Some of you know I had my basic cable turned off, and have resorted to bittorrents and hulu for my show programming. Honestly, I’ve discovered some great, amazing content as a result. I’ve started watching Rescue Me, House, and this show. I’m saving about $80+ a month as a result of this switch, and since I don’t watch tv that much anyway, it hasn’t been that difficult. Of course, it helps to have a mac mini hooked up to the hdtv and have blu-ray available via my Sony PS3, plus the hd antenna. The only network that’s really irritating me is CBS. I love Big Bang Theory and How I Met Your Mother, but they REFUSE to show these online for some reason. That’s where bittorrent and that old reliable, usenet, comes in handy. Plus the hd antenna gets the current episodes for my tivo so i’m set.

1) They all have to live in the same house, in BUNKS, in shared rooms.
2) The girls have the nastiest, cattiest attitudes toward each other “Oh, Team doesn’t have a chance in hell, because they’re just not pretty like us”
3) The first challenge was for each team to come up with an outfit, a name, and some introduction for themselves to give a good first impression to the judges:
4) Of which, Carson from Queer Eye is one, and definitely does NOT filter his thoughts, which are deliciously wicked.
5) One team thought it was smart to dub themselves “Silent But Deadly.” That alone had me giggling for 10 mins nonstop, especially since that’s what was written on their sashes.
6) The FINALE. OMFG. They have two teams as the bottom scoring contestants (the groups who were the most cocky and “beautiful” but with no personality). They call out the one team to pick up the jewel-encrusted scisssors…and a couple secs later tell them to CUT THE SASHES OFF THE OTHER TEAM. Holy crap, how evil!

Needless to say, I’ve seen all I’m really interested in, but that hour was just incredibly campy, trashy, and unintentionally hilarious. s

The guy has a mansion with SIX KITCHENS. The place is so huge, it has its own green screen room, nightclub (that can fit 2,000 people), hell, he has one closet just for HATS.

And I’m wondering how the hell these rap stars have the kind of money to be spending on absurdly overindulgent pads like these…but then I came across a news article that reported 50 Cent made $400 million on the sale of his investment in Vitamin Water to Coca-Cola.

I gotta hand it to him, he has a brilliant financial manager. He doesn’t really have to do much of anything, ever.

Having said that, I think it’s ridiculous to own a home that has six kitchens in it (one of which he opened up the oven parts were still in their boxes…the kitchen had never been used). :-/

What’s funny is, his net worth pre-Vitamin Water, was $40mil. Talk about a huge boost in his income…

I’m in geek heaven.

Anyway, it got me to thinking…why, exactly, do I have Showtime or HBO anymore? I used to have HBO because of all the great programming: Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Sex and the City, some of the Real Sex programming, and now…nothing? There’s not one show that appeals to me on HBO right now.

As for Showtime, the only reason I’m keeping that one around is because of my very favorite show on TV, Dexter. And even that I can just download off the intarwebs. I think tomorrow I’m going to probably cancel all my “premium content” channels…for that matter, I think I’m gonna call DirecTV tomorrow and give Comcrap the boot. I’ve never had so many bad experiences from a service before. Probably time to unleash myself under their oppressive, hate-their-customers, attitude.

So all this got me thinking as to what shows I’m enjoying this season. Well, as just posted about Bionic Woman, I tried to watch the first episode and it was just painful. Chuck seemed pretty ridiculously stupid too. The only new show this season I’m truly enjoying is Reaper. All the other new programs just seem pretty crappy.

So what am I watching this year?

• Dexter
• Heroes
• LOST
• Reaper
• Drawn Together
• South Park (which is, actually, on notice…they seem to hate everyone that had public attention, and go to great pains to slam them as hard as they can…see, Bono as a great pile of shit)
• Family Guy
• Simpsons
• Ugly Betty
• Project Runway (soon!)

Other than that, I can’t say I’m too interested in anything else on the boob tube these days. Which I guess is a good thing, seeing as how I watch more TV these days than I ever did pre-Tivo.

Sweeeeeet.