Purity, by Jackson Pearce
"Sixteen-year-old Shelby finds it difficult to balance her mother's dying request to live a life without restraint with her father's plans for his "little princess," which include attending a traditional father-daughter dance that culminates with a ceremonial vow to live "whole, pure lives."
UGH. Just UGH. Father-daughter purity dance things are just fucking gross.
Our occulted history: do the global elite conceal ancient aliens? by Jim Marrs
"Marrs shifts through the historical, scientific and cultural record, showing how numerous ancient texts and tables tell of visitors from the stars colonizing the Earth. Were these visitors simple observers-- or did they play a much more active and controlling role?"
Um, no. That's the answer. NO.
Friday, May 24, 2013
Monday, May 13, 2013
Best book summary EVER
"It began as an entertainment for a winter weekend. It ended in snowbound disaster. Everyone had an alibi, and most a motive as well. But Inspector Alleyn, when he finally arrived, knew it all hung on Thomas, the dancing footman."
Okay, the book is called Death and the Dancing Footman. But I saw the summary first and it was just so delightfully random I had to share.
Okay, the book is called Death and the Dancing Footman. But I saw the summary first and it was just so delightfully random I had to share.
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Graphic Novels
I have been reading the crap outta graphic novels this year. This is what happens when you move to a city big enough to have a good public liberry. I'm reading a lot more than usual and I'm finding new stuff and it's just friggin' awesome.
Transmetropolitan is now one of my favorite graphic novel reads EVER. I'm thinking of getting a Spider Jerusalem tattoo but I don't know how that would work. I could just get the spider tattoo he has on his head and get it on the inside of my wrist. That'd be cheaper than anything else. I just feel the need to permanently remember these books and how wonderful they are. Profane, sick, wrong, and also sometimes moving. It's like Preacher, except it doesn't go to quite the extremes that Preacher does.
Transmetropolitan is now one of my favorite graphic novel reads EVER. I'm thinking of getting a Spider Jerusalem tattoo but I don't know how that would work. I could just get the spider tattoo he has on his head and get it on the inside of my wrist. That'd be cheaper than anything else. I just feel the need to permanently remember these books and how wonderful they are. Profane, sick, wrong, and also sometimes moving. It's like Preacher, except it doesn't go to quite the extremes that Preacher does.
Monday, March 4, 2013
TV 2012: Odds and ends
New
Arrow
Eagleheart
The Fades
The Hour
Grimm
Key and Peele
Lost Girl
Switched at Birth
Cancelled
Awake
Best Friends Forever
Bent
Boss
Eastbound and Down (?)
The Life and Times of Tim
The Secret Circle
Stopped watching:
Being Human (U.K.)
Don't Trust the B---- in Apt. 23
Episodes
GCB
House of Lies
The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret
Luck
Once Upon a Time
Political Animals
Up All Night
Warehouse 13
Arrow
Eagleheart
The Fades
The Hour
Grimm
Key and Peele
Lost Girl
Switched at Birth
Cancelled
Awake
Best Friends Forever
Bent
Boss
Eastbound and Down (?)
The Life and Times of Tim
The Secret Circle
Stopped watching:
Being Human (U.K.)
Don't Trust the B---- in Apt. 23
Episodes
GCB
House of Lies
The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret
Luck
Once Upon a Time
Political Animals
Up All Night
Warehouse 13
TV 2012: Runners-up and summary judgments
Most disappointing:
Boss - I never quite knew how I felt about this show. At times I liked it quite a bit but most times it kinda bored me. It was the kind of show where I kept looking at how much time was left and it always felt like it was taking for-fucking-ever to be over. Then the finale just fell flat and lay there dying and gasping and I was happy when it was cancelled so I wouldn't have to dither over whether or not to watch a third season.
Homeland - Man. When this show is good? It's one of the best things I've ever seen. When it's not? It's worse than a particularly bad episode of 24. Why? Because it has soooo much potential to be great, when it fails it just feels worse. And this season, while it had a few really great highs, had some pretty great lows as well. Enough lows that while I doubt I will stop watching, I'm not really looking forward to season 3. I never would have predicted that when the season was young and the episodes where at their peak.
House of Lies - I was looking forward to this show quite a lot before it aired. Don Cheadle, Kristin Bell, Jean-Ralphio?? I was so in. And it ended up being just kind of meh at best and unpleasant at worst. So annoying.
Most improved:
New Girl - Last year this was on my list of shows I thought I'd be giving up on soon. Well, I didn't give up on it and now it's one of my favorite shows.
Parenthood - I've always thought of this show as good, but messy. For some reason this season feels a lot less messy.
Sons of Anarchy - I almost didn't watch this season after last season ended so stoopidly. But I did and I'm glad for it because it was a pretty good season of television. Maybe not as good as the excellent second season, but definitely better than the third and fourth seasons.
Just plain fun:
Children's Hospital
Community
Cougar Town
Eagleheart
Happy Endings
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
The League
NTSF:SD:SUV::
Revenge
RuPaul's Drag Race
Sherlock
Honorable mention:
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart/The Colbert Report - These are the only shows that never sit around on my DVR. I suppose that's partly because there are four episodes each per week. But both are consistently good, consistently funny, and I just enjoy the heck out of watching Jon and Stephen.
Most fun new shows:
Key and Peele
Arrow
Ending on a good run:
Fringe
30 Rock
Died too soon:
Best Friends Forever and Bent - I watched all of these and I think they both could have developed into something had they been given the chance.
What's wrong with me that I don't love this show?
Game of Thrones - I love parts of this show quite a lot. And hell, the thing just looks good. It's well-written, well-acted, all of that. But I've never fallen in love with it. I just don't really CARE enough about the characters to love it.
What's wrong with me that I love this show?
American Horror Story: Asylum
Finally losing steam:
The Vampire Diaries
Slowly losing me:
Suburgatory - This is one is suffering from what I might call the "Glee virus." Glee was a show that I loved and hated and loved and hated and finally the hate was more prevalent than the love and I had to give up on it. If you watch ten episodes and two of them are wonderful, that's still eight episodes of dreck you're putting up with. Suburgatory has shown that it's capable of wonderful episodes, but it can't maintain any consistency with it. I'm not willing to put up with yuck for one or two stellar outings.
Raising Hope - Similar to above. I'm finding this show to be more pedestrian and typical than I'd like.
Still good for at least one or two excellent episodes per season:
South Park
Most testosterone:
Strike Back - If there were more depth to this show, it might have qualified as one of my top favorite shows. It suffers in comparison to Spartacus, which is even more over the top in its sex and violence, but amazingly enough, does have some depth to it. But this show is just a lot of fun and fills my need for silly action sequences with hot men running around in tight t-shirts.
Boss - I never quite knew how I felt about this show. At times I liked it quite a bit but most times it kinda bored me. It was the kind of show where I kept looking at how much time was left and it always felt like it was taking for-fucking-ever to be over. Then the finale just fell flat and lay there dying and gasping and I was happy when it was cancelled so I wouldn't have to dither over whether or not to watch a third season.
Homeland - Man. When this show is good? It's one of the best things I've ever seen. When it's not? It's worse than a particularly bad episode of 24. Why? Because it has soooo much potential to be great, when it fails it just feels worse. And this season, while it had a few really great highs, had some pretty great lows as well. Enough lows that while I doubt I will stop watching, I'm not really looking forward to season 3. I never would have predicted that when the season was young and the episodes where at their peak.
House of Lies - I was looking forward to this show quite a lot before it aired. Don Cheadle, Kristin Bell, Jean-Ralphio?? I was so in. And it ended up being just kind of meh at best and unpleasant at worst. So annoying.
Most improved:
New Girl - Last year this was on my list of shows I thought I'd be giving up on soon. Well, I didn't give up on it and now it's one of my favorite shows.
Parenthood - I've always thought of this show as good, but messy. For some reason this season feels a lot less messy.
Sons of Anarchy - I almost didn't watch this season after last season ended so stoopidly. But I did and I'm glad for it because it was a pretty good season of television. Maybe not as good as the excellent second season, but definitely better than the third and fourth seasons.
Just plain fun:
Children's Hospital
Community
Cougar Town
Eagleheart
Happy Endings
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
The League
NTSF:SD:SUV::
Revenge
RuPaul's Drag Race
Sherlock
Honorable mention:
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart/The Colbert Report - These are the only shows that never sit around on my DVR. I suppose that's partly because there are four episodes each per week. But both are consistently good, consistently funny, and I just enjoy the heck out of watching Jon and Stephen.
Most fun new shows:
Key and Peele
Arrow
Ending on a good run:
Fringe
30 Rock
Died too soon:
Best Friends Forever and Bent - I watched all of these and I think they both could have developed into something had they been given the chance.
What's wrong with me that I don't love this show?
Game of Thrones - I love parts of this show quite a lot. And hell, the thing just looks good. It's well-written, well-acted, all of that. But I've never fallen in love with it. I just don't really CARE enough about the characters to love it.
What's wrong with me that I love this show?
American Horror Story: Asylum
Finally losing steam:
The Vampire Diaries
Slowly losing me:
Suburgatory - This is one is suffering from what I might call the "Glee virus." Glee was a show that I loved and hated and loved and hated and finally the hate was more prevalent than the love and I had to give up on it. If you watch ten episodes and two of them are wonderful, that's still eight episodes of dreck you're putting up with. Suburgatory has shown that it's capable of wonderful episodes, but it can't maintain any consistency with it. I'm not willing to put up with yuck for one or two stellar outings.
Raising Hope - Similar to above. I'm finding this show to be more pedestrian and typical than I'd like.
Still good for at least one or two excellent episodes per season:
South Park
Most testosterone:
Strike Back - If there were more depth to this show, it might have qualified as one of my top favorite shows. It suffers in comparison to Spartacus, which is even more over the top in its sex and violence, but amazingly enough, does have some depth to it. But this show is just a lot of fun and fills my need for silly action sequences with hot men running around in tight t-shirts.
Favorite Shows of 2012
These are the shows I decided were my favorite in 2012.
Alphas
Archer
Boardwalk Empire
Bob's Burgers
Breaking Bad
Justified
Key and Peele
Louie
Mad Men
New Girl
Parks and Recreation
Spartacus: Vengeance
Treme
Alphas
Archer
Boardwalk Empire
Bob's Burgers
Breaking Bad
Justified
Key and Peele
Louie
Mad Men
New Girl
Parks and Recreation
Spartacus: Vengeance
Treme
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
TV watched in 2012
30 Rock
Alphas
American Horror Story
Archer
Arrow
Awkward.
Beavis & Butthead
Boardwalk Empire
Bob's Burgers
Breaking Bad
Children's Hospital
The Colbert Report
Community
Cougar Town
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Downton Abbey
Dr. Who
Eagleheart
Enlightened
The Fades
Fringe
Game of Thrones
The Good Wife
Grimm
The Guild
Happy Endings
Homeland
The Hour
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Justified
Key and Peele
Law & Order: UK
The League
Lost Girl
Louie
Luther
Mad Men
Misfits
New Girl
NTSF:SD:SUV::
Parenthood
Parks and Recreation
Raising Hope
Revenge
RuPaul's Drag Race
Shameless
Sherlock
Sons of Anarchy
South Park
Spartacus: Vengeance
Strike Back
Suburgatory
Supernatural
Switched at Birth
Treme
The Vampire Diaries
Wilfred
Cancelled:
Awake
Best Friends Forever
Bent
GCB
The Life and Times of Tim
Luck
Political Animals
The Secret Circle
Boss
Eastbound and Down?
Gave up On:
Being Human (U.K.)
Don't Trust the B---- in Apt. 23
Episodes
House of Lies
Once Upon a Time
Up All Night
Warehouse 13
Whitechapel
Alphas
American Horror Story
Archer
Arrow
Awkward.
Beavis & Butthead
Boardwalk Empire
Bob's Burgers
Breaking Bad
Children's Hospital
The Colbert Report
Community
Cougar Town
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Downton Abbey
Dr. Who
Eagleheart
Enlightened
The Fades
Fringe
Game of Thrones
The Good Wife
Grimm
The Guild
Happy Endings
Homeland
The Hour
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Justified
Key and Peele
Law & Order: UK
The League
Lost Girl
Louie
Luther
Mad Men
Misfits
New Girl
NTSF:SD:SUV::
Parenthood
Parks and Recreation
Raising Hope
Revenge
RuPaul's Drag Race
Shameless
Sherlock
Sons of Anarchy
South Park
Spartacus: Vengeance
Strike Back
Suburgatory
Supernatural
Switched at Birth
Treme
The Vampire Diaries
Wilfred
Cancelled:
Awake
Best Friends Forever
Bent
GCB
The Life and Times of Tim
Luck
Political Animals
The Secret Circle
Boss
Eastbound and Down?
Gave up On:
Being Human (U.K.)
Don't Trust the B---- in Apt. 23
Episodes
House of Lies
Once Upon a Time
Up All Night
Warehouse 13
Whitechapel
TV I caught up with this year
Suits (season 1, first 4 episodes, will continue in 2013)
That Mitchell and Webb Look (series 1)
Buffy (season 2 re-watch)
Dallas (about half of season 4)
Dallas (season 1-3)
Switched at Birth (season 1)
Veronica Mars (season 3 re-watch)
The Thick of It
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
Strangers with Candy (season 1 re-watch)
Archer season 2 re-watch
Buffy season 1 re-watch
Peep Show (series 1-7)
Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil
Andy Richter Controls the Universe (season 1)
It's Always Sunny in PA (season 4-6)
It's Always Sunny in PA (season 1-3 re-watch)
Ugly Americans (season 1)
Clone High
Eagleheart (season 1)
State of Play
Alias (season 3)
The Life and Times of Tim (season 1)
A Bit of Fry and Laurie (series 4)
Shameless (U.S.) season 1
The Big Bang Theory (season 4)
That Mitchell and Webb Look (series 1)
Buffy (season 2 re-watch)
Dallas (about half of season 4)
Dallas (season 1-3)
Switched at Birth (season 1)
Veronica Mars (season 3 re-watch)
The Thick of It
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
Strangers with Candy (season 1 re-watch)
Archer season 2 re-watch
Buffy season 1 re-watch
Peep Show (series 1-7)
Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil
Andy Richter Controls the Universe (season 1)
It's Always Sunny in PA (season 4-6)
It's Always Sunny in PA (season 1-3 re-watch)
Ugly Americans (season 1)
Clone High
Eagleheart (season 1)
State of Play
Alias (season 3)
The Life and Times of Tim (season 1)
A Bit of Fry and Laurie (series 4)
Shameless (U.S.) season 1
The Big Bang Theory (season 4)
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Book Read 2012
Here's a list of all the books I read in 2012. 60 in total, 20 I'd read before.
My favorites:
The Night Circus / Erin Morgenstern
Necromancing the Stone / Lish McBride
Breed / Chase Novak
Gone Girl / Gillian Flynn
Assassin's Quest / Robin Hobb
Royal Assassin / Robin Hobb
Assassin's Apprentice / Robin Hobb
Cast in Fury / Michelle Sagara
Cast in Secret / Michelle Sagara
Cast in Courtlight / Michelle Sagara
Cast in Shadow / Michelle Sagara
Timeless / Gail Carriger
The rest:
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children / Ransom Riggs
Deadlocked / Charlaine Harris
Dead Reckoning / Charlaine Harris (re-read)
The House Next Door / Anne Rivers Siddons (re-read)
Transmetropolitan, vol. 2 / Warren Ellis
Spike omnibus / Peter David, et al.
Transmetropolitan, vol. 1 / Warren Ellis (re-read)
Planetary, vol 3 / Warren Ellis
Planetary, vol 2 / Warren Ellis
Planetary, vol 1 / Warren Ellis
Angel and Faith vol. 1
BTVS Season 9, vol. 1
Nocturnal / Scott Sigler
Locke and Key, vol. 5 / Joe Hill
Locke and Key, vol. 4 / Joe Hill
Locke and Key, vol. 3 / Joe Hill
Locke and Key, vol. 2 / Joe Hill
Locke and Key, vol. 1 / Joe Hill (re-read)
Who Could That Be at This Hour? / Lemony Snicket
And Eternity / Piers Anthony (re-read)
For Love of Evil / Piers Anthony (re-read)
Being a Green Mother / Piers Anthony (re-read)
Wielding a Red Sword / Piers anthony (re-read)
With a Tangled Skein / Piers Anthony (re-read)
Bearing an Hourglass / Piers Anthony (re-read)
On a Pale Horse / Piers Anthony (re-read)
Bethany's Sin / Robert R. McCammon (re-read)
Mine / Robert R. McCammon (re-read)
Usher's Passing / Robert R. McCammon (re-read)
Sharp Objects / Gillian Flynn
Wake / Robert J. Sawyer
Ancestor / Scott Sigler
The Killing Floor / Lee Child
Redshirts / John Scalzi
Red / Warren Ellis
My Sweet Audrina / V.C. Andrews (re-read)
Seeds of Yesterday / V.C. Andrews (re-read)
If There Be Thorns / V.C. Andrews (re-read)
Petals on the Wind / V.C. Andrews (re-read)
Flowers in the Attic / V.C. Andrews (re-read)
Spoiled / Heather Cocks; Jessica Morgan
Agorafabulous! Dispatches from My Bedroom / Sara Benincasa
Kill the Dead / Richard Kadrey
Sandman Slim / Richard Kadrey (re-read)
You're Not Doing It Right / Michael Ian Black
The Night Eternal / Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan
Circle of Enemies / Harry Connolly
My favorites:
The Night Circus / Erin Morgenstern
Necromancing the Stone / Lish McBride
Breed / Chase Novak
Gone Girl / Gillian Flynn
Assassin's Quest / Robin Hobb
Royal Assassin / Robin Hobb
Assassin's Apprentice / Robin Hobb
Cast in Fury / Michelle Sagara
Cast in Secret / Michelle Sagara
Cast in Courtlight / Michelle Sagara
Cast in Shadow / Michelle Sagara
Timeless / Gail Carriger
The rest:
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children / Ransom Riggs
Deadlocked / Charlaine Harris
Dead Reckoning / Charlaine Harris (re-read)
The House Next Door / Anne Rivers Siddons (re-read)
Transmetropolitan, vol. 2 / Warren Ellis
Spike omnibus / Peter David, et al.
Transmetropolitan, vol. 1 / Warren Ellis (re-read)
Planetary, vol 3 / Warren Ellis
Planetary, vol 2 / Warren Ellis
Planetary, vol 1 / Warren Ellis
Angel and Faith vol. 1
BTVS Season 9, vol. 1
Nocturnal / Scott Sigler
Locke and Key, vol. 5 / Joe Hill
Locke and Key, vol. 4 / Joe Hill
Locke and Key, vol. 3 / Joe Hill
Locke and Key, vol. 2 / Joe Hill
Locke and Key, vol. 1 / Joe Hill (re-read)
Who Could That Be at This Hour? / Lemony Snicket
And Eternity / Piers Anthony (re-read)
For Love of Evil / Piers Anthony (re-read)
Being a Green Mother / Piers Anthony (re-read)
Wielding a Red Sword / Piers anthony (re-read)
With a Tangled Skein / Piers Anthony (re-read)
Bearing an Hourglass / Piers Anthony (re-read)
On a Pale Horse / Piers Anthony (re-read)
Bethany's Sin / Robert R. McCammon (re-read)
Mine / Robert R. McCammon (re-read)
Usher's Passing / Robert R. McCammon (re-read)
Sharp Objects / Gillian Flynn
Wake / Robert J. Sawyer
Ancestor / Scott Sigler
The Killing Floor / Lee Child
Redshirts / John Scalzi
Red / Warren Ellis
My Sweet Audrina / V.C. Andrews (re-read)
Seeds of Yesterday / V.C. Andrews (re-read)
If There Be Thorns / V.C. Andrews (re-read)
Petals on the Wind / V.C. Andrews (re-read)
Flowers in the Attic / V.C. Andrews (re-read)
Spoiled / Heather Cocks; Jessica Morgan
Agorafabulous! Dispatches from My Bedroom / Sara Benincasa
Kill the Dead / Richard Kadrey
Sandman Slim / Richard Kadrey (re-read)
You're Not Doing It Right / Michael Ian Black
The Night Eternal / Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan
Circle of Enemies / Harry Connolly
Movies 2012
Movies I watched in 2012
I only watched 25 movies this year (not including movies I re-watched). This seems like a very low number. Plus, I only saw two movies in the theater this year and both were Joss Whedon movies. That's about right.
5 stars
The Avengers
4 1/2 stars
Bridesmaids
Cabin in the Woods
Goon
4 stars
The Trip
The Guard
3 1/2 stars
Sleepwalk with Me
Tiny Furniture
Gambit
Happy-Go-Lucky
Paranormal Activity 2
3 stars
Bronson (5 STARS for Nekkid Tom Hardy)
Haywire
Young Adult
The Muppets
Fright Night (2011)
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
X-Men First Class
April Fool's Day
Paranormal Activity 3
2 1/2 stars
Fast Five (4 stars for Sweaty Dwayne Johnson )
2 stars
Red State
Planet of the Apes
Friday the 13th Part 8: Jason Takes Manhattan
Cherry Falls
1 1/2 stars
The Slumber Party Massacre
1 star
Bad Teacher (only got through about 20 minutes of this dreck)
I only watched 25 movies this year (not including movies I re-watched). This seems like a very low number. Plus, I only saw two movies in the theater this year and both were Joss Whedon movies. That's about right.
5 stars
The Avengers
4 1/2 stars
Bridesmaids
Cabin in the Woods
Goon
4 stars
The Trip
The Guard
3 1/2 stars
Sleepwalk with Me
Tiny Furniture
Gambit
Happy-Go-Lucky
Paranormal Activity 2
3 stars
Bronson (5 STARS for Nekkid Tom Hardy)
Haywire
Young Adult
The Muppets
Fright Night (2011)
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
X-Men First Class
April Fool's Day
Paranormal Activity 3
2 1/2 stars
Fast Five (4 stars for Sweaty Dwayne Johnson )
2 stars
Red State
Planet of the Apes
Friday the 13th Part 8: Jason Takes Manhattan
Cherry Falls
1 1/2 stars
The Slumber Party Massacre
1 star
Bad Teacher (only got through about 20 minutes of this dreck)
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Best Show EVAR
Another thing I wrote ages ago. A review of a tv show I had lots of fun watching on Hulu.
Happy Hell Night
Okay. I'm clearing out a few things that I wrote and saved as drafts, like, I dunno, two years ago???!! I guess I thought they weren't perfect, but so what, I'm posting them. Embrace the suck!! Anyhoo, here's a review of a dumb movie I watched.
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