Brief Update

The Fandom Garden is looking a little neglected, so I wanted to let readers know that I'm still here. October has gotten away from me in the process of preparing a new project for Nanowrimo. In November, most of my time will go to that project, and unless I suffer a catastrophic meltdown of brain tissue, December will be spent on (hopefully) finishing the first draft and then cleaning it up.

I haven't seen much of interest in the new crop of shows this TV season. I will say, however, that I'm quite impressed with Castle's third season--although less impressed with Beckett's new hair. There's a new season of Sanctuary starting and I'm excited about that, but reserving judgment for the time being. The only new fandom I can say we'll be seeing in the garden is Hawaii 5-0. It's passed my "three episode" rule with flying colors and I can't wait to catch up on the season once Nano is over!

Expect to see regular updates again in January, starting with Music recs for the new year. Until then, I wish everyone happy fandom pursuits.

Five-O or No?

I've been off the radar for a few weeks, and I apologize to readers. I can't even blame my internet connection this time. I've been distracted with preparations for NanoWriMo, watching Blade Runner, (I received the 5-Disc Ultimate Collectors Edition box set as an early birthday present and I came up with this great idea to do a blog post comparing all five movies) and trying to catch up on the summer TV shows I had been watching before the fall season started. All of this (except Nano) was motivated by Fandombouquet, and yet I managed to forget to post here.

I've got a half finished post in the Thirteen Things series, but I have a burning need to interrupt my nicely ordered schedule. Why, you ask? No, actually you're probably not asking that. You've read the title of the post. So. As you can probably guess, I watched the pilot episode of CBS' re-imagined Hawaii 5-0 this week.

September Music Rec Post

My internet problems appear to be solved. Thank you, Brian from the phone company! Anyway. On with the show. I'm about halfway done the "Thirteen Things" theme I started in late August, but I'm going to take a break this week because I've decided to start doing a monthly music rec on the first Sunday of the month.

I've been slowly but surely updating my list of music, and if you take a look on the music page, you can see that my life is a testimony to eclectic taste and adoration of music across genre. (And as of this post, I haven't even finished updating the C's!)

The more I work on the music page, the more I realize how much wonderful music I've been exposed to, both from growing up around people of different age groups and backgrounds and, in the past ten years or so, making friends through the internet who have even more varied tastes than myself. I feel privileged to live in a time and culture where we have such a marvelous variety of styles and genres.



I hemmed and hawed about what to start with for a while and then I just said, "the heck with it" and started with the first album on the list.

Announcement

The Fandom Garden's going to be quiet for a few weeks. My internet access is really sketchy. Hopefully I'll be able to pick up the current series again in early September.

13 Things You Should Watch (But Probably Haven't) Part 1

I was going to do this in one post. Then I remembered how wordy I am and how much I don't like it when bloggers go on and on in their posts. So I decided that if I'm going to do lists of any description, I need to break them up. So, for the next few weeks, you lucky people get to hear me ramble at length about obscure and underrated TV and movies!

I have a terrible time ranking things if I have to make more than three choices. So, I'm going to list these alphabetically. It's not so much a ranking as just a list with a little description. Not all of them are genre-related, but most are.

These movies and shows are not without flaws. They're simply not well known; underrated; unfairly maligned; or ignored in favor of inferior works that are similar in theme; etc. Do they qualify as masterpieces or "the best ever" in their categories? Not necessarily. Watch them anyway.

13 Things You Should Watch (But Probably Haven't) Part 2

This is going to be a short post. I had a migraine this week, and my plan to cover more of these entries was derailed. Still, these are interesting movies and I recommend that readers take a look. More next week.

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