2 posts tagged “netflix”
Suspending my Netflix account for a month has given me back some much needed and appreciated free time. Plus I am limiting any recording on the DVR to just Big Brother 10, Bleach and Project Runway. I suspect that that odd grouping of programs would have most people a little confused. What do two reality programs have in common with an ongoing anime series? The quick answer is nothing. Maybe there is some crossover in the viewing audience as far as Big Brother and Project Runway are concerned, but I doubt that very many hardcore anime people watch Project Runway. For me both Big Brother and Project Runway are great ways to relax. Both provide high drama and comedy gold.
For about a month I had neglected my Bleach viewing, but now that I am firmly into a new season, I am reminded why I love the series as much as I do. Even though, Ichigo, the main character, is very compelling, I also love his supporting cast. Chad and Orihime are personal favorites of mine. They provide an interesting contrast to the impulsiveness of Ichigo and keep some of the action more grounded.
Imogen Heap is still very much on my mind, but once again thanks to Last.fm, I have some new music in my library. The British trip hop group Kosheen is now filling my ears as often as possible. Plus I decided to give the Norwegian electronic duo Royksopp another try. I think that I may have downloaded a track somewhere back, but I can not remember the name of it or where I put it. I can not find it on my hard drive and I am too lazy to search my backup drive at the moment.
Rather than going to bed immediately after work yesterday morning, I spent some time on the couch watching some anime. On my DVR list of recorded programs, I had three episodes of Bleach and two episodes of Eureka 7 as viewing options. I decided to start with Bleach and move on to Eureka afterwards if I did not get too tired.
Now having seen some more of Bleach, I have to admit that it is starting to grow on me. Then again I probably should not have jumped to a conclusion about a series that has over a hundred episodes after seeing merely two of them. Yes, there are long fight sequences in Bleach, but there does seem to more story and characterization than what I saw in the other two episodes.
Lately I have been contemplating canceling my Netflix subscription. I like the service and the new unlimited streaming option is nice, but at the same time, I have to realize that I can watch a large quantity of anime online for free. Anime makes up a third of my viewing queue. The other two thirds are foreign films and documentaries. So with that in mind, I start to ask myself are foreign films and documentaries enough to keep the subscription? Maybe I am coming at it from the wrong angle.
February has gotten off to a great start on the exercise front and I want that trend to continue for the remainder of the month.
The Killers are still in heavy rotation for me and I think to myself why I always seem to be a few years behind the wave of what is good when it comes to music. I guess that that is another sign of me getting old. Plus I no longer feel the need to buy as music as I did when I was in my twenties. What I also find interesting is that when I look at the music portion of my Amazon wish list, half of what is there is classical music. With a mere two years of piano lessons twenty years ago, I can not say that I fully understand music, but I find the lure of classical music to be more than soothing.
