TV and movies lately

[telophase]

"I'm sorry. I ate all your bees."

myrialux and I have been watching Black Books lately. I'd seen a couple of episodes a few years back and Netflix keeps recommending it to me, so I threw it on my queue. I sold myrialux on it by saying "There's this misanthropic bookstore owner--" and he cut me off, saying "You had me at 'misanthropic.'"

It's a Britcom, and there's a lot of stupid sitcom humor in it, but it tends to veer into surrealism at the slightest provocation*, and it's provided the above quote, which myrialux and I have taken to quoting to each other at unexpected moments. (It has almost, but not entirely, replaced the previous quote "...too many bees" from the You Suck at Craigslist blog. There's just something about bees.)

We also rocketed through the first season of MI-5 on Netflix streaming video.

And last night we went out with friends to see Despicable Me, which we both thoroughly enjoyed. :)



* I don't really want to explain what leads Manny, the bookstore's clerk, to end up concealed inside a piano playing the strings with spoons.

Comments

[ebony14.livejournal.com]

He doesn't drink enough. Bernard Black will die either from a) being beaten to death by a lynch mob of customers or, more likely, b) his own liver strangling him in a fit of misguided self-preservation.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

He used to. That should count for something.

I think all of the group has slowly tapered off in drinking - it's now common for whoever's throwing a party to end up with more booze afterwards than when it started. :) (There's a couple of bottles in our liquor cabinet that we're tempted to mark on the bottom, then abandon at the next party and see how they circulate.)

[ebony14.livejournal.com]

I am well aware of myrialux's history with spirits. I went to many of those parties. :)

I think we're all just getting a little less willing to hurt ourselves like that. Alcohol is, after all, a toxin, and our bodies will persistently remind us of that fact the day after, if we happen to forget.