Here I am, sunburned and relaxed after a week of sun and White Russians on the magnificent island of Crete, and I’ve just come back home prepared to do some serious work. My day job features interesting problems to dig into (well, sort of at least), and my upcoming game Truth, Justice and Spandex is starting to look less awful every day. Not to mention that my new flat needs to be put into order. So there’s definitely things to do. Given all the things I should concentrate on, why oh why is Hollywood (and that ilk) starting to churn out interesting movies and TV series right now?

Granted, House isn’t exactly new but I haven’t gotten hooked on it until now. And hooked I am; I’ve watched 23 episodes, and I’ve started getting chills at the prospect of running out of episodes to devour soon. Trivia of the day: I know that I recognized the name Hugh Laurie (Greg House) from somewhere, but the realization didn’t strike me until I’d watched a few episodes… Hugh Laurie was in Blackadder as well! My dog, he’s absolutely brilliant at portraying different types of characters; not in the least due to his excellent adoption of an American accent. (Trivia number two: during the casting of House producer Bryan Singer didn’t know that Hugh Laurie was British and held his accent as an example of how a good American accent should sound.)

House is one thing that’s stealing away my spare time right now…but I fear that there’s even more! Let me ask you one thing: what’s with all the cool movies coming out recently or soonish? I’m not talking about good movies per se; I mean the cool ones you like to watch after you’ve had a beer and feel like some light entertainment. The ones with supernatural/fantasy/sci-fi elements that are instantly appealing to geeks and nerds. Let’s see what’s out right now:

Transformers
The King of Kong
Stardust
Dead or Alive
Resident Evil: Extinction

Okay, Transformers actually was good and I have high hopes for Stardust as well. But the rest fit in with the light/geek genre. That’s 10 hours worth of movies that I’ll just have to see! But the fun doesn’t stop there… I had a quick look at Apple’s trailers, and check this out:

The Dark Knight – More Batman goodness!
Iron Man – Jesus tapdancing Christ, it looks cheesy…but cool!
Beowulf – Mmm… Fantasy… Old fantasy…
Dragon Wars – Mmm.. Fantasy… New fantasy…
Hitman – Never played the game, but it looks pretty spiffy.
Underdog – This is just so awesome!
Enchanted – Some fantasy or other.
The Golden Compass – More fantasy.
The Water Horse – Bloody hell, even more fantasy.

How am I going to have time to do some work? Or read books? Or play Guitar Hero?

Did I miss any good movies? Let me know so that I can procrastinate even more.

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