The 4400 Season 4 Episode 6 and Jesus Christ

Interesting that two series I'm currently watching (see previous post) deal with Christ like figures. Jordan Collier and John from Cincinnati, Both J.C. hmmmmm?

I said I was getting a bit bored by the 4400, but this latest episode has good things again. The reasons why I liked it are returning.

Will the series continue in this lovely uncertain way where you can be sure of nothing, where people can't even be sure who they are?

See, A film maker of hammy B-movie type flicks seems to have the ability to reveal all the worlds conspiracies, except he mysteriously gets snapped up by Hollywood and then recants all his earlier film making as made up fantasy.
A cabal of influential people including the Pope, this series' version of Bill Gates and perhaps one of our protagonists Tom the NTAC agent, are perhaps inhabited by forces from the future. The inhabitors leave behind a mark behind the ear, a result of surgical procedures.

So many questions. Is the head of NTAC one of the cabal set to "destroy" the 4400? How will Jordan bring paradise to Earth? Will Tom (as prophesied) end up taking promicin to counteract his having been interfered with? Who are these forces that took the 4400 in the first place? And who are those who have sent back this cabal to stop them, and what are they so afraid of? Is Jordan and starting to look like the good guy, is there coming a definite black and white in a show where everything was once grey?

It's all feeling very X-Filesian.

Though I still find the pace of the show too fast for its story, I am enjoying it again. Well, this episode at least.

Cog 0.06 and John From Cincinnati

New Cog has a shiny new user interface, Last.fm scrobbling support, gapless playback, a new drawer from which to browse a folder (configurable), configurable shortcuts that work when you don't even have Cog in focus and Front row remote controller support. And there are other things too. It's just fantastic. I have wanted something like this. a lightweight player for a few tracks, as an alternative for times when you don't want to use the behemoth that iTunes has become (it's taking up like 100+ MB of my RAM now).

As an aside, have been watching and enjoying John from Cincinnati. A New HBO series featuring a surfing community and superstar surfer family, an intriguing stranger who seems to be able to give other people abilities (e.g. healing, levitation), humour, a cast a ponderous characters, a very definite sense of place a feeling that something is happening - is building. I am interested.

Review here from LA weekly.

Miro Video Player

I have been using the new incarnation of Democracy Player, Miro. I've been watching French video, among other things like GeekBrief TV, there is a lot of French stuff on DailyMotion. I never really got into Democracy player, but I'm getting on better with Miro. Don't know why. It now also does audio podcasts feeds (dunno if it did before) as well as video ones, and it also does bittorrent, but I haven't tried that out yet.

I like it.

Wot I been up to while away.

So I've been away for some time now, over a month. Haven't been feeling well. But am somewhat better now. Have been listening to many podcasts, Perhaps I might write about them. New ones I have found, that I like are KCRW's Good Food, been listening again to StarshipSofa (Sci-Fi authors/fandom podcast/fanzine type thing.), Mark Kermode's Film Reviews (I remember Kermode from those old Mark Radcliffe Graveyard Shift Radio 1 days), and of course all the usual (including of course Buzz Out Loud and the TWIT casts).

Too many brackets, alas. Anyway been listening to a lot of Angelo Badalamenti (especially soundtracks to Mulholland Drive, Twin Peaks and Lost Highway), hrm, been watching Twin Peaks too, erm Still reading Bonjour Tristesse in translation (with help).

I'm somewhat disappointed with the new series of The 4400, but I am still watching. It all seems to be about some impending Armageddon/police state/rapture and I'm not so big on these impeding doom/exaltation type things, and it's lost that subtlety that I thought it used to have (now it seems to scream drama loudly all the time - "promicin is is the road to heaven or perdition?") ; but anyway it's holding my attention enough to keep watching.

Still on Hiatus

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Here's one of my desktop images.

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