Friday, February 22, 2008
I don’t even mind having to watch the commercials
Tim is in Sarasota, so I’m channel surfing while knitting. And THANK THE LAWD I am able to rinse the absolute tainted stink of the The Sarah Conner Chronicles off my palate because AMC is playing T2 right now. It is SO FREAKING GOOD to see Linda Hamilton that I don’t even mind sitting through the commercials, as this is the strange thing called “actual live TV” as opposed to my usual DVR way of watching.
It’s not that I think The Sarah Conner Chronicles sucks, mind you, it’s .... wait; yes, it does. It does suck. It sucks like a giant black hole of suck, that is sucking everything into it with a giant sucking sound.
Summer Glau? Love her. But she’s playing the same crazy character as in Firefly, except with marginally better healing skills.
And the new Sarah Conner...? See, the thing I loved about Linda Hamilton in T2 is that she looked like she’d shoot you just as soon as look at ya. This new “I might be 23, I might be 43, but I will overpower you with my sexy sultry looks anyway, whether I’m talking to my ex-fiance or my son, or perhaps a cute programmer who looks to be the same age as my son, and doesn’t that just creep you out” version is L.A.M.E.
I shouldn’t hold back, I know.
It’s just that this new TV show, that I had such high hopes for, isn’t portraying her so much as a hard-ass fighter as… a whiny cunt.
Thus spoke Lorena on 02/22/08 at 08:53 PM in Media, Movies, Television
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Didja see Lost last night? (spoilers)
I hate to admit it, but… I think I have to agree with those who think that Locke has swan-dived off the crazy cliff into the swimming pool of lunacy.
Also, Kate? I have a few things to say to you, after the cut.
Thus spoke Lorena on 02/22/08 at 07:34 AM in Media, Television
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Sleeping through most of the morning of my one day off
Well, that was a waste of a morning! Except that I was sleeping, and sleeping = teh awesome, especially when I didn’t sleep so well the night before. So rather than berate myself for not waking up until almost 10 AM, I should shrug and say “I needed the sleep” and move on with my day.
What should I do today? Besides sit here and drink coffee and knit and watch Beneath the Planet of the Apes. I kind of have a headache and feel like sitting on the couch, knitting and watching horrible TV for most of the day. I do need to get a couple of prescriptions filled, and the pong emanating from the dog is a huge hint that she needs a bath (and could use a good walk, as well… we both could). So perhaps, that will be my day. Watch a little more TV, shower, run up to the pharmacy and then by that time it’ll be warm enough to give the dog a bath (I do this outside; have you ever tried to wrestle a 75 pound dog into the tub when she doesn’t want to get in? I swear she can change her mass at will.) and go for a walk afterwards.
In other news, I’m in a black hole of knitting. For about a week now, I’ve been knitting five repeats a day on a cabled pattern. Every day I say to myself, “I think five more repeats and I’ll be done” but it just never seems to grow. What’s up with that?! Crazy knitting, with a life of its own and stuff. This time, though, I’m really sure that five more repeats will get me to the next stage. Really. For reals, yo.
Lastly… Anyone watching The Sarah Conner Chronicles? Anyone else but me watching it only because there’s nothing else on? I mean, yeah. I loves me some Summer Glau… but she moves and talks exactly like her character in Firefly. She does play crazy pretty well, though, so I love her. But I have a couple of questions about the show.
- If you can only transport through time with a naked organic exterior, how did the Terminator from the bank get through with them in broken metal pieces?
- If they transported to 2007 and clearly made such a fuss getting there, why don’t the Terminators from 2007 know about them? We’ve been told they were sent back only to kill the people helping Sarah & Co. and don’t know when/where Sarah & Co. are. Wouldn’t showing up naked in a freeway and being on the news sort of… tip them off...?
- The only way to get me to dislike a show faster than starting it off with someone important in trouble and about to die and then skipping to a scene where everyone is fine with the words “24 hours earlier” at the bottom of the screen… is to start a show off with someone important in trouble and they *do* die and then explaining that all away as a dream sequence. Just sayin’.
Okay, thus ends my randomosity. I’m off for more coffee now, and maybe a shower.
Thus spoke Lorena on 01/22/08 at 10:50 AM in Media, Television, Personal, My random life
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Friday, December 14, 2007
Help! I’m a Hoarder!
If you’re new to hanging out here at Chez Snark, you might not know that I am fascinated with hoarders and hoarding. I am a cluttered pack-rat/Agent of Chaos – as is most everyone in my family – and every time I see photos of hoarding I get the willies that I might someday be on that track. If nothing else, I start to feel like maybe I should clean up my desk, take the trash out, clean off some flat surfaces. Hmm. Guilt by possible future association…?
Anyway. Moving on.
Sharon calls me the other night after 10 o’clock at night. My first thought when the phone rings that late at night is that someone is in trouble or someone has died; when I found out it was Sharon I was of course worried that something had happened at the shop (fire, sudden moth infestation… you know. Emergency!). But she prefaced with “I know it’s late to call, but…” and then she told me about a show she’d seen was on that I had to catch – TLC was running Help! I’m a hoarder!. Aaaaaahhhh! Run to the TV! Kick Tim off the Discovery Channel!
Now, that’s a good friend, who will call you late at night so that you don’t miss a show on one of your favorite topics!
TLC doesn’t have a page for the show, so I’m not linking to anything. Hopefully it will become a series, as it my Google-fu seems to be showing that it was just a one-shot deal. I thought that the topic was treated sensitively and with respect, showing how the mind of a hoarder works and talking about their feelings on the topic; it wasn’t at all a freak-fest with finger pointing and shock value.
So after spending a cup of coffee doing some more surfing on when is it clutter and when is it hoarding and understanding compulsive hoarding (there’s a quote on that page, “The most commonly saved items include newspapers, magazines, old clothing, bags, books, mail, notes, and lists.” Which to an item is almost everything that we threw away from my dad’s office after he died… anyway… hrm. I think I need to go straighten/organize/clean something now.
Thus spoke Lorena on 12/14/07 at 07:46 AM in Media, Television, Personal, My random life
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Monday, November 12, 2007
Heroes + Survivor
If you’re a Heroes junkie like Tim and I are, this is totally worth the read, if only for the line “OMFG IS THIS A TRAP! UR DAD IS TEH EVIL!!11!!!”.
Hee.
Thus spoke Lorena on 11/12/07 at 04:30 PM in Media, Television
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Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Best throw-away line on Eureka tonight
(They’re talking to a chicken farmer about cloned chicken, and stating that some protien something or other is a GABBA blocker. The farmer says something like, “it’s a what blocker?")
Vet: Gabba!
Sheriff: Gabba hey?
Yeah. Okay. So probably only Sharon thinks that’s funny.
Don’t feel bad, I had to explain it to Tim, too.
Thus spoke Lorena on 08/28/07 at 10:42 PM in Media, Television
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Sunday, June 10, 2007
Dear David Chase
I would like the last eight years of my life back, please.
It all boils down to…
Thus spoke Lorena on 06/10/07 at 10:10 PM in Media, Television
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Season finales
We’re gearing up for and/or just had the season finale of some shows that I watch.
Possible spoilers in the extended if you haven’t seen the last couple of episodes of Heroes, The Sopranos, or Lost.
I’m also still giving Crossing Jordan and ER a pity watch, but all I can muster up to say about those is “meh”.
Thus spoke Lorena on 05/22/07 at 07:28 AM in Media, Television
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Friday, April 27, 2007
Five TV shows that have grown on me
These are five TV shows that I’ve seen in the last mumble while that have grown on me, shows that I like/liked a lot more than I thought I would.
Dead Like Me
Heroes
Psych
Six Feet Under
Whoops, I guess there’s only four. HAHAHAH!
Thus spoke Lorena on 04/27/07 at 06:42 AM in Media, Television
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Friday, April 06, 2007
Five lines about five TV shows I’ve seen recently
Crossing Jordan: Dear Jordan, please die already and let us move on to the “Bug and Nigel Show”, thank you.
ER: The shark you jumped over needs to be resuscitated, stat!
Till Death Do Us Part: I do loves me some cheesy John Waters.
Lost: It’s like they’re feeding us fried okra and calling it chocolate, which is fine if you like okra (which I do not).
Homicide: Life on the Street: I forget which station is rerunning these right now but I found it and set my DVR to tape it every weekday at 11 and got-DAMN I miss this show.
Thus spoke Lorena on 04/06/07 at 10:28 PM in Media, Television
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Thursday, November 09, 2006
Lost
WHAT THE FUCK, PEOPLE?!
Questions answered this half season: none.
New questions raised: about a billion.
Thus spoke Lorena on 11/09/06 at 10:46 AM in Media, Television
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Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Get Lost!
Tonight is the season premiere of Lost. I know a bunch of you watch it… what are you hoping happens? Or have you read some spoilers and you already know what’s going to happen...?
Thus spoke Lorena on 10/04/06 at 09:58 AM in Media, Television
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Thursday, September 21, 2006
The Robert Romano/House smackdown
Okay, I’m going to alienate a bunch of my readers (anyone who hasn’t already left due to Knitting Overload).
I don’t like House.
I watched a few episodes a couple of months ago, because the people who I know who watch it talk about it with a kind of religious fervor that I usually reserve for The Pogues. And I have to tell you… I could take it or leave it. It seemed that where Romano is rude to mask an unusually sweet heart, House was rude to make the audience laugh or squirm. When people would talk about Romano on ER, they usually agreed the man was just an ass. But then you would see him sign to Benton’s son… bring his dog in for emergency surgery… give Elizabeth advice when Mark’s cancer came back. When people were talking about House, they tried to make excuses for his behavior because he was a good doctor. And what you would see him do was… act like a complete ass. My point is that nobody liked Romano, but he was secretely likable. Nobody seems (at least in the episodes I saw) to like House, and he doesn’t seem to have any redeeming qualities.
While you’re welcome to comment that “but House is loveable because he does this” please understand that while I will happily read your comments I’m not going to change my mind about the show. At this point, so many people have told me that “you HAVE to watch House” that I feel like I felt about “having” to watch Forrest Gump. No, there is no law stating that I “HAVE” to watch it. So, I’m not.
So here’s a poll-- maybe next week the winner can go up against Hawkeye Pierce!
Robert "Rocket" Romano vs. House
Total Votes: 13
Robert "Rocket" Romano
54% (7)House
46% (6)Thus spoke Lorena on 09/21/06 at 06:37 AM in Media, Television, Snarkland, Polls
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Thursday, August 31, 2006
From Lostzilla to Zombies!
(via)
Lost Star Finds Three Film Roles
Perhaps indicating that Michael and Walt actually were able to sail away from the isle, Harold Perrineau has landed a trip of big-screen gigs: 28 Weeks Later (the follow-up to 28 Days Later), as a special forces pilot; Your Name Here, playing Richard Roundtree in the biopic of sci-fi author Philip K. Dick; and Gardens of the Night, opposite John Malkovich and Jeremy Sisto.
I’m a little too tired to be coherent about this, but… THE SEQUEL TO 28 DAYS LATER! Finally, more than just rumor! SQUEEEEEE! :thud:
Thus spoke Lorena on 08/31/06 at 10:37 PM in Media, Movies, Television
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Tuesday, August 22, 2006
53 seconds of howling laughter
Anybody watch Stargate? Farscape? This is just frelling brilliant. It’s from the 200th episode of Stargate last Friday. If you don’t watch it, all you need to know is that two actors from Farscape have gotten jobs on the show, and the premise of this scene is that Vala is pitching a movie idea to a producer.
I could watch this again, and again, and again. It just doesn’t get old.
Thus spoke Lorena on 08/22/06 at 06:37 AM in Media, Television, YouTube
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Monday, June 12, 2006
And now, our special guest! YAAAAAAAAY!
I do love me some Muppets.
And now (via),
TBS has ordered a half-hour pilot for Late Night Buffet from the Jim Henson Co., says the Hollywood Reporter. Aside from its celebrity interviewees, the chatfest would feature — I kid you not — only Muppets.
Thus spoke Lorena on 06/12/06 at 05:08 PM in Media, Television
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Thursday, May 25, 2006
Lost season finale
Here there be spoilers!
Thus spoke Lorena on 05/25/06 at 10:41 AM in Media, Television
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Wednesday, May 03, 2006
Lost
Holy. Fucking. Shit.
I was totally not expecting the second shooting.
I’ll comment more tomorrow, after I process a bit.
Thus spoke Lorena on 05/03/06 at 10:36 PM in Media, Television
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Thursday, March 30, 2006
Lost
Here there be spoilers!
Thus spoke Lorena on 03/30/06 at 06:55 PM in Media, Television
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Thursday, February 16, 2006
Lost
Here’s an email I just sent out to a couple people; then I thought “I don’t have time to really write anything for my site, so why not cheat and post my email?”
Spoilers follow, primarily about the hieroglyphics.
Thus spoke Lorena on 02/16/06 at 08:32 AM in Media, Television
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