mountaineer musings

nothing to see here, folks

ok, musees, i've finally decided to just make my move to my new wordpress blog, if for no other reason than to save us all time in posting comments. hooray!!

so here it is, the new spot... mountaineermusings.com
my ALIAS stuff will be here ALIAS.
and my ALIAS quotes will be here ALIAS quotes.

hooray!!

please update your links, and love me. that's all i ask. :)

eh??

JJ, what's the message? i knew JJ Abrams was a tricksy fella, but i didn't know about this....

i just read that John Kerry's ex-wife's name is..... drumroll..... Julia Thorne!!??

someone needs to investigate and find out if the former Mrs. Waffles works for the Covenant. this is a HUGE story, people! run with it!

i have lost...

...all creativity.
gone.
i've been 75% through with an ALIAS episode for two weeks.
CAN'T FINISH IT.

what else is new? i never finish anything.
except my dinner.

anyway, it'll be done when it's done.
:-) have a nice day.

ALIAS muse

eh, well i'm about 75% through with 3.20's review/rewrite...
but i had to sleep last night, and go to my going away party...
gotta throw some more stuff in the truck, get to worship and make it to Amastinkinrillo in time for the season finale tonight....

so...

you'll get 3.20, 3.21 and 3.22 really soon, and this will be good, because what else are you going to do until January but read my late late reviews? :D

i will leave you with all my theories (unspoiled) before the finale though...

YOU STUPID STUPID IGNORANT FREAKSHOW BAD MISERABLE ROBOT

now, nothing is official yet, since the stupid retarded monkeys at ABC haven't made the announcements yet, but word on the street (meaning the Ho chat-room - thanks Keke, for the heads up) is that the STUPID FLYING MONKEYS AT ABC have decided to give us more STUPID HOUSE MAKEOVERS WHERE PEOPLE GET PIRATE SHIPS IN THEIR BACK YARDS JUST SO THEIR NEIGHBORS CAN THROW A FIT AT HOA MEETINGS, along with a TERI HATCHER (???????? am i the ONLY one who is STILL annoyed by the MEMORY of her STUPID commercials with HOWIE mmm LONG????????) comedy called Desperate Housewives or some other lame-o show that's going to be cancelled 5 eps in....

yes, folks, if the advance news is correct, those MASTERS OF THE JERK-THE-VIEWERS-AROUND TALENT at ABC are pushing ALIAS's season 4 to JANUARY '05. not that it's a big change from the "let's skip 4 weeks at a time" trick that they like to pull anyway, but what? you think you're going to push the entire season to the spring and compete with ------- THE SOPRANOS ---------- without first getting viewers hooked before the Sopranos premiers? isn't that show on opposite ALIAS? don't they have one more season coming? or are you going to rathole the best show not on television in a Friday night at 8 time-slot? speaking of shows ratholed in that time-slot, they're also saying goodbye to Life w/ Bonnie, Bikermommy.

do you know how many fake episodes that means i'll have want to write????? do you??? do you???

what, you say? i am getting way too upset over a stupid TV show?? THAT'S RIGHT, and i don't care if you think that's lame; you try losing half your friends and being the only single person among your remaining friends and living alone for the first time in your life and see if you don't get a little attached to your favorite show; and if you don't, GOOD FOR YOU. i'm also addicted to the computer, do you have a problem with that??? if you do, you may exit the way you entered, because i DON'T GIVE A FLIP.

there are 2 upsides, AND ONLY TWO UPSIDES, to ABC's flying monkeys treating ALIAS like an unloved step-child... 1) JJ's new drama "Lost" is supposedly going to premier, but who knows what kind of treatment it will receive? 2) when ALIAS's 4th season does appear in January, the monkeys are supposedly going to run the 20-ep season uninterrupted (that's right, they're also cutting 2 eps out) [UPDATE: there will be 22 episodes, that's better. but the robot is still bad.] ... let me see... how are you going to run it uninterrupted when you always have the Oscars on a Sunday night? just asking the question.

i should never read anything before my morning Coca-Cola; i don't handle STUPID MONKEY news so well before my caffeine.

bah. btw, if the advance info is wrong, though i don't think it is, as i've now seen 3 different sources w/ the same story and confirmed w/ Mr. Entertainment himself - Juan - this rant will be completely unfounded. but if not, the tough-love stationery is coming out, and don't be surprised if i actually mail a letter to the wretched monkeys.

you know what's rude?

not answering email, especially email that asks questions, thus WARRANTING A RESPONSE, or personal comments that give you insight into the person that sent you the mail. if you were talking on the phone to the same person (please, no one call me, i hate the phone), and they told you personal details about themselves, would you just sit there and not reply? wait for them to say something? have that awkward 8-minute lull (i stole that phrase from Hugger)? silence in the conversation because you're too thickheaded to realize that you really should say something right now?

you know who's been rude lately? me. i'm really sorry about that. if you've sent me email recently and i haven't responded, please bear with me. i'm busy. and sick. and lazy. and tired. and freaked. and happy. happy doesn't have anything to do with not responding to email, but i just wanted y'all to know i'm happy. anyway, i'll get on that email thing once i get the packing under control and the last 2 ALIAS reviews done; season finale is sunday, and it's not acceptable for me to not theorize and --

leaping crickets!!! i had no idea that Gary Sinise was going to star in CSI New York!! looks like i'll have 3 CSIs to watch next season. YAY!!

-- anyway, it's not acceptable for me to not share my excellent ALIAS theories and my insanely funny reviews before the finale. so stay tuned, they are coming soon.

gotta pack. ta, musees!

monday mayhem...

i'm the new what??? despite my shameless kissing up to the judges of Frank J's IMAO T-Shirt Babe Contest, i still managed to win the contest, which makes me the new and first-ever IMAO T-Shirt Babe! i was sure that i was going to be the Jim Carrey of Frank's World, getting a lot of the fan vote but snubbed by the academy, but whaddaya know? after a long long weekend of waiting (man, it seemed like forever!), the judges made me the babe by a very slim margin (1 pt - how much slimmer can it be?). runners up were Willow, Serenity and the Berkeley hotties Reva and Carissa. all of Frank J's babes are hot stuff, so what an honor! i'll have a speech up soon...

responsibility, bah! so i leave this evening for the Panhandle; i interview tomorrow in one town and Wednesday in another... it's funny how having a job directly affects one's ability to pay the rent. so i'm putting in my notice at my complex today, which is a little scary, since 1) i have no idea where i'm moving to, 2) i have so much to do by way of packing (any volunteers?), 3) i don't know where my job will be, though it's apparently not going to be in Arizona (choice #1), because i can't wait around forever... oh well, the Panhandle gets me closer to mountains, farther from psychos and only 12 hours from the north rim of the Grand Canyon (woohoo!).

sorry...

that last week's review isn't up yet. just wanted y'all to know i am working on it, but i've been sidetracked by a t-shirt contest and migraines this week.

i will leave you with my theory, though; i think Jack is Nadia's father, not Sloane.

3.19 HOURGLASS

Dear JJ,
I stop sending you tough love mail, and immediately you forget that Larvin muggin’ down with Vaughn is absolutely unacceptable. Do I have to remind you every week? Or is this a sick joke or a parallel universe from which the viewers will thankfully awake? Not to worry, though, JJ, I’ve got your back; in my version, I will appropriately change all unacceptable larving to something more palatable.

Since this week’s episode was great (disgusting Larvin scenes notwithstanding), I’ll leave you alone for now. Consider yourself warned, though, JJ: if there’s any more of that putrid behavior, instead of getting a hate post-it from me, you’ll get a full-blown letter. I might even print it out and mail it. Are you afraid? You should be.

Lovin’ tough,
sarahk

p.s. I’ve addressed this with Vaughn himself, but I figure I should take it up with you... Can we have Gothic Vaughn every single week? I’ve never been into that look, but I couldn’t stop salivating over him last week; how can one scene embody so much hotness, beauty and machismo? Kudos, bravo, encore, etc. Ta!

3.18 UNVEILED

WORKING TITLE OF THIS EPISODE: BLINDED BY LARVE.

ok, i have to tell you musees something ingenious. i have a VCR that marks commercials for me after recording a show and automatically fast-forwards through them on playback. so i recorded ALIAS, as always, and i watched it again, only something was off with the commercial-marking. the VCR kept automatically fast-forwarding at random moments during the show or would forget to stop fast-forwarding when the commerical was over. i got a little annoyed at first until i realized that all of the parts of the show that the VCR fast-forwarded through had something in common: too much Larvin! my VCR isn't stupid, it's the smartest contraption EVER!!! somehow it knows that i have NO desire to see Larvin AT ALL so it was trying to spare me! thank you, RCA, i am in your debt.