"Forget about our family and our friends, we were fated to pretend."
Hello flist! Lots to cover today but first things first:
Happy birthday kipani_mariko!
I suck so much for not doing this yesterday but I had my reasons, namely being very out of it for most of yesterday and not realizing it was the 21st until very late. Tai's summer usually involves walking around barely realizing what time of day or date it is and plenty of junk food. I am so fat now. I'VE GAINED FIVE POUNDS *SOBS*
Anyway whining and excuses aside. You are a wonderful friend <3 and the last two years knowing you have been great, well not great in general but the time spent speaking to you itself was great! yes and I hope you have a really great year!
Ok ok that was the worst birthday blog post ever. -_- Hopefully my gift will make it up to you though, it should arrive by the next week or so. :D (with a colorful sappy card! yay!)
Tv: I have been watching alot of stuff lately! YAY. Mainly though I've recently gotten into Gossip Girl. Yes Gossip Girl. DEAL WITH IT.
Ahh it is such a great trainwreck show, with crazy drama and bitchy ladies and hot...everybody really. What I love most about gossip girl though? NONE of the female characters annoy me! NOT EVEN ONE! and The fandom isnt full of woman hating pyschos and slashers! (like almost every other fandom on the internet. But best part is there is FEMME SLASH. WAH IT EXISTS. It also has the best couple to ever exist on tv ever. Chuck & Blair. Why do I love this couple? Not for the reasons you think. I love them because they could TAKE OVER THE WORLD if they wanted to. They are such a Machiavellian evil conniving pair and I LOVE IIIT. Blaire has an angel face and reputation but is a cold hearted bitch/queen of the school and she rules with an iron fist. and Chuck is just the bad boy on campus only he's worse because he can be just as manipulative as blair and sometimes worse. and I know it sounds twisted and bad but ok mainly that's what is but pffft who ever liked a tv couple for how sweet and put together they are? spuffy anyone?
Anyway, the other great thing about gg is I find I do like most of the characters alot. In fact the only ones I dislike are vanessa and dan and they arent always bad. They are so much less annoying together though than when they are around other people. Also I love the friendships on the show and the fact that friendship MATTERS on this show, cause in alot of shows it doesnt matter or it's overshadowed by the romantic couples and not so here! the show also allows everyone to interact with everyone. Not just friends with friends or lovers with lovers. Every character on the show has had a significant encounter with every other character and the families on the show all have importance to the plot! It's great! Yes the plots dont always make sense and the dialogue can sometimes be silly but the show really isnt as bad as I thought it would be at all. I have so finished S1 and will be starting S2 very soon. I am however scared of watching S3 cause I liked where S2 ended (yes I cheated and looked so sue me) and I'm afraid it will all be fucked up in S3 :( but the great thing about GG is it does not end on cliffhangers so even if that IS the case I can just keep dvds of the first two seasons and pretend the 3rd never happened. Since every season is it's own self contained story for the most part, and while they do feed into each other you dont NEED to see the subsequent seasons to enjoy the ones you saw already. Which was my problem with Veronica Mars among other things, they always ended on fucking cliffhangers -_- If it was not for that, I would have bought the first season a long time ago because it IS a masterpiece. Hell I might still buy it but it's low on the priority list.
Also Gossip Girl makes me really want to watch Skins. Which I have been meaning to watch for the last YEAR AND A HALF and still havent gotten around to it. FAIL
Speaking of BBC shows I want to see. North & South! I so need to see this! It looks awesome and sounds like a period drama with a bit of a romance plot which is my fave combination in a bbc drama! They do period dramas so so well.
In fact I was really looking forward to checking out their newest period drama Desperate Romantics. I was like "Ohhh a drama about the pre-raphaelite painters? Sounds interesting!" So then I go read up on the Pre-raphaelite painters, in one of my big art history books. So I can better appreciate the drama...BIG MISTAKE. After reading about what they did to the women they used as muses for their paintings and how they lived their lives....I was just nauseated. It was so so vile I cannot describe to you my utter horror at what I read. It's like I know the BBC drama wont be covering most of this heinous shit when they do the drama but just knowing about it will color my entire view of these guys and their show which will inevitably be about how brilliant and ground breaking they all were (which they WERE brilliant, ambitious ground breaking artists I do not deny that for even a moment but they were also TOTAL ASSHOLES) and knowing that is going to really sour the whole thing for me so sadly no New Romantics for me :( Learning about them is an important part of art history so I would watch a documentary about them sure but not a drama since dramas require me to emotionally invest and relate to the characters and their stories. Especially since the female muses will definitely be in the show I bet but I highly doubt they will truly portray the awful shit that happened to them and also how Dante Gabriel Rosetti was a total sociopath. Seriously there is no other word for him. Lest you think I am overreacting, then take a look at this article. It does a good job of covering what I am talking about: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/non-fiction/article5424430.ece article. It's review for a book about the pre-raphaelite painters but it mentions several of the stomach turning things that I was shocked about. Mind I am not easily shocked and I'm sure there's been plenty of male geniuses, scholars, artists, musicians w/e in history who were kind of shitty towards women among other things, in fact I think most of them probably fit that description in one way or another. I am however willing to over look these things and appreciate the wonderful things they did contribute to this world. that being said I do have a sensitivity for that sort of thing and so no I probably would not watch a drama about most of historical figures who fit that description either. That goes double for the assholes who completely discredit, disregard and disrespect people who practice any kind of religion too. Just so you all know. That being said the New Romantics were totally the rock stars of their time in a way and so I do get why the BBC would make a show about them and I dont discourage anyone from seeing it. But then I would never discourage people from learning about history in any way. Perhaps more people will become interested in art history because of this show!
True Blood ep5: Alot of people hated this episode because it was slow moving and repetitive. all of this is true. however I did not hate it. Why? Because of this scene:
PURE EPIC. I suddenly wish the whole show was now about vampire viking erik and his pretty vampire buddy Godric and their travails through ancient Scandinavia.
Leverage: BACK AND BETTER THAN EVER BABY. Oh how did I manage so long without this show? ;_; I love how the shit has been switched up on Nate. Because after pretty much looking down on his team all of last season for being criminals (despite WORKING for him and using their shady expertise to help people the entire time) they have now latched unto him and own his apartment and they will never ever ever leave. plus Sophie moved on and got a new man! SUCK IT NATE. I also died laughing when I found out his apartment was placed OVER A BAR which is hilarious only if you know he's a recovering alcoholic. I swear that man is a masochist or in Eliot's words "Very Catholic". Also the Parker/Hardison moment <3
I am so looking forward to tonight's episode and YES I DID NOT FORGET THIS TIME ABOUT IT.
I really want to do an OTPs ranking lately. Mostly so I can have an excuse to gush about chuck/blair some more but really it sounds like a fun idea. I wanna do one for my platonic OTPs too actually...
Well that's all! You know you love me~XOXO (yes that is a gg reference. *dodges rocks*)
Happy birthday kipani_mariko!
I suck so much for not doing this yesterday but I had my reasons, namely being very out of it for most of yesterday and not realizing it was the 21st until very late. Tai's summer usually involves walking around barely realizing what time of day or date it is and plenty of junk food. I am so fat now. I'VE GAINED FIVE POUNDS *SOBS*
Anyway whining and excuses aside. You are a wonderful friend <3 and the last two years knowing you have been great, well not great in general but the time spent speaking to you itself was great! yes and I hope you have a really great year!
Ok ok that was the worst birthday blog post ever. -_- Hopefully my gift will make it up to you though, it should arrive by the next week or so. :D (with a colorful sappy card! yay!)
Tv: I have been watching alot of stuff lately! YAY. Mainly though I've recently gotten into Gossip Girl. Yes Gossip Girl. DEAL WITH IT.
Ahh it is such a great trainwreck show, with crazy drama and bitchy ladies and hot...everybody really. What I love most about gossip girl though? NONE of the female characters annoy me! NOT EVEN ONE! and The fandom isnt full of woman hating pyschos and slashers! (like almost every other fandom on the internet. But best part is there is FEMME SLASH. WAH IT EXISTS. It also has the best couple to ever exist on tv ever. Chuck & Blair. Why do I love this couple? Not for the reasons you think. I love them because they could TAKE OVER THE WORLD if they wanted to. They are such a Machiavellian evil conniving pair and I LOVE IIIT. Blaire has an angel face and reputation but is a cold hearted bitch/queen of the school and she rules with an iron fist. and Chuck is just the bad boy on campus only he's worse because he can be just as manipulative as blair and sometimes worse. and I know it sounds twisted and bad but ok mainly that's what is but pffft who ever liked a tv couple for how sweet and put together they are? spuffy anyone?
Anyway, the other great thing about gg is I find I do like most of the characters alot. In fact the only ones I dislike are vanessa and dan and they arent always bad. They are so much less annoying together though than when they are around other people. Also I love the friendships on the show and the fact that friendship MATTERS on this show, cause in alot of shows it doesnt matter or it's overshadowed by the romantic couples and not so here! the show also allows everyone to interact with everyone. Not just friends with friends or lovers with lovers. Every character on the show has had a significant encounter with every other character and the families on the show all have importance to the plot! It's great! Yes the plots dont always make sense and the dialogue can sometimes be silly but the show really isnt as bad as I thought it would be at all. I have so finished S1 and will be starting S2 very soon. I am however scared of watching S3 cause I liked where S2 ended (yes I cheated and looked so sue me) and I'm afraid it will all be fucked up in S3 :( but the great thing about GG is it does not end on cliffhangers so even if that IS the case I can just keep dvds of the first two seasons and pretend the 3rd never happened. Since every season is it's own self contained story for the most part, and while they do feed into each other you dont NEED to see the subsequent seasons to enjoy the ones you saw already. Which was my problem with Veronica Mars among other things, they always ended on fucking cliffhangers -_- If it was not for that, I would have bought the first season a long time ago because it IS a masterpiece. Hell I might still buy it but it's low on the priority list.
Also Gossip Girl makes me really want to watch Skins. Which I have been meaning to watch for the last YEAR AND A HALF and still havent gotten around to it. FAIL
Speaking of BBC shows I want to see. North & South! I so need to see this! It looks awesome and sounds like a period drama with a bit of a romance plot which is my fave combination in a bbc drama! They do period dramas so so well.
In fact I was really looking forward to checking out their newest period drama Desperate Romantics. I was like "Ohhh a drama about the pre-raphaelite painters? Sounds interesting!" So then I go read up on the Pre-raphaelite painters, in one of my big art history books. So I can better appreciate the drama...BIG MISTAKE. After reading about what they did to the women they used as muses for their paintings and how they lived their lives....I was just nauseated. It was so so vile I cannot describe to you my utter horror at what I read. It's like I know the BBC drama wont be covering most of this heinous shit when they do the drama but just knowing about it will color my entire view of these guys and their show which will inevitably be about how brilliant and ground breaking they all were (which they WERE brilliant, ambitious ground breaking artists I do not deny that for even a moment but they were also TOTAL ASSHOLES) and knowing that is going to really sour the whole thing for me so sadly no New Romantics for me :( Learning about them is an important part of art history so I would watch a documentary about them sure but not a drama since dramas require me to emotionally invest and relate to the characters and their stories. Especially since the female muses will definitely be in the show I bet but I highly doubt they will truly portray the awful shit that happened to them and also how Dante Gabriel Rosetti was a total sociopath. Seriously there is no other word for him. Lest you think I am overreacting, then take a look at this article. It does a good job of covering what I am talking about: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/non-fiction/article5424430.ece article. It's review for a book about the pre-raphaelite painters but it mentions several of the stomach turning things that I was shocked about. Mind I am not easily shocked and I'm sure there's been plenty of male geniuses, scholars, artists, musicians w/e in history who were kind of shitty towards women among other things, in fact I think most of them probably fit that description in one way or another. I am however willing to over look these things and appreciate the wonderful things they did contribute to this world. that being said I do have a sensitivity for that sort of thing and so no I probably would not watch a drama about most of historical figures who fit that description either. That goes double for the assholes who completely discredit, disregard and disrespect people who practice any kind of religion too. Just so you all know. That being said the New Romantics were totally the rock stars of their time in a way and so I do get why the BBC would make a show about them and I dont discourage anyone from seeing it. But then I would never discourage people from learning about history in any way. Perhaps more people will become interested in art history because of this show!
True Blood ep5: Alot of people hated this episode because it was slow moving and repetitive. all of this is true. however I did not hate it. Why? Because of this scene:
Click to viewPURE EPIC. I suddenly wish the whole show was now about vampire viking erik and his pretty vampire buddy Godric and their travails through ancient Scandinavia.
Leverage: BACK AND BETTER THAN EVER BABY. Oh how did I manage so long without this show? ;_; I love how the shit has been switched up on Nate. Because after pretty much looking down on his team all of last season for being criminals (despite WORKING for him and using their shady expertise to help people the entire time) they have now latched unto him and own his apartment and they will never ever ever leave. plus Sophie moved on and got a new man! SUCK IT NATE. I also died laughing when I found out his apartment was placed OVER A BAR which is hilarious only if you know he's a recovering alcoholic. I swear that man is a masochist or in Eliot's words "Very Catholic". Also the Parker/Hardison moment <3
I am so looking forward to tonight's episode and YES I DID NOT FORGET THIS TIME ABOUT IT.
I really want to do an OTPs ranking lately. Mostly so I can have an excuse to gush about chuck/blair some more but really it sounds like a fun idea. I wanna do one for my platonic OTPs too actually...
Well that's all! You know you love me~XOXO (yes that is a gg reference. *dodges rocks*)