Another informal poll

Ok, anyone else find that when you have to call Mom that you have an easier time of it when you're drunk?

Just checking.

short note

Liking Poe

That's all.

Oh and I'm happy that it's Thursday and "Til Death" is premiering - just because this is traditionally the time to pull back on those damn commercials. You know I almost wanted to see the thing back in May when they started advertising it. Now I can't wait for it to fall off the network. Married with Raymond is just not exciting. Man, I don't want to hear another disgruntled old couple marriage joke again.

Oh and saw Justice last night. I liked Amanda Seyfried. The show's premise seemed intriguing - but you know if you show the murder at the end of the episode, maybe you should show something BESIDES the murder the way the lawyers have established it in the first 45 minutes. It's not like it's terribly exciting to see the same thing that's been discussed already. And if it's going to be the formula to have the lawyers WIN every episode followed by the murder happening EXACTLY THE WAY they established, it's going to get very boring. Now if they lost once in awhile or they won but the murderer is going free, I would like to see it. But as it stands now, it's dull.

I'm also having pains about House being wracked with self-doubts because Cutty isn't telling him that he's right. But that will pass. Granted, characters need to develop and change, but House really must be the arrogant pill popper or it's going to feel wrong - like with that love story they tried to pull last season.

And I like Bones. TOo bad I won't see any episodes until December now. But that's another one of those shows where you know it's a ripoff but you like watching the characters.

So are there any new shows that aren't CSI, Lost or House ripoffs? Besides the boring situation comedy I mentioned at the beginning of this entry...

Youtube is so great for these things

I'm listening to Bob Dylan's Chronicles, narrated by Sean Penn (?) and it's annoying since it skips around. One chapter he's in Greenwich Village, the next one he's bitching about these damn hippies that won't get off his yard. Then it's 1987 and he's trying to figure himself out and his sound. A constant problem. I do like it when he's bitching about being called the voice of his generation, especially when he's saying "Didn't these fools read the newspapers. Even Pravda is calling me a capitalist sell out." (Amazing that I can totally see his point - especially with that reemergence of Baby Boomer Bitching that happened with his Victoria's Secret ad. It's as if he went electric again - but with wah wah guitars, and rerecorded all of his old songs with a rapper going "Yeah. Uhuh. Yeah." - ok now I'm scaring myself. I'll stop.)

Anyhow the point is that it's cool because he talks about other singers and I have youtube to look them up on. Just found Joe Tex (whose only tune I know is the one from Reservoir Dogs where they are beating up the cop) and now Reverend Gary Davis.

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I remember reading the script to City on the Edge of Forever and thinking that Harlan Ellison was right. Roddenberry screwed with the script. Shatner is a blowhard and television sucks the life out scripts. Then I read The Glass Teat and Ellison's awful melodramatic crap script for a show called The Young Lawyers - and his next dozen articles on why the actors screwed it up (because it was so great from the beginning). And now there's this boob grabbing incident. He's not a gay fashion designer.

After innumerable anniversaries, interviews, conventions, books, press junkets, red carpet arrival lines, DVD featurettes and commentaries, it's abundantly clear: They are so over "Star Trek."

If you ask them what still gets them fired up about the late producer Gene Roddenberry's creation after all these years, you get an answer that -- underneath the glibness -- is very telling:

SHATNER: Money.

NIMOY: Yeah. The big, the big bucks.

SHATNER: Money. The money gets you fired up.

TOGETHER: The biiiig bucks.

Seriously?

SHATNER: Yes, that was serious. We were very serious about that.

NIMOY: Yeah. But seriously, folks.

They aren't the only ones whose affections are waning.

It's official. I like Shatner better.