"The Walking Dead" shattered cable records with it's season two premiere. I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure that these zombies had something to do with it.
RANDOM THOUGHTS:
It's amazing how some of the little things just come together full circle in life, usually by chance. Last weekend, I was listening to one of my city's local rock stations, the kind of rock station where it's all about the music, as demonstrated by their D.J.s' 24 hour long monotone voices and barely any catchy slogan for their station (a.k.a. the best rock stations), and on came a song that I really enjoyed. It was this modern blues-rock song about love that was both catchy and wonderful to listen to, yet I didn't know either the band that played it nor the name of the song. As a result, I never thought about it for the rest of the day. Then, once night came and I spent time surfing the Web for some interesting thing to read and/or watch, a rather unusual thought came to my mind about searching music by "The Black Keys," a band that I have heard of multiple times being good yet never actually had the chance to listen to. So, I searched for their music on YouTube, and lo and behold, what was the first song that came up? "Next Girl" (the one that I included on Monday's "Random Thoughts") a.k.a. the one that I heard earlier in the morning. The circle of life!
(Also, feel free to mock me for finally discovering the Black Keys in the comments section. I wouldn't mind. In fact, I deserve it for waiting years before finally getting a chance to both listen and immensely enjoy their music.)
Now, with that out of the way, time go get down to business. The following were on my mind between Monday, October 17th and Thursday, October 20th:
- Sunday's season premiere of "The Walking Dead" (of which I finally got around to viewing last night) encapsulates both everything that I enjoy about the show and everything that I hate about it. The first twenty minutes after the terrible exposition opening was fantastic in its intensity. Even though there weren't more than three zombie killings, the combination of the suspenseful score and the way it was shot made up for it in fabulous fashion. The other seventy minutes, where it was mostly dedicated to the characters talking and finding Sofia, was bad. The writing for this show continued to be in bad form ("Yo, JC! You takin' requests?"), the plot holes continue to re-surface (one episode they had to drench themselves in zombie flesh, but now they can just hide under cars without any disguises?) and the majority of the characters continue to be uninteresting and insufferable to the point that I just do not care if they make it out of these apocalypse alive and well (although I did enjoy the reveal of Daryl, Redneck Ninja). Plus, you just know that Carl will get saved from that bullet somehow. No way they're getting rid of a child this early in the series, not with another still being looked for.
I will keep DVRing this show for the rest of the season (live viewing at 8 p.m./CT is reserved for football and/or "Boardwalk Empire") as there is still some potential in it to become a truly great show that justifies their massive ratings (and to see how it changes once the Frank Darabont episodes wrap up before the end of the year). But from the looks of Sunday's episode, this show is going to take quite a bit of time to get there.
- Trading away a first round pick and a conditional second round pick for a quarterback that hasn't been good in at least 3 yrs. and spent the past few months mostly tailgating at USC games and contemplating retirement? Great job, Oakland!
- Isn't it fun to re-watch a good serialized TV show and see these small moments occur that you know in hindsight will play a big factor to the future. Personally, I feel like Nostradamus every time this happens.
- Funny how Republicans loved to call the fighting in Libya Obama's war, yet basically thanked everybody but him the moment Muammar Gaddafi was killed.
- Everytime I read the comments section on either AOL, Yahoo!, CNN and YouTube, I just wanna cry for humanity everywhere. On the bright side, their moderators must get a pretty hefty salary compared to other websites!
- The greatest trade void ever: (http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/7127181/jerome-harrison-tumor-which-voided-detroit-lions-philadelphia-eagles-trade-source-says)
- Rick Perry vs. Mitt Romney at the Republican presidential debates is more entertaining than any reality show fight that I've ever seen! Also, I can't help but feel that Romney touching Perry on the shoulder will be the most maverick thing Romney will ever do for the rest of his life.
More random thoughts to come on Monday! Until then, have a pleasant evening.
Sincerely,
Your pal: mj15
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