There’s a wealth of media coming up that I’m looking forward to, and it feels like a joyful consolation for summer moving towards a close (though it stays summery here until mid to late October typically). In no particular order:

  • Real Time With Bill Mahrer. It’s awesome that his first night back is tomorrow night, the night after the DNC ends.
  • Mercenaries 2 (it came out a couple of days ago, but I haven’t got it yet)
  • Entourage
  • Heroes
  • Viva Pinata 2. I was ranked around #35 globally in the first one, though I don’t think I’m going to have the time to compete with all the 12 year old girls. Nevertheless, I’m going to fill my garden with Sparrowmints, Chewnicorns and Dragonaches (or their Viva Pinata 2 equivalents) running/flying around being generally adorable. Then I’ll head outside and work on my actual garden which, while not quite as colorful, is still fairly charming.
  • Spore
  • True Blood (though I’m hesitant about this one. HBO’s record lately has not been great with new shows. I still want the three hours back that I spent watching three hours of “John from Cincinnati”)
  • Californication. I almost feel guilty for liking this show so much as it’s fairly gratuitous, but it’s fun.
  • The Office
  • The Force Unleashed
  • I WAS looking forward to the next Harry Potter movie (I recently watched them all for the first time) but of course that’s not happening for awhile now.
  • Lego Batman
  • Appaloosa. Ed Harris, Aragorn, and Jeremy Irons, in a Western! They’re all great to watch.
  • The rest of the season of Mad Men and Weeds.