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How is everyone? I miss LJ. :( EXAMS SUCK. OR I SUCK AT EXAMS. OR BOTH. :(
This post is mainly TV + movies that saved my sanity the past couple of weeks. YAY! I had an epiphany, a few days ago, and in anticipation for the new TV season I turned to British comedy. And that was, like, the best decision ever, because I started watching BLACK BOOKS. Which is a sitcom about the misanthropic owner of a ghastly bookshop, and his friends. AWESOMENESS.
I could wax lyrical about Dylan Moran and Bill Bailey and how awesome they are, but I could sum it all up in one phrase:
WHICH ONE OF YOU BITCHES WANTS TO DANCE?
That is all.
After the amazingness that is Black Books, I decided to go on a Brit comedy binge, and I looked for something in the same vein...
AND THEN I DISCOVERED SPACED. AND MY LIFE CHANGED FOREVER.
WHAT IS THIS PERFECTION. AND WHY HADN'T I WATCHED IT BEFORE? Friends of mine always recommended it, but I was putting it off. UNTIL NOW. Oh my God, the brilliance of everyone on that show is unmatched by anything else I've ever seen. PEGG AND STEVENSON AND THEIR SCRIPT AND THEIR CHARACTERS. AND BRIAN WITH HIS ANGER/FEAR/PAIN/AGRESSION. AND MARSHA! Oh how I love Marsha and the way she talks.
I watched both series in a day and a half, and I really really didn't want it to end. I need to rewatch it immediately, also because I only got 20% of the references the first time around, and this is one of those shows that you know gets even better, because you notice something new every time. I watched the "behind the scenes" special one time, and the last minute of it about thirty times. I may have teared up a bit.
ALSO. SIMON PEGG WITH THE BLEACHED BLOND HAIR IS SEX PERSONIFIED. He is hotter there than he's ever been, and besides the whole show made me a fan of his. Watch Hot Fuzz immediately, y/y?
+ GLEE! This just keeps getting better and better.
I thought the second episode was better than the third, but still it was awesome. Acafellas? FUCKING YES. Matt Morrison dancing and singing? UNF. Jane Lynch continues to be a fierce bitch. The songs are still fabulous and the performances are A+. The only thing I might have objected to is the pacing, b/c everything seems to happen really fast. I'm just scared they're gonna run out of storylines really quickly, and then it's going to get repetitive. I hope Ryan Murphy knows what he'd doing.
+ AND NOW FOR SOME LOST SQUEE.
Boone is coming back! BOONE. IS COMING BACK. OMG. His prettiness will grace our screens again, and you know what this means right? Zombie Season is nigh!
+ Last Saturday I watched Up. I may have loved it a little. And I may have sobbed uncontrollably at the first fifteen and the last ten minutes of it. I just love everything that comes out of Pixar, and Up is already up there with Finding Nemo.♥ ♥ I also watched Angels & Demons on DVD and it was so entertaining! And about a thousand times better than The DaVinci code, seriously. The explosion scene towards the end was kind of epic; also, Ewan in priest clothes=AUTOMATIC WIN.
+ Speaking of movies: tomorrow is the beginning of this year's Athens Film Festival, and there are too many great movies included in the program! Basically this time of year is a film geek's dream, and the festival includes premieres for a lot of movies, months ahead of their actual release in theaters here. And I love the festival, because two years ago it brought me my beloved Atonement. :) (If you weren't here back when Atonement came out, check out the relevant tag to see me spaz out and squee and obsess about everything related to it.) At this year's festival, I'm watching An Education with Peter Sarsgard and Carey Mulligan (that's tomorrow), on Sunday Fish Tank with the awesome Michael Fassbender, on Tuesday Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (I LOVE YOU JOHN KRASINSKI I DON'T MIND YOU GOT ENGAGED YOU CAN STILL BE MY BABYDADDY), and next Friday, the ~reimagining~ of Fame. DON'T LAUGH YOU GUYS, it's got Megan Mullally and Debbie Allen from the original and the trailer looks nice!
+ COLIN FIRTH! He's been getting rave reviews for A Single Man (which looks incredible btw), he won the award in Venice Film Festival, and now people are saying he's sure to be nominated for an Oscar and MAYBE WIN. OMG. This is FINALLY payback time, after all the crappy movies he's made and us Colin fans have had to watch over the years. OSCAR NOM NOM NOM!
This post is mainly TV + movies that saved my sanity the past couple of weeks. YAY! I had an epiphany, a few days ago, and in anticipation for the new TV season I turned to British comedy. And that was, like, the best decision ever, because I started watching BLACK BOOKS. Which is a sitcom about the misanthropic owner of a ghastly bookshop, and his friends. AWESOMENESS.
I could wax lyrical about Dylan Moran and Bill Bailey and how awesome they are, but I could sum it all up in one phrase:
WHICH ONE OF YOU BITCHES WANTS TO DANCE?
That is all.
After the amazingness that is Black Books, I decided to go on a Brit comedy binge, and I looked for something in the same vein...
AND THEN I DISCOVERED SPACED. AND MY LIFE CHANGED FOREVER.
WHAT IS THIS PERFECTION. AND WHY HADN'T I WATCHED IT BEFORE? Friends of mine always recommended it, but I was putting it off. UNTIL NOW. Oh my God, the brilliance of everyone on that show is unmatched by anything else I've ever seen. PEGG AND STEVENSON AND THEIR SCRIPT AND THEIR CHARACTERS. AND BRIAN WITH HIS ANGER/FEAR/PAIN/AGRESSION. AND MARSHA! Oh how I love Marsha and the way she talks.
I watched both series in a day and a half, and I really really didn't want it to end. I need to rewatch it immediately, also because I only got 20% of the references the first time around, and this is one of those shows that you know gets even better, because you notice something new every time. I watched the "behind the scenes" special one time, and the last minute of it about thirty times. I may have teared up a bit.
ALSO. SIMON PEGG WITH THE BLEACHED BLOND HAIR IS SEX PERSONIFIED. He is hotter there than he's ever been, and besides the whole show made me a fan of his. Watch Hot Fuzz immediately, y/y?
+ GLEE! This just keeps getting better and better.
I thought the second episode was better than the third, but still it was awesome. Acafellas? FUCKING YES. Matt Morrison dancing and singing? UNF. Jane Lynch continues to be a fierce bitch. The songs are still fabulous and the performances are A+. The only thing I might have objected to is the pacing, b/c everything seems to happen really fast. I'm just scared they're gonna run out of storylines really quickly, and then it's going to get repetitive. I hope Ryan Murphy knows what he'd doing.
+ AND NOW FOR SOME LOST SQUEE.
Boone is coming back! BOONE. IS COMING BACK. OMG. His prettiness will grace our screens again, and you know what this means right? Zombie Season is nigh!
+ Last Saturday I watched Up. I may have loved it a little. And I may have sobbed uncontrollably at the first fifteen and the last ten minutes of it. I just love everything that comes out of Pixar, and Up is already up there with Finding Nemo.♥ ♥ I also watched Angels & Demons on DVD and it was so entertaining! And about a thousand times better than The DaVinci code, seriously. The explosion scene towards the end was kind of epic; also, Ewan in priest clothes=AUTOMATIC WIN.
+ Speaking of movies: tomorrow is the beginning of this year's Athens Film Festival, and there are too many great movies included in the program! Basically this time of year is a film geek's dream, and the festival includes premieres for a lot of movies, months ahead of their actual release in theaters here. And I love the festival, because two years ago it brought me my beloved Atonement. :) (If you weren't here back when Atonement came out, check out the relevant tag to see me spaz out and squee and obsess about everything related to it.) At this year's festival, I'm watching An Education with Peter Sarsgard and Carey Mulligan (that's tomorrow), on Sunday Fish Tank with the awesome Michael Fassbender, on Tuesday Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (I LOVE YOU JOHN KRASINSKI I DON'T MIND YOU GOT ENGAGED YOU CAN STILL BE MY BABYDADDY), and next Friday, the ~reimagining~ of Fame. DON'T LAUGH YOU GUYS, it's got Megan Mullally and Debbie Allen from the original and the trailer looks nice!
+ COLIN FIRTH! He's been getting rave reviews for A Single Man (which looks incredible btw), he won the award in Venice Film Festival, and now people are saying he's sure to be nominated for an Oscar and MAYBE WIN. OMG. This is FINALLY payback time, after all the crappy movies he's made and us Colin fans have had to watch over the years. OSCAR NOM NOM NOM!