End of January, Already?
Can you believe it, already into the last week of the first month of the New Year. Time goes by so quickly and for me losing track of time cost me $15. I signed up for the stamps.com service back in November not knowing that they charge you $15 a month for this service even if you don't mail anything for the month.
After noticing that first charge on my financial statement I decided to call and cancel. Well cancelling is allot harder than signing up, and when I finally found the phone number to cancel the lady convinced me to stay another two months with their service as she would waive the fees. Low and behold two months have gone by and I wasn't paying attention, so I got charged $15 the other day. This time I called and after many attempts at trying to get me to stay the customer service rep on the phone finally agreed to cancel my account. Don't get me wrong, the ease of printing stamps from your own printer did come in handy during the holiday season, but the rest of the year this would be a wasted service for me.
Had they made this service easier to cancel, say like with the click of a mouse, I could see myself using it again next holiday season, but with the hoops you have to go through as you are questioned to death on the phone by this company I think I'll just make the trip to the post office and stock up next year.
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Breaking Bad
Here's a show I've been meaning to get into for a long time. Friends and family members have been talking about this show like it was the second coming. Well you may be asking, B does it live up to the hype? Well as of the time of this podcast I'm about 6 episodes in, and while I do find it enjoyable enough to keep watching, I don't think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread or better than current shows I'm watching, like Sons of Anarchy, Dexter, or Arrow.
I do think the premise of the show is very good. It's about a chemistry teacher who finds out he's dying of lung cancer, so in order to insure his families financial security after he's gone, he decides to team up with an ex-student turned drug dealer and sell Crystal Meth. Of course things aren't so easy, especially being that his brother in law is a DEA agent, his son is handicapped and his wife constantly suspects that he is up to no good.
Every episode is a recipe for disaster, and this is where the entertainment comes in. Just like another show I used to watch (The Shield) you know these guys are doing something wrong but you still root for them to somehow get away with it. It may not lived up to the super hype as of this time(don't know if it will), but it is still a very good show and is something I will continue to watch. It's on Netflix, which is where I'm watching it off of, so it's not costing me anything extra, and I recommend this one.
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Boy Wonder
I never heard of this film, but Netflix had it down as a recommendation for me. The description said it was about a boy who witnesses the brutal murder of his mother, and grows up to become a vigilante who dispenses his own brand of justice. The description alone was enough to get me to want to watch it, so I figured why not.
While the description was accurate, it was also misleading. I thought I was going to be watching some kind of super hero movie, and while their were scenes that featured some kick assedness, this was not the focus of the movie. The movie was more about the psyche of a young boy who had gone through some serous shit, and was coping with it in his own way. I couldn't tell you the names of anyone in this film off the top of my head, but they all played their parts well. The main character had a little bit of an odd look to him and reminded me of a kid I knew in high school we used to call forehead, due to an odd shaped hairline that made his forehead look bigger than it was.
Bottom line, if your looking for an action packed super hero movie avoid this one. If your looking for a story that really pulls on your heart and has it's moments of action, and has you really feeling for the protagonist check this one out.
