leather wings.

i've been on vacation since a week ago today, which would've been friday, the 21st of december in the year of our lord, and only now, right now, am i enjoying myself somewhat...

"this will destroy you," a band i love dearly, has a new album coming out in '08, and they've been giving away copies of it at their shows, and i managed to nab one, and it's so breath-taking, it brings salt to the eyes.

i was pretty apprehensive about watching the bbc version of, "the office," even though i had heard it was funnier than the one i love very much here in the states, but having tracked through the first six episodes of the first season, i can honestly say, i do enjoy the bbc version a hell of a lot more than ours...

what's fascinating to me is the dialect used in england. shit, cock, and other words we consider vulgar here, and used freely there. there version of vulgarity is words like wanker, or piss. piss to them is like what fuck is to us. i'm intrigued by that in so many ways.

now, here's the part where it was hard at first for me to swallow the show as a whole.

the first episode, is as literal a translation as you can get, almost word for word, to what the first episode of the us version is. but, the us version took it from them, but seeing as how i saw the us version first, it makes it all the more odd for me.

everything that we have on ours, is there in different wording and fashion. the characters are similar, for instance, their jim and pam, is dawn and tim, and i honestly adore dawn and tim more. because the characters are so endearing and sweet, and painstakingly honest with one another.

what i like about this version more than anything, is it lasted for two seasons and a two part christmas special, and then it ended. they finalized the story, and ended it, where as, as it often is in the U.S., milked as much as possible until the strike happened. i think that's why i disliked season four so much. because it probably could have ended at three with that sweet moment where jim and pam finally hook up, roll credits.

another thing i find interesting with the bbc version, is david brent and gareth keenan, the british version of michael scott and dwight schrute, have a sweet, childlike friendship.

they're both sort of buffoons, but they get each other, where as michael scott is constantly insulting dwight and looking down on him.

i'm not saying our version doesn't work, because i fell in love with it long before i eve saw the bbc version, i'm just saying, it pales in comparison and doesn't hold a candle to the bbc version. ricky gervais is a true genius.