New Years Marathons 539
So for those of us who don't go "Out" for holidays and prefer sitting on
our asses, the extended TV theme Marathon is something of a tradition. Besides obvious choices
like watching all the Star Wars movies, what sorts of marathon
tv endurance tests are people planning? Buffy, Angel, Twin Peaks,
Iron Chef? What are you
gonna do?
The Prisoner (Score:3, Informative)
Re:The Prisoner (Score:2)
Number Two: You are
Sci Fi (Score:4, Interesting)
nothing else on, as far as i'm concerned.
Baywatch! (Score:2, Funny)
Praise the Lord! (Score:3, Funny)
Bikinis...
Running...
This is the work of pure genius.
TV Marathons (Score:5, Funny)
Re:TV Marathons (Score:2)
Re:TV Marathons (Score:2)
Re:TV Marathons (Score:2)
Re:TV Marathons (Score:2)
Music Marathon (Score:4, Informative)
Hot tub is hot, crank up the volume, break out the booze, unwrap the fireworks. 15 or so good friends show up & suddenly it's a party!
Re:Music Marathon (Score:3, Funny)
Gaming (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, and just to save the trolls some time:
- Yes, I am aware that makes me the biggest loser of all time.
- No, I don't really care, either.
Right on! (Score:2)
Gaming all the way! Who the hell needs TV when I've got Final Fantasy X?
Offtopic (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Offtopic (Score:2)
Then I realized that anything mentioning TMNT within the last 8 or so years would HAVE to be offtopic.
Iron Chef? (Score:2)
W00T!... gotta program my TiVo!
Iron chef, vodka, friends, and a scolding hot wok means great times at my place
Someone's gonna be melted before 2002!
Go See Jupiter!! (Score:5, Insightful)
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/12/30/new.year
Tried submitting this to
Re:Go See Jupiter!! (Score:2, Informative)
"In late April and early May 2002, during Mercury's best appearance of the year, all five naked-eye planets are visible simultaneously in the westernevening sky."
Taken from some random astro calendar [carnegiesc...center.org]. Some Googling should uncover other sources of information.
Re:Go See Jupiter!! (Score:2, Funny)
Unless it's a cloudy part of the world !
Re:Go See Jupiter!! (Score:2, Funny)
For candy and junk food junkies (Score:2)
Marathons? Not with TiVo... (Score:2)
And the first marathon I've watched was the Thanksgiving Junkyard Wars special (with the aid of TiVo - took me all weekend to get through all the episodes).
Unemployment (Score:5, Funny)
Party with friends! (Score:2)
im going to propose we marathon an anime series, but as to which one it will be, who knows?
with any luck, itll be pingpong club.. that shit is insane
when it comes to tv marathons. ill prolly hit up the iron chef one.. but the comic shop has a 30% off sale on the 1st, and theyve got simpsons figurines that ive been eyeballing
Alias (Score:2, Interesting)
DRINKING MARATHON (Score:4, Funny)
Seriously though, some of us are just coming of horrendous exam schedules and need a good winding down before the next semester starts.
... and yes, I DO need alcohol for this. That's what it's in existence for. Well, winding down and getting nerds laid. LOL. Ok, some nerds. On occasion. Ok, rare occasion. Who? Oh, you know, my friend Joey
HAVE A SAFE AND HAPPY DRUNKEN NEW YEARS EVE!
Re:DRINKING MARATHON (Score:2)
Just to be different... (Score:5, Interesting)
Leave the TV off for a day! How's that for a resolution? (And no, don't replace it with 24 hours of Slashdot.)
Start a journal! Read a book! Volunteer! Pray for peace! Do something that you can feel good about. Trust me, a full day of Gilligan's Island won't do it.
Re:Just to be different... (Score:2)
I found the avant-garde nature of the show particularly intriguing at first, but it became obvious that the shows writers ran out of ideas after the first season. Still, it's amazing that they did that show on such a low budget.
Re:Just to be different... (Score:2)
What are you talking about? Nothing reaffirms my life more than watching the misadventures of bunch of has been actors stuck on an island. Whenever I get depressed, I can only be glad that it wasn't me taking that 3 hour tour. You can always feel good about that.
Anime Fansubs... (Score:3, Interesting)
I've got a little over 400 hours of stuff I've downloaded off of usenet in Mpeg, ASF, or DivX format. Plug it into the good ol' TV out card, and let play.
Assuming that I can tear my wife's ass away from what ever huggy-feely design crap they're showing on HGTV, I'll be watching the entirety of Noir, Sadamitsu the Destroyer, and Inu Yasha. (There are currently about 50 episodes od IY that have been subbed... so at 24 minutes a piece I may not finish, even if I skip sleeping)
Re:Anime Fansubs... (Score:3, Funny)
I've got a little over 400 hours of snuff I've downloaded off of usenet
Re:Anime Fansubs... (Score:2, Interesting)
No, I am not going to watch history channel even though it might be helpful for my class that I feel that I am going to fail.
Re:Anime Fansubs... (Score:2)
"Excuse me? You want us to insure pirated videos?"
When the time comes, and you have to leave quickly because of fire, flood, or tornado, it will probably be a lot easier to carry your anime collection with you if it can be crammed into a 200-disc folder rather than a bookshelf full of VHS tapes.
Re:Anime Fansubs... (Score:2)
My New Years wish is for all 5 seasons of B5 to come out in DVDs box sets. Then let the marathon begin.
Thank *Diety of choice* that I have a life (Score:2)
Screw TV, I've got fireworks (Score:4, Interesting)
College Football, what else is there? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:College Football, what else is there? (Score:2)
The 9/11 news frenzy *is* a marathon (Score:2, Flamebait)
Kurosawa films (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Kurosawa films (Score:2)
Re:Kurosawa films (Score:2)
enjoy your marathon!
XBox Marathon... (Score:2, Funny)
I believe i'll be going to the SuperBowl with the Patriots in NFL Fever 2002. Apparently the XBox can do something Robert Craft hasn't been able to do in over a decade.
Re:XBox Marathon... (Score:2)
what we do in .de (Score:4, Funny)
Happy new year! (Who makes the FP in 2002?)
AAh, this is soooo SAD :o( (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:AAh, this is soooo SAD :o( (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:AAh, this is soooo SAD :o( (Score:2)
Re:AAh, this is soooo SAD :o( (Score:2)
If you only lok at the bad points of what I do, I'll only look at the bad points at what you do.
Its the message, not the medium.
Honeydew Marathon :-( (Score:2)
Blah.
John
I'll be using one of my Christmas presents... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I'll be using one of my Christmas presents... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I'll be using one of my Christmas presents... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I'll be using one of my Christmas presents... (Score:2)
currently, it consists of: (drumroll, please)
every episode of flying circus (45 30-minute shows)
holy grail (special ed. dvd) + special features
life of brian (criterion dvd) + special features
meaning of life (vhs, since there isn't a decent dvd release)
live at hollywood bowl
live at aspen (both from python! live dvd set)
the two lost german episodes (from above & "life of python" set)
then, the python documentaries/interviews:
bbc on location (during holy grail filming)
"the pythons" (on lob dvd)
the 30-year anniversary bbc special
probably some other misc. stuff
then, if we haven't run out of coffee, we can tackle the non-python, but python-related stuff:
fawlty towers (every episode on dvd + interviews)
jabberwocky (new dvd rerelease + special features)
john cleese's how to irritate people (dvd)
THEN, if we haven't died:
brazil (criterion 3-disc set)
a fish called wanda
fierce creatures
total running time is approaching fifty hours. sheer lunacy.
Twilight Zone! (Score:2)
What's cool is that instead of doing it strictly in order by episode, they're putting the "classics" on in prime time. Here are the lineups for both nights:
The prime-time lineup: Monday, 8 p.m., "Will the Real Martians Please Stand Up?"; 8:33, "To Serve Man"; 9:05, "The Dummy"; 9:36, "Eye of the Beholder"; 10:09, "The Howling Man."
Tuesday, 8 p.m., "A Penny for Your Thoughts"; 8:33, "The Masks"; 9:06, "The Hitch-Hiker"; 9:37, "It's a Good Life"; 10:09, "The Midnight Sun."
Trivia: Two of the above-mentioned episodes were turned into Simpsons Treehouse of Horror segments - which ones? (Could be more than two, actually, but I know of two for sure.)
Alcohol and computer games of course (Score:2)
Re:Alcohol and computer games of course (Score:2)
Since my ex has our son this New Years'... (Score:5, Informative)
ESPN: World's Strongest Man competition
TLC: Seeing is Believing
Comedy Channel: Whose Line Is It, Anyway?
A&E: Magnum PI until 8 p.m., then Law & Order until 4 a.m.
Animal Channel: The Crocodile Hunter (starting at 5 p.m.)
Sci-Fi Channel: The Twilight Zone
History Channel: History's Lost & Found
Since my ex has our son this New Years', and my other of unknown significance left town yesterday, I'll be at home on my a** looking for a good TV marathon.
Alias would be a good one (since I missed most of the episodes), and so would Trading Spaces. I've already had Buffy DVD marathon, so no luck there. Failing these, I'll probably be continuing on the kitchen work that I've been procrastinating on -- touching-up, sanding, and priming drywall, then painting. Whoop-de-doo!
I, Claudius (Score:4, Interesting)
It's not Mrs. Dew's favorite thing, but she tolerates "Clavdivs" once a year. See also this fact or fiction [anselm.edu] site.
TV? (Score:2, Flamebait)
Re:TV? (Score:3, Interesting)
You can invite a bunch of friends & have a place for all to sit & drink w/o the crowd of NYE at a bar.
You can get naked with said friends & have a big orgy.
You can consume illegal substances at your own leisure w/o fear of LEO's ruining your evening.
When it's all over, you can carpet the house with sleeping bags and no one has to risk driving whilst intoxicated.
Re:TV? (Score:2)
Naked?!?!? Are you friggen insane? A bunch of pasty white, rail thin or mondo fat freaks of nature? Then there's the guy who's back rivals a bear in winter. *Shudder* This goes for both sexes.
Re:TV? (Score:5, Funny)
And what's disturbing, is that there's a good chance many of the posters are naked.
Re:TV? (Score:2)
And if you are not into pickling your brain on this holiday, there are many other traditions [fathertimes.net] that you can check out.
be depressed (Score:2)
Business as usual for the NOC crew.
Be Hopeful (Score:2)
Ads, of course (Score:2)
every station is offering an ad marathon only.
I'll run a vim+make+gcc marathon instead...
Monty Python (Score:2)
Get a life? (Score:2, Insightful)
Red Dwarf on UKTV (Score:4, Informative)
Me
Monty Python last year - Mel Brooks this year (Score:2)
Watch The Producers, and when you have to be away from the tube in the kitchen, put 2000 year old man on the kitchen CD player.
Spaceballs is not as funny as some of the other stuff, but you need to see it anyway.
Frank Herbert's Dune (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Frank Herbert's Dune (and Best of Trek) (Score:2)
Gotta Be Bad Movies... (Score:2)
Poor Taco... (Score:4, Funny)
What I'm going to do (Score:2)
Yeah, I know, I've probably pissed off about a thousand lonely TV-watching nerds with that sentence. But cut me some slack: I'm a slashdotter too; do you really think this sort of thing happens to me often enough that I can afford not to brag when it does?
Good for you... (Score:2)
Re:What I'm going to do (Score:2)
(God I'm so depressed)
I've got several thousand lines of code that has to be completed before tomorrow morning to meet some client billing deadline. Geez.
and look how I'm wasting my time reading
.
In the nature of all that is good in this world! (Score:2)
Basically I feel Kevin Smith has managed to make some of the funniest movies of all time and definantelly appeals to a ninche crowd. I personally own all the movies to date (Along with animated clerks, and a few View Askew comics), but I have yet to hit NJ to see the Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash [viewaskew.com], where basically any View Askew fan woule be in heaven.
There are fun things to do in all the titles as well (besides drink that is),
1.) In every movie there is a reference to Star Wars
2.) In every movie there is a reference to hockey
3.) And in every movie Silent Bob talks at least once.
Basically an all around wholesome time. Of course I've already synced the clock on my computer so I will know the INSTANT it is new years ... so that oughta be fun too :-)
Happy New Years Everyone.
Re:In the nature of all that is good in this world (Score:2)
Happy New Year, and at least I'm funny :-)
Crocodile Hunter Drinking Game (Score:5, Funny)
Croc Hunter Drinking Game
Supplies:
Happy New Year to all!
All German Films, all the time! (Score:2)
And of course, plenty of food. No booze, though - none of us is older than 18
Sex in the City (Score:4, Funny)
Hey, not my first choice, but you have to think of the wife at times like this. And who knows, it may be followed by an episode of "Sex in the Living Room" if i'm lucky...
TV? (Score:3, Funny)
Ok, I'll be watching Transformers. Leave me alone!
Marx Brothers on Turner Classic Movies (Score:2)
What I'm gonna do (Score:2)
Magnum PI (Score:2)
MST3K (Score:2)
I wish they'd ran a marathon of all owned episodes (Comedy Central included) one last time before shutting down the franchise for good.
Sailor Moon! (Score:2)
Hmm, I was going out, but I did just recently finish taping the entire first season of Sailor Moon, except for the first two or three. (DIC dubs, but they're okay.) Been looking for a good time to watch them all in succession.
Re:Sailor Moon! (Score:2)
No, just first season minus the first three episodes. I'll get them when it cycles back around. Currently taping Sailor Moon R (Ail/Ann). This is what's airing Saturdays in the DFW area.
In related news, this machine is named minako.
hmmmm.... (Score:2)
Gran Turismo 3: $45.00
Play Station 2: $299.00
Drink Driving without fear of death, imprisonment, or loss of property
Priceless
Turn the damn thing off and leave it off (Score:2, Insightful)
I don't watch much television anyway, but for New Years I'm making a point of leaving the damn thing off entirely. No movie rentals to put more money in the pockets of those who would like nothing more than to destroy my livlihood in order to protect their outdated cartel profit model. No TV period.
Indeed, the only DVD I've purchased since the DeCSS fiasco is Sporty's IFR course for (private) pilots, mainly because of its interactive test questionairs. At least that way my 3 year old, multi-regional player will get some use, and as I doubt very seriously Sporty's is a member of the MPAA I feel I can make the purchase in good conscience.
That having been said, I would encourage everyone to ignore slashdot's occasional promotion of Media Cartel Content (it still amazes me that the editors of slashdot either just don't get it, or just don't care), turn the TV off, go out, get drunk, maybe even meet a girl or two and wind up not sleeping alone. Remember, even if you're the quintissential nerd, she'll likely be too drunk to notice. Opportunity knocks.
Re:Space: 1999 (Score:2)
Last year I watched all the Star Blazers series 3 Vidoes I had for New Years eve (I didn't have the whole series).
This year it might have to be all four DVDs of the Loduss War (the series & I probably spelled t wrong). It depends on if I can tolerate sitting infront of my Monitor that long! Now if I only didn't have to work a full day!
Re:I wish... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Twilight Zone (Score:2)
And "Time Enough at Last" is one of my favorites, as well.
~Philly
Re:Planet of the Apes (Score:2)
Re:Get Fat, Kill Asians, Laugh It Up (Score:2)
Rich...
Re:Go Outside! (Score:2)