Welcome back everyone!
y'all had a good weekend. mine was pretty decent I guess.
Saturday I went to IKEA for the first time ever. I know I know, i'm Swedish, shoulda been there before. But it was really cool, I like modern looking houses and most of the stuff at Ikea looks very modern. I found a bunch of random stuff I'll probably buy for my eventual house or apartment, I just don't see the point in refurnishing my room here, I don't want to be here for too much longer
And the way the Catalog is set up is amazing. I love the virtual reality thing, it's so cool!
Anyway the point to this post is to just update on a few things, I'm hoping to finish the basement sometime this year. Do any of you have cool finished Basements? If so, what do they look like?
Otherwise I'm gonna get back on top of my Isaac Cosplay, I'll probably work on the Health spine and Shoulder pauldron this week leading up to my other cousin's wedding on Saturday. (is it Saturday? I think so)
I'll quickly tell you the shows i'm currently watching Live every week.
Breaking Bad:
So Breaking Bad is back! HELL YEAH! I Loved the new episode, I wont spoil anything but it was genius, I love the final scene between, well, You'll have to see it. but "Tread lightly" was a perfect final line. This show is amazing and knowing there's only a few episodes left is just fantastic. I love when a show knows its ending and builds to it. I have no doubt this show will pay off big at the end. It's consistently been the best show on TV for 5 years now, I love it.
Newsroom:
I also really enjoy the Newsroom. It's considerably complex and the dialogue is so fast it takes a couple watchings to get it all but I think Aaron Sorkin finally has another winning show. and Jeff Daniels is awesome. Every once in a while the show touches on news stories I cant stand, like Trayvon martin, I know they were big at the time, but who really cares?
Under the Dome:
I kinda hate this show. It's a brilliant book chopped up into weekly pieces. one week the town worries about water, then it rains later in the Ep. one time there's a fire, it's put out at the end. one has a rocket coming to the dome, end it hits, everyone's fine. The show is too episodic. I was hoping for a show like Breaking Bad, week to week the story progresses, and it takes weeks for the problems to be resolved. The water story-line was just too quick. at the beginning someone mentions "we should have enough water for a few weeks, as long as the water tower is standing" ok, sure, I'm sure that will work, It's not like a character that's never had a seizure will have a Diabetic seizure and crash into the water tower....Oh damn, that's the next scene. so now, WATER CRISIS!!!! and the whole rest of the episode is broken into 2 story-lines. water, and getting Insulin for the lesbian woman. well, after 55 minutes of worrying about water, it rains. thank god! Its not like that could have been a good story-line or anything. and the lesbian woman dies, oh damn, guess the Diabetes isn't a good story-line either. oh, and Joe and Norrie find the dome's center mechanism, that was fast, will that be resolved next week or will they actually have a continuing story?
Every episode is set up like this, the only good parts of each episode are the last 5 minutes where they have some big cliffhanger or interesting plot point. but the next episode the show quickly dispels of the cool storyline and goes about its boring weekly problem of the week story.
Anyway I loved the book, it was a brilliant story and it had so many good long storylines but the show is butchering it, I miss Lost and I'll miss Breaking Bad and Dexter, long form storytelling is dying on TV. I hate it.
Wow, I kinda went off on a tangent there, where was I?
Whose Line is it Anyway?:
I love this show, Its amazing to watch the Improvisers do their thing.
But, the new revival has a few issues. (don't worry, not as many as the Dome)
1. The 'special guests', Ok I enjoyed Kevin Mchale. he has talent, but why oh why was there a real housewife of Beverly hills or the synchronized swimming team, or that one guy I cant remember from that one show no one watches? The guests only do 4 games...
1. Duet/song-styles: Wayne Brady sings to them.
2. Living scenery: Colin and Ryan touch the pretty girls awkwardly
3. helping hands: Colin makes Ryan eat disgusting things while the guests stand awkwardly
4. Dubbing: the guests get dubbed by Colin, and just end up standing there as the others do all the work.
that's it, the guests do nothing, they're just semi known people that have barely any talent. If you must have a guest just pull a random audience member like the old show, they you wouldn't have to waste the time bringing the people out.
2. Helping hands, this game is just pathetic, lowest brow humor possible.
3. commercials, It's no secret that TV has more commercials than it used to but this is pathetic, they do one game and go to commercial. ugh
4. the suggestions: what happened to audience suggestions? Aisha Tyler never asks the audience for suggestions, It just feels a little too predictable, the sideways scenes always end up with 'ninja/karate/martial arts, exorcist/paranormal activity/possession, and disaster movies. I miss the rapid fire games like Scenes from a hat, or film TV theatre styles or Questions only, or ABC, or hoedown even, the show is too reliable ont he same small group of games over and over.
wow I guess that was longer than I thought. I predict the show will get better after it gains an audience, the second season should be much better. hopefully
so that's all 4 at the moment, Low Winter sun will probably be added but it Conflicts with Newsroom right now.
I mentioned Dexter but I don't have Showtime so I cant watch it live.
I also watch Glee, but I dunno if i should admit that.
Supernatural is a DVD buy and instacram session.
y'all had a good weekend. mine was pretty decent I guess.
Saturday I went to IKEA for the first time ever. I know I know, i'm Swedish, shoulda been there before. But it was really cool, I like modern looking houses and most of the stuff at Ikea looks very modern. I found a bunch of random stuff I'll probably buy for my eventual house or apartment, I just don't see the point in refurnishing my room here, I don't want to be here for too much longer
And the way the Catalog is set up is amazing. I love the virtual reality thing, it's so cool!
Anyway the point to this post is to just update on a few things, I'm hoping to finish the basement sometime this year. Do any of you have cool finished Basements? If so, what do they look like?
Otherwise I'm gonna get back on top of my Isaac Cosplay, I'll probably work on the Health spine and Shoulder pauldron this week leading up to my other cousin's wedding on Saturday. (is it Saturday? I think so)
I'll quickly tell you the shows i'm currently watching Live every week.
Breaking Bad:
So Breaking Bad is back! HELL YEAH! I Loved the new episode, I wont spoil anything but it was genius, I love the final scene between, well, You'll have to see it. but "Tread lightly" was a perfect final line. This show is amazing and knowing there's only a few episodes left is just fantastic. I love when a show knows its ending and builds to it. I have no doubt this show will pay off big at the end. It's consistently been the best show on TV for 5 years now, I love it.
Newsroom:
I also really enjoy the Newsroom. It's considerably complex and the dialogue is so fast it takes a couple watchings to get it all but I think Aaron Sorkin finally has another winning show. and Jeff Daniels is awesome. Every once in a while the show touches on news stories I cant stand, like Trayvon martin, I know they were big at the time, but who really cares?
Under the Dome:
I kinda hate this show. It's a brilliant book chopped up into weekly pieces. one week the town worries about water, then it rains later in the Ep. one time there's a fire, it's put out at the end. one has a rocket coming to the dome, end it hits, everyone's fine. The show is too episodic. I was hoping for a show like Breaking Bad, week to week the story progresses, and it takes weeks for the problems to be resolved. The water story-line was just too quick. at the beginning someone mentions "we should have enough water for a few weeks, as long as the water tower is standing" ok, sure, I'm sure that will work, It's not like a character that's never had a seizure will have a Diabetic seizure and crash into the water tower....Oh damn, that's the next scene. so now, WATER CRISIS!!!! and the whole rest of the episode is broken into 2 story-lines. water, and getting Insulin for the lesbian woman. well, after 55 minutes of worrying about water, it rains. thank god! Its not like that could have been a good story-line or anything. and the lesbian woman dies, oh damn, guess the Diabetes isn't a good story-line either. oh, and Joe and Norrie find the dome's center mechanism, that was fast, will that be resolved next week or will they actually have a continuing story?
Every episode is set up like this, the only good parts of each episode are the last 5 minutes where they have some big cliffhanger or interesting plot point. but the next episode the show quickly dispels of the cool storyline and goes about its boring weekly problem of the week story.
Anyway I loved the book, it was a brilliant story and it had so many good long storylines but the show is butchering it, I miss Lost and I'll miss Breaking Bad and Dexter, long form storytelling is dying on TV. I hate it.
Wow, I kinda went off on a tangent there, where was I?
Whose Line is it Anyway?:
I love this show, Its amazing to watch the Improvisers do their thing.
But, the new revival has a few issues. (don't worry, not as many as the Dome)
1. The 'special guests', Ok I enjoyed Kevin Mchale. he has talent, but why oh why was there a real housewife of Beverly hills or the synchronized swimming team, or that one guy I cant remember from that one show no one watches? The guests only do 4 games...
1. Duet/song-styles: Wayne Brady sings to them.
2. Living scenery: Colin and Ryan touch the pretty girls awkwardly
3. helping hands: Colin makes Ryan eat disgusting things while the guests stand awkwardly
4. Dubbing: the guests get dubbed by Colin, and just end up standing there as the others do all the work.
that's it, the guests do nothing, they're just semi known people that have barely any talent. If you must have a guest just pull a random audience member like the old show, they you wouldn't have to waste the time bringing the people out.
2. Helping hands, this game is just pathetic, lowest brow humor possible.
3. commercials, It's no secret that TV has more commercials than it used to but this is pathetic, they do one game and go to commercial. ugh
4. the suggestions: what happened to audience suggestions? Aisha Tyler never asks the audience for suggestions, It just feels a little too predictable, the sideways scenes always end up with 'ninja/karate/martial arts, exorcist/paranormal activity/possession, and disaster movies. I miss the rapid fire games like Scenes from a hat, or film TV theatre styles or Questions only, or ABC, or hoedown even, the show is too reliable ont he same small group of games over and over.
wow I guess that was longer than I thought. I predict the show will get better after it gains an audience, the second season should be much better. hopefully
so that's all 4 at the moment, Low Winter sun will probably be added but it Conflicts with Newsroom right now.
I mentioned Dexter but I don't have Showtime so I cant watch it live.
I also watch Glee, but I dunno if i should admit that.
Supernatural is a DVD buy and instacram session.
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