Hey there :D
Quick, humiliating/hysterical story with a little too much information...
I bought these sweets in the shopping centre yesterday, they were in the celiac section. I, of course, figured they were sweets for Celiacs. So, this morning, around 8, I started having a few and continued to do so on my way to work and all through the morning until around 12. I offered my boss one of the sweets, as she offered me a regular sweet and I told her I couldn't actually have those anymore. She took the bag and randomly read the back (something I should have done...)
"Uhm, Mark..."
"Yeah?"
"How many have you had?"
"Well, the bag is almost empty...why?"
"These sweets double as laxatives"...
:O
"I'm sure it's nothing, really. They say that on a lot of packaging."
"Hehe, yeah...I'm sure it's nothing *gulp*"
So I read the packet thoroughly and it advises to have around 3 sweets throughout the day...I had 15 within a few hours. The rest of my day resulted in me running to the bathroom quite often. Yeah....
Dollhouse
As expected, even the most hardcore Whedonites have greeted the pilot with luke-warm responses. It's such a pity cos I really wanted to love it like I did with Joss' other projects :( This coming episode looks much better, to be honest, but I'm not even remotely interested in anything that's happening, not the way I am with other shows. I also rewatched the pilot of Alias just for kicks and giggles, and it's infintly better by comparison.
A pilot a day
JD has been nagging me lately, saying that I'm far too comfy when it comes to the shows I watch. I seem to stick to a formula, he says, and that the shows I watch are either samey or crap, in his humble opinion.
To hell with him, I say. Not because he's wrong, he's not, it's mostly for the smell...oh the smell.
So, I'm gonna watch a bunch of pilots for TV shows I've missed and see if I'll add them to my "apparent" samey list of favourite shows. Pssh.
The first show was...BEING HUMAN.
It's a British TV show about a werewolf, a vampire and a ghost living together...
...still here?
This may possibly turn into one of the fastest shows I've fallen for. It's insanely good! I love that the series doesn't try to lure you in to the possible cool side of being any of these creatures. It certainly doesn't make you want to become a werewolf, that's for sure. The process is painstakingly brutal, far from the fuzzy bunny Oz was in Buffy.
The script is so, so funny and the acting is top notch, too. It looks great and it's a gripping drama piece, there's no action scenes or the likes, although there's plenty of blood and crazy amounts of black-comedy. I really cannot wait for the next episode. I rated it a 9.5 and reviewed it below if you're interested.
The next pilot I shall have a stab at shall be Fringe's pilot. :D
Ok, I'm all done for now.
Song of the day: Decode by Paramore.
M@rk