There’s more free TV episodes to download via iTunes. (Watch them on your computer if you don’t have a video iPod. I have an old monochrome music-only one, myself.)
A free episode of something called Tabloid Wars
The pilot episode of Who Wants to Be a Superhero? (Oh, and for $1.99, you can get the Aquaman pilot now.)
While it’s always interesting watching Zayra Alvarez insist that, no, she really is good in the face of absolute bafflement on the part of the audience and open disdain on the part of Supernova (in a car wreck sort of way), and while her costumes are increasingly interesting — where the heck do you even get an astronaut/stripper Spandex costume? — her off-key singing has gone from amusingly messy to just irritating.
Likewise, Jill’s groupie-with-a-good-voice thing is getting kind of embarassing.
Four weeks in, Rock Star: Supernova is pretty clearly four-to-five finalists and a bunch of mediocre people whom cutting is really just a formality. Lukas, Storm, Dilana (great to see her do a great ballad like that this week) and Toby really have almost nothing to worry about.
And I could so clearly be the biggest rock star in Iceland.
A low-bandwidth Storm Large fansite (apparently 10 or so fansites were crashed when she told Navarro to Google her and she became the #12-most-searched for thing on Google) that includes MP3s of her live shows over the years. I particularly recommend the Live at the Sweetwater Saloon concert, which is 90 minutes of good music and potty mouthed attitude.
Just heard this on Coverville: Laura Cantrell does a cover of “14th Street.” And the best part is that the MP3 is free. Beautiful song, beautifully sung at a beautiful price.
This week, when Tommy Lee did his inevitable flirting/harassment of the female contestants on Rock Star: Supernova, the older women took it in stride. (Presumably they’ve both dealt with a lot of this sort of thing over the years.)
Particularly amusing to Jenn was when Tommy Lee leered that he’d like to see more of Storm, she told him to check Google, which seemed to take the wind out of his sails.
In point of fact, Storm may have meant he should check Flickr. : The pictures are Not Safe For Work, unless you work in a nipple-friendly workplace. (Posted from home, and not the workplace.)
Oh, what did we think of this week’s show? Still lots of chaff to separate from the wheat. You could probably fast forward to the final four and see Storm, Dilana, Toby and Lukas there. I think Jenny Galt was good, but as was said, in a Lilith Fair sense, not an Ozzfest sense. Hopefully her Canadian record label will get on the stick and put her previously released stuff onto iTunes ASAP.
First off, if you haven’t caught this month’s official Disneyland podcast, do so. It’s all Pirates of the Caribbean, all the time, both movie and ride.
Secondly, some fun trivia. (Well, fun to me, and I’m the one at the wheel.)
In the movies, the pirates of the Black Pearl hole up on Isla de Muerta and Davey Jones, the captain of the Flying Dutchman buries his most prized treasure on Isla Cruces.
But didja know that the pirate ship in the Pirates of the Caribbean ride is the Wicked Wench and the Spanish town the pirates attack (now led by Barbossa in the tweaked version of the ride) is Isla Tesoro? (Yes, that’s “Treasure Island” and it’s a new name with the revamp.)
The revamp, incidentally, was underway before the first Pirates movie hit, and when it his so big, the crew was faced with the realization that there would be a lot of people coming to the park whose take on the ride would be shaped by the movie, so they decided to add some movie elements to the ride.
