tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13889170Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:41:05 +0000http://www.prosemonkey.com/livproof.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (breakfast boy)Blogger107125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13889170.post-3581613600113244886Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:29:00 +00002010-01-27T16:41:05.042-08:00Another show that I forgot to mention that just premiered is..Human Target, FOXThe pilot had Tricia Helfer aka Six from BSG. The "season premiere" had brief glimpses of Gaeta and Doc Cottle from BSG (sorry, forgot the actors' names.) Call me biased because I am. When BSG alumni show up I'm interested. Nevertheless, had the BSGs not been in the first two episodes of Human Target, I'm sure I http://www.prosemonkey.com/2010/01/more-cool-crowding-for-jan-2010.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (breakfast boy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13889170.post-7856857978175801135Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:15:00 +00002010-01-26T14:47:28.540-08:00Now that the holidaze is done, that means the 2nd halves of seasons are rolling in and mid-term premieres start jumping. I'm completely BEE-HIIND, sorta.Here's a rundown on things that have already arrived and things that are joining in on the fun soon. (In no particular order...)Damages, Season 3, FXOver the weekend I DVRed and watched the S2 finally. I watched the first 2 or 3 episodes of http://www.prosemonkey.com/2010/01/cool-crowding.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (breakfast boy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13889170.post-2231957531364248766Thu, 24 Dec 2009 20:14:00 +00002009-12-24T13:05:28.644-08:00{SPOILERS AHEAD}Uh. WOW.Two nights ago I saw the Sharks, after letting a goal score and an icing, win a face off, work it up the left board, hit the point, hit Joe Thornton streaking in the middle, he passed it back to Demers, and KILLED a one timer to the left of the net as Chicago goaltender shift to his right. All done in like 3 seconds. And my jaw dropped. But I picked it up quickly to http://www.prosemonkey.com/2009/12/tv-wonderland-fringe-season-1-disc-five.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (breakfast boy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13889170.post-942143382953392250Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:19:00 +00002009-12-21T23:20:03.595-08:00TV made its impact in my life, once again, in the winter of 2003. I just finished my first semester of Grad School and I had over 5 weeks of time off to do absolutely nothing. For the most part, that's what I did. While doing so, I dusted off the complete sets of Alias Season 1 and 2 that we had in the house and decided to watch them. Numerous TV marathons after, here I am blogging about TV.http://www.prosemonkey.com/2009/12/tv-winter-wonderland-redux-fringe.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (breakfast boy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13889170.post-1719886849264802386Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:30:00 +00002009-12-20T14:22:04.763-08:00[Spoilers included. Beware.]Wow.Maybe there's something about apocalyptic and surreal sets in the Dollhouse universe that get me all the time, but I thought these two episodes were the best since the "unofficial" Epitath One episode.These two episodes answered two questions of Dollhouseverse. What happens after a a doll is done with a contract? What happens in the attic? Both also pushed http://www.prosemonkey.com/2009/12/cool-crowd-dollhouse-stop-loss-attic.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (breakfast boy)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13889170.post-4131097550002676733Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:19:00 +00002009-12-10T14:26:00.927-08:00Not a complete run of each show.. the shows on the rotation being:GleeSupernaturalStargate UniverseVFlash ForwardSmallvilleDollhouseBonesLast week, the new episodes were only available for Glee, FF, Dollhouse, SGU, and Bones.Bones was enjoyable as always, but I'll leave it at that. I LOVE BONES. And at that.Glee was also enjoyable. A nasty Sue. Shue finally realizing the truth. Most excited is http://www.prosemonkey.com/2009/12/cool-crowd-1st-week-of-dec-09.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (breakfast boy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13889170.post-4851140469403732982Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:18:00 +00002009-12-04T16:25:34.737-08:00Back in 2006 when I decided to blog about television, I concocted a ranking system for all the hour-long dramas I watched each week. Since then, I decided to remove the ranking system because some shows that ranked "lower" seemed to be getting short changed. What did it really matter? I'm the only one reading this. What matters though is that after reading over some of my older reviews, I've http://www.prosemonkey.com/2009/12/bringing-back-ranksgivings.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (breakfast boy)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13889170.post-4517509580931523040Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:40:00 +00002009-12-03T18:02:33.553-08:00I've had the opportunity to dive into some movies I've been wanting to see the past couple of weeks. Here we go:Away We GoJim from The Office. Maya from SNL. You'd expect hilarity. No. I forgot that this was a Sam Mendes movie. Not that that's a bad thing, of course. This film experience was a good example of studio's mis-marketing. It was advertised as a quirky comedy, but it was much http://www.prosemonkey.com/2009/12/movies-yes-im-still-alive-yes-still-no.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (breakfast boy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13889170.post-1783070142449094366Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:47:00 +00002009-10-06T00:47:51.472-07:00Smallville Season 8Looking over what I've written about this series over the past year and a half, I was ready to send this longtime fave upstate to the farm – like straight up into Smallville, nowhere. I stopped watching this show weekly at some point in the season when DVR conflicts and the GSW hoops games forced me to make some decisions. This one was going to be a late summer catch-up on http://www.prosemonkey.com/2009/10/cool-crowd-smallville-season-8-final.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (breakfast boy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13889170.post-6755594581140100107Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:04:00 +00002009-08-03T12:06:04.497-07:00500 Days of SummerA few weeks ago, my gf sent me a couple of trailers to watch. Sometime around then, Anton tweeted about a movie that he was gushing about. Then a day or two afterwards I saw the trailer for 500 Days of Summer on TV and said to myself, "I hella want to watch that movie." I texted my gf to google the title. Came to find out that 500 Days was one of the trailers she sent http://www.prosemonkey.com/2009/08/more-downtime-vacation-no-cable_03.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (breakfast boy)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13889170.post-4916891647537004881Mon, 03 Aug 2009 06:20:00 +00002009-08-03T00:16:05.819-07:00Revolutionary RoadWhen I received Revolutionary Road in the mail from netflix, I was excited. But I didn't watch it immediately. Instead, I waited for a perfect time when I knew I'd be focused, in the right frame of mind, and capable of ingesting the perceived heaviness of the film. So, at about exactly 1 week ago (12:30 AM, Monday) I lied down, turned off the lights, and slipped this DVD intohttp://www.prosemonkey.com/2009/08/more-downtime-vacation-no-cable.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (breakfast boy)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13889170.post-1407160245725789958Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:34:00 +00002009-07-28T17:35:31.244-07:00Public EnemiesEver since I saw the trailer for this, I’ve been interested. Add Depp, Mann, and Bale to the mix and I’m piqued. The trailer also had this period piece done to the backdrop of modern music. The mood was different.Watching the movie presented a different tone from the trailer. Not sure what I was thinking – how can organized crime be considered lightly or particularly in chic http://www.prosemonkey.com/2009/07/downtime-vacation-no-cable-catching-up.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (breakfast boy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13889170.post-4244834895541751687Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:04:00 +00002009-07-07T16:09:48.648-07:00Aside from Joss Whedon and John Cassaday’s run on Astonishing X-men, I don’t usually write ABOUT a specific comic book run. I’ve written about comics a lot, but not about specific series and their greatness or weakness. This go around, I have something to write about.A few weeks ago, I picked up the “Incognito” special print that combined issues one and two. Incognito, the project from the http://www.prosemonkey.com/2009/07/walletcrybrainsmile-comics-incognito-by.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (breakfast boy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13889170.post-7533274107803833688Wed, 13 May 2009 21:51:00 +00002009-05-13T14:52:11.418-07:00Damages, the show on FX starring Glenn Close, is what you would call a tour de force.When it came out in 2008, I paid it no attention. I’m not particularly drawn to Glenn Close and haven’t seen anything of hers that I can particularly recall as interesting to me. I also don’t follow most legal dramas. Apparently, the first season of the show was some high level shit as not-so-ineloquently http://www.prosemonkey.com/2009/05/damages-season-1.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (breakfast boy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13889170.post-4257749211378713181Sat, 09 May 2009 15:56:00 +00002009-05-09T09:21:25.430-07:00Dying proof? What the hell's wrong with me. I post a beginning - a middle - and just an end? Bus life. Change in DVR habits. Change in life. No excuse. Maybe TV's just bored me. No. I think I just have a bit more of a life now. Okay. Onto the Cool Crowd.Official goodbyes:HeroesOh how the strong have weakened and how the wayward have completely lost existence. Heroes was never a perfecthttp://www.prosemonkey.com/2009/05/cool-crowd-nearing-seasons-finale.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (breakfast boy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13889170.post-4095098442977147271Sat, 09 May 2009 00:01:00 +00002009-05-08T17:02:13.182-07:00X-Men Origins: WolverineEver since the bad taste of X-Men 3: The Last Stand left in my mouth, I’ve become relatively indifferent to most movie renditions of my beloved comic book characters. In fact, I didn’t even blink an eye when Wolverine began to gain more steam in its completion. I didn’t even know it was close to being finished until the pirated version sans SFX hit the interwebs.Why the http://www.prosemonkey.com/2009/05/review-x-men-origins-wolverine.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (breakfast boy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13889170.post-3084074288833304059Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:44:00 +00002009-02-04T15:42:57.010-08:00It's sad how disconnected I've been from blogging about television since, if nothing else, I wrote about television.Nonetheless, here I am. And here are the subsequent thoughts.BSGEarth was a wasteland. We're on our last run for this epic show. What did they do? They came out BLASTING! The reveals in the season premiere were generally massive although the final one (which named the final http://www.prosemonkey.com/2009/02/cool-crowd-january-buzz.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (breakfast boy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13889170.post-1050075002293661791Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:07:00 +00002009-02-04T14:11:21.989-08:00On Amazon mp3, the Pharcyde, "Sold My Soul: The Remix and Rarity Collection" 2-disc album is sold for $15.98. Not bad especially considering that the actual CDs cost $17.98 on Amazon's non-download site.On emusic, where I pay $19.99/mo to get 75 downloads, I just bought that same CD for $6.40.Some of the best $6.40 I've spent in a while.I'm sure the DJs and utilizers of vinyl probably have a lothttp://www.prosemonkey.com/2009/02/review-pharcyde-sold-my-soul-remix-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (breakfast boy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13889170.post-8218437999655057148Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:30:00 +00002008-11-24T17:44:48.875-08:00Wow, it's been a long time. I guess a good way of keeping my typing in order is to keep my head in order. And to do so, I should list what I've been watching or have watched since September. (Sunday to Saturday with no headings per day...)EntourageTrue BloodGossip GirlHow I Met Your MotherHeroesCSI Miami90210FringeEli StoneSouth ParkBonesLifeDirty Sexy MoneySmallvilleSupernaturalLife on Mars30http://www.prosemonkey.com/2008/11/cool-crowd-november-sweeps-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (breakfast boy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13889170.post-5619533121755746889Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:58:00 +00002008-11-21T13:07:26.188-08:00It looks like the Writers' Strike is still taking a toll on the world of television.A bunch of the Sophomores (that are actually still Freshmen) shows are struggling and now have been officially canceled. Each of which, the ones on ABC at least, were part of my viewing pleasure last year.Pushing Daisies:The WORST part of this show being cut is that its another blow to crazy imaginative and http://www.prosemonkey.com/2008/11/cutteroos.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (breakfast boy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13889170.post-2398777512543193203Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:57:00 +00002008-09-30T13:08:56.550-07:00Lots of TV the past few weeks and lots of totally unimportant thoughts on my end, but I'm still going to write about them. Finally.FRINGE and EUREKANot sure why I didn't make this connection off the bat, but FRINGE is very very very similar to Eureka - except that they're worlds apart. Both delve into the art (and darkness) of science. The core of the expansion of science is urged on by the http://www.prosemonkey.com/2008/09/cool-crowd-end-of-september-08.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (breakfast boy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13889170.post-7183673325198112415Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:38:00 +00002008-11-24T16:30:28.347-08:00It's that time of the year again, baby!By the way, the new season started with Eureka.Anyway, so here comes the network shows.Gossip GirlGossip Girl came out blasting - primarily with Dan, the good boy, going player with two girls at the same reading, no less, and with Nate going Cougar hunting.It's weird how they flipped the season finale with Blair getting her heart broken by a flippant Chuck http://www.prosemonkey.com/2008/09/cool-crowd-premiere-week-1.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (breakfast boy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13889170.post-862609760967903596Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:21:00 +00002008-07-06T14:41:25.884-07:00Giant Sized Astonishing X-menFinally got a chance to pick up and read "Giant Sized Astonishing X-men" and it was, by george, giant sized. Lots of redemption in this supersized issue and a significant farewell by Joss Whedon and John Cassaday. Just as badassedly did Whedon reintroduce Kitty Pryde into leading lady status did he say goodbye to her. I was thinking to myself, "no he's not. no http://www.prosemonkey.com/2008/07/kitty-wall-e-and-revolution.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (breakfast boy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13889170.post-8829311001497826181Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:57:00 +00002008-07-03T16:23:21.567-07:00Yes, hella late, but I've been sick, busy, and uninspired.So, without over thinking this, because, that means I'm just forcing it..Number 1: Chuck Bass - Gossip GirlOkay, so first thing you see this dude do was almost date rape a 14yo fish out of water - the little sister, even - of our prototypical Teen Show Stalwart (the guy who doesn't belong because of he's not rich, etc. etc.)He slimed his http://www.prosemonkey.com/2008/07/favorite-new-characters-of-07-08.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (breakfast boy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13889170.post-5028334051311035092Fri, 30 May 2008 18:22:00 +00002008-05-30T11:52:00.144-07:00Well. I'm not. But, here are my thoughts on the movie:Despite the rave reviews from my friends, I actually thoroughly enjoyed Iron Man. Usually, when people come back from movies and exclaim their excitement for it, I tend to experience a let down. I definitely did not. I wanted the movie to excel because I like Jon Favreau and I also want comic book based movies to be good movies. I was nothttp://www.prosemonkey.com/2008/05/i-am-iron-man.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (breakfast boy)3