After letting one coupon expire, and several catty comments suggesting one person of our twosome was to blame for letting said coupon expire (comments made every time the announcements would come on the one cable channel we still received through rabbit ears), and through a series of complicated ropes courses and friendship rituals, we were able to procure a converter box. My constant tic reminding both of us that the converter box MUST be obtained before the final deadline in June bothered both of us, but mostly bothered KM, because it was annoying for her, and part of me.
We quickly figured out that not only did we need a converter box, but also a special antennae that would work with the digital signal. Curses! After a quick bike ride in a monsoon, and a special personal envoy into the Brooklyn Target, which everyone who lives in Brooklyn knows is a special circle of hell involving large, sweaty people, braying families, and faulty shopping cart lifts, I obtained the antennae. All of this effort resulted in one sad, scrambled channel, the local NY channel that is kind of like the WB, but which also shows baseball games. All in all, a sad state for our TV watching--for those interested, the channel we do get, "My9", plays a show with a black man in drag playing a sassy grandmother about 20 of 24 hours in a day. So we gave up TV. . . at least watching it the normal way.
Which brings me to the shows we take care to rent via netflix, own, or stream online. Those in the rotation now and in the past are listed below. For those of you who suffered a similar fate via the digital conversion, this list is for you (actually, everyone we know has cable, so this is probably for no one). And by "you" I mean "me and KM" since I am treating this blog as a personal diary. These aren't ranked in any order, so don't get excited about either #1 or #10.
1. Party Down. KM was referred to this show by her bandmates, M & M. It's on Starz, which for some reason I associate with porn and porn only, but apparently they are trying to ride the coattails of the successful comedies and dramadies and shows about penises and lesbians and housewives smoking pot that HBO and Showtime put out. Anyway, it's pretty awesome. It Starz (hahahah) the blond, older woman that was in Best in Show, the girl who was Lindsey Lohan's gothy but kind of funny high school dork friend from Mean Girls, and Bill from Freaks and Geeks. I could find the real names of these actors on the World Wide Web, but I don't feel like looking them up and you'll know who I'm talking about better this way anyway. These three and a handful of others portray a ragtag group of struggling actors in L.A. that are forced to take menial jobs as caterers working under one of the guys who starred in The State on MTV. This dude plays a Michael Scott-type -- lovable but delusional, full of himself but pathetic, etc. etc. The first season of Party Down (we watched all 10 episodes on Netflix in two days) has some great cameos, especially Jennifer Coolidge (Best in Show, Legally Blond) on Shrooms in Episode 10. Party Down is similar to the office in lots of ways, but is worth it thanks to the funny lesbian's role and the L.A. actor hook. Kudoz, Starz.
2. I'll finish this list another time, this post is already too long. Stay tuned!
-KE
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