I Bring Nothing to the Table

Category: Idiot Box

  • What I’ve Been Doing 24 Oct 2011 [FB/IB/F/BT/GO]

    Movies 50/50 – What a great movie. It was funny and emotional at all the right times. After seeing it I just wanted to go home and hug my roommate (like Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s character, she got cancer at a young age). I’ve seen her in a grand total of four movies now, but I love […]

  • What I’ve Been Doing 17 Oct 2011 [FB/IB/F/BT/GO]

    Movies Bran Nue Dae – Disappointingly mediocre. I was expecting something interesting from a musical about aboriginal life in Australia, but it just wasn’t there. Uneven pacing, bland characters, and, worst of all, completely forgettable music. That’s the one thing you have to do right in a musical! TV How I Met Your Mother – […]

  • What I’ve Been Doing 10 October 2011 [FB/IB/F/BT/GO]

    Movies Everything Must Go – Rebecca Hall is superb. I first saw her in The Prestige and I instantly fell in love with her acting. She’s a good understated and expressive actor. Will Ferrell in a drama is pretty neat too. He really shows a lot of range on this and I’d like to see […]

  • (Mostly) 90s Sitcom Theme Songs [ER/IB]

    I had cartoon theme songs a few weeks ago so now it’s time to level up. With one notable exception (you know who you are, I’m not giving you more attention), Carissa Rae and Michael Alvarado get to singing the theme songs to all the greatest sitcoms of our childhoods on television.

  • What I’ve Been Doing 3 Oct 2011 [FB/IB/F/BT/GO]

    Movies Hesher – When I saw the trailer for this Joseph Gordon-Levitt movie I thought it would be a weird character study. I was pretty much right about that, but it’s simultaneously weirder and crasser than you’d think without really being comedic. Hesher is a truly bizarre character, the likes of which I’ve never seen […]

  • House of Lies [IB/ER]

    I already love everything about at least half this cast. Don Cheedle from everything, Kristen Bell from Veronica Mars, and Ben Schwartz from Parks and Recreation. Can’t wait for January.

  • What I’ve Been Doing 26 Sept 2011 [FB/IB/F/BT/GO]

    It’s fitting that I watched a movie about baseball considering how much baseball I also watched this weekend. Had to watch to support the Rays. They’ve got three games to make up a one game deficit. You can do it, Tampa Bay! Movies Moneyball – Not too bad at all. We’re not talking “the best […]

  • On Qwikster and Tone Deaf Moves [Mr.D/FB/IB]

    I understand the reasons for Netflix spinning off its DVD business as a discrete and separate entity. They recognize a sinking ship when they see one and, theoretically, this would enable them to eliminate tons of overhead (buildings, postage, the employees who check and stuff discs, etc.) increasing their profit margin for the foreseeable future. […]

  • What I’ve Been Doing 19 Sept 2011 [FB/IB/F/BT/GO]

    It may look like I’m insulting Gears, but I’m really not. That’s legitimately the closest those guys come to eloquence most games. They’re fantastic games, but their stories are fundamentally idiotic. Movies Thor – I’m pretty sure that complaining about blatant product placement in a movie was last interesting five years ago, but I found […]

  • “Bummer/Blueberries” [IB]

    I forgot to mention in my WIBD article that Min and I watched the second episode of the second season of Louie, “Bummer/Blueberries”. It was an episode that centered on death and sex, in that order, but both also dealt with relationships and how utterly bizarre they can be. Season 1 of Louie was often […]