Orange Juice in Bishop's Garden – blog for the teen web series

Hi everyone!

Chris and Kathryn here. This marks the premiere of our brand new entertainment column that will question the chaos and the insane of all things Hollywood from our fav new trailers, hot celebrities, hilarious blog posts and a review of just all the jankiness.

Quote of the Week:

“Trying to hold a conversation with Snooki is a little like getting down on your hands and knees with a child. You have to come down to her level, and sometimes you almost think you need to bribe her with a piece of candy to coax her to be more responsive.”

- New York Times’ writer Cathy Horyn describing Snooki in her article entitled “Snooki’s Time.” Cathy’s diabolic profile of the pint sized Jersey Shore guidette refered kindly to Snooki as a “berserck windup toy” and a ” turnip turned on its tip” who is “not capable of serious introspection.” Many felt betrayed by the rather harsh language and blunt honesty not normally reserved for D-list celebs like the MTV phenom. However, Vulture succinctly summed up the debate by applauding the refreshingly non-sugarcoated nature of the piece while also lambasting the Times for taking a “cheap shot” at defenseless Snooki.

WTF!?!?!? News of the Week

- Board games replace comic books as the new inspiration for Hollywood films. Coming to theaters are live action adaptions of Candyland, Monopoly and the recently announced Battleship at the helm of Friday Night Lights director Peter Berg. Berg has cast uber hotties Taylor Kitsch (greasy haired, brooding Tim Riggins) and Alexander Skarsgard (blood thirsty Eric). Questionable yet is the casting of Rihanna as the love interest. Really Rihanna you choose this for your acting debut?!?

Photo of the Week

- Spencer Pratt failing pathetically to pull off facial hair a la Brad Pitt. Ashley says, “I don’t usually recommend hair dye for men, but this time I make an exception.”

Video of the Week

- Joshua Jackson proving once again why Pacey Witter was the only reason Dawson’s Creek was watchable while spoofing himself in one of the best Funny or Die clips EVER!!

It’s the middle of summer, well nearing the end for some of us. I must admit the pop-py craptastic music is tempting. I will dance to whatever when im drizzly (beyond tipsy but not drunk) enough. I feel it is my duty to share my random taste. I have no shame in my bad taste, but I’m equally snobby about my good taste. I hope you like my good choice this week.

First Band is ‘Girls’

Our amazing photographer messiah Bayan M introduced me to them in a post wrap haze….Our wrap party was legendary amd deserves a proper shout out. I think this song reflects the feel, the attitude, and love we cared through out filiming of Season Three on Orange Juice. In the trenches, we found good music.

Band Info: Indie rock band formed in San Fran Cali. Its got a shit load of band members.. www.myspace.com/girls

Girls – Lust for Life from Focus Creeps on Vimeo.

WE NEED YOUR HELP!!! The word janky needs to make a comeback. Much in the same vein as Paris Hilton and her now trademarked “That’s Hot!”, we want janky to be the new phrase of this decade. Please see the definition below and start spreading it around. Bonus points for crafting additional uses like jankiness, janked, jankier or jankly.

Janky – adjective

- used to describe a person, place or thing which is questionable, fucked up, wrong, strange, broken down, undesirable, and/or just plain dodgy.

The best Janky moments of Shooting:

1. “Otessa, someone burrittoed on your couch.”

2. Judy Coff thinking we had been evicted. “Do you know where I work?!?!?!”

3. Scrubbing blue hair dye and molasses out of Otessa’s floor, pillows and clothes.

Alot of Blue

4. The 105 degree temp of the Mitchell’s kitchen.

5. The tourists at the Jefferson Memorial who thought Nick and Shawn were actually in the Navy. They wanted a picture. Check out our blog post on this!!

INCOMING!

6. Ben Palacios’ Vibram toe shoes. We love you Ben!

7. Realizing the missing LED light had been on set the entire time.

8. The shear number of times Otessa’s security system said “Front Door”. Almost outdone by the secret “Back Door” breaks.

9. Jesse sneaking away from work to see Twilight: Eclipse!

10. The security guard at Alexandria offices who was upset over the actors yelling and not the 10 kids driving a beat up Firebird around a circle at 40 miles per hour. He was on the phone with his girlfriend.

11. Attending a rave for two days! It was hot and we still see flashing lights when we go to sleep at night.

Crew is Ready to RAVE!

12. Shaggy leading our four tutu clad actresses around the Watermelon House in Sketchy Shaw at 10 o’clock at night

13. A PA finding the time to sunbath and read a magazine in Aviators.

14. Otessa getting her tire slashed and a parking ticket for not parking with a permit when the 8″ by 11″ permit was sitting inside the car window a few inches from the ticket.

15. Our entire motley crew that somehow managed to pull off an amazing season!

Working hard in Gtown on the Canal