Judging from auditory data collected over the past several days, it seems the boy in the room next door has joined an a capella group. Listening to him try to hit high notes is fun. *drowns his singing out with the audio book of Brave New World, for my Sci-Fi class*
ARGH. I set my DVR correctly, but for some unfathomable reason, it recorded SciFi instead of NBC, so I missed Heroes and the first ten minutes or so of Studio 60 while at class. Grrr, Pris smash!
Come on, NBC website, let’s get that episode up! Grr, I bet they’re not going to post it until it’s aired on the West coast. Oh, NBC, why can’t you be more like Comedy Central, which has nothing better to do than air like 4 reruns of Daily Show and Colbert Report each weekday? Why is the next rerun of Heroes on FRIDAY?
Stupid DVR. Why do you fail me now, when you have never failed me before? That I can remember, at least.
Thirty minutes!!!!!!!! *dances around in a circle of squee*
Dresden Files on my TV tonight! I’m counting down the hours. Once more, that’s 9/8c on SciFi in the US or Space in Canada. It starts in the UK on SkyOne February 14th.
I got to see the Edward Scissorhands ballet yesterday, and it was lots of fun. I’m so glad I got the chance to go! I can’t imagine it making much sense to those who hadn’t seen the movie, but it was still nifty.
Some links:
March of the Emperor — a fantastic French ad (with English subtitles)
Good lord. Colbert actually did steal O’Reilly’s microwave! That’s… beautiful.
iConcertCal — for Mac and Windows. It’s an iTunes visualizer that lets you know when bands/artists that appear in your library will be playing a concert near where you live. For instance, it just let me know that Vienna Teng is going to be in Philadelphia tonight, though she’s sold out. If only I knew about this months ago!
Not that I’m at all surprised, by Heroes just got a full-season order for 2007-08, and season 1 will now have 23 episodes, rather than 22. Yayfun!
I bought the books for my Sci-Fi class. Note that Jules Verne’s From Earth to the Moon is not pictured, as I just borrowed Elaine’s copy when I read it last night.
Win!
Holy cow! The Edward Scissorhands ballet is in Philly RIGHT NOW, and it leaves Sunday! My tush is officially in gear. *emails people*
Snow today! Philadelphia is no longer the only city in the country that has not seen snow this winter!
I walked back from my Myth class with Elaine, and we discussed dropping it. It looked so interesting, but from the way the professor is approaching it, it’s more the opposite. Even though I’ve missed the first two weeks of it, I’ve registered for Elaine’s Science and Literature class, in which we read and discuss a lot of classic Sci-Fi. Sweeeeet. This semester wins.
I don’t get it. Why on earth would anyone be *awake* at four in the morning, much less doing things that will set off a smoke detector? Why is it that I can’t remember a single time the fire alarm has gone off during the hours of 6AM and midnight? It’s always when we’re sleeping! Madness!
In other news, Ko has discovered the genius of Clone High, and like all who witness its majesty, she’s in love. We’ve been quoting it at each other all day. When she was expressing her squee to Deep, Deep turned to me and asked, “So why do all these great shows you watch get canceled after one season?” Oh, Deepshikha, if only I knew! *adds Invader Zim to Netflix queue*
Oh, hey! The musical episode of Scrubs is on tomorrow night. With music and lyrics by the guys that brought us Avenue Q, I’ll definitely be watching, even though I’ve never seen an episode of the show before in my life. NBC at 9/8c!
In other TV news, Tim Minear’s new show Drive
will kick off with a special two-hour premiere on Sunday, April 15 at 8:00/7:00c. The series will then settle into its regular Monday, 8:00/7:00c slot the following night as a lead-in to “24.” To make room for the newcomer, current Monday, 8:00/7:00c occupant “Prison Break” will wrap its sophomore run on Monday, April 2 at 8:00/7:00c while a special Monday repeat of “House” will fill the hour on April 9. (From here)
Tim Minear + Nathan Fillion = love. Let’s hope it lasts more than 14 episodes this time!
Oh, Dresden Files TV show. How is it possible that they’re making something so catastrophically bad-sounding out of something so amazingly good? Now TV!Murphy has a daughter. Whyyyyyyyyy??? TV kids are only good for being threatened then forgotten about until they need to be threatened again.
I’m trying to be optimistic about this show. Why do they have to make it so difficult? I’m sure they’re making the decisions they feel will make the show most appealing to the largest number of people, but feh.
Mmm, nothing soothes the pain of one of my fandom loves being kicked in the teeth like a dinner of homemade tri-color fusili pasta with garlic & sun-dried tomato sauce, kalamata olives, artichoke hearts, capers, and a bit of feta cheese. Next time I go to the grocery store I’ll have to remember pine nuts.
Edit: Bwee! Just when I was down, Buzzy Multimedia posted Chapter 13 of the audio book of Summer Knight. Nothing like James Marsters doing a bunch of fairy voices as they flip out over pizza to get you out of a fandom funk. And preorders for the audio book itself start this month! Oh, Book Canon. So much love!