Ever since I got Elgato’s EyeTV 200 thingie, my life has become more fragmented. I start to watch a TV show but I pause it at the first commercial break because I want to make chocolate milk and write a weblog entry about how my life is fragmented. Then I get back to the TV program program and skip the commercial breaks for the rest of the show because I’ve built enough of a buffer to skip them. So in a “real” hour I get stuff done in one big block of time (say 20 min. or so) and leave the rest of it to the “network” hour (the remaining 40 min. or so). Ideally. Sometimes it doesn’t work that way but thank G-d for the gizmos that let the attention deficit generation live attention deficit lives. I’m not saying that I’m ADD. I’m just saying that the ADD consumers drive the marketplace and I reap the benefits. Anyway, enough chatterwauling (yes, that was intentional). Time to get back to Law & Order: Criminal Intent. 🙂

http://interactive.usc.edu/

Check out this TellBush.org thing. Eeeeenteresting…. Hey, I never said USC Cinema-Television was a Republican school—our admissions standards usually don’t allow it. 🙂

“You’re never a fly on the wall, you’re always a fly in the soup.”

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A definition of insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

All films are shot in exactly the same way: the only way the director knows how.

Went to the 77th Annual Academy Awards Sound Editing Bakeoff last night. Up for nomination were The Polar Express, Collateral, Spider-Man 2, The Day After Tomorrow, The Incredibles, Ray, and The Aviator. Were I a voting member I’d choose Incredibles, Collateral, and Polar Express, probably in that order. But man were those clips loud. I’m glad I sat in the back and next time I’ll bring ear plugs. Seriously.

That Two and a Half Men episode I saw taped back in on Dec. 3 finally aired tonight on CBS. Interesting choices. I didn’t much care for the show when it was taped, and I still think the writing could use improvement, but editing and post definitely helped the episode, and Charlie Sheen is much better on camera than he is live (hate to say it, but it’s true, at least from far away). I can make out Nikki’s laugh in the right channel of the audience laugh track, it’s quite discernable at times.