I love
iTunes. How else could I spend $10.89 and get:
Roly Poly and
Mississippi by the Dixie Chicks
Let Him Fly,
One Bad Habit, and
If He Never Said Hello by Linda Eder
Fell In Love With a Boy by Joss Stone
The
Grease Megamix
Here's To Love by Ewan McGregor and Renee Zellweger
Everyone's A Little Bit Racist from
Avenue QSunrise by Norah Jones
Soon It's Gonna Rain by Kristin Chenoweth and Mandy Patinkin
Seven songs by artists I like off albums I don't want to buy; one song from a musical I haven't seen yet; a megamix I'm almost embarrassed to want; one song by a new artist; and an iTunes exclusive. All for less than the normal retail price of one new CD.
iTunes? I love you.
My brother writes a
music column online. Sniff. He's all grownup.
Oh for the love of God. Like there aren't about, oh, nine trillion better ways to spend 1.5 billion dollars than this? Please, please, please let this fiscally irresponsible, morally reprehensible man get voted out of office in November.
We used to use
How to Cook Without a Book : Recipes and Techniques Every Cook Should Know by Heart all the time, and somehow we got away from it. We hauled it out again tonight (ironically, we have always needed the physical book) and made absolutely perfect seared thin boneless pork chops in a balsamic vinegar pan sauce, snow peas, and orzo with blue cheese. Everything was fantastic. I recommend this book more than I recommend any other cookbook in our collection. The pork chops took four minutes cooking time in the pan. Four. Amazing. The whole meal? 30 minutes max.
Possibly shameful admission: I watch Days of Our Lives regularly. I have been watching this soap on and off since about 1984. This isn't the only soap in my past, either - I was once a regular viewer of the late, lamented Another World and also of General Hospital.
I am also a regular viewer of other TV shows and many movies and stage plays, and have directed actors many times in my life.
So perhaps when I say that the girl playing Jan Spears on DOOL is the worst actress I have ever seen on a soap, ever, bar none, you will believe me. She is worse than Celeste. She is worse than Mimi. She is worse than many bad actors of soaps past, like the chick who once played April Ramirez.
Why exactly did they bring this actress back? She is terrible. Monotonous. Boooooring. I've seen better acting in children's theatre, and I am not exaggerating in any way. She's had hardly any interaction with other characters yet as she stalks Shawn Brady all over Salem, so most of her lines have been delivered in soliloquy. I have to fast forward on the TiVo every time she is onscreen alone because I cannot stand to listen to her speak. Good move, James E. Reilly and Ken Corday. Really. It's so great that you killed Cassie (who could actually act) yet kept Mimi, who's pretty bad, and then brought back Jan, who is the worst of the worst.
I know that this is a soap opera, and the acting is often subpar, but there's some decent and often very good performances on this show. If they can get a young actress who can act for Belle and one for poor dead Cassie, why can't they find two more? In all of Los Angeles you can't find two late teens-mid-twenties out of work actresses who can actually act? I find that impossible to believe.
If they keep killing the good actors (although I was not sorry to see Chris Kositchek I mean Roman Brady go) and keeping the bad ones, I will definitely stop watching.
