Smoke Edition of SORT.
In honor of the smokey skies surrounding me tonight,
every car will be a shade of silver or gray.
As of Monday, September 14, 2020 at 9:00 PM pacific time:
| Sport | Off-Road | Touring |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 Honda S2000 | 1995 Land Rover Defender 110 300Tdi |
1957 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing |
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| The up-sized Miata for the slightly bigger folks. | Perfect for my upcoming private SWAT Team. | If I’m going to dream, might as well dream big. |
Part of the appeal of Radio Paradise for me are the interesting cover tunes that show up unexpectedly, like this one, the early 60’s The Shadows hit which itself is a cover of an earlier British version.
Another thing that you sometimes get on Radio Paradise is mini string of themed music, this song was usually followed by the John Anderson song, Seminole Wind.
We watched the Kansas City Chiefs play the Houston Texans last night. It was a slightly toned down version of their AFC Championship game from last year, the Texans scored first then the Chiefs racked up an insurmountable lead and basically cruised to the win.
One thing was really different though, the crowd in the stands. Early in the third quarter when the game was still kind of close, Al Michaels comments on a shot of the stands by saying, “It looks like it is late in the 4th and the home team is up by 50 points.” Later they announce the actual attendance at fifteen thousand something, or roughly 1/5 of capacity.
The broadcast had added some piped in noise to make it almost sound like a full house. I want to know was it the just NBC adding it, or was it piped into Arrowhead Stadium too? And if they did, what was it like for the 20% in the seats to hear the fake sound?
On Saturday when I finally gave up on watching Californication with mere minutes to go in the Season 5’s final episode. I once again tried on Hulu for something worth watching and received the same results (what is that quote about trying the same thing over and over again?) My best option now was to open up Plex and pick a movie I own digitally because if I didn’t like it, I wouldn’t have a copy of it. Ooh, here is one I love and haven’t watched in a while, Ronin. Foreign locales, international intrigue, gun fire and car chases.
Natascha McElhone in Ronin
Natascha McElhone in Californication
Just Another Edition of SORT.
As of Monday, September 7, 2020 at 9:00 PM pacific time:
| Sport | Off-Road | Touring |
|---|---|---|
| 1968 Datsun 2000 Roadster |
1991 Nissan Safari Patrol |
2015 Mercedes-Benz E63 S 4MATIC Wagon |
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| If you don’t want to own this car after watching the drive video, the sports car section of your soul is missing. | Another quirky Japanese 4×4. It is even right-hand drive. The LED fog lights have to be replaced by sealed beam units. | Because it is the AMG version with 577 HP and all-wheel drive this will sub in the Sports category on rainy days too. |
If you are Miata shopping there is quite a selection on BAT right now:
I stumbled on this decade old Showtime series on Hulu and thought I’d check it out, solely on the merits of my favorite FBI guy, Agent Mulder. In this show Mr. Duchovny plays a writer named Hank, who tries unsuccessfully to balance his drinking, drug use and philandering ways with his on again off again relationship with his family which consists of a longtime girlfriend and their daughter. In traditional pay cable channel the show includes a lot of profanity, nudity and simulated sex acts.
The first season was pretty good fun, the second had an interesting story line weaved through it and season 3 had an absolutely filthy mouthed guest star turn from Kathleen Turner, but after 36 episodes I wasn’t sure I wanted to watch anymore. This Season 4 Episode 1 review on IMDB by user mtrodeomom pretty much summed up my feelings:
I’ve gagged my way through this series. The premise was somewhat intriguing and the first few episodes were watchable. But with the beginning of season four, I think I’m done. It’s obvious, the writers are only going for as much gratuitous nudity as they can shove into this show. The main character is disgusting. There aren’t any redeemable qualities in him. And frankly, I can’t understand why any woman would crawl into bed with him. He’s semi-famous. But he’s a washed up old writer. He isn’t that attractive, and he doesn’t offer these woman anything. He says he loves Karen and Becca, but he can’t keep his dick in his pants. So, his words are empty. Every time he’s with yet another woman, I want to throw up.
But I was sort of invested in the some of other characters, and hell, I’m still reading Dagwood on the funny pages long after they have have become cliches, so I watched season four, vowing to not go any further. As it turned out that that last show was intended to be the series ender, so it wrapped up all the story threads nicely and as a bonus was a very good episode.
So, you know what happened right? Yep I started watching season five. Why? See Dagwood line above. I got 3/4 of the way through the season yesterday afternoon and told Donna I was done watching for good now. After hunting around Hulu this afternoon looking to find something different I might watch, I caved and told myself I’d just finish the season out and quit. I didn’t make it, got close, but I shut off the season ending episode out with like 10 minutes to go. The twist at the end, in hindsight, was telegraphed throughout the episode, but it was just too much to watch. The initial screw-up in the show was not really Hank’s fault, but since then his bad decision making skills have been the root of all his troubles. Until this one, where it is his ex-New York girlfriend who slips him a Mickey Finn, that seemed to me too a cheap trick.
I’m running out of things to watch…
Part of the appeal of Radio Paradise is the sometimes unexpected shifts and tone of the the songs you hear, but they do not seem jarring at all. This song by Willie Nelson following Cake’s Bound Away makes perfect sense, but Crying leading into Penny Lane shouldn’t work, but it does.