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By this time next week I should officially be a resident of...well, some other city besides my current zip code. I'm a bit excited about the whole living in a spanking new house in an, I suppose, okay neighborhood (although it's also a bit out of ways) but moving...isn't fun. It really isn't. Especially if you're a hoarder, like me. I'm a rat see. That means, I was born in the year of the rat (heh, did you think that...? never mind) and we're hoarders -- you know, in addition to being supposedly brilliant business minds or whatev. Being a hoarder, I have a lot of stuff. Pretty useless stuff, it turns out. Would you believe me if I tell you that I still have all my exam booklets from frickin' college? Yep. I'm a walking fire hazard, I tell you. Anyway, I used to like enjoy leafing through them on those rare occasions I enjoyed leafing through them. Not anymore. Gotta stop. I can't haul all these crap (admittedly) to the new house. Nu-uh. But even ...

This April it seems my TV's gonna be filled with swords and sorcery and...I am liking it. April 1, we've got the series premiere of Camelot  ( wiki | OFFICIAL ). Now, I've always loved the Arthurian legends and have read a number of books and watched dozens of movies about the eponymous king and his court so I'm probably biased. But based on what I've seen of the trailer and what people are saying about the streamed promotional episode, it looks promising. Another show that I'm looking forward to is HBO's Game of Thrones  ( wiki | OFFICIAL ). People are calling it as the magical version of The Sopranos  with dynastic power struggles as the main theme. Should be interesting. Also, Sean Bean is in it. I like that actor.

The moment I saw the trailer for this movie, I was all up for it. A novel retelling of a Grimm fairytale? And ohmigod, werewolves?  (Hate vampires, btw.) HELL, YES! Also, the trailer looked really good with the depiction of a secluded village surrounded by ominous-looking trees and Gary Oldman on a horse, espousing couldn't-care-less-what-he-was-yapping-about-it's-frickin'-gary-oldman-for-crissakes. In short, I was sold. Embarrassingly so. THE STORY I think it's safe to say that all of us are familiar with the story of red riding hood. You know, the good girl who braves the threatening woods populated by fierce wild animals, one of which happens to be the big bad wolf, in order to visit her sickly grandmother, "what big ears you have" and all that, and then the cross-dressing wolf pounces in  and red riding hood, well, classic damsel in distress, until the woodcutter comes and saves the day. Yeah, I never really liked this particular fairytale, come to th...

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