Drew Francis » TV

My New Love

drew — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:44:35 +0000

Ok. Nothing about work here. Today starts my get some stuff done day. In honor of that I’ll start by talking about my new favorite show. Modern Family. What i like about it is they way it looks at our messed up family lives and say “you are not alone” I was an avid watcher of Married with Children and what I liked about the family was that no matter how much you saw them go at it they truly loved each other. (yeah I know its a show but you get my point) Kind of like the Osbourne family.

This show came out of no where for me. One day while flipping through some hulu stuff I thought I should give it a try. I ended up watching all the episodes they had. Here is what the show consist of a : A father that divorced his wife to marry a Latin princess who already had a quirky kid. His daughter is married to the typical american dad persona (he’s made to look stupid but has a big heart). Her brother is gay and is married to a dude and they just adopted a kid. Typical huh. Give it a shot you may be surprised.

Peace in the Middle east

Family Ties I miss you

drew — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:37:25 +0000

I miss family ties. It brings to memory some of my fondest memories of childhood. On Thursday nights staking out my spot on the couch to watch. Alex P Keaton was very opposite of me. I was a Mallory lover. She was free in spirit. They don’t make tv like that any more. I really don’t think its just a memory. I really believe its true. They actually tried to teach something not just portray life. They discussed loss and love, pain and happiness. The scene when Alex goes through the spots on stage. I still remember the episodes. What I learned from family ties.

1. Family means something

2 Opposites can work.

3. Its ok to be funny and serious because life is that way.

4. “What is your four?”

Here is a little taste of my childhood

Oh and new photo.

Mad Men?

drew — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:40:17 +0000

Why I like this show. I can’t remember if I’ve had this conversation, but here goes. The folks at Mad Men take their time in telling a story. They let the characters breathe. Not all shows do that. Some shows try to wrap it up in a nice little bow. Eric, a friend of mine at work and I had a conversation about this past week’s show. We discussed how they put so much into the details of the show. They have so much in the small details (I think all details are small, that’s why they are details). I also like that no character is free from sin. I’m not talking about small sins I’m talking about big mama sins.

The scene I remember the most from this past week is when the “Draper” is in the kitchen with his wife. She has just confronted him with the pictures of his previous life. She begins to ask him to explain himself. It is at that moment that you see Don Draper breakdown. Don Draper the ad man has nothing to say. We then cut to the final scene where he goes trick or treating with his kids. He walks up to a door with them and the neighbor looks at his children and tells each of them who they are. The neighbor then looks at him and says “Who are you supposed to be?” fade to black. That my friends is good TV… no great TV.

I love CSI

drew — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:17:03 +0000

If I dont see the first 5 mins I usually dont watch. I think you either love it or hate it. I am on the love it side. Just like its treatment every thing is super saturated. Things blow up so much bigger. So if you aren’t a watcher already here is a little taste to get you interested. Oh and If I had to make up a line it would be this “She’s not just dead she’s dead dead” I know pretty hot.

You need to check out the link of the day

New Show

drew — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:14:27 +0000

So I’ve started a new show. Criminal minds. Its a show of some of the most brutal crimes ive ever not really seen. I dont know why I am so intrigued about this show. One reason may be that I dont really dream that much so its real easy for me to watch a show like this and put it out of my mind.

I tend to internalize shows like this. I put myself inside the show. I like that even though they solve the crime it doesn’t mean that someone wont die. I like. that was a weird way of putting it. This brings me to something the new envoy to the Middle east said “conflicts are created by human beings, they can be ended by human beings” How true is that statement. We have gotten really good at destroying each other. Really good. I live in a society where I dont have to worry about being bombed every day or kidnapped so I dont know how revenge really works. I just know that there has to be another way a better way. So I watch Criminal minds. Maybe I’ll use what ive learned from that show one day. You should give it a try. But give it a couple episodes not just one. Criminal minds.

Amazing Race

drew — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:38:52 +0000

One of my favorite shows is back on. When this first aired it was the reason I started to travel. Especially by myself. I need to take another one some time. I have taken some trips with work but there is something about having to figure it out on your own.

I enjoyed the first episode….. loved it when the yoga people went out before they even left. Oh and the liars. This isn’t Survivor no reason to lie you’ll get yours. You’ll see. You will see. Ive picked my horses. Meghan/Cheyne not because they were first in the opening leg oh and and I like the Harlem globetrotters. Grab a remote or dvr and relax.

Random Music

drew — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:28:56 +0000

For some reason I’ve been hearing new songs and when I like it I buy it. Kudos to the marketers that put original artist songs on tv shows. I have a second song …not really album for you. I think I know what it is. Why Ive been doing songs lately. Its not the song but the scene that I remember. There is a particular show that I’ve getting into. My tv watching goes in spurts much like my writing. Oh I’ll get to the song in a minute just hold on.

The show is the Cleaner. I think I’ve written about it before. I didnt really say why though. The Cleaner is about a guy who is an ex-addict who goes around taking on clients who have no where to turn when their loved ones are on drugs. He gets them into rehab and off drugs. Dont worry I dont have a drug or alcohol story about my self. Trust me though I have stories of my family but that’s a little too deep. Mom if you happen by not us. Anyway I had a friend or maybe a friend of a friend that I grew up with. She drank her self almost to death… was in the hospital and the first thing she did when she got out was get another drink. I still remember visiting her in the hospital…twice…I dont know what happened to her.

I dont believe in throw away people. Maybe that’s why I have a heart (I think that’s the super chrish thing to say) But at the time I didn’t really do anything (I dont do anything) maybe it’s guilt for that. Maybe by watching this I can make some kind of sense to that. Addiction pretty much sucks. Oh and in this story (tv show) the father who is our hero is slowly losing his family. By the end of the season he has moved out. How about that hitting home.

So I watch the cleaner and now the song. Oh first the scene. The father makes it home just in time for dinner. He has been out all day saving the world while he loses his family. Enjoy The song is called is there a ghost. Now enjoy.

What are you good at?

drew — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:07:24 +0000

I sometimes get caught up in that question. Well I don’t know if I get caught up in it… is the right word. Lets just say I sometimes ask myself that question. So what am I good at? I think I will make a short list. Pleas feel free to add.

1. TV I can watch and remember entertainment very well.

2. Cooking. I wouldn’t say I’m the best but I do think I’m good at it.

3. Web research. I actually enjoy it. Weird I know.

4. Missions. I dont know if its a skill but I like doing it so therefore I’m good at it.

5. Technology. I like to figure that kind of stuff out.

6. Creation. I like art..design.. I don’t know if Im good at it but I like it.

Have you ever screamed inside?

drew — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 03:15:52 +0000

Movies, books, tv, the stage have influenced my life ever since I can remember. So tonight I saw this.

No different. I still am influenced. This was a little different. Even though I was watching it for parts of the film I was somewhere else. I started to have thoughts about wishing that I was truly gifted at something. Truly gifted. That I could do something to the point of genius. I’ve always said my biggest fear is being insignificant. That at the end of my life that I will look back and wonder if that was the best I could have done. I’m not that old so maybe that’s premature. I thought about it twenty years ago so I wonder what I have been doing with that.

At lunch today I told stories of when I was teacher. I thought that was how I was going to change the world. I took the job I’m in now thinking before I get old I should do something like this. Well my job has changed in that ten year period for the better. I still wonder though if I had not made this move what I would be now ten years later. Would i be battling the school district. Would I have climbed the ladder of public education. I do believe that God put me here for this time. In preparation I think. I don’t know if its to do something else or if it is for what I will do the next day. Why do movies bring up these kinds of thoughts. I think friends do that too. I said this phrase tonight “My ego has been bruised so many times” Has it really though?

Here is what I know. There is a small group around me that think I’m pretty cool and that’s pretty cool. There is so much to do in the world that I get overwhelmed with where to start. Sometimes not being satisfied with the way the world works is OK even when you don’t know what to do.

I was trying to decide if this was a call for help or not. I never write anything for my job that doesn’t have to do with me first. This season I have three pieces that do. One that has the line “be the envy of all your friends when you email them from a far off land” another “Aren’t some people beyond your grace and another “You stay out here and think about it I’m going in” All have a little piece of me in it.

I found out what my blog is about. Not recipes or a cause or funny news. It’s about how does a single 32 year old guy navigate in a world when he has no plans for the future. So what do you do with all that? I think you press on and upward and sometimes just sometimes you scream a little inside.

I have no good ideas

drew — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:00:51 +0000

Ok Church. So Erin a girl I work with invited me to her church with her husband. It was great. You ever feel like you are somewhere that feels like home. (other than your home) I dont know if its that level but it just felt good. Lately at church ive felt that ive had to do evaluate or well I felt like I was at work. The minister said something that caused me to pause. he said something about forgetting your own spiritual health. I’ve done that for sometime. Anyway this is a little out there and I’m not really writing clear but that’s all I got. I’ll be back there again. I hope she wont mind. I’ll let you know how it goes.

Today was a suck day for me. It started with moving stuff in our warehouse early this morning. The more I moved the more I started throwing stuff around. Seeing stuff that had been moved from place to place. Well lets just say I needed to just move on. It was one of those moments when I should have just gone home. Never took that comp day or is it days that I was supposed. Guess what folks dont look for me in the month of August. I’ll either be traveling or I’m going to go to some state and live there for a month. It with be my tenth anniversary so see ya sucker.

Anyway so after moving that stuff I snapped at Taylor (another dude I work with) ( yes, I have apologized, Ive gotten good at that) I think I snapped at Erin (girl who invited me to church) and the list goes on and on. I kinda failed them when it came to keeping us on a time line for some projects. Maybe I should start a blog about how bosses can screw up. Man would I have a list or am I not supposed to admit those things. I dont even remember when I started doing this boss thing.

Last I’m watching a new show. ALong with the other MTv show. Kings.

So you would think a guy who tries to retell bible stories would have gotten it. Once again Chris who has never seen the show had to fill me in. It is a modern day telling of David’s story. Why didn’t we tell that story. I really am starting to like it. The funny thing is before I knew the story I thought it was a little mystical how Samuel talked to the king. Is that what Christians look to unbelievers. Yeah I think so. Anyway I’m really getting into it. Good stuff. You should check it out.

Your moment of zen. I dont care who you are this is funny

He’s Back

drew — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 14:07:37 +0000

Well Ive been gone for a week and I know I haven’t been missed. Back to cacophony of bad grammar and spelling bonanza. Enough of that I have to talk about a new show that for some reason Ive started to watch. I have a love hate relationship with Mtv. One I hate it when they treat teenagers as a commodity and then I love that they give them air time to just talk. I will go months without it in my life then suddenly it all comes back and I find my self watching hours upon hours. Right now I’m watching a show called Taking the stage its a show kinda like Fame (some of you will know that) only its a reality show. How reality is unsure. When they are practicing there is suddenly a smooth dolly shot that rings the dancer. Did he get that on the first try? Hmmm. Anyway you should check it out. So i’m real jealous.

In other news. I went to see Hannah in a play last night. I have to admit I liked it. (Pause) They are doing Pedro the movie. My generation knows that is the guy on real world that died of AIDs. Wow I’m getting old. Any way I went to see Hannah’s play “Over the woods and ___” Old people can be real funny. It was good to see her do her thing. Today will be writing idea day. I’m heading to Erin’s church today then a Starbucks to work come look me up at patton creek bucks. (back) I’d like to shrink my world a bit. It is a smaller church so I wanted to check it out.

Oh and here is a rough draft of a video that we are working on. It won’t be played like this. But it’s a little taste. We shot this at Ramsay highschool. The guy in the video is part of a dance group at his church. Today I’m going to figure out how to put that in a video. Well here you go.

Road This s an excerpt from This American life episode. Someting for nothing. Ok now I’m done.

Disgusting

drew — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:04:25 +0000

Disgusting. yes I Called it disgusting. I dont usually discuss shows in this venue but I feel the need. Ive been watching a No reservation marathon all week. Its been great. Dude travels around the world tasting local food. eating many things i would not. he is one of the reasons I like to travel….But during that time they have been playing this commercial for Man vs Food. Ive taken the time to watch about 15 mins of that show a couple of months or weeks ago. That’s all I could take. The premise is to taste local foods and learn their customs blah blah blah. What it turns into is this dude trying to eat as much as he can as fast as he can. There is always some challenge where he has Why do I call it disgusting. How do you watch that when you know this. Not a food show but a show that crescendos with this dude pigging out on crap. I’m not telling you to avoid the show. Watch and enjoy But how do you watch this.

And know this.

Whoo Hoo. I ate a 8 Pound burger look at me.

PS im watching the bachelor. What have I become. How can I watch this knowing that.

What a day.

drew — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 00:28:08 +0000

Not really. Today on the menu I had creamy tomato soup. The blender blew up a little bit. It seems I need an immersion blender. yeah I had to look that up. Its one of these. Anyway now I know. This happened to me the last time I made butternut squash soup. They recommended it then also. Any way good soup good times. Then I sat down and watched Tropic Thunder. yes I did laugh. Tom Cruise I didnt even know that. I guess now I know.

They have been playing marathons all weekend right now im watching a Dirty Job marathon. What a great job. Not so much the host but the crew. They look like they have a lot of fun. I guess they could hate it. I realized this the other day. I don’t know celebrities. I don’t even know reality tv starts. You watch enough shows and you think you do. You think Aaron Sorkin is a nice guy John luke Picard is really the leader of a starship and I know what the Hippies who won the Amazing race is like. It’s weird I don’t know why I think about that stuff I just do. I think this all came out of Tropic thunder. I guess thats not the other day. They were dudes playing dudes playing other dudes. Robert Downey Jr. Character actually sounded sane. I’m at the end of the line. the thoughts are gone. going to see Button with a friend this week. looking forward to that. ok back at it.

Last class

drew — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 03:06:34 +0000

I know many of you have had to endure as I complained about going to class and etc. Well Tomorrow is the last class and I’m ready for it to be over. I took last friday off so that I could write a final paper that is due thursday. A buddy of mine Andy (sorry andy until update I can’t link you) is editing it for me. Its good to have friends like that. Since Tv has started to bore me I have taken to watching netflix movies on instant watch. Mostly documentaries. Real good times. In fact in just a few minutes I will retire to my bed to take in a good time at the movies.

I’ve approached Taylor to see if he would be intersted in working on a project with me this year. Something to do in the off time. I told him not to humor me in it if he wasn’t interested. We will see how that goes. I think he’ll be honest with me. What else. On a side note something else I would like to work on this year. I bought the url changed by one the other day for this reason. I know that many of my friends and friends of friends sponsor kids with World Vision or Compassion or by some smaller outfit well I’d like to tell those stories. What I would like to do is create a place where we can tell those stories you know. Even if it’s not sponsorship. I think many of us have changed the life of one person or have been changed by one person. There is something about the power of one on one interactions. We’ll see how that goes. I guess I would need to set that up soon. Last class and a new day. Maybe I should study? Naw Signing off. oh and here is your monday moment of zen.

Tonight’s tv

drew — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:00:18 +0000

Tonight I watched a show called secret millioaire. Couple of things.

1. It was like they didn’t know there were poor people in the world

2. The dude with the money invented Raisin Canes chicken wings (love those wings)

3. The three stories of the people from the gulf coast… huge. These guys are still digging out after Katrina.

4. The couple with the money did a great thing. Didnt need to go through all that for a tv show but hey three people were helped tonight.

5. When they gave the money out it got me.

Did anyone else watch this?