SoulHonky

Oh well. It looks like Josh Schwartz has done it again. He took only a half season to jump the shark on the O.C. (Oliver, anyone?) and it looks like Gossip Girl might always be on the way down. Last night's episode featured a lousy new character played Michelle Trachtenberg who came off like a dead man's Scarlett Johannson. On top of that there was a complete lack of any common sense of logic and one ridiculous racial stereotype. It's disappointing for a show that seemed to have so much promise but I highly doubt this show will have to worry about the college years.

The next episode is promising to major surprises but I'm willing to bet that at least one is a fake tease. They claim on character is coming out of the closet which seems like it could be a big change in the dynamic of the show but, what do you know, they just happened to introduce a new character in this past episode. Wonder if it will be him? I'm hoping something happens to Dan (perhaps the rumored OD) because his character (like most on the show) is just running in place. Anyway, something needs to happen because this show won't survive with it's standard formula much longer.

The show was a fun guilty pleasure but if they drop another brain-dead daytime soap of an episode, it might get nixed from the DVR and I'll likely be back to waiting for Life and The Shielf to return. 

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This weekend marks the opening of "Forgetting Sarah Marshall", the well-reviewed and probably much loved film from the mind of Jason Segal and produced by Judd Apatow. Most of the reviews I've read said it wasn't as good as Knocked Up or Superbad so odds are I won't be a huge fan since I thought those two films were only passable. I thought it was really odd that one reviewer said this movie wasn't nearly as "sensitive" as those two since there weren't really many legit emotions in either film. Either way, I'll probably end up seeing the film and realizing mid-way through that these films just aren't my cup of tea.

That being said, one thing that has struck me is the fact that the cast of Apatow's Undeclared doesn't seem to be getting the same love that the Freaks & Geeks crew has. While F&G holdovers Segal and Seth Rogen have fared well, the rest of the cast has been mostly MIA from the rest of the Apatow ouevre. The one person who has worked in a number of the films is Carla Gallo but she's been blessed with the rather unceremonious roles of "Toe-Sucking Girl" in 40 Year Old Virgin, "Period Blood Girl" in Superbad, and "Gag Me Girl" in "Forgetting Sarah Marshall". Jay Baruchel has worked his way back into the good graces, getting to get pink eye in Knocked Up and I have to imagine Judd gave him a recommendation for Ben Stiller's new Tropic Thunder. but still... I'm not saying that Monica Keena should be playing Sarah Marshall or that Charlie Hunnam deserve a role but you'd think they'd get something.

Then again, in Jake Kasdan's film "The TV Set", they make fun of the fact that studios often force the wrong actors onto producers. Kasdan and Apatow both comment that the studio nixed their first choices for leads in Undeclared (they wanted Segal and then Rogen) so maybe there's something there.

So what does all of this mean? Nothing really. Just that it is 4am and I can't sleep so I'm talking out of my ass. Which reminds me, I really need to get a new keyboard. 

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So I was out and about this weekend and I saw a couple of hipster dudes complimenting one another on their beards. It was a very depressing moment because I too have a beard and it was like I was looking into an unflattering mirror. And since I'm also out of shape like the two hipsters, you could just say all mirrors are unflattering so adding the adjective was a weak attempt at making myself feel better. Regardless, I started noticing more and more guys with beards (insert gay joke here) and almost all of them had a kind of haughty quality to them. The hipster "too cool to be too cool but you don't even know what too cool really is because you're not as cool as me" vibe. Basically, it's not that they are too cool, it's that you and I are not cool enough. Of course, their conversations were usually as ridiculous as any as you'd hear in a frat house. It's like fart and dick jokes are only funny if the audience listening to them is limited. If they hear a fart joke, it's funny. If YOU hear a fart joke, it's not. I feel like we're a decade away from bearded guys saying things like, "Wedding Singer was popular but Sandler's best work was Billy Madison." Followed by, "Sandler, pshaw? His work doesn't evoke the same working class struggle of Farley."

Of course, me saying all of this makes me just as guilty. Alas, I'm a denizen of Hollywood with a beard and opinion. I'm basically the most pretentious lowest common denominator. 

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