dead navy guy

anyone who watches a certain tv show knows exactly what i mean and for better or worse, the obviousness of the opening of almost every show ought to make this show boring as hell, but i love the characters so much, i tune in whenever i can anyway... even if ziva did put on a few pounds...

yeah, i mean ncis...

meanwhile, i've been skipping idol the last few weeks and don't really miss it, but would watch if i remembered and was home or awake or whatever, especially if it was a shared experience, but that's personal and not background tv, now isn't it?... i have watched the ncaa tournament when i've been home and awake and remembering... surprises there, even if nobody is sharing these days... what?... i miss caprica, and that's not just libido talking... in fact, not much libido at that...

yeah, i mean g'nite :)

so much better than tv

experienced Wicked on stage tonight from the fourth row center and in spite of seeing the seams and zippers, seeing the facial expressions and being right there in the live theatre was worth every penny - wish i could do that every night (and if i had a million dollars, as the song goes, i would see a show a few times a week... nothing compares to live musical theatre... and the two new stars, wow, seriously, wow... they rival and may even surpass the original cast... jackie burns and what's her name (schwartz) are amazing, but so especially jackie... see it with her in it and you'll see wicked in a whole new light...

it's on a lot, actually

as it usually is when i have a roommate, so i ought to be using this blog to record what's on the tube in the background cuz that is what this blog is for... coming home from softball and shopping and eating, i found star trek: first contact on and watched the second half of it while i ate and now i'm choosing (or switching) between ncis, which is a staple in the background tv diet around here these days, and total recall a favorite film for the familiarity and memory and other reasons, and several ncaa basketball tournament final games on several other channels... if i get bored there are hundreds of other channels to explore, but typically i choose only a handful for the background tv at any given moment...

i was not surprised by idol this week, except maybe that i actually found time to watch some of it... last night i wasn't home, so i don't know what was on the tv if it was on... and so, there's the btv report for today, whenever today may be...

another idol

i enjoyed the girl at the piano a lot more than diddy, but then, i love music and singers and melodies and songs... most hip hop and rap is too much like preaching, whether it's hard edged, violent, or soft like the song he did tonight... preaching with attitude all about me me me and how good or great i am... sing me a story (that's the key, sing, you know?) and please keep your ego in check and above all else, keep your religion out of it...

tonight a touch of star trek:next generation, some actual news, which is seriously rare, a couple of the simpsons, idol, bones, and the mentalist and by then, hopefully, sleep...

meanwhile, the bottom three is not too surprising after last night, though two of them were in my original top four or five and one remained in my top five after last night because her first week was just that strong, but the personality is slipping and she is showing that she neds grooming, confidence, and more edge... my number one remains...

i still don't remember all their names, so i'll be politically incorrect and identify the bottom three as the black girl, the white girl, and the hispanic girl cuz visually they are and i'll pick the black girl to go first (actually, she was my first night pick for bottom three)... it probably doesn't help her (or any of the girls) that the majority of the idol audience is young white girls, so the boys have the huge advantage...

right, ashton... kid, the others are just better... and the judges will not use their save for ashton... she could get into a broadway show, she's not bad, but the others in that group of three are just better... even if the voting audience was not very skewed to the pretty boys...

idol report out...

idol 13?

not season 13, but the jump from 24 to 13 was kind of sudden, especially since the judges are being like uber saccharin nice like nobody wants to be blunt or the bad guy… too much gooey cheerleader crap becomes fake after a while though… so i tune out the judges and listen to the voices and i like some of what i hear and the top three i picked last week changed a bit, but number one is still number one, big time… two and three slipped a bit, but i wasn’t paying enough attention (and i tuned in a bit late) to remember the names of the guys (and they were boys) who might have slipped into two or three… my three remain in the top five for now though… maybe i'll pay more attention next week...

idol season 10

i missed the boys yesterday and missed a coup-le of the girls tonight, but from what i heard here are my picks for top three, in order, for week one... the difference between one and two was appearance and style and choice of song (personal preference and originality), though two had an amazing voice, maybe even better than my first pick...

Pia Toscano "I'll Stand by You" (The Pretenders)
Karen Rodriguez "Hero" (Mariah Carey)
Thia Megia "Out Here on My Own" (Irene Cara)

weeks shall pass and we shall find out if my semi-attentive impulse picks shall hang in there or be eliminated... i may not have the patience to be around the tv every week, but i'll tune in now and then and i'll check out what's happening on wiki and if you do, let me know what you think of the voices you hear :)

little interest of late

house was in the background for the last few hours as i started unpacking the kitchen stuff, but since there's not enough room for even half of our stuff, we'll have to decide what goes into storage when jackson has time to sort through the non-food stuff with me...

and i flip through the channels as i sit down and look up and see a favorite face (nicole deboer) in a really bad movie (unfortunately, she's done a whole lot of really bad movies, which slides her down the list of libbo fantasies, but there is so little interest in tv in my head tonight that it's ok...

on the old movies station there is the wizard of oz followed by gone with the wind (and i wonder if casablanca will be on to make it a 1939 movie trilogy) and hundreds of other stations offer hundreds of other video fair, but interest is not there, so i'll just leave it on in the background while eating the sandwich jackson brought home for me and so it goes, ya know?...

she was never high on libbo's list, but heidi klum's on-camera personality is adorable in that show with kids... her on-camera personality reminds me a little of kelly ripa... they over-do it at times, but they both do cute really well... in the nackground, of course :)

harry's law

lol... yeah, lol... not that the show is funny, though it seems to have some decent quirk possibilities, but more cuz i was just (earlier tonight and a few times in the past week or so) thinking about how i've not really had much to say about the background tv lately and here i am inspired to write a few words (and smile a sappy smile a shed an emo tear) by a show i accidently tuned into as i was looking for something to disctract myself from an achy neck and body discomfort that was keeping me awake when i should be asleep but what really has me awake is wanting to write/share more cuz it's been a while, too long a while, since i gave myself some time to take care of myself and the truly personally importantly meaningful things in my heart and mind (not to mention babbling and creativity) and wouldn't you know, that is pretty much what harry's law seems to be trying to be all about (with the usual poetic license)...

also enjoyed fringe tonight...

and wow, dying changes everything episode of house, ever see it?...

remembering snl

a long long time ago (and i don't mean american pie or even a linda ronstadt song), i found myself semi-wasted after a tour in the us army where drugs were easier to get than sex, but just barely, and both were a lot easier to get than arrested for carrying a gun on a white house tour, but that’s beside the point… where was i?... ah yes, remembering snl… i started this entry an hour and a half ago… and with jim carrey as the guest host, i decided to watch… a bit earlier i was on my way out to play games with friends when the jets-colts game got interesting so i decided to continue watching and by the time it was over, i decided to cook some dinner here and watch snl…

it was a long long time ago (is this where we came in?) when i was sitting home, or perhaps i was in pompano beach visiting friends, memory is not perfect and location was not as important as the memory of the feeling, the gleefully awakening of the feeling of revelation when something new emerges from the ether (or everything outside the head) as i watched the first episode of saturday night light… that first show was followed by week after week of the most different comedy i had ever seen on television and for almost two years i was drawn to watch every almost saturday night…

tonight was, as has been the case every year since those first shows, disappointing, but in that it rekindled memories of the original gleeful feeling, it was well worth staying home for… and here i am now, remembering another fond memory, lays barbecue potato chips, while eating the baked version thinking how lays baked barbecue potato chips taste much like pringles, which is quite disappointing as well… with each passing year everything seems to be more and more processed, less and less fresh, and i wonder how long the human race can continue like this…

and when will the next gleeful awakening feeling of revelation come? :)

mostly sports

tv has been mostly sports with some re-runs of ncis tossed in and the occasional cartoon or sci-fi distraction... life has been too busy for much of anything else... i've even been choosing music and browsing/reading the web and enjoy exploring youtube more than commercial toob lately... so what's new on your set?...