so i actually watched things this week!
Sep. 19th, 2009 05:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
glass_icarusfirst things first: happy happy birthday, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
midnitemaraud_r! &hearts :D i hope you're having a fabulous day!
so on wednesday i was flailing so much about SYTYCD that i neglected to mention i caught the episode of Glee that came on right after it! i am bad at watching TV shows in general, but i am especially terrible at non-crime/hospital TV shows, so the fact that Glee was actually entertaining for me was kind of a surprise. i tend to find these sorts of shows rather cringeworthy, but so far the good bits outweigh the cringey bits, so yay for that! even if i did have BUST THE WINDOWS OUT YA CARRRRR stuck in my head for hours after, oh god. xD
i also watched The Informant last night, because i figured Matt Damon was worth a try and the premise sounded interesting, and... wow, the movie is actually nothing like what i thought it was going to be. Matt Damon was good, but the character he played was- oh my god, i have never been so aggravated watching a movie in my life. i love Matt Damon and i respect him as an actor, but i spent most of the movie wanting to punch him in the face. also, i feel like the bipolar thing wasn't explored particularly well. i don't know if it was because of MD's character and the variety of other personality issues he had, but wow, really? having him play the mental illness card like that is not the way these things should be handled on screen, even if that is what actually happened IRL; at least not without a more nuanced portrayal. note: i do not know much about bipolar disorder, so do feel free to correct me if i'm saying stupid things. i was trying to pay attention to details in MD's portrayal, but since i wasn't sure what to watch for, i could have missed a hell of a lot.
annnnd now i have Merlin 2x01 downloading, just to continue the trend, but i am Not Watching It until i get my beta-work done!
ETA: OH AND. at work the other day, i discovered that there is a strain of ethanol-sensitive Drosophila (fruit flies) called cheapdate. no, i am not lying; according to this paper, cheapdate is actually an allele of amnesiac? BIOGEEK HUMOR, IT NEVER FAILS TO AMUSE ME. xD
midnitemaraud_r! &hearts :D i hope you're having a fabulous day!so on wednesday i was flailing so much about SYTYCD that i neglected to mention i caught the episode of Glee that came on right after it! i am bad at watching TV shows in general, but i am especially terrible at non-crime/hospital TV shows, so the fact that Glee was actually entertaining for me was kind of a surprise. i tend to find these sorts of shows rather cringeworthy, but so far the good bits outweigh the cringey bits, so yay for that! even if i did have BUST THE WINDOWS OUT YA CARRRRR stuck in my head for hours after, oh god. xD
i also watched The Informant last night, because i figured Matt Damon was worth a try and the premise sounded interesting, and... wow, the movie is actually nothing like what i thought it was going to be. Matt Damon was good, but the character he played was- oh my god, i have never been so aggravated watching a movie in my life. i love Matt Damon and i respect him as an actor, but i spent most of the movie wanting to punch him in the face. also, i feel like the bipolar thing wasn't explored particularly well. i don't know if it was because of MD's character and the variety of other personality issues he had, but wow, really? having him play the mental illness card like that is not the way these things should be handled on screen, even if that is what actually happened IRL; at least not without a more nuanced portrayal. note: i do not know much about bipolar disorder, so do feel free to correct me if i'm saying stupid things. i was trying to pay attention to details in MD's portrayal, but since i wasn't sure what to watch for, i could have missed a hell of a lot.
annnnd now i have Merlin 2x01 downloading, just to continue the trend, but i am Not Watching It until i get my beta-work done!
ETA: OH AND. at work the other day, i discovered that there is a strain of ethanol-sensitive Drosophila (fruit flies) called cheapdate. no, i am not lying; according to this paper, cheapdate is actually an allele of amnesiac? BIOGEEK HUMOR, IT NEVER FAILS TO AMUSE ME. xD
no subject
Date: 2009-09-19 11:45 pm (UTC)I actually started watching Glee, too. It is terribly cringeworthy, I think? But I can ignore it for the singing and dancing D:
no subject
Date: 2009-09-20 01:10 am (UTC)i have actually not watched ep1 (um, was this wed ep3 or ep2? i only watched the one this week, is what i am trying to say!), so i dunno what the previous stuff was like- but high school scenarios tend to push my AWKWARD TEENAGER D: D: D: button, so my cringe moments are slightly skewed that way. but HOMG THE SINGING IS AWESOME! so far the music dorkery is TOTALLY winning out over the awkward!squick. :D