Tag Archive: TV

Intertextuality and Irony in Lady Gaga’s PAPARAZZI

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My submission for this week’s www.RedRoom.com themed blog competition on “What is your favorite pop song?”

My Supernatural Fetish

At the moment I have a totally healthy obsession with the Sookie Stackhouse mysteries by Charlaine Harris, the novels that have become the HBO phenomenon known as “True Blood.” I say my obsession is healthy because it’s my staple obsession, going back to childhood: My absolute and utter fascination and love of the supernatural. Monsters,…

A Love Letter to Cold Case

Written on a postcard of a police case file box: You bring me closer to closure. ♥ Z Where a stamp could go but now it says “CLOSED”: Philadelphia September 3, 2009 Every time.

Teacup Vampires

For the first time in my life, I am working with children. I don’t particularly like children, or want to have any of them, but this job is exactly what I need to supplement my writing and so I’m doing it, with interesting results. Day One with the kids was insane. Spending my two hours…

Spike Through The Heart

Spike is totally my favorite character. I love his honesty and his ability to tell things like they are, not humouring anyone’s bullshit. As the show goes on he is turning out to be one of the more complex creatures in Buffy, with such a range in his personality arc. That said, he is a…

Forever Isn’t Long Enough (Buffy Season 5, Episode 17; April 17, 2001)

This episode, “Forever”, was even worse than the last one, in terms of the tears spoutage. And look at the dates: It aired almost 2 whole months later. I wasn’t watching it back then, but for the Buffy fans that must’ve sucked. To be left with such a tragic ending and then wait so long…

The Body (Buffy Season 5, Episode 16; Feb 27, 2001)

This was the episode that inspired this blog, and is easily one of the saddest 45 minutes, like, ever. After Wendy’s murder on October 28, 2000, I started to watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer religiously. I knew if Wendy were alive she’d still be having weekly Buffy parties at her house and I wanted to…

LOST in symbolism

The Season 6 finale of “LOST” featured a gargantuan statue of the Egyptian crocodile-headed god Sobek. Being fascinated not only with “LOST” but also Egyptian mythology (I even took a how-to-read-hieroglyphics course a few years back) I figured it must mean something. *Builds a mountain out of mashed potatoes* Sobek was worshipped in ancient Egyptian…

A Love Letter to Dexter’s Kill Room

Written on a postcard of a plastic-sheeted room with a surgery table in the middle: Oh.Yes.God is with you. Where a stamp could go but it won’t stick to the saran wrap:MiamiJan 23, 2006You are my hero.

A Love Letter to LOST

Written on a postcard of The Island, shifting between the now and then: Your brilliancetranscendsspace & time. Where a stamp could go but there is a Hatch instead:Somewhere in the PacificJanuary 22, 2009Thinking it’s amazing to know I’m not the only one who has dreams that are memories.

A Love Letter to Seinfeld

Written on a Superman postcard taped to Jerry’s fridge: Nothingisfunny. Where a stamp could go but George is too cheap to buy one:ManhattanNovember 15, 2008You are a fungus funnily growing on me.

A Love Letter to Tree Hill

Written on a postcard of the River Court, where Peyton’s poem slowly fades: You arethe hometownI never had. Where a stamp could go:October 21, 2008Somewhere not quite here or thereThere’s no place like home.

A Love Letter To Dexter Morgan

Wrtten on a blood-spattered plastic tarp In between a pool and scattered drops: Your vengeanceis totallyspotonWhere a stamp could adhere itself without my help:October 19, 2008Miami, FloridaSick, but true

Six Feet Under, an HBO production, 2001-2005

When this show first came out I was in the beginning of dealing with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) after the death of my good friend and during that time I could not even hear death related words without falling into PTSD panic attacks and flashbacks to Wendy’s murder. The commercials for this show totally freaked…

Heroes

do you ever get the feeling that you are meant for something more? not just something more, but something great? something amazing, something extraordinary. a feeling that is more than just a feeling or a hunch; something deep down into the dark core of you that tells you that you are special. that you are…

the rose, what next?, and the brenda chenowith syndrome

‘the rose’ and the three people in the world for whom i can sing after years of wanting to see ‘the rose,’ i stayed up till almost the crack of dawn the other night and watched it. what a beautiful film, and bette midler has one of the most powerful voices in the history of…