Getting back in the game

Now that I have this new computer, I'm getting back on top of all my "TV" watching-- first and foremost is NBC's semi-based-on-the-bible show "Kings" which draws its inspiration from the story of David. I watched the pilot and recommended it to Jeremy and we're both in love with it now! I've been really behind recently and have almost caught up (only 2 shows to go now!) and have been really pleased with some of the things they're doing. Jeremy says that even though it isn't an exact copy of the story, the spirit is there, and I think they've stylized it in a way that it's clear they're trying to do David as, perhaps, Shakespeare would have. Ian McShane (Deadwood, Scoop) is King Silas, and he is about as Shakespearean an actor as you can get, and the boy who plays David is a very wholesome-looking Australian actor whose name I can't remember. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it-- it pleases the biblical crowd, the Shakespearean, and those who just love a good old-fashioned story of love and glory.

I've also gotten in to a bit of a routine with my movies, which means I finish a DVD a day when I get home from work-- I'm wrapping up season 2 of "Big Love" (another one I highly recommend) at the moment and can't wait for 3 to come out on DVD. I can't remember all the interviews with Mormons and Polygamists that I saw at the time I was watching it real-time on HBO, but I think the show does an interesting job of showing all aspects of plural marriage, and how perhaps it isn't that different from the marriages that go on in all religions. I realized while scrolling through my queue today that I hadn't put up my waits in a while, and I'm very amused by my current wait list so I'll share

-Deadwood
-Namastey London
-Kingdom
-Watchmen
-Coraline

I know it's probably bad that I have so much on there that I forget what I have, but doing this little "What's on wait?" game refreshes my memory and gets me excited. I'll also be wrapping up "Desperate Housewives" this weekend (hey, my tastes vary, don't judge me!) and Joe's next picks (I make my friend Joe pick numbers from my Netflix queue to decide what I'll watch next) are "Boston Legal" (another show I missed after a season and a half of watching), The Brothers Grimm (with Heath Ledger), and The Brave One (with Jodie Foster and NAVEEN ANDREWS!). Yee haw!

For my much needed amusement

This week's waits on Netflix:

Quantum of Solace
Pineapple Express
The Tudors: Season One
Nick Frost's Danger! 50,000 Volts!
Namastey London
Slumdog Millionaire (hell to the yeah)
The Reader
The Caller


What I'm Watching:

This weekend, Jeremy and I watched Role Models which wasn't drop down hilarious, but was pretty darn funny. I frequently feel like a baby version of Paul Rudd's sarcastic, sick-with-uneducated-people character. One of my favorite lines of the movie? After being harassed by the coffee lady for asking for a large instead of a venti: "Tall is large, grande is Spanish for large, Venti is the only one that doesn't mean large. It's Italian for twenty. Congrats, you're stupid in three languages."

At first, I was wondering if they were just going to be jerks the whole movie, but they definitely redeemed themselves and let's just say that if you're a KISS fan, you'll need to watch for the last battle scene. That's right, battle scene. LARPers, here we come!

We also watched the new Speed Racer, which was alright. The cartoon was kind of lame (that's not to say I didn't like it, but it WAS pretty lame), and the movie was a classic Wachowski brothers (Matrix) acid trip. The acting was proper for the style, and I couldn't help but fall out laughing when Matthew Fox (who played Racer X) started crying at the end. Matthew Fox is crying, must be a day that ends in "y"-- amirite, LOST fans?

Last night, I watched Son of Rambow, a British film about a boy whose ultra-religious family won't let him watch tv or movies (they seemed to be Quaker-ish). He's got a crazy imagination, and falls in with a boy at school who is quite the trouble maker. They start making their own version of Rambo: First Blood, and soon the whole school is involved and his mother (a widow) decides that God would rather her take care of her family and do what's best for them than listen to some of the members of the fellowship who think the child is out of control. It's one of those sweet, nostalgic-type movies that the British do so well, and I highly recommend it.

Next up, more Desperate Housewives. I don't care what you think, I'm watchin' it and I'm likin' it. I hear it jumps the shark later, but I'm starting from Season 1 so I haven't hit that point yet.

Love those Gamma Sigmas!

My girls had a swap/mixer last night with KSig over at Tech, the theme was "Seven Deadly Sins" so being a good adviser, I was a little worried that it would look like Halloween at Rhodes where half the girls just show up looking like a prostitute and call it a costume. I am so proud and totally amused by them all! There were a few "lust" costumes, but they weren't too bad and pretty creative, too! My favorites were the following:

Gluttony-- some of the girls got inner tubes and decorated them like doughnuts and walked around offering snacks to people all night
Sloth-- several girls wore old terrycloth robes and bath slippers, and one girl went and got clever, tying Eucalyptus branches to herself to go as A sloth!
Pride-- India went as a self-loving prom queen/pageant queen, which is hilarious because it's totally not at all who India is!

Of course, when I think about it, I shouldn't have been worried-- we're all AOIIs and we do a pretty darn good job of keeping it classy!

And, for good measure, my Netflix waits for the week
Role Models
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Deadwood: Season 1
Pineapple Express
Quarantine

Not much change, though it's interesting Deadwood is on a wait-- great show, if you're in to the wild West!