fannish weekend YAY.
May. 7th, 2006 11:02 pmHome! For those who didn't notice I was gone: I was in Boston this weekend! Celebrating
brooklinegirl's birthday along with
lynnmonster and
misspamela and
estrella30! Plus dinner on Saturday with
aneli8 and
mrsronweasley and
mayatawi and
drlense and
kageygirl, hi yay!
We mainly celebrated by drinking and watching TV, which included, um. Miami Vice? And Jake 2.0? And The Sentinel, and Undeclared (guest starring Tom Welling, yay?) and about thirty seconds of anime porn before everyone, including
lynnmonster, became totally unendurably traumatized. Then we watched Sports Night, all a-squee over it, and couldn't figure out why we don't watch it ALL THE TIME (consensus: because once you start watching you can't stop) and spent a lot of time looking around and saying, "Seriously, why aren't we all writing this? Why isn't EVERYONE writing this?"
We also watched - without any fast-forwarding at all, which if you know anything about our collective attention span is the highest possible compliment - the first two episodes of Life on Mars (NB: NOT ACTUALLY SET ON MARS, just named after a David Bowie song). For those of you who've already seen this pimped up and down your friends list in the last few months, Oh my god, everyone is right, WATCH IT. For those who haven't, Life on Mars is absolutely brilliant, visually and directorially gorgeous, Sam is a HUGE woobie and spends all of the first two episodes getting periodically beaten up. And, oh yes, time-traveling.
(The first time Sam walked by a telephone box,
misspamela, who'd spent the entire previous day watching Dr. Who with
brooklinegirl, pointed at the screen and yelled, "TARDIS!" but that seems not to be quite how it works for our Sam.)
And eventually the weekend had to end, and after much consoling ourselves with the fact that
con_txt is coming up fast, it was just me and Tracey left on the couch, and we watched this past Friday's Numb3rs, which Tracey had TiVoed for me, and ( Backscatter = YAY )
Also, it seems that my DVD player is dying, and I would like to replace it with a spiffy region-free, AVI-playing model. It seems - from my thirty seconds of research - that the Phillips is not now widely available, but I know it's cheap and goodish. Recs? Help?
We mainly celebrated by drinking and watching TV, which included, um. Miami Vice? And Jake 2.0? And The Sentinel, and Undeclared (guest starring Tom Welling, yay?) and about thirty seconds of anime porn before everyone, including
We also watched - without any fast-forwarding at all, which if you know anything about our collective attention span is the highest possible compliment - the first two episodes of Life on Mars (NB: NOT ACTUALLY SET ON MARS, just named after a David Bowie song). For those of you who've already seen this pimped up and down your friends list in the last few months, Oh my god, everyone is right, WATCH IT. For those who haven't, Life on Mars is absolutely brilliant, visually and directorially gorgeous, Sam is a HUGE woobie and spends all of the first two episodes getting periodically beaten up. And, oh yes, time-traveling.
(The first time Sam walked by a telephone box,
And eventually the weekend had to end, and after much consoling ourselves with the fact that
Also, it seems that my DVD player is dying, and I would like to replace it with a spiffy region-free, AVI-playing model. It seems - from my thirty seconds of research - that the Phillips is not now widely available, but I know it's cheap and goodish. Recs? Help?