I haven’t been much on watching television lately. I’ve got a lot of shows on my pc right now, and I’d much rather watch uninterrupted programming than subject myself to the crappy commercials stuffed in my tiny little half hour of humor.
I’m surrounded by creativity, for free! Why am I paying to watch uninventive ads, doing nothing to hide the fact that they’re desperately trying to force something on me?
Every semester, I see a handful of projects from the Theatre students here, at VSU. I’d actually pay to see what they could come up with. I see ads all the time with great concepts, but they just don’t follow through right, or they get lazy and just don’t do the concept justice. Viewers should create commercials.
Ah, there’s the idea! Black Turtle Media thought the same thing, and thus they promote amateur and professional producers of commercial-grade advertising. And Black Turtle Media wants your work! They’re currently offering a contest for commercials on the Apple iPhone, Halo 3, and Decision 2008. The winner receives $5,000. I think I’m gonna pass that on to Brian. He’s one of the more prolific in turning out new projects, and I’m sure he wouldn’t mind the opportunity to earn some cash. Besides, he and Josh are always looking for their next project. They can’t just relax!
Everyone is encouraged to submit their own masterpieces, or just vote on the ones you like best. You could be voting on what you have to watch between segments of your favorite prime time drama *serious look*
I’m so excited! This season is looking pretty intense. That’s how I like my dramas
I really hope they bring up that whole “worse than the boogeyman,” thing within the first few eps. I’d really like to hear who’s more badass than Sylar!
No really, I do. Surprised? I doubt it. I love tv love too. I’ve watched the last few minutes of the season 2 finale of The Office at least five times now. More to come, I’m sure!
Writers/directors are so good at developing these characters you can identify so closely with, you really feel like it’s your world, not theirs. I love being able to get so caught up that I feel like I’m the one involved. The best is feeling so involved in a scene where there’s not even any dialogue–just pure emotion in body language, facial expressions, and actions. Damn, that’s the stuff.
This was one of those. This may be one of the handful of scenes that I can watch over and over and still have my heart flutter when I see it. Kristi found a video for me that cuts out the middle scene where they cut back to a different storyline. It’s got a great Death Cab song called “Brothers on a hotel bed” edited into the background that just revived the whole thing for me 100%.
I’m reluctant to move on to season 3 yet. I wanna hold onto this for a little bit.
I can’t even express it any further. I’m just gonna go swoon some more.
If you haven’t seen season 2, don’t watch this. If you ever plan on watching The Office, don’t watch this. It’s all so much better if you have no idea what’s coming and when.
Wow, well, I’m gonna show my age here, but I totally never realized the song “Got My Mind Set on You,” one of my favorite childhood songs, was from George Harrison. Oops! Just one of those things where you just never even think about it, so when the thought finally does occur to you, it’s like, “Duh!” Yeah, anyway…
I’m on VH1.com watching 2007 World Series of Pop Culture on VSPOT and it’s pretty much amazing! It’s basically a few lines of lyrics from a song and they have to get the name of the song, or maybe the artist. They’ve got different categories as well, and one of them was Rump Shakers and wow…you’ve basically got this host that they’ve made up to look like, straight out of Leave it to Beaver or something, and he’s reading out lines from things like Baby Got Back like he’s reading an owners manual or something. It’s hilarious!
They had a really great category of Weird Al songs and the contestants had to guess the name of the song it was a parody of! So far, I’d be dominating this mess. For real. Why can’t I get on an awesome game show? Haha, and as I’m typing this, I’m watching a clip of someone trying to guess “You Get What You Give,” from New Radicals, who I just posted about! Oh! And for most of these, they play the music video after the game show clip.
Which brings me to my final thought on this show. I still love The Police. Sting still makes me squee with delight when he sings and looks at the camera with that piercing gaze.
Ya know, I’m not a huge fan of Bill Cosby, and most of the time, I cringe when the Cosby Show comes on, but last night, I watched an episode while waiting for something else to come on, and all the wholesome junk aside, that’s true comedy. There were constantly all these great interactions going on that would crack you up, without any of the actors speaking. For instance, there was a scene where Claire and Cliff are talking about something, no comedy at all in what they were saying, but Cliff had a large hoagie cut in half and they kept going back and forth with Claire trying to take the sandwich, and even went so far as Cliff getting up to get them sodas and shaking up Claire’s. All the while, their conversation continued, and neither of them referred to what was going on with the sandwich, or the sodas.
Maybe it’s just me, but I can really appreciate that kind of humor. I wish there was more of that these days. Now, all we have is spoken humor, with the occasional physical humor (generally based on someone doesn’t something humiliating, like falling or something…) What’s so hard about that?
*sigh* The final episode aired last night. I was at work so I had to wait until it finally showed up online to download and watch it. At about 12 minutes in, I started crying and cried throughout the entirety of the episode. It was just so saddening to see it go, and so unsatisfactory. I decided that it might not have been so rough if we had known from the beginning of this season that this would be the last. It was just such a late decision, and I know they wrote it to be prepared for both a season and a series finale, but I think they could’ve done so much better had the decision been made a little sooner.
I feel dumb for being so attached, but I think it’s safe to say it’s fairly common for people to get really attached to at least one show, once.
It’s been quite a while since I’ve watched anything on Mtv, but they’ve got something coming that’s caught my attention!
“Reunited: The Real World” will reunite the original cast of “The Real World: Las Vegas” in their former home — the “Real World” suite at the Palms Casino Resort — to see what has happened in the five years since the seven cast members lived together and to document what happens when they reunite.
That was probably the last season of Real World I paid any attention to (ie: very little…)but I’m definitely intrigued!
So I pretty much randomly decided today to start downloading and watching episodes of Heroes. I saw the first two episodes when they aired and really liked the show, but I think it was my work schedule that kept me from making it a regular. I’m up to episode 6 and the rest should be downloading overnight.
Ryan cooked dinner for me Sunday night. We had barbecued chicken breasts, cornbread, cheesy potatoes, and shrimp! It was delicious =) He made a chocolate layer-cake for dessert. I’m not quite sure what compelled him to do that but it was certainly yummy.
Tonight (or rather late this afternoon) we had an early dinner at Red Lobster. I haven’t been there in a little while so that was great. I missed my shrimp alfredo.
I also realized today that I’ll be fine with my time off during Spring Break because we get our bonus around then and at the very least I’ll be getting an extra $150. That’s not much, but that’s the smallest amount possible, and something in the $500 range is a little more probable right now. Either way, it should be just enough to keep me swimming above water. I still won’t be able to really do anything requiring money during Spring Break, but I can live with that.
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