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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• Outdated commercials (imagine being able to find out who's calling you, without even picking up the phone!).
  
• Outdated news teasers (what's this "Prozac" I keep hearing about?).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