space madness
Brain-melt Marathon weekend. Dead Like Me and the 2005 run of Doctor Who. For Friday night we did Sushi- and my first actual attempt at Sashimi (which didn’t go over well; I have a total consistancy problem going on), and then did BSG and Stargate SG1 which are Friday night routine. Last weekend Xiaoxin hit me up on the Dead Like Me pilot, which I loved and so I queued the Season 1 disc and after the normal Friday tv we did 5 episodes of Dead Like Me. Immediately after which, at 3AM, I insisted we go to the Waffle House, which we did, and it was very surreal (Since Dead Like has this reoocuring Waffle House location). Now I love Dead Like Me and it’s not even on tv anymore… *sigh*
Saturday got some work done in the morning, went back over to Xiao and Heather’s, watched Kinsey, and then 10 episodes of the new Doctor Who with Christopher Eccleston. By then it’s late so forgo the last three of that, and crash there, watch those in the morning. Another great show I now love, and Eccleston is already done with it. Always late to the party. This annoys me because I LOVE Eccleston now. Insane, quirky, happy-go-lucky and then ANGRY!!@#! Great disarming combination. I have a weird relationship with Doctor Who- My mom, she is like displaced British I think. She watches more BBC America than anyone I know, the PBS shows, loves Mystery! All that stuff. She has always loved Doctor Who, and that she loves it is one of my earliest memories. So I tell her about this new found Doctor love on Sunday, and apparently it was something I recognized when I was like 2 or 3. When the music would start I would get all hyper. This is strange because I rememeber stuff from Doctor Who. Vague images of the Phone Box, the Daleks, the TARDIS and stuff, but that these are images from that far back, that’s weird. Also told me that and the Muppet Show, when I heard the music, I would go nuts. Which I don’t doubt. Always felt some inner resonance with the Muppet Show, moreso than I figured anyone else ever did…
Anyway, Sunday after the last three Doctor Who eppies, I run some household stuff, jet back to my apartment when Megan and Jeremy are coming by at 2 and we do the WHOLE Dead Like Me thing over again from Pilot to Episode 6. This is SOP for me: find something, saturate my brain with it, latch on to one specific aspect and then stew while I wait to see my pet aspect addressed. And can I just say Mandy Patinkin, gah! So. good. What’s the deal with Rube? What’s with his shoes? His apartment? Cooking pasta? Rube! Why do I keep calling him Abe? But seriously, I love Rube. I need more episodes. I also need to stop reading the Wiki entries, but still, great stuff.
So two new, brain-melting obsessions to distract me, and top recommendations to all concerned parties. No movie recs as I’m TV’d upside the head right now, but Wedding Crashers has a lot of buzz being bandied about. Heh.