Watched NBC’s Bionic Woman (the site is slow as hell, so click at your risk), mainly to see how Katee Sackhoff of Battlestar Galatica fame would do. She was good of course, great actress, but the rest of the cast was pretty lightweight, especially Michaelle Ryan as the main star, Jamie Summers, who gets a robotic implants after a terrible car accident. This first episode was very plot driven, designed to lay out future directions, while giving us a brief hint of the characters. It’s whirlwind of mostly cliche plot lines and characters you don’t care about, except for Sackhoff’s character, who was an earlier version of the Bionic Woman, but now seems to have gone a bit crazy.

Watch it again? Sure, just to see Sackhoff, who can really anchor a scene, and in hopes the rest of characters and show will develop into something memorable.

No, seriously, check out the new Amazon MP3 downloads. It’s a bit cheaper than iTunes, .89 versus .99 and the albums are either 5.99 or 8.99, depending on the artist. A quick browse for some older stuff, like Placebo or 16 horsepower reveals that they got it. Best of all, the MP3s are DRM FREE, meaning there are not restrictions on where and how they’re played. Once you buy, you can put it on your computer, iPod, work computer, your friend’s computer, etc. I’ve only bought one mp3 from iTunes, just to see how it works, but this Amazon thing makes has me reaching for my wallet.

I threw several comic books away today.

These were not old comics, carefully stored plastic bags, tucked in dark box in an air conditioned room. No, these were comics that had been sitting in the bathroom, along with a several books and magazines. They were a bit crumpled, steam had no doubt worked some of its magic on the paper and there sitting underneath several books. It felt weird to throw away comics because they always seem valuable to me, not in the money sense, but like a good book it would be something to come back to.

But fuck it.

They’re little crack pills designed to keep you buying and buying and it’s just not worth the time and effort. Because it order to keep this little treasure troves of fiction, I’d have to buy a special box, store them in it and then carefully go about keeping them in order and who has time for that? Who cares?

There were several books and magazines in that pile from the bathroom and most of them were kept. There were also several graphic novels (Blade of the Immortal, highly recommended), also kept. They’re easy to keep, just toss’em on the shelf with the books, organize’em later. See, easy.

But the little pamphlets are hard to keep track of, both in terms of buying and storying. I have boxes of them upstairs and they’ve rarely been read (hmmm, maybe fix that…) and who needs more boxes? I suppose if I found a series that was great, I’d get the monthly books, but if it’s that good, it’ll be collected in paperback, so why bother? There’s plenty of media around, from books, tv, movies, music, youtube and the web in general. Why bother chasing after stuff you know will be collected later or is subpar. Life is short, get your entertain fix elsewhere.