Wire, Simpsonified
Posted in art, television on May 3rd, 2008
This only makes the absence of the scandinavian release of the fourth season more painful.
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Obsessive Supercuts
Posted in movies, television on Apr 17th, 2008
I can’t but agree with Andy Baio, and be amazed at the lengths some people go to, just to display every single instance of swearing in a movie, a complete collection of Horatio Caine’s oneliners, or collect all the known Wilhem screams.
Nanoreviews
Posted in books, comics, food, games, television, travel on Apr 16th, 2008
Kansainvälisen Seikkailijan Opas, the Madventures-guys’ travel book: Short on destination details, long on quality writing.
Tropicana Red Berries: No mango, interesting taste, deep purple colour.
Halo 3: Too many chapters with Flood, will go back for the vehicle scenes.
Blink, off the third season of Doctor Who: Probably the best televised science fiction in […]
Attributing the source
Posted in meme, television on Apr 14th, 2008
The recent top 50 television shows-meme originated from a related article in Empire.
Better life through television
Posted in meme, television on Apr 10th, 2008
To celebrate the arrival of the new television at the HQ, here’s my take on the show-meme making rounds in the finnish blogosphere
Quantum Leap (I think I’ve seen a whole episode. Once.)
Prison Break
Veronica Mars (Seen the first season, second pending in the backlog.)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Sex & The City
Farscape (Embarrassingly enough, seen only […]
Towards forty inches
Posted in gadgets, television on Apr 8th, 2008
I never thought buying a television would be this hard.
Moderately expensive, yes. Hard, no.
Right now I’m struggling between Sony (W3000) and Toshiba (ZF355D), both of which have definite advantages and disadvantages. Or perceived advantages and disadvantages, as everything comes down to taste.
Only one thing is clear, the […]
Charlie Wilson’s War, 4 stars
Posted in movies, television on Apr 1st, 2008
Saw Mike Nichols’ Charlie Wilson’s War yesterday. Went in expecting to see an average movie, filled with potentially annoying actors, but was pleasantly disappointed: this was a very good movie, and all the big-name actors managed to stay on the not-so-annoying side of things.
Charlie Wilson is an average congressman from the […]
Oh My God, They Streamed Kenny! You Bastards!
Posted in television, web on Mar 30th, 2008
South Park goes free.
Every episode will be available on the web.
And the logic behind this move (by Trey Park and Matt Stone, the show’s creators) is nothing short of genius:
[we got] really sick of having to download our own show illegally all the time. So we gave ourselves a legal alternative.
Yeah, it’s […]
Bunnies, it must be bunnies
Posted in mac, television, video on Mar 24th, 2008
A very relaxing easter weekend is drawing to a close, and what would be a better way to finish it off than bunnies.
A doubleheader of them, to be exact.
Useless Creations’ screensaver puts a group of rabbits on screen, and manages not to get annoying in the first fifteen seconds. In […]
Days of future past
Posted in games, television, video on Mar 22nd, 2008
The fourth season of Lost kicked off on finnish television last week.
And continues directly where the third season ended, with a rift-inducing arrival of “rescuers” and flashforwards. The identity of the former is very much under wraps, but seems not to be of good news to all inhabitants. As to the […]
Absent with leave, please
Posted in haircut, television on Mar 2nd, 2008
An “Unspecified upper respiratory infection” is worth three days sick leave. And some sumptuous medicine.
Today was the fourth day with fever, this era of running with a lowered clock speed is not amusing. I actually had to concentrate on the plot of 24 instead of multitasking with a magazine. But […]
Must not-see t-v
Posted in television on Feb 12th, 2008
Seems that the news of the peculiar clown-horse rear admiral-o-rama was traumatic enough to forget watching today’s episode of Torchwood.
While it definitely is no new Who, the show is decent enough to warrant watching it.
Its second season seems to have been picked up by yle, which is odd, since they haven’t shown […]
Television shows NO-ONE should watch
Posted in television on Feb 11th, 2008
JIM @ 2000 on 11.2.2008:
Uskomattomat videot
Sirkustemppu menee pieleen kun klovni tutustuu hevoseen takakautta.
Amerikkalainen sarja.
I so do not want to know what happens here.
And rinsing the mere idea of this scene from memory is going to demand industry-strength solvents.
Still on strike tomorrow?
Posted in television on Feb 10th, 2008
After three months the Writer’s Guild of America might be calling off the strike today, or not - as the preceding strike back in 1988 that took almost twice as long showed, the scriptwriters can indeed be away from the keyboards for a good while.
The spring television schedule in the US is pretty […]
On-demand genre-busting television?
Posted in television on Feb 10th, 2008
Is the site claiming that Firefly might be up for a second season just wishful thinking?
The site does not look very convincing, and the statement of being just an independent production company without a license to the show doesn’t exactly make me reach for my wallet to provide funding.
Posted in music, naked link, television on Jan 15th, 2008
play.house does an admirable job in listing the songs in House, MD episodes. And do check out the site’s service for other shows as well.
Two third seasons
Posted in television on Jan 12th, 2008
Finished watching the third seasons of two very influential shows, and neither Deadwood nor Lost disappointed. But neither was a complete success.
Deadwood, after finishing off strong with its second season, meanders towards an ending, not a conclusion. Despite HBO’s reluctance, the planned two movies to cap off the early days of […]
What next, Finland wins the Eurovision song contest?
Posted in gadgets, movies, television on Jan 8th, 2008
Sony actually backed the right horse in the high definition dvd contest. Unlike any of its previous massive intelligence failures on ATRAC, minidisc, Betamax and the like, Sony’s choice looks like it’s going to dominate the market.
With Paramount following Warner Bros. annoucement, the list of HD-DVD is short indeed.
I don’t […]
24^6
Posted in television on Jan 6th, 2008
Jack Bauer is back, for his sixth work-filled day saving the american way, apple pie and the rest of the world.
Have meticulously avoided spoilers of the new season, but haven’t escaped the rumors stating that this is the worst thus far.
The show kicked off with two first episodes today, and they […]