My brother turned me onto the Battlestar Galactica Soundtrack and I just recently finished a Netflix marathon catch-up on it. Bear McCreary did a genius job on this show. The Roslin-Adama theme represents their relationship perfectly — from Season 3 above.
I highly recommend Season One
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I wasn’t going to watch BSG, but then I saw Grace Park and well…it became interesting.
Same here, except it was Tricia Helfer that made it…..fascinating.
Since I mentioned her, David Marcoe waits one more day for Mass Effect 3, which features Tricia as the voice of Edi. http://triciahelfer.com/news/mass-effect-3-in-stores-march-6th and for Scott M. http://juicyrumors.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/tricia_helfer.jpg
Actually, I should be able to play it today. Due to time zone differences, it’s March 6th (or will be) in other parts of the world. With a clever use of VPN or proxy server, one can activate a copy of the early.
Go get ‘em. Sieze the day, literally.
Once I get the catheter and colostomy bag hooked up, I’m good to go!
Don’t forget the foil hat David!
0522 and I still haven’t gone to bed, so it’s bacon, lettuce, and tomato on lightly toasted white bread with scrambled eggs, oatmeal and extra bacon on the side. Coke zero and OJ. The coffee drinkers will have to bring their own, I don’t do bean juice.
If we had to call it “bean juice” I don’t think many of the rest of us would drink it either.
Maybe you can get Don draper of Mad Men to brainstorm it into “Fire roasted, Pure water brewed, stimulating legume essence”.
Ah yes, Don Draper. What a bad, bad, but beguiling man. “It’s toasted.”
Don called, pointing to its popularity rising after the Boston tea party, he said it is correct to refer to it as c.o.f.f.e.e., as that stands for Caffeine Offered Free From English Excises. And, yes it is toasted.
Bleah! bean Juice…yuck!
The opening salvo is here:
“Andrew did not want to re-litigate the 2008 election. Nor did he want to let Republicans off the hook. Instead, he wanted to show that the media had failed in its most basic duty: to uncover the truth, and hold those in power accountable, regardless of party.
From today through Election Day, November 6, 2012, we will vet this president–and his rivals.”
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/03/04/obama-alinsky-love-song
Andrew Breitbart was never defensive. He called the left out for its hypocrisy, its thuggery, its totalitarian impulses, its self-contradictions and inconsistency, its naked hatred. That’s why they hated and feared him so.
We should be hated and feared by the enemies of freedom. We should never bow to them, never apologize to them, never play the game they want us to play. Their hate is a badge of honor.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/03/andrew_breitbart_for_the_offense.html#ixzz1oEzhq6Qe
Exactly what I was trying to say Here .
An offensive is declared, everyone out of your foxholes! Sheriff Arpaio on the attack as well. “More ‘Birther’ nonsense.” Need Battle Music? Scott consider this a second stab, because I know the skinny blonde, previously offered, just didn’t do it for you. So a little Tarja might help. And Eric, when were you gonna clue me in on this group? Damn, I’ve missed out for years now.
I’m sorry, LG, I can neither deny nor confirm membership and/or knowledge of this group of which you speak.
Set the DVR for VH1 Classic’s Metal Evolution series and strange little lost tidbits like this will crop up in it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hmzR1CKGtA
Bad-ass!
Loved that series, but disappointed AC/DC got short shrift, barely mentioned at all.
Yeah, still getting new (to me ) episodes. The Info shows 2012 as the date, so I thought it was new. How long have I been missing out on this? Damn I-Pod keeps me off the radio and I guess I can blame Fox news keeping me off the music channels.
Series started last November or December and ran into the new year. Despite the AC/DC issue, near-12 hours very well spent. Surprisingly, the thrash metal segment probably my favorite.
Also, beware this when getting to that “Thrash” segment.
See what happens when you go on vacation!
Catholics, still, will not kneel to Obama either. They are out of their foxholes, too
Kid gloves off and I’m lovin’ every homily which spotlights the President’s (and his underlings’) unbridled attack on Catholicism (and Christianity).
Ah, BSG. It was a show that could so easily rise to awesomeness and so quickly plunge into tedium. Best moment in the show? The Galactica’s mid-atmosphere launch of Vipers and FTL escape to outmaneuver Cylon forces on New Caprica. Good Lord, that was an absolutely epic scene.
Lowest point in the series? Lee Adama’s speech at Baltar’s trial. His speech opens with a powerful defense of Baltar’s actions, recounting the dire circumstances he faced. But afterward, if go point for point as he recounts further history, you’ll realize he’s lying to the audience’s face about the show’s continuity, all in an attempt to prove some moral equivalency.
Stupidest parts of the series? Either Baltar as a religious leader or Helena Cain as war hero, the suicidal, mentally unstable bitch who spends her men’s lives like monopoly money. The movie BSG: Razor gives the backstory of her and her crew, before happening on Adama and the fleet.
I wish they had written like that more often. It should have been a story of survival over impossible odds and an implacable foe. It should have been the best of what we are overcoming the worst of our nature. That would have given a solid set of bones for the flesh of philosophical and religious ideas they attempted to address. Instead, they went full retard and ruined one of the greatest formulas for coolness that TV has seen in the last twenty years.
Perfectly stated, David. When it was cool, it was way cool and when it sucked, it sucked hard. Can’t bring myself to sit through the suck again just to see the cool stuff once more.
Actually, I really liked Lee Adama’s speech. I think the lowest point of the series was the episode “Occupation”, with the show’s heroes becoming suicide bombers in a pathetic attempt to introduce Iraq war parallels. A pox on the producers for that POS episode.
I loved the music too, especially McCreary’s take on “All Along the Watchtower”.
The BSG reboot is for me another of those examples of the current crop of h’wood nerds having a reach that exceeds their grasp. In this particular case, not having a clearly thought out storyline and well-executing ending. The whole “we’re all Cylons just repeating the same program loop” crap — which is what the show boiled down to with that execrable ending — completely negated the entirety of the dramatic tension that the first two seasons had promised. They exchanged the “deus-ex machina” of the warmed-over Mormonism of the original for “we are the robots” Kraftwerkian nihilism. The less said about the 3rd Season moral-equivalency bulls**t the better. Then comes Baltar’s trial, which David above already points out shows the writing staff admitting “we are just throwing crap against the wall (and into your eyes) and hoping it sticks!”
The Mini-Series and the 1st Season held so much promise…of course, now I know not to listen to promises made from any nerd named Moore. YMMV.
Judging from the superior nature of the format with the respective Batttlestar and latest “V” series, especially going back to the inspirations for the latter, mini-series make for much more compelling TV. Just one goon’s opinion.
Despite them making approximately eleventy-jaskrillion British Pounds I thought Harry Potter would have been better as a BBC mini-series. I still predict we’ll see it as such within a decade.
I could never get into the whole Battlestar Galactica thing…original or the new one. I always referred to it as “Cattlebarge Galactica!”
Thanks, Pa!
We called it “Cattlecar Gaylaxative”…but with fondness!
How fondly?
BSG rode a fine line between complexity and equivalency for the first two seasons. I think the writers honestly thought that they could arrive at moral equivalency with the premises they started with in the mini-series and just telling a straight story, but when they realized their argument failed on fair terms, i.e. they had clear sides and a cause worth fighting for, they fell back on sophistry, continuously attempting to bend things out of shape until they had what they wanted. That’s a good part of the reason they kept recycling character subplots. You ever notice that the characters seemed to suffer from the same inner demons and character growth seemed to get erased every so often?
Snowing here since daybreak, If I grow silent, my dish internet went out in the weather……forewarned.
So super Tuesday is here, tommorrow. In Virginia I have three choices, Romney, Paul, or Not. I was leaning Not, but now I am considering voting for Paul just to slow down Romney. Again, if anyone was on the ballot that was actually hitting Obama, I would have someone to vote for. But all I can do now, is try to keep the contest going. Paul! (Wow, did I say Paul? Wow)
NO MORE SUPER TUESDAY TALK! TIME FOR MUSIC!
Hey, I offered battle music, with a hot swedish chick singing. But If you want to burn it down, that’s cool. The Ann Coulter look alike was inspired casting! And cheerleaders never fail, nope, no complaints from me. Except, it’s still snowing.
Why did no one suggest that for me to buy yesterday?
If you like McCreary’s BSG scores, I recommend La-La Land’s Caprica and Human Target albums, also featuring music by McCreary. I’m a fan and I’m looking forward to the day he gets to score a big feature film.
Those of you who pray:
we found out last week that one of my boys friends has osteosarcoma (a rare and fast growing bone cancer). We’ve known this family since before they were a family, we went to college with the mom and dad, church in a couple of places, worked for and with them and always admired their passion for the Lord and their beautiful 8 children. Micah is 14. So far the news is good, the tumor is small. However, it is on his lower femur, which will require some hard surgery and recovery for this horse riding, football playing, ranch boy, and of course, chemo. Thanks for praying. We are heartbroken for them but so hopeful that Micah will be cancer free by Christmas.
Praying.
Absolutely adding to my prayers.
Prayers here too.
I’m praying for him/them as well.
Been praying and for the satellite internet to come back, too, and it did, but it’s still snowing.
Will keep him in my prayers, Tracy.
A sick child is a horrible thing, prayers for their family and yours, as well.
Got it. Saying a novena to Sain Jude for him.
Saint Jude…
My prayers also for Micah and his family.
Will do.
Prayers incoming.
A great post from my friend Grim at the Grim’s Hall Blog: http://www.grimbeorn.blogspot.com/2012/03/its-hard-to-write-love-song-to-yourself.html
It’s all about how chivalry is being replaced by narcissism in today’s movies. “Brave” being especially singled out for scorn. I’m with him.
“The modern ‘hero’ is focused on her own fulfillment, resisting every duty to her family or her society as an injustice that interferes with her personal journey of self-actualization.”
Loved this quote. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the women who changed society, how they did it, why they did it, and whether or not we should be thankful. Of course, they can’t all be covered with one blanket. Some actually followed a more or less Biblical model, some were just pissed and did what they wanted because they wanted it. While I’m glad for some of women’s freedoms, I can’t help but wonder if it’s good for us to reject all of how our Creator saw fit to outline our roles.
I would agree. The last Disney movies I can think of that were in the more “traditional” fairy tale mold were probably Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid .
“Chivalry”, what a lovely word!
Original Battlestar Galactica also available on Netflix streaming, all one season of it (and the not-so-good Galactica 1980).
Much prefer the original’s less ambiguous story-line – much more real-world based than the moral equivalency (everybody’s a bad guy) of the most recent version. Don’t get me wrong – the recent version had better writing and acting – to be sure – but what were those talents in service of? (Not much. IMHO.)
The original is why I showed any interest in the re-boot to start with. And, yes, skip the 1980 with the exception of the last episode “The return of Starbuck” which at least tried to return to the original concept. But you will notice the “child of gods” wierdness starting to be expiermented with by the writers. Sigh!
I thought the original was okay (I liked Buck Rogers better). I haven’t seen any of the new ones and I am not sure what I think after reading all of the differing opinions you have here.
Beedy beedy beedy!
COFFEE is ready, albeit a little late. My apologies! Oh yes, and bacon too!
Where’s Tink? All these mysterious weekend absences are becoming curiouser and curiouser
She might be busy taking care of the “packing” detail.
Good morning, Fritzie! Thanks for the coffee, I need a vat of it.
The weekends have been pretty crazy around here for the last month or so. This past weekend we had our annual Taco Feed for the tenants, which was successful, fun and exhausting. But I am hoping that I will have some down time at some point soon and will be happy to spend some of it with you.
Why thank you m’dear! As for the tacos…I didn’t get any!!!
So sorry, Charlie. They were good too; we received many compliments. And the weather was perfect – sunny, 75 degrees, no wind and not a cloud in the sky.
Coffee!!!!
YA-HOO, it stopped snowing. We’ve got about three inches, but the sun is out now and I’m going Snowblind . What you get is what you see
So, Rush has apologized and is losing advertisers over the Fluke slut/prostitute stuff from last week. Fair or not?
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Elections/Vox-News/2012/0305/Has-Rush-Limbaugh-permanently-damaged-his-career
Althouse has a lot of posts on this as well.
First off any woman who goes broke or lies about going broke over buying control is a slut or a slut liar. Fluke is both. Secondly because she did this on behalf of the WH she’s a whore for shoring or the WH. So it’s fair.
Rush has made his money; and, I was disappointed that he apologized. The advertisers have shot themselves in their collective foot. Hopefully, they’ll come to their senses and realize the madness they just committed in the name of political correctness.
The next Assassin’s Creed game will apparently be set during the American Revolution. The new trailer shows the game’s hero killing British troops: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BSa0Xg-YadY
Went to the eye doc today…gotta get bifocals.Call it “The Old Man and the See”.
Sorry for the “goggles.” I’ve been fortunate and only use readers for close work, but no need for the others.
Interesting article, at Stratfor, on the geography of America, and why it helped to make this country what it is. You might want to grab a beverage and get comfy. It’s a two part article and is 33 pages long, when I copied it into Word. That’s at 10-point font, too. At 12-point font, it goes up to 45 pages.
http://z6.co.uk/wow