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Killing Time – June 20, 2013

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Killing Time

Xtreme TV Summer continues rolling along.  Having bid farewell to Coach Taylor and Friday Night Lights, I began my new binge show: Psych but then was interrupted by Downton Abbey Season Three becoming available for free streaming on Amazon.  I have no rational reason for loving this show beyond it being extremely well done.  It’s akin to nothing I normally watch.  Perhaps it’s my English heritage asserting itself.  Downton Abbey is so British it’s like mainlining tea off the back of a Manchester United jersey while humming “God Save the Queen”.  I’ll watch anything with Maggie Smith; she’s one of the greatest actresses of our age.  I also note my diction and vocabulary tend to improve and I verge on maddeningly polite after watching a season.  It’s basically the polar opposite of what happens after I watch a season of Sons of Anarchy.

KT milestones this week: the site not only blew past the 10k hit milestone, but 11k as well.  We also passed the 650 posts and 100 email subscribers marks, so thank you to all for stopping by and killing some time with me.  Shout out to Moldova and Senegal for allowing me to fill them in on my MAP OF NATIONS CONSUMING MY DRIVEL.

Books:
And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman


Blu Ray:
The Newsroom Season One

TV/HULU:
 The Daily Show with John Stewart
The Colbert Report
Downton Abbey Season Three
Psych Season One
Parenthood Season Four


Song of the Week:  “I Will Wait” by Mumford & Sons

Video Game:
Borderlands 2 (Level 24 Gunzerker; on chapter 13 of main quest)
Injustice: Gods Among Us (Story complete; working on STAR Labs missions)
* XBOX Live, gamertag: sleeplessdave; feel free to friend me!

Comics:
Star Wars Legacy Vol. 1 by John Ostrander
Huntress Vol. 1 New 52 by Paul Levitz


Killing TIme

Killing Time – June 13, 2013

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Killing Time

Friday Night Lights is awesome.  I have a stack of Blu Rays I want to get to, but I cannot stop watching FNL.  That desire may crash into the absence of episodes soon though since, I believe, I only have 18 left.  That won’t last the weekend.  I have no candidate for a torch-bearer to continue the TV binge so I may have to try transitioning off to movies.

As I write this, I keep checking Rotten Tomatoes and keep seeing Man of Steel’s percentage fall and I’m getting bummed out.  This has been an extremely weak year in film so far and I really thought Man of Steel was going to be the turning point.  RT is not God, though, because the best movie I’ve seen this year has been Now You See Me and for reasons that pass my comprehension, it’s at 44% or so on RT.


KT milestones this week: the site broke traffic records again this week (single day record twice) thanks to E3.  Sometime today we should pass 10,000 hits and I have no way of judging if that’s good for a random blog of random things started five or so months ago, but it’s certainly more than I ever expected.  Perhaps even more exciting, after calling them out last week, Kazakhstan responded (probably somebody jogged over from Uzbekistan to mock them as they’ve been with KT for months) and I welcome them and the slew of African nations that dropped by for the first time: Uganda, Rwanda, Namibia, Tanzania and Botswana.  So clearly the question is: what’s the biggest country holding out?  Who’s taking the naughty stick from Kazakhstan?  I’m looking at you, Democratic Republic of the Congo.  Eleventh largest nation; KT target #1.  Global dominance will continue.  I have a map to color in to put in the Bond villainesque lair that I’m secretly constructing inside a volcano (keep that on the down low; I’m pretty sure I don’t have all the permits required for something like that).  This is, quite honestly, how my mind works.  Boo.

Books:
And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
Catherine Halsey’s Diary from the Halo Reach Special Ed. by Bungie Studios


Blu Ray:
The Newsroom Season One
Good Will Hunting 15th Anniversary ed.

TV/HULU:
The Daily Show with John Stewart
The Colbert Report
Friday Night Lights Seasons Two, Three and Four
The Newsroom Season One
Arrested Development Season Four (I. DO. NOT. UNDERSTAND!)

Song of the Week:  Man of Steel Soundtrack by Hans Zimmer


Video Game:
Borderlands 2 (Level 24 Gunzerker; on chapter 13 of main quest)
Injustice: Gods Among Us (Story complete; working on STAR Labs missions)
* XBOX Live, gamertag: sleeplessdave; feel free to friend me!

Comics:
Morning Glories Vol. 3: P.E. by Nick Spencer
Thunderbolts Vol. 1: No Quarter by Daniel Way

Trailer Time, TV

Trailer Time: The Newsroom Season Two – HBO (2013)

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I make no bones about it, I think Aaron Sorkin is one of (if not THE)  best writers working in any medium in the last quarter century.  From his play A Few Good Men, to the films (The American President, A Few Good Men, The Social Network, Charlie Wilson’s War, Moneyball, etc.), but most especially in his TV work (SportsNight, Studio 60, The West Wing and The Newsroom) he demonstrates a mastery of the English language that no other writer can so deftly wield.  The Newsroom, Sorkin’s current HBO series about a disaffected news anchor becoming re-engaged with real journalism, will begin its second season July 14th.  The first clip is a teaser for Season Two.  The second, if you’ve never heard of the show, is the first eight minutes of the first episode; the last half of which is the most brutally honest and succinct summation of the state of America I’ve heard from anyone.  It does contain adult language as a warning, but given how angry this era of history we live in makes me, probably not as much as I’d use.


The Newsroom, Jeff Daniels, Aaron Sorkin, HBO