free-floating figments

[rone]

I never could relate to people who really got into the badness of certain forms of art, like Mystery Science Theater 3000 or the cult of Rocky Horror Picture Show.  But that changed once i watched a few episodes of the epically bad CSI: Miami.  The writing is sub-mediocre, even for Hollywood; the main characters not only have an extremely narrow set of behavior, but they are only allowed one or two facial expressions (David Caruso's two facial expressions are with and without sunglasses, if that counts as two); the non-recurring characters are acted with the care you'd see in your typical high school play.  And this lily is gilt with the choice of an H2 as the official crime lab vehicle.  I can't recommend this show to anyone; however, for those of you who revel in experiencing awful stuff, it might just be up your alley.

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wacky_hijinx informed me some time ago that Kevin O'Neill would be signing yesterday, so i dropped by and picked up a copy of O'Neill's and Alan Moore's latest League of Extraordinary Gentlemen graphic novel, Black Dossier.  O'Neill was very kind and drew something on the first page for all comers.  He asked me what i wanted, and i said, "Surprise me," and i got a really nice Miss Murray.  I'm still reading BD; it is, well... it's mad.  It includes a set of 3-D glasses.  That's all i'll say for now.

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Week 6: still not king employed.  Now that we're essentially in holiday season, it would be too optimistic to hope for a job before 2008.

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palecur and i will be leaving tomorrow afternoon to go to Los Angeles to see Soda Stereo.  I believe that it's fair to say that they're the band i've been wanting to see play for the longest time.  We'll be back in time for Thanksgiving.

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[sunburn.livejournal.com]

I watch CSI:Miami religiously, having somehow been addicted to it in its first season. But as I'll tell anyone who asks: I don't watch it for its brains, but its looks. It's a show with so very much more style than substance, and if you want to show off your new HDTV, you could hardly do better than the opening location shots of Miami. Then you get some hot girls in bikinis, and then some contrived action scene (which will end up as part of an even more contrived coincidence of some kind). Best of all, everyone looks good-- hell, you don't even get people with supernormal looks on the show, just superhumanly-gorgeous people. And then David Caruso makes an unbearable pun. And then the credits open the show. There's no pretense at reality, just a beauty pageant that happens to have the format of a police procedural. Way better than CSI:NY, which has the look and feel of a roll in the gutter with a knife in your kidney, and frankly better than CSI:CSI's "we've reinvented the police procedural, now let's reinvent narrative direction" crap from the last season or two. The original CSI:CSI's still the best, but slipping.