Cute Geek Updates Galore!

My boys are doing so well. I couldn’t be prouder!

Simon Pegg’s new movie Paul has a great blog with behind-the-scenes photos, video blogs and fun. It’s so sweet that they love and respect their fans so much that they take the time to do this stuff. Most movie stars would not bother. Highlight: Simon and Kristen Wiig (girlcrush) learning how to drive a motorhome.

www.whatispaul.com

From the website: “Paul is a comedy about two sci-fi geeks who embark upon a pilgrimage in a RV to the center of America’s UFO heartland: Nevada’s infamous Area 51. While in the middle of that desert, the two friends encounter a fugitive alien by the name of Paul. Somewhat reluctantly, they embark upon an adventure that will change not just their lives forever, but also the lives of the friends and enemies they encounter along the way.”

June 2009 British GQ! Yay!

Plus, Simon’s book will be released in October. On my birthday. It’s fate, you guys.

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Chris Hardwick has just started hosting Web Soup on the G4TV Network (an off-shoot of the hilarious and trashy The Soup, hosted by the equally dreamy Joel McHale). Don’t get G4? Subscribe to the the iTunes Podcasts!

And now you can get him on your chest!

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Chris Leavins is taking a hiatus from Cute With Chris. Boo. But he’s uploading stories like crazy to The Chris Leavins Story Hour! Yay! I highly reccommend his podcast. The premise is simple – he records live readings of his short stories and essays and uploads them to iTunes for the people not lucky enough to see the show. His stories are funny, personal, touching, dark, sarcastic and just terrific. Chris + iPod + walking to work along the seawall = BLISS.

Click photo for link to L.A. Weekly's great article about Chris

Also, he’s publishing a book of his stories soon on this new self-publishing platform called Lulu.com. You just pay a fee, upload your content and cover art, choose your own price, then promote your book on the site. You print as many as you want, and readers buy the book right there. Genius. And geeky!

Cute Geek Alert – Chris Leavins

Chris Leavins is “working 24 hours a day, pioneering the internet,” or so he says. I know he means that facetiously, but he’s not far off the mark. Chris is a writer, actor, comedian and video blogger who is blurring the line between performance and the internet.

He started his career as an actor in Canada, and and found some success on shows like Slings and Arrows and The Eleventh Hour. He did run into some struggles, and he became frustrated with show cancellations and empty theatres. He moved to Los Angeles to make a go of it a few years ago and continued to work, and in his spare time he started a hilarious web show and blog called Cute with Chris. On it, he asks his viewers to vote on the cutest pet photo posted on his blog, rants, tells stories and makes fun of his Crazy Cat Lady and teen fans. It’s rife with inside jokes, dark humour and a rotating cast of characters: Colty the Christian plastic horse, Pervy the perverted plastic horse, and his sidekick Peanuts, a bag of styrofoam packaging peanuts. It’s kind of like Cuteoverload.com and The Jon Stewart Show had a baby.

Cute Band Alert – The Weakerthans

Usually, when I listen to music, I’m more of a melody girl than a lyrics girl. Except when I listen to The Weakerthans. It’s not like imagining dancing around at a concert in a big room full of people. It’s more like John K. Sampson is sitting across the table from me with his guitar, looking me right in the eye.

Bring on the brand new renaissance

I have gone past that posh office building almost every day for four years. About a year ago, I finally noticed that the painting hanging in the wall in the lobby was by your favorite artist of all time. What were the chances? I really liked going by in a car, fast, glancing in the lobby window and thinking about you. I don’t really miss you any more, but I really like thinking about you once in a while. Enough time has passed now that I’m at that point where the crappy stuff has become fuzzy and faded, but the fun things, the sexy things, the things that make me smile still remain intact. Perfect. So that painting in the lobby of that faceless office building was like the trigger I needed to go where you were. Once I got to the end of the block, you were gone again. Also perfect.

The other day, I finally took the opportunity to look at the painting up close. Well, guess what. It’s not by your favorite artist after all. It’s a mediocre knock-off by someone named Cori with an i. Vaguely reminiscent of something much better. Looks like a masterpiece from far away, but upon closer inspection, it’s pretty obvious that it’s not real.

I can’t think of anything more fitting.

That's not it. Close, though.

Gum

The cab driver singing along to the Bhangra on the radio is really making me happy, even though my ears just popped like a thunderclap. What? Why did that happen. I’m probably below sea level right now.

When my ears pop, it reminds me of my mom. Whenever we took plane trips when I was a kid, besides all of the other eleventy billion things she had to remember, she always made sure she had gum in her purse just in case I had to pop my ears. And not just any gum, Juicy Fruit, which she didn’t even like. It astounds me to think that she’d single-handedly lift a car to save my life, pop my ears for me, and do everything else in between, just to make sure I’m okay. That’s a lot of details to take care of.

How come I end up where I started?

Sometimes, when life is punching you in the head and calling you a stupid girl, it’s really nice to know that there are things like Radiohead in the world to remind you that things are still beautiful.

(Thanks, Lainey.)

p.s. I’ll be those kids are sure glad they joined the USC marching band, and not the dumb football team.

p.p.s. Here’s the actual Grammys performance, in case you missed it.

Cute Geek Update – Triple Your Pleasure

The four of you who read this blog are familiar with my top ten twelve dreamy geeks, right? Well, 25% of them were on The Hour tonight. My husband said, “Oooh, you can put that in the wank bank” and I said “Gross!”

But, yes.

Here’s the whole interview uncut if you wanna.

Handy Time Savers

I can smell the ocean in the rain tonight. It reminds me of something, but I can’t put my finger on it. Usually, when I can’t shake the deja vu that tugs at my gut, I just assume it’s about him and move on. Saves time.

My first time…

…I ever cried while watching the Oscars.

The ironing is delicious*:

(2005)

If I loved Kate Winslet any more, I’d have to be put into a mental facility.

* I had to look it up, too. Yes, I’m a poser, Jodi.

Facebook privacy? That’s like Jumbo Shrimp.

Reason number elevntybillion why I love my husband:

We were chatting about the kerfuffle that is surrounding the new wording in Facebook’s privacy policies and here’s what he said.

” ‘Okay, I am posting my private photos/messages on a public social network. You mean other people can see them?  Crap. Well, at least I have MySpace to trust. Hey wait, they’re even less strict about privacy?  Thank god for online passwords at my bank.’ Where did you think you were sending that shit to, your sock drawer? If you don’t want your stuff to be public, don’t put it on the internet.  You thought 1.6  billion people connected by wires was a locked hope chest? COME ON!“

Are you one of these miffed Facebookers? Then read this and quit yer yippin’:

http://www.allfacebook.com/2009/02/facebook-privacy/