jesus christ, graduate school--stop killing all my blogs!
of course, all it takes is a new south park season (and maybe some spring break) to bring us back into action.
after the controversy surrounding their potential display of the profit mohammad, i'm shocked south park got away with displaying the american profit mickey without us hearing about it beforehand. notorious for their rapidity in suing anyone who displays a trademark in any sort of way (example: preschools), disney is sure to get a bit annoyed over south park's anti-christian, hitler-meets-napoleon version of their iconic anthropomorph. but maybe the higher-ups at mouse will realize any law suit will just fuel matt n' trey's fire; maybe this will go ignored.
either way--brilliant comeback with very littler cartman is a good sign for things to come. let's see where this goes next.
that malcolm thing, described below, will come eventually--i just need to wait for the cycle to reset.
i've moved on to the shield now (almost done with season 3), and am catching up with dexter (half way through 2). both are very strong. mad men as well.
the new season of degrassi has been fantastic. and flight of the conchords s2 is kicking the living crap out of s1, which is an impressive feat.
east bound and down: weak first three episodes, although you could see something good was brewing. amazing fourth episdoe. david gordon mothaffffffudgin green.
24's new season has been almost as good as the first three, and the last episode was one of the best yet. they've finally taken it back to where it needs to be.
tim and eric have outdone themselves 50-fold this season.
best show you're not watching: deeper throat. showtime porn reality show about remaking the 70s classic.
breaking bad season 2. cued up on my tivo....NOW.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
ahhhhhhhh
Friday, March 21, 2008
Friday, March 7, 2008
House Part 4 makes House Party 3 look like House Party 2
I just recently had a conversation with someone who thought Season 6 of 24 was, in her words, "like 100x better than Season 5". Is this statement punishable by death, or just torture from Jack Boward?
Sunday, February 3, 2008
in honor of the end being in sight...
for those of you who haven't heard yet, it appears the strike may be dead by monday morning. and that the giants will be superbowl champions by that time too. perchance to dream...
i've been meaning to post on this for a while now, so i will use this potential end to end our...erm...um...strike as well and get while the gettin's good.
24 last season. what. the. hell. here's the thing: while in theory it's cool to see jack stop a bomb from blowing up all of los angeles or the usa or the world or whatever, i really have no concept of what that means in my head, and i also really don't care in reality. jack fighting a drone or killing large numbers of people in non-hand-to-hand combat just doesn't do it for me. it's not jack's act of saving people that gets me excited, it's jack kicking ass. period. the show has gotten too far from that. with that in mind, and with the idea that keifer is signed up through season 8, here's my plan of what should have happened after season 5. keep in mind that season 5 ends with jack in a chinese prison.
season 6: ep 1-8 jack single handedly breaks out of a chinese prison with no help from anyone but himself. hand to hand combat, jack fighting for the life we viewers care about most (his own), and kicking ass and taking names. at the end of ep 8 jack makes contact with CTU, and by ep 10 he's lost it. ep 12 he gets caught by the chinese and we think that CTU must have sold him out. it turns out, however, that in reality country X (arab, eastern eurpean--pick your poison) has threatened both china and the USA, and they've brokered a deal to let jack go as long as he works along side china to stop this thing. meanwhile, in america, a bright young whippersnapper with an appetite for destruction is fighting the terrorists from CTU's base. curtis, perhaps? jack this time gets notoriety for his help and is interviewed by the news at the end of the season.
season 7: someone had picked up on jack's story and done research. jack has basically become a USA-saving celebrity, and all of america acknowledges how much he's done. he hates the attention, but in honor of david he runs for political office. think of it as a modified season 1, but a) it's not just an attempt on jack's life but also an international terrorist attack, and b) the candidate running for office kicks. major. ass.
season 8: jack is in office--the new palmer--and working with the new jack to save the world. at the end, jack gives his life to save millions. this is where it's ok to use a bomb or a mass destruction device--we don't want to see jack die a weak death, after all.
season 9 and beyond: curtis--or whoever the new jack has been in training since season 6--takes over. and the show lives on...
in other news, i saw rambo last night. it was unbelievable. it completely owned up to what it was and it did not hold back at all. not for a single second. ...so this is what happens when you give a camera to someone with 'roid rage...? the only thing cooler would have been if it were in 3D and/or if it even owned it more and self-referentially decided not to use any english dialog or sub titles throughout the entire movie. and john rambo's dad's first initial is R? i would LOVE it if it turns out his dad's name is Rambo Rambo.
that's is all. GO GIANTSSSSSS.
Monday, January 28, 2008
things i've learned during--and, in one way or another, as a result of--the strike
-jon stewart is even funnier a person than i had given him credit for.
-it's always sunny in philadelphia is hysterical. charlie is one of the greatest characters ever.
-robot chicken is what happens when family guy has no allegiance to main characters.
-as hard as this is to admit to myself, i actually get lonely without my favorite shows having new episodes. i hated the last season of 24, and i was not particularly looking forward to this one, but jack bower's absence in my life is certainly felt.
-the simpsons can still actually be funny. that 90's show, season 19 ep 11, was one of the best i have ever seen. the BTTF reference...incredible.
-the wire is hands down the most brilliant television show ever made.
-nick gas really is dead. i love the n, but i was fine having it a few hours a day on noggin. the world is a sadder place without gas.