this is how we (as in i) do.......2007

[ on rotation ] :: "habanera (aria)" - carmen (georges bizet)


so unlike most people who were probably all merry and drunk the day before the first of january, i was asleep. let's backtrack a bit, shall we? let me tell you about how I celebrate the new year.....at home. by myself. in front of the television for 11 hours. and contrary to beliefs, it was good. very restful. very gretchen. are any of you surprised? thought not.

the short bit: watched tely until 11:30 then fell asleep until 2:30am.

why is it that there's never anything on new year's eve? i actually resorted to watching bollywood's best until a csi marathon. and what the hell is it with these bollywood movies?? granted, probably the first indian tv show, music video, or movie that didn't have the stereotypical chase around a tree/temple/whatever while the girl sings in a tone so high pitched even mariah would have to give props. instead, however, the girl was a snake that turned human and used a series of high pitched singing and dance moves as a battle to the death against an evil, power-hungry sage. ok. what. the. fuck. ? now this is something new altogether. now that i know that that's what you're supposed to do when you're in a magical rumble, i'd better sign up for dance and singing classes. never have i ever in a movie seen more cut scenes where the editing lab must've literally cut and paste the film together and ran them through a 100 year old projector. i actually wouldn't be surprised if this was just their last year's big blockbuster. i can't tell you why i actually watched the whole thing either. it was like a 10 car collision: you should just keep cruising, but you can't help but look at the chaos and carnage. you just couldn't not watch it. even my mom who had trouble reading the subtitles was intrigued by it. she almost missed a facial because she had gotten so into it. there had to be some sort of subliminal stint that movie was playing.

anyways, that's it for that. i've written far too much about it already. the rest of the day was pretty much me getting to know csi. erica would be proud to know that i stayed awake for 4 outta the 5 csi episodes i watched on the spike marathon. haha. fell asleep during the new york edition of csi. still working on ny. speaking of csi, erica would also be very proud of me to know that i watched 8 hours of csi: miami today. this is probably old news, but who the hell is leaking info to the press on miami?? and it only took me like what? 8 years to catch on to this show. it's not half bad. it's good to kill time (no pun intended) if anything. however, it's still taking a backseat on my thursday night lineups. :)

i think i'm good for now. i had something else i wanted to write down...but i forgot. i woke up this morning and planned my entire day, and i think i only checked off maybe 3 things from that list. i should probably make that list tangible.

cheers.