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Behind the Scenes: Nixon Sixx Perky on My Own Worst Enemy

by Amelia G : November 11th, 2008

Yesterday, I posted a review of the new Christian Slater show My Own Worst Enemy and a gallery from My Own Worst Enemy. I was excited when I tuned in that night to recognize Nixon Sixx in the audience for an exciting martial arts competition scene. Christian Slater’s super spy personality Edward Albright has pointed out to his regular guy personality Henry Spivey that their son Jack Spivey, played by Taylor Lautner, has been lying about going guitar lessons. Jack invites his parents to come see what he has actually been doing, which is competing in some form of aggressive and underground-looking version of bo staff combat matches. Taylor Lautner actually manages to do a nice job with a Christian Slater carnivorous smirk here. Helping show how energetically excited about the match the audience was, Nixon Sixx had the highlighted audience member role closest to Christian Slater. Nixon is fabulous at bringing a good positive energy into any room. We have a gallery of MOWE stills from the show, but you can watch the whole series to date for yourself on the NBC site now, including the ep with Nixon, episode 104 – “This Is Not My Son”.

Amelia G: Do you like watching fighting in general, go to any sorts of fight or martial arts-oriented events or watch any of those sorts of shows?

Nixon Sixx: Not really. I’ll watch some martial arts just for the movement, like Capoeira, but the only time I actually go to a fight is when Thunderdome has events.

Amelia G: Have you ever done a martial art yourself in real life and, if so, which one?

Nixon Sixx: I did Aikido for a while, and a . . .

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Do you like Adult Alternative?

by Amelia G : November 15th, 2008

So I was minding my own business, drinking some coffee and eating something late brunchlike, feeling a little bleary and desirous of entertainment. So I popped over to Music Choice on my TiVo. I hit download on the new Hinder video, a 50 Cent video I’ve seen nine million times, and the business advice of Pete Wentz from Fall Out Boy. Feeling like I hadn’t maybe found my ideal yet, amongst newest and most demanded videos, I selected the videos by genre category section.

There is a section called “Adult Alternative” with the slogan, “Videos with an edge, but without the attitude“. Okay, the first things on there were Coldplay, John Mayer, and Amy Winehouse. I’m going to admit right now that I don’t enjoy any of those musical acts. Nope, not even Coldplay. Yes, I know how innovative their internet marketing was last album. That doesn’t make them sound any less whiny to me. And not a poetic kind of tormented artistic soul whiny, just a neighbor’s cat howling in the rain when you are trying to get something done kind of whiny.

It strikes me that I think the Adult Alternative category is what used to be called Adult Contemporary or Disturbingly Lame Pop Aimed at an Older Demographic. Did they start calling Adult Contemporary Adult Alternative because the word Contemporary was potentially ironic or because the word Alternative would make their audience feel more hip? Adult Contemporary would once have included Steely Dan, Air Supply, and maybe Journey depending on the radio station programmer. I guess maybe Adult Contemporary pre-dates the Clear Channel stranglehold on music because it varied by individual radio station and Clear Channel isn’t really into that whole individuality thing.

Then I have the . . .

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• 17:06 @AleckzG Ask him what a nice boy like him is doing in a place like this? Good luck. #
• 17:10 @soulcookie Lots of people add 100’s on Twitter and then delete down to actual friends and interests to look popular. #
• 17:13 @soulcookie That article had zero reasons someone would unfollow another and have it not reflect on them. Moving to Facebook not a reason. #
• 17:20 @BellaVendetta66 @babysinead The fact that you are both obviously right won’t help you there. #
• 17:39 Using friendorfollow.com & kind of sad some people I like don’t follow me. Hit tab for who I don’t follow. Twitter friending needs work. #
• 17:40 @TheDarklady I think you are awesome and say interesting thing and didn’t mean to not follow you back. Following now 🙂 #
• 18:04 Debating gay marriage rights with bigot adult industry professionals is disturbing. Headache abating finally at least. #
• 20:39 Supposed adult industry pro just threatened to rape/murder me because I said unmarried people more likely to march flamboyantly in parades. #

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Christian Slater in My Own Worst Enemy

by Amelia G : November 10th, 2008

After a brief hiatus to make room for election coverage, My Own Worst Enemy returns to airing on NBC tonight after the supposedly revamped Heroes. If you have not checked out this new television vehicle for Christian Slater, you can watch the first three full episodes of MOWE online for free now.

If you like espionage with just a dash of science fiction, you’ll probably enjoy this show. In its general category, My Own Worst Enemy is a lot more fun than MI-5 and a bit less fun than Burn Notice. MOWE also has a bit of an interesting externalized study of the sorts of internal conflicts many people face. Christian Slater stars in MOWE as a super spy who has had a reverse-Manchurian candidate done on him. The norm in this sort of storyline is to have a regular person who is secretly a ticking time bomb of a killer. It makes so much more sense psychologically and just logically to have a multilingual martial artist military guy create a normal guy cover identity. I want someone to give me a chip where I can also live a milquetoast life and communicate with my alter-ego about the pros and cons via cell phone video messages.

The conventional wisdom in Hollywood, for a long time, was that movie stars could not do TV, that a movie star who did TV was finished. With shows like Breaking Bad, The Wire, and Mad Men being so obviously higher quality and more interesting than most movies today, it gets harder to view acting on television as somehow lesser than a role in Saw V or Sex Drive. With an Oscar winner like Anna Paquin starring in True Blood, Alec Baldwin . . .

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• 15:14 @ForrestBlack What kind of mini cupcakes would make the best party? #
• 15:14 Going to get delicious iced latte made by serious professional barista and not me now! Yay! #
• 21:33 Buffet on True Blood looked delicious! Want comfort food. Storeward ho! #

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• 19:36 Puppy Cam! www.blueblood.net/2008/11/puppycam/ The internet is good for something after all. #
• 02:43 Carbombs taste like boilermakers left out past expiration date. #
• 02:45 Fell asleep during Contract Thurs. Might get chicken and waffles tonight. #

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I’m getting ready to go to a party at the new Antiseptic Fashion digs right now, so what better time to post a gallery of the beautiful Vampirabat modeling Antiseptic Fashion clothing in this set shot by yours truly and Forrest Black in the San Francisco Antiseptic Fashion location. Cool background by Forrest Black. Both series available in their entirety to Blue Blood VIP members.

I’m thinking about how little I learned in school before college. Now, when I got to college, it was my 12th school in 12 years, so maybe my experience was not totally average. But I went to schools in supposedly great school districts from grade one through half of fourth grade and then again for grade six and seven. I went to private school in fifth grade and eighth grade. And I went to public school in a supposedly bad school district for half of fourth grade and in kindergarten.

In kindergarten, I learned to share and be around other kids, but I also learned that I just couldn’t get up in the morning and morning kindergarten was just not going to work for me.

In first grade, I learned to read.

In second grade, I started to learn how to share knowledge by teaching other students how to read. I also began to process that adults could be as cruel as children.

In third grade, I learned that sometimes punching someone in the face is more effective than going through proper channels and specifically that punching a bully in the face is shockingly effective.

In fourth grade, I learned that sometimes people get weird about what gender your friends are. I learned that adults could actually be much much crueler than children.

In fifth grade, I learned multiplication and sort of learned division. I had mostly figured out addition and subtraction and some % stuff on my own.

In sixth grade, I learned that I was very bad at handwriting and probably always would be, but I might have an aptitude for writing as well as reading.

In seventh grade, I went to school with a member of the Bush family who became our student body president and watching him run taught me how to successfully run for class president myself in tenth grade. I also learned that paying some minimal attention to personal grooming improved social interaction. I also learned some typing skills, partly because I needed to, but largely because I had this crush on a boy in my school, who I think had a crush on me too, but we were both too shy, so we would both come in for after school typing practice and it would be just the two of us typing and talking.

In eighth grade, I learned a little bit of Elizabethan and American history, just enough really so that I’m not totally surprised by the plot of The Tudors on Showtime. I started learning to play Dungeons & Dragons. My art teacher convinced me to never do art again and it was years before I came back to it.

And that is pretty much everything I learned in my first decade in classrooms. Seems like there should have been more to show for that much time spent in places I did not want to be, at times I did not want to be awake, with people I might never have chosen to be around on purpose.

Incidentally, my experience was that teachers in the best school districts tended to resent their students intensely because those teachers were less fortunate than their students’ parents. Sensitive, artistic kids don’t do particularly well with resentment.

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