Making a list

Yesterday I praised Netflix, today I’m going to bury them. Not really, but they annoyed me. I have a Que. Gah. I have a list it is a LIST. You have a list of titles you want to see. British people stand in que’s, the rest of us wait in or our New York brothers, on line. ANYWAY.

I have a list. First on my list is the first DVD of the first season of the not-very-good British Lawyer drama. It is marked as “very long wait”. I am assuming that some rabid John Hannah fan has the DVD in a place of honor in her John Hannah shrine and she is not giving it back. I watched DVD 2 and was waiting for DVD 3. I assumed that once I sent back the two DVDs I had, that I would receive the next two DVDs on my list - which would be DVD 3 of season one and DVD 1 of season two. You would think. Neither DVD 3 or DVD 1 of the not-very-good British Lawyer drama is coming to me. The Simpson’s Movie is coming and so is something called Suburban Girl or something like that. I don’t remember why I added SG to my list, sometimes I do little film festivals for myself and I’ll watch a lot of the work of a single actor. Fine. Sometimes you wind up with Brick sometimes you wind up with titles you can’t remember why or for whom you are watching it.

I went to investigate why SB was coming my way and got no satisfaction. It has Sara Michelle Geller and Alec Baldwin. Further research reveals that it may be a treatment of Lolita with Lolita being in her twenties and Humbert being a geeky, glasses wearing Alec Baldwin in full Canteen boy mode - My research being limited to the cover art of the DVD. It looks dreadful . I must have been in an Alec Baldwin place. If so, why didn’t I go with The Hunt for Red October? Buffy as Lolita?! What was I thinking?

Speaking of Baldwin. Where is my TV! Why am I still watching hours of home improvement and food porn every night? Instead of 30 Rock and Boston Legal It’s not fair. And what could I be watching on network TV? Well tonight, I could be watching The Biggest Loser: Couples, Big Brother 9, Just for Laughs, Dancing with The Stars, Beauty and the Geek and CSI-Miami seven hours of reality TV and an hour of CSI-Miami, the single scripted drama on network TV after 8pm on a Tuesday . The strike ended, a good month ago and still it’s six hours of reality every night. I don’t care which set of rich people won the strike, the poor viewers LOST.

If my TV shows would come back I wouldn’t have to spend my free time reading the crews from Anthony Bourdin , No Reservations blog. How sad is that? Reading a blog about back stage goings on at a food porn TV show - on The Travel Channel!. A food show that’s not even on The Food Network! And don’t give me shite about “You should be reading books instead of watching Food Porn!”. I’m a reader, bud, I read a lot. I watch TV for a break from my busy reading schedule, really working on getting the most out of each issue of Entertainment Weekly can be really emotionally draining. I need the break.