Damn you, Netflix!

Once again, Netflix has completely ruined my weekend. This weekend's menu should have been:

1. The 4400, Season 1, Disc 2
2. Dead Like Me, Season 2, Disc 1
3. Dead Like Me, Season 2, Disc 2

However, I devoured The 4400 on Thursday night, so that's back in the mail, and then Dead Like Me, Disc 1 arrived with the disc snapped in half. Fuck! That means that I can't watch Disc 2, therefore I have NOTHING TO WATCH THIS WEEKEND.

Now my weekend will consist of eBay selling, which is emotionally painful and incredibly time consuming when your computer is 5 nanoseconds away from completely dying, and doing work work. Ugh, I hate doing work work at home. For some odd reason I used to like it, but I think that being older and wiser has allowed me to come to my senses. That, and the whole not giving a shit anymore about career development probably has something to do with it.

Happy Easter

to all of you folks who celebrate the holiday! To those of you who don't, happy day nonetheless. It's frigid outside and my tush is very happy to be snuggled up under 3 layers of blankets with one hand on a sugar cookie and the other on my DVD remote. This weekend's menu:

• Dead Like Me, season 1, discs 3 & 4
• The 4400, season 1, disc 1

Gotta love Netflix.

Netflix to the rescue

What does one do when wallowing in self-pity and indifference towards one's job/career/future? One shall spend the entire weekend watching Netflixes. This weekend's menu:

1. The Wire: Season 2, Disc 1
2. The Wire: Season 2, Disc 2
3. Dead Like Me: Season 1, Disc 1

I know, it's an odd combination. My general rule of thumb is never to watch multiple TV series at the same time...ruins the palette. I was told by Nikki that I needed to prepare myself with season 2 since it was very different from season 1 and, in her opinion, not as good. In that case, I decided to add a little garnish of Dead Like Me as an intermezzo, a palette cleanser should I need to run screaming from The Wire.

Marie Antoinette

If I dated women, it would probably be someone like Sofia Coppola. I think Marc Jacobs and I are on the same wavelength there.

I agree with Moonrat: Manohla Dargis sucks. And so does A.O. Scott. Whenever they dog anything, I'm almost certain that I'll love it, and I really enjoyed Marie Antoinette.

Sofia Coppola's talent is stylization and she pulls through with this movie. It was a punk period movie, and I dug it. The costumes and the music were asynchronous, in a good way, and I thought Rip Torn, Jason Schwartzmann, and Asia Argento were exceptional. Granted, Kirsten Dunst gave a take it or leave it kind of performance, but the camera loves her. Lucky girl.

The best thing about this DVD is, without a doubt, the special features, especially: Cribs with Louis XVI. Holy crap was that funny. Jason Schwartzmann is dressed as Louise Seize, who hilariously presents Versailles like a rapper.

"Yo, this is the hall of mirrors. Which is basically a hall full of mirrors. While I'm walking, I can check myself, before I wreck myself."

"This is the bedroom, the place where it all happens. That's a painting of my wife, Marie Antoinette, my woman, my goddess, my everything."

"This is the rec room where we play cards, craps, [shakes hands like throwing dice] and dominos."

"This is the velvet room, which is made of 100% red velvet. The ceiling is made of 100% pure painting."

Brilliant.

Sick

I caved in and I'm taking a sick day. It's now more complicated than just mustering the strength and forcing myself in to work. Now I'm having trouble breathing and I can't ignore that. My worst nightmare is having an asthma attack on the subway because I'd probably die from a lack of oxygen before they would be able to get me any help.

So, today is Netflix day. Here's my agenda:

1. Marie Antoinette
2. An Inconvenient Truth
3. The Wire: Season 1, Disc 3

Netflix

New obsession: the Friends feature on Netflix.

My dear friend, Justice, invited me to be her friend yesterday and it's the coolest feature Netflix has to offer. You can see what movies/TV shows are in your friends' queues and you can leave messages for your friends about titles in their queues or titles they've reviewed.

Anyone wanna be my friend? Holler in the comments section. Once we're connected, you'll be able to spy on my Netflix picks and see just how much TV on DVD I watch. It's embarassing, I promise.