As I am writing this, it is unbelievably hot and there is nothing my roommates and I have been able to do but try and not melt to the couches, and even this seems dubious. We live in an architectural marvel: in the summertime, it creates an oven-type atmosphere that is compounded by the fact that there aren’t enough windows, or at least ones you can open. In the wintertime, it is an icebox where all the heat seems to escape through the windows that don’t open, a fact that is highlighted by the regular breaking down of the furnace.

So it has happened now that the news has ended and Entertainment Tonight has followed right on its heels, and none of us being inclined to get up (we don’t have a remote), this is what we’ve been watching. It is really a horrible show, there is so much slimy glitz and dramatic music. But, among the news of celebrities getting married and such, two items of interest: one, that they’ve begun shooting the next Indiana Jones and that is totally sweet. Two, they’re going to remake ‘Footloose.’ Say what?

Footloose is a movie lodged in my memory because the soundtrack was everywhere plus it was a movie of choice at sleepovers, and so I must have seen it countless times. Dirty Dancing was also a big deal in those days (nobody puts Baby in the corner!). Now, a while ago Hawkeye said something about not messing with the classics (albeit we’re dealing with starkly different kinds of ‘classics’ here) but that’s the same point I’m going to make. Why the heck would you make another Footloose? A movie so lodged in the 80s it doesn’t just exemplify the era, it is iconic of it? Footloose was made into a musical and that is what this movie might be based off of- the musical of the movie. I’ve seen the musical because my university’s drama program put it on one year. It’s totally retarded.

The Kevin Bacon role is going to be taken by a fellow named Zac Efron. I looked him up on youtube and found a bunch of video homages titled things like “Zac Efron from Boy.. to Man” set to O-Town music which leaves me to believe I don’t know who he is because I’m not a screaming 14 year old girl. So he’s starred in this thing called High School Musical and is also appearing in the other new movie-musical-remake-movie Hairspray. Is this guy doing karaoke, but with movies? In any case, Kevin Bacon could pull off the outsider who made dancing cool because he had an edge and nobody had seen him dance before. This new guy is better described as greasy and has all the edge of the Disney padded room from which he sprang.

The thing is, Footloose isn’t even great of a movie, the story is stupid and it got mixed reviews when it came out. But it has stood the test of time, and that is commendable. And people like it. So hopefully this movie, if anything, will remind people of that.

Anyway, I hope they do keep the tractor racing scene. Now here’s some dancing!

OK So um… SUMMER IS OVER!

*whips writers back into shape*

Apologies for the slowness recently! Being summer we all want to spend more time outdoors, and in some instances, we like to go on vacation or travel. I suppose that’s still somewhat outdoors.

In any case, it looks like our last hired Thursday author has dissapeared off the face of the Earth; and Dr. Maggie has taken up some time consuming summer school and will not be available for future writings.

Hence, I have hired two more subjects!

On is either Pagz or Foley. I can’t tell which one because they share the same email address (weird!). The other will replace the Dear Maggie article with something else but similar. I’m not sure what yet. Or what her handle is. SUFFICE TO SAY that both of these people currently live in the same city as me and I can physically beat their asses if they fail to hand in articles on time.

To the future! *clink*

PS: Despite the missing-an-article-every-other-day for the last month, we’ve actually had more site traffic than ever. So uh.. Keep it up!

PPS: Our chatroom’s resident Finlandian has posted his first ever in-english blog entry. He’s having some trouble grasping our grammar and is begging for our criticism. The subject matter may not be the most interesting, but I find the whole post intriguing. Here is a Finlandian who has, for the most part, taught himself English through the use of IRC Chatrooms. His grammar often suffers in very minor ways. Kind of neat to read from an analytical point of view.