xraraavisx

It's been a while since I last visited you, blog! *hugs*
Here's how my week has gone:


The closest I get to digging into a soap opera

Zach Galifianakis vs Kristen Wigg on SNL




 
I've watched each episode of "Once Upon a Time" thus far, because I want to know how it works out. Will the show see a season two? I mean, it has a fairy tale past and a modern day future [in the town of Storybrooke] mashing up in each episode. How is that going to easily continue? I'm sorry, but I don't think those worlds gel well on TV.
That said, I like Ginnifer Goodwin. Always.

"Once Upon a Time" and "Reven8e" are only part of my current phase of keeping up on multiple shows at a time. Normally, I attach myself to just two or three comedies [and "Burn Notice", because part of me either wishes I would write an action novel, or become Aziz Ansari's cousin) but here I am, watching stuff I never normally would, wanting to know when and where they meet their end! It's as if my new favorite drama is "Which Major Network TV Show Will Be Canceled First?", and no, I don't tune in with utter pessimism guiding my fingers on the remote. Part of why I checked out "Revenge" was not only Madeleine Stowe, but because I recognized the fiance who broke the Waitress's heart on "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia".
I've been watching the first season of "Grimm", too...and...I can't see it lasting for years, but...I like it. Bitsie Tulloch, the woman playing the lead character's girlfriend, is a good actress I first saw in Quarterlife -- a web show that came out in  '07. Please check it out. It's interesting, inspiring and possibly addictive. I recognized the main character's buddy, too: he was in one of my favorite deep, dark art films of all time: Desert Heat, as one of the meth-dealing brothers who tried to fight off Jean-Claude Van Damme.
Now enough of my bragging. You don't wanna read about how I got bored after finishing off my vegan mint-chocolate chip milkshake and watched DVD footage of the Muscles from Bussels descending from the ceiling of a Mardi Gras warehouse, shooting at bad guys from atop a giant float of a pelican to save Wilford Brimley's life. That would be weird of me.
Instead, here: hulu has a series called "Whites", and despite the title, I watched the first two episodes. Glad I did, too, 'cause they were fun! I found it refreshing to watch a comedy and the relationships between coworkers in a setting I'm very unfamiliar with: the kitchen of a restaurant -- one known as the "White House". There are European accents galore.



I saw Lisa Simpson try to be an author and enjoyed it almost as much as I did Diane Keaton's bawling and typing in Something's Gotta Give (I mean, the latter is something I have experience with).



On "Family Guy", Meg Griffin's boyfriend called her a man, and Peter got into a fight with an Amish community.



LJ is giving me a hard time, here, so as much as I'd like to make this post longer, that will have to wait. I'm so glad you could pencil me into your day between eating Nutella out of the jar with a spoon and the buying of that season of "Promzillas" you want for your sister for Hannukah.


wishing you lemon chicken & the ability to get a makeup stain out of that new Topshop dress of yours,

Rara Avis


p.s. Thanks to Team Detroit for the College of Creative Studies, because they made the excellent art ads.