A Bowl of Stupid

During my three day stint with stomach flu (from which I'm just now recovering), I had a whole bunch of "down time." Due to the combination of my fever and low blood sugar, any attempt at reading made my head spin at intolerable speeds.

As a result, I was left only with the option of watching my 55″ TV, which didn't cause my head to spin at such an intolerable pace. However, I bought my TV before I knew the contents of the Miami basic cable market. As aptly described by Votar:

Thanks to COMCAST Cable, the bulk of the bandwidth available for basic cable service in South Florida is dominated by variety shows populated with old hispanic men in bee costumes and skinny hispanic underage dancing girls dressed like prostitutes.

For that reason, I gave up on Miami television about 2 years ago. Instead, I order from Netflix copious amounts of movies, television shows, and virtually anything else on DVD other than "Sabado Gigante." The catch to this plan is that I must leave my couch to insert and remove said DVD's. This is typically not a problem, however I was not really capable of moving more that 2 inches at a time yesterday.

Solution, my friend and neighbor is away on vacation, so I crashed on his couch for about 20 hours watching and sleeping through what felt like every movie and discovery channel special ever produced.

(There's a point to this, I swear…)

The 2 movies that I was semi-conscious through were Serenity (it's the law, I had to stay awake for that), and for some reason, The Chronicles of Narnia. With Narnia, I was in and out throughout the movie (my sincere apologies to the family of C.S. Lewis), but I woke up just in time for the end credits.

As I have mentioned before, I am a fan of Kevin Smith. (trust me, I'm going somewhere with this …)

At the end of his movie Dogma, Alanis Morissette gave both a cameo appearance (portraying God) and an accompanying song for the film's end credits, called "Still." "Still" is a great song in its own right, however, Alanis also wrote and performed a song for the end credits of Narnia.

Turns out, she was nominated for a Golden Globe for the song. I stumbled across a performance of the song that she gave on Jay Leno. It's not a video, per se. However, the lyrics reach into the fabric of the movie (as did those of "Still"); it's a great showcase for her voice; and she, as always, looks spectacular (even with blond hair).

Alanis Morissette – Wunderkind

Once again, YouTube has removed this original video — taken from a goddamn television show — for alleged copyright infringement. Don't they realize this simply reduces public exposure, and therefore … their profit margins? Whatever. Just for consistency, and in case anyone ever reads this buried post, I'm replacing it with a homemade video of the same song. Sans Alanis.

P.S. Even with a lingering fever and low blood sugar, I still made it out into the water today to surf for a bit (it was chest high and it's Miami Beach, c'mon!)

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