July 15, 2007

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 11:57 am

Yikes. It's already almost 3 EST and no Roll Call.

For those who are wondering, I'm doing okay. I've just been sad. I heard a story about one of the people on the forum my wife is on and how the person's mom has cancer. The mom had time and decided to fulfill one wish and get her whole family together for a Disneyland trip. It's a nice story but it made me very sad because everyone knew that my grandmother's time was coming because of decisions the doctors had made. Decisions that my family didn't want to tell her about. (I didn't stand by that decision but with my grandma in FL and me in New Jersey, there wasn't much I could do) And I wonder if she would've known, what would she have wanted to do the time.

But I can't dwell. The future lays ahead and like any good depressed person, I'm throwing myself headlong into a project to occupy my mind. So I'm working on more stuff for Septemberian. I wanna paint action figures but I wanna move up from painting 90's X-men figures to new Marvel Legends style figures but its expensive to do. But the move up would be good in terms of articulation and size. Old figures were terrible about representing size differences. I'm also looking into dremels because I've heard that they could be helpful in my customizing.

Between that and editing the story and looking for a theme song and trying to get some art for it and making a website....Yep, that oughta keep me busy.

QotD:
What was the worst television show you ever saw?

Rabid Garfunkel · Post by **Rabid Garfunkel** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 12:36 pm

QOTD: Holmes and Yo-Yo

I think that's the one with the bumbling robot cop partnered with the cop who can't keep a partner. At least, I can't imagine more than one buddy-cop-future shock-action-fish out of water-comedy with that premise. Man, I loved that show. It was utter crap.

By "worst", I'm assuming "the worst that you enjoyed" is the expanded definition. There's way more unenjoyable bad out there on the tube than I want to even consider.

Dremels rock, by the way.

mkilly · Post by **mkilly** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 12:42 pm

shasta mcnasty

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 12:57 pm

mkilly wrote:shasta mcnasty

Holy crap. Just you mentioning that show brought the taste of bile into my mouth. That ranks as my #3, right behind #2- The Brothers Grunt and #1- Deadly Games.

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 2:59 pm

Dread Zep was great last night. The two opening bands were pretty damn good too. One of them is a band called Full Revolution. They came out on stage, and they look like they are about 15. I thought, WTF? Then they opened with a song called, "Do You Wonder" and they were awesome. They do a bluesy, metal type thing. So I checked with Google to see if they have a site. Sure as shit, they are 14 and 15. They are a great live band.

I don't know why, but I love humorous cover bands. The shows are always entertaining. Some one mentioned The Dead Henson's. That is a must see, it's a great show. I've seen Wild Child, which is a Doors cover band. But one that I really loved is called The Rock Show. It's a bunch of cover bands that dress up like the band they are covering. They do a couple songs, then the next band comes out. They are really funny and really good.
Example:
Ozzy
Van Halen

QOTD:
Little Bush is pretty bad.
I remember that cop robot one. That was pretty bad, thinking back.

fodroy · Post by **fodroy** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 6:11 pm

qotd: The O.C.

jack · Post by **jack** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 6:35 pm

deal or no deal has to be the dumbest show ever on network television.

at least until this caveman show comes on. stealing a premise for a show from an auto insurance commercial shows how unimaginative and uninspiring network TV is.

except for lost. all is not lost

sausage boy · Post by **sausage boy** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 6:45 pm

QOTD:
The Adventures of Blinky Bill. The 4 minute 'titles' sequence sets up a thoroughly uninteresting show.

Oddly enough though, another show by the same company, Fairy Tale Police, is damn awesome.

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 7:05 pm

jack wrote: at least until this caveman show comes on. stealing a premise for a show from an auto insurance commercial

See, I am so there. I love those Caveman commercials.

Plat · Post by **Plat** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 12:17 am

It's AAW ... week, and I dove right in just after it started. I like being able to concentrate on having fun rather than quality / pleasing a panel of judges. I'm hoping to try a few strange things that require some help from my friends and some people who don't know me at all. Hope that comes through.

QOTD: Hate to say it, but for some reason Reading Rainbow really annoyed me as a kid. Not even LeVar Burton could save it.

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 1:41 am

Television shows I find truly annoying inclde: The Bill, Everyone Loves Raymond, Midsomer Murders, Barney the Dinosaur, As Time Goes By, that crap thing with Dennis Waterman as an old ex-policeman, Big Brother, the 1990's re-makes of Skippy, Rove and pretty much anything set in a hospital.

sausage boy · Post by **sausage boy** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 4:30 am

Caravan Ray wrote:pretty much anything set in a hospital.

Even David McGhan as Dr Miracle!!!?

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 5:13 am

sausage boy wrote:
Caravan Ray wrote:pretty much anything set in a hospital.
Even David McGhan as Dr Miracle!!!?

Of course, that is an exception - though I did prefer David McGhan as Roger Explosion or District Attorney Ferguson

Sheail · Post by **Sheail** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 5:56 am

Caravan Ray wrote:that crap thing with Dennis Waterman as an old ex-policeman

Surely you can't hate Minder! So, they want me to write the theme tune, sing the theme tune...

Worst tv show ever is anything with the word "celebrity" in the title, namely: celebrity love island, celebrity wrestling, celebrity stars in their eyes, celebrities on ice, how do you solve a problem like celebrity, celebrity idol, celebrity napkin folding etc. etc.

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 6:31 am

Sheail wrote:
Caravan Ray wrote:that crap thing with Dennis Waterman as an old ex-policeman
Surely you can't hate Minder! So, they want me to write the theme tune, sing the theme tune....

No, no - not Minder (or The Sweeney) - (...googled) New Tricks - that is shite

(heh...but that Little Britain sketch cracks me up

)

Hoblit · Post by **Hoblit** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 6:51 am

<i>I have a bad case of the Mondays.</i> dangit' I did it again.

qotd: I don't know, I've seen too many terrible tv shows in my time. Currently I'd have to say that Saul of the Molemen is pretty terrible.

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 9:31 am

While googling to jog my memory of crappy shows, I came across one I forgot about. Not for being crappy, but because it never got picked up by any network, which I guess could mean that it is crappy to the stuffed shirts at the networks.
Director Ben Stiller, starring Jack Black as Jack, and his talking motorcycle, Doug, featuring Owen Wilson's voice as Doug.
Here is the plot. You tell me this doesn't sound like a great TV show.

Heat Vision And Jack
As the result of a NASA miscalculation, Astronaut Jack Austin flew to close to the sun, the rays expanding his mind and making him the smartest man on the planet. Now he and his talking motorcycle (who contains the mind of his former roommate) are on the run from NASA and their assassins, actor Ron Silver who wants to take his brain. They travel from place to place solving paranormal mysteries with the help of Jack's newfound ability to become a super genius when his brain absorbs sunlight.

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 11:15 am

QotD: Fox "News" with CNN catching up