Happy Birthday Murph!

No, not me. The ORIGINAL Murph...Dan!


Hope you have a great birthday baby!

Happy 30th Watty!

Happy Birthday to yours, and my, favorite sports anchor, Watson!
Leave your birthday wish for him here and his 19 year old intern will send you an autographed Chris Watson NY State Fair collectible trading card! ( once she gets out from under his desk )

TV TIME!

The Fall TV lineup is beginning soon and as a TV junkie of sorts, I thought I would give you a little rundown on what shows are starting when. There is a new addition to the weekly lineup that I think will be a hit, and conveniently enough it is on following the OC, so you don't even have to change the channel!
Click on the names of the shows for a direct link to it's webpage.
(in order of season debut, times are Eastern Standard Time)

ROME

Sunday, August 23rd @ 9pm on HBO
Interesting article in this weeks Entertainment Weekly about this show. It has takes 7 years to get it on TV, from concept to its debut this weekend, and has cost over $100 million dollars to make. There are many characters, so try to not give up to easily after the 1st episode, it will get easier, and Entertainment Weekly has in this weeks edition, a convenient breakdown of characters and relations to each other. It's just the best magazine ever, but that's a post for another time.

PRISON BREAK

Monday, August 29th @ 8pm on Fox
This show has some potential, could be one of those shows that has a great first episode and then it bombs out. Watch with caution, but it could provide some much needed entertainment on a dreary Monday night lineup (when there is no football, or bad matches you don't even want to watch).

My favorite night of the week, THURSDAY!!
THE O.C.
Thursday, September 8th @ 8pm on Fox
Apparently the gang are all going to run away...on a boat... It's an eerie de ja vu, but I don't care! Love the drama and hissy fights and the fight scenes that either knock down a buffet table or someone ends up in a pool! This show can get away with all of that, because it's The O.C. BITCH!

REUNION

Thursday, September 8th @ 10pm on Fox (right after The O.C.)
This is the show I think will be a tremendous hit for Fox, purely by grabbing the O.C. crowd, but also because it is set up much like another Fox hit, 24. Each episode is another year forward in the life of 6 friends, starting at the age of 18, trying to figure out a murder of one of their friends, and ends 2 decades later at the age of 38. This show might be the one and only time they can do this show, seeing that they aren't saving the world from nuclear annihilation and there is no Jack Bauer to figure it all out.

FAMILY GUY

Sunday, September 11th @ 9pm on Fox
New episodes of Family Guy. 'Nuff said.

PROGRAMMING NOTE!!!
The FX show RESCUE ME ends on September 13th. If you have not watched this show, you should. They say words like asshole, shit and tits and I still can't believe it, but they do, and it totally goes with the show. Rent season 1. Season 2 will be on DVD soon, since the show was just picked up for a 3rd season. TrashyPantz will keep you posted on when Season 2 will be out, as well as when Season 3 will begin.

SURVIVOR:GUATEMALA

Thursday, September 15th @ 8pm on CBS
Survivor is the longest running reality show on TV, going into it's 11th season. Not sure of the tricks they might pull on the first episode, but one contenstant, Gary, is an ex-NFL player who played for the Dallas Cowboys for 8 years. There is also a serious Jersey Guy, so you know I have his back.

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT

Monday, September 19th @ 8pm on Fox
The Bluth family returns with it's antics that have scored them some Golden Globe awards, and a whole bunch of Emmy Nominations. Great show, great humor, and if you need more info, click on the link above or email the author of Ruff Rant's (link on the side bar)and he can fill you in, he LOVES this show, as should all of you!

LOST

Wednesday, September 21st @ 9pm on ABC
One of my most favorite shows on TV is back, and is debuting its season 2 opener on my birthday... best gift EVER. Fans of this show are frantically filling up message boards and trying to find out the meaning of the mystery numbers as well as where the hatch leads (see Oceanic Air posting so you can look for clues!). I am interested in seeing the hobit back on heroin, "Give me back mmmmyyyyy druuuugs!" and hearing Hurley say "Dude", and am extremely interested in sawyer and jack, they don't have to say anything, at all, as long as they get a good amount of face time on my TV.

DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES

Sunday, September 25th @ 9pm on ABC
Watch women who live in nice houses, some don't even work, who are all too good looking to live that close to each other, continue to try and figure out why their neighbor killed herself. It's the more adult version of The O.C. and I love it! It's no Melrose Place, but it's darn close!

CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM
Sunday, September 25th @ 10pm on HBO
Larry David is back with his mostly improv'd half hour show on HBO. Either you love this show, or you hate this show, but I have to let you know that it is on. I love it, which is why it's on TrashyPantz, and if you haven't seen it, give it a shot. The man wrote Seinfeld and was George Steinbrener in some episodes. What's not to love?

AMAZING RACE 8

Thursday, September 27th @ 9pm on CBS
Amazing Race is on it's 8th journey around the world, this time it's families competing. All the families vary in ages, some have 10 year old kids, some have 30 year old kids...Personally, I think that having such a wide range causes an uneven playing field, but I would love to see a 10 year old have to eat spicy russian soup and then take 6 shots of vodka, but that's just me.

Also check out new episodes of:
THE OFFICE on NBC
DRAWN TOGETHER and SOUTH PARK on Comedy Central

Oceanic-Air.com

courtesy of Media Life

How clever: Site for ABC's 'Lost' adds to the mystery

The last thing you’d ever expect from a TV show’s site is that it would be intellectually challenging. Most sites contain character bios, actors’ mugshots, previews of upcoming episodes and not much more. That’s why Oceanic-Air.com, the site for ABC’s drama “Lost,” is so refreshing. With its puzzles and cryptic buried messages, it’s a big exception to the boredom of most TV sites. Oceanic-Air.com, which launched just after “Lost’s” May season finale, is the faux official site for Oceanic Airways, the carrier whose Flight 815 crash stranded the castaways in “Lost.” The challenge is that there are hidden messages buried throughout the site. For those smart enough to crack the codes, there are some cool rewards. For instance, one page displays a seating chart for Flight 815. Clicking on the rows corresponding to the numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42, a sequence that’s been part of a recurring mystery on “Lost,” highlights a specific seat on the plane. Those highlighted seats reveal a character’s name when rolled over with the mouse. When clicked, each highlighted seats provides insight into that character or one close to him or her. Clicking on Rose’s seat reveals her husband's wedding ring. Charlie’s leads to a photo of Claire's journal, while Kate’s shows her mug shot, and so on. When you click on the seat for Shannon, whose brother, Boone, died last season, one of two things appears: a photo ID of Sayid, Shannon’s island boyfriend, or the map of the island drawn by the French lady, which Shannon tried to help Sayid translate. Getting the right sequence of numbers will also lead fans to a trailer for season two. There are also hidden messages throughout the site about being stranded on an island, presumably the messages in a bottle that Hurley collected on the finale. The flight tracking portion of the site contains a disturbing message that reads “give us the boy” hidden within the information for Flight 572. That’s also a reference to the season finale, in which 10-year-old Walt was taken from his father by the island’s mysterious others. Plenty of references to the others, whose presence has not been explained on the show, also pop up on the site. Solve enough mysteries and you’ll be granted access to a message board where other “Lost” fans have been deconstructing the site’s meaning all summer. They are very serious about their theorizing and not kind to new posters who repeat old information. Traffic to the site has been too small for comScore Networks to measure but it’s received lots of buzz in newspaper and magazine articles. Though the site is clearly run through ABC, with disclaimers linking to Disney and ABC sites, the network has been coy in commenting on the site, as have the show’s producers, who are rumored to post updates every few weeks. But that only adds to its appeal. Oceanic-Air delivers on the promise many once saw for TV tie-ins on the internet, someplace interesting, thought-provoking and far outside the norm.

R.I.P. Six Feet Under

My most favorite show is now over... forever.
Writer and Director Alan Ball did a great job in wrapping up this series, much better than I could have expected.
For a full recap of the Season Finale, CLICK HERE
For those of you needing a moment of silence, feel free to gaze upon these pictures of Peter Krause (a.k.a. Nate Fisher) while doing so.

Happy Birthday Pete!

Pete makes out like a bandit on his big 3-0 day!

Happy Birthday to Petey G! Best wishes in the year to come!
Now put those gifts down, you might strain your back, you aren't in your 20's anymore!
Good thing Kenny is nearby now, you can borrow one of his 5 heating pads if you feel some aches and pains! HAPPY 30th BIRTHDAY!

The most unpopular school subject

Poll shows love-hate relationship with math.

People in this country have a love-hate relationship with math, a favorite school subject for some but just a bad memory for many others, especially women.
In an AP-AOL News poll as students head back to school, almost four in 10 adults surveyed said they hated math in school.

CLICK HERE to read more about math sucking

Diddy Drops the P.

Shhhh....Don't say P Diddy anymore, it's too hard to chant.

"It's the era of Diddy."
So proclaimed the hip-hop impresario formerly known as Sean Combs, Puffy, Puff Daddy and now P. Diddy on Tuesday's Today Show, as he explained that he was changing his name once again. The rap mogul last switched it up--from Puff Daddy to P. Diddy--in 2001, while seeking a "fresh start" after being acquitted on gun charges. As for what brought about the latest change in moniker, the entertainer admitted that his previous name change left his fans uncertain of how to address him.

"I felt like the 'P' was getting between me and my fans and now we're closer," Diddy said.
"During concerts, half the crowd is saying 'P. Diddy'--half the crowd is chanting 'Diddy'--now everybody can just chant 'Diddy.' "

I think we should give him our own permanent name... like, Ass Clown. That would be a great chant at his concert.

Fiona Apple Ends Musical Hiatus

A year after 11 tracks were leaked onto the Internet, drawing praise from critics and fans, Epic Records announced Monday that Apple's "Extraordinary Machine" will be released Oct. 4.

It's been six years since Apple's last album, "When the Pawn...," was released in 1999. Since then, the young Grammy-winning singer has been treated to a deluxe serving of the frustrations of modern music: It isn't always easy to make a beautiful songs, and creative control is a nebulous concept at best.
Last year, Apple and the multitalented producer Jon Brion came up with a wonderfully complex construction of Brion's vision and Apple's voice. But after months of silence from Apple and Epic parent Sony on a release date, all 11 songs popped up on the Internet, in high-quality MP3s, freely available for anyone who couldn't wait another minute. And there was not an iTunes link to be seen.
The Internet had proved to be the most extraordinary machine of all.
Moreover, the album was very good. Tracks titled "Oh Sailor" and "Please, Please, Please" ooze the same sullen sultriness that made Apple's debut album, "Tidal," triple-platinum.
How the album got online is a question that gets fingers pointing in all directions. What is known is that only Apple, Brion, recording engineers and the label had access to the songs — and Apple is now moving forward without Brion.
The album now has 12 songs. One is new, and nine are reworked versions of leaked tracks.
"Now that my album is finally finished, I am very, very excited to have people hear what we did. I am so proud of it, and all of us who worked on it," Apple said in a short statement released Monday.
Through Epic, Apple refused several interview requests from The Associated Press.
Mike Elizondo is Apple's new producer, a curious departure from Brion, who has worked with artists such as Aimee Mann and David Byrne. Elizondo cut his teeth working under superproducer Dr. Dre, and most of his work has been with rappers such as 50 Cent and Obie Trice. Brion also wouldn't talk about his involvement with Apple's upcoming album. But his publicist, Ray Costa, denies Brion leaked the album.
"That's one sore subject with him," Costa said, acknowledging the persistent rumors. And Brion insists that the version of "Extraordinary Machine" available online has been tweaked, and does not represent the music he and Apple created.
"The version that's out there right now has been additionally manipulated even from what Jon had done before," Costa said. "Whether the album comes out, Jon's done his part."
Some die-hard Apple fans say what they've already heard was plenty good enough. Many of them posted links to the MP3s songs on their personal web pages. Other released the entire album — including some homespun album cover art — over the Bittorrent file-sharing network.
Nadja Dee Tanaka of Seattle posted all 11 of the "Extraordinary Machine" MP3s on her Web site. She even went a step further to get Apple's music out to fans.
"A lot of people, I would burn a disc and send it to them if they would cover the postage for me," said Tanaka, a 42-year-old film industry professional. She said the Apple downloads reached about 5,000 per day at its peak.
Tanaka begrudgingly took the links down after receiving a notice from the
Recording Industry Association of America. "I was scared. I was angry," Tanaka said.
She might have been a bit confused as well. At the time it was made, no one would confirm Apple had even made the recordings, much less delivered them to the label.

Tara Reid Drinking Game

The new host of E!'s Wild On goes shot for shot with you in this game of High Low drinking.

CLICK HERE to do shots versus Tara Reid

Best License Plate EVER

Can we steal this for H's car?

Lust for Bust

So you think you are a boobie oggling champ?
Test your skills by clicking on the link below, and feel free to let the rest of us know how steath you may or may not be.

Lust for Bust

TrashyPantz Movie Review

"Soft mattress? Yeah, it could have been the soft mattress. Or the midnight rape. Or the nude gay art show that took place in my room last night. One of those three probably contributed to the lack of sleep. "

All of the above could only happen in one movie this summer, and only one man could say all that and make you laugh your ass off, and that man is Vince Vaughn in Wedding Crashers. Vaughn's quick talking humor meshes very well with Owen Wilson.

You immediately know where this film is going, but you don't care. The movie begins by getting you right to the point of what John Beckwith (Owen Wilson) and Jeremy Grey (Vince Vaughn) do on their weekends during the summer. And when these 2 crash weddings, they are ballsy. Making speeches, posing in cake cutting pictures, etc.

Christopher Walken plays Senator Cleary, whose daughter is getting married. He is perfect for the role and the minimal lines he delivers are done in that "Walken" way, as are his facial expressions. The ending is as expected for this kind of movie and is a bit weak, but you have laughed a lot by that point, you really don't care.

There are many laugh out loud scenes and the casting for this movie is dead on. I compare the amount of laughs and the length of the laughs of this movie, to that same amount and length of laughs in There's Something About Mary. Granted, this isn't the kind of movie that you have to see in a theater, but there is something to be said about the atmosphere in a movie theater when everyone is laughing and having fun.

However, the worst part of the movie, was the Coke commercial before it, featuring the original Coke song "I'd like to buy the world a Coke" performed by G. Love and Special Sauce. The band has fallen so far from what they once were, it's a shame. And so I shall end this article with another Vince Vaugn quote, if you should happen to see that commercial in the theater or at home, "EARMUFFS!"

Wedding Crashers receives a 4 out of 5 balloon bicycles, CLOWN!

TrashyPantz Trivia

Who is the producer for the E!'s new show Kill Reality?

Answer will be posted tomorrow (8/3)