My New Year's resolutions, 39 days early.

And actually made for once (I usually never do, but this time...)

1. To update this blog more often.
2. To pay my rent on time. Without cheques.
3. To write more, the way Kira's Slave is.
4. To go to the pictures twice a week, even if it means going to non-Cineworld cinemas and therefore actually having to pay rather than use my Unlimited card.
5. To buy a multi-region DVD player.
6. To get a phone put in.
7. To be a better person.

Cheers to Just Jared...

...who, by dint of posting them, gets a link just for that. :)

And moving on, the B-Team rethinking: Nicole Kidman gets in the A-list, not Jessica B. Also in the running for the next 20: at least one of the housewives of desperation (clue: not Felicity Huffman), most of the female cast of Sin City not called Jessica (or Jaime King - sorrry), Shakira, and Famke Janssen. Stay tuned.

Superman has returned.

Judging from the teaser trailer. And I know that's what they're supposed to do - but hell, after that imposter Dean Cain and Smallville, it's about time we had a Man of Steel that wasn't rethought for some generation.

Shame it won't be done with John Williams though, but John Ottman's better than nothing.

Of course, it's only temporary until I remember that I came thisclose to being evicted this weekend because of rent arrears. And that I wasted £3.95 on December Esquire (don't ask, KS. Just don't ask.)

And that the December Maxim hasn't turned up here yet. I really hope the latter is the cover it actually has.

Thank you, God.

A raise, double discs of Lost in Space and Silverado, and now this. I thought Christmas and my birthday were next month.

Note to Butch: You should have told me the second you found out.

Note to Borders and the rest: December Maxim. US edition, not UK. NOW.

A Garner fan writes...

...JenG is mine, ALL MINE!!! :)) ;->>

I've elected to"protect" her from my portion of last year's list (would've done so sooner, except I've been unable to write/message the last few days due to other commitments, business), along with Charlize Theron, Elle Macpherson, Halle Berry, Cameron Diaz, Angelina Jolie, Elizabeth Hurley, Scarlett Johansson, Maria Menounos, Salma Hayek, Josie Maran, Estella Warren,Kim Basinger, Lauren Graham, Uma Thurman, and Kate Winslet (everyone else is up for grabs, though; expect my list to look quite different this year)...

So it seems like you'll have to "settle" for the second-sexiest Jessica out there to fill your Top 10 (I'm still mulling over the last two spots for my part)... ;-))

Now, was the above written by
a) Butch Rosser,
b) Donald Rumsfeld,
c) MuffinMan,
or d) Jennifer Orangio? Answers on a postcard...

I reluctantly promote She Who Is Probably Very, Very Glad She Left 7th Heaven Now to the top 10, and turn to 11-20...

I'm going to get MuffinMan to post more if it kills me.

List-time again... I'm due to send MM my top picks for the past year, but rather than write to him I'll post them here, so's you can all watch it develop Before Your Very Eyes. First off, the upper reaches, the Top 10 for what the House of Mouse likes to call MMV:

Cindy Crawford. Well, duh.
Jessica Alba. More or less see above.
Monica Bellucci. Regardless of her actual age.
Hilary Duff. Even though she's been legal under various State laws in the US since 2003, this year I can finally include her without the Man of Muffins complaining.
Mariah Carey. Yes, still.
Gwen Stefani. No matter how hard I try.
Jennifer Garner. Even after Elektra.
Laetitia Casta. Also yes, still.
Britney Spears. Because I owe it to her.
Rosanna Arquette. Because she was my first. And she's still a dish.

Jessica Biel would unquestionably have made the Top 10 had Esquire not anointed her. But she'll be in the B-Team. MuffinMan, over to you...

One step closer.

The tracklist for the Silverado soundtrack as released in 1985 on LP (first five tracks on side one):
:
1. Silverado Main Title (4:44)
2. The Getaway/Riding As One (4:26)
3. Ezra's Death (1:52)
4. The McKendrick Attack (1:36)
5. Augie Is Taken (2:36)
6. On To Silverado (6:22)
7. Augie's Rescue (3:00)
8. Goodbye, Cobb (2:04)
9. End Credits ("We'll Be Back") (4:20)

As issued on CD in 1993:

1. Silverado Main Title 4:47
2. To Turley 2:43
3. The Getaway / Riding As One 4:21
4. Ezra's Death 1:53
5. The McKendrick Attack 1:38
6. Augie Is Taken 2:36
7. On To Silverado 6:26
8. This Oughta Do 4:51
9. Augie's Rescue 6:36
10. Slick, Then McKendrick 4:03
11. Goodbye, Cobb 2:06
12. End Credits (We'll Be Back) 4:22

And now, as reissued this year:

CD One (48:03)
1. Main Title 4:46
2. Paden's Horse 1:33
3. Tyree & Turley 3:39
4. That Ain't Right 1:13
5. Paden's Hat 3:37
6. The Getaway/Riding As One 6:07
7. Den of Thieves 1:46
8. The Strongbox Rescue 1:53
9. On to Silverado 6:23
10. McKendrick's Men 1:24
11. Ezra's Death 1:52
12. An Understanding Boss 1:47
13. Party Crashers 1:37
14. Tyree and Paden 0:52
15. McKendrick's Brand 0:50
16. You're Empty, Mister/Emmet's Rescue 3:43
17. Behind the Church 1:15
18. Augie is Taken 2:36
CD Two (38:01)
1. Worried About the Dog 2:07
2. Prelude to a Battle 4:50
3. McKendrick Waits/The Stampede/Finishing at McKendrick's 8:24
4. Hide and Watch/Jake Gets Tyree/Then Slick, Then McKendrick 9:30
5. Goodbye, Cobb 2:05
6. We'll Be Back (End Credits) 4:22
Bonus Tracks
7. The Bradley Place 1:48
8. Jake Gets Tyree (Original Version) 2:15
9. The Silverado Waltz 2:03

One question for all of you all: with the Silverado soundtrack finally getting a complete release and bringing me a step closer to getting all the CDs I most want expanded actually expanded (someone do Back to the Future dammit!), any CDs that you'd fork out the cash for if they were equally expanded? Come on, there has to be something... we've all got our Holy Grails.

She didn't.

He's helping her out. In a financial sense. Which she deserves.
So are others. Which is good.
But I will post the happiest blogging in all creation when Sharon finally kicks the BBC to the kerb.

Hope she means it this time.

This weekend I spent some time with Sharon. Good woman, sensitive, caring, some weird taste in entertainment (she liked The Cat In The Hat. The abortion with Mike Myers, that is) but fine all round; she can be a bit of a jerk sometimes but that's family for you. Anyway, she told me that she wants to (drumroll)... finish it with the BBC. (That's the name I've decided to give her bf, since just thinking about his name makes me want to rip my own eyes out in rage; typing it would mean I'd be dead before I finished this post. And why "the BBC"? Because of their handling of Rome (too long to go into now; info , response and more company-line... er, response here), among other things.)
Anyway, Sharon's said such things about the BBC before, and it didn't come to anything. But hopefully she'll mean it this time, especially since it ties in to November 5th. For many people in the UK, the date signifies the unsuccessful attempt to blow up Parliament and the subsequent excuse for loads of fireworks and burnings of effigys of Guy Fawkes (one of the conspirators). For Sharon and the other members of the family, it'll always be the date she miscarried and lost Lena Rose (although she told me she feels it's actually on the Tuesday nearest that date, since it was on a Tuesday that it happened). Remember, remember the fifth of November indeed.
However, the BBC hasn't been the most thoughtful person ever about it - I admit it bothered me a bit a year or two ago, but I know she still has to feel it, and I know she'll always have something missing where her firstborn daughter should be. But for him to tell her she needs to get over it... especially since he was the child's father... you would think he, of all people, would not be so fucking insensitive.
I've always thought the BBC was unceasingly cuntish anyway, but this is a low. I really hope she does snap it off with him.

I really need to start watching Smallville.

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