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As many of you know the Leivas loves his television and now that we are officially into the new fall season, we are once again on our sofa spending quality time together. Of course he spends more time with the sofa and remote than I do but there are a few things out there I've been watching...

of course my hottie Winchester boys of the new CW's Supernatural are back and this week they go after killer clowns, so I'm very stoked about that.

I've also been attached to Vanished, which gained my attention by putting Queer As Folk's Brian in the same show with my ultra fav Rebecca Gayheart.

and my new ultimate favorite is a little show called Ugly Betty. If you didn't catch the premiere last Thursday, I'm sure they'll have a little catch up at the beginning. The story is all about poor Betty from Queens, played by the brilliant America Ferrara. Betty wants to own her own magazine someday but first she has to put up with the superficial and back stabbing people at Mode Fashion Mag. The pilot episode was like a mini movie and I loved every single second - don't miss it.

And when we're not watching the regularly scheduled programs, we have two Netflix accounts to sift through. So this weekend I tried to catch up. The first movie was 1984's Streets Of Fire, which was actually really really good. Set in 'another place, another time' it's the fairy table rock n roll fable of a rock singer whose abducted by bikers so it's up to her ex-boyfriend, manager and a female 'soldier' to get her out of William DeFoe's clutches.
Filmed with neon, backstreets full of motorcycles and fires, and all the vehicles and people out of a mushroom laced "happy days" episode - its the 80s meets the 50s, but it was filmed really well and I liked the 80s songs. It's really something to see. I highly recommend it.

I also found a little gem called The Great Spider Invasion from 1974. Now I love crazy animals gone bad movies and this one was set in Northern Wisconsin so I really wanted to see it. The only way to find this rental however is as one of the Mystery Science 3000 DVDs but that's okay cuz that man and his robots crack me up. While watching this 'classic' they cut to a scene at 'Gleason Days' and I was stoked as the spiders paraded through Gleason as it's a real town between Wausau and Rhinelander. As the film progressed I wondered aloud if it was really shot in my old neck of the woods and what do you know thanx were given to the Sheriff Departments in Wausau, Wisconsin and to the Nicolet College in Rhinelander and "filmed entirely in Wiconsin" aired. I thought it was cool.

Meanwhile the Leivas'choice was a strange and freaky film called Silent Hill which is based on a series of video games. It was a creepy enough film and full of strange and unusual 'monsters' but it was long and drawn out and I'm not sure how I feel about the whole thing. The ending was strange but I had a feeling it would be. Perhaps someone more closely in touch with the video game could tell me what exactly all of it meant.

posted by swivek @ 1:02 PM