updatez

so...it's been a while. the last post was late april and--as you can tell from the punctuation--was by one of our other bloggers. it's not that i've gotten lazy (although i have...), just that other bloggs demanded attention. h2brOs.com, EachCastleHasATroll.com, HibachiReview.com, and soon to be VeganLeatherDaddy.com and EarthFireWindWaterHeart.com. ...so get off my back.

anyways...

i've been in NYC, so i haven't been watching much (no tv feed and an internet connection that's firewalled up the wazoo [no freakin' vpn!!!!]), but i'll catch you up on what i have seen.

BTW--all movie related posts are now located at EachCastleHasATroll.com

since the last time i updated i've done the sopranos from beginning to end. now that it's more contextualized for me (i originally watched seasons 1 and 6 when they aired, but nothing in between), i must say i'm madly in love with the last episode, but not the ending. obviously, chase wanted to either make a splash or leave things open. if he really wanted to do something cool and (i guess?)pseudo artistic, which he implies, his last shot should have been from tony's POV. but that is what it is. the cut to phil leotardo's last scene could possibly be my favorite of all time in any medium. ...a fantastic show.

weeds season 4 is alive and kicking. glad to see they eliminated the intro, as it wouldn't have been applicable anymore. and i'm shocked at how well they managed to pull all of these ends together. episode one was lacking, but two and three were each exponentially better than the last, with four (and beyond) looking promising.

celebrity family feud? it's horrid--and i'm in love.

and that's what i've got for you. more to come more frequently--i promise--, but don't expect a noticeable spike in posting until the summer ends.

...i love you all.

south park season 12 pt 1 subsector 8 form 26b microfieche

with the conclusion of season 12 part 1, aggrocrag readers will soon finally be treated to a post about something other than south park. ...soon. for now, more 'park it is.

last night's journey to days of field trips yore brought with it the first predictable cartman/butters episode of the series. the formerly novel and always brilliant recipe instantly became formulaic, and some may even say it had echoes of shark jumping (...say it ain't so!). besides that, i was irked by one specific, tiny line that hopefully is not a sign of something bigger to come: the police officer commenting on how annoying the people at the 1800s village are for never breaking character. it was a non-sensible diagetic oversight that played down to a dumb audience--something south park is fantastic at rarely doing. add this to a season without a single real bright spot (besides the 30 seconds of butters singing "what what in your butt," which loses replayability quickly and illuminated their struggles to pick up on potentially brilliant plot lines) (and perhaps the kenny/cheesing episode, which was by far and away the best of the first half of the season but still terrible compared to the classics) and it looks like we may be in for a bumpy ride to the finish.
we should note that it's still the best show on tv.

in other news, matt groening (sp?) interviewing david chase at the writer's guild this past week was exactly as fulfilling as most wga events: i left saying "it was worth the 10 bucks and howevermany hours of my life...but just barely." if you're around in late april and may, though, james l. brooks and judd apatow are coming 'round the bend...