Grammy Round-up

The Grammy's weren't as good as last years, in part because a lot of musicians were protesting due to the elimination of various categories which pissed everyone off.

That said there were some interesting moments.
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Okay off to bed. Thank god I have tomorrow off. Sleeping in. Then researching singing lessons and exercise programs.

Reviews..

1. Beastly - finished watching the tween modernization of the Beauty and The Beast fairy tale. Starring Vanessa Hudgins, Alex Pettifier, Peter Krause, Neil Patrick Harris, and Mary Kate Olsen. Not as bad as you'd think. Was mildly entertaining and sort of sweet. Basic premise the same - image and vanity unimportant, what's inside counts. Of course I'd be more convinced if the heroine wasn't beautiful. But at least this time she's a person of color. Also Neil Patrick Harris was mildly amusing as a blind guy...proving Harris has no clue how to act like a blind guy, but...let's not nit-pick. Overall a decent B Valentine's Day tween flick.

Once Upon a Time's take on the Beauty and the Beast fairy tale was actually more interesting, because it melded the Rumplestilskin story with the fairy tale.
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2.) Downton Abbey - better this week than last. The only weakness in this series is the story. Luckily the writing, direction, and acting sort of make that negligible. It's still melodramatically cliche in places.
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3.) Justified - not much to say, except by far the best written tv show that I've seen all week. The dialogue crackles. It's hilarious. Well plotted. But unfortunately violent as all get out with hardly any women in it. Although Joella Carter who plays the black woman marshal - Violet, was quite good, still didn't have hardly anything to do. Sad. The best written tv show on - is regrettably about violent white guys who wave pistols around. (Yet still far less violent than the others.)