Friday Night Lights renewed for second season!!!

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Yayness! Friday Night Lights has been renewed for a second season and they’ve ordered a full 22 episodes which makes it even better news. What a great way to start out a Friday morning after a craptastical week. Whee! Seriously, this show is so freaking good it’s not even funny. If you aren’t watching it, you should definitely give it a chance. So many people have misconceptions about this show and they couldn’t be more wrong about it. Yes, it is set in a small town in Texas. Yes, it has a lot of teenagers in it. Yes, it contains a lot of football. But you know what else it’s about? People just like you and me. People who struggle through their everyday lives just like the rest of us. People trying to take care of their families. People who want a better future. People who screw up royally and pay the price for it. Ordinary people. It’s also shot in a really cool and very “real” way and a lot of the show is totally unscripted and that makes it even more special and more realistic than other shows.

Click here for great LJ post by Ellie (nightfive@LJ) containing even more reasons why you should watch the show.

To celebrate this joyous occasion, I bring you pretty FNL picspam!


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Red means STOP!

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Dear Woman to Couldn’t Be Bothered to Stop at the Red Light This Morning:

In case you weren’t told this before, let me enlighten you. The big boxes with the red, yellow and green colored circles that light up are called traffic lights. The colors indicate what you are to do as you approach them. Green indicates that you may commence driving and pull forward through the light/intersection or turn. Yellow means proceed with caution. Red means STOP. Yes, that’s correct, STOP. Let me spell it for you in case you missed that…S-T-O-P. It means “to prevent from proceeding, acting, operating, continuing, etc.: to stop a speaker; to stop a car.” See? It does not mean that you should continue on through the intersection and try to run over 3 other vehicles just because you drive a ginormous Chevy Suburban that is as large as the 3 vehicles you were attempting to run over. Maybe your vehicle is too large and blocks your view of the traffic lights and other vehicles on the road? If so, maybe you should consider purchasing something a little smaller so that you can see everything a little more clearly. If it’s just the fact that you feel that you deserve to take up more of the road and all other drivers be damned, then perhaps you should do a reality check because we have just as much right to be on the road as you do, smaller vehicle or not.

Sincerely,

Stef

If you sprinkle when you tinkle…

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I know I’ve said this before and I’m going to say it again because apparently it hasn’t been seen by enough people yet.

Wipe off the freaking toilet seat for crying out loud!!! Seriously. It’s totally gross. I know that many women hover so as not to have to actually touch their tushes on the toilet seat, but they should at least have the common courtesy to take a quick peek behind them to see if they’ve sprayed, and, if so, to clean up their mess. I don’t know how it is that they manage to miss the giant hole in the toilet entirely and instead spray urine all over the toilet AND not be able to see that they’ve done it and just leave it there for the next person to encounter, but it is REALLY disgusting and they should be swatted with a rolled up newspaper or something.

/rant

Holy bad accent Batman!

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While lying around on Sunday afternoon in my non-functional state (I’m having major issues sleeping right now and therefore not getting much more than 3-4 hours a day) I finally broke down and watched Troy. All in all, I really enjoyed the film and the cast, with the exception of The Brad.

The Good
Eric Bana owned this film. Owned it I tell you. His character was wonderful and he was just utterly fantastic. Every moment he was on screen, I was in heaven and I was very indifferent to him before watching this film. Now, I kind of want to bear his children. ;)

The Bad
Brad’s accent. It came. It went. It just kind of sucked. Brad’s golden wavy locks and bronzed chiseled body glistening in the sun and/or moonlight throughout the entire film also made me unhappy and roll my eyes a few times. It’s no secret that I’m not a fan and haven’t been since about 1996 or so and I know it’s strange that I find him repulsive, but I do and there was just too much glistening Brad for my liking.

The Randomness
Diane Kruger should really think about gaining that 10-15 pounds or whatever she had to gain for the film back because she looked 1000 times better with a little more flesh on her face and a teensy bit of meat on her arms.

I never noticed how incredibly long and thin Saffron Burrows neck is. It’s really rather swan-like, but I can’t decide if that’s a good or bad thing or maybe just a little odd.

Orlando Bloom was very meh. His character is such a weenie that it was hard to be all about the Orlando.

Sean Bean was nothing less than awesome.