it's awful dark
Saturday, 2 February 2008 08:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
freckles_and_doubtHmmm. Possibly X-Files are not the best watching choice for these post-curriculum-advice blasted and brain-dead evenings. This is particularly the case when I've just watched "Darkness Falls", an episode which focuses repetitively on the single lit bulb which is all that stands between Our Heroes and death by dessication at the hands of a swarm of green lights - it becomes uncomfortably apposite when our lights suddenly go out in the middle of it1. This leaves me and the Evil Landlord to bumble around the pitch-black house with torches, which also compulsively re-enacts large chunks of X-Files. Which reminds me: the EL can't find the gas-lamp, did we lend it to someone? We both have a sort of vague memory we might have, but of course no clue who it was.
Further X-Files insights: the first season is very nicely balanced in terms of the hide/reveal tension, refreshingly free of the faintly JJ Abrams silliness which creeps into later seasons (you discover things! but they might not be real! but the government destroys the evidence! there's a mystery inside an enigma inside a confusion! then you do the whole thing again! with alien invasions!) Also, I appear to be perving Mulder and Scully about equally. Odd, since I'm at least nominally heterosexual, although of course it's the vibe between them which has always been the show's appeal.
In other news, the new kitchen counters are dead sexy, it's going to be actively painful to watch them cut a hole for the sink. Also, did I ever post this amazingly entertaining page? Can't remember, but twice won't hurt.
Last Night I Dreamed: I had an entire, enormous model village up on the side of a mountain somewhere, and was able to fly over it to water the gardens and fix things. Inside the mountain was some kind of huge, upmarket, faintly James Bondy complex with tunnels giving access for all the expensive cars. I infiltrated this by means of spy gadgets of some sort, only to have the essential gadget disintegrate on the roadway in a shower of cogs and wheels, where an expensive car promptly ran over it. Later, we took photographs of the complex and a spectacular sunset from the other side of the valley. Very scenic dream - the giant model village was very pretty.
Further X-Files insights: the first season is very nicely balanced in terms of the hide/reveal tension, refreshingly free of the faintly JJ Abrams silliness which creeps into later seasons (you discover things! but they might not be real! but the government destroys the evidence! there's a mystery inside an enigma inside a confusion! then you do the whole thing again! with alien invasions!) Also, I appear to be perving Mulder and Scully about equally. Odd, since I'm at least nominally heterosexual, although of course it's the vibe between them which has always been the show's appeal.
In other news, the new kitchen counters are dead sexy, it's going to be actively painful to watch them cut a hole for the sink. Also, did I ever post this amazingly entertaining page? Can't remember, but twice won't hurt.
Last Night I Dreamed: I had an entire, enormous model village up on the side of a mountain somewhere, and was able to fly over it to water the gardens and fix things. Inside the mountain was some kind of huge, upmarket, faintly James Bondy complex with tunnels giving access for all the expensive cars. I infiltrated this by means of spy gadgets of some sort, only to have the essential gadget disintegrate on the roadway in a shower of cogs and wheels, where an expensive car promptly ran over it. Later, we took photographs of the complex and a spectacular sunset from the other side of the valley. Very scenic dream - the giant model village was very pretty.
1 These are supposed to be scheduled power cuts, if you accept the definition of "schedule" as "these are the times during which we may shed load in your area, except we reserve the right to switch off at any time within the several hours, and sometimes not at all, and occasionally at other times just for fun."
