Current music:

Flamenco Sketches = Miles Davis

she tied you to a kitchen chair, she broke your throne and cut your hair...
I'm pretty sure I've been over my growing House addiction. Well tonight I was totally blindsided by a brilliant episode. And I'm not talking about "wow that's brilliant," although it was.

5 stages of grief
Denial
Anger
Bargaining
Depression
Acceptance

oh yeah that vacation thingy
Perhaps the best time I've spent this winter break was going into Boston over last night and most of today. I got to see Tom, Frank, Lauren and Jordan. It was delightful, delicious, dare I say "delovely."

random song references
My brother was playing a track on the way into Cambridge last night that referenced a song I sang in high school. It was by Mos Def and Talib Kweli. Whatever they themselves. The hip-hop song that is. "Black is the color of my true love's hair." A really, really classical song that I wouldn't expect anyone ever to know. I was, needless to say, blindsided.

more songs about buildings and people
Dr. Cameron, a fellow at the Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital under Dr. House, the head of diagnostic medicine, has a patient who complained of a cough. When she took a CT scan of the lungs, all signs pointed to terminal lung cancer, but Cameron refused to diagnose it until all other possibilities were completely ruled out.

Cameron first goes to House to try and get some sort of alternate diagnosis. He keeps on trying to get her to admit that patient is dying, and eventually, when asked to write up the differential diagnosis, instead puts ont he board the 5 stages of grieving / 5 stages of death. This of course isn't well received.

Later in the episode, Cameron needs House to approve an elaborate and fairly unnecessary test. First she yells at him, because he's more concerned with his patient who's an inmate on death row than her seemingly deserving cancer victim, but eventually offers to do his clinic hours for him. He looks at her for a while. "You know," he says, "this is supposed to be for the victim, but you just transitioned seamlessly from anger to bargaining," crossing them off of the list.

Finally, at the end of the episode, House is brooding alone in his office, drinking, as Leonard Cohen's "Halleluja" plays in the background. We're pretty certain he's thinking about his ex-girlfriend who is now married and works as the lawyer for the hospital. He glances over at the board, where everything but "depression" and "acceptance" are crossed out. The last shot is him erasing the word "acceptance."

I've laid this plot out for you in a logical way, perhaps even in a form eerily similar to some sort of fan fiction, but you have to imagine that there's an entirely different main plot that runs in between each of these paragraphs, and so the last scene becomes a sort tying everything together in an expected way kind of thing. Plus, Hugh Laurie has those amazingly expressive eyes.

some one sentence reviews of bars
Cambridge Brewing Company - Excellent variety of custom blends is worth the trip, especially considering the reasonable price and good service.

Miracle of Science - A cute theme for a bar, it's pretty average, but being able to buy by the pitcher is a plus.

Asgaard - Someone said this was fo-Irish, I thought it was more vaguely-modern-European with a moderately impressive draft list and an MIT clientèle.

Jack's - (I think this is waht it's called, I know it's in the Theatre District and called something like "Jack's") Amazing draft and bottled selection, but you pay for what you get; this is still the Real Deal.

metaphors suck
I feel like house, popping my Vicadin of DVD releases of TV shows (well, one in particular), various alcoholic beverages (wine tonight) and jazz music. Something to numb the mind perhaps rather than eliminate it from the system. I forgot how tastey they were.

depression =>? acceptance
Such a small step in the way, but then it turns into a labyrinth or something crazy like that.