GG Note: I Love These People As If They Were My Own Dolls That I Sometimes Play With When I'm Feeling Alone
6:02 pm, 25th Apr 2009
As every modern writer (aka blogger) knows, there will be in a moment in your life when you accidentally closed your browser/shut down your computer without saving draft.
Yeah, you get it.
So, I don’t have my original blow-by-blow, but how about a few highlights?
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OVERALL
This episode rocked. My. Fucking. World. I thought it was hilarious, and one of the better-paced episodes (although I do appreciate a good simmering poignant moment here and there). Reasons for the success: reducing Rufus/Lily to the comic relief buffoons they SHOULD be, no more Nate-Vanessa nonsense, and hello – CYRUS IS BACK (cue Jock Jams IV)!
Also, Lady + Lady = Special Tinglies^n
Fancy schoolgirls getting cozy makes me feel like a 50-year-old civil engineer reading Blender magazine on Sunday night with a glass of cabernet because I’m “interested in music” and too scared to buy that “Big Butt Magazine” that I always see at subway newsstands.
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MUSIC
Speaking of life pumping beats, the soundtrack on this epi was kickin, too! I loved the Verve Remixed vibe of the cocktail party, following around our gal Blair with “Is You Is Or Is You Ain’t My Baby?” and “Whatever Lola Wants (Lola Gets).”
On the flip side, I haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate that Flo Rida crap, but it was a cute little way to underscore the “Hey, these ociety events are going to crap in a funny way!” portion of the story. Take THAT, Flo Rida – your shit is cute! Like Peeps. And my boyfriend’s white ass.
PS <3 the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs song.
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SERENA
I love that we are continuing this NCR paper cycle of:
“I am so ‘wild’ and ‘crazy’, but then I find this guy I have a ‘CRAZY’ connection with, but then I realize that maybe I’m really not that ‘crazy’ after all, because he wants to be in this open relationship, and I just don’t think I’m ready for that. Right…? I mean, oh GOD…maybe I’m just being too unadventurous and…immature! I mean, I just want to like, LIVE, you know? I just want to explore. I just want to be a free spirit like…like…oh my God…oh my GOD…like…like MOM?!
WHY DOES IT ALWAYS COME BACK TO YOU, MOM??? I HATE you! I am so SICK and TIRED of you being a nymphomaniac who was a subpar role model for me, Serena, who is SICK and TIRED of always trying to be perfect, and always trying to be what everyone ELSE wants me to be because I have no idea who I am, so how can I be who I AM?!?! I guess….? Ugh, I have to talk to Blair, but her problems are more earth shattering than mine this week. UGHHH. Eric????????????”
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THINGS I HATE
Corporal Ugly McTotallyDon’tLookLikeMyNameShouldBeGabrielQuestionMark? That dude is like a future Madoff on the sleaze scale. Why do they continue to find these uncharismatic Barneys for Serena? This guy is the rolled oat to Aaron Rose’s granola. BOOOOOO. Refund!!! Refund, please! Can you please credit that back to my card? OK, thanks.
Oh…REGINA is coming back? PUKE.
Everyone was always going to end up at a college in the city. Now we just know how it’s going to FUCKING play out. Blair, go to NYU. Nate, go to Columbia. Serena, go to FIT. Dan, go to Barnard.
Jenny + Chuck = Weird Moment. CW, DO NOT tell adolescent girls that it’s ok to date their almost-rapist because said almost-rapist has “changed”, and that’s what guys will do for you if you are pretty and thin enough.
Yeah, you get it.
So, I don’t have my original blow-by-blow, but how about a few highlights?
……….
OVERALL
This episode rocked. My. Fucking. World. I thought it was hilarious, and one of the better-paced episodes (although I do appreciate a good simmering poignant moment here and there). Reasons for the success: reducing Rufus/Lily to the comic relief buffoons they SHOULD be, no more Nate-Vanessa nonsense, and hello – CYRUS IS BACK (cue Jock Jams IV)!
Also, Lady + Lady = Special Tinglies^n
……….
MUSIC
Speaking of life pumping beats, the soundtrack on this epi was kickin, too! I loved the Verve Remixed vibe of the cocktail party, following around our gal Blair with “Is You Is Or Is You Ain’t My Baby?” and “Whatever Lola Wants (Lola Gets).”
On the flip side, I haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate that Flo Rida crap, but it was a cute little way to underscore the “Hey, these ociety events are going to crap in a funny way!” portion of the story. Take THAT, Flo Rida – your shit is cute! Like Peeps. And my boyfriend’s white ass.
PS <3 the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs song.
……….
SERENA
I love that we are continuing this NCR paper cycle of:
“I am so ‘wild’ and ‘crazy’, but then I find this guy I have a ‘CRAZY’ connection with, but then I realize that maybe I’m really not that ‘crazy’ after all, because he wants to be in this open relationship, and I just don’t think I’m ready for that. Right…? I mean, oh GOD…maybe I’m just being too unadventurous and…immature! I mean, I just want to like, LIVE, you know? I just want to explore. I just want to be a free spirit like…like…oh my God…oh my GOD…like…like MOM?!
WHY DOES IT ALWAYS COME BACK TO YOU, MOM??? I HATE you! I am so SICK and TIRED of you being a nymphomaniac who was a subpar role model for me, Serena, who is SICK and TIRED of always trying to be perfect, and always trying to be what everyone ELSE wants me to be because I have no idea who I am, so how can I be who I AM?!?! I guess….? Ugh, I have to talk to Blair, but her problems are more earth shattering than mine this week. UGHHH. Eric????????????”
……….
THINGS I HATE
Corporal Ugly McTotallyDon’tLookLikeMyNameShouldBeGabrielQuestionMark? That dude is like a future Madoff on the sleaze scale. Why do they continue to find these uncharismatic Barneys for Serena? This guy is the rolled oat to Aaron Rose’s granola. BOOOOOO. Refund!!! Refund, please! Can you please credit that back to my card? OK, thanks.
Oh…REGINA is coming back? PUKE.
Everyone was always going to end up at a college in the city. Now we just know how it’s going to FUCKING play out. Blair, go to NYU. Nate, go to Columbia. Serena, go to FIT. Dan, go to Barnard.
Jenny + Chuck = Weird Moment. CW, DO NOT tell adolescent girls that it’s ok to date their almost-rapist because said almost-rapist has “changed”, and that’s what guys will do for you if you are pretty and thin enough.
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