Sure, give ME the one with all the monsters

[vovat]

Yesterday, I went with bethje to see her newborn baby cousin Samantha. That night, we watched the episode of Penn and Teller's Bullshit! about love and romance. For some reason, it wasn't available On Demand back when it was new, but it is now. I thought it was pretty good, although I think there are more monogamous animals than the show said there were. I believe it only mentioned vultures and tapeworms, but I think that geese also mate for life, and I'm pretty sure there are other species that fit that qualification. The episode made fun of Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus and The Rules, which was cool. (Incidentally, I just recently found out that the title of the former book refers to the fact that the male and female symbols are the same as those for Mars and Venus, respectively. At least I assume that's where the title came from. That's the kind of thing you'd think I would know. I DID know that the symbol for Venus is a hand mirror, which makes it kind of sexist when also made to apply to the entire female gender.) I'm hoping I'll be able to see the Bullshit! episode on the Bible, since I was looking forward to that one (as I'm sure you could have guessed, based on past entries {g}), and it also wasn't up On Demand before.

We also saw part of Feardotcom, which Beth had already watched and hated. I can't say that I liked it any better than she did. Even the scenery and imagery came off as tacky. I'm sure they were trying to go for a creepy, run-down kind of look, but it ended up looking kind of cheap and bad-music-video-ish.

Comments

[colleenanne.livejournal.com]

I really should look this up somewhere, but in the past I've read that even the animals currently referred to as "monogamous" have a lot more genetic diversity among their offspring than there should be with monogamy.

(I am for monogamy, by the way. I just found that interesting.)

[colleenanne.livejournal.com]

Here's a book about the subject.

[revme.livejournal.com]

BTW, I'm not sure if On-Demand means that you have Showtime or not (I don't quite understand what it is, despite Comcast advertising it all the time as somethign I Should Totally Buy), but, I got this email from the P&T list:
Don't miss two full hours of "Penn & Teller: Bullshit!" this Thursday,
August 19 starting at 9pm on Showtime.

9:00pm War on Drugs
9:30pm Safety Hysteria
10:00pm 12-Stepping (ALL NEW)
10:30pm Profanity

Which is really, really cool. And I _SO_ wish I had Showtime, but I'll have to wait another year or so for the next DVD set. But, MAN, I _love_ Bullshit!. I always say this, but it should be on broadcast TV. Just smack around anyone who'd go "BUT THERE'S SWEARS AND BOOBS!!! THIS IS HORRIBLE AND OFFENSIVE!!!" because those folks are fuckin' _dumb_.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

I don't have Showtime, but my girlfriend does. On Demand is a service that lets you watch certain shows and movies whenever you want, but it's only for shows and movies on channels to which you already subscribe.

[revme.livejournal.com]

Ah, so it's sorta like built-in TIVO or something?

[vovat.livejournal.com]

I guess. I'm not really sure how TIVO works.

[bethje.livejournal.com]

No no no. It's only *free* if you already subscribe to a certain channel. Non-Showtime people can watch Bullshit or whatever else, but they'd have to pay a couple bucks.