14 May
After a long absence, life is good. I’ve found employment and am living on my own in the big city! Unfortunately I haven’t had cable for a week so that’s been pretty taxing. No, not really thanks to youtube.
I downloaded Serenity for $4.99 on iTunes, so worth it!
20 Mar
Missed an episode of Being Erica? If you’re in Canada, you can watch ALL of them for free on their website: http://www.cbc.ca/beingerica/videos.html
If you’re American, you can buy episodes on iTunes or find a good torrent…
As for me, I have one more weekend to study for 9 finals. Gaah!! Instead I’ve been catching up on sleep, which has put me in a better mood. Sleep deprivation makes me cranky. Off to study now.
18 Mar
Can’t believe the season is ending for this show!
In this episode, Erica was in charge of organizing this Meet the Authors festival at work. She planned to have a staged interview between Katie (who’s writing the book, “the none”) and a normal, everyday, single woman in her 30’s. Being a bit of a control freak, refused to listen to other peoples’ opinions (namely her gay(?) coworker’s) and wanted to arrange everything herself. She interviewed a group of women, and picked one that she thought was the best…
When Erica gets home, Ethan corners her and demands why Erica seems to be avoiding him and acting strange. Claire is apparently visiting this weekend and Erica ends up inviting both Ethan and Clare to the Author Festival to make some sort of amends.
Authors Festival starts to become a complete disaster as the speaker turns out to be a totally wacko slut and ruins the whole interview. Claire suggests that Erica go up on stage and kick her off, but Erica lashes back at Claire. Claire gets upset, leaves and Ethan gets upset at Erica and leaves, so Erica follows them outside. Ethan and Erica finally have their face-to-face chat and Erica basically lashes at him for not making a decision between Claire and her – obviously there are feelings between them and if he really wanted to make things work with Claire, he’d be in Montreal! Ethan gets pissed off after hearing this and takes off, and Erica walks into Dr. Tom’s office.
Regrets? Erica adds one more – “Kissing Ethan”. She goes back in time, doesn’t kiss Ethan, and surprise surprise, ends up kissing Ethan again when he confronts her about feeling a “spark” that night of the high school reunion. Erica then steps into Dr. Tom’s office, again and starts spazzing at Dr. Tom and demands to go back in time to 1st year of University when Erica and Ethan were partners in Drama Class re-enacting a scene in Romeo and Juliet. Claire was there, trying to get Ethan’s attention, and Erica plans on pushing Claire away and making Ethan her boyfriend.
It doesn’t work despite Erica’s embarrassing attempts at seducing an uninterested Ethan. She tells Claire Ethan is gay, and Ethan kisses Erica in the drama scene – Erica things that Ethan is interested but it turns out that Ethan did it to prove he wasn’t gay, and thanks Erica for telling Claire he was gay – it was a conversation starter for their first date! Erica asks Ethan if he’s mad at her and he replies that at first he was, but now, “we’re buds, right?”
Erica then walks back into present time after telling Ethan off. She asks Brett/Brent/gay? coworker for help and he classily dismisses the psycho from the stage (this is an example of what the book is NOT about) and Erica comes on as the “real” person and spills her view on love and finding the one – that you can’t find the perfect person but that perfect person is someone that’s right for you…or something along the lines. Seems like she’s adapted a less controlling, more zen philosophy…
Back in her apartment, someone knocks on the door. It’s Ethan and he confesses that everything Erica said was true, and he appreciates her for telling him. Claire is in Montreal and he’s here because Erica’s here. He kisses her and an excited Erica exclaims “What took you so long?!” Ending with Erica leaping into Ethan’s arms. Aww.
6 Mar
How awesome was this episode?! Erica and Ryan, Erica and Ethan, Erica and the hot lesbian…my favorite so far this season! Will blog more, cramming for exams!!
22 Feb
Attempted to study and watch the Oscars simultaneously tonight.
Unsuccessful!
Worst Moment: Ben Stiller trying to be funny, or I really just didn’t get the whole reclusive, serious, hobo cinematographer joke
Awkward Moment: Robert Pattinson presenting Romance 2008, he seemed a bit nervous, Jennifer Aniston presenting with Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie in the front row
Best Moment(s): Kate Winslet’s speech, Slumdog Millionaire music numbers
Cutest Speech: Penelope Cruz, Japanese Winner ending his speech with Domo Arigato Mr. Roboto to poke fun at his own English skills
Best Dressed: Nicole Kidman and Penelope Cruz
12 Feb
So, Being Erica has moved to a new time slot: 9pm on Wednesday nights
I missed the first few minutes of the episode but it started off with Erica and her new beau (I forget his name, it’s Josh’s friend she ran into while she was doing karaoke on stage with Jenny and time travelled back to her bat mitzvah)…anyways, Erica and the guy had obviously hooked up and things seem to be going really well. They leave her apartment and the guy starts kissing Erica’s neck, telling her she tastes like Pina Colada, when Ethan walks into the hallway with non-other than his estranged/divorced wife Clare. Can we saw awkward? They all exchange greetings, and apparently will all meet up later for the wedding of Erica’s younger sister, Sam to her fiance Josh.
The wedding takes place at the Strange household, in some well-to-do suburb in Toronto. Huge yard. Erica is running around trying to fix everything and Josh (Sam’s fiance) seems to just be dicking around, flirting with another girl and pre-drinking. Erica is trying to write her speech for the wedding and asks John some questions along the lines of “Do you remember the day you met Sam?” Josh doesn’t remember. “Do you remember when you knew you were in love with Sam”? Josh has no idea. Josh really doesn’t care about these questions and is preoccupied with his friend’s motorbike. He asks Erica to get on the bike for a picture with him, Erica, and his groomsmen. (A little weird?) While getting off the bike, he spills his wine on Erica’s bridesmaid dress causing a big, unremovable stain. He apologizes with little sincerity as Erica runs back to the kitchen to have her mother help remove the stain. Nothing seems to remove it, so Erica resorts to asking them to hem the stress shorter to “cut off” the stain – “Can you cut in a straight line?!” Erica now looks like she’s wearing a minidress, to my amazement nobody really comments on it except for Josh, who remarks that the dress looks better.
Sam is freaking out in her room and asks to see Erica (who is getting her dress hemmed in the kitchen) She comes down to the kitchen just as Erica’s dress is finished and sees Josh. (BAD LUCK!) To make matters worse, Josh comments that “Well, now I’ll know what you’ll look like in 20 years” Sam and her mother have exactly the same hairstyle!
Sam runs back to her room and Erica follows and it seems like Sam is having doubts about marrying Josh. She asks Erica for reassurance who provides it, sorta, but immediately regrets doing so because she knows Josh is a total douchebag. She opens the door to leave Sam’s room and walks into…Dr. Tom’s office! This time Erica is so relieved. She tells Dr. Tom she totally regrets bringing Sam and Josh together after they broke up a few years ago. If she were to do anything different, she would stay out of their lives. (Really?) So Dr. Tom lets her time travel.
It’s August 14, 2003. Erica is hosting a little celebration for her sister starting her medical residency. Sam and Josh are arguing while Erica is serving dinner. Josh throws his napkin down on the table, and tells Sam that he’s tired of being in a relationship with her and walks out. (What originally happened was that Erica went to Josh’s apartment the next day and begged him to get back together with Sam) Erica decides to do nothing and goes grocery shopping the next day. When she returns, Sam is going a little OCD and rearranging/reorganizing her kitchen. She tells Erica that Josh called and wants her to pick up all her stuff from his apartment. Erica decides to go with Sam for some moral support.
Josh’s apartment – 22nd floor of a fancy apartment building. Both sisters enter together, pick up the stuff, and Erica pushes Sam to leave. As they’re walking into the elevator, all the power goes out. What day is it?? Crap! The great eastern blackout! How could Erica forget?! Walking down 22 flights of stairs seems crazy, but they run into a hot guy having a blackout party in his apartment. Well, why not?
The Party? Lots of girls in bikinis and half-naked guys dancing to Top 40 hits, while drinking cold beer and doing shots. Sam starts talking to the host (the hot guy who invited them in) and he asks her to dance…things are going well until Josh walks in with some beer (I presume it was beer, I can’t remember) Sam and Josh don’t actually run into each other but we can tell Josh is a bit jealous. He ends up, alone on the balcony, staring at the black city drinking away his sorrows. Erica feels sorry for the guy and starts talking to him. Josh is drunk and tells her that he really likes Sam, but doesn’t love her, and he only went out with Sam to get closer to a girl Sam was friends with…Erica realizes that Josh actually had a big crush on her for all these years and freaks out, dragging Sam out of the party, down 22 flights of stairs and on a rickshaw towards her apartment. While sitting together on the rickshaw, Sam asks Erica to promise to be honest with each other and spend more time together. Moments later, Erica finds herself back at the wedding, unfortunately the same wedding. How did Sam and Josh get back together?
So apparently, Josh felt bad and came to Sam’s door the next morning with a bouquet of Roses and asked her to take him back. Erica walks into Sam’s room and she looks happy to get married. She asks Sam’s bridesmaids to leave as she wants to talk to Sam alone. Even though it’s probably the most inappropriate thing to do on a wedding day, Erica tells Sam how she truly feels about Josh being the right person for her. Sam cooly replies that Erica is to stand beside her during the wedding and walks out of the room.
The wedding runs smoothly, and after Sam and Josh are married, all the family kiss each other on the cheek, but as Erica leans in to receive a kiss from Sam, Sam whispers in her ear that she is NOT to make a speech at the wedding, is to leave after the ceremony and that they will never talk again. Shocked and hurt, Erica leaves and sits in her bedroom, watching the photographers take pictures of Sam, Josh and the family. Erica’s new beau (Josh’s friend) comes in and asks what the matter is, Erica tells him that she really needs some time alone and will not be making the speech. Dr. Tom then enters and sort of comforts Erica in the fact that she did what she felt was the right thing for Sam. Sometimes you can’t change the future and love is stronger than anything. (Though I don’t really think Sam and Josh are really in love, but who knows?) Erica still “seized” the moment, and the outcome was worse than she had imagined.
2 Feb
Can’t believe it’s the 2nd already! Mondays…the best thing about them is the good tv on at night (Gossip Girl 8pm, Being Erica 9pm)
I’ve got the morning off, sorting out things to study for the week, agonizing over the state of my bedroom – entropy has reigned.
Listening to the lovely, melodic vocals of Bierut
27 Jan
Love, love, love the new cd, Ray Guns are not Just the Future
Finally available on iTunes today.
Favorite Tracks
20 Jan
I’m addicted to the Vanilla Rooibos Tea Lattes at Starbucks. I don’t know what it is – something in the combination of vanilla and fruitiness that makes this drink so delicious. I tried looking for the Vanilla Rooibos Tazo Teas but was unable to find them. Asked the barista at Starbucks and she told me they weren’t being sold, but the company was “trying them out” to see how popular they would be.
So if you haven’t yet, try the Vanilla Rooibos Tea Latte!
19 Jan
My new favorite show on TV! Erica is a 31 year old woman who has random run-ins with her therapist who allows her to re-live certain traumatic events in the past.
This week’s episode took Erica back to the end of high school when she lost her virginity to some loser who videotaped the whole fiasco and showed it to all of his friends. She re-lived the event as any normal revenge-seeking woman would do – videotaped him naked and told him off. Rather than tell you the rest of the story, I’d encourage you to watch it! (It’s totally worth it)
Edited – for what happened in the rest of the episode, scroll down
Check out Erica’s blog at beingerica.ca
So I’m off this morning and I’ve just watched the inauguration (great speech, not sure if the cut to Past President Bush was done on purpose…) and I’m sipping my latte, attempting to read/study for my upcoming boards. Being the procrastinator that I am, I will continue to summarize last night’s episode of Being Erica.
Episode 3:
Starts with Erica on a date with a guy, talking to Ethan (her best friend who recently separated from his wife who was cheating on him, he moved away from Montreal and came to live in Toronto in the same apartment complex as Erica). The date is going well and since there’s nothing to do now at this hour (it’s not even that late, seriously, everything is dead in Canadian cities past 10pm besides clubs and bars, Starbucks and Chapters) so she accepts her date’s offer for a drink at his place .
Erica’s date – mediocre-looking to my television standards, lives in a funky apartment filled with books and decorated with souvenirs of his travels. Erica is immediately drawn to a wall of African Face Masks…until she lifts one of them off the wall, and sees a cheap, shiny, oval “Made in Taiwan” sticker on the inside, while her dates babbles on about how much he enjoyed spending time in Africa and seeing the world kind of crap. Strike #1.
Erica decides to continue giving the guy a chance, and after a glass of wine, they start making out. But the ultimate strike is seeing a copy of the Idiot’s Guide to Dostoevsky on his bookshelf. Since Erica is pretty much a bit literary guru (judging from the past few episodes, although she forgot who wrote Anna Karenina (Tolstoy, as Ethan reminds her later) she makes a quick exit and in the next scene, we see Erica and Ethan playing Wii tennis and Erica complaining about yet another failed date.
Suddenly, Erica remembers that she has to held her friend Judith set-up for their 1994 High School Reunion. Bad memories with regret #I-can’t-remember-the-number about losing her virginity to Zack Creed. While helping Judith set-up a banner outside the high school, an old member of their posse stops by – I honestly can’t remember her name atm, let’s just call her “K”. K has a successful job at the Globe and Mail, is married, blonde, tall, thin, etc. K is a totally fake b*tch (just listen to her talk and you’ll pick it up in seconds) So K asks how Erica is doing – (hmm, single, unemployed, one of those girls that “peaked in highschool”?) and once K assumes Erica is single, Erica replies, actually, no, I’m in a relationship now (or something along those lines) and subsequently begs Ethan to accompany her to the reunion.
Ethan is a good sport, and pretends to be a medical doctor as K steals him away and tries to get as much dirt from him as possible. Erica runs into Zack (ew) and this other guy (can’t remember his name) who was a big geeky science guy, her old lab partner. She starts freaking out after thinking about Zack and goes into the Janitor’s closet to calm down to walk into…
Yup, Dr. Tom the therapist’s office. This big regret (losing her virginity to Zack) has possibly prevented Erica from dating successfully and led to develop a super-judgemental attitude and pick guys apart. What would happen if Erica went back in time and NOT slept with Zack? Hmm…
So, Erica goes back in time to the end of Senior Year (Grade 12), it’s summer and all her friends have decided to celebrate by vacationing at a lake. Zack was her hot” boyfriend with a hot body and other hot bodily parts and at the time she was quite obsessed about getting it on with the dufus. Zack and her friends prepare a fire by the lake, while Erica and Judith are gathering firewood, they run into Geeky Science guy. Zack finds the girls and Judith goes with him to the lake while Erica stays behind and charts with the Science Guy. Erica is interested in him and begs him to read her a poem he’s written. Aww.
Cut to bonfire at the lake. While everyone is sitting around the fire (well everyone minus Science Guy who just isn’t “cool” enough) Zack stands up and tells Erica he planned something for her. He takes her hand and they walk to a secluded spot. When they’re there, Zack tries to get Erica to take her clothes off. But she pulls a fast one on him and tells him to close his eyes and wait for a “surprise”. Zack lies down naked waiting for Erica, while she goes behind the trees, find the video recorder, and videotapes him naked while reprimanding him for not considering her feelings.
Later that night, a big rumor spreads that Zack dumped Erica because she had “syphill-ass” or syphilis of the ass (which isn’t possible) Science guy comes to Erica’s rescue and gets into a fight with Zack, and kicks his ass (well actually punches him in the face, making Zack fall down in the water). Science Guy and Erica run away from the scene and end up having awesome sex in a canoe. While Erica is screaming in pleasure she comes back into present day reality, screaming in the janitor’s closet (other people think she’s doing something else…hmm)
Science guy (older, handsome and *single*) runs into Erica, they chat and Erica tells Ethan to leave so she can have a chance with Science guy. Ethan, the good sport leaves with some disappointment and runs into Zack on the way out who tells him that Erica is a girl to fight for and shows Ethan a picture he had taken of him and Erica at the beginning of the reunion.
Meanwhile, b*tchy K finds out about the whole Ethan fake boyfriend thing, comes over while Erica is flirting with Science Guy (who turns out to be kind of boring and drones on and on about his train obsession) and tells her she is so disappointed that Erica would lie about having a FAKE BOYFRIEND! Science Guy gets turns off immediately (he got out of a relationship where his girlfriend had cheated on him) and tells Erica he doesn’t want to date anyone with “baggage” and walks off.
A saddened Erica leaves, and buys 2 tubs of ice-cream from Macs (it’s like a 24 hour mini-market) and runs into no other than Dr. Tom. They talk and she starts to realize what a really, really great guy Ethan is..hmm…Dr. Tom hails her a cab with his magical whistling powers, and Erica knocks on Ethan’s door, she apologizes and being the touchy-feeley person she is, puts her hand on his knee, then runs her hand through his hair, then the episode ends in a kiss!
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