Excessive TVage...

[j_cheney]

I've watched quite a bit of TV this weekend.

--Last four episodes of Mission: Impossible, Season 1.
(one of which guest-starred Eartha Kitt)
--This Old House
--Seabiscuit
--Jericho (1 episode)

Later tonight, I'll watch more, including my regular dose of Chuck and a PBS special called House of Life: The Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague. I'm really pumped about the latter (from which the current icon is taken), as it's in some of the cemetery books I own and I'm not likely to get to Prague any time soon.

And I tried to watch Twilight this morning. After my trip to the grocery store, I stopped at the RedBox and shelled out a dollar for the experience. I made it through an hour. I doubt I have the patience for the rest of it. Just not the movie for me.

I didn't do teen angst when I was a teenager. I don't enjoy watching it now.

Hey, but I did give it a try.

Comments

[saycestsay.livejournal.com]

There was a terrific early episode of Mission: Impossible (the tv series) guest-starring Loretta Swit as the former girlfriend of Jim Phelps... I think it was a Nimoy show, too; it has been a long time.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

It's taken me 16 months to get through season 1, but I'll find it eventually. (Season 1 doesn't have Jim Phelps in it, so it can't be that season.)

[saycestsay.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the first couple seasons were Martin Landau and Barbara Bain, pre-Space:1999. I always thought BB looked painfully squished into her acrobat costume in the opening credits.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

WHat I don't get is Martin Laundau...He was a heart-throb? Ew, he gives me the creeps...

[countesslovlace.livejournal.com]

Really, because I had such a crush on him.

I had way too much teenage angst, and have no interest in anything that will bring back memories of it.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Nothing more need be said....

[pabba.livejournal.com]

And I tried to watch Twilight this morning.

Tsk tsk.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

I had to try....

[albogdan.livejournal.com]

Was in Prague back in '94. Very cool trip.

Went for my sister's wedding. Her husband was from Texas, so the cooks did their best to attempt a "Texas Barbecue" for his family. The ceremony was in a castle, the reception in a park maintained by one of the velvet revolution rebels. The Czechs and the Texans found each other very entertaining, though not always in a good way.

Saw the old Jewish cemetery while there. It was very striking how the stones were crowded together. Crooked angles and weathered. In the sections I saw, a person would have been forced to climb over the stones of many dead just to leave a pebble atop a grave ten feet away.

A friend loaned Larc the book of "Twilight." All through the movie she was telling me about what was in the book and how it was written. I was cringing and laughing enough to keep it entertaining.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Neato! It's gotta be cool to go to Prague ;o) Yes, I doubt the Czechs would necessarily appreciate our Texan customs.

Unfortunately I was watching Twilight alone with the dog, who had no witty conversation to offer, thereby leaving the movie mercilessly flat...

[babarnett.livejournal.com]

And I tried to watch Twilight this morning.

You are a braver soul than I.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but I don't have the fortitude to wath the rest of it. Sparkly Edward pretty much ruined it for me....sooooo teenager ::shudders::

[babarnett.livejournal.com]

Sparkly vamps are one reason why I won't even try. :)

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

My immediate thought was....'What, their skin is made out of mica?'

Somehow, I doubt that explanation appears in the book.

[rogue-psion.livejournal.com]

"I made it through an hour."

Sounds like a challenge! I plan to give it the ol' college try one of these days. I loves me some bad movies.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

For me it wasn't so much 'bad' as it is aimed at 'teenagers in love who think the world will cease to rotate if their significant other gets upset with them'

I didn't want to loose two hours of my life to that. As bad as supervising the prom. ::shudders::

[namelessarchon.livejournal.com]

The current obsession with vampires is WAY over the top. Teens are gaga over them, and my B&N is so full of them they threaten to drain the blood right out of anyone who enters the store.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

I keep hoping it will pass soon....