I did not take these

I wish.

Oh, what, how did that one get in here? :)

Renee Out.

Gab's Ideal Dinner Party

So, I didn't want to invite some people to our joint dinner party because Renee doesn't like them, so here is my list.

1. BJ Novak

2. Mitch Hewer

3. Mindy Kaling

4. Cobie Smulders

5. Neil Patrick Harris

6. Seth Meyers

7. Travis Wall

8. Natalie Portman

9. Tyce Diorio

10. Jorma Taccone

And the seating chart!

Peace, Gab

Gab and Renee joint dinner party FINAL DRAFT

1. Neil Patrick Harris

2. Tyce Diorio

3. Cobie Smulders

4. BJ Novak

5. Adam Lambert

6. Ingrid Michaelson

7. Mindy Kaling

8. David Cook

9. Ellen Degeneres

10. John Krasinski


Seating plan:

*****John BJ Gab Renee Cobie*******
*
Mindy********* TABLE************Neil
*
*****Ingrid Tyce Ellen David Adam*****

Craig got the axe because we decided he would be over the top for our mellow dinner party, and we thought Regina Spektor might be too quiet. LOVE how seriously we are taking this! The seating plan took wayyyy too long for us to make considering this is fictional.

Can't wait for our non-existant party!!

Renee and Gab Peacing Out and things.

Renee's Rough Draft for joint dinner party

Early list of ten people for our fabulous dinner party that we will obviously have, once we are famous. We will both post a list, compare and edit.

1. Neil Patrick Harris
2. David Burtka
3. Tyce Diorio
4. Cobie Smulders
5. David Cook (please?)
6. Adam Lambert
*7. Bret McKenzie
*8. Jemaine Clement
9. BJ Novak (ugh)
10. Regina Spektor

See, I'm stuck here, because we can't really only have Flight of the Conchord, can we, but that leaves no room for Ingrid Michaelson.

RENEE EDIT:

7 and 8 become Ingrid Michaelson and Ellen Degeneres. Sorry boys! (They'll be crush, I'm sure)

Also, David Burtka is a chef kind of, right? if we have him as our caterer does that make him not count as a guest? Because if so, I just forgot about Mindy Kaling!

Also, we need Craig Ferguson, we want to be laughing, right? Ergh, we need fifteen.

Do fictional characters count, because if so HARRY POTTER.

Renee Out.

The Best Photo of Neil Patrick Harris

At American Idol. BAD performances. Renee wrote a blog about the performances awhile ago. 

Peace, Gab

Alex vs. Barney

THIS IS A TOUGH ONE. I love Friday night. Oh boy. Here we go.

Alex pros:
- sexy
- buff
- loyal
- good at being angry
- funny
- can throw together impromptu wedding vows
- good career (doctor)
- close in location (Washington)

Barney pros:
- sexy
- buff
- extremely funny
- musical ability
- magical ability

Alex cons:
- career that keeps him busy
- cranky
- has a history of STDs

Barney cons:
- not especially serious
- suspicious career (North Korean involvement?)
- womanizer
- pig
- not very romantic
- dyed hair

Winner: ALEXANDER MICHAEL KAREV

Don't hate me Gab.

I've loved Alex for five years and I've only loved Barney for one.

Renee Out.

A Beautiful Song by Renee

One day, you and me
Will go to NYC.
We'll go to a cool barbecue.
Who will be there at the barbecue?
Seth Meyers, 'Ayn' Rand, BJ Novak
All our friends,
Everyone who likes to eat barbecued food with us.

One day we'll go to LA.
Hmm mmmm, uh dada dada
Gab and Renee.
Who will we see, who?
Maybe Neil P and his gay lover David.

Speaking of David,
Speaking of David,
Cook, Cook,Cook, Cook,Cook,
Cook,Cook, Cook,Cook, Cook,
Cook, Cook,Cook, Cook,Cook,
Cook, Cook.

I love you, I love you, I love.
Not as much as Gab.

A Most Engaging Story by Josh Radnor

This blog entry is really hard to find a link to so we should just inceftualize it in our blog forever.

"So we're all on the New York street on the CBS Radford lot in Studio City shooting a How I Met Your Mother promo that's a parody of CSI, which they tell me is a popular show. We're all exhausted and not quite sure what we're doing. My sense is that on an hourlong procedural show, the hours are much worse but your face never has to change its expression. So that's a big up. Changing facial expressions is exhausting and overrated. They're setting up a shot of a corpse's feet right now. We're all pretty exhausted - the night's supposed to go very late and we have an early call. We haven't been officially picked up for a third season yet, but we're all seeing it as a good sign that CBS is having us do this.

I'm going to have each cast member say something... get a little guest-blogging going.

Me: Hey, guys. Give me a quote for my TVGuide.com blog.

[ Everybody thinks]

Neil Patrick Harris: "I'm in a constant state of squint. And I like it. I like it a lot. It feels right, you know?"

Alyson Hannigan: "I have to go fingerprint a dead body. I feel like I'm back on the Buffy set."

Jason Segel: "Neil Patrick Harris is in a constant state of squint. And I like it. I like it a lot. It feels right, you know?"

Cobie [Smulders] didn't like her quote. I told her there was nothing wrong with, "I've had about four Tums because the smoke is making me nauseous," but she thought she could do better. I asked her if we could do an interview instead. She agreed.

[The following are excerpts from an interview with How I Met Your Mother's Cobie Smulders.]

Me: Do you watch hourlong procedural crime shows?

Cobie: No.

Me: Why not?

Cobie: 'Cause I don't watch a lot of TV.

Me: Do you just sit around and read Jane Austen novels?

Cobie: Exactly.

Me: How do you feel about the season ending?

Cobie: Well, I'm sad I don't get to go to work every day, but happy I get to sleep as late as I want.

Jason Segel: Being sad you don't get to go to work every day is a great thing to be able to say.

Me: Jason, this is an interview with Cobie. Go stand by the police tape.

Jason: Yes, Mr. Radnor.

Me: Cobie, tell America your full birth name 'cause it's awesome.

Cobie: Jacoba Fransisca Maria Smulders.

[Am I wrong? That's a serious name.]

Me: Hey, one of our great writers, Chris Harris, is here, sitting next to me. Say something, Chris....

Chris Harris: Why don't you tell them who the not-great writers are?

Damn, Chris. So it's like that. Chris Harris is very smart. He could have really done something great with his life. Instead, he writes for our show. Happily, he's awesome at it. Chris wrote one of my favorite episodes this year, "Arrivaderce, Fiero," where we all bid (bade?) farewell to Marshall's car and reminisced about our favorite memories in said car. "500 Miles" by The Proclaimers made a most memorable appearance. (Actually it made about 15 appearances, including an orchestral version towards the end.) It's strange to look back over a full season. Our characters have accrued all these memories, but so have we, the actors. And sometimes the character memories and the actor memories bleed into each other. Like, I kind of feel like Jason and I actually drove from Connecticut to Ohio in that Fiero. Of course, we didn't, but we did spend an awful long time in that car together. And we're good friends. The whole thing is confusing. Does this make any sense?

[ My Boys'] Jordana Spiro and [ Brothers & Sisters executive producer] Robbie Baitz told me that doing this blog would be a lot of work. They were right. (It came up at the last TVGuide.com Celebrity Bloggers meeting.) I'm happy to do it, I just feel terrible in a way I haven't felt since high school, like I have to keep asking for yet another extension on my paper. (Actually, no one's really hassled me about this at all. Any pressure is self-imposed. I guess I just still have a good-student complex.) I was asked to do this back, I think, in early February. The deal was one blog a week to correspond with each week's episode. I'm so off-schedule, it's ridiculous. In fact, it's early April and I have zero idea what episode is on this Monday. Uh-oh. This is Blog #2."


And then he never updated again, haha.

He goes on to say more, but it's boring, it's all about that guy proposing to the girl on set, we already know that one, don't we Gabby?

Renee Out.

Renee's Number 2 Shows

I realized that we never did our thoughtful thursday things or whatever it was. We are failing at the new schedule. Anyways.

How I Met Your Mother

The Office

"Here comes treble."

Renee Out.

Boyfriend #89

Wow, that David Blaine guy is insane. I didn't really know much about him, thanks for sharing Gab! See, our blog is educational as well as random.

This is my new bf, by the by. I know that I already made Gab has watch him, but our trillion and seven readers have not and they need to have their day brightened. With sexy.

ALSO, I'm going to look him up and he'll most likely turn out to be gay, since I always ALWAYS fine the gay guys the most attractive (eg. Neil, A.R., Adam, etc.) Anyways. This guy's fantastic, and he's super cute when the piano stops and he turns around and then whips back with this face. SO funny. It's like 2:30 ish.

ALSO I love Spring Awakening. It's like number 5 on my revised musicals list. I used to sing this song from it in voice long ago. Like, not this song, this song isn't even from Spring Awakening, it's from Sam Cooke. And I used to sing a song not from Sam Cooke, from Spring Awakening. Ach. Gatorade.

Renee Out

HIMYM Review: "Murtaugh"

I've decided that the best way to review this episode is by character plot line. Be warned, there will be sub-plot line character headings as well. All-in-all, this was the best episode since The Possimpible, but definitely not up to par with many of the others earlier in this season. Is it just me, or was the start of the season AMAZING, and then went downhill? I'm glad that they didn't overuse the flashbacks this episode, like they have been doing a lot lately.

Barney/Ted/Robin

So Barney, after being kicked out of his Laser Tag Club for breaking rules is told by Ted that he is too old for Laser Tag. It is then added to the "Murtaugh List" of stuff that they are too old to do. Barney takes it upon himself to do all the items on the list within 24 hours. Ted is then challenged to do the items on the list Barney makes of things that he is too young to do. There is a bet somewhere in here.

Ted

Ted was actually hilarious this episode. More so than in a very long time. Renee said, and I agree, that he is funny when he isn't taking everything too seriously. Funniest Moment: When he goes to answer the phone REALLY slowly. 

Barney 

Barney was pretty funny tonight, but it felt almost a little forced sometimes. (Sorry NPH! I have to be critical. But if you ever read this, you were actually amazing, as per use.) I was very glad to see that he still plays laser tag, since that hasn't been mentioned since, like, season 1. I did like his earring, but his hair and clothes were no good. Favourite moment: Just a short clip. When he was in laser and had his foot on the kid while shooting her. I also loved the High Score Board that had Stinson listed for every single high score, ever.

Robin

Robin didn't really have a big part in this episode. She was just there with Barney the whole time (yay!). I like to see them spending time together. But I wish that they mentioned that Barney is in love with her sometimes. Just casually, you know? I am also, sorry to say, sick of the Canadian jokes. Mainly because the writers are overusing them and they are always the same ones. I want original ones! "Something about fur trapping." Favourite moment: Her rave outfit. Sort of reminded me of Robin Sparkles. And the blinky light in her mouth was awesome. 

Barney/Robin

This deserves its own heading. As previously mentioned, no references to their relationship, but it was nice to see them together the entire episode. Favourite moment: Their answering machine message. They are so cute together!

Lily/Marshall

These two didn't even interact with the other characters this episode, which was sort of weird. Basically, Marshall takes over as the new basketball coach for Lily's kindergarten class at Lily's request, because she wants to observe him with children and give him practice for the future. Anyways, he's super hard on the kids and angry Marshall is HILARIOUS. Favourite moment: How the story changes with time and the competing team are all adults. I also love the creative ways of hiding Alyson Hannigan's belly: a guitar, orange slices, basketballs, a giant scarf. 

Wow, what a long and impressive post I just wrote!

Peace, Gab

PS: My prediction for Barney's Blog update this week: The Murtaugh List, and, potentially, the Too Young List (did this one have a name?)

Gab's Number 7 Solo Artist

I'll start off by apologizing for my lessened dedication to our blogs. My posts have been getting increasingly less interesting/witty/focused/frequent. With that being said, here is my number 7.

Emily Haines

Yeah, Canada!

Favourite Songs: Crowd Surf Off a Cliff, Doctor Blind, Our Hell

Peace, Gab

PS: Renee, I appreciate that you do listen to me, however you mixed yourself up. I did NOT like The Awakening/Didn't read it. But, I was very impressed with your use of the slash. It's, like, the best thing since Neil Patrick Harris' birth (see what I did there?)

Gab's Number 2 Band

The Awkward Stage

(Go Canada/BC!) And Shane, the lead singer, is hilarious.

Favourite songs: West Van Girl, Heaven is for Easy Girls, The Morons are Winning, Sad Girl Radio

Peace, Gab

PS: I like Iron & Wine's version of Such Great Heights better.

PPS: I am going to do Neil's Hollywood thing this summer when I road-trip down there with my fam. 

PPPS: Jason is hot.

Renee's Number 3 Band

The Postal Service

Favourite songs: Such Great Heights (give me chills - one of my favourite songs ever), Against All Odds (Yes, I realize it's a cover), Be Still My Heart, Recycled Air

Ties are cheating Gab!

Aren't you excited about Neil soonly discovering our blog and therefore becoming our best friend? ALSO did you see him on Ellen? Because we need to sign up for that thing that he runs in LA, sounds awesome.

Renee Out.

P.S. Jason Schwartz is so fuuugly.

This is how Renee spends her Friday nights

Being awesome! I'm going to have dominated the blog by the end of the night (unless I get sleepy)

So maybe I don't have much of a social life.

First: I need to talk about my favourite unknown female singer, Hannah Combs. I found her on youtube one time doing a cover of a Josiah Leming song and LET ME TELL YOU is she good. She wrote that song that I always play on the guitar called Love Doesn't Grow In Ohio. I have an mp3 of me doing it that I made when I was bored, can you put mp3's on here?

So here she is:



There are good copies of this song, I just like this video.

Secondly (did I have a firstly? What happens one you get to twenty?) Since Gab is obviously NEVER going to update er bands list, I'm going to make a top ten list of my own, all in one post. It will be my favourite musicals because I'm going through a musical phase right now 9well, it's kind of been going on for the last four years, but whatever)

1. Wicked
2. Rent
3. Les Miserables
4. Assassins (Go Neil)
5. Guys and Dolls
6. Fiddler on the Roof
7. The Sound of Music
8. Annie Get Your Gun
9. Godspell
10. Spamalot


You may ask yourself, how many of these has Renee actually seen on Broadway? The answer is none. But I've seen other versions and memorized the soundtracks and youtubed it so IT BASICALLY COUNTS, God just leave me alone.

Honourable mentions go to Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog and the Scrubs musical. I didn't put them because I was going for "broadway" because I am sophisticated, but they would both have made my top ten.

This post is extraordinarily extensive. I am enjoying it greatly but alas I am running out of topics because I am quite tired and I get tired on Fridays OKAY? I'm a little defensive, I wonder if I'm high. That's what I said today after the Gatorade incident, I know I wasn't high because I want to preserve my brain cells but I was still pretty trippy on sugar. Hmm. This post is taking an interesting turn. Let's try and get it back on track.

Another list! I'll list the next ten songs that come on shuffle on my ipod (unless there's something embarassing like...that one girl whose name I don't say but that I have too many songs by...okay fine Miley Cyrus)

I am getting my haircut tomorrow before we hang out. I'm thinking short-ish. Like...a little longer than Tegan's, but not a lot. I don't know. I'll post some possible pictures, I guess. Hmm, no, I'll do that in a new post. Because I feel like FULLY dominating the blog.

Renee Out.

American Idol Recap: Season 8, Top 36 Performances Part 1

Steel yourself Gabby. This is going to be the longest blog entry in the history of WViE. I suggest you at least skim it, however, because Neil Patrick Harris will be mentioned more than once. You'll see why.

So tonight the first twelve of the top thirty-six performed. I'm going to review them individually, but first let me say that the quality of the show tonight SUCKED. The camera kept pointing at the wrong place, especially during the super awkward interviews with family members (when did they start that? It needs to go) Also, instead of playing Brent keith's video they just showed a frozen picture of Stevie. This sitation proved to us that Ryan Seacrest is crap at vamping.

Also. Randy seems to be trying to mix it up this year. Lots of new, strange catchphrases. There was also a lot of Simon metaphoriacally bitchslapping Paula, which is always appreciated.

So up first was Jackie Tohn (I actually made notes Gab, aren't I a nerd?) She sang "A Little Less Conversation." What was interesting her performance was that she'd somehow gotten ahold of the EXACT pants that Oliva Newton-John wore at the end of Grease. I love Jackie. She's in my top three to move forward next week, and her stage present is killer.

Next was Ricky Braddy (aka Ricky Bobby because, well, I'm hilarious) I'd never heard of this guy but I was mighty impressed. He's got a good voice, though he's a little on the boring side. And his velvet suit was just...bad.

Then we had Alexis. She was really good too, I want either her or Ricky Bobby to get the third spot next week.

I guess at this point the producers realized that too many people were doing well so they had to sabotage the next few contestants. Following Alexis was Brent, who sang a really dull, strange country song called "Hick Town." Doesn't he know that no one likes country? He was all like "Country fans will appreciate that song." Yeah, all three of them, two being his parents.

After Brent came the atrocity we call Stevie and OH MY GOD was she terrible. I guess that's what you get for saying on camera that your favourite band is the Jonas Brothers. her performance was seriously the worst ever AI performance, with the exception of perhaps Casey Carlson - but more on that later.

And it was here, Gab, at the end of Stevie's performance that I saw, while clutching my bleeding ears, none other than Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka in the audience (sitting next to Ted Danson of all people.) Neil was nodding all diplomatically but David was grimacing at how horrible her performance was and it was HILARIOUS. His hair and cardigan were looking pretty fine. He was actually the hotter of the two tonight.

Next up was Anoop (what's that Randy, you call him Anoop Dogg? You DEFINITELY haven't overused that one.) He's good but his performance was boring. Whatever, by this point I was pretty distracted by NPH.

By the way, it's getting pretty annoying how EVERY season they say how it's "the most talent yet." It's so untrue, and if it hadn't been proven to you already, it definitely was after Casey Carlson's performance. She sang "Every little thing HE does is magic" and it was VERY VERY bad. If she gets through simply because she's good looking (and she's not even THAT good-looking) I will shoot somebody's face. Hers, preferably, or every male American (except Neil!) She was really playing up the sexy, but everyone knows that never works, as it's almost all women voting. She's gone, I think.

Then there was Michael, the oil guy. He's a good singer but his song was boring and he has no stage present and I'm pretty sure that he too is out.

Ann Marie was next, and I thought she did a lot better than they gave her credit for. When you hold her up to the last two girls, anyways. She's got a good voice. I'm sick of the judges always comparing the female contestants to the people whose songs they sing. OBVIOUSLY she's not going to sound like Aretha Franklin, but she still did a good job. You basically just can't sing any Whitney, Aretha or Celine (yech) songs on that show or they'll compare you and then you'll lose. I guess I'm talking in second person now, hmmm.

So then there was Stephen, the most boring human being ever. I didn't think anyone could make MJ boring but ho, he succeeded! I guess I'm still mad at him for forgetting my David's lyrics.

Second to last was Tatiana. This was the one that everybody wanted to see, which I'm sure she knew. Everyone seemed a little weirded out by her surprising normalcy. She still bugs the hell out of me. I don't know, she's undeniably a good singer, but I hope she doesn't go on further. I doubt she will, now that she's not being entertaining. She should've stuck with the crazy.

Side note: I did LOVE it when she was talking about how she wanted to "market" herself. Cough *prostitute* cough.

Finally it was Danny Gokey, by the far the favourite going into the night. He did a very good, yet slightly cheesy, rendition of "Hero" by Mariah Carey. I sort of agree with Simon about him; he's really good, but not as orgasm inducing as the other judges describe him as. I've gotten to the point where I usually just fastforward the first three judge's comments.

ALSO, how inappropriate was it when Ryan kept asking Simon if he had this organ called a heart when he had his arm around Danny? Dude, his wife died of heart failure! How untactful can you be? First he tries to high five blind guys, and now this? He needs to be replaced.

So my pics for moving through are Danny, Jackie and Alexis or Ricky. It was pretty entertaining, at least. "Most talent yet", lie.

BTW I wish I could discourse this episode with someone amazing like, oh I don't know, Neil Patrick Harris because my blogging partner doesn't even WATCH the show (shame on you, Gabriela)

I am stoked for Adam! Hopefully he's next week.

Renee Out.

Renee's Response

Octuplets. Ouchie. Her situation sounds suspicious. It always makes me kind of sad when these celebrities get together, have boatloads of kids and then split up. I feel bad for the kids, not the celebrities. Celebrities, in general, are lame, minus my American Idols and the tv stars I love that aren't really that famous, eg. NPH, John Krasinski.

Speaking of boatloads of children...I like Jon and Kate Plus 8. The kids are so cute. I'm not as into it as my friend Anita (she can recite all of the kids first and middle names IN THEIR BIRTH ORDER. It's a little weird) but I think that the kids can be really hilarious. I liked it when this one girl Alexis was looking at the camera and then randomly started going "Woof! woof!" She does stuff like that a lot.

I guess the conclusion I can make is that I watch too much tv.

I'm very excited about my future kids. I'm gonna marry a hottie (couugh*David Cook*cough) and our kids will be SO ADORABLE and so smart. Here are their possible names

Girls

Eloise
Elodie
Isobelle (Izzie)
Jade
Lily
Charlotte
Amy
Odella
Ginevra
Ella

Boys

Evan
Jacob (Not named after Twilight, what?)
Finnigan (Finn)
Alexander (Xander)
Caleb
Mark

It's so fun to name my future kids. I'll probably end up not having any because I have no patience but whatever. What triggered this rant? Oh right, the octopus lady.

Renee Out.

Where did his eyes go?

Hahaha, I'm funny.

Renee Out.

Gab's Number 2 Hottie

I won't say anything mean about whatshisface in this post, but I will think it and maybe even say what I am thinking out loud.

You can thank me later.

Now, on to my number 2 hot piece, which is, funny enough, the only hottie on both of our lists, which goes to prove that we are unlikely friends. But I love you and won't let this get between us. 

Gab's Number 2 Hottie: Neil Patrick Harris 

PS: That was the best SNL episode of the year.

PPS: My honourable mention, Andy Samberg's, CD comes out tomorrow. I'M THERE.

Renee's Number 5 Hottie(s)

I concur with the Jake Gyllenhaal choice. I covet his loins.

My number five is a tie.

Renee's Number 5 Hotties: Neil Patrick Harris and Justin Chambers

I don't want to write center aligned. Left justify me!

Whatever.

Renee Out.