Comments | barbed_whispers: i love long weekends.

barbed_whispers

i love long weekends.

May 31, 2010 23:04

1. kl and i went to see the girl with the dragon tattoo. i think i enjoyed it much more as a movie than i ever would have as a book ( Read more... )

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gisforgreen June 1 2010, 03:30:41 UTC

ok seriously fuck ticketmaster. I am so fucking over them I could punch my own uterus in anger.

gisforgreen June 1 2010, 03:31:14 UTC

also what does a duck master even do? can I call you duck master even if you don't get it?

barbed_whispers June 1 2010, 13:08:08 UTC

this hotel's mascot is the duck, so you take their ducks on "parades" around the hotel twice a day and take care of them and do presentations at schools. it is SO RIDICULOUS SOUNDING.

yes you can.

remembering June 1 2010, 14:01:58 UTC

That really might be the best job I've ever heard of. If you get it, I'll request a presentation at my apartment.

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momebie June 1 2010, 11:34:15 UTC

To be fair, I think the Stargate pilot WAS forever long. >.>

theemdash June 1 2010, 18:24:19 UTC

True.

momebie June 1 2010, 18:28:51 UTC

I think it's interesting to look at what people will and won't watch within a genre. Because like, I got stuck on Stargate and haven't been compelled to pick it up again, but I can't tell you WHY. It's not that I don't like tv shows with aliens, because I watch Doctor Who. And it's not that I don't like tv shows that are science and discovery oriented, because I would just watch the Discovery channel forever if I could. And it's not that I don't like the ACTORS or the CHARACTERS, because I do. I like Jack quite a bit.

So really, it's all kind of mystifying. Um, if you're me. I'm easily mystified, though.

(I just had a similar sort of conversation over on thesovereignty actually, about why people write the genres they do.)

barbed_whispers June 1 2010, 23:37:18 UTC

i have the same problems! i mean, i am obviously completely in love with doctor who, but the rest doesn't work for me for no real reason. and i mean, it's not even that i'm not ENJOYING the shows. just somewhere around the 30 minute mark i think "yes, we are about to wrap this up and be done" and then it turns out there are 15 more minutes.

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theemdash June 1 2010, 18:24:48 UTC

What episode of Farscape are you stuck on? Maybe we can watch it together to help you get unstuck.

barbed_whispers June 1 2010, 23:41:15 UTC

i was actually stuck on "liars, guns, and money" for a while because i kept feeling like i was missing some gigantic part of the plot. i'm up to "self-inflicted wounds" now (or maybe i just finished them both? i don't think i finished the second one) but i took a break because i wanted to watch tv without any distractions. i don't know why, but i have a lot of trouble giving farscape my undivided attention, even when it means i spend a lot of time saying "wait, what? when did he find out about that?"