What's not to like about James May? He hosts the coolest car show on earth- Top Gear, where he gets to drive lots of incredible cars (and sometimes wreck them) for a living!
He gets even more likable when we get to his personal projects that involve his favorite childhood toys, his love of gardening and wine (which he constantly gets teased at by his Top Gear co-hosts). He and hundreds of volunteers helped created a garden made entirely of Plasticine modeling clay for the Chelsea Flower show back in Spring.
And his most recent project, which is the dreamiest job ever, is to build a house entirely of lego blocks and gets to live in it for 3 days! It's a 2 story house located in a vineyard in Surrey, England, the house comes with a bed, toilet, kitchen, the whole nine! I'm curious to see if there will be any cool furniture inside. It's due to complete this weekend, and if I live in England I would definitely go see it in person, I would have even volunteered to build the house!
When he's not hosting some car show or playing with childhood toys, he even finds time to go fly to the edge of space, 70,000 feet above ground in a U-2 spy plane, see the clip here: sources: telegraph.co.uk, geeksugar, denbiesvineyard.co.uk, youtube
It is not easy to get up at 9am to catch CBS Sunday Morning Show, but the show really makes my day. Before I started watching the show I used to think that it's a show for "old people", but if you give it a try you'd be hooked. Why? Each week it has a segment on Art, mostly contemporary, my favorite ones are stories on Murakami, Banksy, and this week's story is on the late Charley Harper (with Todd Oldham who catalogued his work for 5 years and published an amazing book- Charley Harper- An Illustrated Life). There is also an interview with Julian Schnabel on his career as an artist and now a great director.Another favorite segment is by reporter Bill Geist, who travels to the most random places in the country discovering what these places are known for, from visiting the psychic capitol of the world- Cassadega, Florida to find out what's in the cards for 2008, to fishing on the frigid cold waterways in the capitol of ice smelt fishing- Bowdoinham, Maine. It looks much funnier than it sounds because Geist reminds me of Flanders from the Simpsons! So if you have DTV or Tivo or a morning person, make sure you catch CBS Sunday Morning, it's got everything you want to know and is a great source of interesting conversation topics for the coming work week!images: cbs
I usually hate all the car shows on TV, but recently I am obsessed with BBC America's Top Gear. The 3 hosts are like regular cool dudes and are so lucky to be able to test drive the sexiest automobiles ever made, like this Maserati. The best part of the show is their crazy car experiments, I just watched one episode that the 3 guys converted everyday cars into stretch limos and chauffeuring British pop stars to a music event in Central London during rush hour. The biggest challenge was they had to use European small-size cars like Alfa Romeo, Saab, and Fiat.Here is one of the frankensteins made of Fiats. This red limo is impossible to get to the back seat, since there is no back door, you need a dolly and a pully to roll you to your seat, it's stupid and hilarious! I don't want to give away the ending but you can imagine what would happen when there are no wheels in the middle of this super long limo! So if you are a 10% tomboy like me, you should definitely give Top Gear a try.
What's not to like about James May? He hosts the coolest car show on earth- Top Gear, where he gets to drive lots of incredible cars (and sometimes wreck them) for a living!
He gets even more likable when we get to his personal projects that involve his favorite childhood toys, his love of gardening and wine (which he constantly gets teased at by his Top Gear co-hosts). He and hundreds of volunteers helped created a garden made entirely of Plasticine modeling clay for the Chelsea Flower show back in Spring.
And his most recent project, which is the dreamiest job ever, is to build a house entirely of lego blocks and gets to live in it for 3 days! It's a 2 story house located in a vineyard in Surrey, England, the house comes with a bed, toilet, kitchen, the whole nine! I'm curious to see if there will be any cool furniture inside. It's due to complete this weekend, and if I live in England I would definitely go see it in person, I would have even volunteered to build the house!
