Mid-week update

[grrgoyl]

Pushing Daisies has arrived from Netflix. This isn't news to swankyfunk (whose deafening squeeing is what forced me to add it to my queue in the first place), but the show is right up my alley: With influences seemingly ranging from Amelie to Tim Burton to Arrested Development (everyone steals from AD without admitting it), including voice-over narration (I am SUCH a sucker for anything using this) and executive produced by Barry Sonnenfeld (The Tick), what's not to like? The entire cast is perfect, but so far (after three episodes) my favorite is Chi McBride (Emerson Cod). Has all the best lines and facial expressions.

Unfortunately, for all these reasons above Tery wasn't nearly so instantly enamored (I think we lost her the minute the show's premise involved bringing people back from the dead). Which is why I'm glad we have alone time away from each other.

The DVD set (standard as well as high definition) is shamefully bereft of extras. Perhaps I'll wait a bit, see if another version is released. I'm not sure if it's meant as a joke or not, but disc 1 has the FBI warning in 33 different languages (I counted), including Arabic and possibly Sanskrit. Funny!

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I went grocery shopping tonight. The skinny little 16-year-old girl bagging my purchases managed to fit everything into my canvas bags except my douche (I douche sometimes. Deal with it). This she handed to me with a scrunched-up look of disgust on her face, as if it had already been used. In my head I said, "Oh, get over yourself sweetie. I didn't douche when I was 16 either. But someday, believe it or not, there's going to come a time when you feel not-so-fresh."

I instructed her to put my two gallons of milk together in one bag (they were made for me by my sister and are extremely sturdy). After doing so, she then gingerly filled the other bags with two or three items each, like cheese, vitamins and peanut butter in one and frozen pizza and shampoo in the other, staring helplessly at the rest of my items in bewilderment. Honey, the bags can hold two milk gallons. What makes you think you can't load them up with other stuff that isn't milk?

Am I well on my way to being a grouchy senior citizen or what?

~*~

Finally, another quickie movie review. Scenes of a Sexual Nature caught my eye on Netflix because Ewan McGregor is in it, and I somehow was not notified of this. It's a little piece about four or five different relationships that all play out on London's Hampstead Heath. It's like Love, Actually on a tenth of the budget and a sixteenth of the star power.

I just take exception to the title. A more misleading title you're not likely to ever find. There aren't any scenes of a REMOTELY sexual nature in this film. Plenty of talking about it, thinking about it, implying it. Even earned itself a thoroughly undeserved R rating for "sexual content." Bah. Apart from Ewan playing a flirtatious and adorable gay man who, mid eye-batting, starts discussing adoption with his longtime partner, and one pair ALMOST getting it on before the woman comes to her senses and rejects him, it's LIES, ALL LIES. Might have been salvaged with a small part for Rickman, but as there wasn't one, avoid, avoid, avoid.

Comments

[swankyfunk.livejournal.com]

Huzzah! Another PD convert! My work is done. And I don't even think the 2nd season's DVD set is going to be much better in terms of extras, because ABC killed the show and so probably isn't going invest very much in its production. *is a tiny wee bit bitter*

[grrgoyl.livejournal.com]

I don't blame you for being bitter. After only three episodes I'm pretty bitter myself that the show was never allowed its full run. As much as I supported the writers strike, I'll admit I hate it a tiny bit for causing the interruption that apparently jumped the show off its track towards success.

Meanwhile idiotic shows like Family Guy are allowed to go on and on and on.

[metatronis.livejournal.com]

Emerson is the best! I love his cranky snark. Also, when I went to the PD panel at Comic-con, Chi was really hilarious in person. It's an awesome cast.

[grrgoyl.livejournal.com]

Almost as awesome as you-know-which show ; )

[metatronis.livejournal.com]

Ah god, I love the AD cast to death. They're almost like a real dysfunctional family.

[halfcore.livejournal.com]

I love Pushing Daisies too. I started watching it when it came on and have been loving it ever since.

I think my favorite character is Olive, because she sings sometimes.

[grrgoyl.livejournal.com]

She's great. She reminds me a tiny bit of Megan Mullally (might be the unnaturally high voice). I loved the first scene of her at home with about five different floral prints on every available surface.

[halfcore.livejournal.com]

Hahaha yes. Did you get to the part where she sings though? That scene made me realize how incredibly silly but sweet this show is.

[grrgoyl.livejournal.com]

Yep, that was the second ep. It made me think how other shows wait a few seasons to get established before trying something daring like that (Xena, Buffy, Six Feet Under). PD seemed to be "Well, we're already pretty out there, what can it hurt to have a song in the second episode?" Like it was saying from the beginning to expect the unexpected. I loved it.

[ms-hecubus.livejournal.com]

Don't even get me started on bagging! There's a reason I love self check-out or when cheap stores don't have enough baggers. I even put things on the conveyor belt in like groupings so there will be less chance of them screwing it up and it doesn't work.

[grrgoyl.livejournal.com]

I'm starting to become really worried at how much stupider people seem to be getting every day. Yesterday on TV I saw a woman commenting on the remarkable improvement in her daughter after dental work -- she had made a "350-degree change." (Tery's pet peeve. 360 degrees is wrong. 350 degrees is REALLY wrong)

[ms-hecubus.livejournal.com]

So that would be like a 10 degree improvement? ;)

[grrgoyl.livejournal.com]

Heh, doesn't sound nearly so dramatic if people do the math. : )

[lizzieloudotcom.livejournal.com]

Shitty grocery bagging and 'Family Guy' both enrage me. How are we not married?

[grrgoyl.livejournal.com]

Not for lack of me trying. We could have been college sweethearts, but NOOOOOOOOO. You wanted magnetic asmarie.