Generation Kill

I just finished the new HBO 7 part miniseries Generation Kill, based on the book of the same name, this weekend and it is a definite must see. To summarize what it is about (thanks IMDB!) A Rolling Stone reporter, embedded with The 1st Recon Marines chronicles his experiences during the first wave of the American-led assault on Baghdad in 2003.

This show doesn’t pull any punches you will laugh at the dark marine humor, cringe at the violence, and find yourself screaming at your TV at some of the ineptitude (Captain America anyone? Trust me, I’m not spoiling anything but you will be begging for some “Friendly Fire.”) If you are looking for some huge war monger propaganda piece…do not look here. This show does not pull any punches on a lot of the fuck ups and mishaps during the 1st month of our “liberation” of Iraq and I commend Evan Wright for his work. (Nice running from the sniper btw)

Does this best HBO’s best miniseries Band of Brothers? No way, but its pretty damn close.

WTF Nerd!

I stepped into new depths of geekdom this week and you know what. I like it.

What I am referring to is a new show I just started watching which brings me into the realm of Sci-Fi Geektitude and that my friend is Battlestar Galactica

The show is pure nerd and I love it. It follows a fighter ship “Galactica” and its stories after a race of robots called Cylons, which man created, have destroyed mankind leaving only about 50,000 surviving members of the human race. The new twist is that the cylons have “upgraded” and mimic humans and not just the tin cans you see in the background above

Case in point ….

Take ME to your leader…

In case you didnt know shes a robotic bad ass.

This show mixes the perfect amount of sci-fi, action, great story line and cool visual effects. They have this certain camera view that is usually used in space that is just really cool to me, its hard to explain, its like a shaky zoom cam you see in some video games

an example can be seen here about 25 seconds in

Regardless I am catching up on it and recommend it if you are sci-fi fan at all

Pretty Good, Prettttty, Prettty Good

Your god wants you to laugh, therefore hes bringing back the tools to let you

Curb Your Enthusiasm is Back like vertebrae!
http://www.reuters.com/article/peopleNews/idUSN1015695520080711

A buddy of mine let me borrow the first season a few years back and I was hooked. This show leaves you in stitches with the uncomfortable laughter and ridiculous people and situations. It leaves you thinking. Is Larry really that neurotic or is everyone in California just batshit nuts.

example: A newspaper Typo and everyone’s in Larry’s shit

I think the absolute hilarity of this show put up against the absolute shit that Jerry Seinfeld has put out (Bee Movie…DIAF) shows where the real creativity came from on Seinfeld.

If you watch it…get ready for more. If you don’t…Start it will be well worth it.