TV
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Thanks!
Look what the Hanukkah Armadillo brought to our house earlier this week! Now how did he know that there’s a writers strike and nothing on TV and gosh, we’re pathetic and love us some 90210 fun? Thanks, Hanukkah Armadillo!
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Once More, With Feeling
We had a bit of a Buffy-thon last night, watching several Buffy episodes, and I have to say, I miss Buffy. I wish there were something on TV now that I liked as much as I liked this show…something as funny and clever and poignant all at the same time. The last installment to any good Buffy-thon, if you want to end on a high note and you’re not going for closure (that would be the end of season 7, right?) is ‘Once More With Feeling’, the musical episode. I have this on my beloved iPod, actually, and I listen to it more often than I should admit. For you…
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An evening with the boob tube…
 First off, who amongst you goes out shopping on Black Friday? I have some family memebers who run out at 6am to get the best deals, and are home and toasty warm before we even get around to breakfast. It’s a fun tradition that they cherish. Other family members consider this a day to stay the hell home, safe from the hoards of crazed shoppers. Then there are others, like me, who could go out, maybe, if we take BART so I don’t have to park anywhere, but could easily be convinced to stay home with a good book or a few episodes of Buffy. Now, here’s a stupid…
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TiVo Alert
I was listening to Forum, a show that runs on our PBS radio station in the mornings, and they were talking about a film that is being premiered this month on PBS. It’s called “Seeing in the Dark“, and it’s about astronomy, and what individuals see and feel when gazing up at the night sky. Of course, it’s about a lot more than that, but that, and the fact that some of the music is by Mark Knopfler, got me interested. So I’ll be taping it when it airs locally, which is 8pm tonight on KQED. Check it out!
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How Do You Feel About This?
I’m sure that by now anyone who cares knows that there’s a Sex and the City film in the works…that the salary negotiations for Kim Catrall were finally worked out, the script long finished, schedules cleared, and the film is currently in production. This knowledge pulls me two different ways. 1st off, YAY! I love the girls, I love the relationship between the four of them, I love their friendship, the writing, the stupid situations they get themselves into, etc. However…I kind of liked how the series was tied up into a pretty little bow. They were all happy. Charlotte had Harry, and had her baby on the way. Miranda…
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Big Love
All of you fancy HBO-having people are probably already watching Big Love, and just snicker behind your backs at those of us yokels who have to wait and Netflix it…And well you should, except for the snickering part…because Big Love is one darned good, smart, well written, well acted show. If, perchance, you’re NOT one of those savvy folks who have HBO, or if you DO, but you don’t watch Big Love, you might want to give it a shot…it’s the story of Bill Henrickson, the owner of a small chain (2 branches, at this point) of Home Depot type stores, and his three wives, Barb, Nicki, and Margene. You…
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Six Degrees of….nothing really
I was watching Sex and the City the other night, and I was remembering the first time I saw Kristin Davis, aka Charlotte York…which would be on Melrose Place, where she played the ill-fated and psychotic Brooke, who married Billy, who was played by Andrew Shue, who was the brother of Elizabeth Shue, who was pretty darned good in Adventures in Babysitting and Leaving Las Vegas, which are two movies that are about as different as they could possibly be. But I first saw her in one of the lamest movies EVER, Cocktail, in which she played Tom Cruise’s idiot girlfriend/wife. Idiot because she loves Tom Cruise, really, who I…
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Fat
I watched a show on PBS last night called, “Fat: What No One is Telling You“. I thought it was a pretty interesting show, and one that many people might have a few things to teach many of us. From the website: FAT: What No One Is Telling You explores the myriad psychological, physiological and environmental factors that can make it so tough to shed pounds and keep them off. In this documentary, Executive producer Naomi Boak and producer/director Tom Spain, both Emmy Award honorees, share new scientific knowledge about hunger, eating, and human metabolic operation. This film also explains our psychological responses to food, and shows how external pressures…
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House Flipping…
One reason I STILL haven’t finished Madame Bovary is that I’ve been ignoring poor Emma in favor of TLC. My latest addiction, after Take Home Chef and What Not to Wear, is Flip That House. I enjoy watching them tear a place apart and put it back together, and find out how much they’re going to make on it…which is always a lot of money considering the amount of time they put into the deal. Like maybe $80k in two months. Nice, huh? Yeah, I’m a big loser failure in that department, clearly. I do find myself wondering, however, if these deals ever go bad? At the beginning of the…
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Are you who you want to be?
My friend Cherry likes the TLC show, Shalom in the Home, and has suggested that I might like it as well. So, I plopped myself down last week to watch it. The premise is that a family that is having problems writes to the Rabbi, and he goes and stays there for a week, trying to help them figure things out. Kind of like Supernanny or One Week to Save Your Marriage. This episode was one where it was a bit more than the Rabbi could handle. It was a family trying to help their teen daughter to cope with her anorexia. If only that were something you could heal…
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TiVo Alert!
Sunday night, Maya and I stayed up past our bedtime watching a new show on the Discovery Channel, Planet Earth. Planet Earth is an 11 part mini-series that took 5 years to make, and utilizes a lot of cutting edge video technology. If you’re an early adapter, and have High Definition TV, this show will probably make you glad you spent the money. It’s beautifully filmed. So far, we’ve only watched the first episode, Pole to Pole, which discusses the different environments of the world. Think of it as an introductory chapter of an essay, with more depth to be added in later installments.  We did get tired of hearing Sigourney Weaver say,…
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Are You a BSG Fan?
If not, why? Why not? Are you an idiot? Are you sure? Really sure? It’s really a good, good, GOOD show. Maybe even…GREAT. Better than 95% of the stuff out there, and I’m not generally a huge fan of sci-fi. If you ARE a BSG fan, what do you think? Is Starbuck a figmant of Lee’s imagination, like Number 6 to Baltar? Is she the Chosen One? Or the 5th of the final 5? And what of the other 4? Are they truly Cylons? Or have they somehow been tricked? And what about the President? Is SHE a Cylon? Why is she sharing dreams with Sharon, Hera, and 6? Is it because…
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What if…
Ted’s girlfriends, the Dixie Chicks…. Started a reality show, where they went on tour with Ted, and Curtis Stone (The Take Home Chef) and Curtis and I cooked for Ted and the Chicks…and lots of wacky hijinks ensued… Would you watch? I would… Totally…
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Our Newest Addiction…
We were addicted to Buffy…and finally, it went off the air (ALAS!) and we got the DVDs, and we can watch it whenever we want to, and mostly, we’re OK. We were addicted to West Wing (not like Buffy, but we did watch it every week…) and now, it’s gone away. This happens over the years…Thirtysomething, The X Files, 90210, etc. All of these shows, we love them, and they go away…and whenever they go away, I feel a great sense of relief…like, oh, good, one less show that I HAVE to watch, one less show that calls me, that I want to tape when I’m not going to be…
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TV Dinner
I’m hooked, not only on East of Eden (maybe 1/3 of the way through now), but also on the newish TLC show, Take Home Chef. Has anyone else seen this show? Here, it’s on from 5:00 – 5:30, and again from 5:30 – 6:00 on weeknights. So yeah, I’m kind of glued to the TV from 5 – 6 each evening. The premise of the show is that a cute blonde Australian chef named Curtis Stone (maybe from the Flintstones?) picks up someone at the grocery store (usually Whole Foods or another upscale store, and 9 times out of 10, the someone is a young woman, and she is always…