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[cjhobbies00]

Juri??? As in Juri Ueno??? Tomboy style?

Goddamn I gotta get on the bandwagon.

[Glathannus]

I got a complete set of Seinfeld episodes on DVD for my birthday. All of the seasons in one box. I've been marathoning my way through that, and although the episodes were initially broadcast in the 90s, nearly everything they joke about is still relevant today.

[Cosmo!]

I bought the first season of 30 Rock over the weekend and I've been watching a lot of that. I wish I had discovered this show earlier. Tina Fey and Tracy Morgan and Alec Baldwin are just hysterical.

[Jonny]

Why u wearing bra

[TeslaGuy]

Performance Artist Patty Chang is an old friend of mine. Over the past thirteen years I've watched her go from being a nobody to, according to The New York Times, "one of our most consistently exciting young artists", with shows in museums and galleries across the country. I found a short film about her today on YouTube. The first briefly shown performance, Shave, was actually filmed at my performance space back in 1995.

A cool film about a rising artworld star (and very nice, funny person).
Not safe for work, but safe for art galleries and most anywhere else.

'In Love' with Patty Chang'

[justriiingo]

I would like to discuss the above video more.
But give me some time to recover from the unpleasantness first.

Oh the things people do for art.

[JimmyKoria]

I really like how she (Patty) talks. I think it makes you get her peices a bit more because if I just saw them I would have just dismissed them and been a bit disturbed.

My boyfriend got me into dexter a while back and I'm pretty much hooked. I think I have a thing for charming killers.

[Inaudible-Whisper]

Originally Posted by JimmyKoria

My boyfriend got me into dexter a while back and I'm pretty much hooked. I think I have a thing for charming killers.

It is brilliant!

Last night I watched the screener for the first episode of JJ Abrams (Lost) new show, Fringe. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Abrams sure does love anything enigmatic, the show itself being entirely based around Fringe science, or pseudo-science, the kind of stuff Lost seems to be revolving around (teleportation, time-travel, reanimation etc). The concept could take the show far, and the basics for a major arc are set in place.

I feared it would be a little too similar to the X-Files being a show about FBI agents studying wild and crazy concepts (though this is based purely with science and not also with the paranormal so from what I've seen we won't be seeing any vampires, werewolves or ghosts). It's quite far-fetched, but such is the nature of the material and a lot of it is tongue-in-cheek with quite a bit of humour. But I think it seperates itself nicely with Abrams style. The way the place names are boldly placed amongst the landscape is quite brilliant (though I'm sure not entirely unique) and the title sequence and fonts used are all very reminiscent of Lost, which I like. This being a screener, a lot of the Lost soundtrack is also used due to lack of an official recorded soundtrack at present. I think the show is The X-Files + Lost + Alias. I look forward to the rest of the series.

Tonight I'm going to watch the screener for 'True Blood', the new show by Alan Ball (Six Feet Under, American Beauty). Ball is such a fantastic writer, and this is totally different from what he has done in the past, being about Vampires. I'm quite looking forward to it.

Aside from that, the end of the first half of the finale season of Battlestar Galactica was astounding. My only problem was the pacing of the first 10 episodes. I felt the first 4 or so were quite slow, and the last few squeezed so much into the episode, particularly the final one. They should have fleshed out the story over all 10 episodes, but then maybe it wouldn't have been quite as exciting toward the end.

[golem09]

Oh, you can already see the first episode?
I'm gonna watch it now!
What's a screener?

[Inaudible-Whisper]

A screener is an advance DVD of the episode sent to critics. It's usually how DVD quality rips of shows and movies leak early. The show doesn't air until August, but the 1.5 hour premier leaked early this week.