Netflix Addiction

April 9, 2007 | The Evil Box

What do you call it when you abandon your life to watch hours and hours of TV on DVD? (Don’t say LAME, I know you’ve done it, too) Has someone come up with a term for this? In days of yore, one could watch one reasonable hour of a series, then get another installment a week later. Now, its entirely possible to stay indoors all weekend with your ass glued to the couch, watching episode after episode like some sort of junkie.

SB and I did absolutely nothing this weekend but watch Entourage and eat take out.

Oh Ye-ah! Oh Ye-ah!

TeeVee Schmeevee

October 11, 2006 | The Evil Box

SB and I are currrently about halfway through the second season of Grey’s Anatomy on DVD. So many people are watching it, SB’s extras casting agency provides their extras, and of course it’s kinda cool when a show takes place in your area, so yeah, we are finally watching it.

Do any of y’all? It’s funny the Seattle things they get right, and the things they don’t. No one says “ferryboat”. No one drinks “mochalattes”. It’s a ferry, and it’s either a mocha or a latte, not both. There is also far too much thunder and ligtning and the rain is all wrong. It hardly ever thunders and lightnings here, and our rain is more of a consistent mist or a gentle shower. The rain on Grey’s is too big. However, you know when they have scenes in front of those big windows on that walkway, and it’s a bright grey day outside over a green valley? That’s just right.
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We don’t have TV, well clearly we HAVE a TV, but we don’t have channels. Haven’t for years. Because of this, we haven’t watched a show week by week in ages. The first show we watched on DVD was Alias. It was pleasingly crack-y with plenty of hot outfits and ass kicking, but I didn’t KNOW crack until LOST. It’s on tonight, but we will have to wait until tomorrow to see it online.

Who’s watching it? I know Jill and lsgp are. Anyone else?
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apropros of nothing…

Yummy.

Also, have you heard about these Harry Potter books…

August 10, 2006 | The Evil Box

The summer of 2006 will be forever known as the summer we spent 60+ hours watching Six Feet Under. I know we’re several years behind the curve here, but forgive us, we’ve never had cable. Thanks to the wonder of Netflix, we now know the utter greatness that is this show. We started back in June with season 1 and finished season 5 a couple of days ago. We had taken to calling it “crack”. ” We could often be overheard asking, “Did we get any more crack in the mail today?” Obviously, we were a little on the obsessed side. Seriously, though, if there’s anyone else out there that missed this amazing show, I highly recommend it. It has occupied my thoughts all summer and is still hanging on, even though there is no more to see. If you are a 6FU dork, however, check out these cool obits for all the main characters. You can glean a few more fan-geeky facts from those.

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I stumbled across some YouTube goodness today. You gotta love technology when it can bring a shot of vintage Sesame Street into your day.

Bert and Ernie – Heeeeeeeeere fishy fishy fishy!

Trippy counting to 20

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PSA:

1. I’ve turned on word verification for my comments. I didn’t want to do it until I had a spam problem because I didn’t want to discourage commenters with the extra step. Oh dear, sweet, beautiful and handsome commenters, please don’t be discouraged by the pxqyetu!

2. Sorry to leave you hanging about that birth. SHE is here and mama and baby are happy and healthy!

Superman is HOT

June 28, 2006 | The Evil Box

So last night SB and I went with a group of friends up to Seattle to see Superman Returns at the IMAX theater. If you see it at an IMAX, there are parts in 3-D*. I have some thoughts, but I promise not to be a spoiler.

First of all, Superman is H-O-T HOT! He is appropriately dreamy and gallant as Superman should be. I think it’s really cool that they cast someone unknown in that role.

Secondly, the 3-D wasn’t that great. I was pretty disappointed, actually. There have been amazing advancements in 3-D technology. Have you ever seen the Muppet Show at California Adventure? Or the Mickey Mouse music show thing at Disney World? THOSE will blow your mind. I was expecting Superman to be just as cool, but it wasn’t. It looked all weird and blurry. I think it would actually be better and less distracting to see this movie at a regular theater.

Third, Kate Bosworth. Now, I am normally not one to cut someone down (unless they really deserve it) and I suppose she did a fine job, but she is no Margot Kidder. I would prefer my Lois Lane a little fiestier. She is supposed to be strong and smart and empowered. Kate was a bit waify and fragile for my taste. She really needs to eat a sandwhich. I don’t know whom I would prefer in that role, but someone a little less china-dollish, you know?

All that being said, I liked it! It wasn’t BAD. It was a quality fluff movie that went great with popcorn and Junior Mints. Oh! And Parker Posey as Kevin Spacey’s gal was HI-larious. I love her. She can do no wrong. Kevin Spacey was good as Lex Luthor but I wish there would have been more of him to see.**

*It turns out I was wrong about the the 3-D happening every time Clark took off his glasses. There was actually a little blinking icon at the bottom of the screen. Less creative, but probably easier for the masses to grasp.

** If you’ve seen it, wouldn’t you rather end up where they did, on that pretty coconut island, than the cold and pokey evil island he was trying to make?