Robin Hood

Because Marissa said it was good, I started watching the first season of Robin Hood. These are my thoughts of the first episode.

• That's not chain mail - those are glad bags.


• I'm pretty sure this was shot entirely in Brown County.


• There seems to be A LOT of sexual tension between Guy and Robin. They must have had some rivalry in High School.

• "Crunch and Munch is no longer my manservant...he's my life partner."

• There seems to be A LOT of sexual tension between Guy and Marian, Guy and the curtains, Guy and the furniture, Guy and the horses, Guy and the peasants, Guy and the sheriff, Guy and himself. I think you get the point.
  

• If they don't cease with the arrow shot scene labels, I will beat someone to death. Seriously. Who edited this? A fourth grader?
  


• Marian has tiny ears. They're incredibly disproportionate. I can't stop looking at them whenever she's on screen.
  


• Wouldn't it better to free the little guys dangling by their necks and save the monologue for later?


• Oh no, slightly hairier and larger men with bows. It's odd how everyone's beard is perfectly groomed and everyone seems cleaner than I'd thought they'd be in 1182.
  

Overall it's been pretty cheesy but maybe the sexual tension between Guy and someone/something comes to a head in the next few episodes. Or he starts walking around shirtless in every episode. That would make things better.

The Three Faces of David Tennant

There has always been something that bothered me about David Tennant. I finally figured it out after an indulgent mini marathon. Yes, he's cute and he has an accent but he's also a wonderfully one dimensional actor. That's not an insult - he is wonderful at it.

Movie #1 - Secret Smile

David stars as a scary crazed ex boyfriend to the chic from Shaun of the Dead. First, who knew Lifetime movies were not an American phenomenon? Not me. Richard Greico could totally play this part here.

This had a nice twist at the end but girlfriend was just plain stupid for never changing her locks when she broke up with him. I had a scary ex boyfriend once too although he wasn't remotely cute or Scottish, and I changed the locks while he was asleep one morning. You don't see me hiding out in Australia.

This is David's scary side and he doesn't show much else in this movie besides his "oh" face. Still he wasn't that scary. Richard Greico is scarier.

Movie #2 - Recovery

Ok, David was really good in this. His character gets hit by a truck - and that scene was so awesome I had to watch it three times - but survives with a good amount of brain damage. The story focuses around his family and David trying to adjust to life. I couldn't actually finish it. Some of it was a little too close to home but it was good.

So this is David's specialty character side. Sorry, can't find a better term. :) Sure there's some depth and heart break but still...mostly just one dimensional.

Movie #3 - Casanova

And now we come to goofy.

He's superb at goofy but for the love of god, I could only take about 30 minutes of this. This was incredibly fluffy even for Russel T. Davies.








And that is why Christopher Eccleston was a better Doctor.

Special Mention - Jude.

This is just an awful, awful movie since there are not one but three dead babies. However it does star Christopher Eccleston as Jude and David Tennant as I believe "Drunken Undergraduate". But David says his one line with such passion that he stands out completely from the other drunken students. It's just impossible to forget him.

Eastern Promises

I saw this with Matt while the boys were on holiday. And yes, we saw it for that reason.

I really do love Viggo. He should be in every movie, tv show and on every cereal box from now to eternity. He is just a lovely human being.

However this was not my favorite Viggo movie. It was slow and dragged at points. I'm not sure why the Russian Mafia didn't just kill Naomi Watts. I kind of wanted to kill her. The story was interesting - it just needed to move along a bit.

Viggo does save a baby which I loved. And he does spend 5 minutes necked and fighting men with pointy knives. There was more cringing from me than trying to get a peek.

No, Sean, I won't be downloading the movie and trying to pause it at the right times.

Outsourcing sucks!

Let's take a good organization that's friendly, helpful, and actually cares about the university community by giving back to each department and replace it with a faceless corporate whore beast that abuses its employees by not offering benefits and is only, only interested in getting into Jane Freshman's wallet.

I am seriously sick of sending angry emails to said corporate whore beast's manager. Yes, I am sick of being angry and sharing those tirades with the person responsible. Unbelievable, right? Jesus christ, it's a bookstore run by a bookstore. The logic in my brain says that it should work better than the huge pile of dung that is the IU Bookstore.

We should seriously encourage all of our students to buy their books online. That will be my first conversation with Kathy on Monday. Hell, I'll price check the books for the kids just to keep them from feeding the beast.

I want you...

to buy your textbooks online and steal my music, while you're at it.

More Fun with Drunken Monkeys

The phone call of the day...

Advisor: I have a student that wants to add one of your courses. Where should I tell him/her to go?

I give her our street address, landmarks, and a description of the house.

Advisor: But you're WU. Where is that?

Again, I say where we're located and explain that WU is our code on the campus map. Like GY is geology and EP is journalism.

Advisor: But where do I tell the student to go?

I hope she could tell that I had lost my patience. I again, tell where we are and that WU is just a code.

This has been the 6th call this week from an advisor from that particular department. Its good to see that the university has no qualms about hiring monkeys.

30% of my time at work is spent doing other people's jobs

Man asks for Criminology department at the IU switchboard.

No, criminology department here.

Man then asks for Social Sciences. She transfers him to me.

Close but no cigar.

I transfer him to Criminal Justice.

Jen is not the IU Switchboard who is now operated by drunken monkeys.