more fucking annoying shit.

[hannah]

Yeah. Silly, I think. To be honest all I know about the last few seasons of the show is that the final scene ends pretty much with a close-up on the Scully's crucifix necklace and also she has a baby whom she names William after Mulder's dad, which is so utterly weird (seein' how Scully's brother and father are/were also named William, AND William is Mulder's middle name). So I doubt I'll be seeing this one three times in the theater in one week, like I did with a certain 1998 release I could name...

edit: I don't have my contacts on so it's really hard for me to see. excuse errors etc

[hannah]

Damn. I am a nerd!

[dieblucasdie]

Well, then, will you at least be watching Californication entirely because DD is in it, like me?

Also I think the movie could actually be good.  Get all the all cast members, no Gish, no T2000, etc.

[hannah]

Well, then, will you at least be watching Californication entirely because DD is in it, like me?

Maybe! But his turn as the Apatow proxy in The TV Set kind of icked me out, and it'll be hard for me not to see him purely as an object of desire. Ha ha. Uh.

You know, I heard some excellent or reasonably okay gossip about Nic Lea recently, but I totally don't remember it. I know whom I can ask about it, though.

Also I think the movie could actually be good.  Get all the all cast members, no Gish, no T2000, etc.

Maybe! Maybe. Hey, did Spender die? He's hot. I guess he could always return in Post-Modern Prometheus garb...

Yes, that's all I care about. Time to cue up "Bad Blood"...

[hannah]

I know and/or think we've gone over this, dye blew cuz dye, but were you an X-Phile or a casual watcher or what?

[dieblucasdie]

I watched it religiously, (from the very first ep, even) but I was in stupid Montana, and there was a year-and-a-half in the middle where we didn't have a Fox affiliate, but the ABC affiliate owned all the Fox rights.  So it didn't show at all.  So, I missed the whole introduction of Krycheck, Scully's abduction, etc.  I still watched it every week before and after that, but I was always confused by the mythos-eps.  I need to rewatch it once I'm done with Star Trek.

[hannah]

Wow. So you missed all of season two and, like, the beginning of season three? That's good that you were around for my one true love -- Pendrell -- then. Anyway, I never cared much for the mythology episodes, so it didn't matter that I couldn't understand most of them. And, honestly, I was a fan from age 10 until age 13. So I probably cannot be trusted.

[dieblucasdie]

haha, yes, I was like, 13-16, or whatever.  Really it's lucky that I latched onto X-Files for my adolescent-dude-sci-fi phase and not any of the harder stuff.

I've talked about this before, but there was a year or two where Friday nights were X-Files, then Homicide.  Man, that was awesome. 

edit:  Looking at the episode guide, I remember seeing the Clyde Bruckman ep when it aired, so I think I just missed the entirety of Season 2.

edit again:  Wait, no, I definitely saw Mulder burning in the train car thingie, so maybe it was just most of Season 2.  Or maybe I stayed up and watched a couple at like, 2 in the morning on Tuesday when they aired in MT.

[hannah]

It's weird and lame that Homicide was "past my bedtime." I did watch the entirety of Gideon's Crossing when it aired, though, because my dad was obsessed with Andre Braugher.

[dieblucasdie]

It's weird and lame that Homicide was "past my bedtime." I did watch the entirety of Gideon's Crossing when it aired, though, because my dad was obsessed with Andre Braugher.

Ah, one advantage to the Mountain Time Zone.

[hannah]

Yeah, it was some fucking annoying shit that I had to tape the episode of the X-files (Leonard Betts, where it's revealed Scully has cancer) that aired after the Superbowl. I think I, always impatient, watched half of it at 6am before school the next day...that's the one where the guy who would later get attacked by a helicopter TWICE on ER can regrow his head. Also he eats tumors.

[dieblucasdie]

Helicopters: 2, Viewers: 0.

But yeah, talking about this is just making me really, really want to re-watch the whole run of "The X-Files" (up until about the time T2000 shows up, and I remember even liking the first half-season or so of those, but I may have been young and dumb).  Or at least watch that Frankenstein/vampires ep where DD sings the Shaft Theme.

[hannah]

That's "Bad Blood"! It has Luke Wilson and the kid from fhe Sandlot and The Big Green!

[dieblucasdie]

Oh man, I totally forgot Luke Wilson was in that.  I'm going to download that shit RIGHT NOW.

[hannah]

GOOD. Okay, I'm going to finish reading the NYTimes and then I'm going to bed.

(The writer of "Bad blood" also wrote "Small potatoes," my favorite XF ep of all time. It stars Darin Morgan, who wrote Clyde Bruckman, Jose Chung, etc, and also played the Flukeman in season 2. Anyway, "Small Potatoes" is the best the best the best, but maybe you should save it for another time. Or watch it and report back.)

(good night)

[dieblucasdie]

haha, good night.  I don't remember "Small Potatoes," but yeah, it's pretty much sealed that I'll re-watch everything at some point soon.

[hannah]

ONE LAST THING

small potatoes also has the original voice of chuckie from rugrats (pre-nancy cartwright) as a woman in love with mark hamill

[hannah]

really i just want to push this thread to page 6 so it'd be like this conversaation never took place, i wouldn't want to be known as the one gideon's crossing fan in the universe, i have a REPUTATION

[alex]

My sociological theory exam is drawing awfully close. 50 hours to go, and of the 5 books I need to study, there's only one that I know well enough that a quick glance through my notes will suffice. Two of the others, I have read in their entirety (more or less superficially), but own no notes for at all, which is okay in one case but not so much in the other (properly working my way through it would be sure to take me several days, and I imagine the person examining me knows it fairly well, considering that she wrote it). The remaining two, I've only read in parts, but at least I did take decent notes for the parts I have read.

[hannah]

Good luck, Alex. It will be fine! Yes!

I'm curious if anyone read "Dean of Death Row" in this week's New Yorker. It doesn't appear to be available online, but here is the abstract. I have no desire to initiate a death-penalty debate, but I will say the whole thing made me sick to my stomach. For instance, this passage:

Crittendon had written to the Board of Parole Hearings on those inmates' behalf because each met his five criteria: being responsible while at San Quentin; pursuing an education; serving as a volunteer; having a solid support system on the outside; and believing in God or a higher power. He asked Jerry Dean Stipe, a bearded Vietnam veteran known as Wolf, to be a co-founder of Real Choices -- yet he didn't write a letter for Stipe, he told me, "because he was an atheist."

By the end of the piece it seemed pretty clear that Crittendon most certainly was "without a belief in something larger than [him]self." In other words, for all his posturing otherwise, he's one self-serving piece of shit.

[KJ]

Crittendon had written to the Board of Parole Hearings on those inmates' behalf because each met his five criteria: being responsible while at San Quentin; pursuing an education; serving as a volunteer; having a solid support system on the outside; and believing in God or a higher power. He asked Jerry Dean Stipe, a bearded Vietnam veteran known as Wolf, to be a co-founder of Real Choices -- yet he didn't write a letter for Stipe, he told me, "because he was an atheist."

This reasoning here, 'because he doesn't believe in life after death he should die', seems somehow off.

[diesel_powered]

I woke up with a headache and now the top two posts are making it worse. 

[diesel_powered]

Yeah, okay... My landlord needs to stop leaving vague messages on my phone cuz yeah..... paranoid city! He just wanted to know if I'm planning on renewing my lease and if I have some range cleaner. And if he could borrow it. Ugh. That sucked.

And did I mention that he did it while I was masturbating? I mean... Your landlord calls while you're jerkin' it?! Talk about a mood killer!

[morgan]

I've been trying to keep things positive, so I haven't been posting in this thread as often as I used to, but something happened yesterday that really bothered me.  I was at the amusement park, ok, having fun and stuff, and this girl came up to me and stood there about three feet away from me, face-to-face, knowing that I was looking at her.  She then proceeded to take out her cell phone and use it to take a picture of me.  From three feet away.  This is for sure the least-discreet way someone's taken a photo of me here, and it really irked me.

I'm so over feeling like a monkey in a zoo, seriously.

[KimJuno]

I've been trying to keep things positive, so I haven't been posting in this thread as often as I used to, but something happened yesterday that really bothered me.  I was at the amusement park, ok, having fun and stuff, and this girl came up to me and stood there about three feet away from me, face-to-face, knowing that I was looking at her.  She then proceeded to take out her cell phone and use it to take a picture of me.  From three feet away.  This is for sure the least-discreet way someone's taken a photo of me here, and it really irked me.

I'm so over feeling like a monkey in a zoo, seriously.

This sounds like the beginning of a very bad j-pop horror movie.