So what do I do when the Giants have a night off and I'm supposedly working on a slideshow for Saturday night's gathering... I procrastinate with some guilty pleasures...
television being the main culprit... i haven't really had to explore my junk tv options this summer; however, i think i made up for it today and i loved every guilty pleasureable moment
the night begins with Who Wants to be a Superhero on the Sci-Fi Channel... if you grew up on comics this show is perfect for you... Stan Lee hosts the show and puts contestants through a variety of activities to judge their character and to determine if the integrity is worthy of being immortalized in a Stan Lee comic... tonight was the second episode and i must confess i caught the first episode as a freebie on itunes... damn itunes... the show just makes me laugh as contestants race to a site, fend off attack dogs, overcome a mole, and get a costume make-over...
then the night degrades further as i can't help but watch VH1's world series of pop culture-the championship round... i think i probably got about 75% of the questions right... what i really learned from tonight's show... remember academy and country music award nominees and winners... I am oddly pleased with how much junk trivia is in my head...
11pm... news break and Jay Leno monologue (Letterman was a repeat)
midnight- TLC airs 101 Strange Things Removed from the Human Body... it's captivating... you see some of the inspiration for Grey's Anatomy when you see the two real-life people who were trapped together when they were both pierced with a pole, a man whose uterus was removed, a maggot inside someone's head, and an industrial bit that bore through an eye socket... oh yeah, and the motor home that went through a policeman's chest... thankfully he was wearing a bullet proof vest to deflect the wooden shrapnel and aluminum ciding away from his heart...
1 am - 3 am
oh my god... i'm back to VH1... the top 40 most awesomely bad love songs... i just love list shows... i can't get enough of them... they're playing all these really infamous slow jams that are all really irresistible... then suddenly the commentators talk about what is really being said in the lyrics and it really makes you think what's being said...
example Survivor's "The Search is Over" discusses a man who's slept with every woman practically and it turns out the love is life has been near him all along... really makes her feel good as she pines at the moon every night waiting for his realization...
other songs
"You're the Inspiration" by Chicago
"Eternal Flame" by the Bangles
"Joanna" by Kool & the Gang
"God Must Have Spent A Little More Time on You" (is that right?)
"All My Life" K-ci & Jo-Jo
"Get Here" by Oleta Adams
"Heaven" by Warrant
"This I Promise You" N'Sync
"Rosanna" by Toto (based on Rosanna Arquette)
"I Get Weak" by Belinda Carlisle
"When I See You Smile" by Bad English
forthcoming Michael Bolton, Celine Dion, Rod Stewart, Bryan Adams...
well, you should get the idea
and those are only the songs on the bottom half of the list...
time for me to go watch the top 20
What are your summer guilty pleasures?
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