An Easter with Doubt

So I had a pretty good weekend at home for Easter. It was good to spend some time with my family and get some good food out of the occasion, which I swear I must have gained a few pounds this weekend alone. I was also happy that even though it was Easter, not really any religious conversations came up. I don't know if this was just by chance (more than likely) or if they actually realize that I'm not religious at all anymore. On that very topic, it created some interesting topics of discussion this past week at work, with some members finding out others are actually religious or that others aren't religious at all. I found the situation pretty funny since I at one point was in both camps and now I'm looking back on the whole thing. (And this whole past week I found myself more and more cynical to religion and Easter in general so I was curious how this past weekend might go)

This past week I saw the movie Doubt. It's about the suspicion of a priest in a catholic church doing inappropriate things to a young boy. The movie itself never lets you know whether it is true or not since it is supposed to cause "Doubt". The film was excellent and I found it pretty riveting since I was trying to find indication of one way or another. My main problems with the film all stem from just the setting of the film. The film does a very good job of depicting judgmental attitudes along with holier than though attitudes among other things. Basically it easily reminds me of tons of things I hate about the Catholic church and made me angry at several parts. Having that battle between a good movie and something I hate provided an interesting viewing experience.

Also last week was the premiere of some new shows on NBC (and some more coming up). Particularly, I saw the first episodes of Parks and Recreation and Southland. I thought Parks and Recreation was a little awkward but had some potential and was kinda good. I remember some of the initial Office episodes being a little awkward and it turned out quite well. My main problem is that it might be a little too similar to The Office. It is the exact same thing and I think Steve Carell does a better job than Amy Poehler. I though Southland was ok at best. It mainly seemed like another cop drama that didn't bring anything new to the table. I think I may stick with both shows at the moment though since they have some good time slots on Thursday nights. P.S. that night's 30 Rock episode was one of the best episodes I've seen in quite some time. I was actually laughing out loud for once and it just kept me laughing. Good stuff.
My main fear with adding two more potential shows I like to watch is that I'm following way too many shows as it is. I barely have time to do anything else and I know I'll have trouble once fall comes around, although it seems like some may not get renewed.

Lastly, this weekend I briefly tried out Boxee. I've heard lots of great things since it's supposed to be a decent streaming aggregate software. I have to say, I'm not impressed. I had tons of problems that aren't enough to win me over. The main site I use is Hulu, so I checked this out first. It doesn't really support my queue feature as it was grabbing from the bottom of the queue which kinda defeats the purpose. It also was unable to go back many episodes of shows like anime. I then decided to go try another channel so I checked out Netflix. After some trouble logging in, I tried to stream something but got another error forcing that channel useless. Lastly I went over to Rev3 to just try and stream something and found the quality to be pretty crappy. Missing from the main Boxee are features like a main queue and key channels like ABC, CBS, Fancast, and Crunchyroll. As it stands, I do not like this software one bit and don't see what the fuss is about. Maybe in due time I will come to check it out again, but right now I have no problem going to individual sites.