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January 30, 2007
Media explosion (or maybe a small pop, anyway)
You can blame the lag directly on Civ III. Every time I start playing that damn game I end up on this machine for like 15 hours. It's my latest time sink.
But that's not all I've been doing. I finally managed to find Silence of the Lambs while I was out for Northern Faire (I can't understand why that book was so hard to find), and finally managed to get myself into a reading mode to read it. That book, like the previous one, is a very fast and satisfying read. I already had Hannibal, but I was not about to touch it before reading Lambs because that's how it's supposed to be. Hannibal was a good read too, but nowhere near as fast as the previous two. And now I must get around to watching Hannibal Rising, because it should be at least a decent watch, if not downright bitchin'. (It better be good...)
I finally caught Napoleon Dynamite when Comedy Central played it awhile back. Cute, well worth the watch, but not at all up to the hype it got. But I guess it being an indie geek flick it needed the extra hype to get people's attention, so I won't say that the hype was undeserved. Still an entirely cute movie.
I also borrowed the bro-in-law's copy of King's little book The Colorado Kid, which is part of some Hard Case line of noir/detective type books. Interesting read, and fast considering that the book is really slim. It's not bad but it's not great, and I can't really critique it much because anything I say would be something of a spoiler. Definitely a good way to kill an afternoon at any rate.
I set a timer on the tube to catch The Dresden Files, and I have yet to be disappointed. The two eps I've seen so far have been good and left me wanting more. I haven't read (or even seen) the books that it's based on, but I like how the first episode didn't bother with any educational catch-up material - it just started and went on as if you had a good idea what was happening, letting the context come into play on its own. I get tired sometimes of having so much explained to me when that time could be spent just telling a good story.
I didn't set a timer for Enterprise though, and I suppose I should have. I miss part of the block because Six Feet Under comes on (yes, I've seen them all but I like that show) but at least I get to watch it and see how they managed the prehistory of the Star Trek series. Mainly I wanted to catch it to hear the theme song, because everyone said it was awful. It is. The whole beginning credits montage is nice, but having that horrible song playing over it turns it into pure Velveeta - somebody should be punished. Horrible theme aside, the show is pretty zippy - my only problem so far is how they're dealing with the Klingon thing. I don't know why, it just seems too PC and fakey.
Okay, that's enough babble out of the Entertainment Tonight section of my brain.
Posted by damyano at January 30, 2007 12:11 AM