What Are You Watching

[BruceH]

Waiting for the last disc of the 5th season of Wire to come in via Netflix. I love it that Clark Johnson is in this season.

[Van Basten II]

Watched a old boxing fight between a young Lennox Lewis and Razor Ruddock followed up by a used to be fine Meldrick Taylor getting dismantled by a very little known Crisanto Espana, Dd not help matters that Meldrick was one weight division over his .

Edited December 29, 2009 by Van Basten II

[A Lark Ascending]

Missed this when it was recently broadcast so got the DVD. Watched the first three episodes (1900-1918) over the last three evenings.

Excellent popular history. Nice to know UK TV can be about more than "Strictly Come X-Factoring, Get Me Out Of Here".

Edited December 30, 2009 by Bev Stapleton

[BruceH]

Just watched the last episode of The Wire. I'd have to say that the fifth and final season was quite good, overall, but not as good as the others due mainly to the length. Only 10 episodes instead of the usual 13. It felt rushed and left me feeling a little short-changed, although the last episode was particularly good. Nice that it was directed by my hero, Clark Johnson...I believe he also directed the first episode of the series, if my memory is not deceiving me. Nice symmetry in that.

[jazzbo]

[Dave James]

The Three Stooges marathon on AMC.

[Brad]

Waiting in line for Avatar on Imax.

[Chuck Nessa]

I'm watching a tiny spider drop from my ceiling to my field of vision.

Any guesses about the outcome?

[paul secor]

Watched The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance on TCM this afternoon - an all time favorite. Tho I have to say that Wayne's line about "my boy Pompey" is always hard to listen to.

[Van Basten II]

A few old boxing fights of the 70s

Chango Carmona vs Rodolfo Gonzales

Romeo Anaya vs. Rogelio Lara

Alfonso Zamora-Alberto Sandoval

[Brad]

Angels and Demons!

[Van Basten II]

More boxing

Pipino Cuevas-Pete Ranzany

Pipino Cuevas-Clyde Gray

Man Pipino was a nasty dude.

Ruben Olivares-Jesus Pimentel

Bobby Chacon-Ruben Olivares II

Two classic fights that shows why Olivares is regarded as one of the greatest Mexican fighter of all time

[NaturalSoul]

south florida vs n illinois

[jazzbo]

[Van Basten II]

Saw the 2nd part of the movie Edvard Munch, for more details go to the film thread and followed it up by watching McGuigan-Cruz a nice featherweight scrap that earned the fight of the year title in 1986.

Remember enjoying this series, if my memory stands correctly , they got canned real fast, how many shows does the series have and how many were broadcasted.

[Chuck Nessa]

Just finished watching Herb and Dorothy. Wonderful film.

[jazzbo]

Saw the 2nd part of the movie Edvard Munch, for more details go to the film thread and followed it up by watching McGuigan-Cruz a nice featherweight scrap that earned the fight of the year title in 1986.

Remember enjoying this series, if my memory stands correctly , they got canned real fast, how many shows does the series have and how many were broadcasted.

The disc set has little information about the series. Has twelve episodes that I think were all broadcast.

Here's the wikipedia entry:

The Lone Gunmen, a spin-off of the popular series The X-Files, was a television show that aired on FOX, featuring the characters of the same name. The show first aired in March 2001 and, despite good reviews, was canceled due to a drop in ratings.[1] The last episode aired in June 2001.

The debut of the show in March 2001, began with Byers' father faking his death to uncover a conspiracy to hijack an airliner. The Lone Gunmen try to get to the truth of his supposed death and uncover the conspiracy.

One retrospectively interesting aspect of this pilot episode is that the airliner has been hijacked (via remote control of the plane's autopilot) and, by the end, both Byers and his father have boarded the plane to try to stop the hijacking. Through the aid of the other Gunmen, they are able to regain control of the plane and just miss crashing into the World Trade Center with the airliner. This, of course, was before the actual 9/11 attack against the World Trade Center later that year. Astonishingly similar to the actual arguments made about 9/11 by "conspiracy theorists", the episode's plot indicates that the hijacking was committed as an act of voracity by a greedy American arms manufacturer to ultimately increase its weapons sales by invoking U.S. retaliation against a scapegoated anti-American extremist dictator.[2]

Their spin-off series involved investigating mostly corporate crime, aided (and sometimes hindered) by a mysterious thief named Yves Adele Harlow (Zuleikha Robinson). Despite fan loyalty, the show was ultimately canceled after 12 episodes. They return to The X-Files in the episode "Jump the Shark" in the show's ninth season where they were then killed off. They briefly reappeared in the series finale of The X-Files, as Mulder spoke to their ghosts.

[BruceH]

Always thought that sounded like the name of a punk group.

[jazzbo]

I think I'm just watching it for the "Lee Harvey Oswald" character Yves Adele Harlow

(Zuleikha Robinson)

[paul secor]

Just finished watching Herb and Dorothy. Wonderful film.

Saw that one on PBS a month or so ago. I agree.

[jazzbo]

A sort of schizo viewing for me, alternating between:

And:

[BruceH]

Right now I think the funniest stuff of TV is The Daily Show and The Late, Late Show With Craig Ferguson...at least for me personally.

[jazzbo]

I don't watch either of those. Possibly for me the funniest is "Better Off Ted." The second to the last episode was off the wall hilarious.

Just finished watching the dvd that comes with the Neil Young "Living With War -- RAW -- In the Beginning" set. The cd has the album without the choir and a few other production features, which is an interesting way to listen to the album. The DVD shows Neil and Rick and Chad going through the songs for the first time and some great takes, many of which are used on the cd. And it has this really interesting CNN type newscast thing going on, "LWW" instead of "CNN", with the scrolling type, and footage of the Iraq war, Al Gore and "The Inconvenient Truth," Bush and Cheney, etc. Also interesting was a discussion during the recording of needing a real leader now, and Barack Obama is brought up as a possible candidate running in '08 and someone says "He might not be ready" and Neil says something to the effect of "he may be ready, he may know that now is really the time, it's time for action and he should do it."

I really like this and the bonus dvd that came out with the second cd/dvd combo of "Greendale." Neil is making some of the most effective "protest" music in this century in my opinion.

[Van Basten II]

Mad Men , episode 5 season 1.

[Shawn]

Season 1