A Pound of Thoughts

This came out four days ago, but I caught wind of it last night while reviewing my FeedDemon. It looks like we’ll have some 24 after all!

The producers of the Emmy-winning series are developing a two-hour “prequel” to the upcoming seventh season.

The movie, designed to bridge the two-year gap between Seasons 6 and 7, is targeted to air in the fall, leading to the January return of the real-time drama. On Wednesday, “24″ producers began securing the show’s core cast members for the film.

“24″ was one of the biggest casualties of the writers strike. Three days into the work stoppage, Fox decided against airing a partial season of the serialized drama with the eight episodes produced before and during the first weeks of the strike.

Sadly, though, Joel Surnow will no longer be involved with the show. We ‘24′ Fans will miss him terribly.

The “24″ writing team is back at work, with filming on the remaining episodes of the seventh season slated to begin in April. Missing from the writers room is the series co-creator/executive producer Joel Surnow, who left at the end of the strike. Since the fifth season, “24″ has been run by exec producer Howard Gordon.

I’m extremely excited about this!  All of us fans have been waiting a tremendous amount of time to see Jack in action.  Now, in about six months, we will!

I should have posted this a while back. But hey, better late than never! Brandon Green, from my hometown of Lucedale, Mississippi, gets to go to Hollywood to be in American Idol. Here’s his audition:

Heath Ledger is one of those actors that I enjoyed to watch on-screen.  He had a lot of talent, and it was easy to relate to the characters he played.   So, here are my thoughts on his untimely death:

This is such a tragedy. I really admired most of his work, especially The Patriot and A Knight’s Tale. He was a very promising actor, and was definitely on his way to becoming one of the best.

We do not know what was going on in his mind, no matter what his friends say regarding him being “in a happy place”. I truly, deeply hope that this wasn’t a suicide. There are a lot of questions, and we ALL need to give the authorities the necessary time to discover the truth behind this.

My prayers and thoughts go out not only to his family back home in Australia, but to Michelle Williams, his daughter Matilda, and to his girfriend. This is definitely hard on everyone who knew him.

And a final word to those who say they don’t care about this death, and ask “What about our troops?” “What about all the others that are dying?” Yes, I agree more stories should be told regarding true American heroes that die everyday. However, you must realize that the publicity from Heath Ledger’s death, while definitely tragic, may help to bring to light the dangers in relying on drugs to assist with anything, especially going to sleep. Care must be taken in using them, and you never know what might make those who depend on sleeping pills aware of these dangers.

There is a time and a purpose for everything, even the untimely death of such a promising actor. I just truly hope he accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior.

Last night was a very exciting night for me.  You see, last night was my “season premiere” night for Prison Break.  If you’ve been sleeping under a rock lately, PB is a series about two brothers, Lincoln Burrows and Michael Scofield, who are caught up in a hailstorm of trouble with people known as “The Company”.  This year is season three.  Season One was dedicated to Michael figuring a way to get “Link” (or is it “Linc”?) out of Fox River State Penitentiary in Chicago, IL.  (He was in prison for allegedly assassinating the Vice-President’s brother.)  Season Two was dedicated to them breaking out and staying out of prison, and also trying to hunt down five million! dollars in cash, secretly stashed by a fellow inmate.  They also had to outrun and outsmart a very intelligent and ruthless FBI agent, Alex Mahone, who was secretly hired by “The Company” to kill all the escapees.

At the end of last season, the President (formerly Vice-President) stepped down, Linc was exonerated, and Michael was re-captured by “The Company”.  Michael was thrown into a prison in Panama known as “Sona”.  We learned last season that the reason he was thrown in there was to break out.  We just didn’t know why, until last night (at least for me).

 Well, the actual season premiere for the show was actually last week, a fact I didn’t realize until I started watching the show last night (and was somewhat lost).  But, thankfully, FOX had it to where I could watch last week’s episode online (Thanks, FOX!!!)  Now we know that Michael has to “break out” of Sona with a prisoner known as James Whisler.  Who he is remains to be seen.  All we know is that he is very important to “The Company”, and that they’re willing to kill Linc’s son LJ and Michael’s girlfriend Sara Tancredi, who they’ve taken hostage.  Oh yeah - Michael has one week (well, now five days) to figure out how to get Whisler out.

I must say, this season is going to be very, very interesting and exciting.  At least they’ve kept some of my favorite characters (Bellick, T-Bag, Mahone, and of course the 2 brothers).  If you haven’t watched this series before, now would be a good time to go out and buy the first and second seasons and get caught up.  It’s going to be a wild ride again this season!

In my weekly watching of Law & Order:  Criminal Intent, I saw a very interesting commercial.  It was for something called TV Big Shot, a web site where you can set up your own virtual network.  You start with a “budget” of $300 million, where you can purchase your own TV shows (from existing shows on the five major networks).  If you have the most points at the end of the season, you win $100,000.

I’ve set up my own network, called the “Dawg Pound Network”, or DPN for short.  Do you think you can run your own network?  If so, go set one up!

Update (4:20 P.M.):  As if one test wasn’t enough, I took it again through another website.  Guess what?  I’m still an ISTJ.

  I got to reading this post over at Kat Coble’s place, and I couldn’t remember what I tested as…Well, I’m officially an ISTJ.  I must say - it fits:

When their skills at maintaining the structures that they believe hold up society fall short of achieving the security they are striving toward, ISTJs become tired and weary. If the stress becomes overwhelming, ISTJs become immobilized and cannot fill the responsibilities that they consider necessary for rightful membership within their community. They become incapacitated by concerns of a bankruptcy. ISTJs may then further increase their attention on the details of the situation that is causing them stress. This sometimes results in accusations by those around them that the ISTJ is becoming over-demanding, irritable, inflexible, and impatient with others.

Fearing the breakdown of a trustworthy system and dreading becoming an outcast, the ISTJ may feel like energy is being drained from their bodies. Fatigue will set in and it will be exacerbated by a loss of sleep and of appetite. Depleted of their resources, ISTJs will be unable to meet many of their obligations or fulfill their duties to their work and to others. Not being able to fulfill this basic need, the ISTJ becomes further stressed and almost incapacitated by listlessness —making it all the more difficult be responsive to others.

Careers:  This lists represent careers and jobs people of your type tend to enjoy doing. The job requirements are similar to the personality tendencies of your personality type. It is important to remember that this is not a list of all the jobs possible. And it is very important to remember that people can, and frequently do, fill jobs that are dissimilar to their personality… this happens all the time…and sometimes works out quite well.

management
accounting
auditing
efficiency expert
engineer
geologist
bank examiners
organization development
electricians
dentists
pharmacist
school principals
school bus drivers
file clerk
stock broker
legal secretary
computer operator
computer programmer
technical writer
chief information officer
police officer
real estate agent

So…What personality are you?

I have seen an advertisement for this show…It looks very interesting, and has a few good stars:  Chris O’Donnell, Michael Keaton, and Alfred Molina.  It’s also directed by Ridley Scott (Gladiator).  You can go here to check it out.

I’m looking forward to watching it.  I can imagine it’s going to be very, very good.  Anybody else planning on watching it?