It was a Randy Jackson sort of day

[healingmirth]

So, top four on American Idol, and top five on America's Best Dance Crew. I think they sent the wrong people home, but if I'd really cared, I'd have voted. (The converse is not true, in case you're going to try to draw a conclusion from my DWTS voting patterns.)

I wouldn't say I'm really enjoying ABDC, but I am watching it in a timely manner, which is more than I can say about almost everything else I've recording this spring, and I'm not fast-forwarding through the routines like I am on DWTS.

I saw Rize when it was released on DVD, either five or six years ago. I think at that point, Dancing with the Stars had premiered, but maybe So You Think You Can Dance had not? This was definitely in the period before I had Opinions about dance, and my dance experience was limited to watching some friends' recitals, my own very short-lived dance class attendance, and watching Center Stage once. After a few seasons of Lil' C, (and Russel, and the chick from SYTYCD Canada who we will not discuss) I think I have a better appreciation for what Street Kings are doing this season on ABDC, and I'm vaguely curious to rewatch Rize and see what I get out of it now.

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Unrelated, for Netflix peoples: The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Easy A, and Kick-Ass are all available for instant viewing now. Among other things, I'm sure, but those all popped up on my recommendations. Also Seasons 1 & 2 of Sons of Anarchy.

(also, five seasons of Rescue Me, which I mean to start watching every time I see a commercial, but never do)

Mostly, I need to return Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake, More than a Game, and Milk, because I am just never going to watch them, and I'd really like to move on to Deadwood.

Comments

[kate]

Huh. I thought ABDC was on Friday nights - am I wrong about that? I haven't gotten to Idol yet, I'll watch it tonight, maybe, or Sunday.

So much good stuff here, I have lots of little things to say (Sons of Anarchy - maybe I'll watch it now), but nothing of real interest. I need to rewatch Rize too - I remember it being a bit heartbreaking at the time, and yet the dancing was awe-inspiring, more able to touch me than most dance routines (and I say this as someone who spent fifteen years in ballet studios).

I totally understand sending Milk back; for me that's a mood thing. However, I have to say I found it to be a good movie, for everything else. Heartbreaking, as I recall (and I don't recall very well - I don't know why movies, even those I love, don't really stay with me), but something I was glad I'd seen. There are other movies I imagine to be in this genre that I've never quite had the opportunity to see - someday I might (Netflix streaming is the best thing EVER) - but maybe not. I also approve of sending your discs back because I know how it gets to let them sit next to your DVD player until weeks have gone by, waiting for the right moment. Seems wasteful to me, so whenever I notice that, I send them back.

/blather

Hi, I have no idea what that was all about...

[healingmirth]

It is in fact on Thursdays! (I just watch it whenever it shows up on my DVR, which is not always first run with shows on MTV because I have a DVR of Very Little Brain, but it's conveniently the same night as American Idol results.)

I may be making one more attempt at the DVD-watching tomorrow. I've decided they're going back in the mail on Monday no matter what.

[fenellaevangela]

I believe Bourne's Swan Lake is kicking around Youtube, if that makes it any easier to convince yourself to return it. If you find yourself suddenly wishing you had watched it while you could, well, it'll be waiting right there ;-)

[healingmirth]

Ooh, good reminder, thank you! I feel like I knew that around Yuletide-time.

Actually, it is possible that I've had these DVDs since January. I hope not, but now I'm scared to look at my queue history.

[fenellaevangela]

That's how I found it, actually. Someone was pimping the fandom for Yuletide.