What About the Voice of Geddy Lee?

[snurri]

Archaeology! Ancient City Found in Mexico! Village Discovered Near Stonehenge! Police to Reunite! (At the f*&%ing Grammys. Now I have to watch the Grammys. Someone kill me.)

Warren Ellis subjects us all to shares an excerpt from Jeff Lint Steve Aylett's surreal parody comic "The Caterer." SMOOTHING THE CHEEK OF REALITY HAS ITS DANGERS!

Hannah links to the poem "Library" by Albert Goldbarth, which turns out to be awesome.

I have discovered that, along with those annoying ads along the side, I have been given the power of polls. Bwah-hah-hah-hah!

Here's the thing. I am, by most objective measures, a fairly geeky person. But I find that many things which are considered more or less core geek loves drive me up the wall. Perhaps you are also somewhat geeky, and encounter this same phenomenenonon. This poll is for you!

[Poll #917082]

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_stranger_here/]

oh my GOD get over the Battlestar Galactica hate!

It was cute back when the rest of us all loved BG, but now you're just rubbing our noses in it.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

What, everybody doesn't still love it?

[the-flea-king.livejournal.com]

Especially Buffy. For me. Being screamed at by a nazi nun from hell for an hour would be more fun that listening to Sarah Michelle Geller whine.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

For me SMG was never the best thing about the show, although she did grow on me. But I won't try to evangelize you :-)

[jamiam.livejournal.com]

Babylon 5? The Cartoon Network Adult Swim shows? Doctor Who?

(I love Geddy Lee, man. It's just his lyrics gives me the twitches.)

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Heh. The post title actually has nothing to do with the poll; it's just a Stephen Malkmus lyric that popped into my head.

I've not seen those other things, at least not recently. No cable.

[the-flea-king.livejournal.com]

I will second and third the Babylon 5. I seriously cannot watch that show without cracking up at how wooden the acting is.

[susansugarspun.livejournal.com]

Oh, god, when we were in Las Vegas a week or two ago, we had this one blackjack dealer who was -hysterically- bizarre. He had a near-constant stream of geeky math jokes, talked a lot about old computer games, is really into some air-pellet type of paintball, and made everyone at the table shout "Hoo-rah" (Marines-style) whenever he busted. But the best, absolute best, part of the experience was when he started talking about Babylon 5, and how it was the best show to ever be on television, ever, no exceptions.

[gregvaneekhout.livejournal.com]

Geddy Lee! You said Geddy Lee! GEDDY LEE ROCKS!

New Rush studio album coming out late spring/early summer.

GEDDY LEE!

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Stimulus, response. :-P

(Did you see Jackie dissing Rush lyrics up there?)

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

>which turns out to be awesome

That's AWESOME to you!

Also, which Star Trek are we talking about?

Six tickies in the 'you' (by which I mean me) box for Alias. But I think we've discussed that.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Sorry, AWESOME.

I was picking on Star Trek in general, because if we get down to cases it's complicated.

Yes on Alias. And then there's the thing that Abrams is supposed to be doing the next Trek film. So there's some kind of confluence of badness there.

Why does everyone think I hate Harry Potter?

[jennreese.livejournal.com]

Ivonova from B5 -- are people on crack? That woman can't act to save her life. I did enjoy seasons 2-4, but just the scenes with Molari and the lizard dude. Those were desperate tv times.

I'm a huge Buffy and Firefly fan, but I've never been able to enjoy Angel.

I also don't like Napoleon Dynamite. I've almost been stoned for this admission on several occasions.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

I liked Angel best in seasons 2-4, as it got really dark. I liked what they did with Wesley.

"Napoleon Dynamite" was kind of like "The Gods Must Be Crazy" for me, in that the film was a third done before I figured out I was supposed to be laughing. I did end up liking it, though.

[shaolingrrl.livejournal.com]

I've been afraid to watch Napoleon Dynamite. It's supposedly set in Idaho and I don't want to spend two hours cringing.

[shaolingrrl.livejournal.com]

BTW, nobody on B5 could act except G'Kar and Molari, but the story kicked ass. DS9 was better on story than acting, too, but better on acting than B5. But, you know, you're right. Desperation numbs the palate.

[ajjones.livejournal.com]

OH! Don't be dissin da Trek!

[snurri.livejournal.com]

I can't help it. I like DS9, and Next Gen has its moments; but overall it drives me batty.

[darinbradley.livejournal.com]

Er. . ."Albert" Goldbarth, my friend. I only mention it b/c he's one of my faves, and the personal chum of a Farrago contributor.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Oops. Fixed!

[readingthedark.livejournal.com]

Star Trek: TOS is a wondrous experience of phasers and claustrophobic hallways. The rest is silly.

Pan's Labyrinth is neato but The Devil's Backbone was special too. I'm still confused how the first part of a shared-world trilogy can get so little attention and part two can come along and be lauded so mightily without mentioning the first.

I'm loosey-goosey on Heroes. Every episode has something I like, but it has gaps and the "story" is mish-mashed.

I tried to hate SMG and failed miserably, becoming smitten by that which I expected to repulse me. My geekdom is incarnate on many levels and Buffy (and the whole damn Scooby gang) is certainly one of them. Someday I'll watch Angel.

Harry Potter doesn't do it for me. I've tried and failed there too.

The first Evil Dead is lovely. I'm glad they didn't make comedy sequels...oh wait...

Serenity and what I've seen of Firefly are worth seeking out the rest of Firefly.

Victoria Beckham is overrated.

X-files and Dario Argento are still underrated, in my little world.

Supernatural has grown on me suddenly, as has dried fruit. Perhaps it has even grown on me like a dried fruit.

I think I plead and / or feign ignorance on the rest, unless Kill Bill counts as a Kung Fu movie.

Jesus wants to be ugly,
G.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

I must confess that I have not yet seen The Devil's Backbone, which was why I scrupulously failed to mention it in my SH review. As soon as I have some means of watching DVDs I plan to get my hands on it.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I am not in charge of your preferences on overrating, and as for mine, the thing is, I have no idea how most people are rating Children of Men. So I'm not this poll audience, apparently. I don't want to answer that Buffy is overrated (totally is) and that something else is not when it's just that I don't know about the something else.

Really I will answer other polls later. I am usually good for polls.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Cool with me :-)

[rudi.livejournal.com]

One silver lining in the Grammys thing is that Police are apparently on first, so there's no need to watch anything else.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Ah! This is good news!

[bondgwendabond.livejournal.com]

You don't have to watch the Grammys, silly; that's what youtube is for.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

YouTube, much as I love it, is pretty crappy vid quality most of the time. I need to see Stewart's sneer of contempt every time Sting opens his pompous mouth.

[bondgwendabond.livejournal.com]

Also, I'm surprised Veronica Mars isn't included on the poll. (Running!)

Although I personally do not find it overrated and don't think you do either.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

I did think of it. But I suppose I didn't think it was geeky enough.