fight the flu with fiction
Generally, I like being single, and I like not having a roommate. Kind of a lot, even. Except sometimes I get the flu, and then I'll be wailing at the unsympathetic walls about my great failure in life of not attracting anyone who'd make me tea and extra spicy Indian food and watch brain-rotting teevee with me. I will absolutely take the opportunity to wallow in misery and snot. For a bit; then I'll get out of bed and make my own damn saag paneer (which is a dish I always crave when I have a cold, go figure).
It's fall! Many of my classes won't kick off until October, so I've had plenty of time to fail to go over all the Spanish I've forgotten over the summer, because more importantly, there's stuff on TV again, and I've been checking out things I want to watch. I... don't watch a lot of shows that are current, or I'm not up to date on return dates of most shows and don't know to expect them. Or both. List so far:
∼ The Vampire Diaries: amazing, delicious, pretty crack. I'm interested in pretty much everyone except the main couple, and I don't hate them--I just zone out of their blandness. It seems to be like a less stupid version of Twilight--total spoiler: main characters enjoy Wuthering Heights. Of course they do. Spare me, oh my god. Ian Somerharder Somerhalder is delightfully dirtybadwrong, for extra bonus points! (appropriate typo by
cosmic :D)
∼ Accidentally on Purpose: I'm not a fan of the twenty-minute romantic sitcom at all, but I spent many of my teenier years wanting to be Jenna Elfman before I realized, oh, I pretty much want to do Jenna Elfman. Naturally, if she has a pilot for a new show out, I have to see it. The pilot squeezed into 20 minutes the plot of an average-length romcom movie, and I hate half of the supporting characters, but damn, it was surprisingly cute regardless. I want more. I think the premise is sort of limiting, but for the one-season lifespan I predict for the show, I would totally watch it every week.
∼ Bored to Death: expected to love it, but after the pilot, I'm not really feeling the love. Hooray, yet another show about an issue-riddled white dude who can't get a grip on his life and vaguely blames that on the woman he couldn't keep--I enjoy a lot of stuff that falls under that umbrella, by the way. And it has Jason Schwartzman. For those reasons, I'm not dropping it off my list yet. It would be so great to get Jason Schwartzman in a show I watch! Every week!
∼ Psych: under new shows, because it's new for me. I had some vague intentions to see it at some point, especially after watching Talitha's vid "White" & Nerdy. I've started and though I'm nowhere close to catching up, I'm sure I will before this season's over. Unless someone tells me the show has started sucking somewhere between S1 and now?
∼ Merlin: LOL WHAT IS THIS SHOW, STILL/MORE THAN EVER.
∼ Supernatural: I didn't love the premiere, but after last week, they again have my attention and my emotional investment. I've been rewatching season two and man, it's been nice to discover the later fail doesn't affect the way I view the old episodes--the fail doesn't accumulate backwards. And, well, I harsh my own squee but I do have squee about the new stuff, metric tons of it.
∼ How I Met Your Mother: I'm happy with the premiere ♥
∼ Criminal Minds: returns this Wednesday, doesn't it?
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∼ Entourage: for what's left of its season. Summer's over! This season hasn't lived up to the expectations I had after the previous one unexpectedly made me cry actual tears by the time it was over, but I've liked Turtle's, Drama's and E's storylines. Ari's and Lloyd's not so much, and Vince... strangely enough, I don't remember Vince having a real storyline. He's been hanging around. In sweatpants. While I appreciate an attractive dude in fugly comfy clothes, he's been like this affable supporting character, which... is weird. I want this show to be about their foursome, or Vince and Eric, or their foursome and Ari and Lloyd. All these options include Vince, dammit.
I promised to help my mom with some stuff that I didn't have the time to do the last time I was there, so if I feel less sick by the weekend (and I predict I will) I'll go do it now. The next one-two-many-lots weekends are already taken for fannish fun, academic endeavors and Patrick Wolf. I may be forgetting something, but this weekend should be available, and hey, bonus: if I go now, there's a free theater ticket in it for me. Kotkan kaupunginteatteri is staging My Fair Lady with a new translation into Finnish, which I'm fairly curious about, and the reviews haven't been bad either. And, well, yay for any and all theater, pretty much. ♥
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It's fall! Many of my classes won't kick off until October, so I've had plenty of time to fail to go over all the Spanish I've forgotten over the summer, because more importantly, there's stuff on TV again, and I've been checking out things I want to watch. I... don't watch a lot of shows that are current, or I'm not up to date on return dates of most shows and don't know to expect them. Or both. List so far:
∼ The Vampire Diaries: amazing, delicious, pretty crack. I'm interested in pretty much everyone except the main couple, and I don't hate them--I just zone out of their blandness. It seems to be like a less stupid version of Twilight--total spoiler: main characters enjoy Wuthering Heights. Of course they do. Spare me, oh my god. Ian Somerharder Somerhalder is delightfully dirtybadwrong, for extra bonus points! (appropriate typo by
cosmic :D)
∼ Accidentally on Purpose: I'm not a fan of the twenty-minute romantic sitcom at all, but I spent many of my teenier years wanting to be Jenna Elfman before I realized, oh, I pretty much want to do Jenna Elfman. Naturally, if she has a pilot for a new show out, I have to see it. The pilot squeezed into 20 minutes the plot of an average-length romcom movie, and I hate half of the supporting characters, but damn, it was surprisingly cute regardless. I want more. I think the premise is sort of limiting, but for the one-season lifespan I predict for the show, I would totally watch it every week.
∼ Bored to Death: expected to love it, but after the pilot, I'm not really feeling the love. Hooray, yet another show about an issue-riddled white dude who can't get a grip on his life and vaguely blames that on the woman he couldn't keep--I enjoy a lot of stuff that falls under that umbrella, by the way. And it has Jason Schwartzman. For those reasons, I'm not dropping it off my list yet. It would be so great to get Jason Schwartzman in a show I watch! Every week!
∼ Psych: under new shows, because it's new for me. I had some vague intentions to see it at some point, especially after watching Talitha's vid "White" & Nerdy. I've started and though I'm nowhere close to catching up, I'm sure I will before this season's over. Unless someone tells me the show has started sucking somewhere between S1 and now?
∼ Merlin: LOL WHAT IS THIS SHOW, STILL/MORE THAN EVER.
∼ Supernatural: I didn't love the premiere, but after last week, they again have my attention and my emotional investment. I've been rewatching season two and man, it's been nice to discover the later fail doesn't affect the way I view the old episodes--the fail doesn't accumulate backwards. And, well, I harsh my own squee but I do have squee about the new stuff, metric tons of it.
∼ How I Met Your Mother: I'm happy with the premiere ♥
∼ Criminal Minds: returns this Wednesday, doesn't it?
&
∼ Entourage: for what's left of its season. Summer's over! This season hasn't lived up to the expectations I had after the previous one unexpectedly made me cry actual tears by the time it was over, but I've liked Turtle's, Drama's and E's storylines. Ari's and Lloyd's not so much, and Vince... strangely enough, I don't remember Vince having a real storyline. He's been hanging around. In sweatpants. While I appreciate an attractive dude in fugly comfy clothes, he's been like this affable supporting character, which... is weird. I want this show to be about their foursome, or Vince and Eric, or their foursome and Ari and Lloyd. All these options include Vince, dammit.
I promised to help my mom with some stuff that I didn't have the time to do the last time I was there, so if I feel less sick by the weekend (and I predict I will) I'll go do it now. The next one-two-many-lots weekends are already taken for fannish fun, academic endeavors and Patrick Wolf. I may be forgetting something, but this weekend should be available, and hey, bonus: if I go now, there's a free theater ticket in it for me. Kotkan kaupunginteatteri is staging My Fair Lady with a new translation into Finnish, which I'm fairly curious about, and the reviews haven't been bad either. And, well, yay for any and all theater, pretty much. ♥
This entry was originally posted at Dreamwidth. Comment count:
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