Wake Up And Get Real

Just wanted to draw y'alls attention to the new internet tv show Wake Up and Get Real. The show is BFFs Kelly Cutrone and Justine Bateman on split screen just shooting the shit with each other - its sort of an alternative to The View kinda thing. I like watching them hang out cause its genuine and feels like when you're hanging with your best friend and you're all like "I feel really strongly about this thing blah, blah, blah.....oh wait that's a good point, disregard everything I just said". Its nice to watch these two cool women getting along since so much of female talk shows dwells on conflict and the whole crap of "Can you believe Rosie O'Donnell said that mean thing to Elizabeth Hasselbeck". Oh and by the way I'm totally on Rosie's side.
But anyhow, so Kelly and Justine cover such important issues as headbanging, 90's club life at Limelight, finding a mouse in your apartment, and the wonderful Mothers Day Fairy -who is kinda like the tooth fairy but comes to the house of single moms and leaves their kids money so they can take their mom out for brunch.



As a side note finding this show was cool cause coincidentally I just watched the episode of Arrested Development when Jason Bateman thinks Justine Bateman is his long lost sister but it turns out she's a prostitute. That show is amazing.

AND I want to recommend this movie she was in in 1988. Its called Satisfaction and I believe its on instant play on Netflix.

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Punctuation Face

The Hills, and its new spin off The City, are generally shows I avoid. They fall under the category of show that I might watch if I'm cleaning my apartment or home sick. I'm not much of a tv snob but basically nothing ever happens to the girls of The Hills. If something does happen it takes 4 episodes to happen and there are so many awkward silences and dull sighs that it feels like nothing is happening. Occasionally I get really annoyed thinking about how my life would have made a much better tv show when I was 20. Maybe there were no plastic surgery scandals but parties at art school were definitely better than the backyard BBQs on The Hills.
I spend a lot of time thinking about language and tone and the nonexistent substance of communication on The Hills. I remember reading in Jane Fonda's biography that women come into their own voices when they mature in to a comfortable confident understanding of themselves. Jane talks about going back and watching her old movies to realize that her voice was much higher and wispier in her most unsure phases. I've also read studies that show that men and women both talk differently when in the presence of their own gender or the opposite gender. Men talk deeper around women(especially unfamiliar ones) and women talk in a higher octave around men. The thing that amuses me with The Hills is that they almost seem unable to communicate at all. No one ever launches into a long opinion on something. No one goes out of a wispy flirty tone. No one is very funny. (Well except for Heidi's boss Kelly Cutrone.)
I suppose living under constant televised conditions would instill awkward non conversations. The girls of The Hills have had a sort of second puberty (or social criticism and false identities) at the time when they should be coming into their own as adults. So I suppose its no surprise that they resort to what I've come to think of as punctuation face. They communicate through a ridiculous plethora of facial expressions.....mostly the expected 'surprised face' and 'I understand face'. During the writers strike last year the punctuation face got really out of control. Heidi feigns excitement and Lauren either cries or looks bored. Audrina is sort of like a set of parenthesis with nothing in between. You keep expecting her to be pissed off or sad but she exists in some sort of premature botoxed state. They remind me of Cindy Sherman's "Untitled Film Stills".

Is this Cindy Sherman in The City?

I hope that at some point these girls return with loud opinions and excited tirades but until they find their voices vast amounts of MTV viewers will cling to the pages of punctuation their "reality tv" writers must be feeding them.