Monday randomness
Jun. 7th, 2004 09:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendiNo, I didn't watch The Sopranos or Deadwood. I got 'em on Tivo, and watched the Tonys instead.
Loved the show. No real thoughts on most of the awards themselves (other than thinking that Avenue Q didn't deserve the best score, the only award I feel I'm in any position to criticize, since I've listened to both it and Wicked). But the speeches ranged from touching (all four actress awards) to classy (the two directors). The only ones that annoyed me were Hugh's (a bit too polished and lengthy), and whichever Avenue Q person made the bitchy "voted with your hearts" comment. Otherwise, they were all good. And the musical numbers were a blast. The only ones I disliked were the piece from Caroline and the Fiddler montage (why not give us all of such a great song). Hugh was just perfect as a host, and his number embarrassing Sarah Jessica Parker was just priceless.
The only serious flaws I found? First, neither Tony Bennett nor Mary J. Blige did justice to two of the great Broadway songs. Both are much more talented than the performances they turned in last night. And our local CBS outlet thought that it would be a great idea to cut into the performance of Big River to show a picture of George and Laura Bush getting off a plane in Georgia. Yes, they broke in to tell us that the President had de-planed, just as he was fucking expected to do. I have now left my first irate message on a local affiliate's answering machine. Motherfuckers. Break in with news, not fluff.
Other things from this weekend:
We put Elayna on the plane with her grandparents. She's up in Boston right now, and loving it, last we heard. House it strangely quiet, and the cats are trying, but failing, to match Elayna's noise output.
I read two books this weekend. The latest Charlaine Harris Southern Vampire novel, Dead to the World, kicks ass. The latest Tanya Huff Henry Blood novel (well, it's not really, since it doesn't have Blood in the title, and doesn't have Vicky or Mike, but it follows Tony and Henry, so it's in the same world), Smoke and Shadows, doesn't. But it does have a nice Good Omens shout-out, and it's still readable (but wait for the PB).
Before shopping yesterday, we swung by our old house to drop off the keys, and UPS had dropped off a package for me -- I won Love Actually! I have no idea who I won it from (I'm thinking ET or Extra), as I enter too many damned contests to keep track, and the return addy was a firm in NY that tends to serve as a clearing house for promotions. But hey, free DVD!
Looking at the latest Previews, two nifty things jumped out:
First, there's a Menchi plush (from Excel Saga)! My favorite anime character ever! Woohoo! :-)
Second, DC is releasing a collection of Cartoon Network episodes in a graphic novel, and they're shipping a Megas XLR DVD with it!
Loved the show. No real thoughts on most of the awards themselves (other than thinking that Avenue Q didn't deserve the best score, the only award I feel I'm in any position to criticize, since I've listened to both it and Wicked). But the speeches ranged from touching (all four actress awards) to classy (the two directors). The only ones that annoyed me were Hugh's (a bit too polished and lengthy), and whichever Avenue Q person made the bitchy "voted with your hearts" comment. Otherwise, they were all good. And the musical numbers were a blast. The only ones I disliked were the piece from Caroline and the Fiddler montage (why not give us all of such a great song). Hugh was just perfect as a host, and his number embarrassing Sarah Jessica Parker was just priceless.
The only serious flaws I found? First, neither Tony Bennett nor Mary J. Blige did justice to two of the great Broadway songs. Both are much more talented than the performances they turned in last night. And our local CBS outlet thought that it would be a great idea to cut into the performance of Big River to show a picture of George and Laura Bush getting off a plane in Georgia. Yes, they broke in to tell us that the President had de-planed, just as he was fucking expected to do. I have now left my first irate message on a local affiliate's answering machine. Motherfuckers. Break in with news, not fluff.
Other things from this weekend:
We put Elayna on the plane with her grandparents. She's up in Boston right now, and loving it, last we heard. House it strangely quiet, and the cats are trying, but failing, to match Elayna's noise output.
I read two books this weekend. The latest Charlaine Harris Southern Vampire novel, Dead to the World, kicks ass. The latest Tanya Huff Henry Blood novel (well, it's not really, since it doesn't have Blood in the title, and doesn't have Vicky or Mike, but it follows Tony and Henry, so it's in the same world), Smoke and Shadows, doesn't. But it does have a nice Good Omens shout-out, and it's still readable (but wait for the PB).
Before shopping yesterday, we swung by our old house to drop off the keys, and UPS had dropped off a package for me -- I won Love Actually! I have no idea who I won it from (I'm thinking ET or Extra), as I enter too many damned contests to keep track, and the return addy was a firm in NY that tends to serve as a clearing house for promotions. But hey, free DVD!
Looking at the latest Previews, two nifty things jumped out:
First, there's a Menchi plush (from Excel Saga)! My favorite anime character ever! Woohoo! :-)
Second, DC is releasing a collection of Cartoon Network episodes in a graphic novel, and they're shipping a Megas XLR DVD with it!
