Lost in Transcript: November 2012

It's already been 7 months since my last post, and some of the reason is just laziness I'm afraid. There's been a few TV-shows I really should have updated with either season-ratings, completed ratings and/or reviews, and so on and so forth, but as it usually takes a while to type down my thoughts... I usually end up rather spending that time on other stuff.

I have been spending quite a lot of my online-time at Letterboxd though (by far the best place to keep track of your own and your friends movie-experiences), so it's not like I haven't given my opinion at movies at least. For TV-shows I've mostly kept up with those guilty pleasures of mine and those few important good ones still running, and I've been tasting new ones every so often without much luck finding replacements for the golden olden ones.

Speaking of olden golden; there's a reason I haven't made any Letterboxd-reviews in almost two weeks. As always happens once or twice a year, I've once again gone back into the beautiful world of TV-shows. While movies often have a larger purpose and can deliver a much stronger quality, there's something quite spectacular about TV-shows becoming old friends, characters growing up on-screen and stories told over time. I just can't help myself, and it's impossible to stay away too long at a time.

The past weeks I've semi-revisited two of my personal favorites in Dawson's Creek and One Tree Hill. I say semi-revisited as I haven't actually watched entire episodes, seasons and completes, but rather --once again-- spent time with some of my favorite story-lines and relationships. I've always been a Pacey-guy when it comes to DC, and this time around I watched the entire first season and then went on to just follow the stories of Pacey and Joey for the rest of the show. When my revisit with these Capeside characters came to the end all good things must come to, I was still up for more coming of age drama.

The answer was --once again-- to revisit One Tree Hill-character Haley James. I actually hadn't watched the ninth and final season before, so it was also a refresh-my-memory kind of thing going into that season. For those who's dug into my old lists, it's no secret I'm a huge fan of Bethany Joy Lenz (only Joy for short from now). The whiplash of taking the OTH-tour again is the same as always. Every time I revisit that show, I fall completely head over heals in love with her. It goes beyond her character at the show and also has to do with --among other stuff-- her persona, her voice, her elegance and her unbelievable talents on so many fronts. While many TV-characters are well written to make an emotional connection, Joy manages to elevate even poorly written stuff to make it come across a lot better. So as I write this I'm also listening to her old songs from her early albums. I guess it'll once again be at least a few weeks until my Joy-obsession comes to an hiatus.

I guess it's about time I refer to one of the many reasons to love Joy, and here's a taste of her voice in a relaxed and homely way as she does Hellogiggles.com's videochat karaoke.

I absolutely adore this video, and it works like my own personal good mood pill every time I watch it

Something tells me I would be heading for a restraining order if I lived anywhere near her, but thankfully I guess they ain't handing over those for web-based stalker'y tendencies just yet... or at least not to people on the other side of the pond. I'll give a crash course in the Joy-webosphere at the end of this post, just in case anyone else got curious about the wonders of Joy....

It's not only blogging I haven't found time to lately. I've got three or four memory cards worth of photos I haven't found the time to go through yet, but rather just downloaded them to the computer to free the memory cards up again. I'm gonna have to do something about that one of these days. Speaking of photos, I'm also gonna change the header and layout of this blog... again; It's just a bit too Buffy-heavy. I still love that show and 'verse, but as I'm all about diversity I really need to get a montage or something going to reflect it. I was also thinking about changing up the colors, but haven't quite decided on that one yet. It seems like a lot of back-work if I do, just to make sure all older posts remain readable... Still. I'd like a lighter tone. I do have a few ideas about it, so I'll just have to wait and see what I'll do about it.

I promised a crash course in web-stalking earlier,
so here's links to some of Joy's social web-scenes, projects and stuff: