Daily Musing: Surprise Sighting on Merlin

Randomly flipping the channels and stopped and watched an episode of Merlin because I saw ...

Dudley from Harry Potter!!  Had to double check it was him, but definitely recognized right away.  Nice to see the young HP set branching out, and it was a decent enough job.  He finally gets to do some magic!  This slightly makes up for missing my favorite Dursleys scene in HP and the Deathly Hallows (i.e. the "I don't think you are a waste of space"). Maybe b/c Harry Melling looks like this now (though I hear the scene was actually filmed so hoping for DVD extra) ... in any case, now off to watch season 1 of the show on Netflix (so far so good!).

Daily Musing: Modern Family 3-23-11

Not an obvious standout, but I loved tonight's Modern Family (not that I don't usually).  A few highlights really made it special:

-  Alex freaking out about dead birds to kick off the ep - totally uttered the same dialog to my friends every time news of a dead bird/fish event surfaces (too frequently these days).

-  Luke's friend who likes to melt stuff - not as odd as it sounds; my little brother once loved doing that too, as did his friends (no actual fires resulted though).

-  I have a soft spot for "Up" and old people bonding with children stories, so cliche as it may be, I digged the grouchy old person who's a sweetheart deep down and his being friends Luke (who I think is totally adorable) - awww ... he's the Mrs. McClusky of Modern Family : )

-  Montgomery Clift – a bit sad and ironic to have this shout-out on the day of Liz Taylor's passing (RIP another last remnant of old Hollywood).

-  Nathan Lane - awesomeness.

-  Cam's nanny cam - lol.

-  Vivaldi’s Four Seasons - cherry on top.