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Tuesday, May 29, 2007 @ 10:24 PM
My brother is graduating from UTI. We're all very relieved. My mom and I are leaving early tomorrow morning, hoping to be in Normal by midnight. I still haven't figured out where I'm going to stay the night, my mom is staying at her friend's. If I don't get ahold of anyone tomorrow, I'll sleep on Maddy's very uncomfortable futon. I'm using the word "sleep" very loosely here.
We'll be in Normal until Friday, when we drive up to Glendale Heights for Will's graduation ceremony, which is at the Holiday Inn or someplace. We're taking him out to dinner afterwards, and then I have no plans. Whoever's free can pick me up and hang out with me. Saturday my mom has Steppenwolf tickets, so I'll most likely be hanging out at Josh's, unless he is working, in which case, I'll just hang at the hotel. We head back on Sunday morning.
So, if you'd like to be a part of these plans, please call.
Stolen From Erin
Sunday, May 27, 2007 @ 1:05 PM
Name your top six T.V. shows, before reading the questions.
1. Six Feet Under
2. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
3. The West Wing
4. My So-Called Life
5. Firefly
6. Law & Order
1) Who is your favorite character from #2? (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Spike. I identify with him, because he's morally opportunistic. He's a bad-ass all through season two - but still human enough to hurt when his relationship with Dru is threatened. After the chip, he doesn't fit in anywhere. He can't be evil, but he can't really be good either. I really get that. And he "may be love's bitch," but he's "man enough" to admit it. I admire that a lot.
2) Who is your least favorite character from #4? (Danielle)
I freaking hate Danielle. I should feel bad for her because she's so ignored, but she's just so annoying. Much like Dawn in Buffy.
3) What would a crossover between #1 and #5 include? (Six Feet Under, Firefly)
This is impossible to contemplate, since one takes place 2000-2005 and one is set on a spaceship. If they did exist in the same century, I would have to imagine that the Serenity crew goes to Fisher & Sons for the funeral services of Wash and Book... Crossovers never really make sense, do they?
4) Who is your favorite ship from #6? (Law & Order)
I don't think there are any "ships" on Law & Order.
5) If you were to set one person from #3 and one person from #6 on a blind date, who would they be? (The West Wing) (Law & Order)
C.J. and Detective Briscoe. She fell for a secret service agent, a retired police officer is a similar thing. Except this would have to be pre-C.J.'s marriage to Danny.
6) If you could meet one person from #4 and spend the day with them, who would it be, and what would you do? (My So-Called Life)
Oh, my God, Brian Krakow. I would imagine that he would be 27 by now, not frozen at 15. We would read books to each other in a tree by flashlight, and then have really ridiculous amounts of sex.
7) If you could change one thing about #2's plot line, what would you change? (Buffy the Vampires Slayer)
I wish there was a way to remove Dawn, or at least make her less annoying. Also, I would have gotten rid of Riley much sooner.
8) Explain a relationship between two people (not necessarily romantic) from show #5, and why you like the relationship between them. (Firefly)
Zoey & Wash. I want a marriage a lot like that. She's a warrior woman, and he loves it. He's never threatened by how strong she is, he's never intimidated by her, he doesn't let that kind of fear get in the way.
9) If the lead title characters (first name in the credits) from #1 and #3 were both drowning, and you could only save one, who would it be? (Six Feet Under, West Wing)
Well, I think Nate is the first name in the SFU credits, and he dies at the end anyway. I think that Leo is the first name in TWW credits, and he also dies at the end of the series. So... does it matter which one I save, if they're already dead?
10) If you could change the title characters' order in the credits for #4, what order would you choose? (My So-Called Life)
I would remove the parents. That's all.
11) If you were able to add a new character, any kind of character you wanted, to the storyline for #6, what would the character be like, and what would their role be? (Law & Order)
A female cop. I think the show is getting one anyway. They've always had a female LT, but the cops have always been men.
12) What happens in your favourite episode of show #2? (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Buffy, Angel, Willow, Faith and Giles have to save the world from ending. They keep telling Xander to keep himself out of harm's way. He ends up saving the high school from exploding. While they're saving the world, he's saving them, and they don't even know about it. And they never have to. And, he loses his virginity to Faith.
13) If you could kill off one of the characters in #1, who would it be and how would you do it? (Six Feet Under)
The series finale really took care of this for me. They don't tell you how Billy dies, though they imply it will be from old age (he's alive when Brenda dies from natural causes), and I would have liked him to go from a drug overdose or maybe stabbing himself twice in the chest.
14) If you got the chance to visit the set for either show #3 or show #5, which would you choose? (The West Wing) (Firefly)
Firefly, because the West Wing cast is too grown up to really be much fun. The Firefly cast was probably more entertaining, by virtue of being younger, plus, I admire Joss Whedon more than Aaron Sorkin. They're both geniuses, don't get me wrong, but I love Joss just a little bit more.
15) If you could date anyone from any of these shows, which show and which person?
Brian Krakow (now, not at 15), and/or Xander or Oz from Buffy.
This is the nerdiest post I've ever made. Thanks a lot, Erin.
Small Requests
Saturday, May 26, 2007 @ 11:29 PM
I just watched the end of "Six Feet Under." So, I'm thinking about death. In a completely neutral way. Just like Dietrich's philosophy class. I'm not wishing I was dead, or fearing my death, I'm just contemplating my mortality.
Just so you all know. I want to be cremated. I would like my vital organs to be donated, but not my eyes. I know I'll be dead, but still, I can't get past the creepiness. I would prefer for there not to be a viewing, and I would prefer not to be embalmed prior to the cremation. The details of the service I will leave up to my loved ones, since it will really be for them, not for me. I would only ask that the service not involve, in any way, any religious or spiritual content of any kind. If possible, someone should talk about how they were always secretly in love with me. Someone else should say that I was the most talented person they'd ever known in real life. No one should say that I was kind. Not because I'm not kind - I don't know if I am, particularly kind or not, who am I to judge? - but because I think that's something people say when they can't think of anything else to say about someone. (Think about it, it's true. When you can't think of anything good to say about someone, you say that they're nice. At least, I do.)
If I died tonight, I would want the money from the play sales to go to Josh, obviously. All the money in the ISU Credit Union account would be his. The rest of my money can go to my mom. I would want my possessions to be given to my brother, except for my books (he doesn't read), which should go to Michelle, and my movies (he wouldn't want them), they can go to Erin. My notebooks and all my writings should go to Megan Dougherty, with the expectation that she makes the collection available to anyone who wants to read it. And, of course, everyone should take back anything I've borrowed from them over the years and forgotten to return, or any gifts they have given me that they would like back.
I just wanted to document these thoughts somewhere accessible. Sorry for being so morbid, I hope it doesn't upset anyone. Good night.
Secret Confession #15
Tuesday, May 22, 2007 @ 2:16 AM
Earlier this evening, I signed up for another free two week trial of Netflix so that I could get season five of "Six Feet Under." And they've introduced this new "Watch Instantly" feature. I searched for all kinds of things I wanted to see, like season two of "Weeds," "Arrested Development," even "Futurama," though I think I've seen every single episode. None of those were available, or anything else I searched for. I couldn't find anything I particularly wanted to watch. The only thing that looked remotely interesting was a British show called "Coupling."
Kids. I have found the ultimate guilty pleasure obsession. It's like all my other favorite guilty pleasure TV shows rolled into one, and British. I watched all six episodes in season one and now I'm into season two. I will probably not stop until I've watched all three seasons. It is ridiculous but I love it. I hate two of the female characters, but the third (Susan) is my hero. Richard Coyle is my new actor crush. I cannot explain why I'm sitting in the dark, laughing so hard I'm choking. It is dumb and silly and kind of sexist - but it is bloody brilliant.
If you want to see any of it, comment and I'll e-mail you my netflix username and password so you can watch it, too.
I can't believe this. I signed up so that I could watch the most artful television series ever created, but I end up watching BBC trash. It's like "Sex and the City" meets "Friends" meets "Saved by the Bell" - you know it's ridiculous, and you're probably getting dumber just by watching it. But you can't help yourself - you just keep watching.
Susan: "Some men were born lucky. Some men were born very lucky."
Sally: "What was Patrick born?"
Susan: "A tripod."
Patrick: "What would I be without my penis?"
Sally: "Literate?"
Guy: "Yeah... but does size really matter? You know what women always say."
Patrick: "...Ouch?"
5/23 - I had to update with this, my new favorite quote:
"I'm not pregnant! I'm not pregnant! I have shagged and shagged and shagged, and all the little bastards missed!"
--Jane
If you ever want to see your monitor again...
Saturday, May 19, 2007 @ 6:46 PM
Long story short, I have a bunch of Rob's stuff. He needed to store some things he couldn't take home with him on the bus. (So, he gave me these things willingly, to store for an indeterminate amount of time.) I decided that I should actually hold these items hostage until Rob finishes editing together the Bargaining radio drama for me. If I don't hear from him in a month, and his stuff is still in my closet, and I don't have a radio play, I'll send him a note made from cut-up magazines that says:
Rob-
If you ever want to see your monitor and all your precious books again, bring a finished copy of Bargaining to the Nature Preserve at the stroke of midnight tomorrow. Come alone. No Police!
See? I'm not doing him a favor and storing his stuff, so much as I am blackmailing him into editing my radio play. *evil laughter*
I Learned the Truth at 17
Thursday, May 17, 2007 @ 2:20 PM
Something I said when I was in high school:
"Sometimes I think the only reason I advocate no-strings-attached relationships is because I realized early on that I had no hope of finding someone willing to attach strings to me. My jaded view might be the product of an intellect with too much time on its hands and no self-esteem. Logic, after all, is in the eye of the logician."
God. I've always been too self-aware for my own good.
I am tiramisu, how about you?
Monday, May 14, 2007 @ 12:24 PM
Bargaining is over. I think it was enjoyed by the small group of people who attended. The best performance was undoubtedly Friday. I found myself wishing that we'd had more time, so we could have done a real show instead of a staged reading. Considering that we only had eight rehearsals, I think it was pretty impressive - I just wish we'd had a few more weeks, so they could have memorized. Oh, well. We're supposed to record it as a radio drama on Tuesday at WHRW, so if you didn't get to see it, you might still get to hear it. If anyone at WHRW actually plays the thing, it will sort of make up for them eating our props.
I decided that Amanda is my muse. She is my Uma Thurman and I'm her Quentin Tarantino. We also decided that if we were foods, she would be either a peach or a creamsicle, and I would be tiramisu.
In three weeks, my brother is graduating from UTI. I'll be taking a five-day trip to Normal and Chicago in honor of this bizarre ceremony. For the rest of the summer, it looks like I'm to remain in Binghamton. I'm looking for a part-time job, so that I can bring some money in, and I hope to get a lot of writing done. I would also like to direct another play, unfortunately, none of the actors I know will be in Bing. This makes the possibility of a production unlikely, but not impossible.
[she releases the handlebars and rides up the street, no hands]
Thursday, May 10, 2007 @ 10:07 PM
"I feel so stupid -- my entire relationship with Jordan Catalano, every minute of it just completely sucked. And now it's over."
-- Angela Chase, My So-Called Life
I had a few good minutes here and there. But still, I know exactly what she means.
Arrogance
Tuesday, May 08, 2007 @ 2:33 PM
You act like you think everyone is or should be like you.
Which I suppose we all do.
Conclusion:
Sunday, May 06, 2007 @ 7:56 PM
I am too crazy to live.
wanderlust
Thursday, May 03, 2007 @ 10:55 PM
I'm getting that feeling again, that feeling like I need to shake things up or run away from home.
Anyone want to go to Chicago with me for a week and drink a lot?
Anyone?
Time Flies
It's May already.
How did that happen?
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