what i did on my christmas break
in a nutshell, watched TV. felt a little under the weather, but i did learn a few things:
1) the 100 calorie snack packs of microwave popcorn are amazing. who knew that 100 calories was exactly the perfect amount of popcorn?
2) my mom was right, a week with a microwave and im wondering exactly what kept me from getting one for the last 15 years?
3) im pretty sure who’s the boss is still my favorite sitcom of all time and i am still annoyed that channel 9 stopped showing it before i go to work in the morning. or was it channel 11?
4) the problem with a lot of small indie movies is that they try to make “real” “working class” characters who grew up in queens and brooklyn, but they dress them in cute, hip retro outfits and let them do accents that they arent capable of, but really if they dressed them in more appropriate clothes (i.e., send the wardrobe department to macy’s not thrift stores) and gently said “well, you know, a lot of women of your generation who grew up in queens DONT have that strong, typical accent and there are other indicators that you can use to show that youre a native new yorker” the film might work a little better.
5) sometimes a 43-year-old man can marry a 19-year-old girl and it’s not totally gross. it’s a little gross, but watching “my big fat fabulous wedding” or some shit on the WE network showed me a relationship that i kind of saw as working despite the fact that he could easily be her father. he spent 775,000 dollars on a wedding for her and she didnt seem like she was taken advantage of or a gold digger and he didnt seem lecherous. basically she wanted to be a wife and he wanted a young girl’s enthusiasm for life.
6) HBO on demand and Showtime on demand are limited. basically, why should i be surprised that there’s nothing on demand when there’s nothing in programming.
7) my cat really does nothing but sleep. and complain when you move her in her sleep.
i rearranged my room, but i did that before the break.
8) did john mctiernan direct anything aside from die hard?
9) re-ordered my netflix queue.
let’s go 2008!
