old school style

guess what i bought this weekend?

A vcr.

that's right. a vcr. i'm not all fancy with the technology. i'm not into the gagets and gizmos flooding the market as of late....oh wait, YES I AM.

the truth? i don't control my cable. i live in someone's house, all my utilities are included in the rent, and i have no utility bills in my name. risky? probably. cheap? definitely.

so, i have basic cable, or what Cablevision refers to as "Family Cable."

i can watch project runway, adult swim, design on a dime, the food network, and my horrible MTV obsessions (aka fresh meat...YAY darrell and aviv!!). plus, the essentials like Lost, Prison Break and Gilmore Girls.

But i can't order DVR. even though that would probably be the greatest thing to ever enter into my life. and i can't oder TiVo. Because you need a phone line. and i can't order that either. plus, i have a cell phone. who needs one more bill?

anyway, i checked my fall tv watching schedule (see below):


and found that i was going to need some sort of recording device

a- some programs i enjoy overlap
b- i would like to have a life

i don't want to have to say to my friends, "nah, sorry...can't hang out tonight...cause you know...VERONICA MARS is on." even though i totally have done that in the past. so, now i'll just set my vcr. it's gonna be fantastico. even if it is a little bit 80's.

at least i didn't buy a BETAMAX. although i did have a hard time finding a vcr that was ONLY a vcr. i already have like 3 dvd players. i didn't need another one.

Labor Day Weekend

What did I do this weekend? A whole lot of nothing. Unless you count watching these badasses practically all day...

Benson and Stabler. AKA Awesome and Awesomer.

Thank you, Law and Order - for spawning so many shows, SVU being the best one. I've often said that it feels totally wrong to enjoy this show so much when it is frequently about rapists, murderers, child molesters and incest.

but you really can't stop watching. there were episodes played this weekend that i've seen a million and a half times. and yet, i still watch them over and over.

forget that they also have one of the best characters on television...John Munch. according to IMDB.com,
"Richard Belzer carried his role of Det. John Munch over from the series "Homicide: Life on the Street" (1993). He also played John Munch in "Law & Order" (1990) which had several crossover episodes with "Homicide", an episode of "The X Files" (1993), an episode of "The Beat" (2000), an episode of "Law & Order: Trial by Jury" (2005) and the finale of "Arrested Development" (2003). This is a record for appearances by an actor playing the same character in different programs."

nice.

thanks, SVU. for making my labor day full of sitting on the couch, even when it was sunny. i really did need it. oh, and thanks for playing an episode i had seen more than a million and a half times, so that i would find the energy and opportunity to get off my ass and go to the gym.