English Entertainment

Posted on June 4th, 2007 in Customary Drivel, Unsolicited Commentary by Deas

Hey guys, I am back from Kobe. Promise. I’m just playing catchup. I should be regularly posting again shortly. I took a week off, and man did I need it. I decided to sleep without an alarm on Friday night. I woke up at 3 PM on Saturday. Yeah… I guess I needed the sleep! Anyway, while I’ve been catching up (and not blogging), I’ve used the time to catch up on some English language entertainment. Surprisingly, the last 3 episodes of 24 are still sitting unwatched in my iTunes downloads. Gotta get on that. In the meantime, let me mumble about what I have watched.

First, I caught up on CSI thanks to my sister. She started commenting about some plot turns that I didn’t understand, so I decided to look it up. Turns out I was 2 seasons behind! I have now seen seasons 6 and 7, and I am up to date. My twin is quite frustrated with the closing of season 7. I actually enjoyed it, because this last season rescued the show from a rut in my opinion. They got a new hook, ran with it, and took it to a cliffhanger. If you haven’t seen it and want to see it, do not read the next sentence. They have a tradition of hanging the show on a single character. They did it to Nick when he was kidnapped. They’ve done it to others. This time it’s just Sarah’s turn. I hope we’ve not seen the end of the miniature killer, though. It was a cool plot thread. You may read again, because the spoilers are over.

Then, I finally watched Hot Fuzz thanks to Aileen. It was AWESOMENESS. If you liked the goofball film Shaun of the Dead, then you’ll love this one too. Silly British humor at its best. Though, I’m not gonna lie…the films resemble one another in more than one way. Mobs. Running. Ridiculous amounts of ammo. It was great. I highly recommend it.

I also finished Dune (great book, and way better than the movie or miniseries) and brought back 1000 pages of English reading from a blessed bookstore in Kobe. Anyhoo, that’s all for now, folks. Rest assured that I’ve got more in the hopper coming your way.

(I’ll finish 24, too, but probably won’t post about it. This stuff has nothing to do with Japan…)