My house's satellite dish broke this week and, since I don't have a single TV with a DTV converter box, I was unable to watch TV for four days. All I can say is, I love the Internet much more than previously before. With Hulu, YouTube, TV network websites that show full episodes of their shows and any video site, it has made the whole no-TV for half a week experience much easier than it would have been a few years back.
Anyways, time for the RTs. The following were on my mind between Monday, August 2nd and Monday, August 9th:
- You know that people are getting less and less interested in talking to other human beings on the phone when you can barely speak to a single company on a phone. Instead, you have speak to some computer for a half hour followed by a ten minute holding period.
-Damn you FOX Sports! Everytime I've been watching one of your Saturday baseball games lately, I've been greeted with 1/2 of your scoring bug, the most important part with the game score and inning information (balls, strikes, outs) by the way, cut away most likely to suit the audience watching it in 16:9 widescreen. As someone who doesn't have a high definition TV or HD channels yet, it sucks! Yes, I know that standard def TVs are outdated.Yes, I know I should be getting an HDTV by now. But until then, could you please not pour salt over my wound and at least show the full scoring graphic? Is that too much to ask?
- Why does "The Today Show" constantly bring the Duggar family back to their show?
- Watching a TV program specifically about TV commercials that has commercial breaks is like looking in a Land O' Lakes butter packet with the Indian girl mascot holding a Land O'Lakes butter packet of her holding a Land O'Lakes butter packet that, too, shows her holding a Land O'Lakes butter packet and so on and so forth into infinity. It's just that weird to me.
- The similarities of "The Hurt Locker" and "The Kids Are All Right" are very eerie, kind of like the comparisons that many people made between Jeff Bridges's character in "Crazy Heart" and Mickey Rourke's character in "The Wrestler." Both movies had wide releases in the summer, both are critically acclaimed, both were directed by a woman, both have about the same ratings on Rotten Tomatoes ("The Hurt Locker" has a 97% rating while "The Kids Are All Right" has 96%), both were one of the most talked about movies at the festivals in which they premiered ("the Hurt Locker" at the Venice Film Festival and "The Kids Are All Right" at the Sundance film festivals), both had some good acting and both have some of the day's biggest taboos in their plot (the Iraq war and lesbian families, respectively). Does this mean a Best Picture win for "The Kids Are All Right" this upcoming March? Probably not. But I still feel really good after saying last July that "The Hurt Locker" has a good chance of winning an Oscar, so I feel like trying to do it again with "The Kids Are All Right."
- I have some really high expectations for HBO's fall show "Boardwalk Empire." Steve Buscemi, Omar from "The Wire," former writer of "The Sopranos" Terrence Winter as the executive producer, Martin Scorsese directing the pilot, big budget, good early reviews of the first few episodes (Alan Sepinwall of HitFix.com called it "the best thing I've seen at the (TCA) press tour, and probably going back many, many press tours")...basically if it isn't at least as good as the "Treme" pilot, I will be disappointed.
- "Mad Men" Quote of the Week: "But nobody knows what's wrong with themselves. Everyone else knows right away."
-Stephanie, niece of Anna Draper to Don in a conversation with him. A good quote to describe the characters on the show, don't ya think?
More random thoughts to come, as usual, next Monday. Until then, enjoy the rest of your week.
Sincerely,
Your pal: mj15
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