Ah. I've been watching the things you mention on my TV. That might actually explain it.
ETA: My TV broke last night, during the Torchwood finale. It won't come on now. Nothing happens when I plug it in. Wah. It's quite old, though.
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Ah. I've been watching the things you mention on my TV. That might actually explain it.
ETA: My TV broke last night, during the Torchwood finale. It won't come on now. Nothing happens when I plug it in. Wah. It's quite old, though.
Torchwood was so intense it actually broke your TV set!? I wonder what it will do to bittorrent....
It broke right at the end of the 1st part of the 2 parter. I'm going to have to BitTorrent it myself to see the rest. I still don't think my brain fully understands I HAVE NO TELEBOX.
Wow, I'd heard people joke about the hotness of the Captain Jack/real Captain Jack kissing being likely to melt TV screens, but I assumed it was just hyperbole ...
(Torchwood ep 12 spoiler above)
Ack, can we move Torchwood spoilers to Boxed Set, or at least label them?
Am suddenly glad I didn't highlight that, heh.
I'm not entirely sorry I did, now I just want to get home faster....
I'm watching it right now...
Sorry, thought my post was pretty obviously in reference to the Torchwood finale anecdote above. I've added a label.
Yesterday was Criterion Collection day. First up, The Seventh Seal.
Amazing restoration job. Just absolutely gorgeous. Not a bad movie either. Brilliant acting pretty much all around, but especially from Max von Sydow and Gunnar Bjornstrand. The squire had some great lines, also. It's a fairly impressive feat for an existentialist movie made in 1957 by a Swede about the Dark Ages to connect with me, but the people largely rang true.
I often wonder if directors like Bergman or Lang had had access to all the technological geegaws available to directors today, if they would have made better or worse movies. Much of their brillance, it seems to me, is because they don't pile on the excess.
And speaking of excess, the second movie we watched was Videodrome. The thing that I appreciate about Cronenberg, and about Rick Baker, is that they are subtle. Never over-the-top. Videodrome is very much in the Cyperpunk movement of the 80s, dystopian vision of the near future and all that. Scarily accurate. Deborah Harry, for some reason, reminded me strongly of Adrienne Barbeau.
Howard Shore did the score for Videodrome, and turns out to be a frequent Cronenberg collaborator. It was a pretty pedestrian score, very much like a Hammer film, but there were a couple interestingly similar elements to the LOTR score.