What I've DVRd

[MSBNYY]

That would require going to a store and I happen to be a very busy man.

[yanksgooner]

I've been DVR'ing that show on MTV 'Juvies.' It's all about these fuck up teenagers forced to spend the weekend in a juvenile detention center for crimes they've comitted in Indiana.

[kingdzbws]

That show reminds me of a lesser Scared Straight but I haven't given it a shot, to be honest.

[yanksgooner]

it isnt very good. they have these cornball re-enactments of the crimes which are pretty inappropriate.

[Jackass]

I have been DVRing Armed and Famous. The premise of this show goes against moste everything I believe in as far as entertainment is concerned, but I saw the first episode and became hooked.

Along those lines, I have been mildly interested in Shooting Sizemore and have been DVRing and watching this show as well.

Still, my regulars are The Soup, The Daily Show, and The Office.

[$heriff Tom]

I dont watch any of those.

Today I dipped deep into the DVR and watched a special on platypuses I taped for Emma to share. She spent most of the time playing her handheld games, and I was reading the Hockey News, but I saw a good deal of it. Platypuses are dumb. Before they mate they do this convoluted dance in the water...it looks really gay.

[grover]

Rome and Extras.

Extras is the funniest show on TV. I don't recall anything else that made me laugh as hard.

[Chris]

Lat night I started trying to make a dent in my 26 hours of backed of BH90210. I watched three...unfortunately two new ones record every day.

I've seen all the episodes, but I've already committed to a season pass, and I'd hate to bail out now and be seen as a quitter.

[$heriff Tom]

So I've been watching a lot of zany shows I never would have taken the time to tape in the old days, but with a click of a button its been worth a ride.

Over the weekend I watched VH1s "Bands Reunited." The gripping task of reuniting the classic lineup of Scandal (minus one dead guy) was undertaken. Fun to watch them crashing a gig at at a bar around the block from my job on Bleecker to get two old members who were gigging in front of 12 people on board. I never was much a Scandal fan although Patty Smythe had a habit of turning my head, but I actually was into the show. Too bad all the other installments of the show I have stumbled across are bands I have absolutely no interest in spending the better part of an hour with.

I watched a fantastic documentary regarding "Life on a Boomer" - 3 months with a crew on a nuclear sub, and what they do to whittle the time, a tour of the sub, and other bon mots. One of my favorite docs ever, I am an avowed submarine fan. I also watched a special about Caribous in recent days, with Emma for the most part. One wacky scene had a pack of about 30 caribous trying to cross an ice-splattered body of water, and getting stuck, like in a maze. They only have a scant amount of time to dilly-dally in the icy water. It was sad, but sort of funny, to see the cameras follow them from dead end to dead end....I swear, you could almost see the old, "Ah, Goddamnit" look of frustration on the face of the animals when they came around a corner to find another wall of ice.

It had a happy ending, as they managed to get out, although a few got eaten soon after by some rampaging wolves.

[Chris]

DVR'd first two episodes of "Dice: Undisputed"

Eh...mildly entertaining. I don't think Dice GETS the whole comeback idea. Since when has an old forgotten comedian, singer, actor, ever made a big comeback with the SAME gimmick. They always wind up re-inventing themselves somehow, and from the brief clips we saw of Dice's latest shows, it's the same stuff.

I'll be the first to admit that I found Dice hilarious the first time around simply for the shock factor. But you know...you can only hear "Jack be nimble Jack be quick Jack burnt off his fuckin' dick" so many times before it's not funny anymore.

In one scene he sat in his agent's office telling him that he has all new material. Cut to scene in a small nightclub, Dice telling some young guy, "What kind of jerkoff takes his chick to a Dice show and sits in the front row"...and then proceeds to tell graphic jokes about the sexually explicit acts he would perform on the guy's girlfriend. That's not new...I've heard a thousand Dice shows from his heyday and I've heard him use that gimmick a thousand times.

[$heriff Tom]

So tonight, to wind down after Raw and take me to my midnight bedtime, I decided to watch one of the cool documentaries I have backed up on the DVR. Last night it was an episode of "Deep Sea Detectives" - and the mysterious case of the two 1850s era locomotives standing upright, side by side like silent sentinels, 90 feet down 5 miles off of the coast of Long Branch, New Jersey.

No one was exactly sure how they got down there, or even how old they were at first. They were covered with the glut of the sea, after resting down there in their tomb for over 150 years. The show was very interesting, the theories were fun to follow, and the footage was cool.

I enjoyed it, and I salute those two locomotives sitting peacefully on the sea floor.

[Furious D]

How do you think they got there? Were they being shipped overseas and fell off the boat?

[$heriff Tom]

Not overseas! Apparently traversing from Boston down to the Cumberland Valley. Where the mystery came in is there was no record of a boat losing them as cargo, and it was not a shipwreck scene. They were probably jettissoned during a storm, but it was odd in that this was never reported, cause papers back then were full of "the SS Brigadeen lost cargo in the storm" stories.

The kind of locomotive that it was, only 8 known models of that type were ever used. This one was actually bigger. Some railroad lover was talking about how if this bigger model had reached its destination, it would have changed the entire railroading future.

They pegged its manufacture as between 1851-1855, cause one of the shock absorber things was discontinued in 1855, and some of these other doohickeys on there were not introduced until 1851.

The exact mystery of what ship they were dropped from, and exactly when, is unsolved.

[9]

They were being summoned by our alien superiors on Easter Island, who were preparing the plot to assassinate JFK.

[$heriff Tom]

Ok, you got me. I put them there. Lets keep it between us.

[Chris]

Still watching this DICE: UNDISPUTED thing.

Strange thing about this show - it's exactly interesting and funny enough to keep me coming back to watch again, but not funny enough for me to recommend the show.

[$heriff Tom]

So I'm watching a special about Sabretooth Tigers I taped, and here is a funny aside. The Collections Director at the LaBrea Tar Pits is shown walking amongst his collection. He is this bearded fellow, who has a normal build...but an obvious, and really bulbous, BEER GUT. Look, I know beer guts. My Dad has one, I have one. He is in shape aside from the round balloon hanging under his upper chest. He's also sort of ruddy. No doubt a major beer guzzler.

I would enjoy drinking with the curator of the LaBrea Tar Pits.

[$heriff Tom]

So check it out. I DVR a healthy portion of these animal type shows, especially giant squid stuff and the like. So I had DVRd "Giant Creepy Crawlies" last month, finally got around to it.

Let me say this - the segment on red ants was INSANE. One of the coolest things I have ever seen, especially a marching army of swarming death stretching out a half mile long through a forest, making a wave of movement trailing all the way back to their bivouc, in a rotting tree. These damn things were swarming in a trail, carrying off termites, crickets, little frogs, all that.

This show was fun. Crickets the size of a mans hand. Earthworms 3 feet long, and rounded like a mans arm. Giant crabs. Really fun stuff. But fuckin' a, those ants...

[elliejay21]

Dave DVR'd these high def nature shows and we were watching last night... HORRIBLE stuff!!! The baby bear got lost, the baby gazelle got eaten, the baby elephant got lost in the desert... the cuter and more cuddely the animal, the more gruesome end it came to.

Screw Darwin and his whole survival of the fittest malarky.

[Chris]

Three shows of interest last night:

One Punk Under God - a reality show featuring the life of Jay Bakker (son of Tammy Fay and Jim) and his trials and tribulations in attempting to run his own, non-profit, "renegade" ministry known as "Revolution." Pretty interesting...nothing riveting....but interesting. (Sundance Channel)

Acceptable TV - produced by Jack Black. Skit comedy in which viewers vote on which skits will be back the next week. (VH1)

Let's Rock Again - excellent documentary following the last few years of Joe Strummer on tour with his last band The Mescalleros. Funny scenes with Strummer showing up unannounced to radio stations and handing out flyers on the A.C. boardwalk to promote his shows. (Sundance Channel)

[Chris]

The Designated Hitter documentary currently running on Behind The Glory (Fox Sports channels) is quite good. Although, they do make you relive the 2004 ALCS.

[$heriff Tom]

So I am still DVRing a whole heap of stuff, and I will never catch up even to a respective level. With us going on vacation in late June, and me going away with my job next week for a few days, I need to clear a lot of space to DVR all my wrestling shows, and the baseball and hockey drafts, in particular.

Anyway, last night I watched a doc I taped earlier in the week on the Comanche Indians, and their "warrior" rep. Basically they lucked into things and took advantage...they stumbled upon the wild mustangs the French settlers left hanging back, and became a battling horseriding armada. It was a good special with lots of sorbid Indians vs Texas Ranger tales.

[Chris]

HBO Sports documentaries are great. I watched The Shot Heard 'Round The World last night - about Bobby Thomson's HR off Ralph Branca. Talk about your perfect storm - Bobby Thomson was playing poorly, had a few blunders that day and was already the goat for the day. Just as Chuck Dressen was about to make his pitching change decision (Ralph Branca had already pitched quite a bit and was feeling stiff) Carl Erskine bounced a curve ball in the bullpen - this frightened Dressen as he exclaimed, "I don't want any wild pitches now" so he called on Branca and the rest is history.

Other interesting points were how the class-ism in New York City was described and illustrated by the baseball team one rooted for.

[Chris]

To make up for a lack of Sopranos and a lack of interest in Entourage, I am giving John From Cincinnati and Flight Of The Conchords a chance.

I won't start a new thread for either show unless others show an interest....so I caught the premiere of John From Cincinnati so far. It has promise. So far the impression I got is that it was bizarre for no other reason than to be bizarre, which bugs a little, but it does have promise...and a good cast. What we have so far is three generations of surfers from the San Diego area, each with their own flavor of demons and personality quirks, each being somehow spiritually/mystically affected by a strange visitor, John (from Cincinnati) who almost appears to be some sort of guardian angel type. In the first episode we've been introduced the Yost family, royalty in the surfing scene, John, and an eccentric homosexual lottery winner who was once tormented by the middle Yost as children.

Flight Of The Conchords, which appears to be a show about a band, has yet to air.

[$heriff Tom]

Early reports on that John show are flabbergastion. People are stunned, and turning it off in droves. Apparently, whatever it is trying to do is not working, at least amongst my circle of friends.

Last night I decided to dip into the recorded list. I had a stand-up from Steven Wright off of Comedy Central a couple of weeks ago, flipped it on. Funny stuff, but maybe an hour of him is too long (well, 40 minutes, considering commercials)

My favorite bit from him on this one was going for a drive with a friend of his who was a pilot, and therefore sat in the driveway for no reason for 40 minutes before finally backing out.

Also, there is this cool "Chased by Sea Monsters" thing I taped on Animal Planet - its the dope who does those "Chased by Dinosaurs" shows. This was COOL....he acts like he is back in Paleonithic days and such, diving underwater, with these totally realistic creatures of the times (sea scorpions, these big boxy squiddy looking things) and other dangerous animals chasing him around)

[Chris]

"The Bowery Dish"

This was a good documentary about the gentrification of the Bowery.

www.bowerydish.com/

[Chris]

Caught the 2nd episode of John From Cincinnati. Better...the premise of the show is still a little unclear, but it's proving to be entertaining at times and they are slowly defining the characters and their relation to one another. Enough to keep me on board for another few episodes thus far. The "Butchie Yost" character is entertaining enough - vulgar, strung-out, ex-surfing legend.

[$heriff Tom]

Caught the 2nd episode of John From Cincinnati

You and 3 other people. The ratings compared to the debut were down an astounding 70%.

As to me, watched a doc from the National Geo channel last night on a Green Beret unit encamped in Afghanistan. The unit was hit with a roadside bomb during filming, and 2 men were lost, along with a couple of National Geographic photographers. It was a chilling and sad watch. My Dad was a Green Beret in Vietnam, and I am very proud of him. Different times, different scenarios, but some of the same danger. My heart goes out to those guys.

[Chris]

Speaking of Vets...the Henry Rollins Show currently airing on IFC has a good interview with two vets of the current conflict in Iraq.

I caught a really good doc on the co-habitation of Zambezi River between the Zambezi (Bull) Shark and the Crocodile - both have the ability to adjust to changes in salinity in the water, therefore where the Zambezi meets the Indian Ocean, mullets (fish, not haircuts) spawn and it attracts predators from the ocean (the shark) to follow the river inland and predators from the river (the croc) to follow the river out toward the ocean. Pretty good stuff - I always like the predator docs.

And, "props" to your Dad, Tom.

[$heriff Tom]

Thanks. If you think I have some stories, you should hear some of my Dads.

I like those sorts of docs you mentioned there. We just watched one recently about the nasty feud between lions and hyenas.