Like Brand New

Tomorrow I head off to see Brand New for the second time this year. This time they are playing with Thrice, so it should be a pretty great show. I saw them last April with the Manchester Orchestra, it was a really fun night.

As for tonight, I plan on indulging in some wholesome goodness I like to call The Office.

Proof You Shouldn't Mix Two Things You Love

Mmmm... TPS Reports

I've been catching up on the episodes of The Office I don't remember or haven't seen. I'm going to finish season two tonight and watch season one sometime later this week. I also need to watch the movie Office Space again soon.

I have a new appreciation for office comedy since I started working in an office myself. It's kinda fun to think about how work throws you together for 40+ hours a week with people who you'd never be with normally. The characters on the office may be exaggerated, but if you've worked in an office, you know that it's not by too much.

I wonder what character I'm most like. As long as it isn't Dwight I think I'm alright.

A Lot of Stars, Not so Much Battle

Battlestar Galactica has been my favorite show for awhile now, but the last four or five episodes have been seriously lacking compared to last season. There has been almost no real plot development that I can see, and there has been no action.

Now, if you're a fan of the show you probably are asking me, "What about last weeks episode? A major event happened then." True, but it wasn't really that great or moving. The show was still just kinda blah.

I'm not giving up yet, we'll give them a few more to prove themselves. It's just hard to find good TV these days.

Ode to Battlestar

I don't watch a whole lot of TV anymore, most of it is awful. Even the stuff I used to love has lost its charm (I gave up on 24 a couple weeks ago). Besides The Office the only show I look forward to is Battlestar Galactica and I found out this week that it has been picked up for another season. This gives me hope and joy for the year to come.

Now most people wouldn't even give this show a chance, it's based on a 70's sci-fi show that was so weird its first run didn't last more than a season. Add to that the fact that the Sci-fi channel in all of its wisdom puts it on at 10:00pm Sunday night so that they can save prime time for wonderful made for TV movies with the worst special effects since Clash of the Titans. Despite this though the show is awesome and here are some of the reasons why:

1. It has Admiral Adama - Imagine if Jack Bauer was put in charge of a fleet of star ships.

2. It has a cranky drunk man in an eye patch - It reminds me of holidays back home.

3. It has a hairy man who sees an imaginary sexy robot - These are the type of people that make life more interesting.

4. It has a sexy robot that sees an imaginary hairy man - Can we say plot twist?

5. It has a lot of people who get angry and hit each other - Once again, the holidays.

6. It has mankind losing and running away - I like my stories dark. What's with this good guys always coming out on top Sci-fi out there? This show would beat up Star Trek and take its lunch money.

7. It has robots with guns in their arms - Pure genius.

8. It has other good stuff - You know deep plot, great effects, awesome camera work, mystery, fully developed characters, etc. But who cares about that stuff?

New Office?

I think there's a new Office on tonight. That show makes me very happy. I think anyone who has every been forced to work with strange people can enjoy it. I have only two complaints though:

1. It needs to be longer - A half an hour isn't enough time, it feels rushed most nights.

2. The English version was better - I love the American version, but for those of you who don't know it was originally done by the Brits and I hate to admit it but they did a better job. Run out and buy the DVD now!

24 Predictions

I have watched the first the first four seasons of 24 all the way through, half of season five, and am now current with season six. I'm starting to notice some reoccurring themes and whereas I might not go as far to say the show is predictable, I feel confident that I can make some educated guesses about what is going to happen next season. So here's what I think will happen in season seven of 24 ( we'll have to check this list next year to see how close I come):

Jack will yell at a lot of people - Jack seems to have only two volume levels: scary whisper and drill sergeant.

Any CTU agents that we don't know by name will be killed - How many times has a entire team of CTU field agents been wiped out while guarding something? These guys have a shorter life expectancy than the red shirt away team guys on the original Star Trek.

Jack will disobey an order from CTU - You'd figure by now they'd just let him do what he wants anyway. The guy is more insubordinate than a detective in an 80's cop movie.

The president will be manipulated by a member of his inner circle - Who are these people that the presidents in this show keep appointing to their cabinet? If I was president I would let Jack chose my cabinet, or better yet , just let Jack be president. That way he could torture anyone who he thought was going behind his back.

There will be a mole inside CTU - This place has got to have the worst hiring department in the world. How is it that Vegas casinos can watch their employees enough that it's impossible to steal a quarter without ending up in a back room being beat half to death but the Counter Terrorist Unit has someone stealing info from it every season.

Jack will physically hurt and/or kill someone that works at CTU - This man has shot one boss in the head, cut off his partner's hand, drugged another boss, shot another partner in the throat, killed a mole or two, and punched out half the office while trying to escape at one time or another, yet he still gets asked back to work. Now that's proof that it's hard to get fired from a government job.

Someone at CTU will lie to protect Jack - This amazes me, seeing how they will probably be his next victim.

Jack will kill someone in an unconventional way - It's kinda hard to top ripping out someones throat with your teeth, so it's probably going to have to be something like killing someone with a spoon.

A terrorist organisation will threaten the lives of thousands of people in L.A. - Why don't these people move already?

Someone will be kidnapped - Go back and look at the past five seasons.

Someone will be blackmailed - Again, the past five seasons.

No one will sleep or go to the bathroom - CTU better be paying some serious overtime.

Jack will kill an insane amount of terrorists - It's incredible how many people these terror cells have on their payroll. It's got to be expensive replacing all the people that Jack kills, I'd just wait till he retired or took a vacation before I plotted world domination.

Battlestar is Back

Battlestar Galactica is back on tonight and that makes me very happy. The only problem is that we are having night services right now, so I have to record it and wait until Friday when everyone is free so we can watch it together. It's going to be tough holding out for five more days but it'll be comforting just knowing it's there on my DVR waiting for me.

24 is Almost Here

I just finished season four of 24 and I'm on the fourth episode of season five but I don't think I'm going to make it all the way through before season six starts this Sunday. I could probably belt it out in a few days if it wasn't for me being so busy right now with all the work for church, but there is no way with the way things stand right now. I'm thinking I might just start season six when it begins no matter if I'm finished or not but we'll see. Ah, my life is so rough.