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Careful what you wish for...
Dear Buddha, please bring me a pony and a plastic rocket and no more unscheduled (unpaid) time off work...
Not that I ever thought I'd hear myself say those words, but what a complete waste of two whole weeks between jobs. Turns out having to get up for work *helps* the jetlag, go figure. Bugger it. I miss sleeping.
So, onward and upward with the distraction until I get sleepy...
On the plus side, as of today I am caught up on Heroes (at long last) and Pushing Daisies. That annoying English bloke from Enterprise showed up with a dodgy Irish accent, Kristin Bell was nuttily evil, Kristen Chenowith sang again and Anna Friel got to use the phrase 'Unorthodox urban honey pioneers'. And this week's theme was artificial limbs, be they human or avian...*sigh* There aren't many things I watch with a big dopey grin on my face but Daisies seems to be my new true love in TV land.
I can't even bring myself to watch Bionic Woman any more, and no matter how many airbrushed pics of Michelle Ryan they run in SFX, she still doesn't cut it. And she doesn't exactly come across as scintillating in the interview either (although David Eick comes off even worse). Seriously, people, they give you a greenlight and you systematically stripmine out everything that was remotely original or cool about the pilot with the most clunky retroconning in living history.... and then, *sob*, Katee Sackhoff's character stops being the ruthless damaged bitch she was born to play *sob*. I give up. And I don't consider that a spoiler, just another reason not to waste time watching it.
Elsewhere, the people behind 30 Days of Night spend their interview in Empire denying that their vampire movie is, erm, genre. Melissa George (who I still can't forgive for her non-attempt at an English accent in Alias many moons ago) compares it to Dr Zhivago. The mind boggles. She then randomly has an interview in the Mail's girly girly You Magazine in which she laughs the genre tag off again (seriously, Mel, not your target audience, why bother?) and then proceeds to spoil the entire ending, which put me off a tad. Then the whole bunch of them turn up in SFX bigging the horror quotient and how Steve Niles has reinvented the vampire... *yawn*
And look at that, writing all this did send me to sleep after all :o)
Not that I ever thought I'd hear myself say those words, but what a complete waste of two whole weeks between jobs. Turns out having to get up for work *helps* the jetlag, go figure. Bugger it. I miss sleeping.
So, onward and upward with the distraction until I get sleepy...
On the plus side, as of today I am caught up on Heroes (at long last) and Pushing Daisies. That annoying English bloke from Enterprise showed up with a dodgy Irish accent, Kristin Bell was nuttily evil, Kristen Chenowith sang again and Anna Friel got to use the phrase 'Unorthodox urban honey pioneers'. And this week's theme was artificial limbs, be they human or avian...*sigh* There aren't many things I watch with a big dopey grin on my face but Daisies seems to be my new true love in TV land.
I can't even bring myself to watch Bionic Woman any more, and no matter how many airbrushed pics of Michelle Ryan they run in SFX, she still doesn't cut it. And she doesn't exactly come across as scintillating in the interview either (although David Eick comes off even worse). Seriously, people, they give you a greenlight and you systematically stripmine out everything that was remotely original or cool about the pilot with the most clunky retroconning in living history.... and then, *sob*, Katee Sackhoff's character stops being the ruthless damaged bitch she was born to play *sob*. I give up. And I don't consider that a spoiler, just another reason not to waste time watching it.
Elsewhere, the people behind 30 Days of Night spend their interview in Empire denying that their vampire movie is, erm, genre. Melissa George (who I still can't forgive for her non-attempt at an English accent in Alias many moons ago) compares it to Dr Zhivago. The mind boggles. She then randomly has an interview in the Mail's girly girly You Magazine in which she laughs the genre tag off again (seriously, Mel, not your target audience, why bother?) and then proceeds to spoil the entire ending, which put me off a tad. Then the whole bunch of them turn up in SFX bigging the horror quotient and how Steve Niles has reinvented the vampire... *yawn*
And look at that, writing all this did send me to sleep after all :o)