ummmmmmmmm, can I say, I won my friend's March Madness Bracket! it was about 7 people, $10 buy in, no bars being held. but I came out victorious, with my mildly informed sports decisions combined with such thoughts as 'Ugh, I knew a mean BITCH from Wake Forest, suck it' guiding my selections and voices. I'm supposed to receive a $50 compensation, but I won't hold my baby stinkbreath.


I came to the realization last night that Tom Perotta is one of my favorite authors. I read a book or two a week, mostly all non-fiction with the exception of my graphic novels/comics, and his are always the best fiction. also, 2 of the movies adapted from his books are two of my favorite movies, Election and Little Children. I wonder if he still teaches writing at Harvard; he's not super old but he is super good looking.


**whilst rewatching some nip/tuck recently, I became very interested in the music they feature on the show. nip/tuck is basically a highly stylized, sexual, surgical, philosophical, gorgeous late-night soap opera. they have an operating scene every show, and the doctors always play music they find appropriate. music is used to great effect throughout every episode, but particularly during the operation scenes. sometimes, it's very obvious, and (perhaps) ironically hokey. an example of that would be when an author gets breast implants to try to simulate what his wife went through post-masectomy/reconstruction, for a book deal. the song played during the scene was 'A Boy Named Sue'. hmm. in another, during a testicular implantion, 'Diferente' by Gotan Project is heard. when a woman comes in to get her crazy abusive ex's tattooed name removed - 'Slave' by the Rolling Stones (and 'Tears Go By' when she gets a new name put there). 'Vincent' by Don McClean for an ear reconstruction. 'All the Trees in the Field will Clap Their hands' by Sufjan Stevens during aftermath of a hurricane. Frank Zappa's 'Chungas Revenge' for a 4-way scene. 'A Cry For Love' by Black Heart Procession, heard during a surgery scene for a girl who purposely mutilated herself in order to appear a victim. finally, one of my favorites, 'Everything in It's Right Place' by Radiohead, during the scene where Sean has to reassemble a bunch of corpses in the morgue, after they were taken apart and used to make a new woman-corpse. oh, and 'Lovers Spit' during a marriage proposal, whaaaaat.
there aren't many shows on that incorporate music in the way that Nip/Tuck does. usually it's some soft-rock Sara Barellies/Colbie Caillat/KT Tunstall/Natasha Beddenfield booshit played during Grey's Anatomy, which in turn makes it's a hit that I have to hear on the radio all fall.




ps, I'm ready for some dad jokes......you know, of the 'I feel like a sandwich..' dad: 'Funny, you don't look like one!' variety. 'Is it Wednesday today?' dad: 'All day!' tell me more please.m