I am Your Sunshine

First of all, there are SOOOOO many medical shows! (GA, PP, Three Rivers, Mercy, Trauma, House…) I can’t take too much bloodiness in my life. I haven’t watched any of the returning shows mentioned above and the new ones didn’t impress me much, either.

OK, here is my brief review of the shows I intended to watch at the beginning of the season. Let’s start from the ones I DON’T like.

Hank
Boring.

Community
Unbelievably stupid. It’s very predictable in a bad way. Don’t get me wrong. Predictability is not necessarily a bad thing. Good writing and fine acting can make a cliche-ish romance comedy enjoyable, rewatchable even.

The Forgotten
I think I wrote about this already. It’s just bad. Bad writing overall. I felt sorry for the actors.

Accidentally on Purpose (sit com, SF movie critic) -*
Horrible, horrible show. It proves again that the only reason I could bear Dharma and Greg is because Greg was fantastic and dreamy. Jenna Elfman repraised her annoying wacky woman role in this new show and without Greg as a buffer, her hedeousness just goes through the roof. I don’t see why people would find her over the top unconvincing acting funny. Ergh.

The Vampire Diaries
I guess I’ve passed the age that enjoys CW. But the truth is, ever since Gilmore Girls came to an end, there hasn’t been any show worth watching (for me) on CW. The Priviledged lasted for a while, but that was only because I liked all the other characters and I hate the lead. How can I possibly continue watching a show with a main character I hate?

Oh, right. The Vampire Diaries. What can I say? I didn’t even sit through the opening credit.

Three Rivers (transplant surgeons)
I couldn’t even sit through one episode.

Trauma (SF, paramedic)
I couldn’t even sit through one episode.

Mercy (nurses) *
It was okay for the first few episodes but I couldn’t bear to see it becoming another slutty hospital everybody sleeps around show, so… don’t call us, we’ll call you.

Eastwick *
I like the girls. But seriously, how can I possibly watch a show where the supposedly dark and charming and sexy man looks like a pig. Thanks but no thanks. (Fire your casting dept. stat.)

OK, finally we came to a more pleasant territory.
Dancing with the Stars s9 **
Honestly, I haven’t been faithful to DWTS this season. The reason is simple. 16 couples? Are you freaking kidding me? I don’t have the time or the patience to sit through that many bad dancing! Maybe I’ll catch up, say, next week.

FlashForward ***
For some reason, I only watched the pilot (and I didn’t watch it until last week.) It just seemed too heavy and I wasn’t in a mood for heavy stuff. But the pilot showed really good potential. Apparently they know what they’re doing (unlike certain other shows: The Forgotten and etc.) The writing flowed and there seemed to be a good, well-structured story behind it.

The Big Bang Theory ***
The first few episodes were not as funny as it used to be, but it still maintain its quality. Something you can depend on for a good laugh.

Medium ***
Still find it entertaining. Coming back from the stroke. Allison now has new and fancy ways to help people.

Dollhouse ***
Still enjoy watching it but I think FOX has decided to pull it. Darn.

Glee ***
Being a big fan of musical theatre, it had to be really bad to have me uninterested in a show like this. The early released pilot did just that. But thanks to fmodem, a fervent advocate for Glee, I gave it a second chance and gosh am I glad! Under the skin of singing and dancing and dramatic comedy, there lies something really human. It delivers issues and provokes thoughts without being preachy. However, it does not reach 4 stars because the cynic of me still hates the happy family image it tries to portray and find it hypocritical.

Modern Family ***
I love Jesse Tyler Ferguson. I watched the show because of him. He’s so talented and cute. I don’s care if he’s gay. I love him all the same. OK, enough of JTF, let’s talk about Modern Family. If it hadn’s been because of JTF, I wouldn’t have watched the show and the pilot didn’s impress me much so I was kinda wrestling with myself whether I should keep watching or not. And I’m glad I did, because it turned out to be really funny and sweet. Plus, Julie Bowen is in it. It’s nice to see a familiar face.

Castle ****
Castle oh Castle. Maybe the cases are not as fancy as other crime dramas, but it sure is fun to watch. Very light and cute. Good for you after a day of stressful work.

The Good Wife ****
The attention to detail never ceased to amaze me. But like Castle, the cases are not its strength.

V, a remake of a 1983 series of the same name, will premiere next week. Looking forward to it.

*^o^*
Debrecen 3-4 Fiorentina with 2 goal from Mutu, one from Gilardino and Santana

=D
Liverpool 1-2 Lyon
Barcelona 1-2 Rubin
AZ 1-1 Le Arse

On the Side:
@_@
Inter 2-2 Dynamo
Rangers 1-4 Unirea Urziceni

Group E-H standing

(err… Group F is Barca, Dynamo, Rubin 4 and Inter 3. I don’t wanna do the graph again. orz)

Keep it up!

what makes you happy? except for talking to you and you only
what can i do to lift you up, brighten your spirit, tell me
do i take you for a ride? in the middle of the night
they’d talk oh let them talk
why do we or do we give a damn?
lets go out in the middle of the night
shoot some stars as if they were
people you hate right now
shoot some stars because you know
it will be alright when the sun comes up
when you get out of a bad dream
with a foul taste lingering in the mouth
you’ll find them less irritating
you’ll care less
and you’ll grab the harmonica
and play some tune that no one recognize
and say shit that fucking bastard really get on my nerves
and repeat and do it again
i’ll take you out, out in the middle of the night
and we will have a blast
in an autumn night

Hold tight to your genre,
Or you might
Very well forget how to live or breathe.
Grab on to the doctrines, the big names that
Make. you. dizzy.
Don’t stop worshiping like
You do.

Tread not the wet grass after the rain,
Or you might
Be thrown off
Balance, like
I did.

When you strip the meaning of a word being a word,
It’s the fall of Babel all over.
All hell breaks lose and I’m
Mad. at. you.

Be in a circle happy little circle be in a circle be.
Happy now?
Oh yes you are.

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10/17
4:45 Aston Villa v Chelsea (ESPN2)
6:30 VFB Stuttgart v Schalke 04
9:00 Juventus v Fiorentina (FSC)
13:00 Valencia v Barcelona (GOLTV)

一天搞定! :D

10/18
2:00 The Who’s Tommy!

After reliving his role as a columnist at The Believer, Nick Horny managed to keep himself busy. His new movie, inspired by Lynn Barber’s memoir, An Education is about to release in the U.S. while his latest book, Juliet, Naked has clinched a seat in New York Times bestsellers list.

An Education is a coming-of-age story (not surprised) of a girl/woman (!) who met and then had a relationship with a much older man.

The theme of Juliet, Naked is one that we’re more familiar with Hornby. It’s about music, relationship and identity.

There are many ways you can enjoy a piece of literary or artistic work, and one of them is to hear the creator talking about it. So here they are…
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This episode was very A Few Good Men-y. Matt Czuchry reprised his role as a privileged ivy league kid. Here he played an excessively ambitious junior associate Cary in a law firm who had settled numerous cases without ever going to court once. He’d always been able to work his charm out of a case, just like Tom Cruise did before he was assigned a case with strings (ie. Demi Moore) attached to it. The first time Cary had to address to the court in this episode, he looked timid and unsure, unlike his usual confident and eloquent self. But underneath his cocky and I-have-and-always-will-have-everything-my-way attitude lied a amiable quality in his character. He was willing to learn and he was willing to work hard. While recognizing Alicia as his opponent, he was still able to admire her qualities with an objective eye. Apparently he was not created as a flat, stereotypical villain merely to posed as a work place hazard for the protagonist. I’m glad that as we reached to the third episode, it seemed that there was a story behind Cary. And by the way he was eager to please, to be impressive at the firm, I bet Diane was his mother. We’ll see.

Jane carried a paperback of Tom Rob Smith’s first novel, Child 44. It was given to her by her boyfriend, K. In exchange, she gave him The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society which she finished reading just a week before she got home. Jane’s book club came close to choose Gurnsey as their second book, but instead The Collector, which turned out to be too intimidating that no one actually read it, won by two votes. During the spring, several of the book club members read Gurnsey on their own and they all raved about it. She bought it, read it on the plane, fell in love with it, and gave it to K with a slice of boarding pass tucked in as a surprise souvenir. Unlike the cute and delightful Gurnsey novel, Child 44 was thrilling and intense. She still couldn’t help sidetracking while reading it. She kept stopping to wonder if he liked the parts she liked. She couldn’t wait to finish the book so that she could share her thoughts with him. But at the same time, she couldn’t bear to finish it knowing the sense that they were doing the same thing would be gone. Thinking that he was holding this book, enjoying the same excitement it brought just a few weeks ago comforted her. It made her feel less apart.

Jane also carried a small vial of Paul Smith’s Story, a cologne she and K picked up after numerous cologne tasting at the mall. She loved smelling the Chinese grapefruit on his neck riding on the back of his motorcycle. It reminded her of his embrace. She would simply tip the top off and immerse herself in the green aroma of the early autumn fruit and remembered sunset by Rainbow Bridge where they talked about football and kissed. She would close her eyes, see his smile and imagine his hand touching hers with a squeeze that makes both of their stomachs flutters with joy.

Boring writing.

You can see it “TRIED” very hard to be something but it only turned out to be a joke in every single way. The dialogues seemed forced and the actors seemed to be shouting “it’s not like I have a choice” when they acted out the unnatural sincerity of their respective characters.

I wondered why it wasn’t killed during the pitch.

參賽者實在是太多了, 好多人我看了幾秒就快轉, 評審講評與評分我也幾乎都快轉掉了. 生活忙碌, 沒有時間看太糟糕的舞蹈以及千篇一律的嘴砲. You do get tired of it from time to time.

很喜歡一開始 Alicia 站在 Peter 的身旁, 無視周遭吵雜紛擾目光無法離開 Peter 袖子上的一根頭髮, 而正當她的手緩緩地像是終於下定決心要把那根頭髮拿掉的時候, Peter 順勢牽過她的手領她走向後台. 在後台的陰暗狹窄的走道上, Peter 終於發現落後的 Alicia, 回過頭走向似乎石化了的 Alicia, 卻被 Alicia 賞了狠狠的一巴掌. 這一幕裡 Alicia 一語未發, 卻非常寫實地刻畫出她經歷的屈辱.

故事發展應該會落在重回職場的 Alicia, 她與家人如何面對外界繼續生活, 以及 Peter 的案子的內情. 不知道 Cary (Matt Czuchry) 這個人除了當 Alicia 的競爭對手之外有沒有其他的可能性, 另外也希望 Alicia 跟 Will 之間不要隨便產生不必要的曖昧.

The Good Wife 裡有很多熟面孔: 包括 ER 的 Julianna Margulies, Sports Night 的 Josh Charles, Gilmore Girls 的 Matt Czuchry, Chicago 的 Christine Baranski.

本影集的執行製作是 Ridley Scott, 由 In Justice 的 Michelle King 與 Robert King 執導.

At the end, Ed’s voice over concluded with sentiment,

…because when it’s all said and done, 90% of being a dad is just showing up.

It sort of touched me (because of the scene) and then pissed me off.

yeah, just leave the rest of the work to moms.

托某人的福今天去城邦大採購, 打了六折.
抱回了新的幾本神之雨下還有江國香織跟山本文緒的短篇小說.
我簡直就要成了日本控了.

剛剛躺在床上, 覺得心情不平靜, 大概不好入睡.
跳起來拿了新的江國香織(西瓜的香氣. 其實她最新作我也入手了, 不過是長篇.)
想說看一下應該可以調釋個心情吧.
沒想到看了兩篇都是頗有夏夜恐怖氣息的小說,
完全不是我想像的清淡小品, 我傍晚竟然還丟給貓看, 真是對不住…

江國香織這本是繼”別煩憂, 開心就好”之後第二本把我嚇到的小說.
嗚嗚嗚.

昨天在台南逛大街, 看到 Adidas 又忍不住跑進去看.
沒想到一件切爾西的球衣都沒有, 連英冠球隊(新堡)都有進了卻沒有切爾西, 真是欺人太甚啊…
不過倒是有個我在台北沒看過的切爾西小包(見下圖),
w說別地方應該找不到九百塊這種價錢, 於是我就把它帶回家了!

回到家, 先幾張相為我的偽開箱文作準備.

看哪! 愛跌倒的紙袋是多麼得挺拔又黑得有個性!

喔喔~看看它的側面, 纖細地有如時下最流行的紙片人啊哇哇哇!!

可以隱約從紙袋口看到今天的主角了!! (感謝w提供這句, 我已經辭窮了)

呼之欲出了!

躺在塑膠袋裡就可以感受到它的氣勢了!

蘆山真面目

側面還有低調卻奢華的切爾西刺繡小logo

趕快來背看看吧!!!

寫開箱文真累…

Looking up at the stars, I know quite well
That, for all they care, I can go to hell,
But on earth indifference is the least
We have to dread from man or beast.

How should we like it were stars to burn
With a passion for us we could not return?
If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.

Admirer as I think I am
Of stars that do not give a damn,
I cannot, now I see them, say
I missed one terribly all day.

Were all stars to disappear or die,
I should learn to look at an empty sky
And feel its total darkness sublime,
Though this might take me a little time.

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台北:
巷口乾麵 – 乾意麵, 筒仔米糕, 豆乾海帶
摩斯漢堡 – 章魚堡, 鮮蝦堡
大腕燒肉 – 超多好吃的東西!
福華飲茶 – 超多好吃的東西!
十九酒食 – 超多好吃的東西!
Artco Classique (典藏藝術餐廳) – 義大利麵還ok
上飰館 – 不錯吃
勝博殿 – 不知不覺在聊天間吃得一乾二靜
花徑開 (The Path Cafe) – 白酒蛤蜊燉飯
25度C – 起士蛋糕, 柚子茶
度小月 – 擔仔麵
牛角燒肉 – 普普
大腕燒肉 – 超棒啊
卡比索
喫飯
紅蜻蜓
大隱酒食

八方雲集
花生豆花
蔥抓餅
胡椒餅
蒸肉圓
早餐漢堡蛋
各式奶茶
桂花烏龍

南部: (整個就是戰南北的分類?)
鱔魚意麵
土魠魚羹

寒天愛玉
佶香小紫蘇
蜜檸小紫蘇
桂圓紅棗
柚蜜綠
桂花烏龍

過敏嚴重, 不過稍微可以靠過敏藥控制一下.

看了牙醫, 吃了好幾次巷口乾麵及摩斯!

剪了頭髮, 忍不住又燙了一下, 不過總算是涼快多了.

星期五坐蘇洗的車下新竹, 買爆米花, 逛整修過的科一三樓.
攤在裡節和的豪宅, 拖拖拉拉地去買菜.
烤雞, 牛排, 干貝, 泡菜鍋, Chile 紅酒, 十五杯飲料.
創業計畫, 嘴砲, 閒扯, 電動

跟高中同學吃勝博殿, 大家病的病, 累的累 (帶小孩的還有外科實習的), 所以吃完飯九點就解散了.

怪人(我)在家, 兔子似乎又開始咬毛了, 可憐的兔子壓力大.
睡眠不足, 長了一堆痘痘… orz
第一次去五分埔, 買了三件衣服, 開心.
聞到很棒的香水, 不過amazon比較便宜, 所以回去再買好了.
NIN取消了, 好多東西都取消了. @_@
過敏有點嚴重, 不過過敏藥好像蠻有效的. 打噴嚏打得喉嚨痛.
課選好了, 學費付了 (希望BD補得上.)
今晚要去看開幕戰, 看球前會去跟文哥偉哥吃燒肉.

還沒約剪頭髮, 有點懶, 但是再不剪我會熱死.
我媽一直覺得我是要再去燙, 不知道為什麼. 她再這樣說下去, 也許我真的又會不小心去燙了… orz

還要訂 Vegas 的房間.
Phanix 托帶的東西

B

It’s not B- because Rachel Nichols is cute and Sienna Miller is hot (dark hair becomes her) and the car chase scene made me laugh so hard. Stephen Sommers really has a lot to learn (from Michael Bay.) And the script can seriously use some editing. Cut those silly dialogue out, you don’t need fillers, don’t make a freaking action movie over 2 hours.

All in all, I enjoyed it. But it does get boring from time to time.