of my poor child is plummeting.

But as the child is singing the song over and over and over, perfectly, she comes over and sees Eddie Izzard and giggles over and over again and says "he's so silly!"

I realized things three things:

1. maybe this is a guilty pleasure of her childhood. And if you are going to to watch something made for 4 year olds, you should be 4. Just as long as a 4 year old can still enjoy Eddie with Legos.

2. This child can sing. maybe I should teach the rest how to play instruments and start a family band an exploit them to buy a big house in the big house people place. Wait things would get too much like the riches if I did that. I could pretend to be a lawyer. Oh never mind. Still could be a stage mom, not like Britney Spears' mom, but more like Beyonce's mom.

3. Hello Kitty and friends were a LOT more cute and fun when I never saw the show.


I wonder how soon before I can bring it back so that I don't traumatize the wee one in the process? Maybe I could say the Weevils stole it. Wah HA HA.

Lois and Cake's talk of Weevil Proms and Frisky Frocks has made me think it is time to get a little more girly myself.

Sunday 20 April 2008

Eddie the politician?

Eddie Izzard eyes possible career in European politics2008-04-20 22:08:40
NEW YORK (AP) — British comedian Eddie Izzard, whose acting career is taking off, is eyeing yet another possible career — politician.
Izzard, who plays Wayne Malloy in FX's "The Riches" and who just finished shooting "Valkyrie," starring Tom Cruise, told Newsweek he sees himself getting into European politics at some point.
"We've got to make it work in Europe," the cross-dressing comedian, 46, told the magazine for its issue hitting newsstands Monday. "People are very worried about sovereignty and the loss of sovereignty. I think the stakes are if we don't make the European Union work, then the world is screwed. End of story."
Izzard, who's lending his voice to the upcoming film "Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian," said he enjoyed working on "Valkyrie." The film stars Cruise as Col. Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg, the aristocratic army officer executed after a failed attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1944.
Izzard's standup comedy act, "Stripped," is set to begin April 28 in Boston.


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Cross dressing comedian being prime minister.

This is almost like that movie with Robin Williams, where he plays , basically John Stewart than becomes president because the cheaters at the ballots got mixed up. It was called Man of the Year.

It could be good. A funny politician. Who will try to be funny. How could political comics make jokes off his joke, would they be then stealing Eddie's jokes?

And this can start his campaign:



Saturday 19 April 2008

Dr Who, Tourchwood

Well, my weekend has it's highs.

Watch the new Dr Who last night, the Christmas special. Tonight is the season's end of Tourchwood.

I never actually watched the movie Titanic, Even though I know a lot of the lines in Dr, Who were from the movie. I think I am one of only a few women in America who has not. Leo does nothing for me. I knew how it ended. I knew it would be depressing. So I never watched it.

But the scene where the are crossing the bridge reminded me of one of the Star Wars movies instead.

The youngest of the wee ones were upset so many people died. Including the "pretty lady".

Tourchwood should be fun. Jacks vengeful ex time pirate lover coming back for revenge. We get to see more about Jack's past. I always like that. He has so much of it.

Tuesday 15 April 2008

the travaling show

Over the weekend.
Between driving the wee ones from place to place to complete everything I needed to before the working week, we past a carnival.

I get to hear a clammier of, "Mama Mama Mama stop the car!"Money is tight with me. So I think about this. Fun, a few moments on rides, it comes only a few times a year, usually in spring and during harvest festivals in fall. So it really comes down to, two times a year, the wee ones know, mama will open here coin purse, where she hides her mad money, and let them have total kid time with the traveling show.

So I tell them, I have an appointment, than we will come back.The appointment was renting some space to put my art in a consignment store. I hope it sells. People tell me they like it, but paying cash for it is another thing all together. But you might as well try. Sometimes it is all you can do. And if you try enough times, Sometimes things work out the way you want.


But the long trek to the store and back, gave me a chance to explain the the children how the traveling shows started and gained popularity. In the industrial revelation, when workers needed some cheep thrills. They played for the poor and the working poor. For the rich had their holidays. Mindless fun.But back than, they were much different. My grandmother would warn me not to go to the carnival. She said they were immoral. My wee ones than chimed in "Why?". Well she would tell me about the hoochy coochy girls. I had no clue what she was talking about back than. But once or twice when I was younger there we some traveling shows that still had freak shows. My mother would never let me go. She said they were immoral, wrong, made fun of other people. So I never went. When I was a kid, I wanted to know what all the other kids saw. Forbidden fruit.

The wee ones ask me what these freak shows and hoochy coochy girls were. Now got to say once I watched the HBO series Carnival, which I was addicted to, even though it had a bit of 1970's drive in film about it towards the end, I really didn't know what hoochy coochy girls or what was in the freak shows. I really never understood my grandmother's objections to the traveling shows. But than I got it.

So I explained that hoochy choochy girls were a stripper act that the men would go to. And sometimes they made extra money as prostitutes. The Freak shows made fun of people with deformities. In the old days some of the traveling shows would buy children from their parents for the shows. But as far as I knew as long as they were born, there were no traveling shows like my grandmother's day.

Yes, I do use many excuses to give the wee ones history lessons. If I relayed on what school teaches, they would not be able to have to understand Eddie Izzard's stand up or any movies made before they were born, or most people around the world, well the list could go on. Unfortunately the other children in their class don't always get what they say and the argue with their teachers, because they are dumbing down their teaching. You know they actually did not teach my child's class that the Muslims eventually won the Crusades.

Now, Strippers are in clubs or at private parties. Prostitutes are, well, on the streets and in brothels in Nevada. I am sure brothels are else where but they aren't legal else where. Oh and we have stripper work outs. You can buy the hoochy choochy girls, in the magazines, look at them on line, go down to the "red light " district of you local city, or "what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas".

The Freak show, well most of it is not politically correct. I would hope most people no longer found the need to make fun of people with physical deformities. but if you haven't, well there is the Internet and American reality shows, Jerry springer come to mind. I am sure there can be far more examples, like the biggest loser equates the fat woman, The medical show are fascinating why? Physical defects. And every time there are conjoined twins or a baby born with extra arms and face they are world news. Or at least it seems that way.

Amazing a lot of the cases I see are in India, rural India, where they always remind us that these children are revered as the return of gods or goddesses. But modern medicine is not good with that. "Let's make them normal", they proclaim. And they remind us of the risk of death that their miracle will have go along with it. I often wonder, why not let these children be revered as reincarnations of the Divine.

What if they are.

They are surgical altering the second coming or 29th coming of their goddess. Isn't that akin to giving Jesus' second coming a dangerous operation that may kill him as a child. And if not killed, altering him so much that almost no-one knows who he is?


Though I spent $50 in food and rides. A bit of fun for the wee ones and the realization that the carnival is the least likely place to find the immoral acts now a days. the freak show is so common all around us that they would never make money in a traveling show. Showing your breasts mean nothing anymore, where you can get it for free on line, or at the local bar, or t.v. on Jerry Springer. The caravel near a church was the more moral thing I could do with my children.

Monday 14 April 2008

Dr Who

I grew up watching the good doctor, number 4 was my doctor. When they started the series again I was sceptical. But I enjoyed the edginess, the new doctor grew up a bit, less kiddish, better fx.

My wee ones started watching with me. Of course of Boys love Billy Pipper and Girls love David Tennent.

One of my fav episodes was Blink. Funny enough, not a lot of Doctor in it.

But The wee ones found out the new season start this week on Sci Fi . Everyone in the house was set a fire with excitement.

Tourchwood, is a little beyond most of their abilities to care. I personally LOVE the fact that Capt. Jack is openly bisexual he just loves sex, and he makes all people feel attractive around him. Of course this stuff is above the heads of the wee ones.

But we don't have that many openly homosexual people on t.v. never mind bi sexual. Or very sexual ones, unless you count Showtime or Brovo Or Logo. but regular t.v. made for the masses .

It is a shame really Homosexuals and bisexuals make up X of the population, no mater where you live. And believing they don't because you think it's wrong, doesn't make it any less real. I think that if they had the example where they were heroes, the good guys, real people not paedophiles, etc. Maybe they would ease up on the hatred of what they do not know.

I, for those who care, happen to be heterosexual. Hell I would do Jack, who wouldn't. Ha ha ha.

The showing of people who are diffrent than what is shown on American t.v. Is one of the draws to Dr Who And Tourchwood. And many other Brit shows I watch.

first entry

So I have been reading some blogs here and started one.

Will probably just write about what ever whim comes to mind.