{"id":2972,"date":"2015-03-15T23:39:46","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T22:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/?p=2972"},"modified":"2015-03-15T23:39:46","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T22:39:46","slug":"mixed-mediaruptcy-sunday-15-march-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2015\/03\/15\/mixed-mediaruptcy-sunday-15-march-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Mediaruptcy, Sunday 15 March 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a month and a half since my last mixed media post, and I&#8217;ve watched a lot of films and TV shows since then, and I haven&#8217;t been keeping track of them. So I&#8217;m declaring mixed media bankruptcy, or mixedmediaruptcy or something like that. Basically this is just a short summary of the stuff that left enough of an impression to warrant a mention. (To clear out the old to-do-list guilt in my head, so I can let some new in.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/imagecomics.com\/comics\/releases\/sex-criminals-vol.-2-two-worlds-one-cop-tp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2015\/sex-criminals-vol2.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"608\" alt=\"Sex Criminals vol 2\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Sex Criminals<\/i> by <a href=\"http:\/\/mattfraction.com\">Matt Fraction<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/zdarsky.tumblr.com\">Chip Zdarsky<\/a> continues to be the <a href=\"http:\/\/fuckyeahsexcriminals.tumblr.com\/\">best thing<\/a>. Filled with thoughts about relationships, depression, growing up, and positively <em>packed<\/em> with sex jokes. And sex-activated superhero powers. They&#8217;ve really stepped up their game when it comes to the visual gags. For mature readers, duh.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/imagecomics.com\/comics\/series\/saga\"><i>Saga<\/i><\/a> volume 4 remains likewisely brilliant.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/imagecomics.com\/comics\/series\/rat-queens\"><i>Rat Queens<\/i><\/a>, on the other hand, wasn&#8217;t nearly as good as I&#8217;d been hoping. It&#8217;s basically a D&amp;D role-playing scenario, with lots of sass and swearing.<\/p>\n<p>Fiona and I went to the cinema to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/seventh_son\/\"><i>Seventh Son<\/i><\/a> last weekend. It was not good. But we both enjoy <em>going<\/em> to the cinema for its own sake, and we&#8217;ve decided to do it more often. This afternoon we saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/night_at_the_museum_secret_of_the_tomb\/\"><i>Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb<\/i><\/a>, which was entertaining. Because this month&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lootcrate.com\/\">Loot Crate<\/a> included a voucher for the <a href=\"https:\/\/keepflying.com\/\">Firefly online game<\/a>, we&#8217;ve also been chain-watching <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Firefly_%28TV_series%29\">Firefly<\/a> this weekend. Alex and Fiona both adore it, and I&#8217;m loving seeing the old episodes again as well. So much good writing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/con-man\">Alan Tudyk, Nathan Fillion, and PJ Haarsma<\/a> are running an IndieGogo campaign that is probably of interest to Firefly fans:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/121614525\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gazcoombes.com\/\">Gaz Coombes<\/a>&#8216; new album <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gazcoombes.com\/music\/\"><i>Matador<\/i><\/a> is very good. Favourite tracks: &#8220;The English Ruse&#8221;, &#8220;Detroit&#8221;, and &#8220;Needle&#8217;s Eye&#8221;. Unfortunately I missed his gig in Amsterdam because I was away in New York.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2015\/jan\/22\/gaz-coombes-matador-review\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2015\/gaz-coombes-matador.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A couple of weeks ago I chain-watched the first four seasons of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Walking_Dead_%28TV_series%29\">The Walking Dead<\/a> on Netflix. Whoa. Beyond compelling. Will be grabbing season 5 as soon as I can get the whole thing for download. (I don&#8217;t like waiting a week for each episode. We&#8217;re watching season 3 of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/tv\/elementary\/s03\/\">Elementary<\/a> once a week, but most of its stories are self-contained, and don&#8217;t end on massive cliffhangers.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amctv.com\/shows\/the-walking-dead\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2015\/the-walking-dead.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"370\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Various films:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/john_wick\/\"><i>John Wick<\/i><\/a> was thrilling, I suppose, but also joyless and gratuitous. Just as I don&#8217;t enjoy video games where the sole (or main) purpose is to do lots of killing without thought of the consequences, I don&#8217;t enjoy &#8220;mindless action flicks&#8221; as much as I used to. It&#8217;s not the violence I mind, it&#8217;s the carelessness. <i>The Walking Dead<\/i>, for example is extraordinarily violent and gory, but you can see how it <em>affects<\/em> the characters. It grinds them down. It changes, and sometimes destroys them.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/taken\/\"><i>Taken<\/i><\/a>: see above. Joyless, thoughtless.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/turks_and_caicos_2014\/\"><i>Turks &amp; Caicos<\/i><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/salting_the_battlefield\/\"><i>Salting the Battlefield<\/i><\/a> are episodes 2 and 3 in the Worricker trilogy that started with <a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2014\/11\/21\/mixed-media-thursday-20-november-2014\/\">Page 8<\/a>. Both are good spy stories that round out the character and trilogy, but they&#8217;re not as tense and neatly wrapped as the first one.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/a_most_wanted_man\/\"><i>A Most Wanted Man<\/i><\/a> is another solid, smart, modern spy story that doesn&#8217;t rely on car chases and punching faces.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/the_drop\/\"><i>The Drop<\/i><\/a> is a gritty story of small-time crime gone bad, but again without histrionics and no need for high-octane action. I liked this quite a bit.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/rush_2013\/\"><i>Rush<\/i><\/a> is an intense biographical dramatisation with lots of <em>amazing<\/em> racing scenes, but it tries a bit too hard to be &#8220;worthy&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/big_hero_6\/\"><i>Big Hero 6<\/i><\/a> is great fun from start to finish.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/nightcrawler\/\"><i>Nightcrawler<\/i><\/a> is a beautifully dark portrait of a sociopath finding his calling. Fascinating and distasteful at the same time. Great performance from Jake Gyllenhaal.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/godzilla_2014\/\"><i>Godzilla<\/i><\/a> had too many people just standing around looking awestruck. That might actually <em>happen<\/em> in a real giant-creature emergency, but given the choice on a re-watch I&#8217;ll take <i>Pacific Rim<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/silver_linings_playbook\/\"><i>Silver Linings Playbook<\/i><\/a> is very sweet and delightful, with lovely performances all round. Given my comments about action movies above, I really think I should spend more time watching romantic comedies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also started in on season 6 of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Criminal_Minds\"><i>Criminal Minds<\/i><\/a>, have been trudging through a few more episodes of <i>Person of Interest<\/i> (he still isn&#8217;t), and caught the first few episodes of <a href=\"www.rottentomatoes.com\/tv\/the-blacklist\/\"><i>The Blacklist<\/i><\/a> while I was in NY, because Netflix US happened to have it. Oh and a couple of eps of <a href=\"www.rottentomatoes.com\/tv\/parks-and-recreation\/\"><i>Parks and Recreation<\/i><\/a> as well. (Nick Offerman\/Ron Swanson reminds me of Patrick Nielsen Hayden, but don&#8217;t tell him I said that.)<\/p>\n<p>I suppose I&#8217;ve been watching rather a lot of TV &#038; films lately. It&#8217;s what I&#8217;m doing to force my mind to relax. Sometimes it works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a month and a half since my last mixed media post, and I&#8217;ve watched a lot of films and TV shows since then, and I haven&#8217;t been keeping track of them. So I&#8217;m declaring mixed media bankruptcy, or mixedmediaruptcy or something like that. 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