Eating Muffins in an Agitated Manner

He lost to Barry Manilow!

Posted by Sari

Can I just say how much I love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart?

Telkkarista tulee jotain katsottavaa!

Posted by Sari

Keväällä alkaa tai jatkuu Suomen telkkarissa useampikin syksyllä DVD:ltä katsomani amerikkalainen draama/seikkailusarja jotka ovat vallan katsomisen arvoisia. Subin Veronica Mars on teinidraamojen aatelia, oikeasti hyvin käsikirjoitettu ja rakennettu sarja vastoinkäymisten kovaksi keittämästä teinietsivästä. Neloselta alkoi juuri HBO:n uusin mahtava historiallinen suursarja Deadwood joka on (tavallaan epähistoriallisen) rääväsuinen lännentarina Mustilta Kukkuloilta. Samalta kanavalta alkaa ensi viikolla aivan liikaa hypetetty mutta ihan katsottava ja todella koukuttava Lost. Jos joku muu kun Canal + alkaisi vielä näyttää Housea (CSI tapaa lääkärisarjan, pääosassa tyly ja rampa tohtori Hugh Laurie) niin ei olisi kauheasti valittamista.

Draamasarja-addiktin kissanpäivät kruunaa nelosen myöhäisiltaan hautaama Taisteluplaneetta Galactica. Ihan oikeasti. Unohtakaa se kitchinen sarja jossa Pa Cartwright joukkoineen pakeni hassunnäköisiä robotteja (puhumattakaan nyt siitä vielä karseammasta versiosta jossa tyypit ajelivat näkymättömillä moottoripyörillä maapallolla), tämä uusi versio on oikeasti hämmästyttävän ajankohtainen ja toimiva draamasarja. Menisimpä jopa niin pitkälle että väittäisin sen olevan ainut amerikkalainen draamasarja joka millään tasolla yrittää purkaa ja kommentoida Yhdisvaltojen nykytilaa ja maan suhdetta kilpaileviin (vihamielisiin) maailmanselitysmalleihin sortumatta kaikkein pahimpiin sterotypioihin. Nyt täytyy vaan yrittää pysyä poissa spoilereista kunnes toisen kauden toinen puolikas ilmestyy...

I'm OK, you're OK(?), we're all OK!

Posted by jukkahoo

Once more I have visited the hotsipal and once more my doctor has told me I'm OK. Blood, CAT and all that jazz were good. Hurrah and huzzah!

And as it has now been almost two years since the implantation of my veinal gate (laskimoportti), it is due to be removed. Should happen the 10th of Oktober. Sigh! Goodbye my sweet cyborg appliance, who remainded silent thru the Kittilä airport security check, the Seutula one and mightily beeped at the Brusselleux International, thus giving an excuse for that Belgian to frisk me. Farewell!

I'm taking this as a good sign, and so should you too. I wonder if they let me have the thing? Could it be turned into some kind of a pendant? I think I'll have to ask.

Other news: I have been watching the new Galactica. It isn't half bad. I just said today, that I think it is the best sf-series since DS9. Then Teemu (or was it Marko?) asked whether it is better than Firefly. I have to admit it is a close call, but galactica has better premise and no stupid sooooooooooo out of place element.

Anyway, me likes. It's not the best thing since sliced bread, but a very good sci-fi tv-series. I must admit I was more than a bit sceptic about the modernisation of an old and definitely camp series, but Ronald D. Moore has done a very nice job with combining the original idea and characters with today's perspective. Good casting, though I cannot see the sultriness of that Jessica Simpson -lookalike. Baltar, Starbuck, Adama, Tigh and president; great choices. Not too sure about Apollo, and very uncertain about Boomer. And the human cylons. Too much this "what am I?", "what is love?" and "gee willikins, I can have sex!". And some other things, but as that would really need getting into details, I think I'll pass. Check it out, though. Jukkahoo says: "verra nizza!"

What isn't very nice, is another childhood/teenage love: "Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Oh, for f**k sake what a piece of c**p! Laugh-free near two hours, with decent choices as characters, but utterly dismal script and staggeringly fun-free dialogue. How the frag can they manage to distill Adams' radio-play/books void of anything funny? C'mon, the dialogue was there already! How can you possibly take out all the humour? What kind of a sick joke is this movie? How could that brainless twat at the showing snicker and giggle thoughout the entire movie? How is it possible, that I actually paid good money to see this... travesty? I could've just burned the tenner, or wipe my nose with it. Must have been both funnier and less painful that way.

New Galactica = Good. HHGG-movie = Bad. Health = Good.

Summa summarum = doubleplusgood. I can live with that.

More less

Posted by jukkahoo

My drain was removed yesterday. The nurse in question told that it would hurt a bit and did it ever! Well, as the Americans say, yeah! And then there was some showering of bodily fluids, heh heh...

The under armpit feels funny. As the operation did some minor changes there, I'm not surprised. It's bumpy. Almost... lumpy. No nonononononoooooooh!

The scar is quite a sight, it runs from my back to my left nipple.

I don't have much to report really. I 'aven't talked with Syöpäpoli yet, but I think I'll have contact them tomorrow Thursday. I've been mostly staying up late and slept even later. It's all part of the treatment, you know. Plenty of rest and no stress, nor work, sweating, lifting or sport. No sauna either, and no rubbing of the wound/scar.

Sitten haluaisin huomauttaa, että kauden parasta tv-viihdettä tulee maanantaisin, ensiksi MTV3:lta puoli yhdeksältä illalla vanhoja Spede-show -koosteita (paitsi että kohta ollaan jo aivan liian tuoreissa osissa) ja sitten SUbTV:lta puolenyön paikkeilla Martti Servo ja Yösydän chat. Jos olette koskaan kuulleet kuinka Martti tulkitsee Doorsia, te ette ole eläneet turhaan. Taannoinen Roadhouse Blues on ehkä hienoin koskaan kuulemani cover-versio! Muutenkin Martti puhelee mukavia/pehmoisia.

Huomenna meille tulee astianpesukone, mutta siitä saa Sari puhua enemmän kunhan ehtii.