geeky

I'm a big SciFi fan. it's true that i am a secret geek. i always have been. i read engadget daily. i stay current on mac blogs. i love sci fi books and the like. all that. (although i did abandon coding and programming early in my teens as i did get a little boy crazy) that being said, i was never a fan of Battle Star Galactica, until my not as geeky boyfriend made me fall in love...not with him, but with the show.

So, when we started dating it was coming close to the series finale. I watched a few episodes with him and recognized that i would enjoy the show if i knew what the hell was going on. Thank the gods for Netflix.

Now everyweek i get new installments of what is proving to be a really great show. Clearly i am behind all other Battlestar fans, so i don't know who all the cylons are for example, and i'd rather not have those things ruined.

Jp now says i'm a geek even though it was a show he was into before me.
I really can't watch and send them back fast enough, so i can't imagine waiting for a week until the next episode!

Seriously though, if you like SciFi and you are , oh, unemployed or independently wealthy, watch a season or two and get hooked.

the big read

in lieu of a thoughtful original post

"The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed."
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE. [I'm also adding: strikethrough the ones you HATED][[thnx k]]
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-) my note: this list is crap. they listed Hamlet twice, Secret Garden but not Little Princess which is far better known and read, what, one greek classic? but everything Austen ever wrote? I was a lit major and every professor I have would be cringing at this list. booooooo

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (Sonnets, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, The Tempest)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce ... i have never finished this
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

this makes me feel way more read then i think i am . there are soooo many books still waiting to be cracked open. if only i could get paid to sit and read all day!

Tid Bits

yesterday John Waters left a notebook in our car with unedited versions of a hand written screen play.

just sayin

Video killed the radio star

i was practically raised by the television. a 1970's Zenith console television just like the one pictured. My father worked for the cable company, so i have seen just about everything there is to see. It's a wonder i am not a reviewer of some kind, since i love to talk and am highly opinionated.

This is why i have so many shows in my rotation. I've added some and fallen behind in others but i think i'm going to start talking about them more.

Currently high on the list... Project Runway and Mad Men.
Weeds i'm watching behind the times because we dont have showtime at the house.
Entourage and Californication and Heroes are not back on yet.

Lets start with PR

this season is a bit disappointing. I have been an avid watcher since the first season and it seems to go back and fourth between overly talented and very qualified designers one season (seasons one and four were the best, imo) to designers that are doing things like whip stiching garbage bags onto people. I'm disappointed in this season, to say the least.
Season 4 was Christian and he not only made for great reality television, he was actually a good designer.
Blayne from the current season wishes every night he rests his pretty blonde head, that he could wake up half as fabulous as christian. I will give it to Blayne, the boy does try to be fabulous. He is so young and uneducated in his own field that he has no real point of view. why would i take fashion advice from someone who doesn't even know what Sgt. Pepper is? I'm waiting for the episode where he reveals that he has never seen Audrey Hepburn so i can officially stop watching this season.
After the Olympic challenge, i have no real good things to say. To watch a group of people who are supposed to be innovative and talented and fresh and young, walk those pieces of crap down the runway, does not give me much hope about fashion.

My top favs for the moment are Terry and Leanne although Kevin is starting to grow on me. And i hate to say it, but i no longer despise miss leather, cause her work this week was passable. and Kenley is a hoot even if i don't like her work that much, i think she might make it to Bryant Park and the fact that she was hysterical on the runway last night makes me like her more.

the roommate search begins

I live in a big house. a 6 person house to be more specific. i haven't lived there as long as jp but somehow the task has fallen to me the past few times to find a roommate.
Last time i posted the regular ad on craigslist that we always post, and i got a few people interested. i really just weeded people out based on the emails they sent and then took the first normal person that said yes.
that was a big mistake. and i feel bad if someday this person reads my blog and gets insulted or hates me, but she is a terrible fit for our house. it's taught us a few things though...there are just some people who will not work.
1. if you have never had roommates before, submerging yourself in a house with 5 other people, on 5 different schedules with 5 different ways of doing things, is not going to work out.
2. If something is broke, you fix it. We really don't take well to people that whine about things like it being really hot in an attic room. i know that seems silly, but for real, we are not parents, we are roommates. and yes, there are some things that maybe a nicer appartment might have but you get what you pay for.
3. we don't think we like vegans. they are high strung. we like people that have a go with the flow attitude.
4. our house is our home. we are not passers by (some of us are, ie from France or Spain and just here for a bit) but even if you are a passer by, we want you to feel at home too. that means that when you insult our house, you are insulting us.
5. if your boyfriend has to be at work at 7am and leaves our house at 6am, you need to give him a key or wake up with him so you can lock the door. we have expensive things in our seemingly crappy house, and if they get stolen, you certainly can't replace them. like my $2000 computer that you use because you don't have one.
6. if you don't drink, its hard to live with drinkers. just sayin.

all this,just a rant. things to think about if you have to move.