I’m having an interesting Lou Diamond Phillips week.
Friday, 10 August 2007 11:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
carose59"Well, It Can't Be Every Day There's A Giant Nickel Outside The Bank."*
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First I ran across Hollywood Homicide (Lou as a cop undercover in drag as a hooker, although that’s not my favorite moment. My favorite moment is Harrison Ford stealing the little girl’s bike and growling at everyone as he rides away on it).
And then I watched Psych from . . . OK, I don’t know when. But he’s a fed who’s apparently never even heard of sensitivity training, since he’s at least bordering on sexually harassing Juliet in a way that was somehow desperate, clueless, and just plain weird.
And add to that, I’ve been listening to a bunch of Twilight Zone episodes that were adapted for radio. If I ever get a chance, I’m going to dope-smack Dennis Etchison one.
He’s the one who wrote the adaptations, which are really weird. They’re almost entirely the exact old shows, redone by other actors. The adapting is mostly adding the kind of things you have to add to make a show that used to be visual make sense in a purely auditory format, and I have no trouble with that. It’s the anachronisms that are getting on my nerves.
He randomly throws in references to home computers and video games, and it just—it makes me want to find Dennis and have sharp words with him. It sounds really stupid.
What does Lou Diamond Phillips have to do with this? you ask. (Oh, yes, you did. Don’t try to deny it!) Well, he’s done some of the episodes.
One of them was the one where the astronaut goes into space and comes home only it’s really a parallel planet where things are almost the same. I liked that one, probably because there was movie with that plot that I saw when I was a kid—only the astronaut in that one was only gone half the time he was supposed to, and things were backwards. But I remember figuring out the plot before the denouement, and feeling quite clever.
The other Lou Diamond Phillips episode is A Kind of Stopwatch. If you don’t remember, it’s the one about the braggart who gets this stopwatch that stops time. Of course he ends up breaking it while time is stopped, which leaves him all alone in the world.
And I swear to God, Lou Diamond Phillips plays him as Woody Woodpecker, laugh and all. It’s really a bizarre thing to hear.
The week is almost over. I’m hoping not to run into Lou Diamond Phillips again.
In non-Lou Diamond Phillips news, I keep getting spam with the subject: "Have you ever wanted to be a cop?" which is mildly amusing—as are the spams that ask if I want to own a casino. The really funny part is, the sender is always Vince-something, XYZ, 123—some combination of numbers and letters. (So far it hasn't been 4587, so I know it's not Vince Terranova.) And even though I know it’s spam, I want to write back and say, “No, Vinnie, I do not want to be a cop! Now quit asking!”
*Alexandra Eames
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First I ran across Hollywood Homicide (Lou as a cop undercover in drag as a hooker, although that’s not my favorite moment. My favorite moment is Harrison Ford stealing the little girl’s bike and growling at everyone as he rides away on it).
And then I watched Psych from . . . OK, I don’t know when. But he’s a fed who’s apparently never even heard of sensitivity training, since he’s at least bordering on sexually harassing Juliet in a way that was somehow desperate, clueless, and just plain weird.
And add to that, I’ve been listening to a bunch of Twilight Zone episodes that were adapted for radio. If I ever get a chance, I’m going to dope-smack Dennis Etchison one.
He’s the one who wrote the adaptations, which are really weird. They’re almost entirely the exact old shows, redone by other actors. The adapting is mostly adding the kind of things you have to add to make a show that used to be visual make sense in a purely auditory format, and I have no trouble with that. It’s the anachronisms that are getting on my nerves.
He randomly throws in references to home computers and video games, and it just—it makes me want to find Dennis and have sharp words with him. It sounds really stupid.
What does Lou Diamond Phillips have to do with this? you ask. (Oh, yes, you did. Don’t try to deny it!) Well, he’s done some of the episodes.
One of them was the one where the astronaut goes into space and comes home only it’s really a parallel planet where things are almost the same. I liked that one, probably because there was movie with that plot that I saw when I was a kid—only the astronaut in that one was only gone half the time he was supposed to, and things were backwards. But I remember figuring out the plot before the denouement, and feeling quite clever.
The other Lou Diamond Phillips episode is A Kind of Stopwatch. If you don’t remember, it’s the one about the braggart who gets this stopwatch that stops time. Of course he ends up breaking it while time is stopped, which leaves him all alone in the world.
And I swear to God, Lou Diamond Phillips plays him as Woody Woodpecker, laugh and all. It’s really a bizarre thing to hear.
The week is almost over. I’m hoping not to run into Lou Diamond Phillips again.
In non-Lou Diamond Phillips news, I keep getting spam with the subject: "Have you ever wanted to be a cop?" which is mildly amusing—as are the spams that ask if I want to own a casino. The really funny part is, the sender is always Vince-something, XYZ, 123—some combination of numbers and letters. (So far it hasn't been 4587, so I know it's not Vince Terranova.) And even though I know it’s spam, I want to write back and say, “No, Vinnie, I do not want to be a cop! Now quit asking!”
*Alexandra Eames