Random Stuff
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newnumber6Oscar night, I guess, but my main concern was whether they'd make Walking Dead skip a week. Luckily they don't. I hope they don't lose ratings for it. I don't know, to me, the choice is easy... you can watch a group of severely messed up people constantly surrounded by soulless monsters shambling around in a grim parody of life... or you can watch The Walking Dead!
Not really much new in my life. Tried out Cult, and... I'm not sold, but I'll give it a couple episodes. I do have their "Well, hey, these things just snap right off!" phrase stuck in my head a little, though. I'm kind of getting into Leverage, which is on syndicated reruns on one channel here Saturday nights... I think they're on the second season at the moment (though I missed a few in the first season). Otherwise, the usual decent shows and ones I'm excited about coming soon (little more than a month for GoT!).
Oh, I finally have a pretentious foreign language film that I've watched and enjoyed! Which isn't to say that it's the only foreign language film I've ever watched and enjoyed, but the only ones that come to mind were either rather too popularist, and/or contemporary to call pretentious (Pan's Labyrinth might qualify, I guess, but if there were commercials on TV for it I have to disqualify it). By pretentious I only mean that, it's the kind of thing if I heard somebody mention, I'd suspect them of talking about just so others know they are snooty and cultured. And you are free to suspect the same of me, since it's foreign, from the 60s, Black and White, and by a famous surrealist, but it had a cool premise and a bit of a Hastur vibe (for those from the XET days, or fans of Delta Green) and I quite liked it (with a few caveats). Anyway, it's called El ángel exterminador (which translates to The Exterminating Angel). The plot? A rich guy holds a dinner party for a large number of people, mainly rich associates. They spend a bunch of time in this large music-room, and, as the evening goes on, nobody leaves, they all decide to just stay there. At first, they make excuses for it, but soon they discover the terrifying truth... nobody can leave the room. There's nothing physical stopping them. They simply cannot decide to leave, to build up the intention to step over the threshold. Outside as the days wear on, a similar phenomenon is happening at the mansion's gates, although it would be the easiest thing in the world for somebody to walk in and check on them, nobody is willing to. I watched it on youtube, with subtitles, here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYqH2eTcm4c
I just thought the ending was kind of weak, and it could have used a little less surrealism at points... the premise is weird enough, the few times they add to it with 'weird for the sake of weird' moments kind of take away from it. And the title doesn't really make any sense to me. But whatever.
Is there anything else? I have completed my second full bottle of sriracha sauce. That's about it.
Edit: LJ's had an amusing mistake on my.livejournal.com's post mechanism for quite some time. When you enter a post, and click the button "More Options", it posts it right away. When you click the button "post", it takes you to the post screen, where you get more options.
Not really much new in my life. Tried out Cult, and... I'm not sold, but I'll give it a couple episodes. I do have their "Well, hey, these things just snap right off!" phrase stuck in my head a little, though. I'm kind of getting into Leverage, which is on syndicated reruns on one channel here Saturday nights... I think they're on the second season at the moment (though I missed a few in the first season). Otherwise, the usual decent shows and ones I'm excited about coming soon (little more than a month for GoT!).
Oh, I finally have a pretentious foreign language film that I've watched and enjoyed! Which isn't to say that it's the only foreign language film I've ever watched and enjoyed, but the only ones that come to mind were either rather too popularist, and/or contemporary to call pretentious (Pan's Labyrinth might qualify, I guess, but if there were commercials on TV for it I have to disqualify it). By pretentious I only mean that, it's the kind of thing if I heard somebody mention, I'd suspect them of talking about just so others know they are snooty and cultured. And you are free to suspect the same of me, since it's foreign, from the 60s, Black and White, and by a famous surrealist, but it had a cool premise and a bit of a Hastur vibe (for those from the XET days, or fans of Delta Green) and I quite liked it (with a few caveats). Anyway, it's called El ángel exterminador (which translates to The Exterminating Angel). The plot? A rich guy holds a dinner party for a large number of people, mainly rich associates. They spend a bunch of time in this large music-room, and, as the evening goes on, nobody leaves, they all decide to just stay there. At first, they make excuses for it, but soon they discover the terrifying truth... nobody can leave the room. There's nothing physical stopping them. They simply cannot decide to leave, to build up the intention to step over the threshold. Outside as the days wear on, a similar phenomenon is happening at the mansion's gates, although it would be the easiest thing in the world for somebody to walk in and check on them, nobody is willing to. I watched it on youtube, with subtitles, here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYqH2eTcm4c
I just thought the ending was kind of weak, and it could have used a little less surrealism at points... the premise is weird enough, the few times they add to it with 'weird for the sake of weird' moments kind of take away from it. And the title doesn't really make any sense to me. But whatever.
Is there anything else? I have completed my second full bottle of sriracha sauce. That's about it.
Edit: LJ's had an amusing mistake on my.livejournal.com's post mechanism for quite some time. When you enter a post, and click the button "More Options", it posts it right away. When you click the button "post", it takes you to the post screen, where you get more options.
