As I have already mentioned several times, I intend to revamp my website a great deal. A few people consider my journal here to be my web page. In a manner, I guess that's more or less true, as it's been the only web presence of mine that I've made any effort at maintaining. Also it shares many of the components of my real page, the color scheme and the journal is embedded in its home page. 

On a side tidbit, the Touch Mobile LJ App sucks. Hard. It's only usable for the most basic of journal uploads and quick comments. I'll still use it, but it's worth little more than what I just said. Good thing it's free. I guess I shouldn't complain about it a great deal on that note.

( Just do the poll, unless you've got nothing else better to do )

It's just a single click, man, Jeez... Don't give me that face. I'll send you to the office!

House MD, if you've missed the last six years, is a show with a laughable premise to it if you're paying attention. An incredibly intelligent doctor with drug issues (read: he can't find enough to take at any given point in time, which is impressive, considering he works in a hospital), makes a long line of wrong decisions about helping a critically Ill patient until he and his team happen upon the right answer and save the day. In between this, to break up the monotony of that, House acts like a complete dick to everyone around him, and they hate him for it appropriately. They put up with him because he always ends up being right and saving the patient. Like many shows, this format DOES NOT CHANGE.

Studios hate change, it threatens their bottom line. Experimenting means an audience may not adjust and move away from the show. Stagnation is the better option because people are good at following routines and unless people really hate a thing they won't deviate.

So, no, House MD isn't good because of it's format. In fact, the show is horrible for it, as though I hadn't gotten that across already. House MD is a great show despite this giant bruise. On deep inspection, the show is a character piece pretending to be a medical mystery/comedy drama. A... Medmycomdram...

Homework - watch a movie called Two Lane Blacktop. Again, character piece hiding as another kind of film. Don't watch the Film for the story. You'll leave disappointed and angry. Character pieces, as I have to explain because no one overtly does them anymore (they cost money and are intelligent).

Anyway, i'm boring you to tell you that there are six good years of a show that you may have missed. And to plug a good film that no one has ever heard of.

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Saw the new Sherlock Holmes movie a couple days ago. It was much better than it deserved to be, being a Robert Downy Jr. portayed Holmes with Kung-Fu grip sort of film. But it did several things good for the Sherlock mythos, like make Watson a more stand out character that did more than serve as an excuse for exposition for the audience's sake to get a grasp of what the hell is going on. It was entertaining, and I admittedly already want to see the inevitable next one.

Downy does a good job of making the character his own, though still predictably playing himself more than anything else throughout the film. It's nice, though, to get away from some of the character stereotypes while enforcing other traits that didn't see much literary light, like Holmes' inability to fully relate to the people around him.

I give a definite recommendation if you like movies that are a 2:3 ratio crime/action.

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So, imagekind. Imagekind.com is a photo site with pay-to-print features for items that have been uploaded, with products like post cards, posters, framed art and the like.

My Dad turned me on to it when I visited over Christmas break, and I've just now uploaded images to my initial gallery. They're all the same photos that I have stored in my galleries here, with a bit more discrimination where quality is concerned. However, they apparenty do gallery handling by hand rather than automate it when you upload a whole archive, which I did, so it's going to take about a week to show up and be available for sale. I won't bother putting up a link until that has come to pass.

Anyway, if these images sell in any sort of capacity I'll be uploading to both my galleries here and on Imagekind more often. I'm not holding my breath since I'm using the free accoun and my images will get pushed to the back of the listings, but we'll see.

I think for this and other notes of interest that I shall be revamping my website soon.

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Before my battery dies here, just wanted to make the quick update that I will now be making regular posts via my iPod Touch, which is good, because it means I'll be able to post on the fly, stream of thought.

In other news, by combinative effort of my Dad and myself, my Sigma telephoto lens is working. Also I've just picked up a 50mm lens and some other needed camera equipment, which translates into me making photo blog entries on a regular basis as I get into the habit of shooting more often. I'll be starting up an Imagekind account and posting there, and there will be more info on that in the near future.

For those of you that I owe drawings to, don't worry, I haven't forgotten.

The trip to California was great, and I still have Christmas of sorts to celebrate with the roommates and Mila.

In short, things are good at the moment.

In other news, it appears I'll be attending FC this year at the end of the month.

Not a bad way to start the decade

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