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Morning Commute:
- Culturetopia podcast. I started listening to this because of Linda Holmes, who now edits the Monkey See blog for NPR and who I first became aware of as Miss Alli on TWOP. Her recaps of Survivor and TAR were hilarious, on-point, and thought-provoking. She made me feel better about being a tv-ophile. Kaela and I went to see The Frames at the Great American Music Hall just bc Miss Alli said she liked them, and I actually even sent her a fan email when she left TWOP.
Nighttime:
- Sons of Anarchy. They could probably bait me with Juice, too. Feels a little strange how immersed Tara is in her acceptance of the club now, and seeing her go all mean girl with Gemma seems kind of out of place. I suppose it's a good bonding mechanism for them, though.
Nightstand:
- Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin. South America has been a recurring theme in my reading over the past year or so - I read about Teddy Roosevelt and the River of Doubt and The Lost City of Z, both of which were mentioned in the introductory chapter of this book. Doesn't make me actually want to go to the Amazon, but it's good reading.
Morning Commute:
- I was actually interested in Friday's Planet Money, on why it seems socialism is not taking hold right now the way it did after the Great Depression. They had a guest talking about recent elections all over the globe, and I rewound it 3 times and still couldn't focus. Sad.
At work:
Nighttime:
- Torn between booze, pills, or maybe just Sons of Anarchy. Went with the latter as my drug of choice this evening, and it was an excellent choice. Y'all, this show is good.
- SYTYCD - the auditions are finally ending! I was not in sync with the judges for the first half - I thought the first b-boy was AWESOME and I hope he has a crew so we can watch him on America's Best Dance Crew, and I had to watch that one girl's crazy backbend 3 times to figure out what the hell she had done. But the dancers the judges loved? Meh. While I am thrilled we didn't have to watch that attention-seeking long-haired goofball this year, I was NOT happy to see the "Nigel is a letch" montage OR extreme close-ups of the bloody dance accident. Ech. Also, it was kind of them to bring that guy's wife to Vegas bc she was really not impressive. He was, though.
Morning Commute:
- NPR Story of the Day from Saturday (Orthodox Jews blessing themselves with chickens. Tradi-tion!) and Sunday (tapestry made of spider silk. I now want one.)
- Planet Money podcast from Friday, about the G20 conference. Somedays I put this on and just figure something might leak through by osmosis. I do recall that a brewer in Pittsburgh came up with a special brew using major export ingredients from each of the representative countries.
At work:
- NPR World Cafe, featuring King Sunny Ade. Some of the happiest music in the world.
- NPR All Songs Considered, featuring a mixture of things I'd listen to again and things I felt tormented by. Although the rambling spoken word piece made me crack up - "Remember that science report you did about a rep-tile, about an iguana, and you didn't have an iguana? That was funny."
Evening:
- "The Fight" episode of HIMYM. I love that Marshall is actually the only badass.
- An episode of Property Virgins that I didn't really pay attention to, bc it was about a woman buying a model home, and those are actually kinda dull to look at.
- Saturday Night Live .I could not pick Megan Fox out of a line-up. And she landed the premiere? Was Kevin from The Office busy? Fast-forwarded and got this down to under 20 minutes, bc it was TERRIBLE.
- SYTYCD! That first kid had amazing legs, and I mean that in a dance critic way. For once, I was grateful for previews of the annyoing argumentative auditioner bc it meant I knew I could fast forward when his segment came up. The show could really spare the maudlin moments, though. I get that the one-armed dancer is inspiring without being told repeatedly. I'm bright like that.
- Marquis event - Sons of Anarchy! Why isn't anyone else I know watching this yet? It is AWESOME.
Still languishing:
- Premiere of Trauma. I'm curious bc I saw them filming, but I also know it's probably crap.
On the nightstand:
