Good news first: The Colbert Report and the Daily Show are back and as entertaining as ever. Jon Stewart was a little bit rusty, although it was good to see his smiling face again, but Colbert seemed fresher than he has in a while. I’m wondering if maybe he works a little bit better without writers and just riffs. I guess I’ll never know unless I watch again tonight. Here’s a little taste of the first fresh Stewart/Colbert action I’ve gotten in a month or two.
It’s like hanging out with an old friend.
In other T.V. related news, season 5 of The Wire is up and running on HBO. As always, I’m really enjoying it. I actually bought the first 4 seasons and have been handing them out to everyone that I possibly can to get to watch them. The results have been kind of surprising, actually.
Normally when I have something that I’m convinced that everyone I know HAS to see, it yields mixed results. Everybody that I know mostly hates the music I listen to, so that never goes very well. Occasionally someone pretends to like whatever music I’m making them listen to so they can humor me, but that’s usually about as far as it goes. Things I think are funny are usually hit and miss. Most people sort of think things like Dr. Rockso are funny, but not quite like I do. The Wire has been a whole different story, however.
It usually goes like this: I lend someone season 1. They don’t watch it for a few days, because they just haven’t gotten around to checking it out. Then, they watch a couple of episodes and say something like “That show’s not bad!”
Then, they blaze through the remainder of season one and want season 2 from me. The usually finish that off in about a week.
By the time they are finished with season 2, they are desperate for a copy of season 3. They are ready to break into my house and steal it from me. Everyone seems to like it, everyone wants to see more, and it makes me happy to have another person to talk about the show with.
Should I be embarrassed that a few T.V. shows being on the air again are the most interesting things going on in my life right now?
Probably.
While I was doing my usual pondering over what I can and can’t put into my blog, I was looking through some of my old blog entries on a site that archived them. I could get them deleted, but it would cost me some money to re-register my old blog name and then set it to not let the website archive the entries, and I’m just not sure that it’s worth it. I mean, it probably is, but I’m just not quite smart enough to go to all that trouble.
I do, however, have enough energy to dig through all of those old entries, and it’s amazing how cavalier I was about putting personal information into that blog. Well beyond my name. It’s kind of a miracle that I didn’t get spotted sooner. Jesus Christ.
I’m pretty sure that two girls that I used to have the hots for are now getting married. I have another friend who I know is getting married, another who has been for about 6 years and one more who’s been hitched for roughly 3. I feel like it should be sending me spiraling into a crisis. Once I break up with a girl, I’m always a little bit angrier than I should be that they don’t spend the rest of their life in a black pit of despair pining away over me. I know that’s stupid and shallow and most of all unrealistic, but it’s also how I am. Strangely enough, the fact that everyone is getting married is doing nothing to send me into one of my jealous little pouts.
Furthermore, I feel like this should be sending me into a marriage frenzy. I mean, I’m pushing 30, I’m going bald, I’m fighting it but I’m not getting any less flabby – I should probably be trying to get some sort of legal document binding me to someone while I still have any kind of chance, but the panic just doesn’t seem to be setting in.
That’s probably a good thing. There’s nothing I love doing more than sinking into a deep, dark depression because things aren’t going the way that I thought they would when I was a 16 year old, and it never helps me when I freak out over things like this. It’s just a little bit surprising to me that I haven’t lost my mind over all of it. I’m not going to say that I’m more mature, because that seems highly unlikely to me, but I am handling certain stimulus differently than I normally do.
I try to write more in areas besides journaling and blogging now, so I need to do that for a while.
I already gave you one video, but here’s another one. I loved Ministry when I was a tiny little chap, and I recently found out that Al Jorgenson has been cranking out albums as fast as he can over the past few years, and all of them seem to be about how much he hates our current president. He hates the President and he loves to rock. We have so much in common!
Sure, it might not be your cup of tea, but what do you care? Nobody watches the fucking videos that I embed in these posts anyway.
Take Care.
#1 by Brian on January 10, 2008 - 11:01 am
It’s good to have you back.
I only counted three copies of your SSN in the first post. You’re on top of your game.
By the way, I think that the comment instructions are in French. Just so you know.
Seriously though. Nice to have you back. With a RSS feed and everything.