Brain Milkshakes Part 2

I've decided that compiling a coherent blog centered upon a single topic is just too taxing for me. So...another list of things I happen to be thinking about. Join me, won't you, in another tasty smoothie of my cerebral matter.

-TV ON DVD. I consider television to be something of a drug, and while I snorted my fair share of TV as a child, it's the concentrated, commercial-free, crack cocaine of TV (Full-season DVD sets) that I am truly addicted to. I'm balls deep in Smallville Season 7 right now; it's a show that I literally had not thought about since I finished Season 6 roughly a year ago. And though it's not as well-made or well-acted as, oh say, LOST or Heroes, I am simply enamored by this show that's essentially a soap opera with superpowers (let's call it a supe opera.) I just love the format, which is NOT something I can say for my next topic.

-TV ON TV. I just watched the season premiere of Bones on FOX, and let me tell you: Crap city. Partly because my cable doesn't have Fox HD, so I'm watching a crappy product, partly because I'm spoiled by the first three seasons of Bones, which I watched on my iPod or DVD absolutely commercial free, and I can't stand commercials anymore, partly because the episode actually dealt with a large deal of feces, but mostly (SPOILER ALERT for Bones fans who haven't seen season 3 yet) because one of my favorite characters on the show, Dr. Zack Addy, turned out to be the villain at the end of last season. I'm assuming he'll come back in a limited capacity, but for now the team just feels...incomplete. It was still a good episode; it was plenty funny, Sweets was still delightfully awkward, Booth was charming as ever...but a Zack-shaped hole is visible in the show's fabric. Oh well.

-MOVIES ON STAGE. Auditions for Disney's Beauty and the Beast are next week starting Monday. I haven't been really freaked out about auditions at ECCT before, but this one scares me. Mostly because I have NO desire to be in the chorus for this particular show (it's a grueling task involving heavy dancing and awkward costumes) but I have even LESS desire to sit out a show and wait four months until the next one. Plus, the last time they did Beauty was like two years ago, so the majority of the actors who were in it then are still around now, and most of them are willing to do it again. The cocky bastard in me thinks I could score a decent part, but that's a pretty small (albeit very loud) piece of the whole Libby puzzle.

-MUSIC ON CD. Last year there were no Libby's Christmas Albums. (For those of you who don't know, Libby's Christmas Album was a tradition involving three or four mix cd's I made each year from music I discovered that year, which I handed out as christmas gifts instead of a real present. Kind of like a even cheaper version of a fruitcake.) I've got two years worth of new music to fall back on, so theoretically they'd be better than ever. But would people even miss it if I didn't make them this year? Do people even listen to CDs in this age of the Pod? And would they even take the time to listen to them if I did give them out this year? Have they even listened to the ones I gave them? I guess the real question is, should I bother?

That's enough for tonight. I hope those savory synapses slaked your thirst for knowledge.