entertainment tonight
February 19, 2000I'm currently doing my ritual Saturday Night NBC Thrillogy viewing. God, I remember when I first started watching it, way back when Dark Skies was on normal network teevee. I'm freaking out that the rapist on Profiler bares just too much resemblance to Schultz the Almighty Theatre Professor. Rock on, a demonic sushi chef on The Others. I'm liking this show more every week.
My sister is gone for the entire weekend, which makes me ecstatic to no end. She's off somewhere in West Palm warming her hands over bear dung. Ok, so she's not warming her hands 'cause it's not that cold but she apparently learned that technique at her last Warrior Nature Woman thing last month in Ocala. The whole idea of my sister "roughing it" is highly amusing. I've always thought of her as delicate to say the least but living with her for the past 14 months has lowered my opinion of her greatly. Basically I can't believe that she's made it this far in the first place, so the idea of her doing all this empowerment stuff is whacked to me. It makes sense on the surface, but with my dealings with her it gives it a totally different spin.
I just saw the stupidest promo for Days of Our Lives. Yes, I sortakinda follow Days, but only through the random promos I see--that way I get to laugh myself silly while not actually having to endure the mind numbing horror that is Days. Apparently Hope/Gina or whoever she is now is in some foreign country with some evil stranger and everyone who loves her has hopped on a plane. Insert shots of the entire population of Salem that is ever shown on Days kissing and hugging and about to throw a freaking charity ball on the damn plane...when suddenly...something goes wrong with the plane! Ahhhh! Just what I've come to expect from Days considering the first time I ever watched was the day that Marlena was freed from possession by the Devil by John Black the Priest. Next time I watched, a week later maybe, ta da!, John's not a priest anymore, he's now Marlena's honey. WTF?
Went out with Matt last night to see Pitch Black. Pretty decent movie, not destined to become a sci-fi classic but definitely not one that will get shod on as much as Leviathan and the like. Thankfully the people sitting next to us were pretty cool for the entire movie until the end when one girl kept repeating, "I am so in love with the convict!" The rest of the audience I can't be so kind too. At one point a guy sitting somewhere behind us yelled out, "Commercial!" That was just the most blatant of the offenses. Personally I think it has everything to do with teevee and of course, no home training. We're all so used to watching movies and shows at home in private where we can yell at the teevee, throw popcorn and drool all ourselves if we darn well feel like it. But sorry it's just so uncouth to do that in a packed movie theatre. This cinches it, I'm not going to Fri/Saturday night showings unless it's a bad ass movie premiere weekend. Those four o'clock showings on Friday afternoon are so much nicer.
February 20, 2000
I think I'm suffering from Dennis Miller withdrawl--I'm currently watching Bordello of Blood if that's any indication of how bad it is. It sucks [no pun intended] heartily but I'm glad to see that Dennis is just playing himself, so it's just like watching his show except with bad writing and undead whores running around.
Thanks to a link to IGN from Natalie about a Claudia Black interview I found some awesome news: TNT is making a four hour mini-series of Mists of Avalon! I'm glad TNT is doing it, they always do such an awesome job with adaptations--plus the guy who's directing is the one who did Purgatory. This should so rock.
I read Avalon book right after I stopped seeing Adam and at the time it probably made dealing with that relationship a lot harder but looking back at it now I give I Avalon a lot of credit for making me stronger in the long run. Recently I've been wanting to read it again, but the sheer and profound emotional reaction it elicits from me might be more than I can really deal with right now. Guess I'll just read Pride and Prejudice again.