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Consuming Media
Nov. 5th, 2011 07:39 amIs about all that's happened in the last 2 days besides feeling jetlagged and sleeping.
On Thursday, Mike and I watched the first 3 episodes of the latest season of Glee, not realizing that there have only been 4 aired. Whoops. Anyway, I'm not sure what I can say without being spoilery other than so far I like the music even though I'm not sold on all of the new characters. ( spoilery )
Today we went to see Moneyball, which I fell asleep for the final 30 minutes of. I dunno, I think that it was a good movie for people who haven't read the book and don't really know/care about baseball statistics, but I was disappointed in the angle they took on it, which was basically "Hey, signing Scott Hatteberg to replace Jason Giambi is a good way to win 20 consecutive games!" rather than "Looking at numbers instead of only at bodies may help you figure out a good way to evaluate players, and OBTW having a draft with 7 first-round picks is insane". I think the way they did some of the stuff was pretty good, and I did like most of the portrayals of the people in the story, but some of the facts were a little bit off and the lack of the draft made me sad. A combination of jet lag plus "Dude, I lived through these games at the time" made me just sort of drift off for the ending part.
We walked around Alderwood for a while (that's where we saw the movie) and went to this Blazing Onions Burger place there for dinner, where I had a burger that was pretty good. It's a sports bar so there's a ton of TVs, and at first we thought one of the TVs was broken but it turns out it's just in 3-D. Whee.
I'm awake at 7am because it's hard to sleep through the night yet, plus I was up watching the playoffs in Japan both of these evenings. Softbank won tonight so that's over, but the Dragons are up 3-2 games on the Swallows after winning tonight so there's another one tomorrow.
On Thursday, Mike and I watched the first 3 episodes of the latest season of Glee, not realizing that there have only been 4 aired. Whoops. Anyway, I'm not sure what I can say without being spoilery other than so far I like the music even though I'm not sold on all of the new characters. ( spoilery )
Today we went to see Moneyball, which I fell asleep for the final 30 minutes of. I dunno, I think that it was a good movie for people who haven't read the book and don't really know/care about baseball statistics, but I was disappointed in the angle they took on it, which was basically "Hey, signing Scott Hatteberg to replace Jason Giambi is a good way to win 20 consecutive games!" rather than "Looking at numbers instead of only at bodies may help you figure out a good way to evaluate players, and OBTW having a draft with 7 first-round picks is insane". I think the way they did some of the stuff was pretty good, and I did like most of the portrayals of the people in the story, but some of the facts were a little bit off and the lack of the draft made me sad. A combination of jet lag plus "Dude, I lived through these games at the time" made me just sort of drift off for the ending part.
We walked around Alderwood for a while (that's where we saw the movie) and went to this Blazing Onions Burger place there for dinner, where I had a burger that was pretty good. It's a sports bar so there's a ton of TVs, and at first we thought one of the TVs was broken but it turns out it's just in 3-D. Whee.
I'm awake at 7am because it's hard to sleep through the night yet, plus I was up watching the playoffs in Japan both of these evenings. Softbank won tonight so that's over, but the Dragons are up 3-2 games on the Swallows after winning tonight so there's another one tomorrow.
