Black Irish

I just finished watching the pilot episode of The Black Donnellys - a new NBC show that I had heard good things about. It seems like a pretty great show - I caught the end of a new episode tonight while I was flipping the channels, and it was good enough to draw me in to download the first one off of iTunes. It's the story of a reluctant hero, which is usually enough to draw me in. Anyway, I recommend it.

This is the great thing about the new career I'm going to embark on: watching TV shows and movies is considered "research." It's like when I was studying in Spain and I considered watching television "practice" for my Spanish - every time I sit down and really watch something, it gives me a bunch of ideas for what I'll write. Even if the only thing that I know tonight is that I want to write and star in a movie about a Scottish badass who outsmarts most people but occasionally has to beat the crap out of somebody when all else fails. It's a can't miss premise. I'm already fine-tuning my accent.

I'm about to download the other episodes that I haven't seen so that I can watch them tomorrow while I'm on the trainer. I've set up a system in my small room here in Vermont that lets me plug my headphones in and watch stuff on my computer while I'm riding. I only got an hour in today (then promptly ate some ice cream to undo all the work) but I also lifted so it wasn't a total failure. Maybe I'll get outside tomorrow, though I hear it might snow. Also, at this point I'm planning on sleeping into the early afternoon.