My highlights:

• Boston Med: the best medical drama of 2010.
• Haven: chances are that show is not long for this world.
• The Gates: should have been a winner but wasn’t.
• Persons Unknown: championed at the beginning, but unfortunately, all the persons remained unknown.
• The Good Guys: has become a classic case of the whole being less than the sum of its parts.
• Rubicon: got off to a slow start, but I’m sticking with it.
• Covert Affairs: It just hasn’t grabbed me.

And I already drop True Blood (watched first season only), Drop Dead Diva, Pretty Little Liars (I don’t really like teenage shows or CW), overrated Mad Men.

[Zap2it]

Entourage: Jun/27/2010
Dexter: Sep/26/2010
Californication: Sep/2010
The Big Bang Theory
How I Met Your Mother
The Mentalist
Modern Family
The Good Wife
Parenthood
House M.D.
How to Make It in America
Skins
Men of a Certain Age
Friday Night Lights

Lost series finale didn’t give us any explanation to the question that need to be answered. Full of drama crap – ‘and they lived happily ever after’ tale, tho they died. Where the hell is the mystery, sci-fi, thriller thing? It’s like, ok, it’s all dream, I got you.
I actually dropped this series somewhere in season 4, too many unresolved mystery, supernatural-weird way, the story wanders off in the middle nowhere. But I picked it up again last month when I knew the end is near (stupid comparison, smallville will end next season, 10 season, I give up at season 7). No other better series to watch atm.

Whatever happened, happened. See you in another life, brother. Moving on, Dude.

[update 260510] Why I’m Okay With Not Having All The Answers

emotionally satisfying, not intellectually satisfying

I was slowing down last month. 31 movies. Many crap R5 came out last month, but I didn’t get it. Only one new movie (on the scene) worth mentioning I think, The Road. New Moon is crap, Merantau have an ok action scene, Killer Bean, nice animation, considering it’s a one man show. And I finished project thel671 too, 28.12 gigs.

Hachiko: A Dog’s Story
Da bing xiao jiang
Dirty Harry
Back to the Future
The Slammin’ Salmon
The Missing Person
Seabiscuit
The Sting
A Christmas Carol
Edge of Darkness
Fight Club
The Silence of the Lambs
Shichinin no samurai
Goodfellas
Casablanca
Being John Malkovich
Merantau
Getaway in Stockholm
The Stoning of Soraya M.
Go Fish
Kissing Jessica Stein
The Road
El secreto de sus ojos
The Cove
La teta asustada
High Life
New Moon
Leaves of Grass
Astro Boy
Killer Bean Forever
Sophie’s Choice

I got this hint from macosxhints somewhere.

Say you downloaded movies from scene, sub included, usually it’s on sub + idx format. Many media player don’t work well with this, or you just want plain srt files. What you need is D-Subtitler, OCR (Optical character recognition) app, it scan an image and encode it into text. This is an old released app. Sometimes the result is just muddy.

Way to do it:

• Change extension *.sub to *.vob
• Drag and drop to D-Subtitler. When it says it’s waiting, click on the green circle (I always thought I have to wait for something).
• So far all subs I got only work with Choice of gray levels: 255,255,0,255
• Use TextEdit to scan any error (Edit > Spelling and Grammar > Show Spelling and Grammar ) ⌘:
• You can use more complex and serious app like MovCaptioner. This is actually used for captioning.

Bonus:

A.Christmas.Carol.DVDRip.XviD-RUBY english subtitle: ruby-accarol.srt

Just a little thing, a little late.

The winner is better than last year. So many great movies in 2009, double nominees for Best Picture.

On the Oscar day, I actually want to upload subtitle for El secreto de sus ojos (foreign language winner), but I deleted it accidentally. It isn’t serious detective stuff. But overall it’s nice. Yeah, better than prophète, weisse band, and of course la teta asustada.

2010. Still waiting for better release of Percy Jackson. Curious about Prince of Persia, I played it once. Eat, Pray, Love, it was shot in Bali. There’s avatar this year too :D. The last airbender. What else?  Trilogy… Toy Story, Twilight (bleh, Vomit’s releases type). Damn, I forgot. Tron Legacy, epic?

Subtitle for Sophies.Choice.1982.WS.DVDRip.XViD.iNT-EwDp, another old movie, credits to the original, resync job only. Video/audio info from nfo, too lazy to get it myself.

Filename: ewdp-sophieschoice.xvid.cd1.srt | ewdp-sophieschoice.xvid.cd2.srt

Size: 2CD | 1.39 GB
Video: 1273 kbps | 592×320 (1.85:1) | 25 fps
Audio: English | 128 kbps VBR MP3
Runtime: 144 min

The only good thing that come out of it is that you can finish it in an hour.

It’s kinda slow on the scene and tv last month (by the way ZeroSec totally dead, now we take refugee in SceneSource). So, as you can see, way too many old movies (released on the scene before last month).

Count: 49 movies. 16 new.

Someone asked me for recommendation last month. So, for this month; I’m not watching Crazy Heart yet, but I think we must (3 oscar nomination – countdown to live event, 5 days).
[Rec] 2 is out, it’s mediocre, but it’s the sequel, continuation from the first one.

Animation. You must see Logorama, short animation, oscar nominee. $9.99 is nice, and Penguins quartet got their own DVD, though half of the DVD come from the series.

One more thing, ブリーチ project finished last month, [47.61 GB]₁₀ too many to watch, and I finished DLing-watching Californication season 3 in one day.

Here’s the list:

Harry Brown
Citizen Kane
[Rec] 2
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Scarface
Rosemary’s Baby
Chinatown
From Paris with Love
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
Un prophète
Y tu mamá también
Legion
Per qualche dollaro in più
Crazy Heart
About a Boy
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo.
La môme
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant
Brothers
Logorama
Death Proof
Reservoir Dogs
Agora
Arlington Road
13 Going on 30
Caddyshack
Ulee’s Gold
Feast of Love
Romeo + Juliet
$9.99
Dare
Les anges exterminateurs
Ne te retourne pas
The Greatest
The Firm
“Hallmark Hall of Fame” Front of the Class
Nine
Swingers
The Penguins of Madagascar Operation: DVD Premier
Say Anything…
Tetro
Gia
Everybody’s Fine
High Art
Naissance des pieuvres

Here’s subtitle for one old movie, Swingers.1996.iNTERNAL.DVDRiP.XViD-GHEYLARD-TBT. Credits to original author, no transcript editing, resync only.

gld-swingers.srt

(Use MediaInfo to get this)

Format/Info: Audio Video Interleave
File size: 694 MiB

Video:
Codec ID/Hint: XviD
Duration: 1h 32mn
Bit rate: 910 Kbps
Width: 512 pixels
Height: 384 pixels
Display aspect ratio: 4:3
Frame rate: 25.000 fps

Audio:
Codec ID/Hint: MP3
Duration: 1h 32mn
Bit rate mode: Variable
Bit rate: 127 Kbps