06.20.07
Sushi Bar Etiquette
Hilarious.
‘This is gari, nobody knows what it’s made from.’
06.13.07
The Wilbury Twist
Probably one of the coolest supergroups ever. The basically threw the band together because when they were hanging out and jamming one night, decided to put out a couple an album as a lark and there you go. They just re-released their CD’s with apparently some unreleased tracks on it. I’m looking forward to hearing it.
06.12.07
The end of The Sopranos - CUT TO: Black
There’s been a lot of controversy surrounding the ending to The Sopranos finale. I have to say at first I wasn’t pleased with it. But I also have to give them credit for doing something completely unexpected. The abrupt ending in the finale when they cut to black sent millions flocking to call their cable operators and even caused HBO.com to crash for a while. Anytime you can cause accidental mass hysteria with a TV show, kudos.
I can’t say that I’m really happy with the way it ended. But the more I think about it, it could have been sheer genius on their part. Because while they didn’t technically kill Tony off, they sort of did. They left it up to everyone to figure out what happened and at any point they can just say that’s what they were trying to do all along.
The best explanation I’ve seen so far is that when they replayed the scene with Bobby in the boat they were foreshadowing that when your time finally comes you don’t even see it, it just cuts to black. Whether or not that’s what they meant by that ending still hasn’t been said.
They now have a number of options:
- A Sopranos movie - Since Tony isn’t technically dead they have the freedom to do a movie now. Although I’ve heard they haven’t really thought about going that route. Once they’re not getting the Sopranos cash they were getting, this could be a pretty sweet gig.
- A spinoff? - Ok, spinoffs are usually pretty lame (Jake and the Fatman, Joanie Loves Chachi), but what about a show that goes back to the days when Johnny and Junior ruled North Jersey. “That’d be nice” And I’m sure they could get all kinds of storylines, they already have some scenes written for them in older episodes.
- Bring it back later - Probably even less likely to happen, but with everybody that will be dropping their HBO subscriptions and if Chase can’t cut it in movies, could be a decent option for both of them. A downside to this though is that they have gotten rid of a lot of their more interesting characters (Christopher could have had his own show).
- Actually call it quits - Don’t know if it’s just the denial that the show is actually over, but I still hold a glimmer of hope that there’s something. Granted some of the episodes were getting a little lack-luster. And they definitely jumped the shark with the whole Vito storyline.
For now it’s the end of an era. The Sopranos has been one of those shows you kind of got used to having around. Even when there was nothing but complete schlock on TV, they were always there to remind you what good television was like.
06.07.07
Potato Wave…
This is brilliant. Yellow Ledbetter has always been one of my favorite songs, but you can never tell what the hell he’s talking about.
06.06.07
In the new house….fed up with Comcast
We’ve finally moved into our new house. We got in last week but won’t have internet or cable till next week thanks to Comcast being run by drunk monkeys (except you Britt, you’re cool).
You don’t really realize all the junk you have until you’ve packed it up and moved it. I am definitely in need of a good purging. Hopefully I can sell some stuff off that we don’t need (seriously, 4 computers, really?)
As I mentioned earlier Comcast is royally screwing us over. I had put in a request to have our service transferred 3 weeks ago, and twice when I called back to verify this they had no record of the request. When I called back again this morning they didn’t have a record of either previous request so I had to make yet another one. Plus they said they can’t come out till next Monday AND I’d have to pay for a transfer fee!
I called back to get someone else to waive this fee (because why should I pay them for something they’ve failed to do?) but they still won’t be able to come out till next Monday. :8/
It’s been quite a hassle, especially with Whitney trying to do stuff for grad school and me trying to do websites.
But that’s enough about Comcast…I’ve gotten that out.
We’re really excited about the new house, we really like it a lot. It will be nice when we’re not living out of boxes any more though. The whole moving-in thing kinda came at a bad time for Whitney. She’s got a class that she’s taking all week at night and she has to go this weekend too. She’s really been stressed, but it’s going to take a lot for her to finish this degree by the end of the year.
I’m sure it’ll take a couple of weeks before we’re actually settled in, but we’re getting there. Most of the rooms actually look like rooms now. Hopefully we can take some pictures and be able to post them up soon!