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This week Chris and I pretty much watched the entirety of House season 2. Yeah, when we get hooked, we really get hooked. Pretty much hooked. I think I have such a shallow enjoyment of most TV though... I mean, I see all these people writing long nyaaaah analysis blah blah and wow, yeah they're clever and they make cool and interesting points but for me my TV is a relax from that. I mean I read books like some people watch TV, I think. So for me TV tends to be pretty mindless, and limited to how it makes me feel. Also, I never see stuff coming. Well, ok, yeah, I see Eastenders stuff coming, and Neighbours: but they're soaps. But other shows: people are always like "oh the reveal was so blatantly obvious" and then I feel dumb. Which... pretty much how I found this ep (the finale of House). Totally blindsighted. Oh, and another thing. I think I am completely manipulated by TV shows, I tend to root for whatever is happening in the show, the direction it appears to be going in. I therefore really like the idea of House/ Cameron (in a schmoopy way) House/ Stacey (in a bitter, snarky way) and House/ Wilson (in a meant to be way). Oh and House/ Cuddy. Actually maybe I'm not manipulated, just pretty much a whore for 'ships. Not that I 'ship any but... Ok see this is what I mean: close analysis of TV? Not me. Probably why I don't do this often.
Also, been enjoying Dr. Who sort of sporadically. I find it amusing to see it all over lj and people torrenting and stuff. It seems... well, it just amuses me for very little reason I guess. Tea time BBC fare being a big hit seems a bit odd somehow, I spose. Anyway, I really love David Tennant (me and everyone else), every show I've seen him in (err, that'd be two, but still. Oh and HP, of course) really seems to benefit from his presence and I think he makes a great doctor. Sometimes when watching Dr. Who I kinda fancy watching all the old ones, you know, to see where it all started, and then I could reminisce with my mum and stuff but then I get put off. 1) I have too much stuff on my "to watch" list anyway 2) It didnt work when I tried to watch Close Encounters... My mum had great memories of the film, and was disappointed and I was mildly bored. People are better left cherishing stuff as it was, not comparing it to now. Anyway, I really enjoyed last night's ep. As others have noted there was something very firefly-esque about it and hell, I'm always up for some Satan/ Beast action.
Ohh, and finally watched Walk The Line last night... I really enjoyed it, and can pretty much see why Reese Witherspoon got her Oscar. She's cute! I guess I feel like a little bit of a faux Cash fan... I mean, sure my dad has always been into Cash, and my childhood was pretty much an osmosis of my parent's music, but Cash was never a big hit with me when I was younger. More recently I gathered a few more songs of his around me, raided my dad's CD collection, but only really when all the film hype emerged did I get properly immersed in his music. So, yeah, I hate feeling lame. But anyway, pretty film, well told story (if a bit skimped over in places), pretty people (though I don't really get the hype over Joaquin Phoenix, to be honest) acting well. Good enough for me.
Next on my to watch list:
The O.C Season 2: I got given this for Christmas and I still ain't watched it :/ I think when I stopped watching the OC I was just so disappointed in how they completely destroyed characters I actually cared about, that I felt pretty jaded towards it, and couldn't bring myself to watch it. But recently I've been missing it, so I shall watch.
VM s1: Bought the DVDs, watched about half. Whoops.
GG s1: ditto.
Brokeback Mountain: DVD goodness. Saw it at the cinema, looking forward to rewatching.
The Life of Brian: More for Chris than me... he's never seen any Monty Python. I didn't know they let you be British if you hadn't seen this film.
The West Wing s6: B'day present.
Supernatural: I've watched the first episode (skeery) and am sufficently interested to watch more.
I also have a yearning to rewatch Buffy. I miss Buffy. Now there was a show I did theorise endlessly about.
Good thing I have a three-month summer to waste, huh?
My reading has been sorely neglected recently. Well, I've been reading lots, but not much I actually want to read. But, with some of my b'day money I bought some books and so Friday/ Yesterday I settled down to some reading. I read Margaret Atwood's 'The Penelopiad' and I really enjoyed it. Very easy-going, unlike some of her stuff (I found 'Alias Grace' a real slog, enjoyable, but a slog) and I think all in all I spent 2 maybe 3 hours on it. Anyway, I liked it... it felt trashy with intellectual undertones. If that makes any sense at all. To clarify, the voice of Penelope was clearly meant to reflect a sort of Desperate-Housewives-y confessional tabloid almost tone, but the structure and the maid's chorus and the underlying ideas about Hades/ the Afterlife were thought provoking. What I enjoy about Atwood, actually, is her constant reworking of various truths, she presents several different truths, and allows the reader to make up their own mind (or in my case... not). This is the sort of stuff I enjoy, unclosed endings and ideas, and the idea of various truths all being true has been a real thing of mine, ever since that philosophy course I went on. /geek
I'm sort of stuck on what I want to read next. I am itching to get started on the Proust I got for my birthday, but I know its gonna be the sort of reading that I need to dedicate myself to, and hey, I gots exams coming up. I have a Phillip Roth to read (Everyman) but my mum read it and was unsure. I haven't really read much Phillip Roth, just 'The Plot Against America' which I really enjoyed but then again, taking my mum's opinion on books I'd never read anything (she likes her books to have begginnings, middles AND ends!) and I also have this fantasy type book to read. Oh actually a whole pile of them, since Chris wants me to love his books. Escapism = good, so I might go for some light undemanding stuff like that.
So I've been kinda down recently... a little bit over-stressed and weepy and stuff. It's not really that fun, and I guess its to do with upcoming exams and stuff but life, home, school... everything seems to over the top and pressurised and I don't cope well with that. I had a little tizzy over my driving today, and I decided to cool off the lessons til after my exams and then do 3 weeks intensive 2h lessons everyday and then try and take my test and be done, once and for all. I'm just so frustrated with learning to drive, and I want to be done already. I guess that's true of everything. I wanna be done. I've spent my time, I've put in the work, I've been patient and I've stuck it out but now I wanna be done.
As ever theres always something more I want to say, but this post is disjointed and nyah enough as it is.
edit: oh hey... summer started... I am ROASTING.