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[jfb]

Here are some things I watched this weekend, or ignored, or fast-forwarded through:

• The series finale of Felicity, in which the spell that sent her back in time is undone.
  
• The series finale of M*A*S*H, in which Hawkeye tries to get a chicken to stop making all that noise. I've never forgotten that scene.
  
• The "Wanda Detroit" episode of Lois and Clark, in which Teri Hatcher gets to play Lois, Lois's evil clone, and Lois under the amnesiac delusion she's a lounge singer from a pulp novel.
  
• Outdated commercials (imagine being able to find out who's calling you, without even picking up the phone!).
  
• Outdated news teasers (what's this "Prozac" I keep hearing about?).
  
• Reports that an American held hostage in Lebanon has been executed. President Bush called it "an uncalled-for act of terror". The other President Bush.
  
• Two fairly unbearable exercises from the filmmaking class I took a few years ago.
  
• Daria, the musical.
  
• Conan O'Brien goofing around with Andy on the Today set.
  
• Lots of ads for movies and TV shows that flopped.
  
• The Powerpuff Girls, Newsradio, Kids in the Hall, Babylon 5, various Star Treks.
  
• "Codex", a 26-minute dance/video piece in which the choreographer Philippe Decouflé began to set out the flora and fauna of an imaginary world. Aired on Alive from Off Center, a KTCA/PBS series that featured an incredible variety of avant garde performance art. It stunned me to be reminded that something like this used to be on TV, although I suppose what should stun me is that it isn't anymore, or maybe just that I don't know about it. What happened to us, art? We used to be tight.

And now it's over. TV's in the closet. We'll call this a trial separation before I cancel cable, pack up the VCR and DVD, and give it all away.

Also, went through four shelves of books I once thought I would want to read, and picked out the one in four that I might make an effort to read before leaving (or, in a few cases, might take with me). And learned how to make more weird noises with the electric guitar.

Would anyone with the required hardware be willing to transfer my VHS of "Codex" to something digital? I think that's all I want to keep.

Comments

[bushmiller.livejournal.com]

If you can wait until I get back from Africa at the end of the month, I'll do it.

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Thanks! No hurry. You're in Africa? Or going to Africa? Wow. What for?

[bushmiller.livejournal.com]

I am going to Namibia tomorrow for about 3 weeks for work. Just send it to my PO Box and I'll dub it to DV when I get back and make a DVD for you, or something.

Namibia

[(Anonymous)]

Will you be (are you) in Windhoek? Swakopmund is the little coastal resort city, and Etosha Pan is the wildlife preserve. Both worth a visit. (Etosha Pan is more than a day trip, though. Swakop can be a nice weekend trip, and the dunes by Swakop are some of the biggest in the world.) Dan Viljoen (a smaller wildlife preserve) is closer to Windhoek and good for a walk/hike if you're interested in that sort of thing. And of course the Post St. Market, where you buy underpriced locally made crafts. There's a bigger version of that at, I think, Okahanja.

You're heading there at a fairly nice time--before summer hits, but it's still plenty warm and dry, so drink lots of water (some of my friends got bloody noses from dehydration).

Have fun.

-Erik's sister, who spent a semester there

Hey!

[artname.livejournal.com]

What about your present? I still have it for you ..

Re: Hey!

[jfb.livejournal.com]

What about it? I'm assuming you'll give it to me at some point....

dvd

[talking-sock.livejournal.com]

I could run it through my TiVo and then record to DVD, but it would be laborious. So let me know only if bushperson can't do it.

Also, L&C is out on DVD I see. Season 1, anyway. I had a nostalgic moment and almost bought it at Target yesterday.

Re: dvd

[jfb.livejournal.com]

I sure remember enjoying L&C but the episodes I've watched on tape have left me cold. According to Amazon customer reviews the show's creator left after the first season--maybe that's the key.

I do still enjoy Teri Hatcher and David Spade playing each other on SNL, and often am reminded (by other series) of "Hatcher's" description of "herself": "they were looking for a semi-good-looking girl who can scream a different way each week".

Funny Thing

[eamajyn.livejournal.com]

You know...
It kind of sounds like you are getting ready to commit suicide.

Just saying.

Re: Funny Thing

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I noticed that too.

Re: Funny Thing

[(Anonymous)]

The problem is that it sounds that way whenever anyone is making a really large life-transition, and is working through the accumulated detritus trying to figure out what's really WORTH it to keep (because everything you keep costs energy. People don't grok this off the top because it's subtle. People moving coast to coast have this forced upon them because moving Stuff costs $$$ in that case).

I had a friend make the same observation of me years back when I was taking a job in the financial service industry and knew, all at once, that a whole bunch of Things were going to become meaningless and unnecessary in my life.

Re: Funny Thing

[feoh.livejournal.com]

Ugh. This was me.

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[xythian.livejournal.com]

The TiVo recently picked up that Felicity episode. It was the first Felicity episode I'd seen in a long time -- since I stopped watching it well before the season finale.

I do enjoy/miss that time-capsule effect from old TV tapes which I no longer get because everything's on the TiVo and then deleted; so there's never any orphaned tapes. I did get a strange effect around when I moved when I watched something recorded in Santa Barbara (and thus had the charmingly low production value local ads for there instead of the bay area's typical national-ad-production-value local ads).

I'm both local and have the technology to transfer something on VHS to something digital.

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Yay. I'll bring the tape over, uh, sometime. Will you be home tomorrow?

I also watched Crazy Suburbanite.

[xythian.livejournal.com]

I'll be at work tomorrow. Until the evening, anyway. And after I go in.

Good old Crazy Suburbanite.