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  last updated 05/22/06

Television

Sunday
Meet the Press
Sunday Morning Shootout
Venture Brothers--current favorite show
Seasonal Sports (NFL, Golf, Tennis, MLB, F1 or NASCAR Racing)
Simpsons, Family Guy
HBO Seasonal (Curb, Extras, Sopranos, Deadwood, Wire)
Adult Swim (Sealab, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Family Guy, Brak Show)

Monday
24
WWE Raw (sometimes, and only to see the Nature Boy, greatest tv character ever)

Tuesday
Chapelle Show, bitch

Wednesday
Lost brilliant 

Thursday
The (American) Office

Friday
Henry's Film Corner

Saturday
Ebert and Roeper
Justice League Unlimited
HBO/Cinemax Movie Premieres or Boxing (unless they are crap)

Random Times
The BBC Office (I'll always watch it if it's on)
The Tick has returned to television!!!!!!
Buffy the Vampire Slayer repeats
If a good flick is on TCM, IFC, HBO, or Cinemax, then, of course, I'll watch it. I refuse to watch censored movies with commercials (ie, FX, Bravo, TBS, etc)

Recently Watched Movies on TV that I would recommend

  • Z Channel, A Magnificent Obsession
  • Star Wars Clone Wars
  • Midsummer Night's Dream
  • Man on Fire
  • Spartan
  • Ford Transit

Sitting on my Tivo Hardrive 
(just haven't gotten the time to watch these)

  • Rear Window
  • Haiku Tunnel
  • Big Fish
  • Fog of War
  • Blood Simple
  • Thief
  • Bound
Movies

Netflix Queue

  • Match Point
  • Family Guy
  • Notorious
  • In cue
    • Freaks and Geeks
    • Point Pleasant
    • Rickson Gracie: Choke

DVD Ratings (from Netflix)

  • Rififi, recommend
  • Old Boy, highly recommend
  • Rosemary's Baby, highly recommend
  • 24 Season 3, highly recommend
  • Schizopolis, mildly recommend
  • Sideways, recommend
  • Before Sunrise, recommend
  • Big Fish, recommend
  • Barbarian Invasions, recommend
  • Firefly,  highly recommend
  • Garden State, mildly recommend
  • Chariots of Fire, mildly recommend
  • M, highly recommend
  • Badlands, highly recommend
  • Ran, highly recommend
  • Lawrence of Arabia, recommend
  • Wire Season 1, highly recommend
  • Incredibles, recommend
  • Brak Show Season 1, highly recommend
  • Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, mildly recommend
  • Napoleon Dynamite, mildly recommend

Recent DVD Purchases
generally, a good sign that I'm recommending the movie (although sometimes I'll buy a movie on a hunch)

  • City of Gods
  • Walk the Line
  • The Aristocrats
  • Crash
  • Undertow
  • High Fidelity
  • Spartan
  • Weird Al's Complete Video Collection
  • The Office (complete series w special)
  • Arrested Development Season 1
  • The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  • Sonatine
  • Virgin Suicides
  • Evil Dead 2
  • Dogtown and Z-Boys
  • Attack the Gas Station
  • Thin Red Line
  • There's Something About Mary
  • Buffalo 66
  • Infernal Affairs
  • Looney Toons Greatest Hits
  • Stranger than Paradise
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • Samurai Jack
  • Before Sunset
  • Dodgeball 
  • Jersey Girl
  • In America 
  • Boondock Saints 
  • Coffee and Cigarettes 
  • Dawn of the Dead 
  • Club Dread 
  • Capturing the Friedmans
  • Bubba Ho Tep
  • Passion of the Christ

I wasted 2 hours of my life

  • Davinci Code
  • Juon
  • Chronicles of Riddick