a week or so ago, i kept catching Eurotrip on HBO, and i totally dig Michelle Trachtenberg (yeah, yeah, whatever), so that got me thinking of The Adventures of Pete and Pete, which i totally dug watching (reruns and all, possibly proving the two-season/reruns theory those idjit corp analysts used as an excuse to save cash and have the show cancelled) when all two seasons were on regular rotation on Nickelodeon...
details on the show can be found here:
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~jfrens/pete-and-pete/
to be honest, at the time, Ms Trachtenberg as Nona was way too much of a kid to catch my fancy, and i was more inclined to oggle over the in-retrospect-rather-plain-and-uninteresting-but-somehow-still-mysteriously-attractive Alison Fanelli's Ellen. so when i saw Eurotrip...well, if you saw that movie, i had the exact same reaction the guys had on the nude beach. even though Ms Trachtenberg was showing more ribs than was probably necessary.
Pete and Pete may have been kiddier (what with that uber dorky but nonetheless endearing Artie), but it was also geekier (ergo, 'cooler') than the commercially successful Wonder Years, complete with off-kilter guests (like Michael Stipe, Juliana Hatfield, and, coolest of them all, the semi-regular Steve Buscemi as Ellen's dad), and a cool indie soundtrack.
here, check out the theme, Hey Sandy by Mike Mulcahy of Polaris:
http://www.one26.com/guts/polaris-hey-sandy/
if anyone can point me to a downloadable audiofile of that i'd be much obliged.
right. so much for trippin' on the past.
and yes, though i wasn't before, i am now aware that Ms Trachtenberg was on Buffy, but am willing to overlook that little oversight, as the hothothot Alyson Hannigan was also on that show.
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well, what do you know...it wasn't that hard to find after all. download a couple Polaris tracks, including Hey Sandy, from here:
http://just-pretend.blogspot.com/2006/10/song-of-day-10106.html
as i become confronted with more 'adult' concerns, am finding it harder not to empathize with romanticists who insist on the past as a 'better time'...
what have i gotten into now?
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Heh there's always The Ice Princess. It's weird but for me she isn't all that pretty. However, in IP, she has moments where the camera strikes her right and she looks quite lovely actually. Weird.
I suppose she can be the Julia Stiles for the new generation if she plays her cards right.
well, no, she isn't *all that pretty*. definitely no anne hathaway or scarlett johansson.
still, i dig her.
Btw, do you know who was the band that was singing at the beginning of Pete and Pete in every show? The song was pretty catchy...
er, thought i'd mentioned them in my post...the band was Polaris, fronted by songwriter Mike Mulcahy, and the song's Hey Sandy.
plus there's a link in the post to a downloadable copy of the song.
Heh I always thought the song was named, you know, Pete and Pete. They definitely didn't look like a band named Polaris.
Actually, Polaris was Mark Mulcahy (not Mike):
http://www.myspace.com/polaris159
Mark Mulcahy has his own label, Mezzotint, and regularly tours New England & New York:
http://www.mezzotint.com
http://bogan.truth.posiweb.net/phpBB2/index.php
http://www.myspace.com/markmulcahymusic
He still plays Polaris songs live. A free mp3 of "Recently" is available on the Mezzotint website, as is a video clip from "A Hard Day's Pete," the episode featuring the band.
anonym: whoops. sorry, my bad. mixed things up with the 'mike harrison' reviews i'd been doing in my head, i expect. will fix the post when i've got a faster connection.
and thanks for the links and info.
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