1. I just can’t seem to get into Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. It started off fun with the subtle training references, and the random zombie appearances, but it just isn’t enough to sustain my interest. I mean, I feel like I’m just reading plain old Pride and Prejudice. And even though I’ve been telling myself that I’m going to read the plain old Pride and Prejudice for years, it’s just not the fun train reading I want after a long day at the office. Plus I’ve seen the BBC series a billion times, and it’s pretty much word for word, so do I really need to read the book?
2. So I ordered the first five Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 8 graphic novels from Amazon instead. They should be coming any day now. I almost got them at Borders for $15.99, but luckily I checked Amazon first and they’re ten something each. Much better.
3. Survivor is really good this season. I was kinda dreading this season since I’m not crazy about when they bring back old players (plus after 20 seasons I’m pretty worn out) but it’s been really fun and I’m glad I stuck with it.
4. The Oscars are this weekend. I’d be happy if Avatar won everything, but I have a feeling it won’t do what Return of the King did and may get upset by The Hurt Locker, which I never saw and really don’t have any interest. I’d really like Sandra Bullock to win. I don’t really care about The Blind Side, but I just really like her, and does Meryl really need another win? Oh, and then there’s this movie called Precious. Whatever. Has anyone even heard of it? But then again, maybe I won’t see the Oscars at all since Cablevision and ABC are fighting.
5. Lost is amazing this season. I’m loving the parallel universe thing they’ve got going on and the way they’re weaving the characters together in the “normal” world. I know people are upset that they’re not focusing strictly on answering questions one by one, but that would be awful storytelling, and these episodes have been reminding me of the glory days of season 1. Only ten more episodes left!
6. My Mom is on Facebook now. I’m pretty sure that’s a sign of the impending apocalypse. But we all encouraged her to do it (well, for my Dad to set it up for her) completely forgetting the impact this would have on me. Seems like every time I get situated with my DVD and snuggie, I get called down to teach her how to get back home, or update something, or copy and paste something else. The ongoing joke is that once you teach her how to do something, she says “That’s great, now I know.” But then I get called down to show her again the next day. So now we just end all our sentences with “Now I know.”
7. My new iPhone app addictions are the games DoodleJump and Surfacer. Learn em, love em. Also, if you have the game Words with Friends and want to play with me, my username on there is Puntabulous.
8. I won’t bore you with full Babylon 5 movie reviews (did I suddenly grow a conscience?) but I watched The Gathering and In the Beginning and they were both great. It was fun to see The Gathering after everything else so the changes that were made between the original pilot and the series became that much more prominent. I’m glad Laurel Takashima was replaced by Susan Ivanova. I may have grown to like Laurel, but her acting was pretty damn atrocious, and her character boring in this. Oh, and Delenn was freaky looking. Glad they softened her up for the series. In the Beginning was also a fun look at the Earth/Mimbari war. We didn’t learn too much information we didn’t already know, but for some reason it didn’t bother me as much as Battlestar Galactica’s The Plan, which I thought was pretty pointless.
1. Meh. Jane Austen.
There’s a book of zombie short story romances that came out this week I’ll likely get just out of curiosity.
2. I ordered Black Wade from the Book Depository. $12 less than the price at Amazon (plus they are sold out) and free shipping from the UK. Woohoo. They are a great resource if your looking for books with free shipping worldwide. My friends bullied me into getting it because it’s on their “keeper” shelf so I can’t have it. *pout*
3, 5, 7, 8. Never seen it or don’t have it.
4. I don’t really cares who wins as long as they have a nice dress on, that includes the guys.
6. No more posting nekkid pics of yourself on Facebook now that your Mom is watching?
We’ll keep it clean.
Your Mom is on Facebook?!
OK, I’m now officially the only person on planet Earth who isn’t.
1. I was looking at Pride and Prejudice and Zombies the other day. Thought about buying it. Glad I didn’t now. Thanks
4. We’re having an Oscar Party this weekend. Yayz! Even though I’ve only seen a few of the nominated films. For me, it’s all about the Red Carpet anyway …
Have a great weekend! *smooches*
Maybe Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter would be more to your liking.
1. I really want to read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, I also really want to read Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, also Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. I’ve been slacking on reading as of late for the same reason I haven’t watched movies, my PS3 is just too good right now. Though I finally may finish read The Nymphos of Rocky Flats this weekend, which should put me back into a strange book reading mood.
2. I spend all my money on Rock Band songs /sigh.
3. I’ve been meaning to watch it, but I just have way too many other shows on my DVR to pay attention to.
4. The Hurt Locker deserves every award it’s nominated for. It’s hands down the best film this year. It is truly a tense, rattling, sit on the edge of your seat experience. It was so good that I bought it. If The Hurt Locker doesn’t take picture and director on Sunday, I for one will be extremely pissed and may chuck the TV out the window.
5. Lost is beyond good this season, I mean there were a few episodes that have been … lacking, but I mean Keamy this week was the best, plus the episode was just absolutely amazing and Tuesday night is still the only night no one is allowed to call me. Boo btw to Matthew Fox for his deforestation, I was considering calling in a national tragedy two episodes ago when he went shirtless.
6. My mother loves to pretend like she doesn’t know how to use a computer so every time that she does, I need to reshow her everything over and over again. She’s not stupid, she just loves to act like an asshole.
7. I’m that guy who is suggesting stupid apps at all times to people to you know, ruin their lives with addiction. Check out Plants vs Zombies Craig, you won’t be disappointed.
8. Shrug, not a fan, so nothing to add here.
Hmm, well I’m not a Jane Austen fan, so even though I’m intrgued by the idea of the book, your review sealed its doom in my mind. Besides I still got several Torchwood books to work my way through.
Never seen Lost, only seen one season of Survivor, don’t have an iPhone and never seen a Buffy episode (although I AM excited you’re continuing.
with the graphic novels!). I do understand there’s these pretty nifty shows called Dr. Who and Skins, though.
Your mom on Facebook makes me giggle…although I can imagine the horror of Mama Polt attempting to get on. Thank GOD she has no interest in it whatsoever.
And I’m not watching the Oscars again this year as, frankly, i don’t give a shit. I haven’t seen many of the movies nominted for stuff, I don’t like many of the movies nominated, I NEVER agree with the eventual winners, and I find the whole “ceremony” bloated, overblown, self-important and narcasstic. Having said all that, I hope you enjoy the show and everyone you want to win, wins!
HUGS…
I’m kind of over the zombie thing, I think it may have jumped the shark. Unless they make a zombie shark movie. “Zombie JAWS” better not happen.
My mom joined Facebook a few months ago. Fortunately, she was gracious enough not to try to friend me. Some of my cousins wanted to get my grandma onto Facebook. I guess they didn’t think to hard about the difference between what they tell Grandma and what they post to Facebook.
Maybe their lives are just really boring Ryan so they don’t fear Grandma’s participation. My parents could probably handle Facebook, okay, my mom could although I’m just lucky I had a teenager to help me. But I really don’t want my mom following me. Not that I post bad stuff, my kid is my friend so I keep it semi-clean, but still, they are my parents.
Tam: My mom was one of the ones who squashed the idea. She’s friends with many of my cousins and judged that what they and their friends post would not please my grandma, who is a tad judgmental at times.
I’m trying to keep my Mom off facebook!
I was afraid about the “P&P&Z” book for the same reason. I don’t want to have to FORCE myself to get into it. I think I’ll steer clear of that one.
And stop trying to get Enrico & I’s goat by hating on “Precious”!
Josh: Precious was the best comedy I’ve seen all year, at least the first hour was. Sadly, it turned into a nice drama for the next hour of the movie. Man Thief Omar and I will call each other up at all hours and use lines from that movie because it’s golden, however when ranked against some of the other movies it’s up against, it’s sorta meh.
Craig: Of course Meryl needs another win, she’s an acting legend, she deserves it but Sandra will get it for the mediocre family loving snooze fest that was that god awful movie she was in.
You want Avatar to win, SANDRA to win, and you don’t like Austen???? I’m so disappointed.
I was hoping for more humor and zombie action in P&P and Zombies. I hope the movie will be better.
for john: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSPG9QQg4C0
Survivor has been good. I’m rooting for Tom/Colby. The Cirie upset was nice. I hope Russell goes soon. I’m liking Boston Rob this season.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is basically identical to the original book, and I had some difficulty getting into it as well. However, because I had read the book,, I could appreciate all of the added in zombie mayhem. At any rate, I look back on the book with great satisfaction, but didn’t like it as much when I was reading it.
As for the Oscars, I’m doing fairly well at watching the movies this year, not as good as last year, but fairly well. I hope Sandra Bullock doesn’t win, but I expect she will. Precious is really good. And I liked Avatar a lot, but it sure ain’t my favourite picture of the year.
Michelle M.: LOL! That was awful!
1. I love Jane Austen, but I have no interest in the zombies books.
2. I’ve resisted getting sucked in to Buffy so far successfully
3. I don’t do Reality TV. Especially not the fakest of fake contrived un-reality which is Survivor.
4. I’ve been angry at the Oscars ever since Braveheart and Titanic won. And honestly the only thing I *WANT* to have happen at this Oscars is for Colin Firth to win for A Single Man, which was one of the most beautiful movies I’ve seen in ages. He *totally* deserves to win, and Jeff Bridges *totally* shouldn’t even be seen on a screen anywhere, but I know Bridges will win and Colin won’t
I do want to see Hurt Locker. And Precious.
5. I am *EXTREMELY* happy with LOST so far this season. (As I’ve said more than once on this blog I think, I resisted LOST for years — got sucked into it via HD syfy-channel reruns in the fall of 08, and ended up watching the entire series end-to-end in one big gulp on abc.com in HD on my laptop just in time for Season 5 to start. I am now an obsessive Lostie.) My BIGGEST fear re: LOST is that they won’t answer all the questions. Though I don’t think they’ll make anywhere near the botch of it that BSG did.
6. Ryan — is it just parent-child FB friendships you disapprove of? You don’t appear to disapprove of “intergenerational” FB friendships per se
7. I am “not of the body” — i.e. I don’t have an iPhone.
8. Must have been interesting to have seen the B5 pilot AFTER the series. Yeah, the Minbari do look weirder in the pilot.
I think it’s about separation of peers from authorities. Parents, bosses, etc. are different from friends and bad things can happen when they are exposed to a level of intimacy that Facebook provides for friends.
I also have a specific issue with my mom. She has a tendency to make weird conclusions about my relationships with my friends and acquaintances. I don’t want to think what I would have to deal with if she had the ability to stalk me on Facebook.
Haha. My boss and I are friends on facebook. Though in our case, he is almost 20 years younger than me, not older. *ugh* In fact, he just turned 30. He was whining on facebook about “getting old”. I responded to his facebook post threatening to “cut him” if he made that comment again. I have a very cool boss.
I have another friend at work, a peer, who refuses to friend me on facebook BECAUSE I have “too many work-friends on facebook”. I’m not entirely sure what she is worried about: she’s a lesbian, but she’s 100% Out at work, and our boss knows about her, and it’s not like she lives some sort of wild and crazy lifestyle that she needs to hide from her coworkers. I’ve been to her house. She and her partner live a pretty staid life. In fact she’s never been able to articulate to me what “having too many work friends” means or why it’s a problem.
I’ve encountered other people who have talked about wanting to keep their work and personal facebook friends completely separate: some have even created multiple facebook accounts to achieve this. I don’t know.
I also have another friend who refuses to add me because “then he would have to delete another friend”. He keeps his friend list to 100, no more. He says it’s “too hard to keep up” otherwise. I guess if you feel you **have** to exhaustively read every single update from every single friend ever, then that would be a problem, but I don’t do that. I follow **way** too many people on twitter, now, too, to be able to keep up with them. It’s just not the end of the world.
My mother used to tend to make “weird conclusions” about my relationships with friends and acquaintances, too. I suspect it might be rather a common problem
I *did* recently discover a very embarrassing way to have too many facebook friends, though. I accidentally sent a message to the 15-year-old son of my old college roommate — who is a facebook friend of mine (but not of his own parents’ — so I guess this fits with your “authorities” rule, Ryan) — which was intended for a totally different (and older) person who happens to share the same first name. The blood turned to ice in my veins when I realized the mistake I had made. TOTally mortifying. Thankfully, he is an easy-going kid.
Yeah, I think the world ended when my Mom got facebook too. I never knew Facebook had so many privacy settings until that day.