June 2nd, 2022 @ 1:16 am

iiiiiiiiiiiiiii aaaaaaaammmmmmmmmm soooooooooooooooooo happy that stranger things decided to use “running up that hill” by kate bush this season.  not only because it’s one of my favorite 80s songs EVARRRR, but bc it finally cancelled out and replaced the bohemian rhapsody of the clash (should i stay or should i go).  i also love that they’ve now introduced that song to a new generation of people/kids.

the stranger things scores and soundtracks are so fucking good.  like, goosebumps good.  it reminds me of the end of “san junipero” (black mirror).  the guy who wrote the episode specifically nailed down “heaven is a place on earth” for the ending of that episode.  he said he would have been “distraught” if he couldn’t have used it for the end scene.  i love how like that, stranger things tie such specific songs to things to evoke emotions with music (time after time at the dance…  BE STILL MY HEART), and don’t even get me started on san junipero.  i cried the ugliest happy tears the first time i watched it.

i won’t spoil stranger things 4, but the scene where running up that hill is featured, my lawd…  my heart.  like, that song always chokes me up to begin with (and “this woman’s work” – i can’t get through that song without a tear falling) – but attaching a specific character to “running up that hill” at a specific and very important scene…  WHO IS CUTTING ONIONS?!

anyways, if you haven’t already watched it, GO FREAKIN WATCH IT!!!

i can’t wait until the next two episodes are released – i want to watch the entire series in order, straight through.  i actually might just do it anyway, because the timing might just line up.

i want to relive the entire show like i’ve never seen it before.

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if you’ve never heard the song i’m referencing in this post, please ENJOY:

P.S.: i also added this ST4 phone/watch wallpaper yesterday!

January 11th, 2022 @ 1:24 am

here’s all of the stuff i eyegested this year on streaming services!

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December 19th, 2021 @ 1:08 am

…the eternal struggle of what to RE-watch next.  i don’t have comfort foods, i have comfort shows.  places i can escape to from my horrendously stupid little life.

the usual yearly queue: twin peaks, ally mcbeal, gossip girl (the OG), my so called life, skins (UK), how i met your mother, californication, grey’s anatomy

i love getting lost in each of those atmospheres, each has a different vibe…

i am currently watching: insecure, station eleven, just like that and frasier.  so far this year, i only covered shameless and the carrie diaries in my usual suspects, aside from this most recent frasier re-watch, which i’m almost done with.

*ding* maybe i’ll conjure up a php script that randomizes what to watch.

January 19th, 2021 @ 12:23 am

i just finished watching cobra kai, and as noted in my summarization:

i really loved it, but it was kind of hard to see these characters older now. i guess it just makes you aware of your own mortality. i grew up watching karate kid and just can’t believe how long ago that was – all of the flashbacks just gave me such a frog in my throat. i can’t believe those guys are in their late 50s. i hate how far away the 80s was, and i guess this was just a constant reminder of it. what i wouldn’t give to be an adult in those times… bleh.

not a lot of things make me have a frog in my throat or make me want to cry.  for some reason, seeing people aging, IRL or celebrities really freaks me the fuck out and makes me feel like that.  if you know me IRL, i haven’t changed much since i was a teenager on the style front, bedroom decor front, looks front… this is me.  my shit was never a phase, this is just me.  i’m okay with that, and i’m sort of getting better with aging or the idea of it.  it’s not like i can do anything about it, so it is what it is.  when i turned 30, i figured i’d have a nervous fucking breakdown, but i was fine (40 is this year, let’s see how that goes).

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January 11th, 2021 @ 9:37 am

this was my first year of keeping track of my streaming habits. i know you can just go to your history (at least in netflix you can), but i figured i’d showcase my ridiculous binging habits here (with tiny summaries/reviews for inspiration), and showcase anything new i had come across to whomever ends up here on my site.

i figured with covid ruling the world, i’d watch more, since i have all the damn time in the world. turns out i just watch shows more quickly since they’re packed into like 12 hours per day. SO… here’s year #1, hopefully i can keep up this year. it looks like i’ll still be spending every waking minute at home, so wtf else do i have to do?

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November 14th, 2020 @ 11:11 am

i decided to watch this movie “ordinary world” on netflix with billie joe armstrong in it, and it’s making me want to die.

1. i hate that default for queens in anything on tv/movies is astoria (it’s now williamsburg jr. there since all the goons got priced out of BK, so i guess those shitheads stay there…)
2. judy greer annoys the shit out of me, all because of jawbreaker – i could never move past it
3. billie joe armstrong is so cute, but not a good actor
4. this is making me feel middle age crisis miserable
5. this movie is terrible. i feel like if someone else wrote/directed this, it could have been better. i feel like if this was a kevin smith movie, it could have been better… i don’t think it would be like one of the epic kevin smith flicks, but maybe more in the vein of jersey girl.
6. the only good part of this movie is the little girl performing “unsatisfied” by the replacements (ADORBS.)

i should really get off my ass and do something today instead of being inside, forcing myself to watch netflix and feeling like anxious death. i hate this fucking pandemic.

February 11th, 2020 @ 11:15 pm

i’m only here to chime in that i’m on my yearly re-watch of UK skins and i forgot how much i hate franky (and cassie).

i would also like to add that franky’s got the best fucking wallpaper in the land in her bedroom, and the next time i have a large enough room, i might just try to find some (or finally buy a mural wallpaper like i meant to when i was moving into my bk apartment 9729287 years ago… sigh).  it reminds me of the depeche mode roses on the cover of violator.

January 4th, 2019 @ 11:18 am

if you thought penn badgley was an annoying creeper in gossip girl, you should check him out in you.

he stalks a girl, he gets the girl, then he does some creepy stuff with/to the girl and a girl in the past.

if you want some temporary (1 season) of darkness in your life, do it.

i watched, i liked…  enjoy.

August 18th, 2018 @ 4:40 pm

star trek has always filled me with deep wisdom.  i’m rewatching TNG and wanted to make note of this very true quote:

“thinking about what you can’t control only wastes energy and creates its own enemy.
it is very difficult for me to depend on anyone for anything.
it is still my enemy.”

– worf (klingon, operations officer)

aka don’t give into mindless bullshit you can’t control.  the enemy needs no fuel, whether it be yourself or another.

February 24th, 2018 @ 11:22 am

one of my faaaaaaaaaaaaaavorite fave fave fave shows ever is frasier…  so after i just finished my 3rd full rewatch, i decided to binge cheers.  i’ve never watched it straight through, and i also wanted to see the roots of frasier crane’s character.  i mean, of course i’ve watched cheers over the years (actually, my entire life…), but i guess i didn’t retain too much of the show’s full storyline into my memory for whatever reason.

i am currently in the 10th season, and still don’t LOVE it 😐  which is making me feel weird, bc it’s one of the most beloved sitcoms.  i mean, it won TONS of nominations and awards over the years… i don’t get why i don’t love it.  i don’t find it that funny.  i mean there are some times where i really LOL, but it’s a rarity.  i don’t think it’s bc of the time setting, like it doesn’t hold up or anything, bc i watch shows and movies from all different eras.

:: shrug ::

the characters that are super irritating to me, and i’m not attached to any of them like i get with other shows.

carla i love and hate 50% of the time equally, i do love sam (at least his humor, but he’s so unattractive to me… and the point of his character is that he’s this super handsome womanizer), diane and rebecca both make me want to murder them brutally – they act like complete hormonal/dramatic woman goons, coach (RIP) and woody are both so stupid and not funny, that they make me want to put an ice pick through my right eye, the bar regulars aren’t funny to me at all, and frasier was too stiff and really SUCKED in the beginning.  i don’t know if frasier was or wasn’t meant to be a main character at first, but watching his growth was fascinating (bc of course, i’m biased).  i would honestly say that he and lilith were my favorite characters on the show.

it’s funny watching this after knowing the ins and outs of frasier, bc you can see just how many references and story roots there are.  it’s also kind of funny how many guest characters that were on cheers were also on frasier.  they weren’t crossover characters, though.

also: the stage set for frasier was also built on top of cheers, so it’s like they basically didn’t even have to move.  wikipedia says cheers ended in may of 1993, and frasier first aired in september of 1993.  it was almost seamless once it ended.

i don’t think i’ll watch it again, and it’s reminding me of last summer when i was watching party of five.  what an awful show… but i couldn’t stop watching it, lol.  i hated almost every character and all of their actions.  i figured because i watched it halfway, i was too invested to give up (?).

cheers: 2.5/5 S2 stars.

January 26th, 2015 @ 1:48 pm

so i started watching a new show that i quickly flagged into my queue, called “mixology“.  netflix only had one season available, but i didn’t pay much mind to that.  i don’t have cable, so i never know what’s new or old on tv.  i also never check shit like that while i’m binging on netflix, so i don’t know what to expect.

i finished up season one pretty quickly (they’re short episodes), and thought to google it today.  of course, like many other shows i get into…  CANCELLED.

this show wasn’t sitcom-ish, nor a reality show.  pretty much just straight up comedy, HBO-y kind of a vibe.  maybe it just didn’t belong on ABC.

basically, it’s completely set in a bar in NYC (of course, setup unlike any type of bar i’ve ever seen in NYC before), and there are 10 strangers, some being friends trying to get laid or fall in love.

there are people that know each other, so it’s not like they’re alone in all of this.

anyways, the humor is pretty good.  i laughed out loud a few times, which is hard for me to genuinely do.  i mean, i guess i don’t see how or what season 2 would be, unless it was a new set of characters.

i’ve since moved onto “my name is earl”, which is hysterical, and it doesn’t hurt that i get to drool over jason lee the entire time ♥ (which is sort of confusing, because he’s supposed to look like a hot mess… but also ends up looking like the lovechild of brodie and george parros???).

LOL like, down to the fucking eyebrow! ♥ ♥ ♥

January 2nd, 2015 @ 4:21 pm

REVENGE.

synopsis:
emily thorne comes to the hamptons and rents a beach house next to the grayson family mansion for the summer. emily is really amanda clarke, whose father was framed for treason when she was a little girl. after a lengthy trial, he was imprisoned for life, and was murdered in prison by agents of the people who framed him. amanda was separated from him after his trial and never saw him afterwards. she has now returned to the hamptons as an adult to exact revenge on those who wronged her and her father. her primary target is victoria grayson, matriarch of the grayson family, who loved and betrayed amanda’s father. the show focuses on amanda’s plot to destroy every individual who played a role in her father’s imprisonment. along the way, she discovers various facts about her father’s past which change her plans many times. as the series progresses, amanda brings in other individuals as allies for her plan.

as amanda executes the stages of her elaborate plan, she finds it difficult to remain emotionally detached. she struggles to identify her true motivations and examines how her actions change her sense of identity. as she enlists trusted friends into her schemes, she worries how their involvement will change their lives and how she will proceed after she enacts her revenge on those who wronged her and her father.

if that isn’t enough to entice you, check out all of the hotties on the show, below…

January 19th, 2012 @ 2:34 am

aside from instagramming and working all the time, i’ve been doing the following for fun, and to maintain my own sanity…

1. keeping up with them diagonails

2. making a bunch of friendship bracelets and chinese staircase earrings! (while watching TV, usually… never have extra time for anything fun)

i’m actually going to start selling those earrings, i bought some hoops. if you’re interested, HOLLER.

3. playing lots of scrabble with my boyfriend on my iphone.
4. hello, it’s hockey season…
5. watching lots of netflix.  i finished up breaking bad, brothers & sisters and gossip girl 🙁  i need a new show! suggestions???
6. hanging with my boyfrannn michael<333 we had his sisters wedding, my sisters birthday, christmas with our families, new years eve (obv) and his cousins sweet 16 in addition to some other stuff that i had to attend… it just felt like all of december was so dang busy…

other than all of that, when it gets cold out, my social life usually just shuts down.  i hate being outside in the cold! although, i did recently get to hang out with the amazeballs online friend chris for his birthday last week. i met him on le twitter a couple of years ago…  FINALLY made it out while he was in NYC (he’s connecticut based), lower east sided it! got saucy, hung out with his stuntman cousin, had pancakes at like 4AM… we had a blast 🙂

hmm, i guess that’s it really. just trying to craft more. i should start working on the site for the jewelry, while i’m feeling this graphic design creative…

September 13th, 2011 @ 2:20 am

i have no idea why i never had netflix until recently, but once i finally got it, i didn’t really know where to start. i thought there was so much that i wanted to watch but now i find myself getting annoyed with the selections. the first thing i watched was the crazies, just because i knew i really, really wanted to see that in the movies and i missed it. (and it’s good – watch it.) after that, i started looking for tv shows.

i started watching freaks and geeks on tv and fell in love with it.  i caught it at some strange, awkward point and totally out of sequence and it was also only really playing late at night while i would be trying to fall asleep, so i kept missing episodes straight through.  that was my first choice of tv series, but apparently there are some shows where you can only watch by disc, and that happens to be one of them. waiting an entire day (or two) for the next discs started aggravating me, so i kept looking and then i stumbled upon ally mcbeal.  i remember loving ally mcbeal when i was in junior high school, and into my high school years.  i didn’t remember a lot of the show in detail, but i knew i had liked it a lot so i gave it a whirl.

it’s actually really funny, and being that i’m older now, i caught on to so much more than when i did back then.  i watched it up until the last season, because then it started getting really sucky. i think i could only stomach about 2/3 episodes before i gave up on season five.  most of the main characters were phased out, the vibe was gone and the energy was misdirected.  i’m totally glad that it lasted as long as it did though, because four are way better than one. (story of my life with tv series!)

the cast is amazing. the dude from ghostbusters II is so funny on the show. i caught myself hysterical laughing a lot.  and no, the dancing baby isn’t ALWAYS there. (seems that’s the only thing that people bring up when i talk about the show…)

anyways, i highly recommend it 🙂

now a million years too late, i’m just getting into twin peaks. (while STILL getting freaks and geeks discs – i swear, the whole waiting for discs BS has made me lose interest…) i really hope this show is good, i know it’s got a crazy cult following…

otherwise, i highly suggest watching the steve byrne standup specials on netflix. bee and i were dying/laughing while watching him.