DON'T STOP! BELIEVIN'! GOTTA HOLD ON TO THIS FEELIN'!

I am in loveeee....

With GLEE!!!

STAR WORLD just started airing the first season in Malaysia last week - so I guess we're super behind but I don't care because its fantabulous. I mean seriously, its caustic and witty and the cast can really, really sing.

Basically here's the premise: Dreamy high school teacher wants to revisit the heyday of his high school career - because lets face it his life, complete with batshit crazy wife kind of sucks - by forming a Glee Club (showchoir)with these misfits. There's Rachel, who is also batshit crazy - completely redeemed by the fact that she sings like an angel, Mercedes - black chick, Tina - Asian chick, Artie - wheelchair bound dude, Kurt - very effiminate sounding small dude and Finn - quarterback/singer/stupidest boy ever. There's also a whole bunch of awesome side characters, Sue - the evil cheerleading coach, Quinn the sexual but celibate cheerleader who is also Finn's girlfriend, the aforementioned batshit crazy wife who used to be prom queen and is now just sad and materalistic and Emma the OCD counselor who is not so secretly in love with Will.

It's good because it's very sharp in the way that it kind of deals with everyday problems and makes them laughable and yet makes us understand that these are things anyone can go through. The best part about it (aside from the singing) is how funny it is, which it is. Basically everyone is this caricature but its fantastic because its like the way you imagine how terrible and awesome high school is - in your head.

And the singing - WOW -its just glorious.

I mean check this video out, it was their first big song on the pilot - SONG ON PILOT I can't embed the bloody thing because for some reason they're like crazy protective over the content...

And this one which I just saw yesterday in the second episode:

This one I can embed - ha-ha!

Anyways as you can probably tell I'm in love with the teacher, Will aka Matthew Morrison. He can sing AND he can dance. Plus he's got smiley eyes and a thick crop of curly hair you just want to get your hands into. Yup I'm long gone.

I love me some bloodsuckers!

So I watched Twilight and The Twilight Saga: New Moon. True Blood is currently filming, or something so there was basically this void in my life, a void that I needed to fill with some quality vampire related entertainment. Did I say quality? Scratch that I meant ANY vampire related entertainment.

Enter The Vampire Diaries, CW's latest teen centric drama this time with a bloodlust twist. Really it's pretty much the smartest thing the channel could do given the intense public interest? in vampires at the moment. So what's it about? It's marketed as a love triangle between one good vampire brother, his evil vampire brother and a human girl. In reality it's sort of a classic love triangle, One Tree Hill rip off, complete with requisite with side characters.

It's actually a lot better than expected. The show started off very badly with its only good moments supplied by the evil brother Damon, exquisitely portrayed by the stunning Ian Somerhalder. Somewhere along the line however the characters got less annoying, the plotline less high school and more vampirey. It got good. Right now they're on hiatus and I'm hyperventilating until the new episode comes out.

Check it out if you love anything to do with vampires and need a fix or if you like teen dramas because the actors on this show are hot-hot-hot. CW done good.

Flavor of the Week: Eric Northman

So, as declared in my earlier post, I am completely obsessed with True Blood. Now, in the first season Eric Northman, the vampire sheriff of somewhere in hick-town South, was definitely not my favorite character. His hair was too long, he was cocky - but not in an attractive way and he was definitely just way too Scandinavian.

Fast forward to Season Two and I'm sold.

ERIC NORTHMAN

Now, I have to clarify he's really not my type. He's really tall, huge and just really Swedish. Wich is not my thing. But in Season Two a couple of things really changed things around for me.

1. He got his hair cut. Also his blond highlights are awesome.
2. He and Sookie have really good chemistry, unlike her OTT declarations of love she has going on with Bill.
3. He showed his sensitive side, with the whole sadness over Godric.
4. He is an ass - which I love, of course.

So now I must lust for him. Not Alexander Skarsgard, who I think is still a trifle too Viking and large. But Eric Northman from True Blood.

I leave you with Crazy Gaga's Papparazi video which Alexander Skarsgard features prominently in, for your viewing pleasure and also because he talks a lot of Swedish which is always super fun.

I am addicted to the Blood

For the past 7 days or so I've been locking myself in my room for hours at a time. To do WHAT?! To watch TRUE BLOOD that's what! To watch Season 2 of True Blood to be exact. I literally watched it in a feverish frenzy, watching one episode and then promising myself that I would watch the intro of the next episode, and then finding myself an hour later, completely catatonic - riveted in my chair watching the ending credits of that episode.

So anyway, I'm done now, like twelve episodes and a sleep deprived week at work later.

I don't know what it is about this show that is just so addictive. I love the characters, especially Jason Stackhouse and Eric the vampire - what is his full name? I love their accents, I love that they live in this hick town and all these crazy things keep happening, including a frickin' Mynaed coming to town and turning everybody into these crazy lust-filled, uncontrollable freaky eyed people.

It's like this show combines the best of everything; the occult, hot actors, southern accents, a pretty unpredictable plot and lots of sex and violence. I just love it. And I obviously can't wait for Season 3.

To everyone out there - watch it, love it.