Lost Season Four: "The Beginning of the End"

We aren't wasting any time this season so I won't either.

What I Liked:

• The season opens with a Hurley flash forward!! As opposed to Jack
• We picked up right after the season three finale
• Lance Reddick as Matthew Abbadon (Col. Daniels from The Wire)! Finally, someone has taken advantage of his inherent creepiness.
• Jacob’s shack!
• Ben is still a bastard.
• We’re back to Jack vs. Locke…in a big way!

What I Didn’t Like:

• There are only seven episodes left
• Naomi didn’t have to die. She was fine!

What We Learned:

Future:

• Oceanic 6! Only six people get off the island! Holy shit!
• It appears Hurley isn’t having a great time post-island
• Hurley was dying to get back into therapy?
• Oceanic is taking care of the Oceanic Six
• Jack goes to visit Hurley before he goes batshit crazy

Island:

• Christian Shepard (or Jacob assuming his form) is in Jacob’s shack
• Jack doesn’t bluff like Locke does when it comes to shooting people.

Questions:

• Who are the rest of the Oceanic Six?
  
• If only six people get off the island, what happened to everyone else? Are they still alive?
• Why did Hurley act like he didn’t know who Ana Lucia was?
• Has anyone checked to see the percentage of times Jack has been wrong so far (I bet it’s around the 75-80% mark)?
• How did Naomi know about Penny and Desmond?
  
• How come no one has ever started a fire running through the forest with torches?
• Is Jacob the source of all the creepy whispering in the forest?
• Why does Christian Shepard appear to be alive?
• What does it mean that Hurley can see Jacob too?
• How is Locke okay after the gut shot he received from Ben less than 36 hours ago?
• How did that other mental patient see Charlie?
• Is Charlie Hurley’s new Dave?
• What have the Oceanic Six agreed not to talk about?
• What happened between the time Jack saw Hurley and Jack went nutty and wanted to go back to the island?
  

My 15 Favorite Moments From Season Three of Lost

Thursday cannot come soon enough...

Episode 1: "A Tale of Two Cities"
Moment: The opening on the Others section of the island. They had a nice peaceful community before Oceanic Air flight 815 crashed and ruined all their lives. Also, there was the cool shot of seeing the crash from their perspective.


Episode 4: "Every Man For Himself"
Moment: Ben shows Sawyer why it won't be as easy to escape as he thinks


Episode 6: "I Do"
Moment: "Kate, damn it, RUN!" After being a simp for the first five episodes, Jack finally gets a step ahead of Ben and The Others. Unfortunately, he didn't know there were two islands.


Episode 8: "Flashes Before Your Eyes"
Ms. Hawking: You don't buy the ring, Desmond.

Desmond: How do you know my name?

Ms. Hawking: Well, I know your name as well as I know that you that don't ask Penny to marry you. In fact, you break her heart. Well, breaking her heart is, of course, what drives you in a few short years from now to enter that sailing race -- to prove her father wrong -- which brings you to the island where you spend the next 3 years of your life entering numbers into the computer until you are forced to turn that failsafe key. And if you don't do those things, Desmond David Hume, every single one of us is dead. So give me that sodding ring.

Episode 14: "Exposé"
Moment: The moment when Nikki opens her eyes right before the dirt hurts her in the face ending the noble but failed experiment of Nikki & Paulo

Episode 15: "Left Behind"

Moment: Kate vs. Juliet in the rain. (What?)


Episode 19: "The Brig"

Moment: Sawyer finally has his Inigo Montoya moment and kill the real Sawyer (a.k.a. Locke's kidney-stealing father)


Episode 20: "The Man Behind The Curtain"
Moment: "Help. Me."


Episode 21: "Greatest Hits"
Moment: Charlie's entire flashback which for the first time since we found out he was destined to die, I kinda wanted him to live.


Episode 22: "Through The Looking Glass"
Moment: Jack beating the shit out of Ben after he thought he had Sayid, Bernard and Jin killed


Episode 22: "Through The Looking Glass"
Moment: Hurley saving them with the Roger's van


Episode 22: "Through The Looking Glass"
Moment: Sayid's Jack bauer-esque neck snap


Episode 22: "Through The Looking Glass"
Moment: "I didn't believe him." Sawyer killing Tom in cold blood, making good on his promise when Walt got taken from the raft


Episode 22: "Through The Looking Glass"
Moment: 'Nuff said


Episode 22: Through The Looking Glass"
Moment: 'We have to go back, Kate! We have to go baaaack!!!"

What were yours?

Movie of the Week II: National Treasure: Book of Secrets

It was cute. There really isn't much more to say.

The improbablity of what they do gets more ridiculous in this one but you go along with it (Apparently every landmark has the worst security ever).

If you liked the first one, you'll like this one.

Movie of the Week: Atonement

Not impressed.

How unimpressed you might ask? Remember how mad I was when Crash won Best Picture over Brokeback Mountain in 2006? If this wins Best Picture over No Country For Old Men...shit, even Juno (I haven't seen Michael Clayton or There Will Be Blood), I will be very unhappy.

Maybe if I saw it before the Golden Globes win for Best Picture (Drama) and before all the Oscar nominations, I would have felt differently about the movie.

No, I just didn't get the big deal.

The beginning was very good. I would say from the beginning until we skip four years into the future, it was a very good film. After that, it just dragged pointlessly to the conclusion.

Saoirse Ronan (Briony Tallis at age 13) was very good and deserved all her praise.

Allow me to use this movie to complain about a little pet peeve.

If a movie skips to the future and has different people play them, THEY ALL DON'T HAVE TO HAVE THE SAME HAIRCUT. If you tell me that this is what the character looks liek now, I'll believe you unless all of the sudden they change races. No one needs to have a little girl's haircut for 70 years.

Love Me Sexy

R.I.P. Heath Ledger

I still can't believe he's dead.

He was robbed for Best Actor for Brokeback Mountain and now he'll never get his second chance.

I'm gonna watch 10 Things I Hate About You.

Update: He finished filming his part in The Dark Knight so stop worrying.

Carl Knows What's Up

Hawk in Harlem

So it was a lovely Saturday afternoon, Jasmine and I just finished watching the last two episodes of Friday Night Lights. Jasmine went to her room and called me over. I looked out the window and there were a bunch of people staring in the direction of our building. We were like, 'What the fuck?" (Well, I was. Jasmine does not have as much of a sailor's mouth). We ran outside to see what the commotion was.

Well, on top of the apartment next door (Langston Hughes House, no less), there was a hawk eating a pigeon. Apparently, there has been a family of hawks roaming the city.

Anyway, I took some photos...

Remember When...: 100 of My Favorite Memories

Memories are wonderful things if you don't have to deal with the past.
~ Celine from Before Sunset

This will be my last "100" list. Seriously.

1. The party we threw the night before graduation from New York University at Bar 85.
2. Oversleeping for graduation and wearing the clothes I had on at the party under my gown.
3. My first night at NYU when I met Anya and Rashida and we all went to Tower Records.
4. When I tied Anya to her chair so she would finish her paper
5. Getting my first tattoo in Philly in 1999
6. When Nou yelled at me from the stage and accused me a heckling her. Then talking at the bar and becoming great friends immediately
7. Black Lily at Shine on Hannah’s birthday (technically)
8. When Joey convinced the Mrs. Cantino (the Spanish teacher) that he had jumped out the window
9. The first time I went snowboarding with Eva
10. Going all the way to New Hampshire to get furniture for Anya’s apartment and driving back to NYC in the largest U-Haul truck they had on the lot.
11. My first kiss on the bus of Young People’s Day Camp on the last day of camp.
12. The first time I kissed T.Y. at Todd’s house waiting for her father to pick her up
13. The first time I kissed E.B. on her couch after I rushed to her house in Queens from NYU.
14. The first time I kissed F.J. in my car after weeks of just sitting in my car and talking and, well, NOT kissing.
15. Eric and I getting in trouble during our first high school dance at St. Mary’s for dancing too promiscuously with the girls during the reggae portion of the DJ set
16. When Nou, Tank and others who I can’t recall were listening to D’Angelo’s Voodoo for the first time.
17. When I got laid off from Sukin Law Group
18. First time I went to Great Adventure with F.J.
19. After the blackout in 2003, walking down to Jen’s apartment and sitting on her stairs with Suzy, Sheila and Jen drinking her remaining Bud Lights
20. Celebrating the Yankees 1996 World Series win with E.B.’s mother because E.B. didn’t care.
21. Celebrating the Yankees 1999 World Series win on street in front of Third North Dorm. All the bars between 10th and 13th street let out and we stopped traffic until a truck full of cops made us go back inside
22. After an argument before I had to go to work, E.B. driving in the rain from Queens to Broadway Mall in Hicksville to give me a balloon that said “I’m Sorry.”
23. When F.J. made me a makeshift pair of glasses.
24. When Pierre interrupted E.B. and I in bed then decided to hang around and watch Mr. Wrong with us until she left.
    
25. The first Okayplayer reunion in Philadelphia
    
26. When I finished moving into the Harlem apartment and just passed out in my bed
    
27. When none of us could get a rental car, driving down to Atlanta from New York with Kristy, Derreck, Eric, Fatima, Tara and Bill.
28. Going to Chik-Fil-A on the way home
    
29. The first time I went to England to visit Hannah and she brought me to a wine bar with her friends and I pretended to be a "rude American".
30. Watching the Giants beat the 49ers in the NFC Championship game with my brother and his friend Seth
31. Winning that writing award and $500 bond at my 8th Grade graduation.
32. Lance kicking the Nintendo every time I was about to beat him in RBI Baseball via the mercy rule
33. Going camping with E.B. and all her friends
34. Helping Jen paint a room in her house
35. Visiting Angie on the set of Scrubs
36. Mercy Flush Ski Weekend I & II
    
37. Seth: "I think I blew my load on that granny shot."
    
38. Kaiva’s going away party
39. Winning the Unsung Hero Award at the OPR Professional Achievement Awards
40. After Jeremy’s Ale House, K.P. breaking into a Axl Rose impression that caused Nikki, Kevin and I to fall to the ground simultaneously.
41. Tara falling in front of Nevada Smith’s Matrix-style
42. 2002 New Year’s at Kristy’s apartment in Far Rockaway
43. Paintball with Tony, Kevin and T.J.
44. Finally winning Student of the Month in 4th grade
45. When Kerwin and I got drunk on our suitemate's Pepsi that, unbeknown to us, had vodka in it then heading to NeoLounge and havign he best night ever
    
46. Going to Great Adventure with Bill and Yusef
    
47. Hannah's birthday at Kristy's house in which her birthday cake cracked so we wrote "Boom" on it
48. Hugging Anya in Loeb Student Center and cracking her back to which she gave an orgasmic reaction
49. Riding in the "cage" on the way to Great Adventure with Pam, Nikki, Alison, Andrea and Copas
50. My fight with Frederico which resulted in getting hit in the ribs with a shovel and having my finger bitten so I couldn't punch him back
51. When Kenny, Nick and I went into Broadway Mall and stole more than $100 dollars worth of cassette tapes
52. Snowball fights at the dead end of Montauk Court
53. Kerwin and I playing NBA Live until 5 AM because he wouldn't let me go to sleep until he beat me
54. When I accidentally did the Rock Bottom to Jasmine in Chicago
55. Getting pulled over in Port Washington with Todd driving and Andrew, Brian and Eric in tow. Andrew starts singing "Bad boys, bad boys. Whatcha gonna do?" and Todd freaks out and yells, "Shut the fuck up!"
56. Passing History in Junior year of high school. The teacher said you couldn't pass if you didn't do the homework. I proved him wrong.
57. Sneaking out of art class, jumping over the fences and buying new cassette tapes every Tuesday.
58. Sneaking out of art class to play basketball with Todd, Eric and Rueel.
59. Getting on the bus to go to Roosevelt Field to buy TY a Valentine's Day present, falling asleep in the bus and ending up in Jamaica, Queens.
60. Passing notes in high school with Eva and Jen.
61. Jessica R's overly-extravagant and drama-filled sweet 16 party.
    
62. Dressing like an idiot for high school prom - white gloves, sunglasses, cane and Kangol
63. The first post Ogilvy PR hug from Sheila
    
64. Taking care of my baby cousin Christopher at my grandparents' house in Jamaica
    
65. Getting chased by Brother Joseph in the hallway after he noticed I had shaved my head
66. Going to the Intrepid with Mona for no reason and taking 50 pictures
    
67. Senior formal at NYU until I got drunk, locked out and stuck with a whiny Rafick
68. The Halloween Black Lily show where I dressed as Dr. Evil with my personalized Mini Me
69. Rock Lily when Danophonic Dan tried to jump into the crowd but took too much of a running start and jumped over the crowd
70. Jen and Christine's housewarming party where we all agreed not to show up drunk and we showed up obliterated instead
    
71. Setting my alarm to chest Kevin at midnight at the housewarming party and hitting him so hard, he collapsed
72. Drunkenly walking Crosby around the block at the same housewarming party.
    
73. Getting paid to dress up as Blade at a comic convention
74. In Chicago, walking all the way to the store in the rain and coming back to the hotel empty handed forgetting that I went to the store for food.
75. Attempting to drive to New Jersey with Danophonic Dan and ending up in Deleware
76. Dinners at Tara's apartment before Black Lily shows
    
77. Playing Kickball in Prospect Park and then attempting to play Every Man For Themselves Dodgeball
78. Tara's birthday cake that had an inappropriate message on it
79. Getting drunk on Stella Artois with Hibo in London
80. After a girl he was messing with had left the dorm room, Kerwin and I trying to determine what that foul odor was
81. Playing tackle football in Cantiague Park on Sundays
82. Handing out flyers for Black Lily shows with Nou and Tank in the city
83. Sex
84. Getting chased out of Sherwood Gardens on Halloween for being from Westbury Hills
85. Matt: "What kind of stupid name is 'Hibo'?"
86. Seeing The Ring with Kristy and Eric (spoilers) and a) busting out laughing when the horse jumped off the boat and didn't clear the ledge and b) huddling up and yelling "WHAT THE FUCK?!" when the girl crawled out of the TV
87. Going to a random park, seeing Harold & Kumar Goes To White Castle then going to White Castle and ordering Crave Cases with Eric, Derreck, Bill, Tara and Ian
88. Getting kicked out of English Honors Class twice in 15 minutes: First for being late (I wasn't) and second when I was sent back to class without a detention and I chuckled at Mrs. Hill when he looked at me during attendance
89. My backrub exchange program with Anya
90. When my brother and his friends were riding around the neighborhood with weapons because they thought someone stole me bike
91. When my father foolishly had the barber shave my hair almost bald and I was so embarrassed that I opted to wear my Superman hat in class the next day. The teacher took me outside and told me to show her and it couldn't be that bad and I did and she laughed.
92. Out last day in Amsterdam when Derreck wouldn't let us leave any unfinished business
93. Lining up with Andrea to try to get the perfect space to watch Casablanca in Bryant Park
94. Racing back to the city from my high school reunion because Nikki and Tony were sending me text messages that Kevin was drunkenly making out with a really tall girl
95. The one year in Little League when our team won our division after playing on last place teams for three years
96. When Mary showed me her nipple piercing in Houlihan's in front of the window
97. Seeing the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy in New Jersey from 10 AM to 1 AM at a movie theater in New Jersey with Tia
98. Playing "Red Light" on the bus on the way home from school.
99. Making mix tapes in my brother's room for T.Y. and E.B.
100. When Kerwin, Troy and I had to drag Rafick out of Christine's dorm because he was drunk, professing his love for Christine and wouldn't leave. Then we got him back to our room and he threw up and missed the the trash can and Kerwin kicked him.
     

If you are mentioned somewhere here, thanks for the memories. If not, I'm sure we have some beautiful memories that I just couldn't remember while I was putting this together (did I mention I drink a lot?). Feel free to leave a comment mentioning a memory of us you think I forgot (or if I got one I did post wrong). Otherwise, I look forward to making future memories with you. Bring a camera though. It will be easier for me to remember.

Eye Deal

I always say that I don't have a list of things I look for in women to decide if they are worthy of killing brain cells over but I know that's not true.

Everyone subconsciously has a list. If not a list of what they want in a significant other, they definitely know what they DON'T want.

The funny thing about these lists is they tend to be pretty hypocritcal. People will say they want things in a person that they don't have in themselves. Don't ask for a rich dude if you are working at McDonald's. Don't ask for a six pack when the only six pack you have is the Wise Snacks lunch pack because you couldn't decide between Dipsy and Cheesy Doodles.

All lists of significant other requirements should be made in context of what you are bringing to the table.

So, I'm going to try to pull my list out of my head and on to the screen and leave myself open to cries of hypocrisy. Also, I've always wanted to do my own version of Tank's 32 Ways To My Heart...

Activity Level: You have to like to stay in as much as you like to go. I'm a house plant myself but even I get cabin fever.

Age: Plus or minus five years. The closer the better. It's nicer if we watched the same cartoons growing up.

Bigotry: Racists and homophobes need not apply.

Body: I find myself attracted to people of all shapes and sizes BUT, I'm not going to bullshit you. I am naturally attracted to fit people. We all are and I don't imagine I will ever reach the enlightened state where I can automatically ignore their body. But then again I'm not that fit either. Doesn't mean I'm not attracted to be people who aren't fit but I'm not going to lie and say that I'm not.

Career: Have a job or be employable. I'm not career-minded. I'm not planning to be CEO of anything. I'm sure that screams of "a lack of ambition." Whatever. I'm paid pretty okay for a guy with no discernible skills aside from being a "people person." If she's out to rule the world, more power to her.

Children: I want them. Shit, I hate taking out the trash and doing the dishes now. You think I want to be doing that shit for the rest of my life? Seriously though, I'm at that age where that needs to be upfront knowledge so if you don't want kids, any potential relationship gets downgraded to "fooling around."

Dietary: Carnivores preferred. Non-judgmental vegetarians welcome.

Education: College graduate preferred, college attendee or a successful high school graduate. I went to college and the only thing I got out of it was to put "New York University" on my resume. That said, the reason I prefer college graduates is it's something we share that we can reminisce about. Sure we can share our high school experience but then there are four years of my life that will be "You had to be there" stories.

Humor: If you don't make me laugh, the other stuff really won't matter. If I don't make you laugh, ditto. I'm not saying I'm Dave Chappelle but if I don't amuse you, I'm going to find it incredibly frustrating. Laughter is a mental orgasm and saying "That's funny" instead of actually laughing is the equivalent of "faking it."

Intelligence: Smart enough to argue with me but not smart enough to know I'm full of shit. This is not at all related to "Education." I know some pretty dumb Masters degree having fools.

Interests/Tastes: To quote Rob from High Fidelity, "...what really matters is what you like, not what you are like...these things matter, and it's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently, or your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party." I wish I could say that these things don't matter to me but nothing compares to talking to a person who loves something that you do.

Kindness: I find myself drawn to ultra-nice girls but that can get annoying since I'm not ultra-nice and I feel like a bad person around them. She can be a "bitch" as long as she means well.

Politics: Republicans need not apply. I'm sorry. I just can't do it. Unless you are Republican the same way I am Lutheran: raised it but not practicing.

Profanity: She has to curse. She doesn't have to curse like a sailor but a "fuck" and a "shit" every once and awhile makes me feel better about my own potty mouth.

Race: Open to races but if you aren't a minority, you have to acknowledge that a) racism exists and b) it will always exist.

Sex: Don't be lazy or at least allow me to be lazy every once and awhile.

Sports: You don't have to love sports but you have to be accepting of my love of sports.

Social Life: Have one that doesn't center around me. I had a tendency to put the person I'm dating at the center of my universe and rotate around her. I'm working on it! But until I get over it, I can't have someone who's like me. It's be like a supernova of social dependency.

Television: This gets a separate mention from "Interests/Tastes." You don't have to love television as much as I do but you have to like it. More importantly, you can't be one of those self-righteous non-television watchers who thinks they are better than everyone else because they don't get sucked into the idiot box.

EXTRA CREDIT: Bring something into my life that I didn't know I wanted from another person (or be one of these women)

Not that I'm looking...

The 200 Greatest Television Shows I Ever Watched

By "greatest", I do not mean the pinnacle of the art form (although some of these shows definitely fit the bill). After looking all over Wikipedia, I pulled out the 200 shows that I loved since I was able to remember what I was watching on television. The original goal was 100 but, obviously, I've watched a lot of TV in my 30 years of life and I didn't have the heart to pare this list down to 100.

If it wasn't outright canceled, a lot of these shows saw drops in quality before they were taken off the air. This list was developed looking at the shows during their creative peak (in my opinion). Some of these shows were canceled during their creative peak which is why I remember them so fondly.

Anyway, let's get on with it.

In alphabetical order (all links are to the show's Wikipedia page):

• 24
• 21 Jump Street
• 30 Rock
• The 4400
  
• A Different World
• Action
• Alf
• Alias
• Alice
• Alien Nation
• All in The Family
• Alvin & The Chipmunks
• American Gladiators
• Andy Richter Controls the Universe
• Angel
• Animaniacs
• Anything But Love
• Arrested Development
• Batman (1966 TV Series)
  
• Batman: The Animated Series
• Battle of the Planets
• Battlestar Galatica (2004)
• The Ben Stiller Show
• Beverly Hills, 90210
• Bewitched
• Bobby's World
• Boy Meets World
• The Brady Bunch
• Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
• Buffy The Vampire Slayer
• Carnivàle
• Chappelle's Show
• Charles in Charge
• The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show
• Cheers
• The Chris Rock Show
• Clarissa Explains It All
• The Cosby Show
• Coupling (BBC)
• The Critic
• Curb Your Enthusiasm
• The Daily Show
• Daria
• Davey and Goliath
• Dawson's Creek
• Deadwood
• Def Comedy Jam
• Degrassi Junior High
  
• Degrassi High
• Dexter
• Diff'rent Strokes
• Doogie Howser, M.D.
• Double Dare
• Doug
• Dream On
• DuckTales
• Eight Is Enough
  
• The Electric Company
• The Facts of Life
• The Family Guy
• Family Ties
• Fat Albert & The Cosby Kids
• Firefly
• The Flash
  
• The Flintstones
• Freaks and Geeks
• The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
• Friday Night Lights
• Friends
• Futurama
• G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero
• Galaxy High
• Garfield & Friends
• Gargoyles
  
• Get A Life
• The Get Along Gang
• Grey's Anatomy
• Growing Pains
• Happy Days
• Head of the Class
• Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats
• He-Man & The Masters Of The Universe
• Herman's Head
  
• The Honeymooners
• House
  
• How I Met Your Mother
• I Dream of Jeannie
• I Love Lucy
• In Living Color
• The Incredible Hulk
• The Incredible Hulk (1982 cartoon)
• It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
• It's Garry Shandling's Show
• Jackass
• The Jeffersons
• The Jetsons
• Jim Henson's Muppet Babies
• Just The Ten Of Us
• Justice League Unlimited
• Kate & Allie
• Kids in the Hall
• Kids Incorporated
• The L Word
  
• Laff-A-Lympics
• The Larry Sanders Show
  
• Laverne & Shirley
• Law & Order
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
• Little Britain
  
• The Littles
• Looney Toons
• Lost
• Malcolm in the Middle
• Married… With Children
• Martin
• Max Headroom
• Melrose Place
• Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures
• Monk
  
• The Monkees
• Monty Python's Flying Circus
• Mork & Mindy
• Mr. Show
• My So-Called Life
• Ned & Stacey
• NewsRadio
• Nip/Tuck
  
• The Odd Couple
• The Office (BBC)
• The Office (NBC)
• Out of This World
• Oz
• Parker Lewis Can't Lose
• The Partridge Family
  
• Pee Wee's Playhouse
• Profit
• Punky Brewster
• Pushing Daisies
  
• Queer As Folk (Showtime)
  
• Reading Rainbow
• The Real World
• Remote Control
• The Ren & Stimpy Show
• Reno 911!
• Rescue Me
• Roc
• Rome
• Roseanne
• Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In
• Samurai Jack
• Saturday Night Live
• Saved By The Bell
• SCTV
• Scooby Doo, Where Are You!
  
• Scrubs
  
• Seinfeld
• Sesame Street
• Sex and the City
• The Shield
• Shirt Tales
• Silver Spoons
• The Simpsons
• Six Feet Under
• Sledge Hammer!
• Small Wonder
  
• The Smurfs
• The Sopranos
• South Central
• South Park
• Spaced
• Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends
• Superman: The Animated Series
• Tales from the Crypt
• The Three Stooges
• Three's Company
• Thundercats
• The Tick (cartoon)
  
• Tiny Toon Adventures
• Too Close For Comfort
• The Tracey Ullman Show
  
• Transformers
• Undeclared
• V (TV series)
• The Venture Bros.
  
• Veronica Mars
• Voltron
• Weeds
• Welcome Back, Kotter
• What's Happening!!
• Who's the Boss?
• Wings
• The Wire
• Wonder Showzen
  
• The Wonder Years
  
• The Woody Woodpecker Show
  
• Xena: Warrior Princess
• The X-Files
  
• X-Men (1992 Cartoon)
  
• Yo! MTV Raps
• You Can't Do That On Television

All shows in bold are still on the air so it's not too late!

Radiohead's Scotch Mist Webcast

At Midnight on New Year's Day, Radiohead webcast live in-studio performace of songs from In Rainbows (coupled with other weird Radiohead-esque shit). Enjoy!

The Proust Questionnaire

The story of The Proust Questionnaire intrigued me so I'm going to try to answer the Age 20 questions as honestly as possible

1. What is your most marked characteristic?
Usefulness

2. What quality do you most like in a man?
Immaturity

3. What quality do you most like in a woman?
Maturity

4. What do you value most in your friends?
Comfort

5. What is your principal defect?
Easily content with a situation, positive or negative

6. What is your favorite occupation?
Being a friend

7. What is your dream of happiness?
Having more options than you know what to do with.

8. What to your mind would be the greatest misfortune?
Not having any good options

9. What would you like to be?
Living my dream of happiness

10. In what country would you like to live?
This country is good enough

11. What is your favorite color?
Red

12. What is your favorite flower?
Quoting Proust, "Hers - but apart from that, all"

13. What is your favorite bird?
Seagull

14. Who are your favorite prose writers?
Nick Hornby, Neil Gaiman, Chuck Palahniuk

15. Who are your favorite poets?
Khalil Gibran is the only one who comes to mind

16. Who are your favorite fictional heroes?
Batman, Hamlet, Lloyd Dobler

17. Who are your favorite fictional heroines?
I can't think of any

18. Who are your favorite composers?
I don't have any

19. Who are your favorite painters?
Salvador Dalí, René Magritte

20. Who are your heroes in real life?
Martin Luthor King, Jr., Malcolm X, Kevin Smith

21. Who are your favorite heroines of history?
Joan of Arc, Harriet Tubman, Elizabeth I of England

22. What are your favorite names?
I'm not saying because if I have children, I'd like to use them and I don't want to give anyone reading this with a better shot at having children than me stealing them

23. What do you most dislike?
Tactless manipulation

24. What historical figures do you most despise?
Hitler seems like an easy answer

25. What event in military history do you most admire?
The Eastern Front (Third Reich vs. Soviet Union in World War II)

26. What reform do you most admire?
I don't know how to answer this (and neither did Proust)

27. What natural gift would you most like to possess?
Charm

28. How would you like to die?
Alone

29. What is your present state of mind?
I don't know if I'm depressed or bored

30. To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
The ones that I think no one notices

31. What is your motto?
I don't have one.

So This Is The New Year...

How did I celebrate New Year's Day?

I left my friend's house at 10 PM. I went home, threw on my sweatpants and continued watching season three of The Wire (I rewatched seasons 1-3 this weekend in preparation for the season premiere of season 5 this Sunday). I drank three beers in Sean-like speed.

I may or may not have been awake at midnight but if I was, I definitely fell asleep shortly afterwards (Sorry to anyone who sent me a text message and didn't get one in return)/

Who cares about New Year's anyway? If you're single and not looking for a immediate-yet-temporary substitute, it's just a night to spend more money drinking than you would any other night. Why should my New Year's be anymore eventful than any other day of my life?

No resolutions this year (at least that I am publicly announcing) althought I didn't do so bad with last year's Do's and Don't. What changes I make, I make.


Death Cab For Cutie - "The New Year"

Melanism.com's Top 20 Movies of 2007

I decided to try something different this year:

In The Theaters

1. The Bourne Ultimatum
2. Grindhouse
3. Juno
4. Knocked Up
5. Lars & The Real Girl
6. Once
7. No Country For Old Men
8. The Simpsons Movie
9. Superbad
10. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

On Netflix

1. Away From Her
2. Blade Runner: The Final Cut
3. The Descent
4. Eastern Promises
5. Half Nelson
6. Howl's Moving Castle
7. Rescue Dawn
8. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
9. Volver
10. Zodiac