Haven't really done much of anything...

I've pretty much been a useless, lazy bum for the weekend (which is always nice). Spent a truly astonishing amount of time watching the marathon airing of "Band of Brothers" on the History Channel. Incredibly violent mini-series. Damn scary. I'm not sure that its a drawback, but one issue is that with a few exceptions, it was often difficult to distinguish one soldier from another. I was surprised by how small David Schwimmer's role was. Collin Hanks did a fairly good job (I vaguely remember reading on some Roswell board at the time that he had a role in the series, but as he wasn't in the first 8 eps I had thought that he must have been little more than an extra. Turned out he had a highlighted role in a single one of the eps as a West Pointer who was only very briefly assigned to the company. All in all it showed WWII for the terrifying ordeal it no doubt was and when they liberated the death camp, I started crying.

I'm cheap and have never paid for HBO so even though the series played a few years ago, this is the first time I've watched it.

I also watched the documentary on the historical origns of King Arthur. It was also interesting, but I'm still rather annoyed by the commercials for the new Jerry Bruckheimer King Arthur movie where suddenly Gweneviere is running around in Braveheart makeup with a bare midriff on the battle field. Give me a break. King Arthur and Lancelot look cute though.

Haven't really done much of anything...

I've pretty much been a useless, lazy bum for the weekend (which is always nice). Spent a truly astonishing amount of time watching the marathon airing of "Band of Brothers" on the History Channel. Incredibly violent mini-series. Damn scary. I'm not sure that its a drawback, but one issue is that with a few exceptions, it was often difficult to distinguish one soldier from another. I was surprised by how small David Schwimmer's role was. Collin Hanks did a fairly good job (I vaguely remember reading on some Roswell board at the time that he had a role in the series, but as he wasn't in the first 8 eps I had thought that he must have been little more than an extra. Turned out he had a highlighted role in a single one of the eps as a West Pointer who was only very briefly assigned to the company. All in all it showed WWII for the terrifying ordeal it no doubt was and when they liberated the death camp, I started crying.

I'm cheap and have never paid for HBO so even though the series played a few years ago, this is the first time I've watched it.

I also watched the documentary on the historical origns of King Arthur. It was also interesting, but I'm still rather annoyed by the commercials for the new Jerry Bruckheimer King Arthur movie where suddenly Gweneviere is running around in Braveheart makeup with a bare midriff on the battle field. Give me a break. King Arthur and Lancelot look cute though.

Haven't really done much of anything...

I've pretty much been a useless, lazy bum for the weekend (which is always nice). Spent a truly astonishing amount of time watching the marathon airing of "Band of Brothers" on the History Channel. Incredibly violent mini-series. Damn scary. I'm not sure that its a drawback, but one issue is that with a few exceptions, it was often difficult to distinguish one soldier from another. I was surprised by how small David Schwimmer's role was. Collin Hanks did a fairly good job (I vaguely remember reading on some Roswell board at the time that he had a role in the series, but as he wasn't in the first 8 eps I had thought that he must have been little more than an extra. Turned out he had a highlighted role in a single one of the eps as a West Pointer who was only very briefly assigned to the company. All in all it showed WWII for the terrifying ordeal it no doubt was and when they liberated the death camp, I started crying.

I'm cheap and have never paid for HBO so even though the series played a few years ago, this is the first time I've watched it.

I also watched the documentary on the historical origns of King Arthur. It was also interesting, but I'm still rather annoyed by the commercials for the new Jerry Bruckheimer King Arthur movie where suddenly Gweneviere is running around in Braveheart makeup with a bare midriff on the battle field. Give me a break. King Arthur and Lancelot look cute though.