Time management with Dexter

Anyone out there watch Dexter? I recently streamed the first episode through Netflix because I had heard a lot of good things. I watched the episode and really liked it. It was very unique. I liked the story, the action, pretty much everything about it...except for one little thing. The show is an hour long.

I don't mean to make it sound like my time is super valuable, because lets face it I waste a lot of it, but an hour is a big chunk of time. Especially in the world of streaming Netflix. I could spend that time watching 2/3 of a movie, but Dexter wants me to use that hour to watch 1/12 of it's first season story? That's a big commitment.

I realize this seems silly but it's just the way my mind manages time. I really would like to watch the next episode, and ten following that one. But I haven't. It's been about two weeks since I first sat down and watched the first episode. And the more I think about it the more I realize that time is the only thing holding me back.

Maybe tomorrow will be the day that I watch episode 2.

The Expendables Trailer

It has finally arrived! The trailer to Stallone's upcoming, and undeniably awesome, action film. I don't know if the trailer is suppose to be out...but this is it. So why not watch and get pumped!

Bored to Death only a little boring

An HBO tv series starring Ted Danson, Zach Galifianakis, and Jason Schwartzman sounds awesome doesn't it? After watching the first 3 episodes I can safely say that it's pretty alright.

The show follows Schwartzman's character as he struggles to write write the follow up to his first novel. In an attempt to find inspiration after being dumped by his girlfriend he advertises himself as an unlicensed private detective. Galifianakis plays a comic book artist who is Schwartzman's best friend and Danson plays his boss and mentor.

All the characters are interesting, you want to keep watching them just to find out more about their lives, but Schwartzman doesn't ever stand out as a lead on the show. His character isn't as likable as most television leas and he can't play the asshole lead like other HBO stars, Eastbound and Down's Danny McBride or Curb Your Enthusiasm's Larry David.

One thing the show has a lot of is style, it manages to combine a lot of comedy with a little bit of film noir and mystery. And the style and comedy is what will bring me back for the next couple weeks to keep watching.

A gift from Japan: Boss Coffee

This June my girlfriend Emmy went on a two week trip to Japan and when she returned home she gave me a tiny little can of Boss Rainbow Mountain Blend coffee. Today I finally popped it open and tried the Japanese beverage.

Apparently Boss coffee is huge in Japan. You can buy it in vending machines all over the place, and there are billboards every where promoting it. The best thing about the ads? The company's spokesman is Tommy Lee Jones. That's right the academy award winning American actor is the face of a Japanese coffee company. (Check out the commercial below)

Enough distraction though, back to today's tasting. I poured the drink into a coffee cup to make sure it hadn't gone bad in the months that it spent aging in my parent's refrigerator. The liquid looked...well like coffee. Smelled like coffee too. Tasted a lot like you're usual iced coffee. The coffee itself was a little bit stronger than most coffee drinks but packed a pretty standard punch as far as flavor was concerned. Would I drink it again? Yes, but just because I do what Tommy Lee Jones tells me too.

Old News: Yakuza 3 coming to U.S.

You ever get behind something, like a book or a movie, without having seen or read it? Defending it and wanting what's best for it? I'm like that with Sega's Yakuza series.

The 3, soon to be 4, games put the player in control of former Yakuza member Kazuma Kiryu as her returns from 10 years in jail. The games have been acclaimed for their realistic depiction of the Japanese crime world as well as for their pacing, story, and fighting system.

But alas this means nothing to me because I havent played any of them. I keep intending too, and I even bought the first one a few months ago but I still haven't popped it into my Playstation. Why? Well, I've been busy and the idea of starting a big series like this is kind of daunting. I'm going to have to put in a lot of man hours to finish the first two.

The other problem is, or rather was, that this summer Sega announced that the third installment of the series wasn't going to be released here in America. Why waste my time on the first two if I'm never even going to get to play the rest?

Today as I was cruising the Internet I discovered that on Sept. 19 Sega announced that Yakuza 3 is currently being localized and is going to release both in Europe and here in the United States. I couldn't be happier. I am however disapointed that it took me 2 weeks to find out about this, apparently concentrating on school has its drawbacks.

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Comic Update: Blackest Night

Continuity issues have always cause me to stray away from reading the stories about DC characters like The Flash and Green Lantern, but thanks to Geoff Johns' Blackest Night story line I'm finally experiencing the Green Lantern.

Blackest Night is DC Comic's newest event story line that DC and Marvel love to do so much these days. The story, much like Marvel's Civil War and DC's recent Batman R.I.P., tells a big story through several main issues and then subsequent and minor side stories through other comic series. Black Night for example is being told through an eight issue miniseries as through several special issues of Green Lantern, Batman, Superman, Titans, and Green Lantern Corps.

Having only read issues 0 and 1 I can't comment too much on the overall story line, but from what I've read I'm hooked. Geoff Johns writes the Green Lantern very well. The plot is hard to explain, even with the comic book knowledge that I have, but basically tells the story of the Black Lantern Corps rising to power at the command of Black Hand. The Black Lantern Corps uses black power rings to raise an army of recently deceased super heroes.

This has Green Lantern having to both deal with the attacks on the Earth and innocent lives and the emotional effects of seeing his former friends and allies come back as evil. Complicated? Yes. Nerdy? Sorta. But maaan it is good. I'll be heading over to my local comic shop on Wednesday to grab the next couple issues.

Review: The Guild

Thanks to the internet nerds have a place to go where they can be cool, and I mean this in the most endearing way possible. It brings us together, notice I say we...not gonna try and hide anything, and gives us an opportunity to unite and celebrate what we love.

In 2007 Felica Day, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, starting writing, creating, and starring in a web series that did just that. The Guild celebrates the world of online massively multilayer games. Day's character plays an unnamed online multiplayer game that bears a striking resemblence to World of Warcraft and the show chonicles their escapades as a guild.

Let's be straightforward, this show isn't for everyone. You've got to be pretty well versed in video game sub-culture to understand a lot of the jokes the show makes. The show's actors aren't always the best, and the writing could use a little bit of work but regardless of that they are still incredibly charming. The episdoes, which average out at about five minutes, start out with Day talking to her web-cam about her addiction to the game and her lack of real social interaction. It's sad, but very true for a lot of people and that makes her so much more loveable.

For being a free web show you really can't complain. A lot of the humor may go over the head of those who lack general World of Warcraft knowledge but I imagine it could still be enjoyable. The characters are quirky and loveable and the premise is a lot of fun. If you've got some time to kill check out their site and watch a couple episodes.