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Dec. 23rd, 2012
A nice nice Sunday ahead
Dec. 23rd, 2012 09:21 amThe Seahawks are playing a bfd game today. Other than making sure I know their schedule so I can plan mine around it when needed, I know and care nothing about football at all. But once in a while a game comes along that the fans get all whipped up about and today's is that kind. Plus it's on national TV. So there will be a party in my front yard all day.
I'll be gone for some of it. I'm not taking the car out but, happily, I don't need to. I'm going uptown for brunch and a movie. Today's movie is Guilt Trip.
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I grew up in the years of serial, appointment TV. I remember well the first time I 'got' the whole recorded TV thing. It was the early 80's and I stopped at a friend of my husband's to pick up something for him after work and his wife was watching my favorite soap opera which aired at 2 and it was 5:30!! I think I waited until the weekend to buy my own Betamax. It was A.Maze.Ing. It had a remote control - not wireless. "Mind the cord!!" was probably the sentence I muttered most often.
It was years, however, before I ever rented a movie and I never bought one until last year. I recorded TV - lots of TV. At one point I had 5 VCR's in this house. And tape management was a huge issue. And then TiVo came out and I hopped on that bandwagon in the late 90's.
I record everything to watch later. Even baseball and the news, I tape and start watching 15-30 minutes in.
BUT, I stayed pretty current on everything until Summer before last when I got on an NCIS jag. I'd never seen any of it and spent the Summer working my way through 6 seasons. I was still not that attached to the plots or characters - it was just something to watch.
I've seen and heard about people watching entire seasons of something and getting totally sucked in as in. Not being able to stop watching. I did not get it until now.
I have Downton Abbey-itis. I dream about it. When I'm not watching, I think about it and look up bits and pieces of things happening in the plot. Last night I hit an episode that started in 1919. This is 4 years before my Mom was born. It seems amazing that my grandparents were contemporaries of these people.
I'm not sure why this is all so compelling to me but I am really enjoying it. I have about 2 hours to go before I hit the current season - season 3. I did hear the other day that season 4 has been locked down.
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I also read that Project Runway - another favorite since the very first season - is taking a very bad turn in its next season. No Michael Kors until the very end and only team challenges. This means whimpy judges and less sewing and more bickering and back biting. I will probably fast forward through the entire season. Sigh.
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Time now to get my act together and out the door.
I'll be gone for some of it. I'm not taking the car out but, happily, I don't need to. I'm going uptown for brunch and a movie. Today's movie is Guilt Trip.
---
I grew up in the years of serial, appointment TV. I remember well the first time I 'got' the whole recorded TV thing. It was the early 80's and I stopped at a friend of my husband's to pick up something for him after work and his wife was watching my favorite soap opera which aired at 2 and it was 5:30!! I think I waited until the weekend to buy my own Betamax. It was A.Maze.Ing. It had a remote control - not wireless. "Mind the cord!!" was probably the sentence I muttered most often.
It was years, however, before I ever rented a movie and I never bought one until last year. I recorded TV - lots of TV. At one point I had 5 VCR's in this house. And tape management was a huge issue. And then TiVo came out and I hopped on that bandwagon in the late 90's.
I record everything to watch later. Even baseball and the news, I tape and start watching 15-30 minutes in.
BUT, I stayed pretty current on everything until Summer before last when I got on an NCIS jag. I'd never seen any of it and spent the Summer working my way through 6 seasons. I was still not that attached to the plots or characters - it was just something to watch.
I've seen and heard about people watching entire seasons of something and getting totally sucked in as in. Not being able to stop watching. I did not get it until now.
I have Downton Abbey-itis. I dream about it. When I'm not watching, I think about it and look up bits and pieces of things happening in the plot. Last night I hit an episode that started in 1919. This is 4 years before my Mom was born. It seems amazing that my grandparents were contemporaries of these people.
I'm not sure why this is all so compelling to me but I am really enjoying it. I have about 2 hours to go before I hit the current season - season 3. I did hear the other day that season 4 has been locked down.
---
I also read that Project Runway - another favorite since the very first season - is taking a very bad turn in its next season. No Michael Kors until the very end and only team challenges. This means whimpy judges and less sewing and more bickering and back biting. I will probably fast forward through the entire season. Sigh.
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Time now to get my act together and out the door.
Missed opportunity
Dec. 23rd, 2012 02:24 pmThe Guilt Trip had some great possibilities and missed many of them. It wasn't horrible and it was short.
I had breakfast at a place that wasn't good enough or bad enough to even review.
I got home just as the madness outside is kicking up. I took the bus and 4 stops from here, security was out in droves to protect us from the crazies. It was kind of nice to see. It's about 3 hours from first pitch. Going out in the car is not even conceivable. Going out on foot would not even be a good idea so happily, I've got nowhere I need or want to go and am happy, dry and warm here in my own living room.
I had breakfast at a place that wasn't good enough or bad enough to even review.
I got home just as the madness outside is kicking up. I took the bus and 4 stops from here, security was out in droves to protect us from the crazies. It was kind of nice to see. It's about 3 hours from first pitch. Going out in the car is not even conceivable. Going out on foot would not even be a good idea so happily, I've got nowhere I need or want to go and am happy, dry and warm here in my own living room.
