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joel

nooooooooo

the preceding was a scene from the fox tv show prison break, retold here from a modern perspective (read: my bad memory). of course this scene is actually incredibly sweet, wherein my boy abruzzi takes on the fbi. they tell him to surrender his weapon to them and get on his knees. abruzzi looks around, emptying the officers bowels as he looks each of them in the eye, then says “i kneel only to god. i don’t see him here.” pulls out his pistol and gets shot to death! TOTALLY AWESOME

of course, because fox is evil (or because the show wasn’t making any money and had exhausted itself creatively… which is a far more realistic explanation) prison break is going to be done in four episodes :(. i am slightly to very choked about this. the way these characters get thrown into prison and then proceed to break out of them is enjoyable. the characters are pretty sweet, i have had inspired discussions with friends about which character could beat up other characters. wow i got sort of nostalgic thinking about those conversations which might be sad?

but seriously now that this show is off the air, i have only two (three-ish) to keep me occupied:

- 24 I am in LOVE with this show. Like all males aged 18-24, jack bauer is my idol and i hope to meet him someday even though he is a fictional character (if i met the actor who plays him i would be very disappointed if he introduced himself by his real name, kiefer). the show can get pretty ridiculous at points (at this point, a nuclear bomb has detonated in L.A., the president has been evil, and jack bauer has killed over 100 people). i would not be surprised at some point if jack bauer was sent into space to stop an asteroid. but i guarauntee if that happens i will be all like, “oh sweet!”

- LOST this show is nuts and i dont know if they will ever fully explain everything.

and yet, i have had dreams about it. the characters are the best ever on any tv show, the island is nuts, and when it ends next year i may physically shed tears. i am not afraid to admit that.

- Heroes (sorta) okay this show was good for one season, like pretty good. pretty entertaining. then season two came along and was like throwing up after eating too much cake (good metaphor? i dunno). season three has been ok. i keep telling myself im gonna stop watching this show but it hasn’t happened yet.

i honestly dont know why i told yall about all that. but thats what i watch on tv. errr… poop in bed.

i have watched 7 of the 10 friday the 13th movies in the past five days. probably not a healthy thing to do. friday the 13th part 5 was one of the worst experiences of my life. entirely boring and horrible. not like the others aren’t…

but this was a recurring phrase from one of the people watching with us. “why go into the shed? seriously! what is in your head that would make you think that was a good idea!” “ok! you knocked him down! don’t expect he’s dead! he’s obviously unconcious! stab him! he’s going to wake up and come kill you later! make sure of it!”. multiple times we said “the people on the movie can’t hear you” but to no avail. they are pretty frustrating movies, i admit.

and yet. i am sure that tomorrow i will be watching parts 8, 9, and 10, wherein jason is brought into the future. uhh.. .ok. not good movies.

bye, joel.

3 Comments

  • The Hobo under Your Stairs Says:
    Posted on January 31st, 2009 at 4:01 pm

    I have a distaste for shows like LOST or Heroes. Especially LOST- it seems that the entire point of the show is to confuse its viewers and get them to watch the next episode.

    And don’t get me started on Fringe. “Best New Show?” What? That is bullshit. Here, let me give you exactly what this show is.

    ‘Hey kids! Look how much cool shit we have on our show! It has SCIENCE! No, scratch that- we have anything that a fifth grader can think of that only has a small link to science! And half of it has a couple of logical flaws! Take the guys going through walls for example. In theory, if one vibrated molecules enough, one can pass through the object! Unfortunately, in reality, the wall will fall apart!

    Oh wait, don’t forget our exciting cast of characters! We have only ONE good character, and that is some scientific genius that was locked in a asylum because CLEARLY he was too smart for everyone else to comprehend.

    Next, we have our main protagonist, some blond girl that has NO BRAIN WHATSOEVER. She was put in charge of these scientific investigations on anomalies. Even though she is in charge of a branch of the FBI or whatever, she continually chooses to go against mysterious bad guys with a little pistol and no backup! Lots of bravery going on there.

    And we have this other guy that is supposed to keep his father, the genius, in check. Basically, he does not have much of a role in the TV show. He’s just there for advice because he is practically useless.

    Oh yeah, let us not forget our awesome plot lines! Check it out:

    Stupid GIrl: Hay guys! We have found some bad things going on, and it is the cause of some bald guy that has powers.

    Asshole FBI administration: Oh ya. We know about him. We call him the Seeker or something. Sorry we haven’t bothered to tell you about him because obviously your role as lead investigator is not important enough to share this information. Here is a bunch of pretty pictures of the Seeker and his connections with weird science shit.

    LATER ON:

    Useless Guy: Hay, Stupid Girl, I saw the Seeker guy. He control my thoughts. It was bad.

    Stupid Girl: HAY! I forget! Here is your FBI pass! You gotta stay with us because you have to keep your father in our operation! Maybe later we will obviously have sex in season 3, if the show goes on that long!

    Useless Guy: Aewsume! I’ll stay! And we will not continue our conversation about something extremely important that we were talking about four seconds ago! THIS IS THE BEST SHOW EVER!!!111!!1

  • Nathan Says:
    Posted on February 3rd, 2009 at 3:08 pm

    Haha, hobo, I like your addition to the blog there. All of the pictures were kind of freaking me out when I first saw them, and was heaviliy influenced by Indians. I just can’t commit to one show once a week a certain time, so I find it much more pleasing to rent them on DVD and just binge on season after season.

    (Haha, I would like to point out that I said “heavily influenced by Indians,” where I meant to say “morphine.” Wow. I think I had better go take a nap and clear my head, seeing as I am still on A LOT of pain meds).

  • The Hobo under Your Stairs Says:
    Posted on February 4th, 2009 at 11:08 am

    Lol! Indians?

    You know what? If I were you I explore the Indian thing further. Maybe you’ll end up in a dream marathon where you are Joseph Turok playing in a sandbox, with little tiny plastic dinosaurs with their heads bitten off.

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