I Want To Write About Something Other Than The Mets

2010 April 18
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by CajoleJuice

I don’t even know what I want to talk about in this post, but holy shit, it has to be something other than that disaster of a baseball team. I could mention how I’m waiting for High Violet to leak; or how I want to see Kick-Ass; or that I really, really need to watch the Blu-ray copy of 8 1/2 from Netflix that I’ve had for months. I also need to watch The Prisoner and Sons of Anarchy Blu-ray sets I bought; it’s pretty incredible how amazing the former looks, considering it’s over 40 years old. The latter I completely forgot I even bought until I saw it on my shelf recently.

The problem is that The X-Files was added to Netflix Watch Instantly this month, and I’ve watched the first two episodes. I kinda just want to watch that now, as I feel it’s my duty as a self-proclaimed science-fiction lover, but at the same time that type of commitment scares me. 202 episodes. That’s a lot of television. I watched it occasionally while it aired, but never enough to have a grasp on the overarching conspiracy plot points. I remember looking forward to the first X-Files movie, and I remember watching a bunch of the latter season episodes where Mulder is abducted or something, I think? I just can’t get over how much time watching all the episodes will take up. It’s time that could be used to watch approximately 75 movies or watching The Sopranos or Deadwood or whatever else you think I should watch. Or you know, getting back to learning the guitar or brushing up on my Spanish. But fuck being productive.

Speaking of sci-fi television shows, I keep hearing good things about Fringe‘s second season. I thought the first season was immensely entertaining television that got progressively better, ending with a ballsy finale. But I watched it on Blu-ray and it looked so phenomenal that I can’t imagine watching Fringe any other way. So there will be no catching up through torrents — I already added the Season 2 Blu-ray to my Amazon wishlist.

Ok, I think I’ve flushed my brain out. Now I will continue trying to catch up on my subscription to The Economist and tell myself I’m attempting to learn about stuff that actually matters.

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  • Cornballer

    Definitely check out Sons of Anarchy if you haven’t seen it yet – great series. First season starts up slow, but it really hits its stride in the second season. It’s similar to Breaking Bad in that way.

    I’m in the same position as you when it comes to Fringe – I taped the first half of the season but never got around to it, but it sounds like it’s really heating up now. Guess I’ll watch the BRD’s when they’re out.

    • http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog CajoleJuice

      I just replied to lordoftherink first, but I’d be willing to give you the Fringe deal mentioned below as well, haha. Either of you can just email or comment again or DM me on Twitter.

      But yeah, I need to get around to watching that SoA BRD set ASAP.

      • Cornballer

        Thanks for the offer. I’ll keep that in mind, though I’ll probably Netflix it in the end. Gotta use my account for discs at some point. I have two BRD’s out from Netflix – one from January 2010 and one from September 2009. Such a waste, but it’s hard getting to movies with so much good TV on at the moment.

      • http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog CajoleJuice

        Yeah, I hear ya.

        And that massive icon kinda screws up the comment thread layout. I should look into that.

  • lordoftherink

    Not to be pushy, but The Sopranos is worth getting around to, eventually. Just finished it, and while I think the series peaked at Season 3, the show has at least a couple great episodes every season, as well as a very good ramp up of quality towards the end, which helps atone for the slump that I consider Season 4 and bits of 5 and the earlier part of 6 to be. With Fringe I’m in the same boat as you and Cornballer. Almost picked up Season 1 when I saw it for $35 the other day, but I still have a bit of a TV backlog to get through (The West Wing, From the Earth to the Moon, Lost) that I haven’t started yet.

    • http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog CajoleJuice

      You’re not being pushy at all! The reason why I mentioned both The Sopranos and Deadwood is because they are two HBO series I very much want to get around to watching. I randomly watched the first episode of the former and really enjoyed it. That was probably a couple of years ago; I don’t know why I didn’t continue.

      Fringe I bought on a whim because it was $30 on Amazon and don’t regret it. I’d be willing to sell it to you for 20 bucks shipped or so if you’re interested.

      There are some times when I debate whether I would truly recommend Lost to someone. I absolutely loved the 1st season, but since then I’ve had such a love-hate relationship with it.

      From the Earth to the Moon is worth a watch if you’re into that stuff.

      The West Wing is another show I should probably watch at some point.