Things Smackie Thinks You Need to Know...

vansmack wrote:

No, I made my bi-annual trip to San Jose last week for the No Doubt show…let's make your next trip further up north or during hockey season (the only other reason I would head to San Jose…)

mountain view is soooo not san jose. 

My friend David Pogue has been on a quest over at the NY Times to end the annoying instructions that follow every call to someone's mobile voice mail.  He's working with at&t, T-Mobile and Verizon to get them to change their policies of requiring the instructions. 

Sprint allows you to turn it off by doing the following:

* Sprint: Change it yourself

Sprint already lets you eliminate those instructions. It's not simple, and it's not publicized, but it's possible. If you're a Sprint customer, I encourage you to make this change right away:

Access your voicemail box (if the messages start, press * to get to your options). Press 3 for personal options.
 Press 2 for greetings.
 Press 1, to change your personal greeting.
 Press 3 to add or remove the caller instructions.
 Follow the prompts to turn instructions on or off (currently pressing 2 turns it off, but that has cahnged in the past).

I have done this for you when you call me, will you please do this for me when I call you?

Today is my first furlough day, so I caught up on the Teen Choice awards which have been on the DVR for a little while.

Here's what I learned:

I'm (still) never having daughters.

The chubby Jonas Brother is my favorite and I suspect he'll have a Danny Bonaduce breakdown that we can only hope is filmed live on a reality show.  And Frankie Jonas has no chance in life.    He'll be arrested before 18 for sure…

Kristen Bell is the voice of Gossip Girl.  Somehow I never knew this…Why is somebody that hot only lending her voice?  If this Heroes thing doesn't work out, she's got a job waiting for her.

Chuck Bass is British in real life.  So is Edward of Team Edward fame.
I'm left wondering who they support.  I'll guess Edward is an Arsenal fan, and Chuck, I have no idea. (I actually googled it - I was right about Team Edward, and Chuck Bass supports Chelsea.  I heart the intertubes)

Chace Crawford is going to have 10 times the career of Zac Efron when it's all said and done.  You heard it here first.  Chace has room to grow into a serious actor where Zac will always be a teenager, despite turning 22 next month.

Who's more typecast - Cam Gigandet as a villain or Zac Efron as teenager?  Sub-question - did you ever think Volcheck would get another role in your life, let alone a role on the hottest movie of the year?

I hate Comcast, but I love these new FBI commercials with Shaq and Ben Stiller.  Speaking of commercials, I had to hit the 30 second skip button an average of 10 times to get back to the program.  That's ridiculous.  I rarely hit it more than 5 times.

I'm thoroughly enjoying the resurgence of Mike Tyson.

I can't wait for Glee.  Seriously. 

Do you think Rupaul is jealous of Miss J's fame?  I know Rupaul really wanted a teen choice award.  Who wins that bitch fight, BTW?

Miley Cyrus is really growing up.  Quickly.  But I still can't get over that mouth.  How long is Emily Osment going to be living in her shadow? 

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Hayden Panettieri is going to be one of the hottest late 20's/early 30 something's on the planet next decade.

Britney didn't perform, which is a shame.  Is your career over when you receive a lifetime achievement award from the Teen Choice Awards? I also wanted Paramore to perform, but they didn't.  We did get 2 Jonas Brothers songs, Sean Kingston, the Black Eyed Peas and the clear winner - Miley Cyrus for her use of a trailer and the trash that comes with it.

Alright, that's all I got.  I'm off to the beach.

Ed Westwick is also in a band called Filthy Youth. An English band (obviously - or not so obvious for some of you) and hes got quite a voice. Hes also nice to look at and if you catch them in NYC, odds are all youll catch most the GG folk in tow.

He also has a bit part in the movie Son of Rambow. Great film and English (so you can catch him speaking in his native tongue).

Hard to believe anyone might not know Kristen Bell is the voice of GG. I recognized her voice the moment I heard it. Granted I also watched Veronica Mars way too much!

Smackie your passion for teen pop culture is mystifying.

xneverwherex wrote:
Ed Westwick is also in a band called Filthy Youth. An English band (obviously - or not so obvious for some of you) and hes got quite a voice. Hes also nice to look at and if you catch them in NYC, odds are all youll catch most the GG folk in tow.

He also has a bit part in the movie Son of Rambow. Great film and English (so you can catch him speaking in his native tongue).

Hard to believe anyone might not know Kristen Bell is the voice of GG. I recognized her voice the moment I heard it. Granted I also watched Veronica Mars way too much!

Smackette was equally as shocked as you are that I didn't know any of this, but in my defense of Kristen Bell I never watched Heroes or Veronica Mars so, truthfully, I didn't even know she spoke.  She probably had a few speaking parts in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, but she had bathing suit on for most of the movie so I can't be faulted for not noticing.

took you for being a fan of veronica mars. love that show :) highly recommend watching it. in that case, i can easily understand the not knowing her voice :)

vansmack wrote:

xneverwherex wrote:
Ed Westwick is also in a band called Filthy Youth. An English band (obviously - or not so obvious for some of you) and hes got quite a voice. Hes also nice to look at and if you catch them in NYC, odds are all youll catch most the GG folk in tow.

He also has a bit part in the movie Son of Rambow. Great film and English (so you can catch him speaking in his native tongue).

Hard to believe anyone might not know Kristen Bell is the voice of GG. I recognized her voice the moment I heard it. Granted I also watched Veronica Mars way too much!

Smackette was equally as shocked as you are that I didn't know any of this, but in my defense of Kristen Bell I never watched Heroes or Veronica Mars so, truthfully, I didn't even know she spoke.  She probably had a few speaking parts in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, but she had bathing suit on for most of the movie so I can't be faulted for not noticing.

xneverwherex wrote:
took you for being a fan of veronica mars. love that show :) highly recommend watching it. \

A TV show centered around a young Kristen Bell?  Not very hard to convince me to watch that.  I'll add it to my queue…

For my second furlough day today, I'm considering writing an article for publication entitled "Why Radiohead fans all have iPhones: The Decade of the Hype Machine"

Instead of writing that article that only pitchfork would pick up, I spent my day working on Windows Mobile 6.5.  I'm loving this more and more.

I'm sure only sweetcell cares, but here's why I don't use TouchFlo3D to hide WinMo flaws any longer:

sweetcell wrote:
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2009/08/25/ac.shot.monday.cnn

Yes, Smackette has not stopped talking about it.  It just reinforces my stance on not watching The Hills without LC. 

sweetcell wrote:
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/ireports/2009/08/25/irpt.go.topless.day.cnn

Thumbs up from me, but I am reminded about the time when young girls were showing their bellies, and a lot of those girls shouldn't have been showing their bellies.  Maybe Congress should step in.

there is a park in downtown berlin where nude sunbathing is common.  a tour guide told us "for all you americans who find this exciting, i'd like to inform you that there is a reverse correlation between how much you want to see someone naked, and how much that person is willing to be naked".

vansmack wrote:
Matt Barkley

Remember the name.  I've seen a lot of great QB's play in high school - Matt Leinart, Carson Palmer, Tom Brady, Todd Marinovich, Jimmy Clausen - and as a Junior, his arm strength beats them all.  By the time he gets to USC (if Pete Carroll is still there), he will be the most experienced high school QB of all time (4 year starter at Mater Dei - currently USA Today #19 in the nation).

I'm not one to miss the opportunity to toot my own horn, so without further ado….

True Freshman Matt Barkley Named USC's Starting QB

"Barkley is thought to be the first non-redshirt freshman quarterback to be picked to start a season opener for the Trojans."

I'm not saying that kid isn't going to be great, but he threw like a billion INTs in high school, and by many accounts, has done the same in practice. If his decision-making catches up to his clearly near-limitless physical talents, he'll be awesome, but who knows?

Maybe this thread should have the subtitle of "Things We Think Smackie Should Know…."

New Robbie Williams single

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjA8iJxDOnE

kosmo wrote:
Maybe this thread should have the subtitle of "Things We Think Smackie Should Know…."

New Robbie Williams single

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjA8iJxDOnE

As usual, Kosmo rocks.  So excited for a new album and hopefully a US tour!

I'm comfortable with the subtitle "Things if Smackie knew about, he'd want you to know about."  This is the only thread I "subscribe" to, therefore posts here are proactively sent to me, so feel free to use it as you will folks.

How I spent my labor day….



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