Buffy Watch Thoughts: Season 1 Episodes 1 and 2

Thursday evening I decided would be the only time I could fit in the first two episodes of the Buffy Watch in order to have a little head start as June arrived. Happily, a few others caught on to my plans and we ended up having about four of us watching at the same time and Twitter chatting as we went along! So fun!

I'm pretty sure these are the only episodes I watched in my previous Buffy attempt before I gave up. (We'll see if episode three looks familiar at all when I get that one going!) And my feelings remain about the same as that first time.

My quick and first impressions (of S1 E1,2) include:

• I get the Angel love, really, I get it! (Though he hasn't really done much yet.)
• I really like Xander too actually.
• And yes, I really like Giles too, but he seems so nerdy. And it confuses me that he knew what was up so fast. I felt like that whole connection he has with the kids was awfully quick.
• The vampires are wimpy! I mean, Buffy can hold them back by just leaning on a door? 
• The fighting is corny, and the aerobatics bug me... just sayin'.
• Yes, of course, the dialogue is witty, and I truly enjoy that! BUT...a 16 year old would never talk so... witty. However, I think this is something you see on all TV shows these days.
• Many people commented as we watched that it's all about the characters and not the vampire stuff... yep, I get this. After two episodes, I am still getting to know these characters and I will let you know when that exact moment occurs that I LOVE them and am hooked on their strength alone. It's not happened after two episodes....

This week I plan to watch four more episodes. I'll let you know when it happens in case some of you can watch with me again!

Other Buffy Thoughts so far:

(I will link up posts here when/if I find them.)

Photo a Day June: Empty!

"EMPTY!"

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Photo a Day June: Morning!

"MORNING!"

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Concert Review: Vocal Point, Delilah, Pentatonix

On Memorial Day evening we got to go to the first concert of the season at the outdoor theater we love so much. You know, the one we've been going to for many many years. The one that has brought to us many amazing fun concerts (Richard Marx, Air Supply, The Everly Brothers, Jordyn Sparks, just to name a few.)

This show featured three a capella groups that were recently on the show The Sing Off. I never really watched this show, but a local group made it far and this did make the local new, how they were doing amazingly well.  Anyway, and since I love a capella groups I was really looking forward to this shindig!

The crowd was HUGE and very excited with major crazy fans! Wow, all the years I've gone to this place, I don't think I've seen a crowd quite so emotionally charged. It was insane. People sit on blankets on the hillside, and then there's also a few plastic chair seats (yes we fork out extra money for the plastic chair seats and a front row location!) But still, we still had a few seating issues (which seems to be the norm for me and concerts!) but it was easily solved and the show commenced!

This is the picture one of the members of Delilah tweeted. I'm in it!
Can you see me? Far right, about five rows up, in a red shirt,
right behind the bearded guy in the pink shirt.
Can you see? Yes? :)
(You'll have to click to enbiggen, for sure!)

First up was Vocal Point, the famous local boy group. They were snazzy and fun, but their songs were a little less upbeat than I expected. Slow and dreamy perhaps. They were good, of course, but not as over the top amazing as I'd expected.

My video is crappy, so here's what they sounded like on the Sing Off show:




But I did take a good picture of them!

Then we had the girl group, Delilah. They were pretty amazing. They are getting to be very well known for their cover of Grenade, and the wailing singing at the end was... bone tingling! Wowza! Very fun.



They each took about a half hour to sing and then up last was the winner of the show, and they sang for about an hour. And it was at once evident why they won. Wow, they blew me away. So so good! I loved them. Oh, they were called Pentatonix. They debuted this new cover for us:




But wait, you need to actually see them moving around:




Anyway, it was a very fun show and I just wanted to tell you all about it!

Let the Buffy Watching Begin!

I'm ready to watch some BUFFY!

Here's a proposed schedule that I plan to start out following. Maybe it will change as things go along, but at least this will get things started.

Since I was hoping to get at least a bit into season two, I've decided to watch four episodes a week, with Saturday being my "report" day. Since this first Saturday is June 2, I hope to watch the first two episodes by then and get a start at least!

So here's what it would look like:

June 2:  S1 E 1 and 2
June 9: S1 E 3-6
June 16: S1 E 7-10
June 23: S1 E 11, 12 and S2 E 1 and 2
June 30: S2 E 3-6

If you want to go slower and just do season one, you can start next week and watch three episodes each week and be done by the end of June.... since there's only 12 episodes in season one.

Season two, however, has 22 episodes!! So the above schedule only gets us six episodes into that.

Anyway, let's see how it goes, okay?! Are you with me!??

I plan to post my thoughts on Saturdays. Let me know if you'd like to do that too and I'll link up to you on my posts. Even if you post a different day, I'll be sure to link up.

Also, if we end up talking about our Buffy watch along on Twitter I'm suggesting the tag #buffywatch. Perhaps we'll figure out a set time to chat a few times during our watch along, but we'll see how it goes first. Or, you can chat WHILE you are watching live, as they say, and that would be fun too! I'll probably watch these first two episodes tonight if anyone wants to join me.

Okay?

Ready, set, WATCH!

P.S. Be sure to follow all the Buffy posts going up over at Stella Matutina!

May Reading Recap

Sheesh, I almost don't even want to bother with the recap post today, but then I wouldn't be able to look back years from now and remember just when my reading level started its downward spiral! Even with the 1000 page book, I can do better than this! And I even got a Kindle this month for heavens sake! That means my reading numbers should increase, right? Gah.

I read these four books this month. One was 1000 pages, yes, but the others were wimpy small things, so there's really no excuse for not doing more.



Precious Bane by Mary Webb: Prue Sarn struggles to fit into society and at the same time save her family and farm.

The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss: Kvothe continues to learn and grow in his skills and wisdom both at school and off on his many adventures.

Black Heart by Holly Black: Cassel is torn between using his magic to help the government or join in with the underground crime scene.

Destined by Aprilynne Pike: Laurel and her friends fight in the final battle to save Avalon.

The Wise Man's Fear is my favorite from this list, with Precious Bane coming in second.


Plans for June:

• finish the Robin Hood classic
• finish Code Name Verity, which I've got a good start on currently
• read Ready Player One before it's due at the library
• read About a Boy for book club
• finish Anna Dressed in Blood
• at the rate I'm going that'll be all I can handle!

How did your reading month go?

Photo A Day... June!

So many of my bloggy friends have been doing this fun photo meme this past month in May and I've been dying to join in the fun. But May is too crazy and I know June will be.... less crazy... so thankfully there's going to be a continuation of Photo a Day! Find out all the details over at Fat Mum Slim, the creator of this challenge.

In the meantime, here's the list, so do join us, and start thinking and start shooting!

So fair warning,  do be prepared to see lots more original and hopefully creative pictures around here and all my other usual places this coming up month. If it turns out really fun, and the challenge continues in July and beyond, it just might become a regular thing for me. Hopefully that's a good thing for, I know it will be for me.