it ain't easy bein' cheesy (now with 100% more tv babble)
flist! boston-area members thereof! who wants to see red dawn on saturday night, and/or streets of fire on sunday night? both of them are showing at the brattle as part of their class of 1984 series. i've never actually seen red dawn but i'm super curious about the mid-80s-commies-invade-teenage-soldiers-resist cheestasticness (plus which, patrick swayze when he was young(er) and cute, and c thomas howell when he likewise did not look like a walking cadaver). and i looooooved streets of fire. retro-future detroit! michael pare! willem dafoe in rubber pants! (ok, they might've been leather. in my head they're rubber.) sledgehammer fights!
any takers?
(i have the soundtrack to streets of fire on cassette. ah, nostalgia.)
speaking of cheese, admire the ham and cheese biscuits on bakebakebake. they look sconey and delicious.
there was totally something else i wanted to mention and i can't remember what it was. oh, is anyone watching the cleaner? it's on a&e on tuesdays (after warehouse 13, for them what might be watching that) and it's about a former drug addict named william banks who now helps people get clean, sometimes forcibly. as in, he's been known to basically kidnap folks and secrete them in the back of his surf shop to detox them. and it stars benjamin bratt, who i adore. seriously, he is so good.
and the thing i really like about the show, which is the thing i liked about law and order original flavor back when i still watched it - csi sometimes does this too - is that they're not always successful. i mean, a couple weeks ago william had to deal with a surgeon who was addicted to speed (i think). they detoxed the guy on behalf of the head of the hospital - because come on, a drug-addicted surgeon who performs surgery while high is SUCH a recipe for disaster - but he never went to rehab and didn't stay clean. and this week's episode involved a kid who was cooking meth in some other town, whose mom paid william to find him and bring him home, and who wouldn't go. it's not as relentlessly miserable as breaking bad (which i also love but which is so full of hopelessness), but not everyone intended for detox/rehab actually goes, or stays once they get there. the addict of the week doesn't always get clean. and i love that.
(the one thing i would change about criminal minds would be to have more unsubs escape the long arm of the bau, or possibly have more instances where the team doesn't get there in time to save the last victim. i love that they're such a smart, competent group of people, but sometimes i want them to be wrong, or one step behind for too many steps.)
and my radio station, for reasons that escape me, has started playing the beatles regularly. yesterday i heard motorhead (!!!) and the rolling stones (twice). and the reason this makes NO SENSE WHATSOEVER is that it's not a hard rock station, or a classic rock station, and is more of an alternative music station. and i'm sorry, "alternative music" does not mean "heavy metal" or "70s rock" or "the beatles". (or, er, johnny cash songs that aren't hurt.) I'M SO CONFUSED.
any takers?
(i have the soundtrack to streets of fire on cassette. ah, nostalgia.)
speaking of cheese, admire the ham and cheese biscuits on bakebakebake. they look sconey and delicious.
there was totally something else i wanted to mention and i can't remember what it was. oh, is anyone watching the cleaner? it's on a&e on tuesdays (after warehouse 13, for them what might be watching that) and it's about a former drug addict named william banks who now helps people get clean, sometimes forcibly. as in, he's been known to basically kidnap folks and secrete them in the back of his surf shop to detox them. and it stars benjamin bratt, who i adore. seriously, he is so good.
and the thing i really like about the show, which is the thing i liked about law and order original flavor back when i still watched it - csi sometimes does this too - is that they're not always successful. i mean, a couple weeks ago william had to deal with a surgeon who was addicted to speed (i think). they detoxed the guy on behalf of the head of the hospital - because come on, a drug-addicted surgeon who performs surgery while high is SUCH a recipe for disaster - but he never went to rehab and didn't stay clean. and this week's episode involved a kid who was cooking meth in some other town, whose mom paid william to find him and bring him home, and who wouldn't go. it's not as relentlessly miserable as breaking bad (which i also love but which is so full of hopelessness), but not everyone intended for detox/rehab actually goes, or stays once they get there. the addict of the week doesn't always get clean. and i love that.
(the one thing i would change about criminal minds would be to have more unsubs escape the long arm of the bau, or possibly have more instances where the team doesn't get there in time to save the last victim. i love that they're such a smart, competent group of people, but sometimes i want them to be wrong, or one step behind for too many steps.)
and my radio station, for reasons that escape me, has started playing the beatles regularly. yesterday i heard motorhead (!!!) and the rolling stones (twice). and the reason this makes NO SENSE WHATSOEVER is that it's not a hard rock station, or a classic rock station, and is more of an alternative music station. and i'm sorry, "alternative music" does not mean "heavy metal" or "70s rock" or "the beatles". (or, er, johnny cash songs that aren't hurt.) I'M SO CONFUSED.