Mrs. Kelso has requested Kelso comment on the new Showtime orignal series Weeds. As Kelso has in fact seen the first two episodes, he's happy to oblige. He's going to wait until the rash goes away, he dies, or the U.S. Open provides ALL U CAN EAT SELENA ROBERTS to do the Selena stuff justice. If Kelso dies from this, the Selena stuff will be sent air-freight from limbo.
Kelso likey Mary-Louise Parker, Elizabeth Perkins, and Kevin Nealon's performances. He generally likes the writing and the vibe, although the Perkins character is a bit over-cooked. He would prefer the original Pete Seeger version of "Little Boxes" as the theme music, instead of the Vonda Shepherd or whoever version, but the choice of song is a good one. For some reason, Kelso is finding Weeds better suburban-bashing fare than he did American Beauty and Six Feet Under, though he has no problem with the genre in general, while acknowledging dedicated Flopper Harvey's view that it's just too easy to do the suburban-bashing thing.
Kelso likes the comfortable blend of black and white and appreciates that the creators haven't gone the PC route. The black pot-dealing family are greedy fuckheads, albeit relatively pleasant greedy fuckheads, just like all the whites.
Kelso worries that ultimately Weeds will be forced to convey an anti-drug message or at least present a "balanced" viewpoint. If that happens, Kelso will not be amused. The last movie he watched in which the cops win in the end was Heat in 1995, and he's not about to join the bandwagon anytime soon. Kelso may be the only man in America to have not seen a SINGLE EPISODE of Law & Order. Kelso has seen maybe 3 episodes of NYPD Blue and those were three too many. CSI? Forget it. Kelso doesn't do friendly fascism.
Kelso, you see, is pro-drug, pro-abortion and, to borrow cravenly from Kinky Friedman, pro-football.
The Nuts say there are worse ways to spend a half an hour once a week than watching Weeds. Kelso's off the bus, however, when the moral message (inevitably) comes.
No time for politics or sports today because Kelso is knee-deep in the racing except to say that he is bummed that Schilling took a pounding last night at the hands of the mighty Royals. Kelso especially likes this Boston sports radio joke: "That Curt Schilling is a horse every 5 days and a horse's ass on the other 4." Unfortunately for Kelso, The Great Patriot has hardly been a horse on that 5th day.
Kelso's Nuts love you all. Even -- maybe especially -- Curt Schilling.
2 comments:
Dear Kelso,
Small correction to today's post with regard to the song "Little Boxes." The song was originally written and performed by
songwriter/singer/activist Malvina Reynolds. Reynolds, who's dead now, was a matriarch of the woman's movement, Jewish (big up to the tribe) and a socialist. Her songs were covered by prominent folk artists like Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Country Joe & The Fish.
The creator (or music supervisor) of Weeds deserves credit for finding a song that perfectly captures suburban America gone awry.
m-leh:
Great post. Thanks for correction. Kelso tries to cover the waterfront, but the waterfront is velly, velly long. Mistakes happen all the time.
Will look into Malvina Reynolds' solo efforts. Could she sing any?
ATTENTION FLOPPERS: KELSO fucked up. Pete Seeger did not write LITTLE BOXES. His version still stands as the best, tho, imho.
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