Sunday, July 15, 2007

Strange Obsessions

A year ago or so, I wrote about Wonderfalls, which I'd stumbled on in an LGBT channel. Yesterday, the DVD of the complete series came in the mail and I watched a few episodes, and the show is as good as I remember it.

Last week, on the 5th, I'd taken the day off, and the Sci-Fi channel was showing a 'Dead Like Me' marathon. Before that I'd only seen one or two episodes of that show, and thought it was really good, and seeing some of the marathon made me want to see everything else.

So earlier this week, it dawned on me--I have a job! Income! Why am I holding out on buying stuff I know is worth it? So I didn't hold out. I was prodigal, and now I've got both Wonderfalls and Dead Like Me in my small DVD collection.

It's no coincidence that the leads in these two shows are both adorable women. I've always had this really weird habit of becoming infatuated with actresses. Let's run through the pathetic list in as chronological an order as I can manage:

1. Winona Ryder
2. Famke Janssen
3. Catherine Keener
4. Caroline Dhavernas
5. Ellen Muth
6. Liane Balaban

I guess the list becomes more obscure as time goes on...Caroline Dhavernas is the girl in Wonderfalls. Ellen Muth is in Dead Like Me. She gets cuter and cuter the more one watches the show. Liane Balaban is in the movie 'New Waterford Girl' with Andrew McCarthy and Cathy Moriarty. At first I couldn't believe that Bob Balaban had such a hot daughter, but they're not related.

So that's it. Anybody reading this, feel free to let us know who you like in the comments box. Later.

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