Wondering what I've been up to all week while I've been holed up in my bunker? I watched things.
Pretty much the only new thing of note that I've watched in the last few days is this week's DOCTOR WHO. Unlike the last few years, I haven't been bothering to write about each individual episode of this series (season). I broke my plan to not watch this year though. So much for my giving up on the show. I did, however, skip a few episodes. (I didn't bother with the Agatha Christie one since it didn't look interesting to me. I never got around to the one with the clone girl who calls herself the Doctor's daughter either. FInally, I never got around to the one with the Doctor on the commercial space flight or whatever it is. I think that's the next one that's supposed to air here in the US. Skimming through those episodes, they all seemed like ones I could miss without missing anything important.) After next week's finale, I'll probably write a summary of my thoughts on the season. (Essentially, it's been mostly hit or miss and Catherine Tate was much much much better than I expected.)
Everything else has been older stuff.
HBO has been re-running all of George Carlin's comedy specials. So I've been re-watching one or two of those a day. I think he got much much funnier when he got older and more angry. The 70s stuff doesn't make me laugh anywhere near as much as his late 80s-current stuff.
The other night I re-watched HIGH TENSION. A really decent horror suspense movie marred by a "twist ending" that doesn't work that well. I may have to download the fan edit of the movie, which eliminates the twist. Speaking of which, I've recently discovered Fanedit.org, which has tons of re-edited movies. I've know about fan edits for awhile and for whatever reason it never clicked in my head that there might be a site for that sort of thing.
Last weekend I started checking out the first season of PSYCH. Not a bad show. The show has a nice little premise. In a nutshell, it's about a guy with great detective skills who pretends to be a psychic while working for the police department solving mysteries. The show is a little formulaic, and probably works best in smaller doses of one or two episodes a week rather than watching several back to back. In fact, I got a bit bored watching them back to back, which is why I stopped for a few days. I'm still on the fence about whether or not it's worth buying on DVD.
Instead I wound up watching the first three series of THE BRITTAS EMPIRE. I mainly grabbed these because its star, Chris Barrie, was in one of my all-time favorite shows, RED DWARF. At first I wasn't too interested in BRITTAS, but it grew on me the more that I watched. There's another four series of it out there, I just don't know if or when I'll get around to seeing them.
I also watched the TV version of DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS, which is sort of what you'd expect a version of THE HAPPENING made in the 80s minus the Shyamalan suck. Not terrible, not amazing. Given a re-watch in the future I imagine that I'd probably enjoy it even more. (Sometimes I don't get into things until I've seen them again.)
Currently in my "to watch" pile I've got about sixty movies and about ten TV shows (some multiple seasons). A lot of it, particularly the movies, has been piling up a for a long time. Part of the reason things pile up is that I wind up re-watching things I've already seen.
Somewhere in there I beat METAL GEAR SOLID 4. I didn't bother watching the ending though because I was sick of cut scenes by that point. (Plus I downloaded that half hour graveyard scene off of YouTube back before the game came out.)
The other day I had the riff to "Cold Gin" by KISS stuck in my head. So I picked up my acoustic* and played it. I wonder if Gene Simmons is going to want a few bucks for that.
* I play so infrequently these days, that hooking up all of the stuff to play one of my electrics hardly seemed worth the effort. I've pretty much reached the point where I'll probably just sell all of that junk off.
Pretty much the only new thing of note that I've watched in the last few days is this week's DOCTOR WHO. Unlike the last few years, I haven't been bothering to write about each individual episode of this series (season). I broke my plan to not watch this year though. So much for my giving up on the show. I did, however, skip a few episodes. (I didn't bother with the Agatha Christie one since it didn't look interesting to me. I never got around to the one with the clone girl who calls herself the Doctor's daughter either. FInally, I never got around to the one with the Doctor on the commercial space flight or whatever it is. I think that's the next one that's supposed to air here in the US. Skimming through those episodes, they all seemed like ones I could miss without missing anything important.) After next week's finale, I'll probably write a summary of my thoughts on the season. (Essentially, it's been mostly hit or miss and Catherine Tate was much much much better than I expected.)
Everything else has been older stuff.
HBO has been re-running all of George Carlin's comedy specials. So I've been re-watching one or two of those a day. I think he got much much funnier when he got older and more angry. The 70s stuff doesn't make me laugh anywhere near as much as his late 80s-current stuff.
The other night I re-watched HIGH TENSION. A really decent horror suspense movie marred by a "twist ending" that doesn't work that well. I may have to download the fan edit of the movie, which eliminates the twist. Speaking of which, I've recently discovered Fanedit.org, which has tons of re-edited movies. I've know about fan edits for awhile and for whatever reason it never clicked in my head that there might be a site for that sort of thing.
Last weekend I started checking out the first season of PSYCH. Not a bad show. The show has a nice little premise. In a nutshell, it's about a guy with great detective skills who pretends to be a psychic while working for the police department solving mysteries. The show is a little formulaic, and probably works best in smaller doses of one or two episodes a week rather than watching several back to back. In fact, I got a bit bored watching them back to back, which is why I stopped for a few days. I'm still on the fence about whether or not it's worth buying on DVD.
Instead I wound up watching the first three series of THE BRITTAS EMPIRE. I mainly grabbed these because its star, Chris Barrie, was in one of my all-time favorite shows, RED DWARF. At first I wasn't too interested in BRITTAS, but it grew on me the more that I watched. There's another four series of it out there, I just don't know if or when I'll get around to seeing them.
I also watched the TV version of DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS, which is sort of what you'd expect a version of THE HAPPENING made in the 80s minus the Shyamalan suck. Not terrible, not amazing. Given a re-watch in the future I imagine that I'd probably enjoy it even more. (Sometimes I don't get into things until I've seen them again.)
Currently in my "to watch" pile I've got about sixty movies and about ten TV shows (some multiple seasons). A lot of it, particularly the movies, has been piling up a for a long time. Part of the reason things pile up is that I wind up re-watching things I've already seen.
Somewhere in there I beat METAL GEAR SOLID 4. I didn't bother watching the ending though because I was sick of cut scenes by that point. (Plus I downloaded that half hour graveyard scene off of YouTube back before the game came out.)
The other day I had the riff to "Cold Gin" by KISS stuck in my head. So I picked up my acoustic* and played it. I wonder if Gene Simmons is going to want a few bucks for that.
* I play so infrequently these days, that hooking up all of the stuff to play one of my electrics hardly seemed worth the effort. I've pretty much reached the point where I'll probably just sell all of that junk off.
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