What I'm Listening To: Love Don't Cost A Thing-JLo
This is old news, but I had to blog about it anyway. So apparently Tyra is going to write a fiction novel called "Modelland" as well as Lo Bosworth, a girl from The Hills. It's called the Lo-Down. Creative I know. The latter is a book on dating.
The other reason that I've been slightly distant from the blog is because I've simply needed a break from everything. Literally everything. I've been holed up in my room watching marathons of House and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. One thing that I've noticed about myself, in terms of the shows I choose to watch, is that I'm a huge fan of paranormal romance. For some reason, it just makes it that much more heightened and real because there's usually always a problem and danger. My favorite shows either have this type or romance or comedy because on the romance side, there's so much drama and then the other side is the comic relief that I desperately need afterwards. In the following, you will either know what I'm talking about or be almost completely lost, but bear with me as I'm only going to use three examples:
Exhibit A: Charmed (more specifically Cole and Phoebe)
Cole was a demon and Phoebe was a witch. Witches fight and kill demons so there was already drama right there. Cole was only supposed to manipulate her so that he could kill she and her sisters, but then he fell in love and turned good. Then the Source infected Cole and he became completely evil, but Phoebe thought he was still in love with her but he was only using her. She even found out that he was the Source and became his queen in the underworld. But eventually, he tried to usurp the world and kill her sisters, and she had to make a choice between him and her sisters and kills him with the other two sisters.
Exhibit B: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Buffy and Angel)
Oh, Buffy and Angel. This is classic: a vampire and a vampire slayer falling in love. What are the odds? Clearly he was bad before, now he's trying to atone for his sins, then after they make love, POOF he goes bad again because he loses his soul. He commits a few murders, basically acts like a world class jerk. This is rather human/juvenile behavior, not necessarily "I'm an evil vampire who's lived for over 200 years" behavior. Here's what I don't get/am opposed to: he's bad, but he's still clearly obsessed with her and reverts to basically stalker tricks. Then FINALLY, Buffy's friend Willow is able to curse him again with a soul, but the last thing he did while he was still bad vamp was awaken a demon who will swallow the world into hell and all the humans with it. The way he could awaken it was with his blood and Buffy learns that the only way they could defeat the demon Acathla was with Angel's blood as well. So literally a minute before the demon awakens, Angel has his soul back, there's a tearful reunion and some kissing, and then the world starts to go to hell. Buffy doesn't have a choice (well she does, but it's rather obvious what she has to do), so she tells Angel to close his eyes and then stabs him through with a sword and he goes to hell along with the demon. That was so brutal to watch (but then in the next season they resurrect him, but then he leaves later in the season and there's more angsty stuff)
Appendix a: The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Arwen and Aragorn)
This is not a show, but it's three movies that I simply adore. This is the most amazing, pure relationship that I've ever seen. An elf and a mortal in a relationship. Elves live forever and mortals die, so clearly that's a problem. Arwen gives up her mortality for Aragorn and waits for him through the years as he's on his quest, refusing to go away to the undying lands with her people, and not knowing if Aragorn has remarried because he thought that she did go. Aragorn drew strength from Arwen's memory and stayed true to her (even though there was that pesky Eowyn who we all had to feel sorry for) and they eventually met again and married. It makes me want a little Evenstar necklace of my own (I am such a LOTR geek).
Appendix b: Alias (Vaughn and Sydney)
This isn't paranormal, but it was so UNBELIEVABLY ANGST filled that I had to include it. The abridged version of all of the painful, but delicious seasons: The appeal of this show is that it's so filled with secrets, betrayal, espionage, and world travel, plus wigs and costumes that it was almost paranormal for me. Sydney is a secret agent for SD-6, an agency that she once thought was the CIA (before they murdered her fiancee). Then she goes to work for the real CIA and Vaughn is assigned to be her handler. He clearly cannot stay professional with her and begins to care for her. Sydney reciprocates those feelings and then we're hit with a bombshell: he has a girlfriend (tangent: I LOVED Michael Vartan playing Vaughn in this show, but Vaughn was SUCH a complete tool). Then finally he breaks up with the girlfriend and he and Sydney begin to go out. Everything is fabulous, and then suddenly, Sydney basically goes into a coma for two years, but everyone else thinks she's dead and Sydney thinks that only a day has passed. So then they send Vaughn over and he happens to be married (all right, if the love of your life died, personally, I think it would take longer than two years for you to get over them and marry someone else). This is where the uber angst factor comes in and Sydney now has to work with Vaughn and his wife Lauren in the CIA. The kicker is that Lauren is a spy sent to get CIA secrets from Vaughn by marrying him. Vaughn and Sydney eventually figure this out and then as Lauren is about to kill Sydney, Vaughn kills her. So now we're back to the happy time and Sydney and Vaughn start dating again for about a season. He asks her to marry him, she's pregnant with his child, everything is good, and then they're going on the vacation that they never got to take, and a car runs into them. Apparently Vaughn works for a another agency so that he can try to find his father, and they off him. (I can't believe they killed the eye candy off of the show. That's probably the reason why I have yet to watch the rest of the 5th season, besides the fact that they got rid of a lot of people.) I think he eventually comes back and guest stars, but it still made me mad. That ranks as the most angsty relationship EVER.
So if you like drama and angst or heightened emotional feelings, feel free to check out a couple of these shows.
