Archive | December, 2007

VH1: America’s Most Smartest Model – Ben Stein’s Exit Lines

America's Most Smartest Model
Sunday will be the finale of America’s Most Smartest Model. Till we find out if the winner will be Model, Pseudo-Soviet, Anger Management Issues Andre or Sleazy – Evil 80′s Movie Frat Boy VJ…enjoy Ben Stein‘s previous exit lines to the contestants.

UPDATE: VJ wins.

AMSM ep01: Gaston and Victoria, like the legbones of a cetacean mammal, you are now vestigal.

AMSM ep02: Like the conventional paradigm in the pre-Copernican era of geocentric cosmology, Erika you have been invalidated.

AMSM ep03: Like Hannibal at the Battle of Zama, Mandy Lynn you have been vanquished.

AMSM ep04: Like the audience who witnessed the swan song of the corpulent soprano Leontyne Price in 1997, Jessie the fat lady has sung.

AMSM ep05: Like the Articles of Confederation after the ratification of the Constitution you are now historical arcana. [Lisa]

AMSM ep06: [blonde] Rachel eliminated without a line from Ben Stein.

Like the 101st Airborne Division at Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge, [Aussie] Rachael you have avoided being annihilated.

AMSM ep07: Like involuntary servitude after the enactment of the 13th ammendment, Daniel, you are abolished.

AMSM ep08: Like the Soviet Space Station Mir upon its reentry into Earth’s atmosphere, Pickel, you have been obliterated.

AMSM ep09: Like the long-extinct Australopithecus afarensis you [Aussie] Rachael must vanish into oblivion.

Like discoloration of the tooth enamel after the application of a whitening dentifrice, you Brett, must now disappear into history.

AMSM ep10: Angela eliminated without a line from Ben Stein.

AMSM ep11: Like the Red Army in the Battle of Stalingrad in February of 1943, VJ, you have staved off defeat and vanquished your enemy. You are America’s Most Smartest Model.

There’s a great conversation about the show here with links to modeling done by the contestants and fun dialogue from the show.

Squeeze and King Creosote at Newcastle City Hall 30-Nov-2007

King Creosote opening for Squeeze in Newcastle 30-Nov-2007

King Creosote

The opening act King Creosote was really good. The reason there are more pictures of them is because a dumb usher thought my camera was a DSLR because it had a zoom on it, I tried to explain but he threatened to take my camera away so I could only take pictures of Squeeze during the first song.

Never mind that my picture-taking is way less disruptive than other people around me since I don’t use flash and I don’t use the LCD display. All the cell phones and small cameras taking videos and pictures are way more annoying.

It was a great show. My husband, while he loves my photos, was happy I was free to dance with him.

Glenn Tilbrook / Squeeze in Newcastle 30-Nov-2007

Glenn Tilbrook

Chris Difford / Squeeze in Newcastle 30-Nov-2007

Chris Difford

Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford will each be on UK tours in 2008. I kind of enjoy them more separately and hope to see them again then. I would also enjoy seeing King Creosote again. Live performance is one of my favorite ways to be exposed to music I don’t know so I try to make it to shows in time for the opening acts.

Squeeze Setlist:

Stephen Large / Squeeze in Newcastle 30-Nov-2007

Stephen Large

Take Me I’m Yours
Up The Junction
Piccadilly
I Think I’m Go-Go
Love Circles
Is That Love?
Third Rail
Electric Trains
Slightly Drunk
In Quintessence
Maidstone
Some Fantastic Place
Labeled with Love
Messed Around
Melody Motel
Slaughtered, Gutted and Heartbroken

Setlist

Setlist


Goodbye Girl
Another Nail in My Heart
Hourglass
Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)
Slap and Tickle
Cool for Cats
Annie Get Your Gun
Tempted
Walk Away
Black Coffee in Bed

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