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Wednesdays are Classy
Oct. 4th, 2007 10:44 pmSo, while I watch most of my shows through the magic of DVR and perfectly legal rebroadcasts of an internet nature, (NBC.com) Wednesdays are special. Unless I get asked to do Kara. Though I'm actually not positive that Kara would win at this point. I might ask them to DVR that instead while I get my fix of fashion. I play a hunter, they probably wouldn't notice if I afk autoshotted the instance would they? Wednesdays are for Tyra and her army of model wannabes and now Gossip Girl and her army of New York scandal mongers. If you had asked me last month if I was looking forward to either, you would have received quizzical bewilderment. A couple of well placed magazine ads, one desperately lazy Saturday spent watching the Cycle 8 marathon of ANTM on VH1 and the first two episodes of each, and you have the woman before you now reduced to sheer anticipation on a Wednesday, which by seven o'clock at night is starting to wear at the nerves of a patient but also eager roomie.
At fifteen til eight, having run out of snark from FourFour and TVwoP, I'm nearly incoherent from a mix of happiness and impatience and I've begun to hop to the couch, to the amusement of everyone in the house that hasn't suffered my squeaking gibbering hilarity previously.
I am an intelligent person! But both shows on one night are just too much happiness at the same time. Gossip Girl is strangely awesome. It's not really that plot driven, it's more like The SartoriaList and Face Hunter on television. Really really great clothes, and shoes and hair. It's terribly terribly wonderful. Pretty pictures that mooove! Oh, and it has a soundtrack.
The appeal of ANTM is one I can't really explain. It's like ProjRun, but without Heidi Klum, a huge plus. And as Barbie like as Tyra is, she does teach the models actual model-y skills, another plus. Pretty clothes, pretty photos and just fashion. I don't suppose that my being an avid fan of that subject surprises anyone at this point. Even when the challenges get wacky and the bitches bitchier, well, does anyone think that fashion can't be like that? In ProjRun, well like Karl or Donatella would break a nail sewing their own shit or working together... ProjRun group challenges are just so hilariously unrealistic. Jae loves to paint that picture on occasion, and it's a personal favourite of mine.
/Fade in
It's All Star ProjRun, with your host Heidi Klum. This season's contestants are; Vera and Donna and Donatella and Karl and McQueen and a little to the side is Stella. Bereft of their entourage, they stand on the runway for this week's group challenge judging. The judges are Heidi, Michael Kors, Nina Garcia and for some reason Emeril Lagasse. It's ProjRun, they don't need a reason.
Vera, Karl and Donatella are on the same side of the runway, their models before them. One model is naked, except for some non-strategic red paint and a single strip of bacon. Another model is wearing a yard of exceedingly fine silk in a perfect shade of purple with an beautiful hat and carrying a spiral cut ham. The last model is wearing a shredded wool tunic with salami trim. Karl keeps unconsciously reaching for a diet coke that isn't there muttering in French and is blithely unaware of the women on either side of him, of course with his sunglasses on, he could be sleeping. Vera is glaring daggers at Donatella who is smoking a cigarette violently and leaning on Karl for support. The models just look scared and cold.
Stella, Alex and Donna are observing their competition with the confidence of the tragically hip. Their three models seem more at ease. One of their models is also fairly au natural, wearing a pig pink modal bikini and the slogan "I am conscious of the pain of sentient beings" in elegant calligraphy around her stomach. Another model is wearing a painstakingly tailored sheath dress with a purse, a crumpled paper sign that says simply, "Joan forgot her lunch today" and a hundred dollar bill pinned to her lapel. The last model was wheeled out by three makeup assistants and a couple grips on a dolly, her outfit is sculpted of bologna and liverwurst and she looks as though she's either going to be extremely ill or fabulous at any moment. Stella is trying to avoid illness herself in the face of the large amounts of meat and meat biproducts, Donna is drawing on a scorecard with some lipstick she stole from the makeup trailer and Alexander is laughing maniacally at the competition. All of the judges are speechless as Tim Gunn interviews that he's "concerned" that the designers didn't seem to "connect" with their challenge and that they needed badly to "make it work". He seems as close to helpless fits of giggles as anyone has ever seen him.
/fade to commercial
I would so watch that show.
This Wednesday obsession has sort of taken over time previously spent watching and reviewing actual fashion shows...
xposted to RVB and ENW
At fifteen til eight, having run out of snark from FourFour and TVwoP, I'm nearly incoherent from a mix of happiness and impatience and I've begun to hop to the couch, to the amusement of everyone in the house that hasn't suffered my squeaking gibbering hilarity previously.
I am an intelligent person! But both shows on one night are just too much happiness at the same time. Gossip Girl is strangely awesome. It's not really that plot driven, it's more like The SartoriaList and Face Hunter on television. Really really great clothes, and shoes and hair. It's terribly terribly wonderful. Pretty pictures that mooove! Oh, and it has a soundtrack.
The appeal of ANTM is one I can't really explain. It's like ProjRun, but without Heidi Klum, a huge plus. And as Barbie like as Tyra is, she does teach the models actual model-y skills, another plus. Pretty clothes, pretty photos and just fashion. I don't suppose that my being an avid fan of that subject surprises anyone at this point. Even when the challenges get wacky and the bitches bitchier, well, does anyone think that fashion can't be like that? In ProjRun, well like Karl or Donatella would break a nail sewing their own shit or working together... ProjRun group challenges are just so hilariously unrealistic. Jae loves to paint that picture on occasion, and it's a personal favourite of mine.
/Fade in
It's All Star ProjRun, with your host Heidi Klum. This season's contestants are; Vera and Donna and Donatella and Karl and McQueen and a little to the side is Stella. Bereft of their entourage, they stand on the runway for this week's group challenge judging. The judges are Heidi, Michael Kors, Nina Garcia and for some reason Emeril Lagasse. It's ProjRun, they don't need a reason.
Vera, Karl and Donatella are on the same side of the runway, their models before them. One model is naked, except for some non-strategic red paint and a single strip of bacon. Another model is wearing a yard of exceedingly fine silk in a perfect shade of purple with an beautiful hat and carrying a spiral cut ham. The last model is wearing a shredded wool tunic with salami trim. Karl keeps unconsciously reaching for a diet coke that isn't there muttering in French and is blithely unaware of the women on either side of him, of course with his sunglasses on, he could be sleeping. Vera is glaring daggers at Donatella who is smoking a cigarette violently and leaning on Karl for support. The models just look scared and cold.
Stella, Alex and Donna are observing their competition with the confidence of the tragically hip. Their three models seem more at ease. One of their models is also fairly au natural, wearing a pig pink modal bikini and the slogan "I am conscious of the pain of sentient beings" in elegant calligraphy around her stomach. Another model is wearing a painstakingly tailored sheath dress with a purse, a crumpled paper sign that says simply, "Joan forgot her lunch today" and a hundred dollar bill pinned to her lapel. The last model was wheeled out by three makeup assistants and a couple grips on a dolly, her outfit is sculpted of bologna and liverwurst and she looks as though she's either going to be extremely ill or fabulous at any moment. Stella is trying to avoid illness herself in the face of the large amounts of meat and meat biproducts, Donna is drawing on a scorecard with some lipstick she stole from the makeup trailer and Alexander is laughing maniacally at the competition. All of the judges are speechless as Tim Gunn interviews that he's "concerned" that the designers didn't seem to "connect" with their challenge and that they needed badly to "make it work". He seems as close to helpless fits of giggles as anyone has ever seen him.
/fade to commercial
I would so watch that show.
This Wednesday obsession has sort of taken over time previously spent watching and reviewing actual fashion shows...
xposted to RVB and ENW
