{"id":5926,"date":"2012-01-18T21:57:16","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T05:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=5926"},"modified":"2012-11-02T21:59:14","modified_gmt":"2012-11-03T04:59:14","slug":"television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/18\/television\/","title":{"rendered":"Television"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was originally a \u201cpage\u201d on my blog that I updated from time to time. But I like using the chronological format of a blog better now. Be sure to check out the Reading, Watching, Listening<\/a> category of this blog!<\/p>\n

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1-18-12<\/strong>: I know I haven’t updated this list in a long time. But I just found a show worthy of adding. Just this moment in fact. I just finished watching season 3, episode 12, of Breaking Bad<\/strong>, titled “Half Measure”. (don’t skip to it; you’ve got to watch from the beginning) The show is a tight and twisted moral drama. The moment when Walt hears about the executed kid and knows exactly<\/em><\/strong> what is happening hit me like a freight train. A moment of certainty of morality and action like that is rare and powerful.<\/p>\n

11-21-08<\/strong>: Stargate Atlantis (I’ve seen most episodes so far. It’ll be sad when the show ends at the end of this season), Heros 1st and 2nd season makes good television.<\/p>\n

6-18-06<\/strong> Justice League Unlimited, 24, Nip\/Tuck.<\/p>\n

1-29-06 update<\/strong>: Since I’ve moved to California, I haven’t had a television set. That hasn’t stopped me from watching the television programs I enjoy. TV is starting to go through the same upheaval that music has been experiencing for the last 10 years from peer-to-peer file sharing revolution.<\/p>\n

I use TorrentSpy<\/a>, Azureus<\/a> \u00a0and its RSSFeed Scanner<\/a> plugin to get just about all the broadcast programming I want.<\/p>\n

Since I’ve been busy living the Vida Cali, I watch less TV.. but here’s my list of favorites:
\n– The Colbert Report
\n– The Daily Show
\n– Scrubs
\n– 24
\n– Nip\/Tuck
\n– Mythbusters
\n– Malcolm in the Middle<\/p>\n

I was happy to be able to catch up on
\n– Dead Like Me
\n– Greatest American Hero – The show is much worse than I remembered :-( But I’m glad I got to see it. Especially the pilot episode. (which still sucked, but I’m still glad I saw the “creation story”)<\/p>\n

The only shows I haven’t been able to catch are
\n60 minutes – I can’t find a torrent for it on Torrentspy :-(
\nBullshit – I can’t find a tor…. wait. I just found a torrent with season 1-3. [Click] I should have it in a week.<\/p>\n

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\nRecently, the cable TV cartel has been fighting legislation requiring that they unbundle their programming. It’s just been unbundled for them. Clearly, a new business model for television must emerge.<\/p>\n

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3-1-02 update<\/strong>: Tivo hasn’t changed the way I watch television, it has fundamentally changed what television is. Dare I use the phrase “paradigm shift”? I dare.<\/p>\n

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2-12-02:<\/strong> I got Netflix for xmas. I just started up my subscription. I don’t know how much I’ll use it between Tivo, school and work.<\/p>\n

Current Favorite shows:<\/p>\n

Joe Millionaire<\/span>– I’m completely hooked. It’s just so real. I can so project myself into Evan’s shoes. It’s wonderful watching and learning about human psychology with this fishbowl. And I am so angry that Evan got rid of Melissa! How can he hope to live happily ever after with either Zora or Sara?!?!<\/p>\n

Rough Science<\/span>– Still. This show is so much fun and so stimulating!<\/p>\n

Nova: Hitler’s Lost Sub<\/span> – It brought the history of this sub to the present. Three divers lost their lives in the late 1990’s during a personal quest to find out the history of this sub. The sub sank off the coast of NJ in 1942. It was a very intense program.<\/p>\n

The Veteran’s Project<\/span> – Since my Dad was here and he loves shows about WWII, we watched a lot of those shows. The format of this show is very simple. A veteran narrates a 1\/2 hour slide show of his war experience. Most of the photos and video clips are of him, his buddies, or his group. The show is only on bi-weekly, 8-8:30am Sunday mornings on the History Channel.<\/p>\n

11-14-02:<\/strong> Favorite TV programs: Rough Science, MST3K<\/p>\n

6-28-02:<\/strong> More or less in order, here are the shows that I have in my Tivo’s Season Pass Manager:<\/p>\n

Movie & Darkstar<\/span> – TJIC recommended. Someday I hope it comes around on the tube
\nBabylon 5 & Strife<\/span> – The very last episode I need to complete my set!
\nThe Prisoner<\/span> – After seeing about 10 episodes now, I can see the shows lacked consistently good writing. But some episodes, like “Many Happy Returns” blew my mind.
\nAngel<\/span> – Shara is a bigger fan than I, but I don’t miss many episodes
\nEvolution<\/span> – An excellent educational mini-series
\nBuffy the Vampire Slayer<\/span> \u00a0 – Shara is a bigger fan than I, but I don’t miss many episodes
\nMarx, Groucho<\/span> – I hope I hope I hope “You Bet Your Life” comes around again!
\nChaplin, Charlie<\/span>
\nPenn & Teller’s Magic and Mystery Tour<\/span> – I’ve been a fan of theirs for years. Smart guys. Real.
\nEnterprise<\/span> – Ick. How did this schlock get here? Shara?
\n60 Minutes<\/span> – I Tivo the boring articles, but there aren’t many
\nJackass<\/span> – I’m magnetically drawn to this! It’s far more consensual than America’s Funniest Ball-Busters
\nScientific American Frontiers<\/span> – Yup
\nMystery Science Theater 3000<\/span> – It’s more fun watching and heckling along with friends. But I don’t have any to watch it with now :-(
\nJust Shoot Me<\/span> – When I get around to watching sitcoms, which isn’t too often, this is one I like
\n60 Minutes II<\/span> –
\nBattleBots<\/span> – Carnage without the meat.
\nScrubs<\/span> – I really like this show a lot. The Scrubs world spins off to the left while the solid ideas hold it right in place. My kind of show.
\nNova<\/span> – Sometimes great topics, sometimes fluff.
\nEbert & Roper<\/span> – Usually pretty good movie reviews. I’m a little partial to Ebert
\nSex2K<\/span> – Infoporn ahhh
\nModern Marvels<\/span> – A good history show
\nCrank Yankers<\/span> – I dunno if I’ll keep this on the list. It’s kinda funny….
\nHarrison Ford<\/span> – More Shara’s pick than mine
\nHumphry Bogart<\/span> – More Shara’s pick than mine
\nKenneth Branagh<\/span> – More Shara’s pick than mine
\nInsomniac with Dave Atell<\/span> – Good Everyman entertainment
\nFriends<\/span> –
\nInside the Actors Studio<\/span> – sometimes very insightful guests speak
\nSouthpark<\/span> – Southpark is always insightful
\nStar Trek: Voyager<\/span> – slightly less offensive than Enterprise. Good “fall asleep fast” TV
\nTravel Sick<\/span> – I dunno. The show has possibilities but I don’t like the omniscient narrator forcing our hapless hero to do gruesome tasks.
\nLexx<\/span> – The pinnacle of stupid sci-fi. I eat it up!
\nThe Practice<\/span> – I saw an episode or two and I’m trying to get interested in it
\nThe Daily Show<\/span> – This is honestly really good news! I get more news from these guys than most other sources!<\/p>\n

I give Thumbs Up to a bunch of shows that I’m slightly interested in watching:<\/p>\n

EGG: The Arts Show<\/span> –
\nThe Man Show<\/span> – Unrepentant, unabashed
\nRipley’s Believe it or Not<\/span> –
\nMad TV<\/span> –
\nSportsnight<\/span> –
\nThe Simpsons<\/span> – Society’s mirror. I’m disappointed when they do random wacky things instead of insightful wacky things. But I guess they have a lot of shows to fill.
\nAmerica’s Funniest Home Videos<\/span> –
\nIron Chef<\/span> – Oh, the spectacle of it all!
\nVictory Garden<\/span> – I like the old host better. And I like Norm better than Bob Villa
\nThe Osbournes<\/span> – OK, so I watched a few. It’s only because my sister forced me to! Really!
\nJunkyard Wars<\/span> –<\/p>\n

Phew! That’s a long list!<\/p>\n

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Babylon 5<\/a> – I watched it from the second season til the end. I appreciate it because it has so very few plot holes, has a contiguous universe, and nice storyline. One of my few concessions to obsession in my life is that I taped (and still have) -every- episode. Of course, I don’t do anything 1\/2 way so I got an SVHS tape player for the task. So now I have 120 hours of B5 on 60 tapes… Now what do I do with them?<\/p>\n

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Xena: Warrior Princess – She can beat me up anytime
\nYou Bet Your Life<\/a> – with Groucho Marx. He was an absolute genius! Have you ever gotten to watch this show? He Ernie Kovacks – another genius, and a Hungarian to boot!
\nMystery Science Theater 3000<\/a>– Heckling a bad film is one of the purest joys there is in the world. These guys have raised it to a high art!
\nThe Prisoner<\/a> has a certain allure
\nMr. Wizard<\/a>. I watched Mr. Wizard a whole heck of a lot from middle school all the way through college.
\nUniverse<\/a> with Walter Cronkite. I looked back for this one and was really surprised to realize that it just ran for two summers. It really had an effect on me. Walter rocks.<\/p>\n

Music videos<\/h2>\n
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  • Sledgehammer- Peter Gabriel<\/li>\n
  • Take on Me- a-ha \u00a0 That’s not to say that I’m an a-ha fan, but there is this one moment of… oh heck, if you’ve seen the video, I’m sure you know what I’m talking about.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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