Happy Thursday! And a Happy Thursday Birthday to Megan and Jennifer (and Ryan, the random guy who messaged me on Facebook a half hour ago)!! I hope today was as fantastic as you'd always dreamt it would be. Fantasticer, even. Fantasticker. A Fanta Sticker. Great!
So in my Media Circus last week I totally forgot to even mention that DOLLHOUSE is now on. Third episode is tomorrow! But I've only seen the first and I won't be able to catch the third on the tv. If it were a really great show, that would bother me. But really, I wasn't won over by the pilot. I hope it doesn't end up like FRINGE and I just forget to ever watch it again. That would just be sad.
Didn't catch BSG on tv last week, either, and when I tried to watch it on my mom's computer, I killed it with evil internet viruses. Oops. Sorry. It's fine now. But I wouldn't say that episode was absolutely worth it. Helo wasn't even in it.
HSM3 is out on DVD. Gave that puppy a rent. A classic example of something I cannot physically sit through without lampooning, yet I not-so-secretly love every moment. Huh! I want to see it again.
The DEAD LIKE ME movie, on the other hand, was not particularly worthwhile. Due to scheduling conflicts, they wrote out one character and recast -- I repeat RECAST - what year is this, 1994???? -- another, and that was just the start of its failures. Honestly, if I was in charge, I would have waited. Better wait than to resort to that. Better make no movie at all. The other major fault was the tv-esque writing. Characters didn't play scenes so much as vignettes. And sure, in a season worth of consecutive episodes maybe you don't want to give too much away all at once. But they seemed to go at this as if maybe there would be more--not giving us enough in the limited time they had for sure. Too loose, too inconsequential. Not as poignant or impacting as the show was at all. Like a cheap caricature of itself. Color me disappointed.
CHUCK didn't have me enthralled this week, and I found myself flipping between it and HIMYM during the second half. I don't know what's going to happen when the latter starts putting out new content in a couple weeks and the two have to throw down. Don't make me choose! Or, this is a warning, CHUCK. Your nemesis is riding over the horizon as we speak.
HEROES. That show is lucky that Jack Coleman is attractive enough to run a whole episode. Especially in grayscale. There wasn't a single frame of Sylar, which would have been a fantastic Fail if it hadn't have been for the compensating Bennet time. HEROES, your challenge is to not to become a SMALLVILLE for me. But even if you do, that'd be enough reason for me to keep watching.
LOST? Very interesting. My mom hates Ben. She's all "and you think he's a good guy?!" To which I replied, "No. Of course he isn't." No offense, Mom, but bad characters can be likable, too. He's the most three-dimensional character out there at the moment, and I admire him for his multi of facets. They write him right and that guy (Michael? Michael Emerson is it?) plays him perfectly. What's he gonna do next? How much of what he's saying is the truth? YOU NEVER KNOW. That's why he's so cool.
OFFICE. Old. Watched it anyway.
30 ROCK. I like Kenneth. I don't know if he meant to refer to Liz as "it," but I laughed anyway.
YOUTUBE.
Jacksfilms
Toby Turner
The latter appeals to me more, over all, but I think Jack has just as much of a chance to make something of himself in the real world.
Okay, twenty minutes until tomorrow. Oh, today!
Today I drove over to Carolyn's house and on the way I stopped at a red light. In the lane next to me was Steven and his buddies. "HEY. HEY." I said to them.
"Where are you going?" he asked.
"Your house," I said.
And then we all watched a RIDICULOUS episode of the old Spider-Man cartoon and they played Street Fighter IV for like five minutes. And then we played some LPB, and then I had to pick my mom up from school.
Oh yeah. We drove to Camarillo to go to the Vans outlet, but they didn't have the right size. LOL they informed us there was a Vans store in the mall which is like two minutes away from my house. On the way there, there was a loud impact sound. Dunno what that was! We made it to the mall and then to the Vans store and then to the Old Navy store and then to the cookie store and when we revisited our car, the tire was flat. Oops! So we walked across the street to where my dad happened to be parked at the church, stole his car, drove to my mom's school to pick up my car, go back to the church and park my dad's car in a different spot, and then drive home in my car. I think the withered husk of the van is still forgotten at the top of the parking structure.
I also just started writing a HIMYM spec, and can anyone tell me if there is or is not a tree in front of MacLaren's? Concurrently, I am writing a story for Beth which involves Sylar and I can't tell you much more. This weekend I am going back to A-town to help Megan do her shooty shoot film, and I will see everyone AGAIN. But not Brianna, she has better things to do. But hopefully Sam, because I didn't see him last time.
Okay. Thursday is drawing to a close. I had better post this sucker. The whoooole internet was out for a while yesterday. I'm glad today is not yesterday.
-Steph
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Adventuretime
Happy Thursday! I'm crazy sleepy and have like six HIMYMs loaded, so this will likely be short.
Laaaaaast weekend I trucked out to A-town and had a fun fun time with the ol' roomies. We did fun things like drive nowhere and turn around and come back! We went to A'float in Pasadena (dude, guys, we didn't make it to Famima!!) and to Circuit City (MIMYM seasons one AND two for like $40), and to CVS a bunch, and to the cheap theater to see PUSH (more on that later) and then we watched an entire disc of HIMYM.
AND ON SUNDAY. We all woke up at one, and we went to breakfast at the new Greek place by the cheap theater. We got baklava! And we took it to the secretive park which we had never seen in the daylight. It was eerily quiet there. And then we were going to walk along the river trail but we got distracted by the canyon and ended up driving super far up into it. We could see the snowmountains really well. I put my hand in a creek! It was freezing. We also gazed upon antelope-like jeeps playing down in the river. A bird tried to kill a man.
Then we went to Baskin Robbins. Then we. Then we watched some UGLY BETTY? And after that, RUN, FATBOY, RUN. It was a cute movie. Not the Pegg's best, but still awfully cute. And then I went home? No wait. Somewhere in there we also went to Barnes & Noble because I also ended up buying STARGATE on blu-ray for ten bucks, and a Glenn Miller cd to keep me awake on the drive home.
I didn't take any pictures, but the others did, so maybe those exist. It was super fun, and I wish I had the gas money to do that all the time. I went and picked up my last check from the Blockbuster there, and that basically covered what I spent over the weekend. Oh well.
See you all again soon!
Today I woke up super early (8:30) and went to the harbor with Carolyn. Drove, didn't walk. She had to go look at the Channel Islands museum thing for school. We saw island foxes and a golden eagle and starfish andechidnaporcupinepincushion sea urchins. I can't remember what those are called for the life of me. Only the last two were still alive. Then we went to Andria's but it wasn't open yet so we walked around the Harbor Village a few times and said hi to Josh, and then we had fishandchips. Fosh and Chops. A little girl literally put her face to the window and stared creepily at Carolyn for a while, which was hilarious. Then we went to my house and looked at trailers on my PS3.
Then she had to go to school and I had to go to work.
Work was crazy empty the last two days. Not much else to say about it.
Now for the Media Circus.
DEJA VU
One of those movies on my list from Sci-Fi class, not because it was assigned but because we met the guy who wrote it. That was the day I presented on BLADERUNNER and said I hated it, and was going to feel really bad when the presenter got up and told us all the things he loved it for--only the presenter was Bill Marsilli and he hated it, too. And his movie had more going for it than I had thought--it was initially a movie with a fixed timeline, and the device (narrative, not scientific) presented to explain the altered timeline was new to me and I mostly accepted it. Also Val Kilmer ftw.
GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK
There was so much in this movie that I loved with my mind but not with my heart. It was a clinically good piece, but it didn't incite passionate response in me. I want to love it. I should love it. There's nothing in either concept or execution I can find fault in. I just. I don't know. It's a good movie. It's a beautiful movie. It's an important movie. I'm glad I saw it. It just didn't move me.
BSG
Aphasia is a disorder with just the right amount of dramatic flair. The actor challenged with delivering the "word salad" lines has just cemented himself in my book of people I respect. But what's going to happen next?! I want to know more. I give them one thumbs up and one thumbs down for their rewriting an unknown history to fill in a plot hole. Their resolution makes sense but it's obvious that it's a cover up, not a self-standing piece of the puzzle. Thumbs sideways for that.
CHUCK
Poor kid. Doesn't he know that if he wins, the show's over? I love how it's up to him to save the day nowadays. I saw Zachary Levi online again, but I didn't talk to him.
HEROES
What is UP with this show. Do I even care any more? What even happened this week? Hiro and Ando got in a fight about nothing that was resolved by nothing. Bennet was trying to be a good dad. OMG he's soooo evil. Claire was a jerk. Moira Kelly should not have been so easily convinced--when someone held against her will breaks free and injures someone in her attempt to escape, wouldn't you blame the captors for putting her in that position? Nooo of course you'd immediately understand that EVERY PERSON must be similarly rounded up and imprisoned so that something like that never happens again. Faulty reasoning, ur doin it rite.
LOST
Not quite so exciting this week. Also somewhat...well, it left me feeling cheated since they forgot to set up their mysteries. They deliberately withheld information, but not in a mysterious way, just in a "I didn't think you needed to know this" way. Which was somewhat disappointing. I assume that they'll eventually tell us what happened, but they didn't promise to. A minor fail. Butwhathappensnext?! We already have theories and I'm pretty sure I'm right.
HIMYM
Finally finished season three. wewt. Britney Spears was in some episodes, and she was absolutely delightful. No joke! NPH FTW as always, and that guy who plays Ted it so completely adorable when he smiles. I'm excited to start season four, so I'll go do that now!
See you all again at another time!
(aka I'm very tired and you're just lucky any of this is spelled correctly)
-Steph
Aw, man, I was actually looking at this again and I realize that I didn't talk about PUSH.
Well, there's not much to say. Worse than JUMPER? I don't know, maybe comparable. The overarching problem was the inability of the writer to pare out the non-essentials--too much was introduced too quickly. The second problem is that the writer never learned to structure a screenplay. There's a sequence maybe forty minutes in where I leaned over and said, "wait, are we in act 3 now?" Unfortunately, we still had the second half of the movie to go. The third problem was characters as three-dimensional as a weak coat of white-wash, and the last was awkward casting. Plusses? The effects weren't laughable--except for when they were. Dakoto with guns was cute. I can't think of anything else that was worthwhile.
Later on, for reals this time.
Laaaaaast weekend I trucked out to A-town and had a fun fun time with the ol' roomies. We did fun things like drive nowhere and turn around and come back! We went to A'float in Pasadena (dude, guys, we didn't make it to Famima!!) and to Circuit City (MIMYM seasons one AND two for like $40), and to CVS a bunch, and to the cheap theater to see PUSH (more on that later) and then we watched an entire disc of HIMYM.
AND ON SUNDAY. We all woke up at one, and we went to breakfast at the new Greek place by the cheap theater. We got baklava! And we took it to the secretive park which we had never seen in the daylight. It was eerily quiet there. And then we were going to walk along the river trail but we got distracted by the canyon and ended up driving super far up into it. We could see the snowmountains really well. I put my hand in a creek! It was freezing. We also gazed upon antelope-like jeeps playing down in the river. A bird tried to kill a man.
Then we went to Baskin Robbins. Then we. Then we watched some UGLY BETTY? And after that, RUN, FATBOY, RUN. It was a cute movie. Not the Pegg's best, but still awfully cute. And then I went home? No wait. Somewhere in there we also went to Barnes & Noble because I also ended up buying STARGATE on blu-ray for ten bucks, and a Glenn Miller cd to keep me awake on the drive home.
I didn't take any pictures, but the others did, so maybe those exist. It was super fun, and I wish I had the gas money to do that all the time. I went and picked up my last check from the Blockbuster there, and that basically covered what I spent over the weekend. Oh well.
See you all again soon!
Today I woke up super early (8:30) and went to the harbor with Carolyn. Drove, didn't walk. She had to go look at the Channel Islands museum thing for school. We saw island foxes and a golden eagle and starfish and
Then she had to go to school and I had to go to work.
Work was crazy empty the last two days. Not much else to say about it.
Now for the Media Circus.
DEJA VU
One of those movies on my list from Sci-Fi class, not because it was assigned but because we met the guy who wrote it. That was the day I presented on BLADERUNNER and said I hated it, and was going to feel really bad when the presenter got up and told us all the things he loved it for--only the presenter was Bill Marsilli and he hated it, too. And his movie had more going for it than I had thought--it was initially a movie with a fixed timeline, and the device (narrative, not scientific) presented to explain the altered timeline was new to me and I mostly accepted it. Also Val Kilmer ftw.
GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK
There was so much in this movie that I loved with my mind but not with my heart. It was a clinically good piece, but it didn't incite passionate response in me. I want to love it. I should love it. There's nothing in either concept or execution I can find fault in. I just. I don't know. It's a good movie. It's a beautiful movie. It's an important movie. I'm glad I saw it. It just didn't move me.
BSG
Aphasia is a disorder with just the right amount of dramatic flair. The actor challenged with delivering the "word salad" lines has just cemented himself in my book of people I respect. But what's going to happen next?! I want to know more. I give them one thumbs up and one thumbs down for their rewriting an unknown history to fill in a plot hole. Their resolution makes sense but it's obvious that it's a cover up, not a self-standing piece of the puzzle. Thumbs sideways for that.
CHUCK
Poor kid. Doesn't he know that if he wins, the show's over? I love how it's up to him to save the day nowadays. I saw Zachary Levi online again, but I didn't talk to him.
HEROES
What is UP with this show. Do I even care any more? What even happened this week? Hiro and Ando got in a fight about nothing that was resolved by nothing. Bennet was trying to be a good dad. OMG he's soooo evil. Claire was a jerk. Moira Kelly should not have been so easily convinced--when someone held against her will breaks free and injures someone in her attempt to escape, wouldn't you blame the captors for putting her in that position? Nooo of course you'd immediately understand that EVERY PERSON must be similarly rounded up and imprisoned so that something like that never happens again. Faulty reasoning, ur doin it rite.
LOST
Not quite so exciting this week. Also somewhat...well, it left me feeling cheated since they forgot to set up their mysteries. They deliberately withheld information, but not in a mysterious way, just in a "I didn't think you needed to know this" way. Which was somewhat disappointing. I assume that they'll eventually tell us what happened, but they didn't promise to. A minor fail. Butwhathappensnext?! We already have theories and I'm pretty sure I'm right.
HIMYM
Finally finished season three. wewt. Britney Spears was in some episodes, and she was absolutely delightful. No joke! NPH FTW as always, and that guy who plays Ted it so completely adorable when he smiles. I'm excited to start season four, so I'll go do that now!
See you all again at another time!
(aka I'm very tired and you're just lucky any of this is spelled correctly)
-Steph
Aw, man, I was actually looking at this again and I realize that I didn't talk about PUSH.
Well, there's not much to say. Worse than JUMPER? I don't know, maybe comparable. The overarching problem was the inability of the writer to pare out the non-essentials--too much was introduced too quickly. The second problem is that the writer never learned to structure a screenplay. There's a sequence maybe forty minutes in where I leaned over and said, "wait, are we in act 3 now?" Unfortunately, we still had the second half of the movie to go. The third problem was characters as three-dimensional as a weak coat of white-wash, and the last was awkward casting. Plusses? The effects weren't laughable--except for when they were. Dakoto with guns was cute. I can't think of anything else that was worthwhile.
Later on, for reals this time.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Thursday Thursday Yayday!
Happy Thursday! I have some GREAT NEWS for you. I found season two of HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER (HIMYM) on the interwebs, so that's going along fine. AND Barney, who has a suit army, has several variations on the, wait for it, Thursday suit. That is, a brown suit (I believe it's pinstriped, too) with a red shirt. He also has a number of Thursday ties, which I envy. In fact, the red/brown theme pervades the coloring of the show, and it makes my heart glow every time I see it.
Last weekend me and Carolyn and Steven and Sam went thrifting! It was highly successful for us all. I, for one, obtained a shirt for my BSG cosplay, the fourth book in the Ender's Game series, and VHSs of DIGIMON and the MIGHTY MORPHIN' POWER RANGERS. If only it had been TIME FORCE. Here's a note to you ALL: if you ever EVER come across a tape or whatever containing episodes of POWER RANGERS: TIME FORCE, buy it. I'll pay you back.
That's a good enough segue into THINGS I WANT EVERYONE TO KEEP IN MIND AND I'M NOT JOKING AT ALL.
I got my renewed driver's license today, and it has the donor dot on it. Item the first: please to be donating my organs. If I am dead, I really do not need them any more. Someone else does.
Item the second: I want to be cremated and put in a pretty urn in a shelf in a cemetery. I feel as this is something that is done. There isn't enough space in the ground for everyone, and I don't want to be scattered anywhere or shoved on the top shelf of someone's closet.
Item the third: On the anniversary of my death, those who survive me are to commemorate the day by having cake. There are too few occasions in the year for which cake is needed, so here's another. No particular type is mandated, just your favorite. And if you don't like cake, then you can have whatever dessert is your fave.
Not that I feel like these are timely instructions, it's just that I'm deadly serious about it (lol pun). I do, after a time, tell these things to everyone I know, so that when the time comes, maybe one of you will take it seriously. NOW YOU ALLLLLL KNOW BWAHAHAHAHAHA.
Sorry, I'm trying out EXCESSIVE CAPS USAGE in today's post. How is it?
Now some lolowls cats.
Okay, TV/movie ratings time.
BSG
Two episodes that stressed me out so bad. I'm glad it's resolved, and I'm glad that maybe things will start to turn around, but I wonder at the cost. All through that last ep I thought at any second one of the main guys would get killed off, but I guess I forgot it wasn't that sort of show. It's still great, though.
CHUCK
Old this week.
HEROES
WAY DUMB this week. I didn't bother to remember it. Except for that I started making up a lot more romantic interests between the characters, because it was too easy. Sylar got himself a sidekick with a dumb power--let me spoil it for you. So Sylar's drinking some tea while torturing a family, right? Then the kid turns a wacky ray power on him which EXPLODES the tea!! "Microwave powers?" I ask my tv with great disdain. Come back to them later and the kid demonstrates his power for papa Sylar. Melts an action figure. "Somethings melt, some burn. Water boils," he explains, "LIKE A MICROWAVE." Emphasis mine. That was the high point of the episode.
LOST
Crazy interesting!! I liked everything about it, especially French Robert. My long-awaited dream finally came true, but it was a hollow victory. Accursed manipulation of my emotions! They get a thumbs up.
THE OFFICE
Avs. That's short for average. It was kind of nice to see Jim getting honestly angry, since he doesn't ever get there. Angela and the hairball, though.....well, you know how I am about hair.
30 ROCK
All the funniest parts were in the preview that played twenty times an hour. Another thing I like about the show, though, is its edgy humor. A blind girl who judges on looks? Edgy! Only 30 ROCK can pull that off.
HIMYM
When I first heard of this show, I was utterly disinterested. Sitcoms are not really my thing. I watched the first disc and was pleasantly surprised, though not suddenly and completely won over. But it's a really charming show, smarter than most, and definitely more random. It has distinctly sitcommy moments, jokes, and staging, but on the whole it's much like real entertainment. And Neil Patrick Harris for the win (NPH FTW). I'm hooked.
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
I was underwhelmed. I blame the way it's bandied about as a learning tool in the education of my field. I feel about it much the same as I feel about CITIZEN KANE--great filmmaking, boring film. I'm a writer, not a filmmaker. I need a narrative, and a cohesive one at that. It's beautiful on blu-ray, though.
STARSHIP TROOPERS
This, the prior, and the following, were all in my Sci-Fi syllabus, but I'm only getting around to watching them now. And while it had NPH FTW, I was so disinterested that I watched it all at 1.5 speed, and 10x in action scenes. Got through it in an hour. Eh.
THE TERMINATOR
I was looking at the tv, wondering what to start next, and the Terminator show caught my eye. "Guess I'd better catch up first," I said to myself, and checked out THE TERMINATOR instead. Ehhhhh. What a dumb movie. You may not know this, but I abhor most of the 80s. Particularly their filmmaking. Hello, fast forward! The only only only thing I liked about it was the actors it shared with ALIENS.
To wrap up, tonight I helped my mom grade some papers at school, and then we went to the talent show. Ohhh gosh. Every little girl thinks she can dance, doesn't she? And every parent tells her she can.
But she cannot.
Here are my recommendations for the week:
Culinary: curry chicken salad (sandwich)
Internet: lolcats
Youtube: Just click and thank me later
Articles: History of the Internet
Scientific concept: Dark matter
Later on!
-Steph
PS
I'm visiting A-town this weekend, so I'll say hi to it for you.
Last weekend me and Carolyn and Steven and Sam went thrifting! It was highly successful for us all. I, for one, obtained a shirt for my BSG cosplay, the fourth book in the Ender's Game series, and VHSs of DIGIMON and the MIGHTY MORPHIN' POWER RANGERS. If only it had been TIME FORCE. Here's a note to you ALL: if you ever EVER come across a tape or whatever containing episodes of POWER RANGERS: TIME FORCE, buy it. I'll pay you back.
That's a good enough segue into THINGS I WANT EVERYONE TO KEEP IN MIND AND I'M NOT JOKING AT ALL.
I got my renewed driver's license today, and it has the donor dot on it. Item the first: please to be donating my organs. If I am dead, I really do not need them any more. Someone else does.
Item the second: I want to be cremated and put in a pretty urn in a shelf in a cemetery. I feel as this is something that is done. There isn't enough space in the ground for everyone, and I don't want to be scattered anywhere or shoved on the top shelf of someone's closet.
Item the third: On the anniversary of my death, those who survive me are to commemorate the day by having cake. There are too few occasions in the year for which cake is needed, so here's another. No particular type is mandated, just your favorite. And if you don't like cake, then you can have whatever dessert is your fave.
Not that I feel like these are timely instructions, it's just that I'm deadly serious about it (lol pun). I do, after a time, tell these things to everyone I know, so that when the time comes, maybe one of you will take it seriously. NOW YOU ALLLLLL KNOW BWAHAHAHAHAHA.
Sorry, I'm trying out EXCESSIVE CAPS USAGE in today's post. How is it?
Now some lol
Okay, TV/movie ratings time.
BSG
Two episodes that stressed me out so bad. I'm glad it's resolved, and I'm glad that maybe things will start to turn around, but I wonder at the cost. All through that last ep I thought at any second one of the main guys would get killed off, but I guess I forgot it wasn't that sort of show. It's still great, though.
CHUCK
Old this week.
HEROES
WAY DUMB this week. I didn't bother to remember it. Except for that I started making up a lot more romantic interests between the characters, because it was too easy. Sylar got himself a sidekick with a dumb power--let me spoil it for you. So Sylar's drinking some tea while torturing a family, right? Then the kid turns a wacky ray power on him which EXPLODES the tea!! "Microwave powers?" I ask my tv with great disdain. Come back to them later and the kid demonstrates his power for papa Sylar. Melts an action figure. "Somethings melt, some burn. Water boils," he explains, "LIKE A MICROWAVE." Emphasis mine. That was the high point of the episode.
LOST
Crazy interesting!! I liked everything about it, especially French Robert. My long-awaited dream finally came true, but it was a hollow victory. Accursed manipulation of my emotions! They get a thumbs up.
THE OFFICE
Avs. That's short for average. It was kind of nice to see Jim getting honestly angry, since he doesn't ever get there. Angela and the hairball, though.....well, you know how I am about hair.
30 ROCK
All the funniest parts were in the preview that played twenty times an hour. Another thing I like about the show, though, is its edgy humor. A blind girl who judges on looks? Edgy! Only 30 ROCK can pull that off.
HIMYM
When I first heard of this show, I was utterly disinterested. Sitcoms are not really my thing. I watched the first disc and was pleasantly surprised, though not suddenly and completely won over. But it's a really charming show, smarter than most, and definitely more random. It has distinctly sitcommy moments, jokes, and staging, but on the whole it's much like real entertainment. And Neil Patrick Harris for the win (NPH FTW). I'm hooked.
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
I was underwhelmed. I blame the way it's bandied about as a learning tool in the education of my field. I feel about it much the same as I feel about CITIZEN KANE--great filmmaking, boring film. I'm a writer, not a filmmaker. I need a narrative, and a cohesive one at that. It's beautiful on blu-ray, though.
STARSHIP TROOPERS
This, the prior, and the following, were all in my Sci-Fi syllabus, but I'm only getting around to watching them now. And while it had NPH FTW, I was so disinterested that I watched it all at 1.5 speed, and 10x in action scenes. Got through it in an hour. Eh.
THE TERMINATOR
I was looking at the tv, wondering what to start next, and the Terminator show caught my eye. "Guess I'd better catch up first," I said to myself, and checked out THE TERMINATOR instead. Ehhhhh. What a dumb movie. You may not know this, but I abhor most of the 80s. Particularly their filmmaking. Hello, fast forward! The only only only thing I liked about it was the actors it shared with ALIENS.
To wrap up, tonight I helped my mom grade some papers at school, and then we went to the talent show. Ohhh gosh. Every little girl thinks she can dance, doesn't she? And every parent tells her she can.
But she cannot.
Here are my recommendations for the week:
Culinary: curry chicken salad (sandwich)
Internet: lolcats
Youtube: Just click and thank me later
Articles: History of the Internet
Scientific concept: Dark matter
Later on!
-Steph
PS
I'm visiting A-town this weekend, so I'll say hi to it for you.
Thursday, February 05, 2009
Televisor
Happy Thursday! It was a crazy television day today. Okay, what day isn't? But today we had a wide range of samples from across the buffet, not just a binge of the old standbys. We'll get to that soon.
I know there was something about this weekend that I was supposed to remember. I think...I think on Saturday I ended up hanging out with Carolyn. Because we rented Little Big Planet for the PS3. And it was due on Weds, so it must have been Saturday. We also...
I gotta start a memory exercise regimen.
Edit: (I was reminded that I also saw CLOVERFIELD on that day. Looks nice on Blu-Ray. It didn't affect me as much, which I expected, so I stand by my original conclusion: average monster movie, outstanding filmmaking.)
Sunday was work (and no one told me about the special Superbowl ep of the OFFICE! But more on that later), and on Monday I did something ridiculous. Here is a map of it http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2539579 . The unnumbered marker is my house. Each number is a mile farther and farther away. Until I turned around and went back. From my house to the beach took about an hour and a half. Then I sat there for I don't remember how long...maybe like 45 minutes, had a cute lunch, and hobbled back. It was kind of an intense day because I'd downloaded the podcasts for a set of BSG writer's meetings, and I was all up in their hypothetical end of season two world for most of the day. Very informative! Podcasts + walking is a perfect combination. It's the only thing that is unconscious and time consuming enough to warrant listening to three hours of whatever at a time, and being distracted by the podcasts keeps the three hours of walking from being deathly boring.
Needless to say, I'm still recovering from that adventure, but I have full mobility returned to my left leg!
Monday was also brand new CHUCK and HEROES! CHUCK was very nice, although the 3D aspect was distracting. I don't have any other complaints. There were also a couple of hilarious ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT tributes (three if you count Tony Hale), which just made my day. Followed up by HEROES, though.... Sigh. That show. Throwing a character out of a plane as a cliffhanger is one thing. But when that character can fly? I mean COME ON. No points for morally indistinguishable Nathan and Bennet, half points for Sylar fighting off people like a wild animal. I think that's what it's going to be for a while. Solid F show, earning half points for Sylar alone. Hopefully I will be wrong.
Tuesday? That might have been the day I went and saw QUANTUM OF SOLACE at the cheap theater. Entertaining. Not as impacting as CASINO ROYALE, but in their case I think that might not be a bad thing. I found it an appealing blend of the superficiality the franchise is known for and the substance that gave weight to its immediate predecessor. Not too meaningless, not too meaningful. An action movie that utilizes its sets and situations to the fullest. And always a thumbs up for Daniel Craig, my personal Bond. Definitely worth the $5.75 ($2.75 box of Junior Mints).
After that I went to the library and picked up an assortment of books on genetics, comics, short stories by Arthur C. Clarke, and "A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking. Then I took Steven home because I went to the movie at 12 and Steven lives by the library circa 2 PM. Steven also lives at Carolyn's house, so that's where I spent the rest of my day!
Yesterday I caught ALIENS on tv, which had been an assignment for Sci-fi class and is now on my list of movies to watch in life because I didn't watch anything for that class. I liked it so much more than ALIEN, which I thought was pretty dumb. But then I went to pick up Steven again. Then I came home and watched about the last of the disc of UGLY BETTY me and my mom were on, and then I returned all of season two. Work was stressed because the Regional Director of Operations was supposed to be coming in today to kill whoever's in charge if things aren't perfect. So we did a lot of cleaning. Then I rerented the last two discs of UGLY BETTY and also 2001 and GATTACA on Blu-Ray (not gonna lie, those were both for sci-fi class as well).
Now to sampler day. Caught the last half of STARGATE on the same channel as ALIENS. That's a good movie. Then I caught up on the long OFFICE--that teaser was one of the most ridiculous things I've ever seen. This show is not an absurdist comedy, and this pushed a fine line, I thought. I do admit, however, that seeing a cat hurled up into the ceiling cavity to come crashing down a few feet over, is a sight I will cherish until my last moments. Overall, I think this hour long episode succeeded where the last batch of hour longs did not; it didn't seem stretched or watered down. It wasn't the OFFICE at its best, but it didn't fall short, either.
LOST from last night. I was disappointed to see that that stupid girl is not about to be killed off, and that her hopeful cause of death might kill everyone else, too. Glad to see they're not mucking about with the timeline. I hate when people do that, so I was really grateful for Farraday's "you can't change the past, whatever happened, happened" speech. That was previously, not this week, though. Overall I thought it dragged a little, but I look forward to what's to come.
UGLY BETTY season two disc three. This includes the paintball episode which was in fact the first episode I ever saw that inspired me to one day seek this series out as televised nutrition. It was a very good disc and I don't have anything negative to say about it! It's just so funny and so heartfelt. And increasingly and increasingly wacky, what with post-mortem childrens and toxic perfumes. I love it.
Took a slight detour and caught the end of SMALLVILLE--what can I say, Thursday is comedy night--and was not disappointed. Inexplicable is the word I would use. Lana absorbs kryptonite powers! Clark wants to kill Lex! A truck explodes! And then there was this little gem: Lana, trying to dissuade Clark from his inexplicable intended murder, imparts true wisdom, "you won't just lose this or that. You'll Lose Yourself." But then the truck exploded and did the deed for him??!?!???? I could make neither heads nor tails of it. But then at the very end there was an unexpectedly heartbreaking sequence where Clark refuses to let Lana out of his life even though her very presence could very well kill him. I found it poignant and inspiring. That show is like a grab bag of surprises.
New OFFICE. Shrug. I remember I laughed, but I don't remember at what. I liked Pam listlessly throwing the candies at the audience. I liked the to be continued. Edgy new territory!
New 30 ROCK. The strength of this show, which I may have said before, lies in its ability to form a coherent plot out of extraneous information. WAIT. I previously said that about CHUCK. Oh well, 30 ROCK does it, too. The melding of the A, B, and C plots is convoluted and masterful. And hilarious, yet meaningful. It's a very smart show, top to bottom.
Now that I think about it, I must have also watched the new BSG on Saturday--I did, at like 1 in the morning. Ah. It spawned my Facebook status, "Stephanie is oh Gaeta honey no," which will remain a mystery until you get to that episode. All I can say is hopefully the darkest hour will in fact be followed by the dawn.
So that's my media week! I dub myself a televisor. You can be one, too!
The other thing I did was cook dinner today, which I think was one of my rare and complete successes. A menu: meatloaf from a recipe off foodnetwork.com. Garlic mashed potatoes from a cardboard tube. Green beans and pine nuts in sesame oil from my mind. A romaine salad with walnuts, feta, and golden raisins, also from my mind because the meatloaf was still cooking and I had nothing else to do. Hooray cooking!
And the other day I made a curry tuna salad sandwich: tuna, curry powder, goldens, walnuts, pinenuts, celery, and mayo to keep it all together. Curry is like, my favoritest thing. Here, let me give you a list of recommendations for the week:
Curry powder
a dash of cinnamon in your cocoa
The Middle by Jimmy Eat World
This sketch by Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry
Have a Happy Thursday!
I know there was something about this weekend that I was supposed to remember. I think...I think on Saturday I ended up hanging out with Carolyn. Because we rented Little Big Planet for the PS3. And it was due on Weds, so it must have been Saturday. We also...
I gotta start a memory exercise regimen.
Edit: (I was reminded that I also saw CLOVERFIELD on that day. Looks nice on Blu-Ray. It didn't affect me as much, which I expected, so I stand by my original conclusion: average monster movie, outstanding filmmaking.)
Sunday was work (and no one told me about the special Superbowl ep of the OFFICE! But more on that later), and on Monday I did something ridiculous. Here is a map of it http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2539579 . The unnumbered marker is my house. Each number is a mile farther and farther away. Until I turned around and went back. From my house to the beach took about an hour and a half. Then I sat there for I don't remember how long...maybe like 45 minutes, had a cute lunch, and hobbled back. It was kind of an intense day because I'd downloaded the podcasts for a set of BSG writer's meetings, and I was all up in their hypothetical end of season two world for most of the day. Very informative! Podcasts + walking is a perfect combination. It's the only thing that is unconscious and time consuming enough to warrant listening to three hours of whatever at a time, and being distracted by the podcasts keeps the three hours of walking from being deathly boring.
Needless to say, I'm still recovering from that adventure, but I have full mobility returned to my left leg!
Monday was also brand new CHUCK and HEROES! CHUCK was very nice, although the 3D aspect was distracting. I don't have any other complaints. There were also a couple of hilarious ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT tributes (three if you count Tony Hale), which just made my day. Followed up by HEROES, though.... Sigh. That show. Throwing a character out of a plane as a cliffhanger is one thing. But when that character can fly? I mean COME ON. No points for morally indistinguishable Nathan and Bennet, half points for Sylar fighting off people like a wild animal. I think that's what it's going to be for a while. Solid F show, earning half points for Sylar alone. Hopefully I will be wrong.
Tuesday? That might have been the day I went and saw QUANTUM OF SOLACE at the cheap theater. Entertaining. Not as impacting as CASINO ROYALE, but in their case I think that might not be a bad thing. I found it an appealing blend of the superficiality the franchise is known for and the substance that gave weight to its immediate predecessor. Not too meaningless, not too meaningful. An action movie that utilizes its sets and situations to the fullest. And always a thumbs up for Daniel Craig, my personal Bond. Definitely worth the $5.75 ($2.75 box of Junior Mints).
After that I went to the library and picked up an assortment of books on genetics, comics, short stories by Arthur C. Clarke, and "A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking. Then I took Steven home because I went to the movie at 12 and Steven lives by the library circa 2 PM. Steven also lives at Carolyn's house, so that's where I spent the rest of my day!
Yesterday I caught ALIENS on tv, which had been an assignment for Sci-fi class and is now on my list of movies to watch in life because I didn't watch anything for that class. I liked it so much more than ALIEN, which I thought was pretty dumb. But then I went to pick up Steven again. Then I came home and watched about the last of the disc of UGLY BETTY me and my mom were on, and then I returned all of season two. Work was stressed because the Regional Director of Operations was supposed to be coming in today to kill whoever's in charge if things aren't perfect. So we did a lot of cleaning. Then I rerented the last two discs of UGLY BETTY and also 2001 and GATTACA on Blu-Ray (not gonna lie, those were both for sci-fi class as well).
Now to sampler day. Caught the last half of STARGATE on the same channel as ALIENS. That's a good movie. Then I caught up on the long OFFICE--that teaser was one of the most ridiculous things I've ever seen. This show is not an absurdist comedy, and this pushed a fine line, I thought. I do admit, however, that seeing a cat hurled up into the ceiling cavity to come crashing down a few feet over, is a sight I will cherish until my last moments. Overall, I think this hour long episode succeeded where the last batch of hour longs did not; it didn't seem stretched or watered down. It wasn't the OFFICE at its best, but it didn't fall short, either.
LOST from last night. I was disappointed to see that that stupid girl is not about to be killed off, and that her hopeful cause of death might kill everyone else, too. Glad to see they're not mucking about with the timeline. I hate when people do that, so I was really grateful for Farraday's "you can't change the past, whatever happened, happened" speech. That was previously, not this week, though. Overall I thought it dragged a little, but I look forward to what's to come.
UGLY BETTY season two disc three. This includes the paintball episode which was in fact the first episode I ever saw that inspired me to one day seek this series out as televised nutrition. It was a very good disc and I don't have anything negative to say about it! It's just so funny and so heartfelt. And increasingly and increasingly wacky, what with post-mortem childrens and toxic perfumes. I love it.
Took a slight detour and caught the end of SMALLVILLE--what can I say, Thursday is comedy night--and was not disappointed. Inexplicable is the word I would use. Lana absorbs kryptonite powers! Clark wants to kill Lex! A truck explodes! And then there was this little gem: Lana, trying to dissuade Clark from his inexplicable intended murder, imparts true wisdom, "you won't just lose this or that. You'll Lose Yourself." But then the truck exploded and did the deed for him??!?!???? I could make neither heads nor tails of it. But then at the very end there was an unexpectedly heartbreaking sequence where Clark refuses to let Lana out of his life even though her very presence could very well kill him. I found it poignant and inspiring. That show is like a grab bag of surprises.
New OFFICE. Shrug. I remember I laughed, but I don't remember at what. I liked Pam listlessly throwing the candies at the audience. I liked the to be continued. Edgy new territory!
New 30 ROCK. The strength of this show, which I may have said before, lies in its ability to form a coherent plot out of extraneous information. WAIT. I previously said that about CHUCK. Oh well, 30 ROCK does it, too. The melding of the A, B, and C plots is convoluted and masterful. And hilarious, yet meaningful. It's a very smart show, top to bottom.
Now that I think about it, I must have also watched the new BSG on Saturday--I did, at like 1 in the morning. Ah. It spawned my Facebook status, "Stephanie is oh Gaeta honey no," which will remain a mystery until you get to that episode. All I can say is hopefully the darkest hour will in fact be followed by the dawn.
So that's my media week! I dub myself a televisor. You can be one, too!
The other thing I did was cook dinner today, which I think was one of my rare and complete successes. A menu: meatloaf from a recipe off foodnetwork.com. Garlic mashed potatoes from a cardboard tube. Green beans and pine nuts in sesame oil from my mind. A romaine salad with walnuts, feta, and golden raisins, also from my mind because the meatloaf was still cooking and I had nothing else to do. Hooray cooking!
And the other day I made a curry tuna salad sandwich: tuna, curry powder, goldens, walnuts, pinenuts, celery, and mayo to keep it all together. Curry is like, my favoritest thing. Here, let me give you a list of recommendations for the week:
Curry powder
a dash of cinnamon in your cocoa
The Middle by Jimmy Eat World
This sketch by Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry
Have a Happy Thursday!
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