One of my favorite television shows right now is Bravo's "Flipping Out." I recently came across Ryan Brown's design website — that's Jeff Lewis' business partner on the program — and I especially like these shots from his portfolio:
P.S. Brown Design, which Ryan runs with his brother, also has a blog.
Dear Editors at Television Without Pity:
Please add MTV's "The Paper" to your list of shows to recap. It is awesome.
Thank you.
Why wasn't there a course on "How to Get George Clooney to Come Over for Dinner" when I was in J-School? I am jealous of this Time magazine reporter.
"He is good at slipping into many different worlds, even the one in my kitchen, where he is pouring in the egg mixture while I add the hot spaghetti for the carbonara. He reaches over and stirs the bacon, grabs a string bean from the pot and eats it. He is mad guesting, Olympic-level guesting. He's been over for two hours, and it occurs to me that the smooth bastard must have turned off his cell phone before he got here. When I leave the table to check on the lamb, he puts extra bacon on my pasta."
Now, that is my kind of dinner guest!
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I admit it: I record "Oprah" every day. But I usually only watch the episodes that are home- or design-related. (Yes, Nate Berkus would be welcome in my home. Any. Time.) When I saw that today's episode featured Ivanka Trump's apartment, I expected it to be look really expensive and gaudy.
I was so wrong.
While I'm sure it is a really expensive place, I loved the décor. Here are a few photos I managed to take of the TV screen:
Love the glossy chartreuse tables, as well as the petite artwork in the background that repeats the color. I am also crazy about her narrow doors.
According to the voice-over, one thing she always has in her apartment: fresh flowers.
I am so impressed by all the pops of color. Like with those foo dogs here ...
... And the lamp and pot here. Also, I am coveting that mirror. (Perhaps WS Home's "Harlow" is close enough? Or the lower-priced "Bellesol" at Ballard Designs.)
In case you want to see better photos (yes, better than my shots of my TV), check out this post on Stylecourt from a few months ago.
OMG. Can I just tell you how glad I was to see John Cho on another one of my favorite shows ("How I Met Your Mother") last night? And I'm psyched that he now has a recurring role on "Ugly Betty."
New shows that have been added to our DVR: "Dirty Sexy Money" and "Gossip Girl." (Don't judge!)
Please keep winning so that I can keep watching Grady Sizemore this postseason.
Thank you.
Alright. You got me: "The Hills" is my guilty pleasure. I haven't watched both of last night's episodes all the way through yet, but I'm looking forward to replaying The Fight between Lauren and Heidi. Good stuff:
"I think that's really sad, Lauren."
"I think you're really sad."
...
"I feel bad for you."
"I ALWAYS feel bad for you. ALWAYS!"
...
"What did I do? What did I do?"
"You know why I'm mad at you!"
"Why?"
"You know what you did!"
"What did I do?"
"You know what you did!"
"What did I do? What did I do?"
"What did you do? What did you do?"
And how great were Whitney's facial expressions! And Lo's attempt to have a conversation with Justin Bobby!
If you missed last night's double-header, I'm sure you can catch it again on MTV every odd hour of the day for the next week. You might feel a little dumber afterwards, but you'll get some good laughs out of it, too.
Can I just tell you how very bummed I am that I do not get Showtime. "The Tudors" started last night and I so wish I could watch it! (I did recently re-watch "Match Point" to get my Jonathan Rhys Meyers' fix though.)
At least I have HBO and — mark your calendars! — "The Sopranos" and "Entourage" are coming back THIS SUNDAY.
So I was watching "NCIS" last night and picked up this little gem of information (yes, pun intended): You can tell if a diamond is real or not if you breathe on the stone's surface and it doesn't fog up. Materials such as quartz, glass and cubic zirconium will show some condensation.
Who said TV isn't educational?
Reading Rain Jokinen's "I'm From Rolling Stone" recaps is WAY more amusing than actually watching the show itself.
Oh, and that earthquake last night? Apparently, I was the only one who didn't feel it. In fact, when Jon emerged from the office and started talking about it, I denied that it happened. I chalked it up to over-studying-delirium on his part. (I grew up in California — he's from New York! Of course I would know if there was an earthquake!)
One more thing: Apparently, ABC has decided to turn those Geico caveman ads into a TV show. Huh?
How cute is the character of Henry on "Ugly Betty"? I decided to IMDB (yes, I use that word as a verb)
He proposed to his wife, Anel, on a bench outside of Tiffany's on Rodeo Drive, where he had made a picnic breakfast so that they could have a Breakfast at Tiffany's-style meal before going in and buying their wedding rings.
Awww. Henry just got even more lovable.
And! He's a licensed auctioneer.
Okay, back to watching the show ...
For fellow "The Office" fans: I'd thought I'd share this site that Nick sent me. It lists all of the pranks Jim has pulled on Dwight and Andy. Pretty neat — as long as you can get past the mistaken references to "Stanford" (should be "Stamford").
Now that classes have started again and Jon's back to his studying ways (i.e., locking himself in the back room for hours every night), I have turned to the one friend who's always there for me (because Christina Aguilera and Ricky Martin were so right — nobody wants to be lonely).
MTV reality shows.
Interning at a magazine must be the "it" thing for the kids to do right now. Last year, MTV brought us "Miss Seventeen" and "The Hills" (which included Lauren's internship at TeenVogue). And now there's my current fave, "I'm From Rolling Stone."
Five of the six writers featured on the show are from California (weird). Four are from Northern California. The girl from San Francisco seems delusional: In Episode 1, she talks about making lots of money so she can take care of her family and finally buy a house. Um. When did entry-level journalists (or interns!!!) start making the bucks? And it seemed odd (okay, retarded even) that she didn't know who Jann Wenner is, yet would be interning at his magazine 48 hours later.
I do want to root for the young, Asian female journalist here. But based on the first 30 minutes, I'm liking Tika — who lives in Brooklyn now, but hails from Buffalo. When she was typing up her first piece, on the music scene in her hometown, she started with something like this: "In a place known more for its chicken wings ... " Gotta love anyone who can write chicken wings into a lede.
(Pssst ... You can actually read what some of the contestants wrote here.)
fred flare's slideshow of various NYC store windows is now up! I absolutely love this annual feature. This year, I'm really into the wintery white displays (Tiffany, Saks).
There are also other photos taken around town, like this one:
Did you know ...
... of NaBloPoMo and I'm insanely tired, today's post is courtesy of the American Music Awards. Which I actually only watched the first 15 minutes of.
I know this is my fourth post of the day (a personal record, perhaps?), but I just had to share: I'm watching THE best movie ever made. Well, best non-John Hughes movie ever made. That isn't Goonies, Better Off Dead or So I Married an Axed Murderer. (Those are three of the five movies that make up my entire DVD collection.)
Not only does it have the "The Coreys" (Haim and Feldman, for those of you too young to remember the '80s), but there's a very young Heather Graham rocking a very bad, frizzy perm and a pink off-the-shoulder dress with two layers of ruffle.
Oh, and by the way, the movie's soundtrack is equally awesome: "Trouble" by Nia Peeples, "Get Out of My Dreams and Into My Car" by Billy Ocean and "Mercedes Boy" by Pebbles. Why that last song? Because Heather Graham's character happens to be named Mercedes. Nice.
I don't watch much FoodTV these days, but I'm definitely going to tune in for tonight's Iron Chef:
"In a special Iron Chef America presentation, Food Network All Stars Rachael Ray and Giada De Laurentiis come to Kitchen Stadium to battle it out. In a special twist, the Chairman decides to pair them with Iron Chefs Bobby Flay and Mario Batali in an unexpected battle that is only fit for Food Network All Stars. Which pairs’ cuisine will reign supreme?"
(I'm rooting for Team Flay/De Laurentiis.)
Totally unrelated: Jon and I were at Rite-Aid earlier today and came across some home drug tests. The marijuana and ectasy ones were almost gone; the multi-drug test was sold out; and there were plenty of cocaine detectors. I guess that's not the drug of choice for suburban teenagers?
So the other night, I caught the HGTV special "25 Biggest Decorating Mistakes." Here's what their panel of experts — which consisted mainly of hosts of HGTV shows — cited as the worst things you could do to your home: