House Season 2
Weeds features Mary Louise-Parker as a suburban mother of two who resorts to selling marijuana after her husband suddenly dies in order to maintain the lifestyle she's grown accustom to.
The second season of House is exactly like the first season. Someone gets sick. About halfway through the episode House figures it out and they start to get better, then they start to get worse, and then some new variable is brought to light and then House solves the case for real.
I really like both of these shows and I can't really explain why. They're kind of like crackers that are just sitting there and you eat one then another then you just keep eating them. And it's not like crackers are that good but you can easily eat a whole box if you are bored/hungry.
both shows:
8/10
Harry and the Hendersons
See Jake's description below if you don't already know what this is about. I agree that it is a bit too long. Lots of cheesy 80's family movie humor that isn't really that funny, but Harry cracks me up. But it is way better in my memory from when I first saw it, then from seeing it last week with "somebody" bitching about being too fat.
7/10 (average score of viewing at age 10 and 26.)
boooks
I've decided I don't really like reviewing books.
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Multi-religious Pi (he practices three) is traveling with his family and a whole bunch of zoo animals when the ship goes down. He ends up on a lifeboat with a hyena, orangutan, zebra and a Bengal tiger.
I thought this was a good book when it was just Pi surviving on a lifeboat with a tiger (the other three get eaten). Then there is a plot twist at the end to make you re-examine the whole story. Pi talks about religion at the beginning before he ends up on the lifeboat, and you kind of forget about it until the end. But whatever you make of what the twist, and what it has to do with religion, it's a much better twist then you see in most movies these days, which are usually twists just for twists sake.
9/10
Then there are these two books that I didn't finish and probably won't. But I read more then half, so I'm going to count them as one.
Dubliners by James Joyce
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Dubliners is a bunch of short stories about people in Dublin. Some are pretty good. Some are pretty boring. They are unrelated, but similar. Like a book about 20-40 year old middle class white people in Omaha would be.
I stopped reading that to read "Solitude" which is about a family who founds a city, and all their relatives and everyone in the city. There are about 500 characters with 14 different names. (Mixed and matched of course, like Michael Jordan, Michael Jackson, Jordan Jackson, Michael Michaels, etc.)
The people in Dubliners are pretty mundane, the characters in Solitude are pretty eccentric. But I just didn't care about any of them. I much rather read about a kid stuck in a boat with a tiger for 227 days.
One Hundred Dubliners of Solitude
6/10
54/150
11/15
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