sicker than the remix
Jul. 7th, 2011 11:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
imwaldeI started watching the backlog of The Chicago Code episodes on my DVR only after I had been hearing its renewal was iffy, so while bummed, I was mentally prepared for its fate. But, I must say, I will really, really miss its credit sequence. I grooved along to it every time and never fastforwarded. (Actually, once or twice I rewound!) Here it is, for those interested or wondering what Billy Corgan has been up to with his time.
In random news, at a stoplight, I was behind a car with a license plate that said: MI PRSHS. Hehehehe.
And this? BLOWS MY MIND. Otto von Hapsburg, a Would-Be Monarch, Dies at 98. Dude was the son of the last Hapsburg emperor! While one part of me can do the math and know it is possible on paper, the larger part of me can just not believe that someone from that world, a world so radically different than our own, could possibly still have been alive in modernity. You can't live long in Vienna without absorbing history, and Hapsburg history in particular, but to me, the Austro-Hungarian empire felt a little like when in the US there are signs saying George Washington slept here. I've toured the palaces, and it felt like the past that shaped Austria, that Austria liked best to have represent its history, but never once on any tour were they like, oh by the way, and the son of the dude who last lived here is still alive! Nuts. It's so long ago in my conception of the world, to realize it all spanned one person's lifetime, it's just a more drastic mental shock than when I realize my parents were (young) adults during the time of coloreds only water fountains. And that all feels a bit long-winded and inarticulate so here is my summation: DUDE.
Perhaps this weekend I will finish She by H. Rider Haggard (where the phrase She Who Must Be Obeyed comes from). I only got halfway through while at the beach, which brought my beach reading tally to 8.5. 5 vampire books + 2 dragon books + 1 werewolf book + .5 mystical immortal she-demon types.
And, finally finishing a 30 day meme I started last summer...
Day 01 - A show that should have never been canceled
Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this TV season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you’ve watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death See icon.
Anya was sad. Buffy was really sad. The significant death in the Horatio Hornblower series that I don't want to spoil was really fucking sad. But this, this, from my favorite tv show ever, that I first watched when I was a kid around age 10 and was so, so unprepared for? It GUTTED me. I cried my little eyes out, and was utterly distraught and inconsolable. How many times had they always found a way out of being caught? And for that matter, how often do shows kill off their main character, much less shows about Robin Hood KILLING OFF ROBIN HOOD? It's been 20 years or so since I first saw this, and I still either tear up or outright cry, such is its power over me. (Likewise, the music from The Gift still affects me.)
Even the 80s color correction mojo happening can't diminish its power, but that could also be because I CAN BARELY SEE THROUGH MY TEARS. RIP, Robin of Loxley. Nothing's forgotten.
In random news, at a stoplight, I was behind a car with a license plate that said: MI PRSHS. Hehehehe.
And this? BLOWS MY MIND. Otto von Hapsburg, a Would-Be Monarch, Dies at 98. Dude was the son of the last Hapsburg emperor! While one part of me can do the math and know it is possible on paper, the larger part of me can just not believe that someone from that world, a world so radically different than our own, could possibly still have been alive in modernity. You can't live long in Vienna without absorbing history, and Hapsburg history in particular, but to me, the Austro-Hungarian empire felt a little like when in the US there are signs saying George Washington slept here. I've toured the palaces, and it felt like the past that shaped Austria, that Austria liked best to have represent its history, but never once on any tour were they like, oh by the way, and the son of the dude who last lived here is still alive! Nuts. It's so long ago in my conception of the world, to realize it all spanned one person's lifetime, it's just a more drastic mental shock than when I realize my parents were (young) adults during the time of coloreds only water fountains. And that all feels a bit long-winded and inarticulate so here is my summation: DUDE.
Perhaps this weekend I will finish She by H. Rider Haggard (where the phrase She Who Must Be Obeyed comes from). I only got halfway through while at the beach, which brought my beach reading tally to 8.5. 5 vampire books + 2 dragon books + 1 werewolf book + .5 mystical immortal she-demon types.
And, finally finishing a 30 day meme I started last summer...
Day 01 - A show that should have never been canceled
Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this TV season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you’ve watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death See icon.
Anya was sad. Buffy was really sad. The significant death in the Horatio Hornblower series that I don't want to spoil was really fucking sad. But this, this, from my favorite tv show ever, that I first watched when I was a kid around age 10 and was so, so unprepared for? It GUTTED me. I cried my little eyes out, and was utterly distraught and inconsolable. How many times had they always found a way out of being caught? And for that matter, how often do shows kill off their main character, much less shows about Robin Hood KILLING OFF ROBIN HOOD? It's been 20 years or so since I first saw this, and I still either tear up or outright cry, such is its power over me. (Likewise, the music from The Gift still affects me.)
Even the 80s color correction mojo happening can't diminish its power, but that could also be because I CAN BARELY SEE THROUGH MY TEARS. RIP, Robin of Loxley. Nothing's forgotten.
