Saturday, I intended to hang around home and chill out since I was out late on Thursday and was so busy on Friday and I had plans for Sunday as well–plus, given that this week had been turned into a five day workweek due to a corporate inventory audit (AAAAAARGH) as opposed to my usual four, I knew I would need to relaxbe lazy as much as possible when I had the opportunity.
I spent the majority of the day falling asleep watching Babylon 5, and would likely have wasted the entire day in that manner had I not received a text message from a friend saying she was in the area and would I like to meet for dinner at the Indian place that is going to be the death of me? Yes. Yes, I would. I seriously don’t even care if I die with veins pumped full of tikka masala because it will have been worth it, damn it.
After stuffing my face with entirely too much food, we went to the nearby cheapy theater and saw “Get Him to the Greek”, which completely defied my expecations based on the trailer (“Oh, that looks painfully stupid.”) and was actually very funny and entertaining, which was extra surprising since I didn’t care for “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” at ALL. I also clued into the fact that my period is rapidly approaching, because I almost cried near the end, and really, the only time the imaginary problems of the attractive affect me that much is when my blood is chock full of hormones.
And chicken tikka.
P.S. How is it that Russell Brand is so utterly disgusting and yet so attractive at the same time? Like that thing about Tootsie Pops, the world may never know.
I sooooo want to visit that Indian place. I checked out the menus! Yum!!!
I also can relate to know when I’m nearing my period based on my reaction to movies, TV, adverts.
I totally cried at a toilet paper ad with a puppy once while under the influence of hormones because I realized that one day, that puppy was going to die.
It was at that moment when I realized there’s a level of crazy going on that I just have NO control over, try as I might, and that week is Cry Week. Cry at ridiculous science fiction. Cry at animated movies. Cry at the troubles of fictional attractive rock stars. Cry about puppies getting old. God help me if something ACTUALLY goes wrong that week.
*edit* EVERYTHING I have had at that restaurant has been amazing. They even manage to make cilantro palatable to me, through some miracle of pakistani-indian fusion magic.
*nods* Oh yeah. It’s insane what I end up crying at, and the Welshman knows what it means when I bawl at something that doesn’t seem cry-worthy. I’m just glad that certain eps of Deadliest Catch did not coincide with my period!
That restaurant looks amazing! I love cilantro, but I like it best in Indian food.
How is it that Russell Brand is so utterly disgusting and yet so attractive at the same time?
I have no idea but if you ever figure it out, let me know! He’s completely gross and yet oddly attractive – makes no friggin sense!
Maybe he’s attractive because he’s so filthy, but it’s a superficial kind of filthy, it could be cleaned off at any time. Or maybe filthiness works for him in a way that it just DOESN’T for other people. Like, for example, I’ve never had an instance where I was even fleetingly attracted to a hobo.
That is the best Indian Place EVER.
It’s kind of dangerous for me to live so nearby, I can always think of an excuse to have lunch/dinner from there instead of cooking something myself!
…they know me by name.
Howcome you haven’t had lunch with Tim there yet? He probably goes there all the time.
I dunno! I’m down for going anytime.
My favourite bit of the film was P Diddy or Puff Daddy, or whatever he chooses to call himself these days – and I never thought I would hear myself saying that!
Yeah, he was absolutely one of the best parts. I can’t say I would have ever expected him to be so funny!
Babylon 5 made me fall asleep sometimes too. =-P
I don’t know what it is, it’s not necessarily that I’m bored but some episodes of that show just knock me out. I think it might be because there are so few characters that I give even a half a shit about.
I didn’t really get bored either, and I think I had the same problem. I loved a lot of the characters, but frankly some of them were completely uninteresting and their stories didn’t snag me like some others. I remember falling asleep once during a Delenn/Lennier show, only making it about 10 minutes in. The husband woke me up when he heard the credits rolling, and when I tried to start it up again the next night I fell asleep _again_. So, anyways, I think you hit the problem right on the head.
I’m annoyed by most of the human main characters. I’m starting to warm up to Sheridan, but just barely. Girabaldi is eye-rollingly irritating. Ivanova is a crazy harpy. I don’t like any of the Psi-characters, etc etc etc.
I’m interested in the Minbari, and my favorites are Londo, Vir, and G’kar. I was surprised to see how the Centari have grown in power over the course of the series thus far (I’m ~1/4 of the way through season 3), I figured the Narn would wipe the universe with them. All they need to do is take away the Centari’s hot rollers and they’ve got them on their knees!
I’m not sure how I feel about Prince Valiant yet (Marcus).
I never warmed up to Marcus, and after Delenn did her whole species switcheroo, she lost appeal as well. And yeah, all the Psis bugged me. My faves were Londo, Vir, and G’kar (loved him!) as well.
Girabaldi always bothered me, and I think it wasn’t until Season 4 until I truly realized why. That being said, it’s totally worth making it all the way through. I jones for Bab 5 now. =-)
Yeaaaah I’m not sure about Delenn either, though tbh I’ve never really liked her all that much. I’m more interested in Lennier and Minbari society in general, the caste system and grey council and whatnot. I watched the episode last night with the ‘rebirth’ ceremony, where each person gives up something important to them and tells a secret they’ve never told anyone before, which I thought was an interesting concept and something it might even be worthwhile emulating–letting go of those things that drag us down.
Girabaldi irks me because of his know-it-all attitude, but I am open to disliking him for other reasons. I’m sticking with the show but so far I’m not LOVING it yet.
One of my favorite episodes was in the first season where all the planets presented their religions to everyone. I really liked how Sinclair was like, “Your belief’s are cool and and all, but check out Earth’s. We’ve got hundreds, bitches.” The ‘rebirth’ ceremony episode was very moving to me as well.
Soon enough you’ll get more info on Minbar society and culture, and even a bit more about Lennier and his past and present motivations.
I hope you continue to enjoy the show!
I really dug the religious episode from the first season, too. Londo crawling about on the table letting everyone know he thought they were cute had me dying with laughter.
He’s like a drunken Count from Sesame Street. He cracked me up all the time.
I am totally going through a Russell Brand phase right now. I think he slightly resembles Johnny Depp with a better personality.
You may be onto something. He does have those gorgeous cheekbones. Also his hair, when clean, is beautifully curly and I kind of want to touch it.
Ok, I definitely want to touch it.
Russell Brand is the ultimate bad-boy rock-and-roll boytoy. He is the one we all dreamed of surrounded by our smashing pumpkins poster and covered in teen acne and angst. It totally makes sense.
Now we are old enough to realize that taking showers once a month does not make a man hot or grungy, just nasty. But still, there he is.
I think you’ve hit the nail on the head. 🙂