Sunday, January 4, 2009
Disturbing pieces of my childhood:
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Mark's little party went well Saturday. I had really good pizza just before so I was full and happy. I didn't get tired, which was odd. We played 'Apples to Apples'; Mark, Sean & his gf Emily, Bryan Alfaro and me. It was really nice to see Bryan again. We played 3 games. I won the first one. Mark won the 2nd one. Emily won the 3rd. Our guests all left around the same time. Then I chatted for a bit, and went to bed around 9pm.
I woke up around 1:30am when I accidentally knocked over some dvds in my sleep. I got up. Chatted and drank wine. Relaxed. I eventually wanked off, showered and slept. My sexual impulses have been really strong lately.
I woke up again around 7am. I've been awake ever since. Working on some website stuff, and chatting with friends. Listening to score music from Firefly, Doctor Who, and Battlestar Galactica. There's no new BSG news today. :0( There's a new webisode on tomorrow, which I've seen, but I look forward to the writer's commentary. There's a new one on Wednesday that I've not seen. I should have the Season 4.0 discs on Tuesday (they've already shipped from Amazon). There's a special about BSG on a week from tonight. Then a week from tomorrow 'The Face of the Enemy' webisodes finish up, and a week from Friday, new episodes start. yay!
I have this friend named Vance that I've been chatting with. I'd like to get him into BSG. But I don't personally want to rewatch the series again, until after it's over so I can see how well it all fits together.
Hopefully Mark will install my new blu-ray player / dvd burner and I can work on some discs for Mollie.
posted by Bald Jason at 12:10 PM
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Got my dvd burner installed today. Thank you Mark! Been burning Mollie discs and reading the 4th Xanth book. And that's about the it.
I might take some more pictures later. Work on my website. I'm itching to work on some more art...and get back to my poetry.
posted by Bald Jason at 06:41 PM
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I took a break from DVD burning to write a couple short poems and place them on my website. You can see those here. I also finished off another page of pictures, which you can see here (in all their graphic glory - not work safe!).
I'm going to get back to burning BSG discs for Mollie now, while I read my Xanth book. I'll probably sleep soon.
12 days until BSG 4.5 begins. :0)
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Monday, January 5, 2009
I slept for at least 7 hours. I woke up from a dream in which my mother was being sued for something that happened at K-Mart many years ago, and I was wrangling a deal to save her. lol. I just downloaded the new Doctor Who Confidential Special that announced the 11th Doctor. I'll watch that soon.
And I haven't seen any new BSG news, but I happened across an article I posted here last month, and there's information in it that I didn't notice before. Namely, that the post-series movie "The Plan" is scheduled to air in June 2009.
So we have new BSG every week from now until March 20th. Nip/Tuck starts up again tomorrow and runs through the end of February. The L Word starts up it's final season January 18 and runs throuh March 8. There's a new Doctor Who Special on Sunday, April 12 (Easter). BSG: The Plan is in June. We probably have a 5 part Torchwood mini-series sometime between now and June - though there's really no word on when that's airing aside from it being this year. I'm wondering if Season 4.5 will be coming out on DVD in July or sometime shortly after "The Plan" airs, with that film included in the set. That's my guess anyways.
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I watched that Doctor Who special. Hope the new guy works out. His fingers are huge!
I had a really bad migrain. I wanked, took some midrin and a hot shower. I shaved. The combination worked like a charm and my headache is at the least subdued, and possibly gone for good; we'll see.
I printed up some info for my doctor's appointment, which is at 9am. I'm really super nervous about my appointment. I have a new doctor. A male doctor. I've not really had a steady male doctor since I was in my teens. And whatever new doctor I decide on, I'm going to have to talk about my sexuailty with, and certain subjects that I've never broached before, and I have to be comfortable with that doctor. It would be different if I was seeing my old doctor but I'm not. So there are layers of nervousness. I think as long as I'm completey up front about what I'm looking for in a doctor I'll be ok. I just need to let this guy know that I'm gay, and have these health concerns; that I want a doctor who is comfortable with that, and will suggest things to me without fear... and will be compassionate when I have to talk about things I'm uncomfortable with. And if this doctor says he can do that, then I'll be comfortable with him. I have to remember to tell him I need a new perscription for Midrin. I'm calling in my last refill today. Actually I need to call in my refills right now.
posted by Bald Jason at 06:55 AM
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I called in my perscriptions; they'll be ready at 11am. So I'm thinking I'll go to my doctor's appointment at 8:30. I'll go to the bank afterwards for grocery money; get my groceries at Kroger. Come home; go to my dentist appointment at noon. Go to pick up my perscriptions at Meijer; come home so Mark can go to work. Or maybe the bank, then Meijer if it's late enough. Or maybe Kroger, then Meijer if I have time. But I don't want to do that, because I want to make sure I have time to get to my dentist. So the first way is best. Or maybe... Ugh. I'll figure it out later.
Wish me luck!
posted by Bald Jason at 07:02 AM
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I printed up a list of the things I want to cover with the new doctor. I'm still nervous, but I feel prepared.
My dentist appointement is at 12, but it's scheduled for 2 hours. That's gonna be hell. I'm gonna have serious headaches and jaw pain when it's over. Ick.
posted by Bald Jason at 07:17 AM
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Ooh. I checked the status of my amazon order of BSG: 4.0 - I just wanted to make sure it was going to be here tomorrow. But it's already in Ypsi, which means unless there are special instructions to wait until tomorrow, I'll have new dvd episodes to watch today! :0)
Then I get to burn more discs for Mollie. I think I have like 10 more to go. BSG. And a doctor Who disc. And she wanted the Dr. Horrible soundtrack. It will be a nice little care package for Moll. Hope she's feeling ok.
I have to leave for my Doctor's Appointment soon.
Mark wants me to return his movies for him today; I told him I would. "The Dark Knight" wouldn't play, which sucks because that's the one I wanted to see most of all. Blah.
posted by Bald Jason at 08:17 AM
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I'm gonna leave now. I need to warm up the car before I can 'go'. I'm ready. Mostly. Ugh. I don't think today is going to be much fun.
posted by Bald Jason at 08:24 AM
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I got to my doctor's appointment on time. I met my new doctor, Dr. Kesterson. I told him all about my concerns, and he was with me all the way, and it went extremely well. He cleared up some doubts that I had, and set up a nice system to help me with certain troubles in the future. In retrospect, there are a few problems I didn't discuss with him, but this was caused by my own nervousness, and they're things that I hadn't planned on in advance. All in all, I'm calling that a good beginning.
I stopped at the bank, and Kroger on my way home. But as often happens when I went to the grocery store, I drew a blank on why I was there. I blame my long aversion to food for this recurring problem. I picked up a few items and then went to Mark's video store to return his movies. It's a bit of a drive as it's not in Ann Arbor, and then when I got there at about 5 to 10am, I found that the store doesn't open until 11am. I called Mark to tell him the news, then journeyed back to Ann Arbor, and home.
I rechecked the status of BSG 4.0, but there was no change. The delivery estimate lists today though. :0)
Now I'm going to have a snack. Brush my teeth as spotless as possible. And bide my time until my dentist appointment, at noon.
posted by Bald Jason at 10:23 AM
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I rewatched the end of BSG Season 3, just to be ready for Season 4.0 when it arrives, but now I've got "All Along The Watchtower" stuck in my head. lol
I should leave for my dentist appointment in a few minutes.
posted by Bald Jason at 11:23 AM
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Just got home.
The dentist visit was hellish. My jaw is so fucked up. They only did half the work they planned on, and I have to go again. Blah. I'll probably have to do the hot / cold compress thing again.
BSG 4.0 arrived right before I left. I'm going to watch the special features now. Or not. I guess I'll wait until I'm done with the set.
First I'll watch the commentary for Webisode 8, which is now available here.
posted by Bald Jason at 02:43 PM
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I started watching the new BSG, but fell asleep. I just woke up. My jaw is no longer numb. And it hurts like fucking hell. So I have to take 8 Ibuprofin, and do this hot compress / cold compress thing. Ugh. I'm eating now, and I'm nearly crying.
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Mollie left me a message earlier, and then I left her one right after. She just called me back and we talked about The Wicked Years, Wicked the musical, doctors, hospitals, infections, pain, boys, Doctor Who, BSG... all kinds of stuff. It was fun, but my jaw hurt the whole time.
Blah.
posted by Bald Jason at 06:25 PM
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I just saw a clip from next year's BSG prequel series: Caprica. I'd seen a trailer for Caprica before, which didn't impress me, but this new scene has me a little more excited. Caprica will be completely different than BSG, but will deepen the mythology, and make certain things in BSG even more impressive, and resonate even more.
Here's the trailer for the pilot episode that didn't impress me before, but is growing on me now:
posted by Bald Jason at 06:50 PM
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I finished watching the first 4 episodes of BSG 4.0: "He That Believeth In Me", "Six of One", "The Ties That Bind" & "Escape Velocity". 6 more to go. ;0) It's a lot better watching the series on dvd. Having to wait 1 episode to the next actually decreases the enjoyment factor, where as on dvd in larger doses, patterns become visible.
posted by Bald Jason at 09:25 PM
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Tuesday, January 6, 2009
I slept from about 10pm - 5:30am. I watched 2 more episodes of BSG 4.0: "The Road Less Traveled" & "Faith"; 4 episodes left. The only webisode I've not seen will be released tomorrow. BSG 4.5 begins in 10 days. Though I'm excited for it to begin, I know I'm not going to enjoy it as much as I would if I could see it in short period of time; like 2 or 3 days. When you have to wait a week for an episode of series this packed full of continuity and mythology, where storylines must be set aside for an episode or two, it becomes less satisfying to view on a weekly schedule. If I thought I could wait for the series to finish, and catch it on dvd without it being spoiled for me by the media blitz that will undoubtedly follow the last episodes of the series, I would. But I'd rather watch it in bits and not be spoiled - and then go back and rewatch the complete series in a short time; especially after "The Plan" airs in June. Or possibly more than a year from now after Caprica's first season again puts things in a new light.
Oh. I just read something, which might be in error, but it's saying that the 9th webisode won't be posted until Friday? Hmmm.
During my dentist appointment yesterday something odd happened. I had a crown installled and during the procedure I noticed an odd taste in my mouth. It reminded me of the taste of an icecream cone; the cone itself. I thought it was just some of the stuff they were spraying my mouth with, but I still have that flavor, and I think it's the crown itself. I hope it goes away in time...cause it's annoying.
posted by Bald Jason at 09:05 AM
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I wrote 2 new poems, which now means that in the first 6 days of 2009, I've already written as much poetry as I did in all of 2008. You can see the new poems here.
I'm horny. ;0)
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Wednesday, January 7, 2009
I got a lot done yesterday. I wrote poetry. I did artwork. I posted both on my website. I got some sexy pictures taken. I uploaded them to the computer. I played with a new toy. I read some of my Xanth book. I watched 3 episodes of BSG (the first 2 were mentioned before, the 3rd was "Guess What's Coming To Dinner" - which was better than I remembered). I downloaded the next 7 episodes of Ally McBeal. I chatted online with Trevor, onlineMark, Jordan, and others. I ate. I picked up the clutter in my room. I went to bed around 10pm. I woke up for a minute around 2am, when Mark apparently got home (don't know why he got home so late), then went back to sleep and woke up at 7:07.
posted by Bald Jason at 07:18 AM
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I've been working on my website for the last 3 hours. I did artwork for about 15 older poems (including one I wrote last year and had forgotten about - and another 1 I wrote today), and now all my poetry from 2006-2009 are available to be read. You can see them all here.
posted by Bald Jason at 11:52 AM
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I watched the new Face of the Enemy webisode; the only installment I hadn't seen yet, which proved to be crucial, if slightly confusing. I need to watch the all together when they're finished. I want to make sense of it all. I was hoping for something slightly different, but this works.
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Thursday, January 8, 2009
All I did yesterday was work on my website and watch Ally McBeal; I'm a 3rd of the way through Season 3. I managed to not watch any BSG. I've got 8 days until Season 4.5 begins. There's a special on Sunday and a webisode on Monday. The webisodes re-air on scifi a week from today.
I went to bed around 11pm and woke up around 7am. Nice.
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Cool PSA:
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In case anyone is wondering why I'm posting really random things today... I'm extremely bored. Blah.
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Friday, January 9, 2009
I watched several Ally McBeal episodes yesterday; over half way through Season 3, and the complete series. I chatted with Vance. Later chatted with this guy James that I met at Necto back in mid-September 2008. We chat every once in awhile. He lives in Jackson but he works in Ann Arbor. He was about to get out of work so I invited him over. We hung out; talked; listened to music. It was nice.
Mark didn't get home until around 1am. I went to bed around 2am.
I woke up around 9am. Been working on a few projects. I'm gonna try to get some reading done today. I've been reading at a snail's pace lately, and it's annoying me.
I was thining of maybe playing AVP on Thursday. Hmm.
7 days until BSG returns.
posted by Bald Jason at 11:08 AM
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Just read a really cool BSG interview. It again commented on the number of questions answered in the final episodes while revealing no spoilers, and giving us more information.
Apparently the finale of BSG will be 3 hours long. I had heard this before, but I thought that this included episode 9 of 4.5, "Daybreak, Part 1", only that doesn't appear to be the case. This means that we have 10 episodes left, but 12 hours of BSG to watch. Plus "The Plan". Plus "Caprica". Nice.
This is especially good news for me, because I'm a sucker for bookends. Battelstar Galactica started with a mini-series that aired over 2 nights. If you split each segment up into episode size sections with commercials and all, it's 4 separate episodes. And now the series is ending with what is essentially a 4 part episode. I've obviously not seen the ending, but I already enjoy the symmetry of it. Take Caprica into account (not to mention the unused minisodes from "Razor") and the 4 hour miniseries has an introduction and prologue, with "The Plan" serving as an epilogue. I just like the idea of it all. Hopefully it ends well. It's been tool long since we had a science fiction triumph like this. The only 2 that come to mind for me are DS9 & Firefly.
I'm also liking that while "The Plan" serves as an epilogue the first time you watch the complete series, that when you rewatch the series (and BSG is a series that BEGS to be rewatched) you can view "The Plan" at a certain point within the series and it should make sense (probably near the end of Season 2). And all kinds of things you thought you understood about the characters the first time around are turned on their heads during the 2nd viewing. It's awesome. Brilliant really. The 2nd time around viewers will know who all the Cylons are and what they were up to. They'll also know about Gaeta & Hoshi; Gina & Helena Cain; & what Gaius whispered in Gaeta's ear. And they'll know how things begin and how they end; who lives and who dies. It's just cool that something enjoyed so much the first time around can be enjoyed for different reasons the 2nd time around.
But only if it ends well. Yet I can't imagine it not ending well. We'll see.
These are the episodes we have left, which will air 1 a week for 10 weeks, starting 1 week from tonight:
Season 4.5:
01 Sometimes a Great Notion
02 A Disquiet Follows My Soul
03 The Oath
04 Blood on the Scales
05 No Exit
06 Deadlock
07 Someone to Watch Over Me
08 Islanded In a Stream of Stars
09 Daybreak, Part I
10 Daybreak, Part II (3hr Series Finale)In another interview I read, which I can't find now, Ron Moore mentioned that there's a good chance that the dvd release of these episodes would likely include an extended cut of both "A Disquiet Follows My Soul" & "Daybreak, Part II". Nice. The set will also undoutedly include the webisode series "The Face of the Enemy". It remains to be seen if the set will also include "The Plan" in the same way that Season 1 included the mini-series, and Season 4.0 included "Razor", but it would be nice.
posted by Bald Jason at 11:58 AM
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Saturday, January 10, 2009
I went to bed around 1am, after reading a bit of my Xanth book (#04 Centaur Aisle). The thing about Xanth, is parts of it I really love. I love the continuity of the series. How they cross reference each other and each generation of characters is followed by the next while not forgetting the past. For instance, the first books I read, in the late 80's folled the adventures of Dolph & Ivy, the children of the characters I'm reading about now (Dor & Irene), who are the children of the characters I read a few years ago (Bink & Chameleon). But some of it is really, really infantile. And all the characters are straight. So far. Blah.
I woke up feeling...not quite ill, but not all-together well, at 8am.
Ooh. New BSG Promos!
A special to bring in new viewers has been created (just as they've done every season so far)...
10 Things You Need To KNOW - this Sunday:
The final webisode of 'The Face of the Enemy' will be released on Monday, but they'll be televised before BSG 4.5 begins.
The Face of the Enemy - this Thursday:
People that missed some episodes; People that want to rewatch episodes; People that want to join the show without jumping in on the last 10 episodes: marathon time...
BSG Marathon - this Friday:
And finally...
Know the Truth - this Friday:
Just 6 days until the first of the final 10 episodes is aired. And I still have the special on Sunday; the final webisode on Monday, and 3 more Season 4.0 episodes to rewatch. ;-0)
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I watched the next episode of BSG: "Sine Qua Non". This episode, which is very good on it's own, serves as a perfect example of why BSG is far more satisfying on DVD than it is when it actually airs. The episode before it ("Guess What's Coming to Dinner?") is a 5 star episode that has a bit of a cliffhanger. The episode I just watched (which aired 2 weeks after the previous episode because of a holiday) picks up the story, but only from the point of view of the fleet and the clues they find to the fates of the other characters. From a character standpoint this is brilliant because we feel the way the characters do and their actions in response to the situation at hand are more realistic in that context. But as a viewer aching to see what happens to the other group of characters, which is answered in the next episode ("The Hub") - this meant that I went 3 weeks before finding out the answers that I wanted, which was too much time. It lost some of it's edge, and made this otherwise great episode feel unsatisfying as a result. But on DVD that isn't a problem. Because I can now make my lunch and come back knowing that the answers I seek will be given to me in an acceptable, more enjoyable interval of time. Cool. This is why, to some degree, while I'm very excited to see the final episodes as they air; I'm even more excited about watching them all on dvd so I can enjoy them even more. ;0)
After the episode, I wanked and had a nice hot shower. Now I'm going to get something to eat, and continue with BSG. I may watch the final episode of 4.0 as well; I mean I've got less than a week until the next installment...or I might hold off on that episode for awhile. I don't know.
posted by Bald Jason at 11:15 AM
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I watched the rest of BSG 4.0; it helped to distract me from my upset stomach. It was all wonderful, though I noticed a flaw which is going to annoy me now. In the episode "Revelations", which is a fantastic mid-season finale, Adama mentions his promise to the crew to find Earth, and said that he made it 3 years ago. And 3 seasons ago he did. But there's another year in the closing moments of Season 2. Which means they fraked up here. Unless one of the seasons took place in less than a year, which is possible. In fact, the first season is shorter than the others, so it's possible, given that this is mid-fourth season and not the ending. Hmmm. I'll have to think about it... lol
I'm gonna take a bath. That sometimes helps calm my stomach.
Actually, now that I think about it, they didn't get it wrong! Seasons 1 & 2 are just under 1 year in length. We know this because in Razor, which is set just before the 3 hour finale of Season 2, the flashbacks to the attack on the 12 colonies, which took place in the mini-series are said to have taken place 10 months ago! Then there's a year and some months between the closing moments of Season 2 and the start of Season 3. We don't know how much time passes in Season 3, but if it's like Seasons 1 & 2, probably less than a year - and then 'Revelations' happens half a season later. It fits. Good. Now I don't have to be annoyed every time I watch the episode; in fact - I can once again rejoice in the fact that the writers for BSG actually get most of this stuff right! :0)
posted by Bald Jason at 01:17 PM
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We're in the middle of a blizzard. And I need to go grocery shopping. Blah.
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Still haven't gone grocery shopping. It's still snowing, and has been all day. I don't want to go out there, and get stuck somewhere. I was supposed to go to Meijer and Hillards and Kroger. Maybe I could just go to Krogers and do the rest tomorrow? Or do it all tomorrow? I don't know.
I wish I had more BSG to watch. :-0(
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It finally stopped snowing a short while ago. Still a lot of snow out there though.
My jaw is still bothering me from my dentist appointment on Tuesday. Not as bad as last time, when I could hardly open my mouth. But there's a lot of TMJ jaw popping, and I'm getting a lot of migrains from it. It's really annoying.
I'm about to make some cinnimon rolls, and take some midrin with that. It kicks in better if I eat something.
Been watching Ally McBeal. Billy is dead. There are some episodes that I remember so clearly, and others that I hardly remember at all. It's very interesting revisting the series after 7 or 8 years. The season I'm watching now, which I saw partially as it aired, aired 9 years ago. I've got 3 more episodes in season 3, and then Robert Downey Jr shows up for Season 4 - which is a season I really only saw once, and I loved it. But the show became centered on Robert's character and he went back to drugs and they had to write him out of the show, and at the same time, a lot of other actors were already leaving...and 9/11 happened - and the show just never recovered. I'll see it through this time.
My head is throbbing so bad I just want to rip my eyes out!
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