3 posts tagged “battlestar galactica”

BearMcCreary

....with Bear McCreary, Composer of Battlestar Galactica!

It's here!  The Interview can be heard by clicking on this link!!

Bear was an awesome guy to talk to, and it was a pleasure to actually talk to someone involved with one of the best shows on television!

Send me your questions in the comments of what you would like to ask and Mike and I will ask them.  The interview is tentatively scheduled for sometime today around noon or 3pm PST.  Just waiting for final contact, but the interview is a go none the less whether it be for today or within a couple of days, so whatever questions I get I will ask. 

So say we all!!

Steve "Snowball" Saylor

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Well, it's officially been more than a week since Christmas, and silly me I didn't even tell anyone about it on Vox.  Man, I'm not living up to the Voxionary name this week.  But granted it was the holidays, so I do have a bit of a good excuse right?

Christmas 2006

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Well at any rate, the Snowball Family Christmas went off with a bang.  It started with my birthday obviously and it didn't even stop.  The biggest enjoyment I had was being able to spend Christmas Eve with my close friends and family.  Our family had a "Christmas Eve Open House"  Where we invited people over and they can come and go as they please.  Normally our family tradition was to have Christmas Eve dinner, which always consisted of Meatball Subs.  Trust me you have never really had a Christmas dinner without gorging yourself on Meatball Subs.  We only really eat them one time as a family throughout the year and it is usually Christmas Eve.  I don't know why that is, but trust me they are good, and great on the wallet too.  We also usually after dinner would grab a whole bunch of snacks such as Chips, Cheese, Cabassa, Candy Cane Ice Cream, etc, and we would watch either "It's a Wonderfull Life" or "A Christmas Story(which happens to be my favorite Christmas movie, because I seriously look and feel like I'm Ralphie Parker)" 

Now that is normally our family tradition, but for the past two years the Open House replaced that.

Matt Devine, Summer 2004

Which brings up a good story.  Last year when we first tried this Open House concept, I had my friend Matt over and he really wanted to play Halo on my XBox in my room.  Well for those of you who haven't been to my house, I literally live in the basement of the house.  I have a Rec-Room(which is where the big Home Entertainment system is hehe) and I have a bathroom, and a laundry room.  So I basically have a basement apartment except no kitchen, and no shower in the bathroom. 

So anyway, the night wears on, and it starts to get late.  The majority of the guests have left except for my brother's girlfriend and Matt.  I go upstairs to the Living Room while Matt is still playing Halo.  I'm sitting upstairs talking to my family for nor more than half an hour and all of a sudden the conversation stops for a second, and all you hear coming from the downstairs is this loud, "YESS!"  My Dad then asks who that was, and I said it was Matt.  My family laughed so hard because they forgot that Matt was still down there and didn't even realize it!!!

If that doesn't tickle your funny bone, well I guess you had to be there.  It was funny okay!

Anyway, moving on with my Christmas recap....

So after everyone had gone, and all the guests were accounted for and left.   We all went to bed and woke up around 9:30ish on Christmas morning.  It was really weird for our family to be up at that time because we are up so early Christmas morning that it is usually still dark outside.  This time, bright and sunny.  "Wow, so that's what the sun is like in the morning," I thought.

So, after all the crinkling of wrapping paper and the obligatory, "How did you know's," "I love it's," and "You got what I wanted's," was said and done, Christmas was done.  But now with the added bonus items we can now store in our rooms and play with for a long time.  

IPod

My main gifts this year was:

- 30 GB Black Video iPod - Yes I finally replaced my now dead 3G iPod.  Boo freakin ya!  However, I can still use my old iPod as a 10GB Hard Drive.  That is totally worth it.
-  Battlestar Galactica Season 2.0 (Upset that it is only half the season, but hey that's the Distributor's fault not my parents)
- A 12" Walking Robosapien
- A Superman Calender
- A Superman remote control Monster Truck
- Plus many more small little things that are too many to mention.

Superman II - The Richard Donner Cut

On a side note though, the gifts that my friends got me I definitely cannot go without mentioning.

- From Brian =  Superman II:  The Richard Donner Cut - This has to be my now all time favourite movie.  Plus one of the best gifts I have received this year
- From Shane - Lewis Black's book called Nothing Sacred, and a book on how to be a Superhero(Which both Brian and I got because we are huge Superhero fans)

So all in all Christmas and a fun New Years Eve with my friends really put a good ending period to a great year.  I will never forget 2006.  That will be the year I will look back on and after telling my Life Story, I can conclude by saying "...and that's when it all started."  I love those kinds of years.

Well, I hope you all had a good Christmas and a great New Years, and now let's move forward into 2007.

Toodles!

Steve Saylor "Snowball"

RetroTV

Now the dust has settled in TV land, what new show do you love?

This question was inspired to me by the PopWatch Blog over at Entertainment Weekly where they were debating as to what new TV shows in the fall lineup are the breakout hits, but what really inspired me though was the comments posted by readers.  They posted the shows that they love and don't want to be canceled.  Well I would like to sbmit this as a possible Question of the Day.

To answer this question myself, I must give a disclaimer.  I don't watch a lot of TV.  Don't get me wrong, I love watching TV.  There are shows that I love watching over and over again.  Smallville being one(go figure), Simpsons, Family Guy, Friends, Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek(All series), and The O.C.(Yes, I am willing to admit this one, but only as a further disclaimer that I liked the first season, the rest of the seasons are just ok).

Now that is just to name a few.

But the reason why I don't watch a lot of TV is mainly due to my work schedule that keeps me away from my TV all night.  But I do get to watch a few shows here and there.  Mostly what I do watch is podcasts.  Thats what I watch on a daily basis.  But that's another post all together.

Now granted with all the shows I listed above and the fact that I watch Podcasts more than I watch actual TV, I don't usually watch new series premiere shows when the new Fall season comes along.  Main reason, other than time constraints, is because the shows I latch onto usually get cancelled such as Firefly(obviously), and Threshold(Remember that little gem from the Star Trek creators and starred Brent Spiner as a Depressed Scientist?  It was a good show damnit!).  But this season after actually watching all the latest podcasts on my machine I decided to turn on the TV for the first time in weeks and lo and behold an actual new Series premiere was about to start!

What show was that? 

It was "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip"

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip promo

A little backstory for the show, this show was created by Aaron Sorkin of West Wing fame.   It starred Bradley Whitford(also of West Wing fame) as Danny Tripp, and Matthew Perry as Matt Albie.  The show is a fictionalized look at the behind the scenes of a Sketch comedy show similar to Saturday Night Live, but called Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. 

I have to say I was very suprised with this show.  I liked the West Wing, but I couldn't understand all the political dialogue.  However, Studio 60 while still keeping the same kind of storytelling and visual style as West Wing had, Sorkin really blew me away with this show.  Not because I love the whole Television enviroment, but it has reinvigorated the passion and the fun of working in Television.  Sure networks can be a pain, with censors, Neilson ratings, advertisors, the FCC, and so on, but this gives a "ballsy" approach to all that, which I like.  It just makes me feel really good knowing the fact that I am working towards working in Television as a career.  And I actually understand the dialogue too!!!  Bonus!

Now granted I will watch Tina Fey's 30 Rock which is technically the same type of show, but from a person who actually worked on SNL.  So I will resevere judgement as far as which one I like the best, but Studio 60 has a slight edge just because I saw it first.

Now after watching this show I started to look into the other new shows that are on the Satelite box, and I am sorry to say I do not have a lot of love for a lot of them as I do have for Studio 60.  Here is a quick rundown of what the ones I have seen.

Circling the results

Shark:  Pretty much House at a Lawfirm, James Woods is ok though.
Justice:  Didn't like it. 
The Class:  What the hell is this show about anyway?!
Smith:  Definitely has promise, I like the premise, but predicting that the same plot is going to be used over and over and over and over again.  Ray Liotta is good in it though. 

Shows that I can't wait to watch:

30 Rock:   (See above)
Heroes:  I know I missed it last night, but I am going to try to watch it streaming from NBC.com before they take it down.
Ugly Betty:  Looks interresting, but same situation as Smith.  Hoping it doesn't get repetative fast.

Other than that, it seems to be a very decent new series line up this fall.  I think I may just invest in a Tivo or something(now that we can get them in Canada) so I can keep track of them all. 

With all that in mind, what are your favorite new shows, and why do you like them?

Comment below and if you know how to get this questions submitted to the QotD, let me know.  I actually really want this one to get picked up.

Toodles!

Steve Saylor "Snowball"