Shia LaBeouf Through the Years

Here it is, a post dedicated to the Transfomers lead star, Shia LaBeouf, pronounced "Shy-a La Buff". Most of you probably know him when he was still little, from the Nickelodeon TV Series, Even Stevens, where he plays Louis Stevens, Ren's "annoying little brother". This 66-episode show is a family/comedy show about the quirks and misadventures of the Stevens family, and Louis particularly gets into a lot of mishaps that he tries to solve them in his crazy way.

He also starred in 1 episode stints in several TV shows like ER, The X Files, Suddenly Susan, Touched by an Angel, Freaks and Geeks, and lent his voice to an episode of The Proud Family.




In 2001, he starred as Ronny Van Dusen in Hounded, the headmaster's son and rival of Jay for a scholarship, then as Eddie Walker in a family drama, Tru Confessions, a film adapted from a novel with the same title. As Eddie Walker, he acted as the twin mentally-disabled brother of his fame-aspiring sister, Trudy Walker. He appears again in comedy movies, this time in Holes (2003), as Stanley Yelnats IV, who was wrongfully placed in a juvenile facility, which he attributed to his family's supposed bad luck streak. The juvenile delinquents are punished by being forced to dig holes every day.


Even Stevens released a movie where Shia again played as Louis Stevens. The movie revolves around a Survivor-like theme where the family is stranded in an island and are forced into two groups when Louis supposedly angers the gods of the island. They later on realize that there is more to the predicament than meets the eye, and that they are just pawns in a new reality TV show. Also in 2003, he stars in more popular films - Dumb and Dumber and Charlie's Angels. In the latter, he plays Max, a Motocross champion whom the angels have been tasked to protect.



In 2004/2005, he starred in 2 very popular, kickass shows: IRobot, and Constantine. While he only plays a small role in IRobot, and gets just a couple of screentime trying to defeat the robots gone wild, he gets a larger role in the latter movie. In Constantine, he is John Constantine's apprentice in demon-expelling.

Then, he plays in a more serious show, a golf drama, The Greatest Game Ever Played, where he is Francis Ouimet, a young American who wishes to participate in a US Open amidst the prejudice of English society.


He goes on to play other roles in the year 2006, and finally stars in Transformers, which is arguably his shining moment. Earlier this year (or for some people in other countries, later this year), you might have seen him in a thriller Disturbia, where he is a teenager placed in House Arrest, who finds out some deadly secrets about his next-door neighbor.

Over the years, we have seen his natural comedic sense as well as his ability to star in more serious, intense roles. His talent, versatility, and friendly, unassuming manner are qualities I am certainly something looking forward to in more movies to come. In 2008, expect to see him in the fourth installment of Indiana Jones, which will definitely be a good watch.



I wish you all the best, Shia! You deserve it!

And here is a teaser to the 4th installment of Indiana Jones. Go pompadour Shia!!!

Quality TV going down the toilet

This just in from "Watch With Kristen" gossip (http://www.eonline.com/gossip/kristin/index.jsp?uuid=a646413a-9a63-486b-96b6-8c9f5b6aa503)

Veronica Mars' future is bleak. The article says, and I quote:


"At a CW press conference, Dawn Ostroff told reporters that Veronica as we know it is over, but that she is talking to Rob Thomas and Kristen Bell about a future project.'

I just checked in with Rob Thomas, who tells me:

'I haven't heard about a future project yet, but I suppose I'd listen. Would love to work with Kristen again, however.'

When I ask point-blank if VM is over, Rob tells me:

'I believe we're out of hope.'"

This news absolutely sucks. This clearly tells me that quality TV viewing as we know it is going down the drain. Hell, Veronica Mars has only been the show that's allowed me to say that there are still quality TV shows left.

I don't know why shows I love get cancelled prematurely - eg. Roswell. What are the majority of TV viewers looking for that the can't find in Veronica Mars? What is it about the common TV viewer that is different from the cult fanbase of Veronica Mars? What could possibly be more interesting about farmers looking for a mate?

And what good was winning 2nd place in the Save One Show and getting 1st place in Teavee to our cause? When are they going to review that whole Nielsen box rating scheme anyway?

This is absolutely depressing.

Let's still vote at Teavee for Veronica Mars to show how much we love the show and how much we believe in the witty private investigator and her awesome cast. Let's hope that they realize what a mistake they're making, cancelling Veronica Mars.

Michael Muhney talks about his role as Sheriff Lamb and his "brown piece-of-crap shirt and those tight-ass pants" sheriff's uniform

I just read an interview with Michael Muhney at http://www.eonline.com/gossip/kristin/detail/index.jsp?uuid=968f7cfa-c662-4d3e-aa7f-a46931d1525f
It's one of my favorite interviews thus far.

I do agree that Sheriff Lamb's death was underplayed.

A funny highlight of the interview:

Anything you won't miss?
I won't miss wearing the most wildly uncomfortable and ugly sheriff's uniform of all time! I felt like I was walking around in a brown paper bag. So, I am not going to miss that brown piece-of-crap shirt and those tight-ass pants. At any given time, if there was a scene that was shooting me from the chest up, I was always wearing flip flops and board shorts. I could not stand wearing those pants!

Hey, I thought you looked good!
Those pants were so tight they gave me unicheek. Just one butt cheek smooshed together. If I had any advice for Keith I would say, if you have any gas, let it all out before you put those pants on, because it ain’t coming out once you get them on.

So in that picture, Lamb's actually wearing board shirts and flip flops. Good mental picture ;)

As a tribute I have 3 IM icons for him.

Save one Show Results - hopeful for VM or grim?

Results of SOS:

Save One Show

* (0%) 30 Rock
* (0%) The Class
* (0%) Close to Home
* (1%) Crossing Jordan
* (0%) Friday Night Lights
* (39%) Gilmore Girls
* (0%) How I Met Your Mother
* (0%) Jericho
* (0%) Medium
* (0%) The Nine
* (17%) One Tree Hill
* (0%) Scrubs
* (0%) Six Degrees
* (2%) Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
* (7%) Supernatural
* (33%) Veronica Mars
* (1%) What About Brian

No. Fracking. WAY. Veronica Mars lost to Gilmore Girls?!?! The injustice of it all!

Another thing that is really pissing me off is that Veronica Mars is under the list of doomed shows for the ff reasons (quoted from http://www.eonline.com/ under watch with kristin)

"Veronica Mars: With rumors that supporting castmembers were told the series was canceled and the Pussycat Dolls' well-rated reality series (blech) blowing Veronica out of the Nielsens water (double blech), it isn't looking good for Veronica Mars. Says creator Rob Thomas, Last year I was 70-30, thinking the show would be saved. This year, I have been holding steady at 60-40. But lately, I've become less than that. If Veronica does return, it would likely become an FBI show with the feisty Miss Mars flashing forward four years into the future. (Which sounds pretty damn awesome to at least one fan."

First of all, Pussycat Dolls is a one time reality show. I don't think the Pussycat Dolls will be changing their cast on a frequent basis. So we should definitely not use that as a reason. Have I told you how brainless I thought that reality series is? If I have, allow me to emphasize. Pussycat dolls = brainless.

Rob Thomas' words are definitely not comforting. To go down from 70-30 certainty to a less than 60-40. And he's supposed to be the creator of this show. Shouldn't he be trying harder to save this show??? And what's with this Nielsen box anyway? Isn't it unfair to base ratings only on Nielsen box holders? Granted that there is no other way to track ratings but I think producers should also look into the quality of the fanbase by looking at how supportive the fans are (VM fans actually create their own shirts, send off emails, raise funds, post actively on the forums, and spend tons of time voting on polls).

This is really a sad day for me. I hope that we get to have another season 4 because we deserve it. We represent quality viewing, simple as that.

The EOnline SOS Voting Commitment Post for Veronica Mars Fans

Fellow Veronica Mars fans!
The SOS poll is ending on April 6 so we have to rake in as many votes as we can for this. So, it would be good if you could post a comment here to tell us how many votes you're willing to commit to making at:

http://www.eonline.com/polls/full_page_poll.jsp?pollID=6084

This would be a good inspiration for more people to vote!

Please comment people!

New VM Wallpaper

wallpaper dedicated to the central character :) comment if you like it.

Sanjaya is getting very Cocky

Sanjaya is now suffering from what season 4 Scott Savol suffered from as well - a large amount of cockiness. The feeling of being invincible tends to get into people's heads. It's the feeling that they can sing as crappy as crap itself and still escape the bottom 3 - the feeling that even Simon Cowell's influential words cannot sway the voters.

This cockiness will be the downfall of Sanjaya. I absolutely felt like his comment about Simon being jealous of his hair, the way he smiles and grins even though the judges are speechless in disgust, shows that he is starting to love the power that he has over his fans. And I think (at least I hope) this will be his demise. Fans absolutely do not love cocky Idols. This, I think (and as I recall), is why Scott Savol got eliminated after he expressed his confidence in making it to the AI finals. And Scott Savol sings way better than Sanjaya.

Sanjaya, please do leave with your faux mohawk and your faux nice guy personality. Please, for the love of all who know what real good singing is.

Attack of the Laziness Bug

It's 2:09 pm here in my computer. I've been staring at the screen for an hour now, aimlessly going to random sites, convincing myself to get my lazy-a** self to start working. My brain, however, seems to have declared a strike, refusing to analyze anything without any pretty pictures. This is a BIG problem because in my field of programming, we do not have any pretty pictures. Only code. Lots of it.

At least blogging is a little more productive... right? To tell you the truth, being lackadaisical is something I abhor. I am a workaholic. I work 7 times a week, at least 8 hours a day. So this state of mine right now does not sit well with me.

But since my brain is still on strike, I'd like to take this moment to tell you the top 5 things that distract me from my workaholicism (forgive me if I just made my own word) in no particular order:

1. http://www.triplejack.com - Cartoonic avatars playing poker using imaginary money. Throwing pies, balloons, anvils at your pesky opponents who are robbing you of all the money in your bank!! 'Nuff said.
2. http://www.multiply.com - It can be so addicting clicking on one user and then going to their page, then clicking on another user you just saw in that user's page and so on and so forth.
3. http://www.youtube.com - The new household term! It may have even replaced the "google it" expression people used to say before. Now it's "Why don't you youtube it?" or "Hey we can definitely Youtube this crazy situation we are in" or "Let's make fun of our dog and youtube it!". Start a search in youtube and prepare to forget all about work.
4. http://avatars.yahoo.com - It's just sooo fun, dressing up your avatar! So many outfits, accessories, appearances to choose from.
5. the boob tube - mmmm... pretty pictures. And moving pictures at that! Prepare to fry your brain some more and kill time just surfing through the channels, without even watching any specific show! I find that I spend more time changing the channel than watching a show!