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thank you daily show!
um. so yeah. this writer's strike thing. it needs to stop. i have resigned myself to my netflix subscription and to books for forms of entertainment, but is it really so hard to share the profit? is it?
i have resigned myself to the idea that you have sucked me in and made me addicted to those characters on tv. i am resigned to the fact that i consider them part of the family and am invested in their futures (even though i am more than willing for you to kill off quite a few of them). but i need them. please, please, please give the writers part of the internet profit. pleeeeeaaaase!
they deserve it. really. really they do. without them, without the writers, i am left with game shows and reality tv... and really, where is the clever banter and the wit? where? it isn't there! i need the writers. i need them. where would i be without pushing daisies? or californication? or grey's? or heroes? where?!?!?
GIVE THEM THE MONEY!
sincerely,
the princess
i am afraid that i am one of those "addicted" to visual stimuli. i like tv. i like movies. i like music videos. i like photos. i like art. and thomas will tell you that i have a high tolerance for all things on the screen (big or little).
now, even though i will watch anything, that does not mean that i do not know what is good, quality or worth watching. i am quite capable of discerning the crap from the quality and if i get to know you, i can even make suggestions based upon your taste. think of me as the personal tv guide.
one of the shows that i have recently fallen in love with is californication starring david dachovny of x-files fame. i can explain very easily what it is about this show that i love. dialogue. the script of every episode is so very clever, so very witty, so very literate, and so very well done that i eat it up every time it is on. this is the stuff that shows should be made of. it is so clever it puts me to mind of frasier or gilmore girls.
the show is essentially character driven and the only action you are going to get from it is going to be sexual (so if you are offended easily, i don't know that this is for you) and fights (so if you are offended easily, i don't know that this is for you) and then there are the sex scenes (did i mention this and did i mention that if you offend easily...???). but the show totally develops character, motivation and psychology oh so brilliantly.
i wish all shows were this well written.
so the national spelling bee is on. this is way stressful and i absolutely love the spelling bee.
what is even funnier is that the two guy commentators, mike and mike (thomas listens to them apparently), talk about the kids like they are horses in a race... i mean, i know a lot of them are homeschooled, but geez, talking about them like horses...
am i the only one creeped out about the cgi orville reddenbacher commercials? because if i am, just let me know that you think it is cool and i will get over it.
i mean, he was creepy when he was alive and all paper thin and old and wrinkly with his bowl of popcorn and now that his is dead and animated and creepy with his bowl of popcorn, *shudder*.
seriously, there is nothing better on tv tonight and i do not know what to do with myself. this is the one single problem with netflix. when we have movies here that i can't watch because t wants to watch the ones we have.
oh what to do. so, i then have this ethical dilemma of watching the movies and pretending that i haven't, or not watching the movies. you have no idea how hard this is. i have not watched either of the movies we have here but i really want to.
i feel like i have the devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other. only problem is, even the angel is saying watch the movies.
sorry about the photos. really. i am. the other laptop is still broken.
we watched some good old american idol tonight. it occurred to me that there are two people on television that i cannot stand to watch or listen to. i honestly think they are alien crack babies and i would much rather have a dentist yank all of my teeth out without anesthesia or be forced to eat my boogers. really. do you know who i am talking about?
paula abdul and bob costas. i know that bob costas is not on that show. but i realized that my disdain for paula is the same as it is for bob. both of them should not be allowed to be on tv. children should not have to endure their image. in fact it is so bad, when i turned to thomas to get bob costas' name, i asked him who was the sports caster i disliked as much as paula... you know, the a$$. his response: bob costas.
why must i watch these people on tv? who do i have to sleep with in hollywood to get both of them off of my tv? i am willing to sacrifice and take one for humanity and sleep with george clooney if it means they go... ok. i'd sleep with him for free. but my point is: why, god, why?
