While I was away
Made me think of those While You Were Away office notepads that you are supposed to write people messages on
Musically
It's all about The Magic Numbers for me right now. I have watched their performance on KCRW's MBE page about six or seven times.
Oh, and am I the only person who is stunned that Mariah is a) still touring and b) will probably sell it out here
Cinema
None, didn't even go to HIFF this year ... would have loved to see TRE though, oh well ... maybe on DVD if it never makes it back this way again
Politically
Burned out. There's nothing that I really want to talk about that would need to be said ... in other words, I have nothing to add about the conversation
So to reiterate ... affordable housing, gas prices, lying leaders, airplane molesters, Paris burning, judicial nominees ... and yes kids, don't fkn text while driving
Technologically
Have abandoned the great MSlop wireless experiment at home ... as a system goof required the Command button on a App keyboard, so that I could run utils from the command line
So one new ext HD later from OWC, the electronic music collection and other key stuff is in relative safe keeping ... let's just say that this really is a downside of electronic music -- the potential to vaporize into thin air
DVD
Have been slowly making our way through seasons of The Shield ... much like Sein, this is the cop show about nothing ... I mean, well acted high drama, but most eps have a crime and in a very small way move the overall arc ahead ... don't know why we like it so much
Picked up the Ep III set, came with a SofSW bonus dvd ... and you know, watching the bonus dvd made me think something. If they were able to coherently summarize all five (of six) eps in a way that cuts 15 hours into 1 hour of viewing time ... that's amazing, and they did it
In many ways, in the land where hindsight is 20/20, I for one may have preferred that the prequel trio, were cut back to just one movie ... not saying that ROTS is brilliant, but it is effective as a self-contained entity to get people where they need to be for the back end three
And I gotta get cracking on my mythology set of X-Fs ... has it really been that long since they left the air ...
Sports
Ironically people are more concerned about drinking at Aloha Stad than going to Aloha Stad for games ... I just have this feeling that the JJ era here has run its course and the goodwill that people once had for him is pretty darn near that E line
Other than that, I really haven't been following sports that closely so far this FB season ... or the other sports that are starting up right now
Bookish
I've been kind of in and out of a few books ... really like the one from The Sports Guy ... even though it is a book about Boston sports, his cultural and pop references and humor are relevant to my 30-something ass
Thought I would try on some Chuck K. (the Spin Mag guy), the music and pop culture critic ... I found his book on pop culture to be well, how do I put this nicely ... TIRESOME
I mean, I couldn't even get by his whole thesis on how guys our age are fuct because of the movie Say Anything ... essentially women are looking for Lloyd D. and for love that is like Coldplay music ... and that's in the first ten pages. So pending further review, that one will collect dust until I am of the proper temperament to read it
Maybe I might enjoy his book about 80s metal and glam better ... we'll see
TV (is TV, circular logic)
For some reason, I am unduly hooked into watching ASwim programming and different things on ComedyCent ... and I absolutely cannot stand reality TV at this point, not that I was such a big damn fan to begin with ... I am thinking of removing VH1 and MTV from the channel memory