YAY FOR OBSESSIONS! Or not, because this one has been keeping me from doing my homework, cleaning my room, venturing off of the couch....basically being a real living, breathing person (which is actually scarce in this show anyway). I'm THAT obsessed. We all are. Last weekend, as you know, I went to Austin with my friends for Labor Day. We went to Blockbuster to rent a movie and instead decided to check out this new HBO series called True Blood. It's about vampires. I saw an episode when I was in Wisconsin this summer and wasn't impressed; I didn't want to rent it. I'm not one for vampires: I refuse to read the Twilight books and I mistakingly went to see the movie after my friend begged me for a week (those are a precious few hours that I will never get back..tear....) but we started watching and--holy cow--it's good! We watched the first two episodes that Saturday night and, after they were done, were on the computer looking for anyplace, anyplace at all, that sold/rented/pawned the series. No luck. We called every Blockbuster in the area to see if they had discs two and three but they were all checked out! My friend was even willing to drive to a Blockbuster 40 minutes away to pick one up, but I thought that was a little excessive. She, however, was serious.
Sunday rolled around, we went shopping, then stopped by Walmart to see if they were selling it. We found THE LAST COPY and I picked it up: 40 bucks. Not worth it, I thought. They, however, were basically ripping the cover off to look at the discs as if the episodes would melt into their brains and they wouldn't have to wait the ten minutes it would take to get home to watch them. I put the series back on the shelf just when a mom and her little daughter walked down the aisle. They were looking at Thomas the Tank Engine (which happened to be next to True Blood) when Beautiful Hair Girl came running down the aisle, pushed me out of the way, and plucked the series back up again because she was convinced the mom and her sub-ten-year-old were dying to watch a rated R blood and guts, basically porno about vampires. Riiiiiiight. Yeah, if you get even a little squeamish at the mention of blood, don't watch this. If you get uncomfortable during movies when a sexual act is even alluded to, don't watch this. Vampires get staked and burst into bloody goo on the screen. There are sex scenes like I have never ever seen in any movie or anything EVER (guess that's why it's on HBO--and I thought HBO was tasteful and "upscale"!) I pretty much avert my eyes when that happens because, come on, who really wants to see that? The plotline is really, really, really good and interesting. Something is always happening and the tables are always being turned. It's like a really good and interesting movie that never ends, and I know we all sometimes wish certain movies would keep going on. Unfortunately, the Rocky ones did. Spiderman is in close second.
The day we got back from Austin, Outdoors Women promptly went to the TV and recorded EVERY True Blood Episode showing within the next month. Yes, we have HBO. No, I don't know how to work our TV. I don't really even watch TV except for this. It's that good. How do three real starving college students afford HBO you ask? Well we got cable at the beginning of the year and it kept messing up. So we had someone come out and fix it. And it STILL kept messing up. So Bag Lady called the cable service, ends up talking to this guy for AN HOUR basically flirting and carrying on and gets us free HBO, STARZ, movie channels, and no cable bill for two months! We're that cool.
Now we are on Season Two. Yes, we finished a whole season in a weekend; don't judge. This season is a little weird, but I'm still hypnotized. It must be all the ripped guys appearing on the screen teasing me because I KNOW no guys are actually like that in real life. That's the problem with shows these days--the characters are obnoxiously good-looking, thin, and ripped. ABNORMAL. I'm gonna go do abs for an hour now that I've lowered my self-esteem possibly past the point of no return. Just kidding. But really, check it out. Or.....don't. Because it's addictive and if you want to keep any semblance of a real life then you probably shouldn't start down this road that is leading me to nothing but my couch. But is that really a bad thing in the end? (Just say no and make me feel better. Thanks.)
Oh, I used to snort in derision when my friends raved about the Twilight books. I saw the movie before I read the books too, and no, it doesn't live up to the detail and romance of the book. But now, like everyone else, I am hooked. I have read all four books more than once (borrowed from the library first time round), bought the books second time round, have the audio books (which even my husband has listened to), and can't wait for the next movie to be released. I draw the line at stalking the actors though, but only because I am an old woman and that just makes me feel like a pedophile. So, if you like reading, give the books a try. You might be pleasantly surprised.
ReplyDeleteYou need to meet my roommate Deanna. She loves all the true blood books and reads them over and over. She doesn't know why this guy is engaged to this girl though b/c it wasnt like that in the book and also someone like gets kidnapped or something and that doesn't really happen either.. but she watches it all the time and laughs out loud of says aww or No! and shes listening to her headphones and I always think shes talking to me or laughing about something I'm doing that's weird. I like gossip girl I think. It's actually pretty funny. Love you!
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