One Piece- I took a break this summer on One Piece. I finally reached my goal of 400.
Fantasy Football-4 leagues Oy Vey!
Season 5 of Mad Men with two to go.
I am almost there.
Dragon Ball Super- I have just scratched the surface.
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Stardust Crusaders- Almost done with the first season
Other anime?
Not even sure with life being ridiculously busy. 3 internships in school is a lot. I look to get that to two internships. So far just not enough time to do a whole bunch. I can still blog.
Sunday, August 13, 2017
Wednesday, June 7, 2017
The Five Year Wait
5 years is a hard time to learn that and understand that I surreptitiously wanted to watch the Wire.
Though-- I am a taut believer in this idea of time. I feel like the right time is imperative to something and anything.
Throwing big words at you may actually scare you off.
The fact of the matter is...it is time to finally FUCKING WATCH THE WIRE. With me trying to finish the Leftovers and Mad Men whilst going to school has been a FUCKING CHALLENGE.
Starved for time is the hardest idea to grasp.
So many shows but now is the day!
So I can't wait for the very first episode of the Wire. My sister told me in 2012 . In fact, I was in college at the University of Wyoming, in my room and she called me and always told me to watch the Wire. There it sat on my external drive. But tragedy befell me early last month when my hard drive was fully erased due to an uncalculated big fucking error... one that has me angry but I build years if not 10 years of content back together .
Watching the Wire will give me solace.
And yes it is the build up ...but I have patiently waited to watch it and thus the post tonight.
Adieu!
Thanks for reading as I venture forth into the Wire.
Though-- I am a taut believer in this idea of time. I feel like the right time is imperative to something and anything.
Throwing big words at you may actually scare you off.
The fact of the matter is...it is time to finally FUCKING WATCH THE WIRE. With me trying to finish the Leftovers and Mad Men whilst going to school has been a FUCKING CHALLENGE.
Starved for time is the hardest idea to grasp.
So many shows but now is the day!
So I can't wait for the very first episode of the Wire. My sister told me in 2012 . In fact, I was in college at the University of Wyoming, in my room and she called me and always told me to watch the Wire. There it sat on my external drive. But tragedy befell me early last month when my hard drive was fully erased due to an uncalculated big fucking error... one that has me angry but I build years if not 10 years of content back together .
Watching the Wire will give me solace.
And yes it is the build up ...but I have patiently waited to watch it and thus the post tonight.
Adieu!
Thanks for reading as I venture forth into the Wire.
Tuesday, April 25, 2017
127th post! The Office Review (There be spoilers)
The Office made me do a gamut of emotions. What I mean by a bunch is it made me feel for almost all the characters in the series.
I cried in select episodes. But the finale really capped the human emotion and oddness and the plain human feel that the Office is. I get the same feeling from Seinfeld and other shows but it is so brilliantly written. The raw emotion just gets at ya.
Anime does the same thing if it is really good. But I mean this is different. I felt very odd watching the show but the characters are so good and the references are excellent. And the consistency is even so great.
But yes to contain a show for 9 seasons is very difficult. The Office in season 8 the first three episodes were very paltry. Then it picked up and then paltry. I think this was either due to a writers strike or a goddamn changing of the torches, or the passing of the torches. But I thought I would despise season 9. But in all honesty again it started poor but this time it tried to capture the laughs and slogging through select episodes was hard , but I managed.
Season 9 really got better. It gained some steam. After Spader left Dwight getting his due was incredible. Andy was a dick but I forgave him eventually when he went and chased stardom. Pam and Jim you rooted for very hard, it looked like a dark turn with couples counseling, but in fact, they worked through their differences and Jim ultimately sacrificed an incredible job ...only for Pam. Then it ended up insanely incredible with bravado writing to get Pam and Jim to finally leave Scranton. Creed was finally arrested for his theft. He steals throughout the whole show, and finally he gets caught . But before any of that Creed sings an incredibly heart felt song about the people that worked in the Office.
The fact that the Office characters new they were being filmed in an actual documentary was a breath of fresh air. I love characters that are aware of what is going on. But it was super powerful to see Michael return for the wedding. This was the farewell episode. It was brilliant. I loved Meredith how she was very smart but extremely wild. Toby , was he the Scranton Strangler? Dunno. But he was intriguing. Kevin getting fired. I love Kevin. A buffoon in his own right but he talks about the follies that plague us all. He is extremely interesting because of his mistakes. Oh god! Seeing Angela and Dwight get married was like the second coming--when Pam and Jim got married. It was an incredible call back or tip of the hat to that moment. I cried. I cried. I cried. You see the character's growth after 9 seasons and you think of the full humanity. How good these people were and how good the actors were. The Office teaches you about oddities, love, connecting, friendship, death, comedy . It is all there and it to me is sad to see it go. I watched it in 3-4 months full.
To me it goes down as an all time great show. Laughing and crying and outright feeling uneasy and quirky. It captures amazing emotion and if you have never watched the show, you need to do it asap.
Ordinary people doing mundane things. But why is that weird?
`` So many shows to watch! I ' d say finishing Mad Men or some other shows is the next journey. Goodbye the Office. I will miss you.
I cried in select episodes. But the finale really capped the human emotion and oddness and the plain human feel that the Office is. I get the same feeling from Seinfeld and other shows but it is so brilliantly written. The raw emotion just gets at ya.
Anime does the same thing if it is really good. But I mean this is different. I felt very odd watching the show but the characters are so good and the references are excellent. And the consistency is even so great.
But yes to contain a show for 9 seasons is very difficult. The Office in season 8 the first three episodes were very paltry. Then it picked up and then paltry. I think this was either due to a writers strike or a goddamn changing of the torches, or the passing of the torches. But I thought I would despise season 9. But in all honesty again it started poor but this time it tried to capture the laughs and slogging through select episodes was hard , but I managed.
Season 9 really got better. It gained some steam. After Spader left Dwight getting his due was incredible. Andy was a dick but I forgave him eventually when he went and chased stardom. Pam and Jim you rooted for very hard, it looked like a dark turn with couples counseling, but in fact, they worked through their differences and Jim ultimately sacrificed an incredible job ...only for Pam. Then it ended up insanely incredible with bravado writing to get Pam and Jim to finally leave Scranton. Creed was finally arrested for his theft. He steals throughout the whole show, and finally he gets caught . But before any of that Creed sings an incredibly heart felt song about the people that worked in the Office.
The fact that the Office characters new they were being filmed in an actual documentary was a breath of fresh air. I love characters that are aware of what is going on. But it was super powerful to see Michael return for the wedding. This was the farewell episode. It was brilliant. I loved Meredith how she was very smart but extremely wild. Toby , was he the Scranton Strangler? Dunno. But he was intriguing. Kevin getting fired. I love Kevin. A buffoon in his own right but he talks about the follies that plague us all. He is extremely interesting because of his mistakes. Oh god! Seeing Angela and Dwight get married was like the second coming--when Pam and Jim got married. It was an incredible call back or tip of the hat to that moment. I cried. I cried. I cried. You see the character's growth after 9 seasons and you think of the full humanity. How good these people were and how good the actors were. The Office teaches you about oddities, love, connecting, friendship, death, comedy . It is all there and it to me is sad to see it go. I watched it in 3-4 months full.
To me it goes down as an all time great show. Laughing and crying and outright feeling uneasy and quirky. It captures amazing emotion and if you have never watched the show, you need to do it asap.
Ordinary people doing mundane things. But why is that weird?
`` So many shows to watch! I ' d say finishing Mad Men or some other shows is the next journey. Goodbye the Office. I will miss you.
Monday, April 17, 2017
Cloneth Wars
Star Wars Clone Wars is absolutely captivating for many reasons.
Now more so than ever...for myself it is interesting to look at this show's characters.
Characters are always a large talking point. But goddamnit! There are some good characters in the show. I love Obi-Wan for his mindfulness and teachings to Anakin. The young Anakin trips up and makes mistakes but learns but the series may get darker. Because in essence he has to turn into Vader at somepoint. But this show is adult without having to be kiddie. It is a kid show but there is some thematic tastefulness, and some hard topics sometimes. There are people which I forget that lived ons some crazy-ass planet and they have to deal with strife or annihilation of their kind. It is interesting because of humanity and are ideals with nukes. This commentary is fucking warranted. Nobody,.wants to fuck the other person up with an explodey nuke.
I digress.--But I like Commander Cody and others. Commander Cody has legendary status written all over him , the way he commands his troops. The bad guys are worth while too. But it'd be great if they were tasked with moral ambiguity and threw the moral compass in the fucking river!
But here is the thing. Star Wars Rebels is an interesting show in its own right. I have been playing some damn tug-o-war with both of these shows. The Clone Wars having taking place I believe in between two and three is not a new show. But damnit! It is interesting because I have been watching it for a long while with my other shows, but it beckoned for me to come right the hell back .
The animation has bothered me a lot but making it through the first season. I give it a good non-jeer and say bravo! I say bravo damnit because it is a cell-shaded show and hated that idea for a long time but it works. I 'd say caps are better off to Rebels. Though, only 4 or 5 episodes into Rebels I still love the Clone Wars more, and that is having only watched one season..
Will the tug-o-war keep me occupied. With so many shows to watch and life happening at full fucking throttle, who knows--
-Andres
_Maybe more to discuss on the matter.
Now more so than ever...for myself it is interesting to look at this show's characters.
Characters are always a large talking point. But goddamnit! There are some good characters in the show. I love Obi-Wan for his mindfulness and teachings to Anakin. The young Anakin trips up and makes mistakes but learns but the series may get darker. Because in essence he has to turn into Vader at somepoint. But this show is adult without having to be kiddie. It is a kid show but there is some thematic tastefulness, and some hard topics sometimes. There are people which I forget that lived ons some crazy-ass planet and they have to deal with strife or annihilation of their kind. It is interesting because of humanity and are ideals with nukes. This commentary is fucking warranted. Nobody,.wants to fuck the other person up with an explodey nuke.
I digress.--But I like Commander Cody and others. Commander Cody has legendary status written all over him , the way he commands his troops. The bad guys are worth while too. But it'd be great if they were tasked with moral ambiguity and threw the moral compass in the fucking river!
But here is the thing. Star Wars Rebels is an interesting show in its own right. I have been playing some damn tug-o-war with both of these shows. The Clone Wars having taking place I believe in between two and three is not a new show. But damnit! It is interesting because I have been watching it for a long while with my other shows, but it beckoned for me to come right the hell back .
The animation has bothered me a lot but making it through the first season. I give it a good non-jeer and say bravo! I say bravo damnit because it is a cell-shaded show and hated that idea for a long time but it works. I 'd say caps are better off to Rebels. Though, only 4 or 5 episodes into Rebels I still love the Clone Wars more, and that is having only watched one season..
Will the tug-o-war keep me occupied. With so many shows to watch and life happening at full fucking throttle, who knows--
-Andres
_Maybe more to discuss on the matter.
Monday, March 27, 2017
The last two weeks
Aside from having problems with jobs I have watched a lot of movies this year.
The Lobster 2016
Room
Captain America Civil War
The Swiss Army Man
Moonlight 2016
And yeah some of these are old but this could be a recording breaking year for how many movies I have watched. In a span of a month I watched 2 a month so far it looks like.
I still have many more to watch.
Room was very fucking good. I need to stop crying but I guess I just keep getting hit with sad movies. Moonlight deserved an Oscar for Best Picture. Old news? Well , fuck off! It was insanely good.
La La Land was really great as well but the ending to me was well done, but I wanted more. I am a goddamn mess when it comes to being critical. I am overtly critical on myself. I have let go a lot but when it comes to art I know what I like, and if it doesn't work then I go get angry and have to re-do it and make it right.
I am looking at you messed up Bat-man face.
Anywho I am stoked, happy and otherwise jovial to the fact that my writing continues. A lot of work just this year is coming. I also saw the movie Finding Dory. I thought for a sequel Disney? Pixar? Nailed it. An enjoyable sequel. And I really liked Dory in Finding Nemo. She is a great character and a lot to explore there.
This year I feel is different. In a very good way. But more to tell you on other movies I will watch.
More to report.
Till now.
Have a goodin'.
-Andres
The Lobster 2016
Room
Captain America Civil War
The Swiss Army Man
Moonlight 2016
And yeah some of these are old but this could be a recording breaking year for how many movies I have watched. In a span of a month I watched 2 a month so far it looks like.
I still have many more to watch.
Room was very fucking good. I need to stop crying but I guess I just keep getting hit with sad movies. Moonlight deserved an Oscar for Best Picture. Old news? Well , fuck off! It was insanely good.
La La Land was really great as well but the ending to me was well done, but I wanted more. I am a goddamn mess when it comes to being critical. I am overtly critical on myself. I have let go a lot but when it comes to art I know what I like, and if it doesn't work then I go get angry and have to re-do it and make it right.
I am looking at you messed up Bat-man face.
Anywho I am stoked, happy and otherwise jovial to the fact that my writing continues. A lot of work just this year is coming. I also saw the movie Finding Dory. I thought for a sequel Disney? Pixar? Nailed it. An enjoyable sequel. And I really liked Dory in Finding Nemo. She is a great character and a lot to explore there.
This year I feel is different. In a very good way. But more to tell you on other movies I will watch.
More to report.
Till now.
Have a goodin'.
-Andres
Saturday, March 18, 2017
Peace is something you can make
Peace with my family is hard.
Sometimes I piss off one member and then the other is good.
There is a really terrible balance.
Lately, though I have patched things up and received apologies.
And I had to give one as well.
But I feel good.
I am still growing emotionally. And I feel things are looking up for a change.
You can choose to be happy always and spread that with family members.
_Andres
Sometimes I piss off one member and then the other is good.
There is a really terrible balance.
Lately, though I have patched things up and received apologies.
And I had to give one as well.
But I feel good.
I am still growing emotionally. And I feel things are looking up for a change.
You can choose to be happy always and spread that with family members.
_Andres
Monday, March 13, 2017
The League
I finished the first show of the year for myself. The League.
It was 7 long seasons of pure hilarity. It was a very fun ride and I will miss the League.
But as far as shows go I am still watching a bunch:
Shameless
Akame Ga Kill
The Big Bang Theory (Season 5)
Joker Game
The Americans(Season 1)
One Piece (On a break)
South Park (on going)
Archer (season 2)
I have also beaten three games this year: Finally! All of last year I beat 5. I need to be in the 10 range.
The Witcher,
Gone Home
And I forgot the other game.
It was 7 long seasons of pure hilarity. It was a very fun ride and I will miss the League.
But as far as shows go I am still watching a bunch:
Shameless
Akame Ga Kill
The Big Bang Theory (Season 5)
Joker Game
The Americans(Season 1)
One Piece (On a break)
South Park (on going)
Archer (season 2)
I have also beaten three games this year: Finally! All of last year I beat 5. I need to be in the 10 range.
The Witcher,
Gone Home
And I forgot the other game.
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