fuzzybluemonkeys: (dorktastic)
is the title of an episode of Falling Skies.

I'm just going to put that right here in my pile of Badass Episode Titles next to "For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky".
fuzzybluemonkeys: fuzzy blue monkey (breakfast)
That is the question.
Whether tis nobler in the [Criminal] Mind[s] to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous sexism, or to take arms against a show of troubles, and by not watching, end it.
fuzzybluemonkeys: (angry mutant squirrels)
Today I am wearing my shark socks (thank you, Oh Sister Mine) and my shirt with an octopus pretending to be the Loch Ness Monster from Threadless.

In other news, I think I may have finally dropped my mp3 player one too many times because it keeps on randomly shutting off (alternative explanation: haunted!).

In other, other news, I am sad to be missing Primeval, but even if I had cable, I would still be BBCAmerica-less, so better to just be missing Primeval rather than shelling out $60 a month and missing Primeval.

In other, other, other news, I've decided that I definitely need to get a new computer and that it will be a desktop. What I have not decided is if I am going to be independent and do my own research to figure out which computer to get, or if I am going to be lazy and let dad do it for me since he seems to enjoy it anyway.
fuzzybluemonkeys: stack of books + quote from Pilot on Farscape: I don't get out much so I read (oh really)
Let's start at the very beginning. A very good place to start. )

Let me sum up: 20 episodes of Rod Serlingy goodness with 6 of those never before seen by me. And as an added bonus, I didn't get interrupted by wrestling (for shame, SyFy, for shame!).


*Okay, 99.9% less because they've got ads for other CBS shows on at the time like Wanted Dead or Alive starring Steve McQueen and The Danny Thomas Show.
fuzzybluemonkeys: stack of books + quote from Pilot on Farscape: I don't get out much so I read (oh really)
I have officially survived a month without cable TV.
Overall, I have been watching less TV because of this, but I've been spending more time on the computer, so there hasn't been an actual reduction in the amount of glowy-screen staring-at-ness.
I sorta miss the crappy SyFy Channel Originals, but I have now seen The Faculty, Aeon Flux, The Shining, and rewatched The Happening (Aeon Flux really doesn't fit with the "The [Noun]" theme I apparently had going, does it?) courtesy of SwapTree and flea market VHS purchases.
In fact, the only thing I've actually gotten upset about missing is the New Year's Eve Twilight Zone marathon on the SyFy Channel. Never mind that I've seen some of the episodes upwards of 5 times.
NEVER YOU MIND THAT.
Pay no attention to the thing on the wing.
*jedi hand wave* These aren't the killer dolls you're looking for.

It's a holiday tradition, dammit.

As it turns out, I have already saved $58.95 not getting cable for the past month, and if I continue to not get cable until January 15th, I will have saved a total of $117.90, which is more than enough to buy the Complete Definitive Collection that they're always advertising for during the marathon anyway. So I'm totally justified in buying it, right? Right?
fuzzybluemonkeys: (angry mutant squirrels)
My lovely rinky-dink cable company that has been charging me the same rate for the past 5 years (and yeah sometimes the internet went out, and they don't have support for that on weekends and Comedy Central spent weeks at a time being frozen, but they were cheap! and there was no contract!) is no longer providing cable for my apartment building.
This has led to large amounts of aggravation in that while the wiring for FioS is available (and the leasing office peeps claim you can get FioS), I cannot actually get FioS because of some permit whatchamawhoosit that Verizon does not have. So the website wouldn't let me order FioS but it would let me order DirectTV which it turns out I can't get either. Leaving me with the option of Cablevision. And I wouldn't be so averse to that were it not for the fact that they do not offer BBCAmerica, which means no Doctor Who (or Primeval, or Being Human, or Torchwood, or Law & Order: UK, or Merlin, or future shows that I don't even know about yet-- I was actually expecting Sherlock to air on BBCA, but score one for PBS).
So (a needle pulling thread) since the cost of their cable TV is the same as the cost of both TV and internet with the old company, and they don't seem to offer a "Double Play" only the stupid "Triple Play" (which is why I went with Verizon because I don't want or need a gorram landline), I started thinking about how I'd do without cable.
I mean, supposing I can get reception with one of the digital converter thingies, that takes care of the non-cable networks. And then lots of shows are available online (I will, of course, still be getting internets-- I'm crazy, but I'm not that crazy), and I can live without watching TeenNick silliness, and Comedy Central was frozen half the time anyway, so I couldn't watch The Daily Show/Colbert Report anyway. Plus, I could use the money I save not paying for cable TV to buy Doctor Who on DVD, and I have plenty of DVDs that I never watch and so could watch (Farscape rewatch?)-- particularly on SyFy Saturdays when I'm missing my crappy movies. But I could watch good movies! Or decent ones! I have a whole bunch of movies on DVDs that I got from SwapTree...

I might as well see how I do for a few months, right? And then I can reassess my dire need for giant reptile hybrids and mutant rodents and lobsters from outer space.

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