Couch Potato Famine
There is a circus spinning in my head at all times. It kind of serves to be both good and bad, depending on the situation.
At this point, I have decided that I need the weather to break into full-blown autumn if I'm going to start getting any actual sleep in the near future. With even a twinge of humidity in the air, I might as well just stay up all night watching reruns of The Nanny or playing video games, compensating by catching short bursts of napping at my desk when no one is looking. Then again, the volume of completely random things that race through my head at night aren't helping much either. I'm beginning to look and feel haggard. Maybe I'm on the verge of something bad and I either don't realize it or I just don't care.
Speaking of bad, Glenn Beck is on the cover of Time this week. Truthfully, I'm not even sure what to make of him. I can't decide if he's a completely ridiculous excuse for a pundit or if he is actually the single greatest performance artist of our generation. Lately, I'm starting to think the latter.
Elsewhere on television, last night was a fairly significant eve for a nation of couch potatoes. For my money, it was all comedy, all the time. Despite my penchant for complaining, I decided to give Parks & Recreation another chance to "wow" me. I'm still not entirely sold on it as it bears way too many similarities to The Office with a much less interesting cast. I did manage to find a handful of events funny though. I suppose it could be worth recording for a while longer.
The Office…perfect. Best season opener since The Dundies. From the moment Andrew Bernard leapt to his doom by crashing through the top of an empty refrigerator box, it was pretty much all tears for me. Earlier this week, I heard of a new tell-all book by a former Bush administration speechwriter that compared George W. Bush to Michael Scott. Kind of makes me wish I could have seen that for myself.
I didn't get to see the premiere of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia yet, but Community was fairly pedestrian. It had a few moments, but it too felt like another show trying to bask in the shadows of The Office. Jon Oliver will keep my interest for now.
Musically-speaking, I missed the boat at the end of 2008 on Vertebrae. I misjudged a 30-second clip on an album that would have easily made my Top 10 of 2008. It seems like Vertebrae was the album Enslaved was building towards from Isa until now, combining a perfect blend of black metal aggression with spacey, prog-rock atmospherics. While the "Pink Floyd-gone-black metal" label is finding its way around more often in the past year or so, Enslaved seems to be the only band capable of getting it right.
Interesting note: In a Yahoo Search when typing the name Glenn, Glenn Beck is 3rd behind Glenn Close and Glenn Danzig.
At this point, I have decided that I need the weather to break into full-blown autumn if I'm going to start getting any actual sleep in the near future. With even a twinge of humidity in the air, I might as well just stay up all night watching reruns of The Nanny or playing video games, compensating by catching short bursts of napping at my desk when no one is looking. Then again, the volume of completely random things that race through my head at night aren't helping much either. I'm beginning to look and feel haggard. Maybe I'm on the verge of something bad and I either don't realize it or I just don't care.
Speaking of bad, Glenn Beck is on the cover of Time this week. Truthfully, I'm not even sure what to make of him. I can't decide if he's a completely ridiculous excuse for a pundit or if he is actually the single greatest performance artist of our generation. Lately, I'm starting to think the latter.Elsewhere on television, last night was a fairly significant eve for a nation of couch potatoes. For my money, it was all comedy, all the time. Despite my penchant for complaining, I decided to give Parks & Recreation another chance to "wow" me. I'm still not entirely sold on it as it bears way too many similarities to The Office with a much less interesting cast. I did manage to find a handful of events funny though. I suppose it could be worth recording for a while longer.
The Office…perfect. Best season opener since The Dundies. From the moment Andrew Bernard leapt to his doom by crashing through the top of an empty refrigerator box, it was pretty much all tears for me. Earlier this week, I heard of a new tell-all book by a former Bush administration speechwriter that compared George W. Bush to Michael Scott. Kind of makes me wish I could have seen that for myself.
I didn't get to see the premiere of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia yet, but Community was fairly pedestrian. It had a few moments, but it too felt like another show trying to bask in the shadows of The Office. Jon Oliver will keep my interest for now.
Musically-speaking, I missed the boat at the end of 2008 on Vertebrae. I misjudged a 30-second clip on an album that would have easily made my Top 10 of 2008. It seems like Vertebrae was the album Enslaved was building towards from Isa until now, combining a perfect blend of black metal aggression with spacey, prog-rock atmospherics. While the "Pink Floyd-gone-black metal" label is finding its way around more often in the past year or so, Enslaved seems to be the only band capable of getting it right.Interesting note: In a Yahoo Search when typing the name Glenn, Glenn Beck is 3rd behind Glenn Close and Glenn Danzig.
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