You only thought there would be 2 holiday recap posts? I decided to add this third one in too.
I had really high hopes for tv/movie watching and book reading on my vacay.
I totally failed at the book reading aspect. I bought my husband the first book in the hot new teen trilogy series, Divergent. (OK yeah I know it might be weird that I bought him that, but he likes to read a lot and I wanted to put a book in his stocking and he liked the Hunger Games. He also really likes sports too, don't worry. Plus I want to read it. Win. Win. Win.) So I had planned on reading that after he finished (he finished it 2 days after I gave it to him) but never quite got around to it. At least I know what the next book I read will be.
I also planned on going to the movie theater a couple times. Fail. (Has anyone seen The Descendants though, I think I want to see that?) I went zero times. But we did have several movie nights in our basement. We watched Horrible Bosses. Jennifer Aniston is hilariously scary in that movie. I enjoyed it. We also rented My Idiot Brother which I also enjoyed. Plus it had a ton of my favorite people in it (I heart you, Adam Scott). Then, since Shanzles finally decided to dive in to the Harry Potter series books per Beezus5, B and my constant harassment, we finally allowed her to watch the second Harry Potter movie (featuring our beloved Dobby). And of course as mentioned before I finally saw A Christmas Story all the way through. We also watched the original Miracle on 34th St on Christmas day, which, although I was preparing 20 food dishes at the time, I did enjoy.
As far as TV goes, I had this weird goal of re-watching the first thee seasons of Parks and Recreation. I did not actual do this although PRec is still probably my favorite current comedy. But I did finish watching all the available Psych episodes on Netflix Streaming. So now I'm ready to watch the most current season. I became weirdly obsessed with this show and with Gus and Shawn in general. I still watch some of the old eps on my iPad before going to bed. Its such an easy, funny, non disturbing, silly-ish, pro-friendship type show that gives me no nightmares (plus I can do other stuff while watching it, like make wine charms and teach Hobie how to catch stuff in his mouth). Plus I also really like pineapples.
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Speaking of nightmares, I attempted to watch Breaking Bad because I've heard that it's really awesome. I watched the first 2 episodes which while deeply disturbing to me, were really good. I could see liking/becoming addicted to this show but then I kept having crazy nightmares about it so I decided not to watch it. I'm crazy like that. I used to have 24 nightmares all the time back in the day. I may attempt it again some day although I kind of wikipedia-ed some of the season so I know what happens.
So instead I went ahead and started the TV show that I was fairly confident I'd get strong addicted to right away, Friday Night Lights. I started this at the end of the break so I'm only on episode 4 but I did get strong addicted right away. I definitely cried in the first two episodes. I was also shocked that the dude, Blake, that I totally hated on The Good Wife was the injured football quarterback star from the beginning of FNL. I have to look at him in a whole new light now. I think I will love this show but I'm attempting to pace myself and only watch it when I can really focus on it.
I would like to thank my husband's Netflix Streaming account and my iPad for making binge-watching TV shows so convenient.
As far as music goes. I spent much of my car riding time listening to the She and Him Christmas Album. I also made a hot mix cd as one of the Murder Mystery Party Prizes. I realized that television greatly influences my music choices as well. The last three songs I bought in iTunes came from TV shows I was watching......Adele-Rumour Has It (from a recent episode of Ringer), fun-We Are Young (from Glee) and Band of Horses-I Go to the Barn Because I Like The (from a Psych episode). So apparently even in music, TV rules my life.
So that was my vacay in Books, Movies, TV and Music?
What did you watch, read or listen too?
9 comments:
You really should continue watching Breaking Bad....it is just SOOOOO good.
I tried the first episode of The Walking Dead (AMC) and it frightened me. I may not be able to go back to it even though we have 13 episodes DVR'ed right now (NYE marathon).
Recently we have been catching up on Mad Men (awesome), Archer (awesome), and American Horror Story (awesome).
I have so so many comments! LOL!
Divergent - oh wow! did B enjoy it? So funny when you said 'he also really likes sports too' hahaha!
Horrible Bosses totally should come with a disclaimer, like Rachael from Friends is about to be a bad, bad girl. But it was hilarious!
My friend loved friday night lights sooo much and was always begging people to watch it. I still quote Varsity Blues all the time james van der beek all 'I don't want your life'
I will have to do a full on bangs & glasses post because I seriously am channeling Zooey and feel soon one day soon people will stop me on the street thinking i'm her.
PS Yeah everybody says breaking bad is so good. I can't get into that, boardwalk empire or even (gasp) mad men. not funny enough for me. I LOVE shameless. please tell me you watch it. I also kind of enjoy game of thrones.
I read 3 Harry Potter books and I am totally obsessed.... currently I am on page 200 of book 4. Love it, Love it...who knew Harry Potter was so good (oh that's right- almost the whole world knew about 10 years ago).
I watched a lot of tv over break- a lot of Law & Order reruns because for real, I think that show is on 24 hours across a variety of channels. I also re-watched the New Girl which was on my DVR- LOVE!
I am pretty sure I told you FNL was awesome over a year ago... just like I told you the GOod Wife was awesome. But seeing as how it took me many years to read HP, I will let you slide on this one. Also, yes Psych is good. I am kind of getting tired of telling you to watch Covert Affairs because it is very Alias-esque and you will dig it (but I can see you probably not starting it for another 2 years).
So, I've heard some things about She and Him and now I want. I think I'll go look them up on Spotify. We didn't watch much TV at all, so we have a full DVR to catch up on!
I had dreams about Breaking Bad, but they were more of the Aaron Paul variety...
So many things...
Divergent is good.
Loved Psych until the latest season. It's kind of like they just phoned it in.
Funny that Streets is annoying because of the Good Wife, I find it hard to dislike him on that show because I loved him on FNL!
I still hate A Christmas Story
You need to read Divergent. It's really good and I'm not surprised your hubby read it in two days. I'm trying to also get my hubby to read it since he also liked Hunger Games.
I watched lots of movies over the holidays. I can't remember all of them but I can recall What's Yoir Number, Puncture and I Don't Know How She Does It.
I'm a huge FNL fan so while I was in NYC at the NBC store I had to buy a FNL keychain and a Panthers t-shirt. My hubby got an East Dillon Lions t-shirt.
I loved Horrible Bosses. I thought Jen was hilarious in it!!
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