Forgive me Father for I have sinned, yes it's been a year since my last post.  I decided to start posting again.  Not that anybody is actually reading this.  :\ OK, now that that's out of the way....

I friggin' hate 3D movies and videos.  Yes, amidst the biggest draw for a 3D movie in history--what up, James Cameron--I am saying that this is the worst move in entertainment technology that we could be making.  Allow me to demonstrate. 3D is an old technology!  3D movies have been around for 50 years and coming up on 60!  And although the technology has been improved somewhat, those improvements are not worthy of five decades of upgrades.  This is the year 2010!  We should be out near Jupiter haggling with HAL about how to save the Discovery but no we're stuck in terrestrial movie theaters awed by hot pokers coming out at us from the big screen.

Which brings me to my next point.  3D movies are typically--can't speak for Avatar yet because I haven't seen it--lame as the scripts are written to provide as many gimmicks as possible, thereby all but ensuring the story is shit.

And now 3D television?!  Talk about impractical.  Are all our guests for the big game or movie night going to have to bring their own glasses?  Do manufacturers and content providers expect us to don glasses whenever we watch TV?  WTF is going on here?

Speaking of glasses, can there be a less attractive and more nerdy facial accessory than a pair of 3D glasses?  And what of our visually impaired friends and family?  I can't believe wearing 3D glasses on top of prescription glasses is at all comfortable.

No, my friends, we truly missed the entertainment boat when it was decided to chase 3D tech over holographic.  That's where we should be: in theaters watching holographic movies with our bare eyes!  I say we boycott this trend now before it's too late and my wife has to purchase tiny 3D glasses so the damn dog can watch AFV in 3D!

Howard Stern may have put it best: "Don't we see in 3D all the time already?  I wanna see 2D." Well, maybe not the best, but it works.

OK, can we please, as a nation, as a self-proclaimed civilized society, stop thanking God for Fridays? I'm not knocking the religious aspect of it, but I do have three specific arguments against this practice:

#1. Friday's are inevitable. Yes, they will logically and regularly follow Thursdays. And if you are going to thank the big man for seeing to it you survived until Friday, shouldn't you thank him for Saturdays? Even Mondays? There are better things to thank God for. Seriously. Your health, your family, the fact that you were not born as a skunk.

#2. It's played. Yes, it's old. People have been saying TGIF since the 60's, or maybe even before, I don't know.

#3. Just look at the picture... The phrase was made famous by a disco movie, OK?  Enough said.

Let it go, people, let it go.

I watched an episode of The Universe on the History Channel called Alien Faces last night.  It was really interesting; different hypothetical alien planets were explored, and what alien life might evolve there.  I love that kind of stuff.

The series can be found on YouTube.

The official synopsis is below.

"They soar through the heavens, fly through the oceans and glide along land. But these are not creatures found on a wildlife safari. These are life forms from another planet. Armed with scientific fact and a little imagination, experts come together to take you on an unprecedented journey to the edges of our imagination. Scientists, astrobiologists and astronomers create five lines of extraterrestrial evolution, and explain how creatures on the surface of Earth offer a helping hand to understanding life in The Universe."

I've enjoyed the television series Heroes since it began a couple of years ago.  I like the characters and, although the complexity of the plot line is threatening to rival that of Lost, I've stuck with it.

I was not much of a comic book fan as a kid, or at least I wasn't for too long.  But I do like the Marvel and DC Comic movies.  So, I knew what to expect as far as superhuman powers go.  I can deal with flying, super speed, telekinesis, etc.  No problem.

But this season introduced something I am having difficulty with: the solar eclipse.  Why?  Because according to the plot line an eclipse gave some people their powers originally, and then took them away, temporarily, when it reappeared.  Why is this a problem?  Well for several reasons:

Solar eclipses appear in the same area on an average of every 375 years, and yet here we have two in the lifetime of some fairly young people. The area in which a solar eclipse is even viewable is extremely narrow, yet here we have one that can be seen in various spots in the U.S., and Haiti!

Solar eclipses only last up to around ten minutes, yet here we have one that lasted long enough for several characters to run around the jungle saving kidnapped girls and having gunfights, while still others are being shot and taken to the hospital (and we all know the emergency room takes longer than ten minutes).

So now you may say: Aren't you getting a bit technical?  It's a fictional show about people that can fly...

True.  It is a work of fiction, and I am already putting reality on hold to accept the basic premise.  But that's exactly why I don't want to extend it any further.  Fine, this guy can read minds, this girl heals immediately from a gunshot wound, this woman can create and throw fire with her bare hands.  But on top of that I'm supposed to believe the moon blocks out the sun for hours all over the planet?  C'mon.

OK, so end of rant.  I'm still going to watch it.  But no more blunders, man.

Well HBO did it again.  Dammit.  They got me hooked on another show.  I was an avid Sopranos fan.  Enjoyed Six Feet Under, too.  Now this: True Blood.

If you haven't seen it, the premise behind True Blood is that vampires have "come out of the coffin".  They've made their presence known to the world; there is a lot of bigotry for them to deal with (obviously), but there is also much political hubbub over their citizenship, right to marry, etc.

But this show is much more than a vampire tale.  There is a lot of other stuff going on.  Shape-shifters.  Psychics.  Murderers.  Dysfunctional relationships.  I think there's a witch now, but that is yet to be seen.  And, of course, sex.  Wouldn't be an HBO drama without sex.  :)

So, I went to turn it on last Sunday night, and I forgot the season is over.  That bites!. (Pun intended.)

Well, at least I have Heroes and Fringe.  Although, I have some concerns about Heroes... but that's for another post.

Congratulations, HBO.  You've sucked me in again.