[this barely getting by is really getting old]
paraphrased recreation of a conversation had this week:minervacat: i think i should write spin city fic.
oracleasb: usually i encourage your crazy ideas, but this time, i think, just ... no.
minervacat: yeah, i guess so ... but carter was canonically gay! it would be so easy!
oracleasb: seriously. no.
sometimes i stop and take a long hard look at my life and think how the hell did i end up here, deciding that i wanted to write spin city fanfiction? then i shake my head and go back to the gay porn and try not to embarrass myself in public too often.
my non-spoilerly one two sentence review of the da vinci code: wow, that was better than the book! and also, what an incredibly poorly paced movie. i might have more to say about it later, but those are the two big things that i walked out thinking. in case you cared.
RIGHT! thursday. thursday, thursday. actually, i think this is as close to the anniversary of the top five lists as we're going to get - the first thursday list i posted was on the first thursday in june 2003. so. happy anniversary! three years of (almost) weekly top five lists. that's a lot of lists.
for today: top five tv shows that are no longer on the air. that's it. if it'll be on next fall, if there is a scheduled return date (even if it is vague) for spring of 2007 (ROME I AM LOOKING AT YOU), it doesn't count. finished up this spring? totally counts (west wing and alias, for example, are fair game). shows that have gone to the great tv in the sky. you know.
my list:1. the west wing, sorkin-era. tww in general, too, of course, but tww of seasons one and two no longer being filmed is possibly the greatest loss to television ever.
2. homicide: life on the street. i'm having a renaissance, okay? and man, were seasons three and four and even bits of five just spectacular.
3. cupid. possibly the only show on television to be set in chicago and actually, you know, be set in chicago. due south doesn't count, much as i wish it did - they hardly made any effort to set that show in chicago. but cupid? cupid got chicago right.
4. sports night. not to suggest that sports night is fourth on any list of anything ever, because it's not. sports night is the number one default cancelled television of my show, and i live with the fantasy that season three would have been even more brilliant than the first two were. since it was cancelled, you can't prove me wrong.
5. kitchen confidential. fox cancelled this show way too early. they filmed 13 episodes but only five aired in the states; the rest aired in australia this spring and thanks to the glory of the internet, i got to see them. and it only got quirkier, funnier, smarter and gayer as the run went on - this, this was the big mistake of the 2005-06 television season, for reals.
okay, now you go. what are the best tv shows that are no longer on the air? what should i be getting on dvd from netflix?
personal goal this morning while imaging staff computers in my boss's office: knock out my writing for the day. multi-tasking can have its upsides, you know.
yesterday being payday, i stopped and treated myself to a triple venti raspberry mocha at starbucks, and the levels at which i am STILL stupidly tired, even after all that caffeine, cannot be textually rendered.
oracleasb: usually i encourage your crazy ideas, but this time, i think, just ... no.
minervacat: yeah, i guess so ... but carter was canonically gay! it would be so easy!
oracleasb: seriously. no.
sometimes i stop and take a long hard look at my life and think how the hell did i end up here, deciding that i wanted to write spin city fanfiction? then i shake my head and go back to the gay porn and try not to embarrass myself in public too often.
my non-spoilerly one two sentence review of the da vinci code: wow, that was better than the book! and also, what an incredibly poorly paced movie. i might have more to say about it later, but those are the two big things that i walked out thinking. in case you cared.
RIGHT! thursday. thursday, thursday. actually, i think this is as close to the anniversary of the top five lists as we're going to get - the first thursday list i posted was on the first thursday in june 2003. so. happy anniversary! three years of (almost) weekly top five lists. that's a lot of lists.
for today: top five tv shows that are no longer on the air. that's it. if it'll be on next fall, if there is a scheduled return date (even if it is vague) for spring of 2007 (ROME I AM LOOKING AT YOU), it doesn't count. finished up this spring? totally counts (west wing and alias, for example, are fair game). shows that have gone to the great tv in the sky. you know.
my list:1. the west wing, sorkin-era. tww in general, too, of course, but tww of seasons one and two no longer being filmed is possibly the greatest loss to television ever.
2. homicide: life on the street. i'm having a renaissance, okay? and man, were seasons three and four and even bits of five just spectacular.
3. cupid. possibly the only show on television to be set in chicago and actually, you know, be set in chicago. due south doesn't count, much as i wish it did - they hardly made any effort to set that show in chicago. but cupid? cupid got chicago right.
4. sports night. not to suggest that sports night is fourth on any list of anything ever, because it's not. sports night is the number one default cancelled television of my show, and i live with the fantasy that season three would have been even more brilliant than the first two were. since it was cancelled, you can't prove me wrong.
5. kitchen confidential. fox cancelled this show way too early. they filmed 13 episodes but only five aired in the states; the rest aired in australia this spring and thanks to the glory of the internet, i got to see them. and it only got quirkier, funnier, smarter and gayer as the run went on - this, this was the big mistake of the 2005-06 television season, for reals.
okay, now you go. what are the best tv shows that are no longer on the air? what should i be getting on dvd from netflix?
personal goal this morning while imaging staff computers in my boss's office: knock out my writing for the day. multi-tasking can have its upsides, you know.
yesterday being payday, i stopped and treated myself to a triple venti raspberry mocha at starbucks, and the levels at which i am STILL stupidly tired, even after all that caffeine, cannot be textually rendered.