Played with Kaylee. Sun came out, and I walked on my feet and heard with my ears. I ate the bits, the bits stayed down, and I work. I function like I'm a girl. I hate it because I know it'll go away. The sun goes dark and chaos has come again. Bits. Fluids. What am I?!

River ,'War Stories'


Natter 74: Ready or Not  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


billytea - Mar 30, 2016 6:48:16 pm PDT #18702 of 30003
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

My viewing habits: Doctor Who. So much Doctor Who. I'm currently rewatching Series 4, with Donna as the companion; about to start rewatching Series 8, the first with Peter Capaldi, Doctor Funkenstein; just finished rewatching last year's season; and having finished watching my Hinchcliffe-era Fourth Doctor DVDs, I'm starting over again on the Third Doctor. Finished his first adventure, Spearhead from Space, just started his second, Doctor Who and the Silurians. (Trivia: due to a naming gaffe, this is the only adventure actually named "Doctor Who and" something.) I like Doctor Who, is what I'm saying.

Biyi is binge-watching The Good Wife, and I'm catching occasional episodes with her. There's a soap I used to watch when I was a teenager called Prisoner (I think it showed in the US as Prisoner: Cell Block H. There's a reimagining on Australian TV now, called Wentworth. 12-episode seasons, tracing the rise of Bea Smith to be top dog (now with actual production values). I've watched the first three seasons now, and on the back of it, chased up old DVDs of the original series, Prisoner. Real time-warp material. So trashy. So 80s fashions. So, so much mansplaining. As cultural history, this is just fascinating.

Also watching some documentaries with Ryan: Madagascar, Inside the Human Body (judiciously censored) and Walking with Monsters (prequel to Walking with Dinosaurs, showing life before the Mesozoic). Oh, and I've finished Season 5 of the Sopranos and Season 2 of The Tudors.

...I may be overdoing this a bit.


Consuela - Mar 30, 2016 6:54:29 pm PDT #18703 of 30003
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

The only shows I'm mostly caught up on are Brooklyn 9-9 and The 100. Far behind on Jane & AOS. Need to catch up on Galavant.

Someday I will have the time to watch iZombie.


WindSparrow - Mar 30, 2016 6:55:10 pm PDT #18704 of 30003
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.

Things Daniel and I watch together: The Venture Bros., Agent Carter, Galavant, Elementary, The Flash, Agents of SHIELD, Sleepy Hollow, catching up on Limitless, working our way through Republic of Doyle. Things we used to watch together but I gave up on so Daniel is watching on his own: Once Upon A Time, Grimm, Person of Interest, Supergirl. Daniel is also watching Arrow.


-t - Mar 30, 2016 7:10:14 pm PDT #18705 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

You got this, Zen.

I have no idea what to expect from April. I don't think I ever really got going with March. Hm.

I guess we got through Single Whip last week, tonight was Lift Hands, Crane Spreads its Wings, and Brush Knee. Maybe something else in there. Not sure I have all that, but that is okay. I do like the names.


Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 30, 2016 7:13:13 pm PDT #18706 of 30003
"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

Hmm, I missed the chance for a booty-adjacent call tonight by checking my email too late. However, I did fix a decent steak dinner, cuddled with my cats, and watched a really interesting episode of Nature on PBS while missing out, so I'm not too broken up.


-t - Mar 30, 2016 7:13:54 pm PDT #18707 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

While I am falling behind on my TV watching, I'm up to Mirror Dance in my Bujold binge-read, so that's good clean fun.


Atropa - Mar 30, 2016 7:34:56 pm PDT #18708 of 30003
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

The only show we've watched recently (that hasn't been me rewatching Hannibal or Penny Dreadful) was Sense 8. Which I was mildly-enthused-to-meh about. Pete liked it better than I did.

We plan on watching Daredevil S2 in the next week or so. But other than that, we don't watch a lot of shows. Hell, media-wise I've been rewatching comfort movies, because it's been a stressful couple of weeks months. (I'm watching Interview With the Vampire again, AIFG!) t vampire fangirl tag never closes


DavidS - Mar 30, 2016 8:07:46 pm PDT #18709 of 30003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I think it showed in the US as Prisoner: Cell Block H

That is correct.

I'm watching Interview With the Vampire again, AIFG!

I sense a Queen of the Damned and Lost Boys double feature in your near future.


Atropa - Mar 30, 2016 8:22:03 pm PDT #18710 of 30003
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

I sense a Queen of the Damned and Lost Boys double feature in your near future.

Actually, with the way my week is going, it's going to be 30 Days of Night, Jennifer's Body, and Let Us Prey. I need cathartic violence and destruction.


Burrell - Mar 30, 2016 8:32:48 pm PDT #18711 of 30003
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Burrell, how did the event go? No crying or tripping I assume.

It was good, thanks. No tripping, no tears. I did butcher some poor student's name but it was during the raffle prize section, which had sort of devolved into the event coordinator and I doing a kind of low-key Lucy and Ethel routine. And Percival Everett told a great story about being the only black cowboy in Idaho, so that was entertaining. Not sure it was about young writers exactly, but that wasn't strictly a requirement.

And there were lots of students and faculty coming up to say thank you at the end, so I assume that means it went well. Either that or they are buttering me up for next year, but I'll take it.

I guess we got through Single Whip last week, tonight was Lift Hands, Crane Spreads its Wings, and Brush Knee. Maybe something else in there. Not sure I have all that, but that is okay. I do like the names.

I love Brush Knee. You're officially into the second part of the first set I believe.