Feb. 20 Music video: I was watching Britney Spears new music video called "Hold it Against Me." Someone on Youtube said this:
"Here is what's the meaning behind the vid:
*Start of her career - She hit the earth like a meteor.
*Becoming a celebrity - She’s all glammed up putting make-up and perfume.
*Rising popularity - She’s rising as her old music videos surround her.
*She fell in love - The picture of the guy on the Sony touchscreen TV.
*Personal struggle - She was fighting with herself.
*Breakdown/Meltdown - She collapses and ruins her wedding dress and past work.
*Comeback - She comes back harder than eva.
I don't know if that's what BS really thought of it. I do like that person's comment. It's very deep and thoughtful. My sister didn't like it saying it was low budget.
Me: No "Gimme More" was low budget. It was just her at a strip club.
S: No, the one with the flying car was.
Me: "Do Something" actually had some thought in it.
I really like "Hold it Against Me." The dancing was really good. I like the song. I like the part where she fights with herself and she splatters paint all over her white dress. In my opinion, her best videos were "Toxic" and Womanizer."
I remember BS saying for "Womanizer": My idea was that I am different girls in the video and he (the womanizer) goes after all of them not knowing that it's the same girl." I love the dancing in that video because it was complicated and hard choreography to learn.
Comparisons: Here's a batch of comparisons:
Recognizing someone from a porn tape: I was watching 90210, and Navid recognizes this girl at school from somewhere, but don't know where. It's not until the end of the ep, he realizes that he's seen her on a porn tape. Then I realized it was on Desperate Housewives. Bree introduces her gay son's boyfriend to the gay couple in the neighborhood. The gay couple recognizes the boyfriend from a porn tape.
Feb. 21:
Being too close to a case, so is person taken off: I saw this on Castle where Beckett is taken off the case because it involves her mother's murder. A couple eps later, Beckett takes Castle off a case, because the suspect is Castle's friend.
Interview with character(s) and show flashbacks (clip show): I was watching Flashpoint and Victor Garber was on and he was interviewing the SRU team. During each individual interview, there were flashbacks of old episodes making it a kind of a clip show. It was also done on Alias season 1 ep "Q&A" where Sydney was interviewed, and there were clips from past episodes.
Flashpoint did film new things like a flashback of how one of the members got blown up by a landmine. We saw that in an ep. What we didn't see is how Spike went home and told his parents that his friend Lou died that day. I did like the ep where they mentioned "double double" which is so Canadian. The season 3 finale said "To Be Continued." "This summer." It looks like someone may get shot.
Killing someone Of Mice and Men style: In the book Of Mice and Men, the ending had a character tell his brother to imagine this beautiful farm. Then he shoots him.
On the TV show Dark Angel, Max tells her serial killer brother to imagine this happy place before she snaps his neck.
Recently on The Vampire Diaries, Damon tells his vampire friend Rose who was dying to imagine this happy place before he stakes her.
Taxi cab killer kills by having victim in the backseat locked in and releasing gas: I was watching a Criminal Minds ep called "Sense Memory." He was killing women so he could get their scent. I've seen this on CSI: NY and it was a season long mystery. The killer was disturbed and wanted to help people get to the other side.
Feb. 22
Episodes starting with a exciting scene and then "X hours earlier" to show how the characters got into situation: Flashpoint and Southland does that with every episode. Recently Castle did it. Alias does that pretty often.
Character shoots suspect who can lead to a bigger bad guy. Character had to shoot suspect because he was going to hurt another good guy: It was in the Hawaii 5.0 pilot where Danno shoots suspect so he won't kill Steve.
Steve: Why did you shoot him? He was our only lead.
Danno: He was going to kill you. I saved your life.
It was done on Castle. Beckett's mom was murdered by a contract killer. They caught the killer, but Beckett was forced to shoot him when he was about to hurt Castle. Killer wasn't able to tell who hired him to kill Beckett's mom.
It was done on The Mentalist. Patrick Jane's wife and daughter were murdered by Red John. PJ joins the CBI and they find a suspect who is connected to Red John. PJ had to shoot suspect because he was about to hurt Agent Lisbon. Now we don't know where Red John is.
In Robert McKee's screenwriting book Story, he says: "When you put your characters under pressure, it reveals character." If I was put into the above situation, I would shoot the suspect so he won't hurt my friend or family member. I may not find the bad guy who was responsible for killing someone I love, but at least I prevented him from killing another person I love.
Feb. 23 Jay Geenan: In Jan. I got this email from this author called Jay Geenan:
A warm hello from Western Canada;
I am an author that promotes my works at my web site of www.jaygeenen.com. Some of the novels that I have are 'The Iraqi Solution', 'Pieces of Eden' and 'Hanging in the Noon Day Sun'. I have also written the rough draft of 'The Perfect Shot' on line at my site. Have you ever considered writing a novel? Have a look at my site and see how I was able to complete this feat. I welcome visits to my site and hope to hear from you. Jay
I emailed him back asking how he got my email address. He probably got that from my blog. He said this:
Hello tracy. I work very hard at marketing my site. I probably found your e-mail on some Internet site. I do about twenty five cold call letters a day promoting my works. Authors get mere pittance for their works, about 7 to 10 % of gross sales. I am hoping to get a better return and thereby get a better return for all authors. Jay
I actually went and read his excerpts from his books. I would say he's pretty a good writer. What stood out for me was the excerpt of Noon Day Sun about Jesus, how He can turn water into wine, but he can't remove himself from a cross. I'm not into religion, but I thought that an was an interesting line.
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