So yesterday was another horrible day of being up after three hours of sleep, (it's actually quite amazing how it is three hours every. Single. Time), and then watching Netflix DVDs while trying to get tired enough to get back to sleep.

I had started watching Dinner For Five Season 1 the night (no link because according to Amazon, it has not yet been released. I have watched it, and thus disagree), so watched the rest of it in bed.

For every episode they have what they call an Expanded version, or maybe Extended (it's in the mail going back to Netflix, so I can't check), so I did what I normally do, I watched the episode, then watched the Expanded/Extended version. And couldn't tell the smallest difference. It seemed the exact same thing to me, was the special thing that it could fool me into watching it twice in a row?

Finally, by watching it carefully, I realized that the E/E versions had the occasional explanation in subtitles, but since I was mostly listening rather than watching, I missed the big reveal the first time I watched it.

There really isn't much point in watching the E/E versions, though there is the occasional bit of interesting info, mostly they are of the "Kevin is doing an impression of Christopher Walken" variety.

I had forgotten how much I enjoyed the episode with Marilyn Manson in it--I mentioned in this episode how impressed I was at his clear intelligence and sense of humour. Unfortunately, also in the episode is Andy Dick, who could not have been more aptly named without having been christened "Andy Asswipe". Or possibly Captain Douchebag. I guess there always has to be a dick on the show and Vince Vaughn wasn't available that week.

In watching six episodes in a row, I thought of a drinking game. Whenever Favreau mentions Rudy, Made or Swingers, you have to take a drink. If he brings up Swingers apropos of absolutely nothing (i.e. Vince Vaughn isn't in the episode), you have to chug.

I see I am not the first to think of this. I suppose in the next season (not the current one) he's going to start talking about Elf all the time.

By the time I got tired enough to sleep, I had watched all of those as well as Sherman's March, one of my favourite documentaries of all time, and then snuggled down under the covers to try to grab another few hours.

Unfortunately, I had left my window open, which overlooks the front steps (underlooks, actually), and Katie was sitting out on those steps, breaking up with her boyfriend on her cell. Loudly. In the thickest Jersey accent I have ever heard, by the way. Much thicker than the accent she uses around the family.

I drifted off again, but then he came over and they had to break up on the front steps. Loudly. The interesting thing, though, was a correlation that snapped into my head when she was talking.

I had a friend who went through a hell of a divorce last year, and one of the things that she kept saying was, "He does these things and he's mad that I don't appreciate them, but they aren't things that will make me happy, they are things that would make him happy if I did them for him!"

Well, Katie kept saying, "You do things to make me happy, but they don't make me happy! Why do you think they'll make me happy, because they make some girl on TV happy? You don't pay attention to what will really make me happy!"

She's 16 years old, and she's figured that one out already. Pretty impressive.

I've been continuing to watch my DVDs of Firefly. My favourite ones are the ones with commentary tracks, which I watch immediately after watching them straight.

The absolute best commentary track so far is in the 2nd episode, The Train, which is absolutely hilarious. It's Joss and his co-producer, Tim Minear, who are like an old married couple who are both comedians. Sample lines:

"That's a cool floating train."
"Yes. Floating trains are cool. And I'll tell you why, 'cause they're trains..."
"And yet..."
"Floating!"
"Odd."
"Interesting."

"Again, a lot of this stuff is restated in a slightly different way from what you would have seen in the pilot. You know what I think would have been great?"
"What?"
"If they'd aired the pilot first."
"Why, that's madness! Madness! They laughed at him at the Academy!"
"Well, airing it last was interesting."
"Well, last is, it's like first, only it comes later."

Of course, the other thing is that they talk like online journallers. It's one of those chicken and egg things, does Joss talk like Buffy because he invented Buffy or because he wrote her for so long that he ended up talking in her rhythm? Do online journallers talk like that because of Buffy or because that's how people in their 20s talk? And do I think they talked like online journallers because those are the only 20-year-olds that I know?

That's an awful lot of explanation to get through to get the point that they say things like "Not so much", but there you have it.

Speaking of Firefly, somebody, I don't remember who, was recently extolling the virtues and great beauty of Jayne's sweaty biceps. Somebody with great insight. They should have had an episode only about those sweaty biceps. Maybe that would have been episode 15.

I've had a crush on him since I was fifteen years old.

Tina Fey on last night's SNL:

"Tomorrow is Mother's Day so don't forget to call that woman who pushed you out of her vagina and take her out for some pancakes!"

Today's horoscope:
Family members or neighbors are a little loud right now. Before you kick up a fuss, consider giving them the gift of new slippers -- or giving yourself the gift of some headphones (or some time away).

One year ago today:
We worked for two and a half hours, and though he had a tiny tendency to get all Lucky Charms leprechaun on me, and occasionally it seemed as though he might be about to extol the virtues of Irish Spring soap, generally he stayed in the realm of Irish reality.

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