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.
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