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Holly Hunter, Owen Wilson, Meerkats and A Keyboard Which Should Be Confiscated

August 31, 2007 by Katherine Coble

I know it’s not fair to do a lazy braindroppings post seeing as how most of my writing this week was unduly influenced by Nyquil. But that’s what I’m good for today, so that’s what the cafeteria is serving. Maybe next week meat’ll be back on the menu, boys.

When will the fall season of TV get here already? I’m craving new episodes of The Office, Heroes, Lost and Jericho in a bad way. And yes, I know that they’ll still be trickling in the new stuff–I think Lost isn’t until February and Heroes isn’t until November or something. But anything is better than So You Think Princess Diana Can Survive Top Chef With Her Big Brother. Thank heavens for TNT, USA and BBC America. Those cable networks have kept me mostly entertained.
Speaking of which, am I the only person who sees promos for that new Holly Hunter show and feels all meh inside? I’m beginning to think that I have an allergy to Holly Hunter. Pretty much anything she’s in sorta falls flat for me. I thought she was okay in Broadcast News, but when she didn’t go for Albert Brooks I lost all respect for her. How can you NOT just absolutely throw it all away for the chance at a lifetime with Albert Brooks?! You know, I think every time I see her now I think of her rejecting him and I get so frustrated that I don’t want to have anything to do with her. Even in “The Incredibles” I found myself thinking “that’s the chick who played the chick who dumped Albert Brooks’ smart and funny character. I don’t get why women have these smart and funny male friends and then dump them for someone “better”. Life is long. Find someone who can make you laugh–the road will go better. Just as long as the person who makes you laugh isn’t a clown.
Speaking of people who make people laugh but are crying on the inside—what is up with Owen Wilson? Not Owen
Wilson per se but all the people who are like “how can a funny man be so depressed he tries to kill himself?” Do they not get that the whole funny sad guy is the biggest cliche? Do they not remember that Smokey Robinson song? How can you forget “Tears Of A Clown”? In fact, it’s now stuck in my head all day just because I typed that song name out. I’m going to be hearing those “duh duh duh” bells for the rest of the weekend. You know who would surprise me if they tried to commit suicide? Garrison Keillor. He seems far too proud of himself to ever want to end the wonderfulness that is him. But Owen Wilson has “I have weeks where I don’t shower and don’t eat and throw glasses of vodka at the mirrors in my house” written all over him. I just don’t get the big surprise about this guy being sad. I’m sorry for him, and I hope he gets better.
Boy, Monk has turned into a crappy show.
So I’m also really offended by this commercial for Meerkat Manor that they’ve been showing on Discovery Channel or Animal Planet or whichever station has that stupid Meerkat Manor show on. Okay, I love the Meerkats. They’re cute. But they’re always imperiled, and I hate imperiled-animal stories. Oh, and it’s all narrated by Sean Astin, who also bugs me. I mean here’s this guy who’s in the biggest movies of the decade and has the chance of a lifetime and all he can do is whine about the foot makeup and how he didn’t get an OOOOSSSCAR. Dang, he bugs me. Anyway, that’s why I don’t watch Meerkat Manor more often. But they had this commercial on and I caught the tail end of it and it was this Meerkat dude with a bunch of words behind him on a white screen, basically talking about how the meerkats are inbred. (Duh.) The background music was “Cotton-Eyed Joe”. So, pretty much everyone in the South are a bunch of inbred rodents (are Meerkats rodents? Must look that up…). Is that what the Animal Discovery Channel Planet thinks of me? Because that’s just super offensive. Now I need one of the history buffs or musicologists to come and explain to me that Cotton Eyed Joe is really not a southern song and is really about the something of the something so I’m not so offended. Then I can go back to avoiding the Meerkats solely because of that punk Sean Astin.
It just occured to me that this is a really long and aimless blog post and should have stopped about four paragraphs ago, like before I started trashing Garrison Keillor. So I guess I’ll stop now. Anyway, leave me a comment if you don’t mind. It’ll make my day. I tried to come up with some trolly topic since I wanted comments but I didn’t want to talk about that man looking for love in the crapper or fred thompson or ron paul or why fat people are gross. Heh. Wouldn’t it be funny if Sean Astin and Owen Wilson became friends? Then Owen could turn all his self-loathing outward and occasionally smack Astin around. Perfect solution!

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on August 31, 2007 at 6:06 am | Reply bridgett

The joke response is that signing on for a sequel of “Marley and Me” would make me suicidal too.

I really like what I think I can see of Owen Wilson through the various projections of him I’ve seen. I think he’s smart, he’s sharp, he’s shrewd, and he would like to be genuine in a line of work where none of those things is rewarded. He’s got real talent as a scriptwriter. I enjoy the kind of characters he creates and the scenarios he puts them in, but I guess his films don’t make enough money or something because he appears to have quit writing or he’s quit getting his movies green-lighted. He doesn’t see anything wrong with the premise that people need to laugh because the world can be at best unpredictable and at worst savage to their hopes. He doesn’t want to be Will Ferrell, though. It would be hard to be Owen Wilson in a Will Ferrell world. Hollywood has trouble with comedy that’s not aimed at a crossover demographic of 9-year-olds and homophobes.

I also imagine that it gets horribly lonely being “Owen Wilson the Butterscotch Stallion,” the guy who can’t get laid without his sexual choices and prowess and preferences coming under a media microscope. Heck, he gets scoured when he writes a perfectly ordinary and intelligent letter to the editor. Unlike one of my other smart boy favorites, Matt Damon, he hasn’t managed to get the hell out of Hollywood long enough to keep his head on straight. I’d heard rumors that he was dating a college girl in Georgia or Mississippi a couple of years ago and I thought maybe a normal relationship with a person outside the film industry would be good, but I guess that didn’t work out.

The fact that I know so much about Owen Wilson’s life without actually knowing Owen Wilson illustrates my point. I don’t think any intelligent person could stand that kind of scrutiny from random strangers without breaking down eventually. I know I don’t know him personally, but I really hope that his family and friends support network hold and that he can find it in himself to hang on.
on August 31, 2007 at 7:57 am | Reply nm

Well, pretty much what Bridgett says about Owen Wilson. But about this: Now I need one of the history buffs or musicologists to come and explain to me that Cotton Eyed Joe is really not a southern song and is really about the something of the something so I’m not so offended I can offer only this and I’m not sure it helps:

NOTES: See ” A Major (most versions): G Major (Ford, Kaufman): D Major (Zenith String Band). Standard, AEAE, ADAE, GDAD (Thede, John Dykes). AABB (Perlman): AABBA: AA’BB’ (Kaufman). Charles Wolfe has called this tune “a Texas dance-hall anthem” but it has had such widespread currency in the United States that the tune is really a pastiche of melodies using interchangable phrases, the most recognizable of which usually is associated with the verses:

Where did you come from, where will you go?
Where did you come from Cotten-Eyed Joe.
(Kuntz, Fiddler’s Companion, http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/fc).
Marion Thede believes ‘cotten-eyed’ may refer to a person with very light blue eyes, while Alan Lomax suggests it was used to describe a man whose eyes were milky white from Trachoma. In Georgia, people with large whites to the eyes are called cotton-eyed. This usage is fairly common, as pointed out in the quote from a dictionary of slang (Gargoyle). Charles Wolfe (1991) writes that African-American collector Thomas Talley, in his manuscript of stories, Negro Traditions, related a story entitled “Cotton-Eyed Joe, or the Origin of the Weeping Willow.” The story includes a stanza from the song, “but more importantly details a bizarre tale of a well-known pre-Civil War plantation musician, Cotton Eyed Joe, who plays a fiddle made from the coffin of his dead son.” (Kuntz, Fiddler’s Companion, http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/fc).

“Boswell’s Folk Songs of Middle Tennessee, which references Talley, The Negro Traditions has this to say: “According to black folk traditions of late-nineteenth-century Bedford County, Cotton-Eyed Joe was a well-known pre-Civil War slave musician whose tragic life caused his hair to turn white; eventually he played a fiddle made from the coffin of his dead son.” Boswell collected seven versions.” (Kuntz, Fiddler’s Companion, http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/fc).

The tune was a favorite of John Dykes (Magic City Trio {Eastern Tenn.}) and it was in the repertoire of Arizona fiddler Kenner C. Kartchner (in the key of G Major) who said a fellow fiddler named Youngblood brought it to the territory from Mississippi around 1890. It was one of the tunes played at the turn of the century by Etowah County, Alabama, fiddler George Cole, according to Mattie Cole Stanfield in her book Sourwood Tonic and Sassafras Tea (1963), and was mentioned in accounts of the DelKalb County Annual (Fiddlers) Convention, 1926-31. The title appears in a list of traditional Ozark Mountain fiddle tunes compiled by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph, published in 1954. Some verisons are similar to Lowe Stokes (N.Ga.) popular “Citaco.” Ken Perlman (1996), who collected the tune on Prince Edward Island, believes Canadian versions probably derived from the playing of radio and TV Maritime fiddler Don Messer (the ‘B’ part is played with a strong Acadian flavor). See also Bayard’s (1981) note to a related tune “The Horse Called Rover” (No. 10, pgs. 20-21). The original tune for “Cotton-Eyed Joe” may have been originally a Scottish piece called “General Burgoyne’s March.” (Kuntz, Fiddler’s Companion, http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/fc).
on August 31, 2007 at 7:58 am | Reply nm

Akismet ate my comment! With only one lousy link in it! No fair!
on August 31, 2007 at 8:17 am | Reply grandefille

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And here I thought I was being all witty with “Are You Dumber Than a Fence Post” last night.

I bow to you, madam. You are the Queen. Here’s hoping you feel better.
on August 31, 2007 at 8:26 am | Reply Kate O'

Holy crap. I should learn not to eat my Luna bar breakfast while reading your Nyquil-addled rantings because I run the risk of choking through my laughter. I don’t think you want to be responsible for my dying with a Luna bar chunk lodged in my throat, even if I do have a smile on my face.
on August 31, 2007 at 8:41 am | Reply jagadiah

Every time I think of Owen Wilson trying to kill himself I picture the suicide scene in the Royal Tenenbaums. It’s weird to have a film visual that could be kind of close to the truth.

Not a big Holly Hunter fan myself. She was good in Raising Arizona, and I liked Living Out Loud. Other than that, I have a hard time getting into her. Her new show looks horrendous. I can’t even remember what it was about, but I know I had the same feeling about her as I did for Julia Roberts in My Best Friend’s Wedding, something like “I’m supposed to like her for acting like that?” Sooooo not going to happen.

Sean Astin peaked during the Mikey Walsh days.
on August 31, 2007 at 9:25 am | Reply nm

Gosh, I love Holly Hunter. I think she never got the range of roles she ought to have, because of her accent. So that fits in with your meerkat peeve, Kat. And I had sent you a post about Cotton Eyed Joe, but it’s in Akismet.
on August 31, 2007 at 10:24 am | Reply Ned Williams

KC, be assured that your “brain droppings” sure make the grass greener.

Bridgett, thanks for the insight on why I liked “Elf.”
on August 31, 2007 at 10:28 am | Reply Kathy T.

No creativity at all with this comment. I’ve already posted about Owen Wilson and then felt like crap about it because it was jokey and everyone else was serious. So this is just a comment to say Hey Kat. I’m glad you’re you.
on August 31, 2007 at 10:48 am | Reply Barry

These days the only way I see Holly Hunter is envisioning the actress do the impression of her on “Studio 60”.

Wait! A moment of silence for “Studio 60”

*pause*

Ok. The only reason Sean Astin’s upset is because they killed him off via nerve gas on “24” a couple seasons back. You know, the season it was great before the season it absolutely sucked.

I only know Owen Wilson from “Night at the Museum”. He’s been in other stuff? I must be out of the demographic range for his movies.. I never even heard he was having troubles until yesterday I saw something about his suicide attempt.
on August 31, 2007 at 11:16 am | Reply bridgett

Ned, you’re only 9 years old? That explains a lot!
on September 1, 2007 at 12:38 pm | Reply nedwilliams

No, but that movie sure was predictable and hope-coddling.
on September 1, 2007 at 1:44 pm | Reply Katherine Coble

I liked it for Peter Dinklage.
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We just bought season one of Heroes because it looked like a good show, but we never got into it when it was on. So far I have only seen the first episode. It is starting off very slowly. Please tell me it gets lots better!
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