man, it’s guys like brandon that really give men in general a bad name. i can’t believe that he thinks that he did no wrong. i can’t believe that he can say the things that he did when they were blatant and obvious lies. brooke on the other hand is my favorite person there. she was upfront to kenesha who really needed to hear that her man has a cheating heart.

roy, the thai doctor who seems to be the dreamy man, is still sketchy. i don’t know, i don’t condone his behavior. going after a girl who is in a relationship is just all sorts of wrong.

after watching this show it sort of makes me realize some of the things that i am looking for in a relationship and some of the things that i definitely need to avoid. i think that i really need to date someone who has the same type of goals as i do. we can’t have interests that directly conflict with each other. but most of all, i think it has really reaffirmed my belief that i really need to be head over heels in love with the person. i cannot imagine ever daring to put myself through this kind of love test. it would be too much for me to bear.

to see someone else kiss my girlfriend? to see someone else lick jello shots off my girlfriend in a seductive way? to see someone else holding my girlfriend? all in the name of a test to see if OUR relationship is ok? no thank you.

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i was talking to [url=http://www.tow.com]adam[/url] last night and i had mentioned something about veronica. he then asked me for clarification of why i said that i wasn’t used to the space that veronica has and then i told him that veronica is my new ipod.

he chastised me anthropomorphizing my ipod because he thought she was a real person. just for the record…she IS a real person. ah, my lovely veronica. still in her pristine glory…all 20GB of her.

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ABC has this new show called [url=http://abc.go.com/primetime/lovetest/index.html]the ultimate love test[/url]. the latest in reality tv trash, this show invites four couples to test their love by separating them for three weeks while one goes off to a sunny resort in cabo san lucas while the other stays at home. the only contact the couples will have is email and video clips the show’s producers edit and display to them.

as an extra bonus, these four couples each already have existing issues which have led them to the show. they all are at a crossroad, deciding whether or not to take the next step in the relationship or to walk away and seek their true love.

amber and diego
amber wants to travel around the world and see the world and all of its sights. diego is more rooted in his hometown and wants to settle down. amber feels trapped in this town because of her love for diego. amber was sent off to cabo and introduced to roy, this handsome, travelled doctor who seemingly can give her the adventure she seeks. my guess after the first episode is that amber won’t fall for roy, but she will realize that the world is too small for her in vermont and she needs to go away on her adventures.

kenesha and brandon
these two are a cute couple. kenesha is ridiculously hot. the problem, however, is that kenesha has severe trust issues with brandon. apparently he has cheated on her, but they are still together. brandon has been sent off to cabo where a girl from his past is ready to greet him and flirt with him. i don’t know, this is a hard one because it seems that brandon is trying to be genuine about being faithful to kenesha, but i think ultimately he won’t be able to do so. and even if he was faithful to her in the show, can this test of three weeks really give kenesha the security that she is looking for? i think she is far too plagued with insecurity to really get over it. and i think brandon has too much of a wandering eye.

heather and frank
two musicians who have been dating for two years. frank originally stole heather away from her ex, CR, and now heather is sent away to cabo to be with her ex who is still in love with her and is ready for a commitment. frank is terified of commitment and any sense of responsibility it seems. he also still lives at home with his parents which the show paints as being quite negative. i don’t know…i know i could never live at home again, but are you a loser if you are a guy and you still live at home? i don’t know if that’s such a fair judgement. i think that frank just isn’t the guy who will step up as much as heather wants, so it’ll be a matter of whether or not whatever he does will be enough for her.

carolyn and jayre
man, this girl is so pushy and this guy is so whipped it’s crazy. i think he knows that he’s whipped too and he acts out and says things so it doesn’t seem like he’s so whipped, but i think that ultimately, he must like it. jayre’s fantasy is to date multiple women at once and he’s met with many women at cabo. carolyn is a jealous, needy, control freak who will probably break up with jayre after seeing his behavior.

so who do i think is going to win? i really want amber and diego to win. i think that this process might make diego a little bit more willing to travel a little bit and i think that amber will truly realize how deep her love for diego is.

this show is about as messed up as one can get, though. pitting couples against their worst relationship fears. i think the draw to the show is that i can relate to a lot of these couples and the problems that they’ve had.

for example, i’ve dated a girl who was just as controlling, manipulative, needy, and push as carolyn. i hated it and i feel the guy’s pain. i think he really needs to figure out what he wants in a girlfriend and if he really likes those qualities then he needs to suck it up and take it like a (whipped) man.

i’ve also dated a girl like Frank who can’t make up her mind about anything. it’s like she doesn’t have an opinion about anything and she idly sits by while the world passes her by. i can relate to heather’s frustration about him not being spontaneous and not wanting to do something fun.

and i’ve also dated a girl like amber who wanted to go travel, see the world, go out and have fun all the time. i was much like diego back then, very rooted in where i was, trying to be more grounded and realistic. i didn’t want to have that kind of an adventure. she desperately wanted to go out and have fun and experience new things all the time. these two are exteremes at either end of the spectrum and i remember when i was in such a situation as well. it’d be interesting to see if they can resolve their differences.

watching a show like this makes me realize some of the things that i’m looking for in a girlfriend.

i want someone who i feel passionately about. someone whose love i would profess on the rooftops for all to hear and whose love would be returned to me. i would do things for them motivated by my love for them, not just to go through the motions.

i want someone who has a sense of adventure, but isn’t driven to seek adventure so much so that they don’t want to settle roots. they should have a desire to experience life, go out and try some new things, but also have a place to come back to when the day’s events are done.

i want to be with someone who believes in an equal partnership in a relationship, not someone who believes that they are the boss and can just have their way or expect to be told to do whatever they say. they are someone that i want to share my life with, not live my life for me or live their life for them.

i want to be with someone whose kindness draws people to them. their warmth invites frienliness out in others. those are the gifted people who have that angelic glow about them.

man…i might as well want a girl with a short skirt and a long jacket.

lori loughlin is hot. i thought she was hot in full house as rebecca and i still think she’s still hot in the wb’s new show summerland. 40 years old now. wow. but she is strikingly attractive. i don’t know what else to say.

speaking of hot women, taylor cole playing the role of erika is also crazy attractive. crazy, man. just crazy.

but i was watching summerland last night and i have to say that i think i’m going to like the show. things seemed a little forced in the pilot, but i think that is mostly because they had to do so much setting up to get the show going. there were a lot of crisises and it was a little bit of an overload, but all in all i thought the acting was good and the writing well done. it definitely got me involved in the show.

there are two things about a show that will keep my attention. the first is very attractive people. this show is in no short supply of that. between lori, taylor, and all the girls in bathing suits in the background, there’s plenty of eye candy to be seen. the second is good writing, and this show seems to have it both. i’m pretty impressed and can’t wait for more episodes. it’s too bad that this appears to only be a summer show, i wouldn’t mind seeing it year round.

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man, i watched the angel series finale last night and it was probably the most disappointing series finale i’ve ever seen. sure, one of the main characters dies. sure, there’s this huge showdown and great plan to take out the black thorn. but what really upset me was that there was no real closure. what happened to angel and the rest of the gang now that they have to fight against that huge swarm? what exactly is this huge swarm of demons? where did they come from? exactly who is wolfram and hart? i don’t get it.

i feel like there could have been so much more to the show, but it just left me hanging. very unsatisfying and quite the disappointment, if you ask me.

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man, i’m telling you, i’m totally digging everwood. i love the whole andy/linda love affair that just can’t be. and now the whole ephram and amy thing is just killing me. i don’t know why but i am rooting for amy now. before i hated her for dissing ephram and treat him like garbage, but now that she’s the underdog, i want her to get the boy! go! get ’em, girl!

there’s just something about unrequited love…i don’t know what it is…but it always gets me. some of the best love stories revolve around this very theme, i think. dawson and joey. ross and rachel. ally and billy. soooo good.

i was just watching some episodes of roswell today and i was trying to figure out why i liked this show. it hit me just now why i loved this show. it’s the story about the love that cannot be. liz and max just can’t be together due to forces out of their control, yet they still pine for each other. it doesn’t hurt that julie benz was a part of the show too. i really loved her as darla in buffy and angel.

it’s a shame that this show only got three seasons worth of episodes out, i like the first season a lot.

i’m usually a big sucker for the storylines that play with the notion of one true love. i think that’s why i liked ally mcbeal, dawson’s creek, and friends so much. they just pull at the heartstrings when one is pursuing their one true love against insurmountable odds.

probably the biggest heartbreaks are when they can’t get their true love. ally never got billy and dawson never got joey. it looks like ross might get rachel, though. but i think i really enjoy those kinds of plots mostly because we’ve all been there before. we can all relate about pining over that one person, but not being able to do anything about it or not getting anywhere with it.

alias, though, doesn’t seem to be doing it for me. i wish that they played on the whole sydney/vaughn more instead of having her disappear all of a sudden. and now this whole love triangle just isn’t doing it for me. i don’t know why. maybe because there just doesn’t seem to be enough suffering or something.

but i’m glad that vaughn suspects lauren now. get her out of the picture, already, i’m bored with her.

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the new season of average joe is airing. the basic premise of this show is that the average joe who wasn’t selected from season one comes back and he now gets to choose from the girls. a quick twist in the show was presented in the last episode. the women who were picked for adam were not raging beauty queens, but they were still cute and fun people.

some other guys from the first season of average joe were tasked with the job to pick the hottest women they could find to tempt adam to choose beauty over compatibility. when the 5 swimsuit models were presented to adam, he was shocked and conflicted. he remembered how he felt when the hot studs were brought into the show and he didn’t want anyone else to feel like that.

what was admirable was that adam talked to the show’s producers and told him he didn’t think it was fair that these models come into the show. he said that he has a loyalty to the first group of women and it’s just not right to introduce these women to the group. the producers told him that the philosophy of the show is that adam is always the one who is allowed to do what he wants and he has to go with his gut. so adam decided to excuse this new batch of women on account of his loyalty to the first group of women.

i was shocked. after my initial shock, i was quite impressed at adam’s integrity. you just don’t see that very often.

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i have to say that i’m going to be pretty sad when friends airs its last episode. i was watching last night’s episode and i still really enjoy the show. i feel that the show’s still got a lot going for it, though the situations that they are being put in are beginning to get a little more ridiculous and contrived.

but still, the show brings back a lot of memories for me and i’m going to miss it. it’s like saying goodbye to an old friend.