screw you

1) So I have been pathetic and ill for the last few days. Cold symptoms of cough, congestion, fever etc. combining with allergies is made of fail. The pressure is so fucked up my my head that I couldn't even hear the music the guys re-carpeting the apartment next to ours were playing (which was a blessing in disguise). Trader Joes boxed soup is a godsend in times like these. Jeremy and Cupcake are also sick, but he is trying to be stoic and she is just being a terrible bitch.

2) We are now watching season 2 of Dexter, and I think that all of my qualms about female representation were outweighed by the power and awesome of LaGuerta telling her boss to go fuck himself because "erratic is just another word for not male". Seriously one of the most poignant things I've seen on any show regarding this issue. Other things are making me want to die (not in the show is bad way, in the painful and affecting way) but I'm glad we finally got aorund to watching this show.

3) I continue to adore Castle, and was noticing during the last episode that the women of the show are not your typical "attractive females". This has been a standing observation about Detective Beckett, who I find to have a not very appealing face (sorry but it's true). I don't mean this as a criticism... I like the actress in the role quite well. But I was actually more struck this week by all the women at the charity event and all their round healthy looking faces, not a model or starlet type in there. I thought they were distinctively pleasant to look at, but it wasn't the usual casting.

4) Yes, I have a Dreamwidth account (from the random drawing thing). Same as ye old LJ name as I am pretty happy with my pseudonym and always have been. Until further notice I will just be crossposting everything. Feel free to add me if you have an account.

A few days ago, looking through who_daily I came across the vid Mood Rings(Doctor Who: Ten/Martha/Donna/Rose) by anagraphic and while watching it I was torn in two for a minute. The vidding itself is very good but I was really bothered by the actual song choice. The id part of me found it adorable and cute, but the thinking rational part of me was extremely aggravated, by the entire premise of the song but specifically in light of Doctor Who and Ten especially. The underlying assumptions were like rubbing salt in an open wound. Because we all know that Martha, Donna, and Rose are OVERLY EMOTIONAL TICKING TIME BOMBS and poor Ten is SO INCAPACITATED BECAUSE THEY ARE PRETTY. Because, guys that is how girls are right? But it's okay, because they are pretty and make nice arm ornaments. And their being crazy people is the problem, not that perhaps THE DOCTOR IS AN ALIEN and maybe doesn't completely get certain things about being human. But seriously, the companions in question are not particularly hysteric, I would even say that the reverse is true, and last time I checked it is Ten who GETS AWAY WITH MURDER because people find him oh so special. Anyway, that the song exists speaks to the existence of this mentality in our culture, but I think we all know that already. It is supposed to be funny and cute to talk about how girls are so pretty but so crazy but... really all it is is more of the last panel of this. And that comic is amazing, but because it is pointing out a ridiculous thing, not being it.

The actual plot for Castle this week was not as amazing, but I still really am enjoying the show and especially the stuff with his daughter.

( Castle - Episode 1x03 )

The Sarah Connor Chronicles continues to be amazing and wow me every week.

( Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronoicles - Episode 2x19 )

Dollhouse is still problematic but now in an interesting and possibility good way that makes me excited to keep watching, instead of in a waiting for it to be something more than meh way.

( Dollhouse - Episode 1x06 )

I found the BSG finale to be better if I didn't connect the dots and just looked at the immediate images and let them resonate in my brain instead of trying to follow the path of the show. I will probably post about it in more detail later.

I finally started to watch Dexter this week after being told to do so for a long time and actually owning season 1 for almost a year. I have watched the first two episodes now, and I am hooked. It is just so bizarrely engrossing.

I also finally gave in to the temptation and ordered my first BPAL. This is all sophia_helix's fault since yesterday she was like "I'm playing with my BPAL, come play with me". And then my wrists smelled like cinnamon honey-sticks. Which of course made me want actual honey-sticks but neither the natural foods store nor Whole Foods had them, (Fuck you Whole Foods; this is just another way in which you are inferior to Wild Oats) Anyway. I ordered a bottle of Bhagdad (which is what I was wearing yesterday) and imps of Frumious Bandersnatch, March Hare, Lady Macbeth, Juke Joint, Bengal, and Siren.