To Crown The Waves and Soldiers of Destruction are books that are not common at thrifts, so I was fortunate to get them. The Napoleon book was under a dollar, and the Lions of the West is a great topic, the heroes and villains of westward expansion.
The DVD In Enemy Hands is a submariner war movie I’ve never even heard of, it is amazing that I even pulled it off the shelf as the name is so generic.
The BrahmsSymphony by Claudio Abbado is the the second I have by this conductor. It is difficult to pick this kind of title out of all the common ones that look just like it.
I’m re-watching The Office (I own the Blu-rays for the entire series).
The cut scenes are all really good and could have extended any given episode quite a bit. I just hit “Play All” for the cut scenes and they are like an extra episode I haven’t seen before.
There are already multiple extra mini-episodes that were web exclusives at the time, so it sure is nice to see even more pranks on Dwight!
It is sobering, though, that this second season I’m on right now is almost twenty years old. They were still making Saturns and Pontiacs when this was on-air!
Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey have a podcast (Office Ladies) where they talk about every episode in detail, and interview their fellow cast mates and other people associated with the show. It is fun to listen to the behind-the-scenes stories.
I discovered The Office online through iTunes, back in maybe 2006 or 2007. It was three dollars to buy each episode, and I’d heard enough about it that I gave it a shot. I remember it as one solid night of “Just One More Episode”, but it was probably a few nights after work of just watching this show on my computer, which was a new thing in itself.
I did realize, though, that the episode where Ryan burned a pita in the kitchen’s toaster oven, causing a panic… I did that once (a long time ago) with some microwave popcorn. Nothing causes panic like a room full of smoke at work, rightly so. But it was funnier when it happened in The Office.
There is a new series by The Office creators called The Paper, but I have no urge to watch it until it is good and done, and hopefully hits physical media. Oscar from The Office is in it. I found all seasons of Parks and Recreation at the thrift store a few years ago, I never finished that series. Not as good as The Office, but worth watching, as I remember it. Chris Pratt when he was still an unknown actor, that should be interesting to watch again now that I know where his career took off to, I like that guy.
He’s wrong about the F-18 Hornet, the F-22 is far better looking. But the F-22 wasn’t in the movie. Too bad they couldn’t have worked an A-10 into the film.
Apparently, the xenomorph is not sneaking around anymore, and acts like a pet dog that can be communicated with easily. It’s as if the writers didn’t watch the first two movies, the only movies in the franchise worth watching. The only two I’m ever going to watch again.
Every time I re-watch my DVD version of Band of Brothers, I look up how much it is on Amazon… too much. Worth it, but if I buy it, I’ll find a the Blu-ray copy at the thrift for next-to-nothing. Well, I finally saw it today, and took it home! (After paying for it, of course!)
I saw the two DVD versions that have been there for three weeks now (how?) and when I first saw this one, I thought that there were now three copies… nope! The DVD version isn’t bad, but a bit grainy sometimes when they are in the dark. I’m likely to re-watch this soon, now that I finally have it on Blu-ray! I do have to find a home for my DVD version now, however.
This is the best thing that has ever hit the small screen, hands-down. It should be required viewing for the historical benefits, much less the entertaining aspect of it.
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