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.
You know, it's funny. We went to war never looking to come back, but it's the real world I couldn't survive.
Tracy ,'The Message'
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Kevin - Jan 02, 2007 7:16:22 am PST #6753 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Theodosia - Jan 02, 2007 7:36:42 am PST #6754 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Torchwood was so intense it actually broke your TV set!? I wonder what it will do to bittorrent....
Kevin - Jan 02, 2007 7:38:28 am PST #6755 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
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.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 02, 2007 8:54:03 am PST #6756 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
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)
Dana - Jan 02, 2007 8:55:56 am PST #6757 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Ack, can we move Torchwood spoilers to Boxed Set, or at least label them?
Kevin - Jan 02, 2007 9:03:24 am PST #6758 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Am suddenly glad I didn't highlight that, heh.
Theodosia - Jan 02, 2007 9:11:03 am PST #6759 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I'm not entirely sorry I did, now I just want to get home faster....
§ ita § - Jan 02, 2007 9:14:50 am PST #6760 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm watching it right now...
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 02, 2007 9:23:54 am PST #6761 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Sorry, thought my post was pretty obviously in reference to the Torchwood finale anecdote above. I've added a label.
Volans - Jan 02, 2007 8:01:17 pm PST #6762 of 10001
move out and draw fire
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.