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
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Thursday, February 26, 2009
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, January 22, 2009
Coming up with a new title every week is harder than you might imagine
Happy Thursday! A hearty Happy Thursday to each one of my Thursday friends, individually. You can pay me later.
These weeks are very similar to each other. I guess it was last Friday that I finished up the last of BSG that I hadn't seen, all set in time for the season premiere that night. Since then I've re-seen season three and half of 4.0, with my mom. As of this evening she's all caught up to watch tomorrow's new episode. I've also seen every additional video on the scifi.com page and read a healthy dose of fic. Will I write my own? Nah. Oh wait, I already did. Oops.
So that's the drill. Pack in BSG around work, like sea-damp sand around rocks. To build a strong base for the sand castle. Work is the foundation upon which I build my castle of BSG. That's actually kind of accurate. I don't know what I'm gonna do when I get a real job and have to give up my free rentals. That's like an extra hundred bucks a month in perks.
There aren't any other memories strong enough to ascend from the blurry soup that is my visualization of this last week. And the memories themselves are supposed to look like withered translucent specters with empty eyes and hooked claw-hands and bodies that fade to shreds of ectoplasm that whip around like the torn ends of some ancient ballgown. And the soup is swirling, a blur of course, made up of the composite goo from which these ghouls tear free. There are, in an inexplicable yet necessary manner, giant hunks of potato mixed throughout.
If I focus really hard, I get images of going for walks. Ah. Day before last was a lovely summer day, and I went out to some thrift stores and ended up at Old Navy. Oh well. Thrifting because there are two within walking distance and I needed a destination, and also because I'm getting a head start on when I go to Comic Con this summer and cosplay a Viper pilot. Believe it.
And today it was post-rainy, and I went down to the bank to deposit my checks I finally picked up. I also listened to some podcasts on screenwriting, which I believe I've mentioned before. They are like mini classes, but free and entertaining. And then today I was going to watch some scary movies in the middle of the day, but I got distracted and ended up playing Oblivion for the rest of the day. Oh well, there's always tomorrow.
I still have to watch LOST tonight!!! Stupid thing about work is that now they've started scheduling me in the nights, right over pretty much every tv I watch. Which wasn't a problem over the hiatus, but now I'm feeling myself lucky to get off work tomorrow at 9:30 and get home to watch BSG at 10.
I also spent a good portion of some days.....yesterday and today? Day before last and yesterday? playing The Movies! a PC game my brother got me for Christmas. It's like the Sims but you have to run a movie studio to glory. It's all kinds of addictive. And they make some pretty ridiculous movies, and you can share them online. It oddly felt like something I should be doing, to further my career.
I would impart another writing-based musing for this week, but I don't think that sort of thing is really targeting my audience. Also because the one I've been thinking about is long and turns out to be a question that I don't think you can answer. It has to do with forming a premise (as defined by Lajos Egri), and what that means in a multi-story format like television. What I really need are books on writing for television. There's so much I don't know.
OH. OFFICE was random tonight, but I liked 30 ROCK. I like what the latter does in the area of human moments that aren't raucous or strange--just poignant. I mean, within context. Liz saying to Jack, "uh doi" isn't poignant at all, but this show finds the way to make it that way. The OFFICE debate plot I found adorable but distant. Like a poor man's "Office Olympics" which managed to be 4/5s random hilarity and 1/5 pure heart, which was something tonight's episode didn't quite reach.
I'm out. The Island is waiting for me.
-Steph
These weeks are very similar to each other. I guess it was last Friday that I finished up the last of BSG that I hadn't seen, all set in time for the season premiere that night. Since then I've re-seen season three and half of 4.0, with my mom. As of this evening she's all caught up to watch tomorrow's new episode. I've also seen every additional video on the scifi.com page and read a healthy dose of fic. Will I write my own? Nah. Oh wait, I already did. Oops.
So that's the drill. Pack in BSG around work, like sea-damp sand around rocks. To build a strong base for the sand castle. Work is the foundation upon which I build my castle of BSG. That's actually kind of accurate. I don't know what I'm gonna do when I get a real job and have to give up my free rentals. That's like an extra hundred bucks a month in perks.
There aren't any other memories strong enough to ascend from the blurry soup that is my visualization of this last week. And the memories themselves are supposed to look like withered translucent specters with empty eyes and hooked claw-hands and bodies that fade to shreds of ectoplasm that whip around like the torn ends of some ancient ballgown. And the soup is swirling, a blur of course, made up of the composite goo from which these ghouls tear free. There are, in an inexplicable yet necessary manner, giant hunks of potato mixed throughout.
If I focus really hard, I get images of going for walks. Ah. Day before last was a lovely summer day, and I went out to some thrift stores and ended up at Old Navy. Oh well. Thrifting because there are two within walking distance and I needed a destination, and also because I'm getting a head start on when I go to Comic Con this summer and cosplay a Viper pilot. Believe it.
And today it was post-rainy, and I went down to the bank to deposit my checks I finally picked up. I also listened to some podcasts on screenwriting, which I believe I've mentioned before. They are like mini classes, but free and entertaining. And then today I was going to watch some scary movies in the middle of the day, but I got distracted and ended up playing Oblivion for the rest of the day. Oh well, there's always tomorrow.
I still have to watch LOST tonight!!! Stupid thing about work is that now they've started scheduling me in the nights, right over pretty much every tv I watch. Which wasn't a problem over the hiatus, but now I'm feeling myself lucky to get off work tomorrow at 9:30 and get home to watch BSG at 10.
I also spent a good portion of some days.....yesterday and today? Day before last and yesterday? playing The Movies! a PC game my brother got me for Christmas. It's like the Sims but you have to run a movie studio to glory. It's all kinds of addictive. And they make some pretty ridiculous movies, and you can share them online. It oddly felt like something I should be doing, to further my career.
I would impart another writing-based musing for this week, but I don't think that sort of thing is really targeting my audience. Also because the one I've been thinking about is long and turns out to be a question that I don't think you can answer. It has to do with forming a premise (as defined by Lajos Egri), and what that means in a multi-story format like television. What I really need are books on writing for television. There's so much I don't know.
OH. OFFICE was random tonight, but I liked 30 ROCK. I like what the latter does in the area of human moments that aren't raucous or strange--just poignant. I mean, within context. Liz saying to Jack, "uh doi" isn't poignant at all, but this show finds the way to make it that way. The OFFICE debate plot I found adorable but distant. Like a poor man's "Office Olympics" which managed to be 4/5s random hilarity and 1/5 pure heart, which was something tonight's episode didn't quite reach.
I'm out. The Island is waiting for me.
-Steph
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