Questions/Quotes: 7/11-7/31

I haven’t done this in awhile, but lately I’ve only been watching about 5 shows, so there hasn’t been much variety in my observations/random questions about stuff I watch. Plus, my regular shows are on summer break, so the variety is even smaller. (It’s been movies and my summer shows, that’s about it. And yes, I am still watching MI-5. I have 3 episodes left.)

Over the last 2 1/2 weeks, however, I have come up with some questions and pretty choice quotes.

Songs of the Moment

I’ve been a little obsessed with music lately. I Just bought 6 singles on iTunes that have been stuck in my head for the last couple weeks (it alternates between a mental medley and a mental playlist) and an album. So, I present the 5 songs I’m obsessed with right now. If I have a different medley in my head this time next week, I’ll do another one and make it a series.

Bonus Screenshot of the Week

Sometimes I ask myself why I watch certain shows and try to find the best answer. When Covert Affairs came back last night with a sub-par season premiere (for the record: plot twists that it didn’t need because they were so random and waaaay out of left field) I asked myself why it’s one of my favorite shows.

May I present to you, the best part of last night’s premiere:

Movies That Don’t Suck: The Host

Every so often a movie comes along that you expect to suck, and maybe you don’t watch it because who wants to waste 2+ hours on crap? Besides me, of course. I like watching those movies because they’re occasionally not terrible.

The most recent of these is The Host. Based on a book by Stephenie Meyer (yes, that Stephenie Meyer), it’s about an alien race that basically inhabits the bodies and minds of humans, taking over the race and, by extension, the world. Some humans have managed to avoid being taken and have formed a colony underground somewhere in the American southwest. (Some of the movie was filmed in New Mexico, so we’ll go with that.) Also, some of the taken-over humans (called hosts) resist the alien being in their body.

Screen Shot of the Week: 7/7 – 7/13

This screen shot of the week is brought to you by the screen shot gem that is Hell’s Kitchen and is Susan’s reaction to losing this week’s challenge. Or she smelled something funny.

10 Patriotic Things To Do Today

In honor of our great country’s 237^th birthday, I decided to come up with the 10 most patriotic things you can do to celebrate. July 4 is all about celebrating this great country, and giving everyone an excuse to have an American flag pattern on every item of clothing they wear. Because on any other day, it would be tacky.

(Side note: as a history buff, I feel obligated to point out that while it is the nation’s birthday, it’s technically the anniversary of the ratification of the document declaring the British colonies’ independence from England. So yes, it is the date that the United States of America was effectively born. But one could argue that the nation was truly born either before that, when the colonies declared war, or after that, when the war finally ended with the 1783 Treaty of Paris, which officially recognized the USA as a sovereign nation. End of side note.)