STOP eating my soup!!!

aaaaaaaiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeee!!!

passive agressive notes.

wooo, let's all get gastric bypass surgery!!!

(on a sort of related note, i have lost 13 lbs in 4 weeks on weight watchers. this shit really works!!)

oh, no. no no no no no.

this sopranos finale just won't die. it's so awesome. chris and i watched part of "the blue comet" and then parts of "made in america" after a long night of drinking last night, because we couldn't seem to agree on if butchie was completely cool with what went down with phil, or what. as much as people try to say that tony was shot...i just don't know. it's totally possible, and was filmed and edited in such a way that it would make sense...sort of. and it's what i was initially convinced of. the only thing missing is motive. who would order the hit, and why? there are no clues supporting that...at least none that i picked up on. i think the theory that david chase whacked the audience makes more sense. the same line people are connecting to the shooting theory ("you don't even know what hits you" or whatever it is, with tony and bobby in the boat) could be attributed to the end of the show. none of us knew what hit us. bam. but what's with all this talk of the alternate endings? the guy who plays agent harris said that he saw one of the other endings where member's only guy definitely advances on tony. and peter bogdonovich (who plays melfi's shrink) says he filmed a scene for the final episode where he was comforting a "bereaved" dr. melfi. but there were probably just several scenarios filmed so no one would know what to make of any of it, and nothing could leak out because know one really knew. well, steve perry knew. isn't he special.

and THAT is the last time i will talk about "the sopranos." probably.

be like the squirrel, girl...be like the squirrel.

i know i said i wasn't going to talk about the sopranos anymore...but i guess you're just gonna have to deal with it. just 2 links, then i will move on.

tony is dead...??

watch the sopranos ending with any song you want, if you think they could've done better than that journey song.

hot chicks with douchebags.

pigs anonymous.

do animals have emotions? my cat does, i'm sure of it. although all chicks probably say their cat has emotions, and is unusually intuitive, and all that crap.

"i went ahead and ordered some for the table."

those are very odd and random last words. and i'm not saying they were tony's literal last words (were they? who knows!!), but the last words for us to hear from him. i love it.


i also think it's funny that i mentioned that we were having a thunderstorm, and i was praying that the cable didn't go out during the episode. and everyone on earth thought their cable went out. heh.

this is my last sopranos post, i promise. i'm just getting such a kick out of all the dissection of this final scene, and how genius people think it is, or how livid and betrayed people are feeling by it. if the final scene wasn't so ambiguous, no one would be talking about it as much as they are.

and i will forever associate this crappy journey song with "sopranos." perhaps now i won't groan or change the station when i hear this song come on...i'll think of this amazing show.

i've had that damn journey song in my head all morning!

and now i'm pretty sure he didn't get shot at all. after much discussion with chris and much reading of message boards and articles, i think it's just over. the whole end scene was to mess with us, and to illustrate that everyone looks shady in tony's eyes. he constantly looks over his shoulder, wondering if this guy's gonna hit him, or that guy. grey jacket guy doesn't come out of the bathroom and kill tony; no way. we just don't know. we will never know. but for now, all is well in the soprano family (and Family). AJ is now involved with the family (working for little carmine), meadow's gonna be a lawyer for the mob, carmella will continue to have long crazy nails and a benz and build her little houses. as this article states, our glimpse into their lives is over.

but wait...am i wrong?

sorry to get all geeky fangirl on everybody. i just think i am gonna have a hard time letting go of this show. it's been 7 years!! i was devastated at the end of "six feet under;" i cried for like an hour. but this ending is way, WAY better. surely more artistic and mind-effing.

now that i've had time to recover from the shock, it was just wonderful and perfect. this was probably the most brilliant show on tv.

(i also think that paulie and that cat should have a sitcom.)

okay, i just re-watched the last scene like 3 times

okay, did tony get shot? wow. there has never been an episode where there was NO music over the ending credits, and why else would it end so abruptly like that? just black, silence, nothing. and in the last episode, they flashed back to tony and bobby in the boat (which actually happened several episodes prior), talking about getting shot, how it's just sudden and abrupt and you don't know what hit you ("you're there and then you're not" or something to that effect---which is exactly how bobby died). the end credits music was always completely tied in to what what going on, and the music was at times obscure and always chosen with care. maybe he got shot in the back of the head, by that guy who was sitting at the counter, looked at tony TWICE, went to the bathroom, and then came out and shot him as tony looked up to see meadow coming through the door (although that is very "godfather..." was the gun taped behind one of those old toilets with the chain thing?)...

maybe he got shot by that dude at the jukebox...was he reaching for a quarter, or his gun? or just putting his hand in his pocket?

but then again, who would want/need to whack tony? how would anyone know he was there? he made the peace with the brooklyn family...everything was even steven. there would be no specific reason for that to happen.

the lyrics to "don't stop believin" matched up to what was going on in the scene..."just a small town girl, livin' in a lonely world" (cue carmella), "just a city boy" (tony), "streetlight" (we see a streetlight when meadow runs across the street to the diner), and the last line is "don't stop..." BLACK. not even fade to black...just sudden black. why??? it's not possible that it was for no good reason. everything on this show had DAMN good reason.

see, this is exactly what david chase wants. i KNOW we're not supposed to know, and people are going to be talking about this and watching it over and over to try to figure it out. but there's just no way. at first i was pissed off at this episode. now i'm realizing that it's pretty brilliant. so, either hey, life goes on, carm and the kids are all doing good, tony made it out of that scary situation alive and well, he's still evil, whatever...or he died in his onion rings.

Streetlight people, living just to find emotion
Hiding, somewhere in the night
Working hard to get my fill,
Everybody wants a thrill
Payin anything to roll the dice,
Just one more time
Some will win, some will lose
Some were born to sing the blues
Oh, the movie never ends
It goes on and on and on and on

now. look at those last 2 lines. watching this scene, we questioned every single person that came into that diner. every one had potential to kill tony. we didn't trust any of them. and that's what it's like to be tony. so maybe he lived. he just lived, kept on going. maybe the sudden black and silence meant nothing.

my head hurts. i'm going to bed.

p.s. i freaking HATE journey.

don't stop believin'

i think i need a few days to process what i just saw...wow. did tony get shot when the screen went to black, his last vision is meadow coming through the door toward him?! or is everything fine...this evil sociopath, that we were forced to turn on this season with his killing of chrissy and being totally happy about it, comes out just fine in the end? he's got his family, he's got his onion rings, it's all good! and there is no justice. is he pondering that even if he does live, what does he have to look forward to? just look at uncle junior. the scene with phil getting clipped and then run over with his grandbabies locked in the SUV, crushing his head and causing that guy to vomit was pretty good. and the very last scene was very, very good, in that we were tricked into thinking a million tragic things could possibly happen...as this guy just wrote:

"Nondescript Baseball Cap Guy will forever be drinking coffee in that booth. Gray-Jacket Mook’s permanently in the bathroom. The hip-hop gangstas will always be standing at the jukebox. Nobody’s whacking anybody.

And our loving family, because you had to see Sunday night, finally, that that’s what they are, will forever be ordering the All-American burger special with homemade ice cream for dessert, after Meadow’s parking problems proved just to be ineptitude, and not the horrible coincidence that would leave her either the only survivor, or the only victim of final, horrible carnage."

and might i add that it was pretty funny to me that a.j., poor depressed, suicidal, misunderstood, suddenly sensitive a.j., with his super-strong convictions about the state of world affairs and feeling an intense desire to combat terror, decides that he'd be just as happy working at a movie studio as a gofer with a new BMW, banging a model who's a junior in high school. a.j., you are such a douchebag.

nothing was resolved at all. nothing. which i can appreciate, i really can. life doesn't get wrapped up with a neat little bow, and neither did this show. silvio's in a coma, there is a trial pending, uncle junior is a complete mess in a mental institution, paulie's still paulie, the ghost of christufa may or may not be in that cat. and the show has always led us to believe one thing was happening, and then we were thrown a curveball. this episode was no different.

wow. just wow. i don't know what to say. except that everyone was expecting a shocking ending, and we sure got it.

the longest week of our lives is almost over

in a mere 2 hours, the sopranos finale airs. what will happen?!? will tony, live, die, flip, go to prison? will meadow get whacked, or raped or something awful like that? will a.j. get whacked (which would be a blessing, i mean let's be honest) or become an extremist to wipe out terrorists? is paulie playing both sides of the fence? is silvio gonna make it? have we really seen the last of dr. melfi? will the feds show up at the safehouse during a possible bloody battle between the two families, and snatch up a wounded but alive tony and put him into witness protection? what will happen to carmella? marone!

p.s.there's a thunderstorm brewing right now. if the cable goes out i will seriously have a mental breakdown.

apparently it's 50's hostage film noir night on turner classic movies!

i just watched "the night holds terror," which was pretty good--stars a young john cassavetes. now something's starting called "dial 1119," which is about a "maniac holding a group of people at bay at a bar." later, "the dark past" with william holden. i can happily stay up late to watch these flicks tonight, because i don't have to go to work tomorrow! we are leaving mid-morning to drive to virginia for my niece's graduation, and coming back sunday. and as long as i make it back by "the sopranos," all will be well with the world. if you're a soprano fan, really dig into some of those wiki articles if you have time. fun.

ooop. jack's pissed.

there's a thunderstorm right now, so here's some cool photos of storms.

scissor sisters generator.

ack, i can't take it anymore! i'm going to go hang out on the porch and dig on this thunderstorm. it's a big one!

i love you, michael imperioli.

awwww, christafah! :(

yikes, where to begin...

the past week has been full up ups and downs. my gramma's funeral was on tuesday, and i kinda fell apart by the end of the day. i was okay at the actual funeral...i mean, i think i cried more than anyone else there, but i didn't lose it really bad or anything. it was a nice service, actually...the pastor got people involved and it wasn't super-structured, and it was truly a celebration of who she was. i saw a lot of people that i haven't seen in years. everyone just loved her so much. later on in the evening chris and i went out for a beer to take the edge off. well, one beer quickly became six, and six beers + gramma's funeral + no dinner = hysterical crying on the way home. i think it was a certain johnny cash song that set me off. but anyway...i'm a lot better now.

let's see, what else happened...i friended steven wright on myspace and he left me a comment. that was pretty cool.

oh yeah, i put those 2 extra white stripes tickets i had up on eBay, and they ended up selling for $525.00. YEAH, i know. totally insane. to celebrate, i bought a cute dress to wear to the show. yes, i realize that the show is 2 months away, but i am a woman, and women do these types of things. i'm sure i will tire of this dress by that time and end up buying something else, but hey, whatever.

also, i feel like i should mention that last week's episode of "the sopranos" was one of the most intense ones in a long time. certainly the best episode all season. i watched it twice, had an hour-long discussion with chris about our theories on where this is all going, and then i pored over message boards for like two hours, reading other people's predictions. this episode was like the old days of the show; so good that you talk back to the screen. "no, christufah! DON'T DO IT!" "uh-oh, this is NOT going to end well." "*GASP!!!!!!* NO WAY!!" good stuff.

anyway...let's have some laughs, shall we?

ha, if only!! (apparently it was supposed to say "blair resigns." someone at cnn international is SO FIRED!)

ha ha. i love these guys.

ha. ha ha ha. (thanks, kenny)

divorce rate lowest since 1970. although probably because more people are just living together instead of getting married...?

yesterday, sid vicious would've been 50. dang.

virtual drum machines.

cats that look like hitler.

how insane was that...

...when christopher beat up lauren bacall for her goodie bag on "the sopranos"? bwah-hahaha, ohhhh that was great.

last week, japanese scientists explaced-- placed explosive detonators on the sun...

this chocolate is the bomb. yuk, yuk.

helsinki hipsters.

it's a conspiracy, i tell ya.


last night we watched "blast-off girls" (directed by one of my faves, herschell gordon lewis). i forgot all about the fact that colonel sanders (yes, that colonel sanders) had a cameo as himself. so the crew could eat free chicken. funny that there's no photo for him on imdb...what, they couldn't find one? i realize that his image is quite rare...oh, i also think i need to get this album.

i also used the last of my purple manic panic last night:



















and would you just look at this precious little smiling ball of foof: