Comments | terebi_me: OK, let's try this again.

terebi_me

OK, let's try this again.

Dec 14, 2009 19:07

It's not that I have nothing to say - it's that it's not particularly interesting, and if it is, I am putting it in my writing ( Read more... )

movies, status report, music, whinge, television, heroes, money

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squeakymonkey December 15 2009, 03:37:58 UTC

That School of Seven Bells album is pretty fucking good. I'm glad I wasn't completely off on that. Seeing them live messed with me.

anaskyfish December 15 2009, 05:19:28 UTC

God damn, you've been doing okay on the media front -- you really can't go wrong with Popol Vuh in winter, I've found. I've hit a problem with FOTC (much like my problem with Metalocalypse) where it's obvious the band really just wants to be a well-known band and the show was basically a way to sneak into public attention, so the show starts strong but really drops off as it's not where the interest is for the band. That's projecting, and even ho-hum FOTC is still pretty good, but it's always kinda bittersweet when people don't know where their real strengths lie.

terebi_me December 15 2009, 06:25:43 UTC

I dunno, I more got the impression that FOTC took off entirely by accident. If they wanted to be a well-known band, it doesn't make sense that they'd drop their most successful venture as a band (i.e. the show) right when it's at its strongest, and have no particular plans to work together again. I could be biased, being insanely in love with the two of them, and with the Conchords in general (the tv show's version of "Boom" made me almost hyperventilate with laughter and joy) but the impression that I've gotten over the last few months, reading interviews with them (always separately, and mostly with Jemaine, since he was in that silly movie recently), is that they're more like "it was a lark, we had a good time, and it's way less of a good time now, and we're really sick of each other and need to spend an indefinite amount of time apart". I haven't yet seen the second season of the show, so I can't speak to a drop-off in quality, but the first season is full of solid gems. I don't think they're Jesus Christ or anything, but they do ( ... )

anaskyfish December 15 2009, 10:24:55 UTC

Maybe that's it: it's always a weird feeling when you realize you care more about a piece of media than the creators do.

terebi_me December 15 2009, 18:52:34 UTC

I'm a Heroes fan. I know ALL about it.

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so_pseudogoth December 15 2009, 14:46:09 UTC

Congrats on the Heroes nod!~~

terebi_me December 15 2009, 18:54:30 UTC

It's about as fabulous as a paper Burger King crown. (Which is to say, pretty fabulous, and I rock it.)

so_pseudogoth December 15 2009, 19:28:06 UTC

I got one at the Mandalay Bay casino once in Las Vegas, it's a paper hat with shark fins that circle your head. It's pretty awesome.

rhuby loves jem anonymous December 15 2009, 20:00:53 UTC

i'm always your girl for lighting design stuff. as we slowly morph into the same person in our old age. :) especially since i can't afford to send a care package this year. boo! still thinking about you! with love!

Re: rhuby loves jem terebi_me December 15 2009, 21:57:24 UTC

Well, it's for RESEARCH, so I'm just getting a gloss so that I can "convincingly" write about it. You'll have to be my beta reader so you can point out "Uh NO you would NEVER EVER SAY THAT! It's called a FOLLOW SPOT, fool!" Exciting, daring, theoretical lighting design crazy concepts with LEDs and stuff because I can't ever just write straightforward porn; no, people have to have jobs, and not just ordinary jobs, but crazy exciting jobs that are cool to think about.

It's kind of like using lidocaine to delay ejaculation.

Re: rhuby loves jem anonymous December 27 2009, 00:08:49 UTC

i wlll always beta for you. :) it ~is~ a job that seems crazy exciting and is cool to think about! :)

lidocaine huh? just like LEDs? or like having a job?
oh boy, i'm on FIRE! and apparently not in a funny way! i stop now. ;0 more dr. pepper please.

xoxo