Might As Well Jump
Written by Suzanne on January 17, 2010A lot has been happening in pop culture lately. The Playoffs, the Golden Globes, Jay Leno and the late night time slots. Honestly I have no comment. I’ve spent the last week away from most media. I’ve been online a bit and I’ve watched a few shows but I have to say that my interest in Hollywood is fading quickly these days.
This makes a bit of a problem since my blog is named Housewife in Hollywood.com. My tagline is, “The housewife part is true, Hollywood is just a metaphor.”
Luckily, to me Hollywood is a state of mind, an attitude, a desire to dream, that flashy pop coolness we all have inside us. Some hide it deep down under layers of To-Do lists while others show it off daily with hip style and fun interests. I don’t mind that my interest in Hollywood is changing or that my fascination with pop culture has shifted closer to counter culture lately.
I came across this poignant South Park clip the other day.
If you got this far you might be wondering WTFunk does this have to do with anything? Not much really, except that like Kyle Broflovski I’ve been asking what am I going to do. Some days I feel like The Fonz when it comes to this site. I should jump a few buses, say Aye and keep on being cool. Other days I think ahh “success is hollow, hollow like a dead tree”. If you watched the clip this would all make more sense. Maybe.
As David Lee Roth once said, I might as well jump.
January 18th, 2010 at 7:43 am
Good blog today. But at least you don’t have to choose between riding the bus off the mountain or a kid-eating monster. :) If you change what you do here, I’ll still be a faithful reader.
January 18th, 2010 at 1:02 pm
Ricky Gervais was funny as the host but it’s better watched in clips on the internet as the show was drawn out.
The Tonight Show fiasco is a bit strange.
And now a rant about Leno and the Tonight show:
I have always disliked Leno. He does have funny jokes and stand-up, but his show is so very boring and obnoxious, both when he had the tonight show and especially now with his own show.
Leno always gets away with being a total ass to everyone, from stealing material, to hiring ghost writers during the writers strike, to screwing over letterman for the tonight show, to promising the tonight show to Conan, then dillydallying for 5 years as they tell Fallon to hang tight and pay him, to finally letting go while the company dumps millions into promotion and using guerrilla tactics to steal booked guests from the tonight show for his own show, to now taking credit for the Conan’s Tonight shows popularity. It will be, I hope, a gigantic and satisfying failure of Leno, finally he gets what he deserves. I hope the world realizes what a jerk he is, he will most likely get back his show and shrug off anything and say “America has a short memory,” which always makes me cringe. It will most likely do well since I believe his audience is made of people who just want something sober to fall asleep to, and when they wake up they don’t have to change channels for the morning show.
The Tonight Show is not a big deal to me, maybe being born in the 80′s has something to do with that, the show does not carry any special meaning to me, though it has all the importance in the world to the late night talk show hosts. I have also long accused late night shows as very self important and self-aggrandizing. With SNL thinking it’s the greatest and trend-setting, and the late night talk shows thinking they are the important to their viewers. Yet their audience really is small, and they are not that great…
In other words, you’re lucky to have no comment :)