Know when to admit defeat.....by the hammer of the Gods!!!

Okay the blog's name is Daily Diva Dish..it sound great but the reality is I'm lucky if I get weekly or monthy Diva Dish...so sorry if the title is deceptive. On that note here are some random thoughts for today

1) Hockey in May is just wrong
I've tried not to get sucked into watching Bruins playoff hockey. I haven't really watched hockey in any regular pattern since 1990 or so. I've loved Patrice Bergeron otherwise known as bubble-head (3 concussions in three years) but really have no vested interest. Of course they now have a chance to make it to the Stanley Cup finals for the first time in what 20 plus years? Good lord a game 7, I'm still recovering from Red Sox 2003,2004 playoffs, and don't even mention the Patriots vs. Giants in 2007.

2) Summer Movie update
Go See Thor. I kid you not. Honestly, it is an awesome popcorn movie. Great scenery, fun story, wonderful hammy acting (thank you Anthony Hopkins) and one HOT and I mean HOT lead Chris Hemsworth and a wonderful British actor, Tom Hiddleston as Loki. I never thought I'd watch a comic movie directed by Kenneth Branagh but you know what, he pulls it off. Bravo.

3) American Idol
Just not into it this year. Anyone of interest (and I don't even think they were great vocalists) James and Jacob got the boot and I found myself even before then not caring much. When did Idol turn into Nashville Star, and as for JLO and Steven Tyler...come on "you made it your own" and "I Love you Honey"...really isn't enough.....At least Marc Anthony sang on the show, but even then people were more impressed with JLO shaking her Arse...um, the guy can actually sing folks what the frell? Plus they played credits over David Cook singing???? Screw you Fox...urg....

Okay that's it for now, have a great long weekend.....and off to think of more things to talk about in another week or so....

A visit to the Jersey Shore, Wilde style.......

Broadway's Earnest Leading Men Speak the Language of "Jersey Shore" in Playbill Video Series - Playbill.com

I must tell you this made me laugh out loud...I just, oh my goodness. Makes me love the men from Earnest even more. And I confess, I've never watched any of Jersey shore...but I still love this...I hope it makes you laugh or at least smile a bit more....

And sometimes it's just hormonal......

I started watching HBO's new series "Game of Thrones"...now I could tell you that I watched cause I read the well received fantasy novels written by George RR Martin...but I didn't. I could tell you that I started watching "Game of Thrones" because it's a wonderful exploration of corruption of power with some amazing sets and it's epic...but I really didn't. I could tell you I'm watching it because it's a hell of a lot better in one episode than "Camelot" has proven to be..(we'll maybe a little). But the two biggest reasons I'm watching the show are as follows in (pictures are indeed worth a thousand words). Yup I'm watching "Game of Thrones" for Sean Bean and Jason Momoa. Now if you don't know who Sean Bean is well shame on you. A great actor one of the best 007 villains (006) for Pierce Brosnan. A wonderful addition to Lord of the Rings, and amazing and sexy as all hell in "Sharpe" (the series based on wonderful novels by Bernard Cornwall-read them they're really good). I'll see Bean in anything, he adds a wonderful gravitas to the show. What does Jason Momoa add? Well first off most folks don't know him. I happen to know him from catching glimpses of him in Stargate: Atlantis. Now I never really watched that show, honest but one look at this man, and good lord, did I need a fan to cool off. I gotta tell you he is perhaps the most amazing male specimen I have ever seen. Acting? well who cares. He's going to be in this summer's reboot of Conan the Barbarian and he plays Khal Drogo (ok he's basically playing Conan the Barbarian)in "thrones". But honestly, who really cares about that, let's just say this man is HOT! I'm so sorry to be writing like this but honestly if I ever saw this guy in person (and you won't miss him he's 6' 4") I'd fall down, grab his knees and beg him to take me home with him. Of course that could prove a problem since he's been with Lisa Bonnet for some time. Hey girl not fair, Lenny Kravitz and him, urg...ah well. Anyway, do watch the show some great acting and plots, it'll be great I tell you. But when it comes down to it, I'm still watching it for the adult eye candy. No whimpering lads in this tale (well ok some, but Bean and Momoa make up for it!) Enjoy!

Let's not go to Camelot...it's a silly place

Okay things I discovered last week to sadly prove I am getting old.

1) I Am NOT interested in standing 80 minutes or more to see a freakin' theater show. Interactive theater does not mean break my back theater. So Club Oberon, honestly provide seats for a show. No more of this "shove Stephie 85 ways as the actors move about the space." I'll be happy to stay out of your way if I HAD a place to sit...then I could avoid actors and those other theatergoers on the dance floor who seem to enjoy invading my personal space..Wait I can't have personal space cause I'm stuck with 100 other folks on the dance floor urg...

2) Every guy I like in the new Camelot series on Cable plays a secondary character. Why you make ask...okay here it comes.....CAUSE THEY"RE OLD! Expendable too. Why...oh here we go again....cause they're OLD. I tried to watch a full episode of Camelot, excited because James Purfoy (brilliant as Marc Antony in Rome) and Sean Pertwee (great in the Cadfael mystery series) were listed in the cast. We'll (Spoiler alert) they both don't make it through the first episode, not cause they can't act (cause they can) but cause they're not 19. At the end of the show I was left watching an Arthur who looks like Keira Knightly with a bad blond wig on, and some interchangeable knights, oh and some chicks who feel good dropping their gowns cause they somehow found a source for waxing and perfect white teeth during the middle ages. Oh and Camelot must not be a castle but a Fitness Center cause they all have cut muscles! Arthur is sooo young I don't think his voice has actually changed yet. And if you think I'm going to get excited watching this crew -you've got another thing coming. Oh and to add insult to injury they have the wrong Fiennes brother employed. Sorry Joseph, I wish you the best, but eww eww eww...He's like the younger Baldwin brothers; they look enough like Alec that you know they're related, but looks and talent wise, boy was there a big drop off....

Okay I rest my case for now. Leading men turned to supporting "character actors"; and my desire to have a seat at theater shows. Maybe next time I go to Oberon I can bring a folding chair!

Today's lesson Part one: Vocal Porn

Okay..it's not as bad as it reads, but I got your attention didn't I? I hope to post a note about the Live feed I saw last week about the National Theatre's production of "Frankenstein" directed by Danny Boyle and starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller. I'm glad I saw it, and though I thought it was a flawed production with some major script issues, there were strong performances by the leads and some beautiful stage craft going on. Since I don't have my brain quite wrapped around what I'd like to say, I did want to point out the fact that right now Benedict Cumberbatch is my "go to" dude for Vocal porn. What do I mean exactly? Come on, you've experienced it I'm sure. Someone who's mere voice can bring quite a delightful feeling to you, perhaps a bit of melting or inducing heavy sighs by simply saying "Boo". Actually my test is if a person can make the alphabet sound sexy. Cumberbatch can do it, for goodness sake he makes a reading of "Jabberwocky" sound scintillating. Richard Burton is one for the ages, Alan Rickman's up there too (by the by, Cumberbatch does a pretty hilarious impersonation of Rickman reciting the lyrics of "Candle in the Wind"). Anyway, before I totally go far afield enjoy this link to Cumberbatch's reading of Jaberwocky.

Something for a rainy day.........

A little bit of Alarm harmonica, some Lone Justice sprinkled in and just a tiny bit of Bare Naked Ladies and tadah!- You've got the best song on Radio right now from The Decemberists. Something I thought fit in well with today's rainy weather...

I've lost the plot....and boy am I glad I did

On March 6, 2010 at approximately 8:30 pm I lost the plot and have yet to get it back. Let me explain, I innocently had agreed to join my sister a few months before in seeing Muse. She liked their album "Black Holes and Revelations", I enjoyed it too, and hearing Adam Lambert (ok-shut up) sing Starlight, made me revisit the rest of their songs etc. Anyway, I figured sure, why not. Little did I know I would fall under the spell of a 5'5" 100 lb. wet Englishman named Matt Bellamy. I don't know if it was a combo of amazing singing, ridiculously fabulous guitar playing, brain burning from all of the lasers used in the show, or having my head bashed by the wall of sound that assaulted me throughout their show but I didn't just enjoy the concert, I became obsessed with Bellamy, and his bandmates and the wonder that is Muse. Since then I have not been able to let my obsession go, and yay say I. I guess it just had been a long time since I had felt that amazing oneness that music or a huge sports event (like the Sox in 2004, or Patriots in 2001) can sometimes bring to a crowd of people. And despite the fact that I was sharing Muse with 16,999 others at the TD Banknorth Garden I felt that they were playing only for me. And when I was able to get tkts to see them in California in Sept. thanks to a good friend of my best buddy Gina, well it was the same thing. I mean how much more glee can one get than sharing your amazement with someone about music that blows your mind either in the bathroom line (I love that at concerts!) and even more so with someone sitting next to you that you don't know but grabs you in the middle of a song and shouts, "This is the best F#$%ing Concert I've been to!!!", a riot. So thank you Muse and Matt Bellamy. You made me believe in rock again, you've helped keep me sane in crazy times, and most of all thank you for so far, one year later, for putting a bit of the sparkle back in me. Things can indeed go crazy, but if anyone sees a smile come on my face at work, at home or on the T know more likely than not know it's caused by the boys from Teignmouth Devon!