Alien signals, bird flu, and lots of TV.
Dec. 10th, 2005 09:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rsadelleMy brother gave me a CD, which I tried to listen to at work on Thursday. There was something in the quality of the sound that set my teeth on edge, so I gave up after about a half a song. (I'll have to try again at a different time, and possibly with different speakers.) Later that day, I started getting sick, which of course made me think of the alien signals in both Threshold and "Music of the Spheres," the Joshua Jackson-Kirsten Dunst episode of The Outer Limits.
I also had a non-serious flash of "maybe it's Asian bird flu," which I always misread as avian bird flu and then wonder who would come up with such a stupidly redundant name.
There's a New Yorker cartoon (possibly by Roz Chast) called "The Sweet Spot of the Flu." There's a person lying on a couch in front of a TV with tissues and other illness items spread around, and the caption says, "Too sick to go to work, not too sick for TV."
Yesterday I actually spent more time reading (Worldwired by Elizabeth Bear. I'm not sure if it's really not as good as Hammered and Scardown or if I just wasn't in the mood for it.) than watching TV. Today's been a bit more in the other direction.
I've been trying to watch things off of the poll some of you voted in. I've cheated a bit. I started with Dead Like Me because new friend Sarah loaned me the first season, and I couldn't resist Ned and Stacey as soon as I knew it was out on DVD (and I successfully stumped Guess the Dictator or Sit-Com Character with Eric).
I tried out Futurama. I told myself I was going to give it at least two episodes. I made it seven minutes into the second one before I gave up.
Farscape was the other top vote getter, and I've been putting it off because the discs are horribly inconvenient. Disc 1 has episodes 1 and 7, disc 2 has episodes 2 and 4, and so on in some incomprehensible pattern.
So instead of Farscape, I made The Dead Zone my next item. I watched the first three episodes yesterday. It was pretty good, but not spectacular. I may have seen too many psychic shows.
Today I watched Murder By Numbers. I can see why everyone was all into the teen gay murderers in love, but, eh. Michael Pitt is definitely a Leonardo DiCaprio wannabe.
Then I watched Dirty Dancing on TV. Erin says we watched it at Nikki's birthday party in elementary school, but I didn't remember it at all. Erin brought up a good point: Where did Baby get all those clothes? I myself have to wonder why this is a classic.
This evening, I tried watching It's a Wonderful Life, which I don't think I've ever really seen. I lasted 21 minutes. Then I tried ICE WARS Battle of the Sexes. That was only good for about eight minutes, but it did both make me want to see Ice Princess again and remind me of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
entrenous88's "Spander on Ice" (part 1, part 2).
And now for the rest of One Tree Hill, season 2, disc 4. (Miscellaneous annoyance: If you're ever making a DVD, make sure that the theme song is at the end of a chapter. I don't want to watch or have to fast forward and find the end of the opening credits every time.)
I also had a non-serious flash of "maybe it's Asian bird flu," which I always misread as avian bird flu and then wonder who would come up with such a stupidly redundant name.
There's a New Yorker cartoon (possibly by Roz Chast) called "The Sweet Spot of the Flu." There's a person lying on a couch in front of a TV with tissues and other illness items spread around, and the caption says, "Too sick to go to work, not too sick for TV."
Yesterday I actually spent more time reading (Worldwired by Elizabeth Bear. I'm not sure if it's really not as good as Hammered and Scardown or if I just wasn't in the mood for it.) than watching TV. Today's been a bit more in the other direction.
I've been trying to watch things off of the poll some of you voted in. I've cheated a bit. I started with Dead Like Me because new friend Sarah loaned me the first season, and I couldn't resist Ned and Stacey as soon as I knew it was out on DVD (and I successfully stumped Guess the Dictator or Sit-Com Character with Eric).
I tried out Futurama. I told myself I was going to give it at least two episodes. I made it seven minutes into the second one before I gave up.
Farscape was the other top vote getter, and I've been putting it off because the discs are horribly inconvenient. Disc 1 has episodes 1 and 7, disc 2 has episodes 2 and 4, and so on in some incomprehensible pattern.
So instead of Farscape, I made The Dead Zone my next item. I watched the first three episodes yesterday. It was pretty good, but not spectacular. I may have seen too many psychic shows.
Today I watched Murder By Numbers. I can see why everyone was all into the teen gay murderers in love, but, eh. Michael Pitt is definitely a Leonardo DiCaprio wannabe.
Then I watched Dirty Dancing on TV. Erin says we watched it at Nikki's birthday party in elementary school, but I didn't remember it at all. Erin brought up a good point: Where did Baby get all those clothes? I myself have to wonder why this is a classic.
This evening, I tried watching It's a Wonderful Life, which I don't think I've ever really seen. I lasted 21 minutes. Then I tried ICE WARS Battle of the Sexes. That was only good for about eight minutes, but it did both make me want to see Ice Princess again and remind me of
entrenous88's "Spander on Ice" (part 1, part 2).And now for the rest of One Tree Hill, season 2, disc 4. (Miscellaneous annoyance: If you're ever making a DVD, make sure that the theme song is at the end of a chapter. I don't want to watch or have to fast forward and find the end of the opening credits every time.)
I"m sorry
Date: 2005-12-12 05:03 pm (UTC)Consider me as having sent you virtual Tea and sympathy (though if you want phoned sympathy and virtual tea, I'll be home all day)
Oh, I think, like so many of the eighties movies, the classic quality of DDancing comes from remembering watching it then (though I know several who like it cuz of shirtless Swayzee) as well as sheer cheese factor. So yeah, I watch it when it comes on TV, and enjoy parts of it more than others, but I think it's mostly the familiar teen cheese (though actually my sister likes it too, I rented it for her a couple years ago with the comment "It's awful, you'll love it", while my Dad made a face and said "really, that movie?")
Re: I"m sorry
Date: 2005-12-13 06:57 am (UTC)Part of what I wanted to do this weekend was call you, but I felt too sick even for that. I was upset that I didn't get to do all the stuff I meant to start in on this weekend.
I do feel like it's cheating--if I don't go with what was voted on, then I hosted a poll under false pretenses!
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Date: 2005-12-24 01:28 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-12-25 07:29 pm (UTC)Seriously? That is idiotic!