utenzi

I had a nasty headache tonight and I finally figured out it was from not eating. Duh! And since I needed something to do while I was downing several grilled cheese sandwiches I put in a DVD. I ended up watching Spiderman 3 , which I had taken out from the library today while returning the first 3 DVDs of Deadwood . I'll tell you, there's no comparison betwixt the two. Despite the huge budget, Spidey 3 was pretty bad. For people that saw it opening week, before there was warning, it must have been a huge disappointment. There was actually a lot of good stuff in Spiderman 3 --- and if it'd been edited into 3 different movies it might have been okay. As was, it was a terrible muddle of a movie. Fortunately the grilled cheese sandwiches were very good so the experience wasn't all bad. Hooray for melted cheese! I'm hoping to get the rest of the first season DVDs for Deadwood today. They'd not been returned yet by the time I was at the library Monday afternoon. The 7...

There's a few new shows on Cable Television premiering this week that I'm recording to see how they are. I've not watched any yet but I have hopes for all three that I profile here. The shows are on 3 different networks, AMC (American Movie Classics), not a network, given its name, that you would associate with regular serial programming, USA Network, and Lifetime. Mad Men premiers on July 19 on AMC. It's a drama set in 1960 about Madison Avenue advertising executives. The series was originally written up 7 years ago by Matthew Weiner--and that was what got him noticed by HBO. While Mad Men sat in the background ever since, Weiner did get a job to create a new series for HBO. The Sopranos. Now that gig is over he's back to working on Mad Men . Hopefully it'll be just as good as his last series. Here's the write up on the series from AMC's website: The Setting : In 1960, advertising agencies were an all-powerful influence on the masses. Personal and pr...