Wolf Notes

The title refers to the Fiery Furnaces song I am listening to right now. They are a brother sister group who I find to be pretty fucking good but they are also a little weird. I only have their first two albums but I hear one of their albums was about their grandmother or something which reads like a radio play. They have a lot of albums that are all supposed to be good that I think I will have to check out. Check them out below preferably after taking some mind altering drugs.



There are two channels on television that I don't understand how some people can just sit down and watch for hours (well three if you count Fox News). I know people who watch hours of programs on the Animal Planet and The Food Network. The Animal Planet needs to air more shows where football players race horses and stop it with the shark week. My problem with the Food Network is that most of the cooking on the channel probably don't eat the food with the massive calorie intakes that they prepare (though they probably give it to that TGI Friday guy).

One channel that my dad will forever say was his idea that got stolen from him that is almost unwatchable is the Sci Fi channel. Oh I'm sorry to get street cred they changed their name from Sci-Fi to SyFy. I guess they needed to get rid of that extra letter so they could finance the sequel to Manticore. Seriously why do they keep making all these movies and than actually broadcast them? Besides Mansquito Man and Locust all these movies are shit.

Though all of this can be forgiven because Sci-Fi channel produced and aired Battlestar Galactica which I can say after watching all the way up through the halfway point of season three is one of the better shows to come on television in a while. What I like about it is that it has complex themes and ideas being tossed around in it such as what it is that defines us as human, living in a post 9-11 world and various other aspects of the human condition.

Don't make the same mistake I did and ignore the show because you are not a big fan of science fiction because this show is well written and superbly acted, especially Edward James Olmos who I never really cared for but who I am now a big fan of. I have been catching up on Netflix and sometimes when I get a DVD in the mail I will watch every episode on it that day.

I don't want to get into any of the plot-lines on the show because I think you should really experience the show without knowing anything about it like I currently am. Fuck it man I even have a list on my door that lists the twelve cylons that have been revealed so far (I have seven cylons confirmed on this list). I will say one thing that gets my goat about the show is that during the opening credits they will play scenes from the actual episode you are about to watch. I didn't notice this until about the third week and it pissed me off because one of the key plot points of that episode was revealed to me. Now I just look away during the opening credits but it is still something the perturbs me.

So what are you waiting for. Got put Season one at the top of your Que right now.

And a note I have been writing more often lately but I will be going away this weekend for a wedding. Maybe if I find a computer and I get bored I will write something. Hmmm?