1. Fantastic Mr. Fox
2. Summer Hours
3. The Hurt Locker
4. Up in the Air
5. Coraline
6. The Beaches of Agnès
7. Away We Go
8. The Cove
9. Adventureland
10. A Serious Man
My heals are not "slow". My heals are perfectly fine for Heroic BugPlaceInDragonblightWhoseNameICanNever
You want to go for some wacky Achievement, fine, but keep the bugs from chewing on my bark, 'k?
Regards,
Greysmoke the not-so-Patient-anymore.
This entry originated at adampknave.com.
So it’s time for some more good top ten list action. Today it’ll be the Top Ten TV Shows of the Decade. I don’t watch much TV. 99% of what I watch is done on DVD and not anything like close to live. So yeah, that affects how I view stuff. It also doesn’t mean a damn thing. Shows were chosen because I love them more than other shows. So here are my picks, in no particular order:
The Shield
This is, quite simply, the best TV show ever made. It’s dark and mean and wonderful. No one is “good” or “bad” among the main characters. No one is clean. The world is an expanse of moral gray. It’s also incredibly tightly written, directed and shot with a unique style, uses music like no other show (by not using background music at all past the pilot and the very rare bit of montage, maybe once a season) and… frankly most shows go up and down. They peak and valley. Shield goes in a straight line, up, for 7 seasons. Each one is better than the last.
Scrubs
While technically this show is still on, for me it ran 8 seasons and ended. And they were, for the most part, a great 8 seasons. What with House before there was House, a medical drama that could be incredibly dramatic and comedy that could be perfectly hysterical, Scrubs had everything you could want in a half-hour sitcom. It’s just so perfectly watchable, you know? It had a few weak seasons, but overall the show was just always touching and funny and spot-on.
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Did you ever want to run away and join the circus?
What did you imagine you would do there?
Clown
1 (33.3%)
Acrobat 1 (33.3%)
Contortionist 1 (33.3%)
Lion tamer 1 (33.3%)
Ride elephants 0 (0.0%)
Clean up after the elephants 0 (0.0%)
Ring master 0 (0.0%)
Ticket seller 1 (33.3%)
Popcorn vendor 0 (0.0%)
Something else (next question!) 0 (0.0%)
Something else? What else?
MCC is still being a pain in the ass.
- Mood:
headachey
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I approve of this tattoo - as long as it's understood - the monkey wins.
The problem with the Hero's Journey is, if you don't explore the character of the Hero undergoing the journey, it's quite shallow. But - paste absolutely mind-boggling visual effects on top of that shallow, and you get something that's still pretty amazing to see. But how much harder would it be to have a better script?
Memorandum to Hollywood: Your script is the least expensive part of production. Spend a little money and get really good writers, and you'll get positive results out of scale to your expenditure.
- Mood:
amused
One of the first things I saw this morning while websurfing during my morning cereal, and it just makes me want to go "gluh". Because it seems to me that the Vales really are missing the point of pets. They're not THINGS. They're FAMILY. Yes, they have a carbon pawprint, but I'll bet anything that it's negligible compared to my own.
I'm not going to trade Video for a hen. And if I /did/ get a pet rabbit (not likely with Video around) I sure as FUCK would not EAT IT.
Cripes.
Very nearly completing the first volume, at Bleeding Cool:
(And there’s an error in there that should read: "…crossing the four hundred miles from Berlin to Metz")
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The latest Wired magazine is all about ‘FAIL‘, and one of the articles is about why Duke Nukem Forever failed. It’s an excellent read, and I’m pleased that it’s online now for those who aren’t subscribers; highly recommended.
Artwork by Kurt Miller
Front and center in the photo sits a large guy with a boyish face. You can’t tell from the picture, but he had gotten choked up when he made the announcement. His name is George Broussard, co-owner of 3D Realms and the man who headed the Duke Nukem Forever project for its entire 12-year run. Now 46 years old, he’d spent much of his adult life trying to make a single game, and failed over and over again. What happened to that project has been shrouded in secrecy, and rumors have flown about why Broussard couldn’t manage to finish his life’s work. What went so wrong?
This is what happened.
Long story, short: Nearly unlimited funds + pressure to be the best + continual engine changes + no endgame roadmap + nobody properly cracking the whip = 12 years of gamer blue balls.
It really kills me to read this. When I was in high school Apogee was counted among my heroes. They made great indie games under the then-new shareware concept, and throughout the 90’s I often dreamed of some day working with them. Seemed like such a wonderful place to work…
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I'm home in LA, after being awake for 43 1/2 hours (minus about three hours of naps) and 20 hours of travel and eight hours of hanging around the airport in San Francisco!
And that sentence took the last of my strength, goodnight!
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Things have sort of been bumping along kind of slow, I was thinking i was going to call up Ryan and ask about my dough from Bald Soprano, still not sure if i'll get my check before the holiday.
But Ryan called me, and told me come ahead, They had monies for me. And it turns out that the reason it was so long in coming, was because they elected to throw some grant money onto the dough i earned for the show. So the expected 100 bucks, turned into 300.
Thinking quickly, i bought some gift certificates from the boutique and they were willing to cash my check as well. A short stop at Sqecial Media, (Yes, that's how it's spelled actually.) and CD warehouse, led to gifts for Bill as well. Dad is the only person who remains un-shopped for.
And you know what, i feel better already.
I suspect that i've got a list of folks who might receive a gift after the holliday proper, but i'll think on those things soon.
In addition, it appears that i still may be involved with Balagula Theater's educational program and after the holidays have finished, then I'll be getting back into that as well. Hoorah!
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