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Aug. 10th, 2008 09:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frameofmind6 Okay, it's official -- I'm in love with Jim Halpert. You'll notice I have been prompted to create my very first non-Inuyasha-centric icon, just for him... (*grin*)
I stayed up all night last night watching the third season of "The Office." Well, okay, I wasn't just watching "The Office" -- I was finishing sorting my receipts, verifying them against my account records, and figuring out a way to summarize them efficiently (which got gradually more difficult as my computer inexplicably decided to slow down more and more right around 7 am. No idea why. I finally had to close everything up and just restart it. I really need a new computer sometime soon... *sigh*). And anyway, I'm nocturnal, so it was sorta more like spending all day watching "The Office" than spending all night. And actually, I watched A League of Their Own somewhere in there as well. I had a lot of receipts to sort through... (*grin*)
Love that movie though.
Anyway, "The Office" -- totally obsessed with it. So much so that by about six in the morning, when I had finished all the episodes (and A League of Their Own. And the episode of "Inuyasha" that was on adult swim at 5:30...), I started rewatching the ones I had already watched a couple of days ago. Crazy, I know. Not unheard of with me, however. Once, when I was about thirteen, I watched the movie Back to the Future three times in one day. That signaled the beginning of my Back to the Future obsession. When I found out there were two sequels to it, I just about had a coronary. And then of course there was The 10th Kingdom -- that one hit me hard. I rented it, fell in love with it, returned it, kept obsessing over it, rented it again, still kept obsessing -- I think I rented it three times before I finally broke down and bought the damn thing. What can I say? I fell in love with Wolf. This obsession sort of reminds me of that one, somehow -- can't exactly put my finger on why though. Just something about the feel of it (even though "The Office" and The 10th Kingdom have virtually nothing in common...).
'Course, those are the short-term obsessions -- the ones that hijack my brain for a couple of days, maybe a week, a month or two at the absolute worst, and then gradually relax into a steady fondness, or sometimes just nostalgia. The long-term ones tend to have more source material, be administered to me over a longer period of time (so I can't just devour everything there is in a weekend and be done with it), and are generally important to me for a more complex variety of reasons. Examples of these include Harry Potter, Star Wars, Star Trek, and, of course, Inuyasha (and Ranma. And RuroKen...). Even those ones fade eventually (Star Trek is in the "steady fondness" stage, and Star Wars has been there for about ten years now), though they occasionally have their bursts of revival. Inuyasha has been a crazy one though. There are so many different media for that one (manga, anime, fanfiction...) that it's like it has multiple lives. Every time I think it's slipped off into "fondness" country, it rears its head again. Fascinating...
Or not.
Man, I am really tired (and so totally off-track. What was this post supposed to be about again...?). It's definitely catching up to me now. I think I'm gonna go take a little nappy-poo...
Oh yeah -- I remembered what I was gonna say: Dwight and Angela remind me of Frank Burns and Hot-lips Houlihan from M*A*S*H. Except they're a little less obnoxious. Well, they're obnoxious, but in a somehow more palatable way. Major Houlihan got better as the series went on, but I avoid the Frank episodes as much as I can -- I much prefer Charles. (And I won't touch the Trapper John episodes with a ten-foot-pole. That guy annoys the hell out of me. Plus, B.J. is my favorite character...) Oh -- and Michael (we're back to "The Office" now) sort of reminds me of Ted Baxter from The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Except he's smarter than Ted. He's no Einstein, and I think he could give Ted a run for his money in the self-obsession and lack-of-self-awareness departments, but I will grant him that he's at least a more competent individual than Ted is.
Alright, the end. Now I'm really gonna go take that nap...
P.S. If you got this far, you deserve a big treat.
P.P.S. (That's what she said... *grin*)
Love that movie though.
Anyway, "The Office" -- totally obsessed with it. So much so that by about six in the morning, when I had finished all the episodes (and A League of Their Own. And the episode of "Inuyasha" that was on adult swim at 5:30...), I started rewatching the ones I had already watched a couple of days ago. Crazy, I know. Not unheard of with me, however. Once, when I was about thirteen, I watched the movie Back to the Future three times in one day. That signaled the beginning of my Back to the Future obsession. When I found out there were two sequels to it, I just about had a coronary. And then of course there was The 10th Kingdom -- that one hit me hard. I rented it, fell in love with it, returned it, kept obsessing over it, rented it again, still kept obsessing -- I think I rented it three times before I finally broke down and bought the damn thing. What can I say? I fell in love with Wolf. This obsession sort of reminds me of that one, somehow -- can't exactly put my finger on why though. Just something about the feel of it (even though "The Office" and The 10th Kingdom have virtually nothing in common...).
'Course, those are the short-term obsessions -- the ones that hijack my brain for a couple of days, maybe a week, a month or two at the absolute worst, and then gradually relax into a steady fondness, or sometimes just nostalgia. The long-term ones tend to have more source material, be administered to me over a longer period of time (so I can't just devour everything there is in a weekend and be done with it), and are generally important to me for a more complex variety of reasons. Examples of these include Harry Potter, Star Wars, Star Trek, and, of course, Inuyasha (and Ranma. And RuroKen...). Even those ones fade eventually (Star Trek is in the "steady fondness" stage, and Star Wars has been there for about ten years now), though they occasionally have their bursts of revival. Inuyasha has been a crazy one though. There are so many different media for that one (manga, anime, fanfiction...) that it's like it has multiple lives. Every time I think it's slipped off into "fondness" country, it rears its head again. Fascinating...
Or not.
Man, I am really tired (and so totally off-track. What was this post supposed to be about again...?). It's definitely catching up to me now. I think I'm gonna go take a little nappy-poo...
Oh yeah -- I remembered what I was gonna say: Dwight and Angela remind me of Frank Burns and Hot-lips Houlihan from M*A*S*H. Except they're a little less obnoxious. Well, they're obnoxious, but in a somehow more palatable way. Major Houlihan got better as the series went on, but I avoid the Frank episodes as much as I can -- I much prefer Charles. (And I won't touch the Trapper John episodes with a ten-foot-pole. That guy annoys the hell out of me. Plus, B.J. is my favorite character...) Oh -- and Michael (we're back to "The Office" now) sort of reminds me of Ted Baxter from The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Except he's smarter than Ted. He's no Einstein, and I think he could give Ted a run for his money in the self-obsession and lack-of-self-awareness departments, but I will grant him that he's at least a more competent individual than Ted is.
Alright, the end. Now I'm really gonna go take that nap...
P.S. If you got this far, you deserve a big treat.
P.P.S. (That's what she said... *grin*)