Secondly, I know that it has been many weeks since my last post. This is because i have got no computer anymore and to add insult to injury i have lost the flash drive that has the pictures from both my websites and my Resume data on it, lets just say i really want to find it.

I have also found my latest quotes in Jay Karnes who played 'Dutch' in the awsome americain cop series 'The Shield'. One of my fav's : "You gotta be shittin' me'

Well, later days.

Jay Karnes - Detective Hooland 'Dutch' Waganbach - 'The Shield'

Thanks dad.

Latter Dayz

Who was it?

Why did it happen?

Will he Make it?

Watch this up coming episode to find out.

*Must see for true fans*

Enjoy

And Happy New Year Too!

Although this is another New York based show, i am glad to state that it is not a NYPD based show but rather is FDNY. There is alot of crud remarks and inuenduo's it is a nice change of pace compaired to today's predictable and rather un-interesting television programes. Also if you have not heard of Denis Leary may i suggest that you type his name into Limewire and download some of his comedy stand-up songs.  

Long Live Life. Viva La Charlie.

Not only can i wainting til wednseday rolls around so i can watch it but now i have to wait until cgristmas until i get season 1. I'm on a strict budget (or so my moother says) anways, i really could care if i was broke - i'd rather be happy first!

I'll finish this at a latter date.

Dont do anything i wouldn't do.

LoL.

That’s right 2 hours of Charlie Crews and Danni Reese.

~8:30 – 10:30~ (Sydney Time)

Its one of those things that is so different it is worth watching. Its not your typical police drama, and unlike most of them it is NOT set in New York.

Watch it.

Please

If you can't watch it – TAPE IT!

Seriously, I already know that I have failed this business course so all I aim to do is finish the typing books, book keeping can go and jump. By the way I don’t think I have mentioned my latest news, my dad has bought me - and is in the process of re-painting a newer car for me. It has all of life mod-con's including power steering, A/C and a C.D player!

I can't wait until it's done, I will post a picture of it once he's done. It was going to be a surprise but he could help himself. Let me see how many cars are at his place now. A camper thing, a 1964 VW (in pieces), Holden Astra, Toyota Land Cruiser, my G.L Laser, my current 85 laser and my sister's trail bike. I should probably add the fact that we live out of town one a single house block surrounded by farms, never the less it's pretty crowded. Even our Blue Heeler Tyson is running out of run space.  

Back to me. I'm playing games on my D.S a lot more now, anything to keep my mind busy I guess. Still I bought 'Pirates on the Caribbean: At worlds end' on Saturday and after nine interesting hours I had finished it, not hard enough and yet the 'CSI: Dark Motives' is too hard, I can't beat the second case. Musically I am really into 'The Clash' and 'Eagles'. I love I fought the law, London Calling, (Clash) Take it to the limit, Hotel California and There's going to be a heart ache tonight. (Eagles)  

Olivia Scully

Watch it and you'll be hooked on Zen and Charlie Crews.

The new movie is well worth seeing. I saw it the day it was released in Australia, with my non- believer best friend. It was so good that she has since borrowed my entire X-Files DVD collection.

The script is excellent as are all by Chris Carter, and the acting of Gillian and David is at the same standard they set during the show.

However, I must point out some things;

The movie refers to ‘William’ and unless you have viewed the TV series you may be left wondering who or what that is about.

It does not answer how Mulder and Scully evaded the FBI to end up living freely.

There is no more mention of Agents Doggett and his partner.

The movie is even better that the older ‘Fight the Future’ movie made in the 90’s.

Overall a worth wild see.

Olivia Scully

By Bree Sharp

From what we see in this first episode is could be practically anyone he knew previously. Perhaps it's his boss, Lieutenant Karen Davis, who wants nothing more than to see him out of her department. Maybe it's his former partner, Officer Robert Stark, who seems to go about like Charlie wasn't locked in solitary confinement for a dozen years. Or, it could be any number of other people that may be looked into as the show progresses.

Take Dani Reese for example. She's a recovering drug addict that's supposed to be in some type of program. However, something else seems to be going on with her. Promiscuity? A new addiction to sex and/or alcohol? I'm not sure. We got such a brief snippet of her outside life in the pilot episode that it's hard to tell. Yes, you'll say that it adds to the mystery of the character. I'll counter by saying that it really doesn't establish what the character is all about, and whether we should be supportive of her or angry at her. Again, yes, it's hard to make such a decision in the first episode. I say that while it is difficult, what we see of a character in a series premiere sets the stage for what we think of that character as the show progresses.

As for Charlie . . .  the Charlie that we see in this first episode is a bit irritating. Eating all that fruit and showing ignorance of modern technology. I'll give him the fact that he doesn't know about Instant Messaging, but I can't believe that he never saw anyone in or near the prison talking on their cell phone.

Besides those two things I actually like Charlie's investigative style. Because of his education in the way of Zen he is one of the calmest police detectives I've seen on television. He also has that sixth sense that some other detectives wish they had. A good example of this is when he finds the severed finger buried underneath the victim's dog. Another is when he smells marijuana on the shirt of the victim's stepfather. It reminds me a bit of the investigative techniques used by one Shawn Spencer of Psych.      Crews and Reese as a team remind me of Seeley Booth and Temperance 'Bones' Brennan of Bones, except in reverse. Take away Reese's off-putting attitude towards Charlie and she has that same type of 'please stop pulling my leg' feeling that Booth has every time Bones says something that's way out in left field. Charlie has Bones' matter-of-fact attitude and innocence. He's also missing that switch in his brain that stops him from saying something he shouldn't. Right now, since they are just starting out, they do not make a good team. However, if the show continues and the producers let these two characters grow, they could be a duo that is right up there with Bones and Booth, or Benson and Stabler of Law & Order:SVU.

So, there you have it. Please give this show a few more episodes to see if grows on you. Hopefully there will be enough audience to let this happen.

Later Days

Olivia_Scully

o        Ultimately we are (all) ‘incomunidardo’ perse from one another at some time or another, this may be because we are not at all who or how we first appear. In fact we are to some form a part of imagination only, mimicking true life and actions.

o        Sometimes it is easier to notice this because self consciously we want it to be, such as I am most days. Personally noticeably is not a s issue with me anymore, counterparts of mine however this is different. 

o        I have always known that I was different, maybe it’s because I listen or sometimes, rather that I don’t. Maybe it’s because I go where you are afraid, or I am afraid where you are strong.

o        For sure I do know that I am stronger with you around me, than when I face this harsh reality alone.   As I write (or when I do know) my lead characters are always based on you and me and how things are in my little reality, where I through different surroundings change my past so that I am saved by my love, you.

o        An environment where I am free to speak my mind without the consequences of this reality, where I love and am loved without hesitations, where I am at one with myself and have no violent tendencies. Where I have what most search for all their lives.   

o        In the real reality I do not deal well with change, I immerse my self in SCI-FI and Crime Drama as a means to release only, not because I enjoy it – I need to go crazy once in a while or I will GO CRAZY!

o        It is as Nickki and I used to say:

 ‘Life is like a roller coaster; it has its ups & downs and sometimes you gotta puke’.

In life from when we are born we have the option to ‘Resist or Serve’ and I, I resited by choosing the path less travelled and like Frost said ‘That has made all the difference’. For the most part that is true anyway, but I am not getting onto that here and now.

o        Everyone has a vice  or weakness of the heart, mine is blue eyes and a witty sense of humour.

                                                                Olivia Scully                

Normally, when i came have the TV, I'm a purist for the police procedural. Monk, Psych, in fact, most of USA's crime-with-a-twist shows, annoy the heck out of me. My only exception: NBC's Life, which i only heard about after the first 4 episodes had screened.

Okay, so Life is pretty much just a slot-filler for the end of the year when TV is not at its best. Charlie Crews is a cop who spent 12 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit. Now exonerated, Crews' lawyer brokers a settlement by which Crews wins something like $50 million plus the opportunity to be a detective back in the LAPD.

Of course, the show is ridiculous on so many levels. First and foremost, the premise: as if the LAPD would ever, ever, ever let the City Attorney broker a settlement to allow a convicted felon, exonerated or not, wear a badge. And even if they did, they sure wouldn't assign him to a case like in last week's episode "Civil War": Two Iranian kids are murdered and left in a convenience store freezer case, and a third is kidnapped. In the real world, that'd be at the center of a national media storm. 

And yet, somehow, star Damian Lewis convinces me to suspend all possible disbelief.

Lewis is a frighteningly talented British actor, who, as a tall redhead with a pointy face, has so far stumbled in scoring meaningful Hollywood roles. While his classmates Joseph Fiennes and Daniel Craig have progressed into household names, Lewis's best success was a lead in Steven Spielberg's Band of Brothers and a small but crucial role in the quickly forgotten Stephen King thriller Dreamcatcher.

In Charlie Crews, Lewis has crafted a dark character, rich with quirks and passion. Prison turned Crews into a Zen-fully loopy philosopher, who, much to the annoyance of his partner, regularly loses himself in simple musings on fruit and butterflies and the mysteries of life. Yet, as silly and lofty as his ethereal ramblings are, they amazingly don't seem to contradict his violent reflexes. He'll gleefully engage in knife fights with perps; he's got no qualms about kicking the crap out of woman-beaters in bar restrooms. Crews is obsessively mapping out the conspiracy to frame him in a Memento-style chart on the wall of one of the empty rooms in his mansion. And he does love his hookers. Everyone has a vice.

There are crime dramas. And then there are crime dramas with twists. The difference is enormous.

Look at the Law & Order dynasty, the CSI family: for both, the writers downplay the detectives' characters and choose the crimes themselves, the sheer depravity of human nature, to command center stage. Sure, SVU's Olivia and Elliot wrestle with their inner demons. Sure, CSI Miami's Horatio has a teenage kidnapper for a long-lost son. They're still tangential to the mysteries they solve, though; the episodes that focus on their personal problems are generally the worst in season. Gary Sinise and Jerry Orbach could be animatronic for all I care, as long as they're still out there piecing together the stories ripped from the headlines.

Yet, you get an actor like Damian Lewis, and the character captures you, and i am sure that the second season will be given better writters. 

Thanks for putting me onto this show Scully, this has become on eof my favorite shows since Blue Heelers.

Nikki Vance