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I am home. Actually, no, I am at work. I returned home last night and kinda took a bath and collapsed. I have not seen LJ in days and days. Due to traffic, I was too late to bail Sid out of puppy-jail and so I will leave here in an hour to do just that. My house feels very very wrong without him there. One of my contacts is cloudy and I meant to put my glasses on this morning and I forgot. My coffee tastes funny. I thought maybe it was the cup so I switched mugs and it still tasted funny so I decided it was my coffeemaker and I grabbed a cup at work and it still tastes funny so I think it is not the coffee, it is me. Coffee tastes funny to me. And not funny, ha ha, but funny as in it tastes like wool. It tastes the way clothing that sits wet in the washing machine smells the next day.
Wow. That was an astoundingly dull observation.
I find it interesting that I go to watch the pimping of I-man and in that time I am pimped to "House" (saw complete run to date), "Blackadder" (big chunks of what I think are series 2 and 3) and "Carnivale" (first 4 eps). I was supposed to be a pimper but I guess I am always destined to be the ho and never the pimp. I just have that kinda personality.
Also - I have spent more time and effort into planning Bobby and Darien's wedding than I ever put into even thinking about my own, but I have now given up and am drinking at the bar with Claire because weddings are hard and I am just not that interested once we get past the first dance. All hats off to the super-keen![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
vagabondage for promptly providing the song and to tzikeh for going and downloading a ton of different versions for me to listen to on the way home and then I had several moments of absolute verklempt as I drove home before I settled on the Lou Rawls version as being the most bobbyhobbes (although the Frank Sinatra version is still in the running) and then I was just a puddle of goo. Because they do that to me. I am Invisible Man goo and I have no hard-core street cred anymore.
Thoughts on TV I watched at Imanicon 2005 (otherwise known as the best place to be if LJ goes down for 24 hours):
House
So, yeah. I am now officially agreeing with all of you about Hugh Laurie. Great fricking character and there is a terrific relationship between House and Wilson and I do like those interactions. As far as the show itself, I have to just accept the implausibility of any and all of the medical interactions. Yes, these doctors would never in a million years be doing all of the things they are doing (yeah, I would be much happier if they were working on the diagnosis mysteries behind the scenes and actually letting, I don't know, the trained pediatricians run the tests on the babies for one)renenet said something about "Space Medicine" and I have decided to use that as my filter because as soon as you move a show to space I accept any and all explanations because what do I know about space medicine?
So I have to get over the fact that this hospital runs differently than any Earth hospital ever would. Also, this might explain the amount of Cuddy-Cleavage because dear god - that woman cannot be running a hospital like that. I mean - I have no idea what she said in one particular scene because I was too busy staring at her chest - it is more distracting than AtS Season 5 Cordy-Cleavage. I will forgive the lowcut blouses and push-up bras and dominitrix inspired chokers if only we get a scene of catty discussion amongst the other hospital staff about it. Because believe me, they would have a running conversation about her slut-suits - not just House. House will be quoted often in groups when discussing Cuddy's chest, but she is so getting talked about. I know these things.
Other than her wardrobe choices I want to like Cuddy and I just don't. There are moments when I enjoy having her around but I don't care for her as a person and I think it is because she just comes off as mean. This seems strange because the only person I have ever seen her being deliberately cruel toward is House and he is more than capable of taking care of himself and in fact is just as cruel toward her and everyone else as well. I felt very double standardish since I adore House for the things the says and despise Cuddy for the exact same actions and I was concerned this was that invisible misogyny my fandom often warns me about rearing its head.
And then I realized that is a load of bullshit. I like House because he treats Cuddy exactly as he treats everyone else (well, except for Wilson) and I dislike Cuddy because she never in a million years would speak to another employee the way she speaks to House. I understand that he is difficult to deal with and control, but she could handle him without the cripple jokes. She tries too hard to show him that his disability will not affect how she treats him and while I think there is a very interesting story as too why she does this now -- it doesn't make me like her or think she is a decent person. She lacks Class.
Also - she is the boss. I have higher standards for her. She needs to take her TV ass home and watch some St. Elsewhere. There is a way to do this and she shouldn't be stooping. Or, er, leaning over.
Blackadder
Dude, so everyone is talking about Hugh Laurie and then someone mentions "Blackadder" and I mentioned I have never seen it andtzikeh was just shocked and appalled. Or was it shock and awe? I have no idea and all I can really say now is OMG MR BEAN!!!!!
Carnivale
I have been warned so often that this is a very slow-paced show and that you have to give it time and so I watched the first episode and I kept waitiing for it to slow down so I could think about all the stuff that was going on and it didn't and OMG.
This is not slow. This is deep and rich and requires full-on intensive viewing because there is no one sitting there explaining it as it goes along and I wish the DVD sets had a "Carnivale for Dummies" setting with red arrows pointing to things I should be noticing. OH! Pop-up Carnivale would be nice...
Of course I say this, but actually it is really really cool that this is a show that is actively not explaining things to me, but there are things that could be explained. I like that they are trusting me to figure it out and to connect dots and to actually think.
And now I must go for I need to do some research on the Dust Bowl before lunchtime. Oh, and also work. Luckily work will not interfere with researching... man I hate this job.
Wow. That was an astoundingly dull observation.
I find it interesting that I go to watch the pimping of I-man and in that time I am pimped to "House" (saw complete run to date), "Blackadder" (big chunks of what I think are series 2 and 3) and "Carnivale" (first 4 eps). I was supposed to be a pimper but I guess I am always destined to be the ho and never the pimp. I just have that kinda personality.
Also - I have spent more time and effort into planning Bobby and Darien's wedding than I ever put into even thinking about my own, but I have now given up and am drinking at the bar with Claire because weddings are hard and I am just not that interested once we get past the first dance. All hats off to the super-keen
vagabondage for promptly providing the song and to tzikeh for going and downloading a ton of different versions for me to listen to on the way home and then I had several moments of absolute verklempt as I drove home before I settled on the Lou Rawls version as being the most bobbyhobbes (although the Frank Sinatra version is still in the running) and then I was just a puddle of goo. Because they do that to me. I am Invisible Man goo and I have no hard-core street cred anymore. Thoughts on TV I watched at Imanicon 2005 (otherwise known as the best place to be if LJ goes down for 24 hours):
House
So, yeah. I am now officially agreeing with all of you about Hugh Laurie. Great fricking character and there is a terrific relationship between House and Wilson and I do like those interactions. As far as the show itself, I have to just accept the implausibility of any and all of the medical interactions. Yes, these doctors would never in a million years be doing all of the things they are doing (yeah, I would be much happier if they were working on the diagnosis mysteries behind the scenes and actually letting, I don't know, the trained pediatricians run the tests on the babies for one)
renenet said something about "Space Medicine" and I have decided to use that as my filter because as soon as you move a show to space I accept any and all explanations because what do I know about space medicine? So I have to get over the fact that this hospital runs differently than any Earth hospital ever would. Also, this might explain the amount of Cuddy-Cleavage because dear god - that woman cannot be running a hospital like that. I mean - I have no idea what she said in one particular scene because I was too busy staring at her chest - it is more distracting than AtS Season 5 Cordy-Cleavage. I will forgive the lowcut blouses and push-up bras and dominitrix inspired chokers if only we get a scene of catty discussion amongst the other hospital staff about it. Because believe me, they would have a running conversation about her slut-suits - not just House. House will be quoted often in groups when discussing Cuddy's chest, but she is so getting talked about. I know these things.
Other than her wardrobe choices I want to like Cuddy and I just don't. There are moments when I enjoy having her around but I don't care for her as a person and I think it is because she just comes off as mean. This seems strange because the only person I have ever seen her being deliberately cruel toward is House and he is more than capable of taking care of himself and in fact is just as cruel toward her and everyone else as well. I felt very double standardish since I adore House for the things the says and despise Cuddy for the exact same actions and I was concerned this was that invisible misogyny my fandom often warns me about rearing its head.
And then I realized that is a load of bullshit. I like House because he treats Cuddy exactly as he treats everyone else (well, except for Wilson) and I dislike Cuddy because she never in a million years would speak to another employee the way she speaks to House. I understand that he is difficult to deal with and control, but she could handle him without the cripple jokes. She tries too hard to show him that his disability will not affect how she treats him and while I think there is a very interesting story as too why she does this now -- it doesn't make me like her or think she is a decent person. She lacks Class.
Also - she is the boss. I have higher standards for her. She needs to take her TV ass home and watch some St. Elsewhere. There is a way to do this and she shouldn't be stooping. Or, er, leaning over.
Blackadder
Dude, so everyone is talking about Hugh Laurie and then someone mentions "Blackadder" and I mentioned I have never seen it and
tzikeh was just shocked and appalled. Or was it shock and awe? I have no idea and all I can really say now is OMG MR BEAN!!!!! Carnivale
I have been warned so often that this is a very slow-paced show and that you have to give it time and so I watched the first episode and I kept waitiing for it to slow down so I could think about all the stuff that was going on and it didn't and OMG.
This is not slow. This is deep and rich and requires full-on intensive viewing because there is no one sitting there explaining it as it goes along and I wish the DVD sets had a "Carnivale for Dummies" setting with red arrows pointing to things I should be noticing. OH! Pop-up Carnivale would be nice...
Of course I say this, but actually it is really really cool that this is a show that is actively not explaining things to me, but there are things that could be explained. I like that they are trusting me to figure it out and to connect dots and to actually think.
And now I must go for I need to do some research on the Dust Bowl before lunchtime. Oh, and also work. Luckily work will not interfere with researching... man I hate this job.
