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.