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Sep. 30th, 2005 08:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ebonlockLast night's meeting was quite productive and I felt like I contributed at least a bit and will do much more in the days to come so I'm happy with that. We also had some yummy Thai, the grilled tofu was especially delish. Must find out where it came from.
Got home and fiddled with my modem and router a bit more until, glory hallelujah, I was back online with both my desktop and laptop. Tried to work on the 401K rollover paperwork I need to get in by Monday but it was making my head hurt so I set it aside for today. I'll grab our HR person and hopefully she can translate it into some sort of English for me.
Also watched "Nightstalker" and found it vaguely entertaining.
Allow me to make one statement up front, I will watch almost anything with Stuart Townsend in it. I have even been known to consciously choose to endure "Queen of the Damned" simply because he spends so much of it shirtless and wearing tight leather pants. I cop to that, so I knew I was going to watch the series regardless, possibly no matter how wretched a remake it was.
Having seen the original I can say this one bears only the slightest resemblance to it. The original Karl Kolchak was a middle aged, balding, weathered hack of a reporter, barely getting by writing fantastic stories that nobody wanted to print. A basic story would start with Kolchak getting a lead on some crazy shit, poking his nose in where it didn't belong, nearly getting killed, seeing something incredible but never getting a photo of it (or at least not a good one), writing up his story and his editor telling him "That's crazy, we can't print that!". The current incarnation is a hot young studly reporter who apparently writes amazingly well (though you wouldn't know it by his internal monologues) and is hired by a big LA paper. Of course he has a tragic past (dead wife, killed by...something), a sleek car, and the kind of house in the hills that you know no reporter not on the take to the GOP could afford like ever.
He also has a plucky female reporter sidekick/nominal boss and a spunky young photographer. Said female reporter tends to dress like she's going out clubbing right after work and won't have time to change while the photographer spent all of the first episode doing his best Jimmy Oleson routine.
Sure. Fine. Whatever.
The monsters were at least moderately interesting and the attacks mildly tense. I kind of liked the FBI agent who hates Kolchak soooooo much that you just know the two are going to be slashed faster than you can say "vendetta". And in one of the newsroom scenes they actually CGI'd in the original actor in full Kolchak regalia for Stuart to walk by which amused me greatly, even if it wasn't terribly well done.
In short I'll probably watch it again next week and if the next teaser includes Stuart taking his shirt off I'll be back again for that.
My knee's feeling much better today after two days of babying it so I think I'll be able to make the performance tonight. *fingers crossed*
Got home and fiddled with my modem and router a bit more until, glory hallelujah, I was back online with both my desktop and laptop. Tried to work on the 401K rollover paperwork I need to get in by Monday but it was making my head hurt so I set it aside for today. I'll grab our HR person and hopefully she can translate it into some sort of English for me.
Also watched "Nightstalker" and found it vaguely entertaining.
Allow me to make one statement up front, I will watch almost anything with Stuart Townsend in it. I have even been known to consciously choose to endure "Queen of the Damned" simply because he spends so much of it shirtless and wearing tight leather pants. I cop to that, so I knew I was going to watch the series regardless, possibly no matter how wretched a remake it was.
Having seen the original I can say this one bears only the slightest resemblance to it. The original Karl Kolchak was a middle aged, balding, weathered hack of a reporter, barely getting by writing fantastic stories that nobody wanted to print. A basic story would start with Kolchak getting a lead on some crazy shit, poking his nose in where it didn't belong, nearly getting killed, seeing something incredible but never getting a photo of it (or at least not a good one), writing up his story and his editor telling him "That's crazy, we can't print that!". The current incarnation is a hot young studly reporter who apparently writes amazingly well (though you wouldn't know it by his internal monologues) and is hired by a big LA paper. Of course he has a tragic past (dead wife, killed by...something), a sleek car, and the kind of house in the hills that you know no reporter not on the take to the GOP could afford like ever.
He also has a plucky female reporter sidekick/nominal boss and a spunky young photographer. Said female reporter tends to dress like she's going out clubbing right after work and won't have time to change while the photographer spent all of the first episode doing his best Jimmy Oleson routine.
Sure. Fine. Whatever.
The monsters were at least moderately interesting and the attacks mildly tense. I kind of liked the FBI agent who hates Kolchak soooooo much that you just know the two are going to be slashed faster than you can say "vendetta". And in one of the newsroom scenes they actually CGI'd in the original actor in full Kolchak regalia for Stuart to walk by which amused me greatly, even if it wasn't terribly well done.
In short I'll probably watch it again next week and if the next teaser includes Stuart taking his shirt off I'll be back again for that.
My knee's feeling much better today after two days of babying it so I think I'll be able to make the performance tonight. *fingers crossed*
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Date: 2005-10-02 02:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-03 03:50 pm (UTC)I expect both vampires and demons on the series at some point, though mecha are doubtful. However if you have On Demand there's an entire "Giant Robots" category under Anime that you should check out ;)
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Date: 2005-10-03 08:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-08 06:40 pm (UTC)