I don't think that's a good idea Dave.

There is a reason I call the TV of giantness HAL, not just because it bugs the crap out of M.

I'm watching TV last night, by myself, happy to have some downtime with the cats, and while watching CSI, the TV starts narrating the action to me. I think at first it is a narrative device and that the show is trying to be clever. Then I realize, such is not the case. The TV is narrating because it's in SAP. I change the channel, nothing else is being narrated, flip back to NBC, still talking, and let me tell you, CSI is pretty gory anyway, I don't need to have the path anything takes through the human body described to me as I watch it.

I have no idea at this point what I've done to the TV, but I start frantically pushing buttons. Nothing happens, I go through every programming combination I come across - and let us all offer up hopes that I haven't permanently changed anything because we have a lot of remotes and they don't always do what you think they're gonna do. In fact, often they don't do what their buttons say they actually do do, mostly because M. is not a technical genius and the set up is seriously frelled.

I whimper, fret, and try frantically to think of excuses to explain to M. how I broke the giant TV. I even laid on the floor, pushing buttons on the TV itself. And then, CSI ends, and the SAP goes away. Poof. Just like that.

Adelphia, I hate you with the passion of a thousand burning suns. You suck mightily, and you made me think I was crazy! You deserve whatever the FCC throws at you!

Musically inclined

NPR has been running a series on Female Record Producers which has been incredibly cool and informative. So inspired by that, by infinitemonkeys request last week and bycrankygrrl's shout out for reccs, here's more about music in my life.

However, I'm also looking for requests. What do people think are the essentials of the musical world? Bands, songs, genres that everyone should be familiar with?

I also want to make a Music of the Revolution CD. I have a few songs picked out, but I need further suggestions. ( So far I have: )

( Albums )

Because I couldn't go two days without a Farscape reference

KoddiakeMax's In the Company of Ghosts is being reposted on Kansas. For the three people who've seen through Season 3 and haven't read this, go, now, drop everything and read it. For the newbies who are getting everything in order, in about two months, you have an extaordinary treat in front of you.

This is an astonshing piece of fiction, fandom related or not. It's got dynamic pacing, intriguing characters, strong, coherent plot and it makes your whole body ache. It's also really frelling long and how Max managed to keep everything straight, steady and on target is something I don't understand, but do little offerings for when I remember. The comment about length is not at all a complaint. It never feels wordy or over-written. It doesn't drag or lose it's momentum. Every word is worthwhile.

It's also at Leviathan and Max's site.

Mind the Baby was on last night - although I cheated and watched the DVD instead of the broadcast because I love my DVD's. Aeryn torn between duties - to herself, to John and D'Argo, to Talyn - and torn between Crais' manipulations and doing what she knows is right. These are conflicts that will continue to tear at her. Gotta love making your heroine suffer in unlikely ways. I am also such a sucker for D'Argo.

"I,for one, want to go down on a swing."
"Swinging."
"Right, swinging."