Right.
I could just get into the reason why I had the hiatus but that would involve a lengthy exposition on work and the no inspiration that sometimes arises from having too much of a hectic life, but that would also just be a half-truth, so instead of lying about it to you, or exaggerating, or making half-truths, I'm just going to puff my chest out and say a big WHATEVER to the guilty conscience I don't need for not posting the requisite once-a-week and leave it all up to you, the readers, to imagine what I was up to that could not get my ass down in front of the computer to type in a few measley words on how my day went.
So anyway.
One thing I can report back to you on what I've been doing is this:
A show about two brothers - both cute (but one is a little too pretty boy for my taste and the other needs a haircut), neither of whom looks very much like the other, but never mind - pursuing a yellow-eyed demon who killed their mother about 23 years back by sticking her up a ceiling like a tasteless chandelier and then immolating her like a glorified barbecue.
The show itself (I took a crash course and watched it from the beginning of Season 1 to Part 1 of Season 2) is aaaaaalright. The plot mmm-kay.
The starring actors both have their separate moments of extreme hotness (there's a towel scene, and oh my dear God it's a towel scene to remember forever), but if I wanted to watch hotness, I'd watch Prison Break (which is next on my list), and if there's one thing Supernatural has over Prison Break (though they will have nothing over Wentworth Miller ever), it's the chemistry between the two brothers.
Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki make their brotherhood work, possibly because they really are close in real life (I'm guessing), or possibly because the scriptwriters are better, I don't know, but despite the lack of similar facial features, they work really well together.
Oh and another thing Supernatural has over any other television show I've watched recently?
The fucking soundtrack, man.
If you're into mullet rock, check this tv show out. They don't have a soundtrack (durr) but you don't have a tv show with two hot guys in it without a huge fanlisting of sorts so there are many websites out there that refers back to each episode's playlist, and the choices (ranging from Lynyrd Skynyrd, Styx, Ted Nugent, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and 'Carry on My Wayward Son' from Kansas which is a song of complete and glorifical rocking perfection, Cheap Trick, AC/DC, Black Sabbath Journey, oh and other great shout-outs like REO Speedwagon), the timing of which they play the song, the scenes in which they choose to play them, are holy genius.
Or if you're not into guys or rock music, you can always check out the 1967 Chevy Impala the boys use as transportation.
Or, you know, the scary stuff. That's fun too.
So watch it (but don't make the mistake I made, which is buying Part 1 of Season 2 without realizing or bothering to check that Part 2 of Season 2 isn't even done yet, hence making me go through that tiring business otherwise known as The Waiting Game, and my patience is but a short string).
Oh, and Quick Note to F1d7:
Try as I might, I haven't been able to download Catcher in the Rye by Guns n' Roses. Every time I do, another song comes out.
But I did check out the lyrics, which was interesting, because it was supposed to be from the viewpoint of John Lennon's assassin (hence the song title I guess), and from that fact alone it promises to be a good song (oh, and Brian May played guitar for it apparently, which is pretty cool). Anyway, as soon as Limewire decides to play nice and catch me a break and actually give me the damn song, I'll be sure to post up my opinion on it.
In other news, it's my birthday tomorrow!
Birthday presents of a bling nature will be received with heartfelt gratitude.
Obviously loving the book as much as I do would mean that I would be disappointed in the movie in some way or other. The BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice is supposed to be the best damn adaptation of the novel like, ever, and stays true to the book, and it helps tremendously that Colin Firth is Mr. Darcy because I.
Love. Colin. Firth.
I shouldn’t have liked it. As a lover of the book, I couldn’t have liked it. But I did!
You’re gonna have to understand my line of reasoning here: I’ve read the book literally hundreds of times, and nothing satisfies me more than a good snog at the end, and the book, while stellar in every other way, does not provide that sort of entertainment.
Then the other movie adaptation of the book, starring Keira Knightley and Matthew MacFadyen played on HBO. It played on a Sunday at 9pm which meant, truly, that I would never be able to watch it, as The Bear has since decided that while he’ll be in bed by 9.30, he won’t actually be asleep until way past ten, as he has decreed himself a grown-up. When he finally drifted off at half-past ten, I set the Astro remote on number 40, settled myself in, and was just in time to see the last part.
Which was, a scene completely out of text of the book, Mr.
Darcy and Miss Bennett kissing!
The last DVD copy I had of Pride and Prejudice was neither clear in imagery nor clear in sound, so I wouldn’t have been surprised if that last scene was cut out completely. Not long after I watched it on TV, I bought the DVD (because I’m sad that way), the so-clear-it’s-practically-original kind of copy, settled myself in again, and watched the whole thing.
And while I hate fricking Keira fricking Knightley, and I only seem to love Matthew MacFadyen as Mr. Darcy (I watched his TV show, ‘Spooks’, and was disappointed to find how I so did not have the hots for him without his hair extensions and riding breeches), and they didn’t do the plot of the book to any justice (it was supposed to mean so much more than that), I was digging the movie. It looked fantastic, for one, and the chemistry between KK and Mr.
Darcy was pretty sizzling (the mark of any good movie), and I’m a big fan of Brenda Blethyn (who can make any movie watchable). So I was all happy and set to watch that very last snogging scene, when to my surprise and disappointment, the credits rolled up instead.
What?
? Why??
How?? WHY?
???
?
It was made obvious to me that while there is a Pride and Prejudice DVD out there in the world that has Mr. Darcy and Miss Bennett kissing to our satisfaction, I had bought the wussed-out version instead.
My Whole Point To The Story: if anyone happens to have the DVD copy where there is, indeed, a scene where the famous duo in the world’s most famous love-hate relationship finally get some lip-locking action, please, call me.
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