My Current Obsession

Thursday, February 23, 2012

I have recently fallen in love. Everyone told me it was going to happen, but I didn't quite believe them. Then last weekend, while perusing my Netflix, it happened.

I started watching Downton Abbey.

Several clients, editors, and even the Sharkly one herself, had told me about Downton (I believe Janet described it as Rambo but with words), and sure enough, after just one episode I was insanely hooked.

It's a beautifully written show. The dialogue is some of the best on TV, and the characters are all so complex and interesting.

In short, everyone should check it out. It really is amazing.

But the reason I decided to blog about it is that an editor I know and love recently sent me these videos (below). And if you are in love with Downton Abbey, like me, you must watch them.

9 comments:

Sandy Williams said...: I recently started watching this via Netflix, too! Love it! I think I've only watched four episodes or so - been super busy - but I'm looking forward to watching more.; February 23, 2012 at 5:20 PM
Nikki said...: I think it's highly irresponsible of you to post videos like this where your clients are forced to click on them and watch and laugh,instead of writing our future masterpieces. LOL
I can't wait to share this with Dave. We're both new Downton addicts. :); February 23, 2012 at 6:09 PM
Lori M. Lee said...: I've only just started watching this myself. I spent all day watching season one instead of being productive lol. Those videos are fantastic haha.; February 24, 2012 at 12:29 AM
lee said...: my family started watching this series a few weeks ago.

We rented all the first season and had a marathon session. All of us. I can't remember the last time my entire family agreed so wholeheartedly on ANYTHING.

Downton Abbey is fantastic. I can't wait for season 2 to hit DVD. And then for season 3, because Shirley MacLaine will be there to verbally joust with everyone :).; February 24, 2012 at 1:26 AM
Savannah Chase said...: I keep hearing about this show but have not seen it...I don't think we have it here in Canada...; February 24, 2012 at 7:55 AM
R F Long said...: You're doomed now, like the rest of us. Wait until you get to the Christmas episode!; February 24, 2012 at 12:41 PM
i'm erin. said...: Ha! It's my obsession too. I started it on Netflix and watched the entire first season in one night. Now I catch all of the second season. It's so great.; February 24, 2012 at 4:17 PM
Loretta Nyhan said...: I went through seven episodes in one weekend.; February 24, 2012 at 4:44 PM
sbjames said...: Wow. My beta reader just told me this weekend that I have to start watching this show. She and her daughter both love it and since my daughter and I are both Anglophiles she thought we'd love it too. Guess, I know what I'll be doing this weekend.; February 27, 2012 at 11:49 AM

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Five Random Things About Suzie

1. I drink so much orange soda, it's probably running through my veins. I've been known to go through a twelve pack of diet sunkist in a day.

2. I'm legitimately nocturnal (or a vampire). I will be so exhausted at two pm that I'm falling asleep standing up - it has happened before, at Six Flags no less - but as soon as the sun goes down I'm wide awake.

3. I have a gorgeous unused $6000 Reem Acra wedding dress hanging in my closet, and it showed up on my doorstep the same day my (now ex) fiance broke up with me. And thank God for that. I wouldn't have wanted to waste that dress on him.

4. Social anxiety plagues me daily. I write a script and practice in front of the mirror when I have to make a phone call, but most people who interact with me have no idea how nervous I am (or perhaps they lie) because I've worked so hard to try to overcome it.

5. I'm actually worried that I will never love my children (when I do have them in the far off future) as much as I love my dogs. I just like animals better than people - they're sweet and innocent and soft and furry - is that so wrong?

quotes

金不一定閃
流浪者不都迷路

"I dreamed you bewitched me into bed

And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane
I think I made you up inside my head
I fancied you'd return the way you said
But I grow old and I forget your name
I think I made you up inside my head" ~Silvia Plath, Mad Girl's Love Song

"Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." ~ Robert Frost

"Love is not love,
Which alters when it alteration finds." ~ William Shakespeare, "Sonnet 116"

"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter- tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther…And one fine morning-...So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald, THE GREAT GATSBY

"For deadly secrets strike when understood
and lucky stars all exit on the run:
never try to knock on rotten wood,
never try to know more than you should." ~ Sylvia Plath, "Admonitions"

"The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But in the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body. The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life's most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become." ~ Milan Kundera, THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING

William Wilberforce: "No one of our age has ever taken power."
William Pitt Jr: "Which is why we're too young to realize certain things are impossible. Which is why we will do them anyway."

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." ~ Mark Twain

"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform." ~ Mark Twain

“You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell; what I mean is, that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me. You could draw me to fire, you could draw me to water, you could draw me to the gallows, you could draw me to any death, you could draw me to anything I have most avoided, you could draw me to any exposure and disgrace.” ~ Charles Dickens, A MUTUAL FRIEND

"I think the idea of life after death is a bad idea. It distracts you from appreciating the uniqueness of the here and now, the moment you are living." ~ Joseph Campbell

"Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear...Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved. Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end." ~ Alan Paton, CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY

"To laugh often and much.. to endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better... To know even one life has breathed easier because you lived, This is to have succeeded." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"After telling the hard facts to anyone from lover or friend, I have changed in their eyes...[Some see it as] a mission, as if ...they can pull me back from the wreckage of that day. Of course, their best efforts are largely useless. No one can pull anyone back from anywhere. You save yourself or you remain unsaved." ~ Alice Sebold, LUCKY

"Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature's law is wrong it learned to walk with out having feet.
Funny it seems, but by keeping it's dreams, it learned to breathe fresh air.
Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else ever cared." ~Tupac, The Rose That Grew From Concrete

Confessions

Thursday, February 23, 2012