a few weeks ago my good friend djm came to visit and left me with the first season of lost on long term loan, thus solidifying his role in my life as tv-watching-guru- it's because of him, after all, that i got sucked into this whole buffy debaucle. he also left behind a giant bag of beef jerky and two tiny coffee pots from vietnam (when you've known people long enough you start to exchange really bizarre, yet highly sentimental gifts).
anyway, all this tv watching is driving home the point that i'm a big fraidy cat. between you and me, i'm often creeped out by the happenings in sunnydale, finding myself peeking out from under my couch blanket (that has started to acquire a funny smell) for fear that the vaguely scary vampires might actually do something bad- with 3 seasons to go you'd think i'd feel confident that none of the major characters are going to die (and that even if they do they'll be brought back to life either by magic or by some lay-persons amazing CPR skills)...
...so you can imagine what happens when i'm watching lost, which is legitimately scary what with big dinosaur thing and that creepy ethan guy. plus, it's a morbid show and i've never seen any of the episodes in real-time, so for all i know the main guys could actually die.
all this is only slightly more hair-raising than the things happening in real life, like the party i threw this weekend where i attempted to spoon feed two small children (with resultant artichoke dip in my hair and humus all over my shirt)- the party ended with everyone sitting around in a circle sharing strategies on how to make baby food. i was so rattled that i then felt obligated to get really drunk while watching the superbowl. and none of it is as scary as my blogmate's stuck in brand new knee high leather boots disaster that i'm not allowed to talk about.
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jo-na--Have you discovered the brilliance of Veronica Mars yet? SM
it's funny to me that i actually know who 'djm' is. and i didn't know that - ahem - 'djm' likes buffy...is "lost" worth the investment of time? i'm also illogically offended that _i_ didn't get you hooked on buffy. also, i would argue that the operatic emotionality of buffy makes it pretty wrenching at times. they may raise people from the dead but they won't hesitate to toy with your emotions. have you seen arrested development yet? that's good tv, too...
xo, lbl
couple of things:
first of all, add to the list of scary real life phenomena the horrifying display that was the superbowl XL halftime show. mick jagger shouldn't be allowed to dance like that in public.
moving on to buffy...
1) lbl, i think you were one of the first people to clue me in that it was a good show, and because you were able to talk about it intelligently i thought i might be able to as well- turns out i'm only good for comments like, "sometimes i'm scared." but giving credit where it's due, i think djm was the inspiration to actually take on the project.
2) lost is ok, but not in same league as arrested developement, or sports night, which is also on the short list.
3) say what you want about operation emotionality, what freaks me out is the haunted frat houses.
Did pop-up books spook you as a child? Some of the characters were not right in children's books, in the Norman Bates sort of way...
glad to hear you're liking lost. your cringing puts you in the same category as my old friend MBK, who seems unfazed by life in afghanistan and sudan but used to watch the xfiles (THE XFILES!) through a small gap in his fingers, covering his face with this hands and squirming on the couch.
after you've made it through buffangel, there's always firefly...
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