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Happy Birthday to Rob/buffyannatator!!!
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buffyannatator a Happy Birthday, Everyone!
buffyannatator a Happy Birthday, Everyone!Mar. 19th, 2004
Ugh, having the worst time of it with my internet server - it's been bouncing back email I send to aol users again. I get their email, they just may not get mine. Highly annoying. So - cjl? If you are reading this? Yes, we are on for Sat at noon. Looking forward to it. ;-) (I think it went through this time, since I haven't gotten a postal non-delivery message back yet regarding it.)
Watched Wonderfalls tonight. Interesting show, sometimes amusing, sometimes annoying, sometimes just plain perplexing, and other times incredibly clever. But not really predictable, which is an amazing feat for a tv show these days. I've come to the conclusion that the whole thing is meant to be taken somewhat tongue in cheek and is a parody of those oh-so-serious teen/young lady helps people shows such as: Dead Like Me, Tru Calling, Joan of Arcadia, and Touched by An Angel. Every once and a while formulaic shows will spawn something witty and clever as a sort of frustrated response to them. The OC, Beverly Hills 90210, One Tree Hill, Everwood and their ilk finally spawned Arrested Development a half hour parody of these oh-so-serious dysfunctional teen/family soap operas. Both are laugh out loud funny, especially if you've seen an episode of the shows that they are wittily making fun of.
Wonderfalls also had one of the best lines I've heard all week: Jaye to Binky (the Jaye wanna be or investigator reporter - you aren't sure which throughout the episode and neither is Binky or Jaye for that matter, which is amusing in of itself and also somewhat annoying and perplexing at the same time..): "You want to surround yourself with people who are at least at or below your level, but not fellow narcissists because that would direct the attention away from yourself."
Now, if I can only get past the jarring Malcolm in The Middelesque direction, which comes very close to giving me motion sickness each time I tune in, I'll be fine. (This may be the reason I don't watch Malcolm in The Middle that much.) Feel for the tv writer, my friends - they are literally ordered by marketing people to come up with clones of successful shows, the ones who maintain some sort of sanity or innovation, come up with parodies of the successful shows from time to time. From all the jarring hand-held camera techniques I've seen on TV lately, I'm beginning to think TV directors are equally bored. I'm also feeling this odd desire to conviscate their hand-held cameras.
At any rate - Wonderfalls and watching the DVD version of BTVS S4 Pangs this evening, along with some of
herselfnyc fanfic, relaxed me.
Lovely writer herself.
I think my difficulty with the villainous in the current Harry Potter is she reminds me a little bit too much of evil boss, same smarmy attitude, same bureaucratic nastiness - yes, you can be killed by memos. I kid you not. At any rate, I'm only on page 349 and I already want to see the character skinned alive. Not good, considering I have at least 400 more pages of her torturing characters to deal with. Ugh and I was *really* enjoying the book. Hmmm. Maybe I'll skim over her sections? Trying hard not to spoil myself.
Speaking of spoilers - jumped briefly over to BAPS and ASSB. ( to protect spoilerphobes, nothing specific in fact I'd be shocked if you got spoiled by this, but just in case )
Have decided that people's responses to what is coming or even what has already appeared on-screen, has a lot to do with how committed they are to the fantasy story in their heads, which they deseperately want ME to tell. People - no writer is going to tell the fantasy story in your head, but you, they are going to tell the fantasy story in their head. You'd think this would be self-evident? Apparently not. (sigh). And no, this is not about anything that has appeared on atpo recently - I actually loved the criticism thread on Amends, wholeheartedly agreed with several folks on that thread.
Snow? ( somewhat snarky take on the snow metaphor to protect the innocent )
Sorry, snarky mood tonight - I put it down to a combo of bad internet server, bad weather, pms,
and cabin fever. Need Spring. Now! ;-)
Watched Wonderfalls tonight. Interesting show, sometimes amusing, sometimes annoying, sometimes just plain perplexing, and other times incredibly clever. But not really predictable, which is an amazing feat for a tv show these days. I've come to the conclusion that the whole thing is meant to be taken somewhat tongue in cheek and is a parody of those oh-so-serious teen/young lady helps people shows such as: Dead Like Me, Tru Calling, Joan of Arcadia, and Touched by An Angel. Every once and a while formulaic shows will spawn something witty and clever as a sort of frustrated response to them. The OC, Beverly Hills 90210, One Tree Hill, Everwood and their ilk finally spawned Arrested Development a half hour parody of these oh-so-serious dysfunctional teen/family soap operas. Both are laugh out loud funny, especially if you've seen an episode of the shows that they are wittily making fun of.
Wonderfalls also had one of the best lines I've heard all week: Jaye to Binky (the Jaye wanna be or investigator reporter - you aren't sure which throughout the episode and neither is Binky or Jaye for that matter, which is amusing in of itself and also somewhat annoying and perplexing at the same time..): "You want to surround yourself with people who are at least at or below your level, but not fellow narcissists because that would direct the attention away from yourself."
Now, if I can only get past the jarring Malcolm in The Middelesque direction, which comes very close to giving me motion sickness each time I tune in, I'll be fine. (This may be the reason I don't watch Malcolm in The Middle that much.) Feel for the tv writer, my friends - they are literally ordered by marketing people to come up with clones of successful shows, the ones who maintain some sort of sanity or innovation, come up with parodies of the successful shows from time to time. From all the jarring hand-held camera techniques I've seen on TV lately, I'm beginning to think TV directors are equally bored. I'm also feeling this odd desire to conviscate their hand-held cameras.
At any rate - Wonderfalls and watching the DVD version of BTVS S4 Pangs this evening, along with some of
herselfnyc fanfic, relaxed me.Lovely writer herself.
I think my difficulty with the villainous in the current Harry Potter is she reminds me a little bit too much of evil boss, same smarmy attitude, same bureaucratic nastiness - yes, you can be killed by memos. I kid you not. At any rate, I'm only on page 349 and I already want to see the character skinned alive. Not good, considering I have at least 400 more pages of her torturing characters to deal with. Ugh and I was *really* enjoying the book. Hmmm. Maybe I'll skim over her sections? Trying hard not to spoil myself.
Speaking of spoilers - jumped briefly over to BAPS and ASSB. ( to protect spoilerphobes, nothing specific in fact I'd be shocked if you got spoiled by this, but just in case )
Have decided that people's responses to what is coming or even what has already appeared on-screen, has a lot to do with how committed they are to the fantasy story in their heads, which they deseperately want ME to tell. People - no writer is going to tell the fantasy story in your head, but you, they are going to tell the fantasy story in their head. You'd think this would be self-evident? Apparently not. (sigh). And no, this is not about anything that has appeared on atpo recently - I actually loved the criticism thread on Amends, wholeheartedly agreed with several folks on that thread.
Snow? ( somewhat snarky take on the snow metaphor to protect the innocent )
Sorry, snarky mood tonight - I put it down to a combo of bad internet server, bad weather, pms,
and cabin fever. Need Spring. Now! ;-)
