30 Day Challenge: Day 01 — your favorite song

 

I love music, and my life would definitively have its own soundtrack. Songs I like and songs with its own meaning. Alanis, Torn, Chiquilla, Celtas Cortos, Morena, REM, Tequila or Unchained Melody among others would make my list for sure.

But my fav song since the very first day I listened to it is Romeo & Juliet. It is not a love song, it is not a song about princesses and princes and pretty sparkles, and I guess it represents me and who I am. And it is a song I’ve never wanted to be linked to any guy.

So, this is not my fav version of it (I will keep that as secret, by now) but this is my fav song. Enjoy!

30 Day Challenge

I do love 30 day challenges.

Many of the 30 days challenges require to post facts or information about myselve that will allow friends and other users to get to know me better. But what i like about these challenges is they get me to know me better.

As a woman, I am messy and confusing and in some senses, like the wind. And silly as it seems, challenges help me to put in a list those things which have remain certain in my life for years, and those which have changed while growing up or getting (caugh caugh) mature.

Surfing the www, I found a new 30 day challenge to deal with. Simple, but with some interesting points. So, get ready for having me answering these questions for the next 30 days, starting tomorrow!

Day 01 — your favorite song
Day 02 — your favorite movie
Day 03 — your favorite television program
Day 04 — your favorite book
Day 05 — your favorite quote
Day 06 — whatever tickles your fancy
Day 07 — a photo that makes you happy
Day 08 — a photo that makes you angry/sad
Day 09 — a photo you took
Day 10 — a photo of you taken over ten years ago
Day 11 — a photo of you taken recently
Day 12 — whatever tickles your fancy
Day 13 — a fictional book
Day 14 — a non-fictional book
Day 15 — a fanfic
Day 16 — a song that makes you cry (or nearly)
Day 17 — an art piece (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.)
Day 18 — whatever tickles your fancy
Day 19 — a talent of yours
Day 20 — a hobby of yours
Day 21 — a recipe
Day 22 — a website
Day 23 — a youtube video
Day 24 — whatever tickles your fancy
Day 25 — your day, in great detail
Day 26 — your week, in great detail
Day 27 — this month, in great detail
Day 28 — this year, in great detail
Day 29 — hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days
Day 30 — whatever tickles your fancy

And feel free to join me in the challenge!!

Have a nice day!!

The Geeky Box: Fashion F**k Ups

I can’t help to love every time one of my screen crushes let me discover some comical humanitarian side. I love Lauren, maybe you’ve noticed that already… So even when most of you wont lmao with me with her cuteness sharing an important message for anyone who wears clothes, I feel comitted to the very serious problem that’s happening every day, all around the world, right in front of our eyes. Fashion F**k Ups.

There’s a real problem in the world and it’s growing to epic proportions. People are abusing others’ eyes and sensibilities with their awful fashion choices.

Among the incredibly offensive fashion choices let’s point out kitten heels (“The El Camino of shoes”), jean shorts (or “jorts”) for men, skinny jeans on men, and those awful graphic tees (no, the skulls don’t make you look tough, guys!).

Wanna take a look?

Cult – 1×01. Pilot

I’ve been waiting for Cult since September. Since I read about the show in the Cult TV and Films mag, one of my fav, I just needed to know the “who” part. Matt Davies aka Mr. Alaric Salzman. No need to say anything else. Alona Tal, who I love since Veronica Mars (well, actually, she was so sweet I hated her but, you know, it was the heat of the moment ). Jessica Lucas, my crush since Melrose Place (mmm… her character was annoying, but she is so hot ). And Robert Kneeper, who is always so creepy and so fun to see.

So Cult has been on my to watch list since there.

Cult is about a show so popular that its viewers can’t tell what’s real or imagined. A show so popular (Lost, let’s say) that fans will go on the Internet for hours trying to figure out the mysteries within. Not a show like this though…

It’s a show around a show about a cult leader and the people who watch it and re-enact it in some kind of fan-fiction thing gone really sideways. Long story short, Cult follows a journalist (Matt Davis) and a production assistant (Jessica Lucas) on a popular crime series (also called Cult) who investigate a series of disappearances linked to the show (many of them diehard fans who may be recreating crimes committed on the series).

It can be kinda confusing, the show. And it actually was kinda confusing, the pilot. But it sets up a great mistery and definitively presents an intriguing concept (cult leaders and cult behavior, really fascinating). I also think Matt Davies and Jessica Lucas as the leads are ready to carry their own show. And Robert Knepper, playing Billy Grimm, the show within the show’s cult leader and the actor who plays Grimm too, goes full Knepper: c-r-e-e-p-y.

And it’s probably good that there’s some death and mystery, that will keep things moving, but there are lots of shows with conspiracies and death. My hook about Cult is the ( fascinating) Hollywood on Hollywood angle …

And I think “Cult” has the potential to maybe be some kind of guilty pleasure. While I’m not “looking forward” to watch more of it, I just know that I will.

My friend has a baby boy. He has the most beautiful eyes and the sweetest smile.

Dollhouse – 1×09. A Spy In The House Of Love

Hi back everybody! Missed me?

After some weeks on hyatus due to some personal problems, here I am, back to war

And with a hell of an ep of Dollhouse.  The amusingly titled “Spy in the House of Love” centers on what occurs when Topher discovers evidence pointing to a mole within the Dollhouse, something we already knew was occurring as Paul was getting his messages from inside. This episode has some fun with chronology, following (our) four main Dolls (Echo, Sierra, Victor and November) through the events of 12 hours, often skipping back in time to pick up with them earlier on, as we follow their diverging paths.

It was surprising and super cool to see Mellie revealing she was a doll to Paul (poor him!) in the sudden, direct way she did, flatly telling him, as she delivered another message from the mole.

We also found out that Adelle DeWitt was secretly using Victor as her own lover, sneaking him away when he was out in his charming British lover persona thought to be for an elderly woman. This was a great twist, exactly the sort of interesting character beat that finally makes DeWitt stand out in some way and gives the talented Olivia Williams much more to do than she has up to this point on the show. The people running the Dollhouse are pretty damn morally bankrupt to be a part of this, but they can’t just be cardboard villains if we’re going to invest in this story and it was such a relief to see the more vulnerable, needy side of DeWitt, expressed within the confines of her continuing to use these people as brainwashed sex slaves.

Sierra’s path as super spy was fun, though in the quest for a cool visual, there was an aspect of the mission that stood out like a sore thumb, which was why in the world did Sierra have on the exact same outfit as the woman she was impersonating at the NSA? A: How would anyone in the Dollhouse know what that woman was wearing that day? B: Really, they can get an exact replica of that outfit that quickly? C: Most importantly, why would Sierra need to wear the same outfit? The woman hadn’t arrived at work yet. No one had seen what she was wearing. It wasn’t necessary!!

I think the show works better as we get away from Echo, and from focusing so much on just her and letting there be more of a true ensemble feel, with time split amongst the Dolls. In this episode, Echo appeared on screen for a relatively short portion of the episode (including an opening bit in a dominatrix outfit, to fulfill the nearly weekly Eliza Dushku fetishized aspect of the show) and, in the time we did see her, it was intriguing that she, in her childlike state, had evolved to the point where she suggested to Topher he imprint her to help with the investigation. What is going on inside of her? Is she directing all this, or is someone using her? Could it be both?

That Dominic was the mole wasn’t exactly a stunner. But instead of it turning out that he was really hiding his noble nature behind a jerk façade (which would be hard, given he tried to, you know, kill Echo), it turned out he was a spy for the NSA attempting to protect the Dollhouse for their own reasons, feeling that without him, the Dollhouse would eventually be exposed and things would be worse. And for being a security chief, Dominic also was revealed as a terrible shot. Echo was just a few feet in front of you, man, and you missed multiple times! It was nice to learn what The Attic (creepy!) is, as we found out he was being completely mindwiped and left as an empty shell of a person, even more so than the dolls.

Maybe Dominic was indeed the same mole feeding Paul information. It leaves a few questions lingering, Dominic, upon discovery, told DeWitt he had helped stop Paul from finding the Dollhouse, which could be true, but now we have to wonder if telling Paul the Dollhouse had a bigger purpose than we’ve seen (repeated by November here) was ever true or just smoke and mirrors to distract Paul…

It feels so good watching the show finally takes the right path, don’t you think?

Dollhouse – 1×08. Needs

Dominic (On why Actives should be treated less like people than pets):

“If your child starts talking for the first time, you feel proud. If your dog does, you freak the hell out.”

Thankfully, after last week’s particularly poor episode, Dollhouse gets better with “Needs”, which seems to mark an improvement for the series.

“Needs” has a pretty major element as its set up: Echo, Sierra, Victor, November aka Mellie and a newbie, “Mike”, wake up in the pods with their original personalities returned. They don’t have their full memories, and have no idea how they got there, but they immediately react with understandable confusion and panic over finding themselves in this strange place (I enjoyed a lot the aliens explanation!). This leaves them with a couple of pressing questions, namely “Where the hell are we and how do we get out of here?”.

One of the biggest issues this show has faced is having a blank slate as the central character, with several other blank slates among the supporting cast. This episode remedies much of that, for the first time. I found myself caring about Sierra, Victor and November, as we get to know who they really are and see how they react in such an extreme situation. In a fun touch, Dichen Lachman also gets to speak in her natural Australian accent, which we learn is Sierra’s (Pria’s) natural accent too.

It was pretty heartbreaking to see them come face-to-face with problems at the very core of their being: Mellie with her daughter; Sierra with that unbelievable sleazebag who violated her long before she was raped by her handler; and Victor, who has quite innocently fallen in love with Sierra without having the ability to comprehend it, much less pursue it.

You might notice I said I found myself caring about Sierra, Victor and November but didn’t mention Echo? Well, I like Echo. But last week, we actually got a pretty big look at who her true identity, Caroline, was and it wasn’t a very strong impression, only defined by her righteous animal activism. Well, we get to know Caroline more this week and… she’s a pretty unlikable character. At one point, she makes a stupid, ill-conceived decision that may be driven by vaguely good intentions, but is incredibly idiotic. She just seems stubborn and foolish, which only adds to the overall issue of having a central character who is one of the least engaging parts of the show.

I seriously doubt they achieved the “closure” that Dr. Saunders was suggesting, at least on a permanent basis, and the ending does allows for everything to go back more or less to normal…

Throughout the hour, I kept circling back to Boyd’s line in “Man On The Street,” referring to the Actives: “they’re all broken.” And we can see through their adventures that their minds are haunted by fractured memories that float through their consciences. They were brought to the Dollhouse by a need to escape a traumatic past, or at least, that’s how Adele (who may be telling a terrible lie, of course) likes to frame it, and the experience of being at the Dollhouse has only produced an accumulation of new traumas on top of the old ones. And that’s to say nothing of the people who run the place, who have their own layers of… who knows.

Let’s face it. There are only five episodes left for the first season after this, and the show overall has been disappointing. 8 episodes, and till now 2 goods and 4 pretty weak. It would certainly be nice if Dollhouse could go out on a high note. I’m crossing my fingers…

Dollhouse – 1×07. Echoes

After the awesome “Man on the street”it would be nice to say Dollhouse followed up with another strong statement. Yes, it would be nice to say that, but unfortunately, that wasn’t case.

There are some important revelations and advancements here. “Echoes” added to the storyline of the series giving us our first look at who Caroline was before she became Echo, and some hints of what led her to sign up with the Dollhouse.

The big element of this episode was a drug, to which every character got exposed to, causing those who are not Dolls to lose their inhibitions and making them act in unexpected ways. This type of episode is a tried but true one for Joss’ shows, he did it on both Buffy (“Band Candy”) and Angel (“Spin the Bottle”), though in those cases it was in the guise of everyone acting younger. Of course, the difference there was that we’d known the characters longer before this occurred. I must say that the best moments of the episode for me, the most enjoyable ones, were the ones with Adele and Topher (I love their interactions) acting wacky and crazy, and British (typical Joss’, the British joke: Randy Giles, anyone? ).

Meanwhile, Echo (in the guise of “Alice”) was accompanied by a student, Sam, in her goal of getting into the lab, which we saw via flashbacks was something she did as Caroline. It was very obvious Sam wasn’t to be trusted, and there were also some unnecasarily silly moments along their journey.  The episode shows us who Caroline is, and I’m not happy. Caroline so far seems pretty lame, yep, she’s an animal activist. Okay. Otherwise, there was nothing particularly engaging about her. Some of her dialogue was just bad, such as her proclaiming “I told you Rossum was evil” when she and her (I-don’t-know-why) annoying boyfriend Leo broke into the lab, or her big “I’m your girl!” exclamation as Leo lay bleeding to death. Fan favs and Angel and The Shield veterans Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain wrote this episode, which was directed by frequent Buffy and Angel director James Contner. That makes me wonder, what is it about this show that manages to turn out such weak output from such talented people?

The following one? “Needs”. Let’s hope it heads into an strong second half of the season! I keep you posted

 

 

Merry Christmas

To all my amazing friends and lovely blog readers, I wish you a very Merry Christmas! I hope that you have a wonderful, relaxing and magical Christmas, however you spend it!

The best Chrismukkah ever

It’s Christmas time, and almost all the shows are in Christmas mood. There’s always been holiday episodes. Sitcoms, dramas, medical shows, cop shows, I can’t think about any (earth based) show that doesn’t have in its episode list at least one Christmas tree, or a Christmas miracle, or mistletoe or a big white bearded man in red suit with identity problems.

But my favorite, the best holiday episode I’ve ever watched, is The best Chrismukkah ever.

From the first season of The O.C. (and let’s put the “guilty pleasure” label away for good, folks, The O.C. is a damn fine show) , Seth (Adam Brody) introduces Ryan (Benjamin McKenzie) (and the world) to the holiday where “Jesus and Moses combine their powers”. All holiday episodes on any show should be this good.