TV Viewing
LOST
I caught the latest episode of Lost last night. I previously watched Lost on DVD but half way thru the 2nd season I completely LOST my interest in this series. It's becoming more like a regular drama with "supernatural", or super artificial, twists thrown in for special effects. And most of the characters just drove me nuts.
Anyway, yesterday's episode was okay. Little progress in the plot - I plan to watch the very last episode, when it comes out, just to satisfy the curious cat in me.
HOUSE
Wednesday's episode is actually about how the House team killed a patient. An analogy may be: you shoot a mosquito by a cannon but miss the mosquito and destroy the mosquito's "host" instead. I'm sure this kind of thing does happen in real life. But this is TV - we want outlandish lies, not preaching reality.
AMERICAN IDOL
Only caught glimpses. I was expecting to see shameless commercialism, but peeked into something else. (This week's show has a charity theme.)
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DVDs
Borat
Given all the raves on this movie, I lost a lot of trust in the liberal media. This "movie" is hideous. Objectively speaking, this thing is well produced and it has a "clever" premise. But the taste is so alien, arrogant and downright filthy. I despise those who made this movie. But I'm sure they are so gleeful of their superiority that they don't give it a damn about how other people think. 
The Holiday
I'm a romantic movie junkie. I watch even the lame ones. This one is at best mediocre. It's about how Cameron Diaz and Kate Windsley swapped houses (LA vs. Surrey, UK) and found (temporary) love interests on a foreign land. The movie started slow, it then sped up and spiced up a little, only ended neither here nor there. Worst yet, it doesn't even have a nice original song.
Shut up and sing
This is a documentary about Dixie Chicks' (in)famous Bush incidence. What I got out from the file is that Natalie Maine is a gutsy little (short) lady with towering strength. EP really enjoyed it and even went so far as saying to buy their CD as a form of support.
Mostly Martha
It's a German film, with English subtitle. It's in my favorite genre of "quaint little movies". It's about how this uptight German woman chef got softened up by a combination of her newly-orphaned stiff niece and her passionate outgoing Italian sous-chef. 
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Reading
Hannibal
The story is okay. But reading it reinforces what I already know: I don't like commercial literature. No matter how new a book in that genre is, it reeks staleness.
Taste, Quality and Style
It's a book written by Tim Gunn, the guru in the Bravo show Project Runway. I like Tim, he's a colorful, yet fair, character. This is a book about what to, and not to, wear and the most interesting tidbit I got out it is a confirmation of something that I have been suspecting for a long time.
It's what I call a size conspiracy, practiced by women's clothing stores.
For example, I know I'm not a size 2 any more, since I came to this country. In fact my size 2 days probably will never return absent a hunger strike. So when I could fit into size 2 clothes, I knew something fishy was going on. I suspected that they did this intentionally so that we may feel good about ourselves and become partial to the stores that help us lose weight by altering their own size chart.
According to Jim, over the past years, the common brand retail stores did down-size their clothing and it's especially true for the factory outlet malls. If I remember correctly, he said that the current size 8 is what a size 12 used/ought to be.
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Misc.
The other day I was sitting in an airport "lounge" when I heard the announcement "Will the passenger who left shoes behind please come to the Security".
As I was wondering - what kind of a joke is this - I saw a girl racing, towards the security, in her socks.
Never say never.
