Just getting ready for my trip. Should be a good one. I have The Wedding Singer on in the background and it's still pretty good. Adam Sandler movies are so inconsistent. Half of them are pretty great and half of them are terrible.
In reading other blog posts, I realize I should probably mention that we did get some snow here. It snowed pretty much all day yesterday, so there's probably about a foot. I don't know for sure, but it was kind of a lot for somebody with no boots. I spent all day yesterday inside trying to avoid the cold and that worked out, but I needed to get some stuff today so I had no choice but to brave it in sneakers.
No pictures or videos of dogs running around in snow, though.
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Friday, December 18, 2009
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Possibly the greatest movie ever and if aliens ever land and try to figure out what humans were all about before President Palin blew us all to smithereens, this is the one video they need to pick up.
L&0S20
I just finished catching up on Law & Order season 20, and even though nobody who reads this blog cares, I'm going to talk some more about it. The season isn't over yet, but it has been shaping up nicely. It was satisfying to see the drug cartel's ex-DA mouthpiece get convicted, as well as ICEBURNED by Connie on the stand. Jason Jones's continuing role as a right-wing blowhard talking head is of course hilarious on a meta level. Lupo and Bernard keep on being awesome.
Of course the big storyline is the lieutenant having cancer and having Ernie Hudson (yes, Winston!) as a boyfriend. I'm guessing she'll be leaving the show by the end of the season, either dying or just retiring. Apparently she is the longest running character on the show, which is kind of cool. Actually the medical examiner appeared first, Wikipedia tells me, but has appeared fewer times.
This Lt. is clearly a lot better than Cragen (thumbs down) and has only gotten better as the series has progressed. It was nice to see Curtis return, if only for a few minutes, looking REALLY old and mentioning Lenny (!!!). It makes me wonder if Green will ever return. L & O fans will recall that he just left the force after his return to his gambling addiction, and Jesse L. Martin hasn't died, so a return at some point, even if it is only for an episode or something, is certainly possible. As he is one of my favorite detectives, that would be a real treat. The more pressing question is who will replace Lt. Van Buren if she does in fact leave the show. My guess would be a new character, as it seems unlikely that they would promote one of the detectives that we all know and love, especially since neither of the current detectives are particularly experienced, with only a couple seasons between them. Of course there is the possibility of bringing back a previous detective to replace her, but I have my doubts. Here is a slapdash list:
1. Green - Unlikely due to the circumstances of his departure, plus it's not like the actor probably needs this fairly small role.
2. Fontana - I'm pretty sure he's retired and again I doubt Farina would want a role like that.
3. Cassidy - In the words of Wayne, yeah, right...
4. Falco - Nobody liked him in the first place.
5. Cragen - I guess he could move back from SVU, but I'm pretty sure he was disgraced and all. I would root against this possibility, anyway. SVU just keeps getting worse from what I can tell and drags all its characters down with it.
6. Logan - He left CI and I doubt he'd come back, but who knows? They seem to love his character even though he's sort of bland and was always overshadowed in my mind by Briscoe.
7. New Guy/Gal - I see this as most likely. They should probably get a new woman, or this show will start failing the Bechdel test, although I suppose it failed that test for most of its run.
That's about all I have for now.
Of course the big storyline is the lieutenant having cancer and having Ernie Hudson (yes, Winston!) as a boyfriend. I'm guessing she'll be leaving the show by the end of the season, either dying or just retiring. Apparently she is the longest running character on the show, which is kind of cool. Actually the medical examiner appeared first, Wikipedia tells me, but has appeared fewer times.
This Lt. is clearly a lot better than Cragen (thumbs down) and has only gotten better as the series has progressed. It was nice to see Curtis return, if only for a few minutes, looking REALLY old and mentioning Lenny (!!!). It makes me wonder if Green will ever return. L & O fans will recall that he just left the force after his return to his gambling addiction, and Jesse L. Martin hasn't died, so a return at some point, even if it is only for an episode or something, is certainly possible. As he is one of my favorite detectives, that would be a real treat. The more pressing question is who will replace Lt. Van Buren if she does in fact leave the show. My guess would be a new character, as it seems unlikely that they would promote one of the detectives that we all know and love, especially since neither of the current detectives are particularly experienced, with only a couple seasons between them. Of course there is the possibility of bringing back a previous detective to replace her, but I have my doubts. Here is a slapdash list:
1. Green - Unlikely due to the circumstances of his departure, plus it's not like the actor probably needs this fairly small role.
2. Fontana - I'm pretty sure he's retired and again I doubt Farina would want a role like that.
3. Cassidy - In the words of Wayne, yeah, right...
4. Falco - Nobody liked him in the first place.
5. Cragen - I guess he could move back from SVU, but I'm pretty sure he was disgraced and all. I would root against this possibility, anyway. SVU just keeps getting worse from what I can tell and drags all its characters down with it.
6. Logan - He left CI and I doubt he'd come back, but who knows? They seem to love his character even though he's sort of bland and was always overshadowed in my mind by Briscoe.
7. New Guy/Gal - I see this as most likely. They should probably get a new woman, or this show will start failing the Bechdel test, although I suppose it failed that test for most of its run.
That's about all I have for now.
Thursday, December 17, 2009
L&0S19
As I mentioned in a previous post, one of the things that rocks about time off is time to catch up on tv shows I may have missed. I just finished season 19 of Law & Order, which deals on and off with McCoy's run for DA and the almost comically corrupt governor trying to make deals with him, helping out his opponent, and eventually resigning after his ridiculous scandals catch up with him. It is artfully done all season and I have to hand it to the writers of the show. They may lack some subtlety, but the way they managed to string that story out in bits across the whole season is pretty great.
Lupo and Bernard are quickly becoming my favorite detective pair. It is hard to say that they're better than Brisco and Green, but they're up there. They have great chemistry despite them both being smart mouths. I'm kind of glad that they didn't do too much with Lupo and Rubirosa or a possible romance between Cutter and Rubirosa. She's fantastic and is now either my #1 or #2 favorite ADA. Cutter's alright, what with his ridiculous legal theories that somehow work out, but I have to say they are being very generous with the convictions given the evidence that he uses all the time. Also it kind of annoys me that he was promoted over Rubirosa, who, as I mentioned, is great, and has a very fun name to say, to boot. Alright, that's it. On to season 20 or maybe some zombie movies.
Lupo and Bernard are quickly becoming my favorite detective pair. It is hard to say that they're better than Brisco and Green, but they're up there. They have great chemistry despite them both being smart mouths. I'm kind of glad that they didn't do too much with Lupo and Rubirosa or a possible romance between Cutter and Rubirosa. She's fantastic and is now either my #1 or #2 favorite ADA. Cutter's alright, what with his ridiculous legal theories that somehow work out, but I have to say they are being very generous with the convictions given the evidence that he uses all the time. Also it kind of annoys me that he was promoted over Rubirosa, who, as I mentioned, is great, and has a very fun name to say, to boot. Alright, that's it. On to season 20 or maybe some zombie movies.
Friday, December 11, 2009
Watching TV
One of the good things about break is watching tv. Usually it is terrible, actually, but I just happened upon a rerun of the Monk finale, which I hadn't seen. I have to say that it seems like a cheap way to end the show to suddenly introduce his wife's daughter, and the false suspense of will he survive the poison and all that. Also lame that the killer wasn't a major character, at least, it wasn't anybody that I knew from what little I had watched of the show. The ending song, however, is pretty good. It seems kind of weird in that only one character is actually leaving. When shows end, I think it is customary for the characters to go their separate ways and then their nostalgia makes sense. In this one, though, only the viewers are really aware that it is an ending, so why would the characters get weird? Whatever, I just wanted to find that song.
Star Trek
I wrote that I would get back to talking about Star Trek, so I'll put together a few disorganized thoughts here.
The cast was pretty good all around, and it was pretty cool how they managed to find people who looked something like their respective predecessors. New Spock in particular looked similar. New Sulu is the wrong ethnicity, I guess, but Old Sulu came to our school and talked about how the name Sulu was chosen to represent Asia without being a particular national name, so that's no thing.
Sulu got to swordfight and that was awesome. We never got enough of that. New Chekov was amusing, from not being able to say v's to running down to the transporter room yelling "I can do that!"New Kirk was pretty much exactly what a young Kirk should be, punching people, getting into trouble and in general being ridiculous.
McCoy was my favorite character, so I was glad that the new guy did a good job and they wrote what little he was in pretty much perfectly in keeping with the character. It was nice how they explained without explaining really why his nickname is Bones.
New Spock was alright, but I didn't like the fact that he is with New Uhura. It really doesn't make any sense, but both of them were good. Old Spock was nice, but where is old Kirk, the SHAT, when you need him?
The only one I wasn't a fan of was Scotty. He was supposed to be a comic character, I guess, but he and that little alien dude with him were just kind of annoying. The villain was also kind of so-so and I kept thinking of him as the Hulk the whole time.
The story was alright overall, even if it involved flying spaceships through black holes into alternate universes.
Captain Pike - good reference, as was the brain worm thing, which I took to be an homage to Star Trek II. Anyway, I guess that's enough.
The cast was pretty good all around, and it was pretty cool how they managed to find people who looked something like their respective predecessors. New Spock in particular looked similar. New Sulu is the wrong ethnicity, I guess, but Old Sulu came to our school and talked about how the name Sulu was chosen to represent Asia without being a particular national name, so that's no thing.
Sulu got to swordfight and that was awesome. We never got enough of that. New Chekov was amusing, from not being able to say v's to running down to the transporter room yelling "I can do that!"New Kirk was pretty much exactly what a young Kirk should be, punching people, getting into trouble and in general being ridiculous.
McCoy was my favorite character, so I was glad that the new guy did a good job and they wrote what little he was in pretty much perfectly in keeping with the character. It was nice how they explained without explaining really why his nickname is Bones.
New Spock was alright, but I didn't like the fact that he is with New Uhura. It really doesn't make any sense, but both of them were good. Old Spock was nice, but where is old Kirk, the SHAT, when you need him?
The only one I wasn't a fan of was Scotty. He was supposed to be a comic character, I guess, but he and that little alien dude with him were just kind of annoying. The villain was also kind of so-so and I kept thinking of him as the Hulk the whole time.
The story was alright overall, even if it involved flying spaceships through black holes into alternate universes.
Captain Pike - good reference, as was the brain worm thing, which I took to be an homage to Star Trek II. Anyway, I guess that's enough.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
More to Come
I saw the new Star Trek movie, finally. More to come on that later, though. I'm busing trying to finish a take home exam in the next two days.
Friday, December 4, 2009
Small Event
Michael Cera came to campus to promote his new movie, and they actually showed a screening of it. At least I think they did. I went to see him talk for a few minutes, but apparently they don't know how to run DVDs here and kept messing it up, so I got bored and left to go to a holiday reception just for the purpose of getting free food, which worked out pretty well. Ah, well, almost done for the quarter...
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