Finally Employed!!!!!
Yay, I finall got a job! I can eat again! Well, my job is with
Goodwood Hardware, it's about a block from my apartment and good times will be had by all. I start tomorrow and am not entirely sure what I'll be doing, but I will be able to pay rent and keep looking for other things that may be out there, too.
TV thy name is Awesome
Well, it's been a while since I posted, even though I promised one that would be the next day from my last post. It turned out that Josh was using that other use of the "Ring" for his sermon, so I just let him go for it instead of doubling up (yeah, I know only five people read this blog, but I just felt the need to defend my lack of posting).
Anyway, due to the prodding of friends, I have returned to the blogosphere and would like to write about something truly near and dear to my heart: television. Ok, I know a lot of people think being a couch potato is not the way to live your life, but I'm a rebel. So let me defend my addiction to the masses (as any good addict will). As a medium, television has changed in the past few years, becoming a much more interactive undertaking. It's no longer sitting and passively receiving, it's voting, downloading,and podcast commentaries that come out free on the day of the shows. So with that said, I'd like to bring out my addictions:
1.
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
This show is awesome for many reasons. I love sci-fi and fantasy as genres especially because they can make all sorts of comments about our world today without any 1:1 ratios. It forces you to be creative with your messages and allows the audience to debate issues in a way that is removed from the "heat" of the present situation. A fanatically religious group devoted to a single god attacks a secular group with a loose affiliation to several gods. The attacks of course stir up all sorts of religious and moral questions, causing many in the "secular" group to recover hidden religious leanings put away long ago as silly but no giving hope. Sound sort of familiar?
The other reason I love this show is that for most (not all, but most) of the shows you can download a free podcast commentary from the executive producer each week. You can watch the show with the exec producer telling you the ins and outs of the characters, what went well and what didn't with the show. This is what audiences will soon be looking for in all of their shows. They want to interact, they want to break the fourth wall and see what's behind the wizard's curtain.
Also, they have the best portrayal of political inner workings since the West Wing.
2.
THE OFFICE
Ok, this is simply the funniest show on television. It's as awkward as the UK version, but really has taken its own direction. It is so spot on in its portrayal of office life. It's not like Cheers or Friends or any other sitcom you can think of. Life at work, if we were to watch you, would just be BORING. That's why you should never (well, almost never) share stories from work that you are just convinced are hilarious. They're just not funny and always come under the heading "had to be there".
Anyway, the other reason I just love this show is that two of the people on the show do blogs. One in character, Dwight Schrute's
Schrute Space, and one from the actress
Jenna Fischer, who plays Pam. Pam also has a myspace account in character. Look up Pam from Scranton, PA. There's a fake one there, too, more of a fan page, but there's one that is real. I think this just shows the other side of interactivity. The people who are actually doing the shows love to get in on the action as well. They don't have to do stuff like that, they just think it's fun. You can tell Jenna's is for real, because in all honesty it's kinda boring. So awesome.
These are my two big addictions these days. Let me know about yours and why.
