tv, books, what
Have been reading a lot lately though most of it is not what you would call "LITERATURE."

1. The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz: The only actual literature i've read recently, pulitzer winner for fiction, full of footnotes, pop culture references, superstition and violence. the titular character, oscar, is hard to like, he's an obnoxious nerd of the type we all know: socially awkward, pretentious, overbearing, mostly friendless. he's also dominican, so he doesn't fit in well with regular nerds either, and his culture finds him particularly baffling. lots of interesting stuff in the book about el jefe and his dictatorship, references to other real people, oscar's family and the curse they think is on them. I read this in a couple of days, so it's not too involved if you think you are too busy to read.

2. The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher: I have read three books in this series so far. The second one, about werewolves, wasn't all that great, but the first really pulled me into this universe where magic, dragons, vampires, fairies, demons, etc really exist. the stories are a combination of fantasy and detective fiction, and butcher writes about magic in such a matter of fact way that it makes sense and seems real. The third book was pretty much all action from page one, which is ok with me occasionally. Butcher occasionally hints at Dresden's past (his mom was apparently some sort of wizard too but died when he was born) but so far I haven't gotten to a book where he goes into any great detail about it. I am really looking forward to it though, he has set it up nicely.

3. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris: this is the first sookie stackhouse vampire novel. I am really surprised at how closely the show (true blood) follows the book, aside from fleshing out some characters and adding others. other than that, I wasn't really too interested in this.

TELEVISION

1. caught up on some bones lately, which hasn't been good since they found out that zach was the new apprentice (omg angela is gay now, please watch in case she makes out with some other girl), and realized that jesus christ emily douchenel and no-longer-fat boreanaz have big egos. They are billed on the same screen, with one on top to the left, and one on the bottom to the right, PERFECTLY EQUAL so as not to CAUSE PROBLEMS, and they are both credited as "co producers" which probably means FUCK ALL. I can see mr. angel thinking he is hot shit, i mean, he was ANGEL. buffy is huge in some circles to this day. but deschanel? what has she done besides bones? had a somewhat notable cinematographer dad and ten million times more famous sister, is all.

2. I really like HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER and last night I had a dream where I tried to make neil patrick harris go straight and i never ever ever in my wildest doogie houser themed dreams would have thought I might be wanting to do that guy. I hope barney and robin end up together, even though I hate robin.

3. I love phillip glenister, but DEMONS is terrible. it's for kids, apparently. kids that don't give a shit.

4. the only thing I download and then watch immediately is THE MENTALIST and LIFE. I hate everything else right now.

5. I didn't know piehole started until yesterday, still haven't watched it yet.



in other news, I have STRESS and it made me think I was having HEART PROBLEMS. hooray!