Watched this week...

Holidays in the US meant not a lot of new TV, hence, a bunch of documentary catch up watching...

ST Voyager S7 - man, I kept hoping it would break out of mediocre, but sadly it only rarely did. Oh well, all done now.

Lie to Me, Castle, House, NCIS, V, Modern Family, Misfits

The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard - for such an A list cast - Jeremy Piven, Ed Helms, Ving Rhames, James Brolin, a cameo by Will Ferrell - this flick was really not all that good. Can't point out why, exactly... writing? The directing/editing? Dunno, but it was only so-so. Bits of funny among the "eh."

ONE: The Movie is "an independent documentary about the meaning of life... starring Deepak Chopra, Robert Thurman, Thich Nhat Hanh, Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, et al." Interesting, though I was hoping there'd be something more... though I don't know what.


Us Now - a documentary film project "about the power of mass collaboration, the government and the Internet." This was quite good, and nicely optimistic. The whole documentary is available on YouTube.


Good Hair - "2009 American documentary comedy film produced by Chris Rock Productions and HBO Films, starring and narrated by comedian Chris Rock... The film focuses on African American women's hair, including the styling industry surrounding it, the acceptable look of African American women's hair in society, and the effects of both upon African American culture." Wow, as a corollary to the "geez, people are screwed up" theorem, the things black women do for their hair is straight insane. Dug the documentary though.


2012: Science or Superstition. You know, I've read Mckenna, Pinchbeck, Marrs and a bunch of other of the 2012 stuff, and it's interesting, I just don't know that I buy any of it at all. Too much like the rapture for New Agers. Cloaked and covered in bunches of judeo-christian guilt and claptrap. Golden ages, Edens, wraths of gods and whatnot. Bah. Documentary was well put together though.