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J. Kathleen Cheney ([personal profile] j_cheney) wrote2009-04-06 09:45 am

Excessive TVage...

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.

[identity profile] albogdan.livejournal.com 2009-04-06 03:55 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] j-cheney.livejournal.com 2009-04-06 04:09 pm (UTC)(link)
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...