I don't get HBO.
The first season was awesome.
I watched the second season on DVD from netflix.
It was pretty awesome. The songs were good. Those guys are funny.
something out of something.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Friday, March 27, 2009
Self Assessment
In life, sometimes a person must expose himself to the harsh light of a critic's eye. I am no exception. Today, I am reviewing my own abilities as a blogger and a critic.
The challenge of a new hobby is sticking to it. All too often, a person will find a new avocation, embrace it for a while, and then let it wither on the vine. I only know 5 songs for the guitar and one of them is "Frere Jacques." I bought an old bicycle as a winter fix-up project. I worked on it twice and it is in worse shape now than when I bought it. I embarked on a blogging project and haven't posted since September 10, 2008.
I think the William Shatner post will go down in history as one of the greatest musical reviews in the history of the galaxy, possibly the universe. Not only did I talk about the music, I worked in a reference to TJ Hooker. Well I maybe skipped TJ Hooker, but the review was solid.
Sometimes, I'm prone to overstatement (see Beast with a Billion Backs, Gladiators of America). Too often, I start sentences with prepositional phrases. I do not always write in the active voice. I can never remember when to use "lay" versus "lie." I show flashes of brilliance then lay fallow for months. But at the end of the day, I offer a fair defense of my critiques and the reader walks away knowing why I think the way I think. And in the end, isn't that what a critic should do?
Jukebox the Critic: Three and a Half out of Five skulls
The "meta-ness" of this post: Five out of Five skulls
The challenge of a new hobby is sticking to it. All too often, a person will find a new avocation, embrace it for a while, and then let it wither on the vine. I only know 5 songs for the guitar and one of them is "Frere Jacques." I bought an old bicycle as a winter fix-up project. I worked on it twice and it is in worse shape now than when I bought it. I embarked on a blogging project and haven't posted since September 10, 2008.
I think the William Shatner post will go down in history as one of the greatest musical reviews in the history of the galaxy, possibly the universe. Not only did I talk about the music, I worked in a reference to TJ Hooker. Well I maybe skipped TJ Hooker, but the review was solid.
Sometimes, I'm prone to overstatement (see Beast with a Billion Backs, Gladiators of America). Too often, I start sentences with prepositional phrases. I do not always write in the active voice. I can never remember when to use "lay" versus "lie." I show flashes of brilliance then lay fallow for months. But at the end of the day, I offer a fair defense of my critiques and the reader walks away knowing why I think the way I think. And in the end, isn't that what a critic should do?
Jukebox the Critic: Three and a Half out of Five skulls
The "meta-ness" of this post: Five out of Five skulls
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