Tag: T.V.

The TV Junkie, Revealed

My boyfriend called me a TV junkie about 67,000 times when he caught me watching The Good Wife. It woke him up and must have made him grumpy. I don’t like being called a junkie anything but when I list all the shows I follow the evidence is a bit damning.

FX: I had to watch all of Damages, which meant renting the first two seasons on NetFlix then trying to hog the TV every Monday night at 10. Not easy to do during the playoffs. The 3rd season has ended. I am all caught up.

HBO: Pretty much anything HBO churns out will snag me. I watched the entire first 2 seasons of The Wire and then Band of Brothers. I watch The Ricky Gervais Show, Treme, The Pacific -like I said, anything by HBO. A likes Bored to Death and the Life and Times of Tim and so do I but I suspect it is OK for him to love these shows and that because he loves them it’s not junkie-esque.

Showtime: United States of Tara and Nurse Jackie but I can wait to see them, no remote clawing necessary.

AMC: I was sucked into Breaking Bad. When Mad Men was on I cried for the remote at 10 pm sharp every Sunday.

BBC: Survivors and Dr Who. Too bad TW On Demand decided to yank Survivors after ep. 6 – made it impossible to follow – I just barely caught the season finale last night. I liked Torchwood a lot. I have grown tired of the formula of Ramsey’s Kitchen Nightmares but if it is on I’ll look at it.

Back to the Good Wife. It is the only non cable TV show I watch. I watch it On Demand so I can fast-forward through the commercials. Last night I had to wait until A fell asleep before the Lakers game was over but once there was official snoring from the sofa I took a break from the web design. He seemed really disillusioned that I was enjoying that show. He is very scornful of any show that resembles a Soap Opera. The reason I watch it is:

True Blood returns June 17th! Dexter in September? October? I forget! Oh TV, you wily drug.

Dogtown on National Geographic TV!

what the property looked like when we bought it in the 80s
That’s what Best Friends looked like in the 80’s!
I’m super-excited to see this show because I grew up with the folks who created Best Friends Animal Sanctuary located in Kanab, Utah.
When I was about 13 they decided to buy what used to be known as the Kanab Canyon Movie Ranch and develop the property for residences.And as they were doing that they kept coming across stray dogs because I guess people from the surrounding area and townships would dump their unwanted dogs on the property. My ex-stepdad,Michael Mountain and my mom were vigilant animal rescuers for years and their friends were like minded individuals who never believed in kill shelters. It seemed to just happen that they would build a shelter for the dogs that just kept coming. And one for the cats who were also turning up at a fast rate– soon a section of the shelter was filled with cats and kittens.
Years later the organization has grown exponentially and is very well known. When I go back to Utah to visit my mom and we go visit Best Friends I am always surprised to see what a well run and professional organization it is. Because I remember when it was just a few raggedy runs for the dogs and a little shack for the cats.
The show premiered January 4, at 9 p.m.
The next one is tomorrow night and I ‘ve missed 3 episodes already!
It will be a treat to watch the show with Bozzio and Dakota, she’s coming over tomorrow just in time.Dakota has a bit of a problem with the peeing inside thing so I bought 2 more rolls of paper towels in her honor.

Project Runway & Make Me a Supermodel

I’m so gay for this show I made a picture for this post.

Even though I enjoy Project Runway, I have some criticisms.
It’s a fashion show and fashion is Evil. Because it’s really fascism which is not good if you remember Hitler,who Vogue would probably employ.

2 episodes ago.
The prom dress episode: the designers had to make a prom dress and the models were 17 year old girls from NJ – they also were the clients and had a say in how their dress was designed.
Christian got the chubbiest girl and I knew he was going to be in trouble because fashion is about looks and that is why professional models are thin and beautiful.

The judges were not supposed to judge the outfit based on the model’s appearance but rather on how well it was executed and fit but how could the girl’s appearence not effect the outcome? The 2 top dresses picked by the judges were worn by the thinnest girls. The 2 bottom dresses were worn by the plainest girls. Kevin and Christian never had a chance with that challenge…
I give up on this show’s final outcome anyway.The fact that Victorya’s ridiculous blue thing won that challenge over Sweet Pea’s gorgeous silk gown means I can have no idea what will happen.
I am going to paste some pics here of the girls I’m talking about but I’m unsure of the bravotv.com policy on borrowing images so
so all photos shown here credit to bravotv.com/projectrunway.
the winnerthe blue thing

the red thingthe brown thing

Last episode
Last night’s episode was a little more successful – the designers were asked to make clothes inspired by stupid hairstyles. But the outcome was really quite spectacular and more along the reason I keep watching this show because lord knows I do not care if a dress can be made out of candy.
I love that this season is just about making clothes. No backstabbing. No machinations.No Machiavellian plots.

Make Me a Supermodel
It’s kind of surreal to watch the Bravo TV show like Make Me a Supermodel where very average looking people (the assistant judges) are judging extremely good looking men and women, nit-picking tiny flaws as if any of them could withstand such scrutiny. Tyson Beckford, apparently a spokesmodel for How to be Annoying all the Time,at least has a personality. Niki Taylor hasn’t got an edge like the fear inducing glitter-eyed Heidi Klum.

Ditching your wardrobe.

I think I overdosed on Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style. I cleaned out my closets, getting rid of quite a lot of clothes. I really envied the women he advised being able to walk to their closets or dressers and pick out surefire outfits they knew looked good on them.I have never been able to do that and it pissed me off.I also don’t have any of the 10 things on the checklist they say every woman needs to have in order to be in style except one very tatty old cashmere sweater and a couple of black dresses.
After about 4 episodes I thinned my closet of all the clothes I had that I didn’t wear or that didn’t look good on me which left me with hardly anything to wear at all. This show ought to have have a warning label of don’t try this at home unless you have a 5,000 clothes budget to replace everything you just gave to charity (or bagged, meaning to give to charity).

I veered toward black,baggy clothes pretty much all my life (body issues) except while in art school. But I was thinner. For me, wearing colorful more body conscious clothes goes hand in hand with how thin I think I am. The bigger I feel the bigger and blacker the clothes I buy. It’s definitely time to lose 15 pounds. Easier said than done but my weight and the style of clothes I buy and wear go hand in hand. I really won’t like anything I try on until I lose a bit of weight.

So it seems I will put off really restocking my closet or else I will end up with just another batch of heavy black shrouds in my closet. Besides, now that it is winter all I need is a great new coat! A. is getting me one for my birthday.Yay.