Wednesday, November 30, 2005

I sleep now

A few quick reviews in lieu of actual interesting posting.

The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra is B-movie spoofing at its finest. I laughed quite heartily throughout, although it begins to wear at the end. Still, it has many classic lines that you will want to repeat over and over with your friends in public until the people haven't seen it yet get annoyed and tell you to shut up.


Alfred Hitchcock presents, season 1 is 39 episodes of entertainment. I find it quite enjoyable. And 39 episodes for one season? That is 2 normal seasons and 3 first seasons today.

Smallville is pretty good this season. Slightly less angst, a lot more comic book type action. Nice to see James Marsters back too. And the episode of Aquaman was classic. Rumor has it that they're going to do Aquaman as a TV series, although it won't be a spinoff of Smallville.

Of the 3 new Alien Invasion series, Surface is by far the best. In terms of actually moving the plot forward, weird and scary moments and great special effects for a TV series. Invasion is okay, but it feels like the plot is inching along. Like all they had was the premise and don't know what to do with it from there. Threshold is okay, sometimes it's really good, sometimes not. It's certainly the grossest. It will probably be the first to be cancelled though. Lost is still entertaining, but I still need to be convinced that the writers are going somewhere interesting with the show.

I went to a midnight showing of Harry Potter and found it pretty enjoyable. Although I continue to think of Harry as a mediocre individual, only able to do the things he does by cheating and the help of other people. But that's just a nitpick.

Wednesday, November 23, 2005

News Flash!

Okay, this may not be news to some of you, but after 3 near misses in traffic today, I have come to the following realization: I am a horrible driver. I think I was pretty decent at one point in time (or maybe not, who knows?). But now, oh god now, I'm amazed I'm still alive. So . . . yeah. Try and forget this post when you visit me and I insist on driving you around town.

Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Regurgitation Station

"So, when you want incredible entertainment experiences in your lap . . ." -- latest intel commercial.

I'm juvenile for thinking this is funny, I know, but I laughed a bit when I heard it. Does Intel really think they're the #1 source for "incredible entertainment" in your lap?

Monday, November 14, 2005

Regurgitation Station

"They said we were going to be greeted with sweets and flowers . . . they left out the crucial modifier 'exploding'" -- Al Franken

Tuesday, November 08, 2005

If only my house had this view


oh canada eh
Originally uploaded by hbot3000.
I want to go back to the Banff gondola. I didn't really have time to explore as much as I wanted to. Got some nice shots of the view though (which I'll finish posting to flickr later). Good times.