Top Gear: BBC {TeleVision}

I'm sixteen right now, but I don't have my license, or my learners, but that doesn't stop me from liking cars. Top Gear is a British TV show by middle-aged men who like driving hugely expensive sports cars, for middle-aged men who would like to drive hugely expensive sports cars.

It's really popular with those men who drive BMWs and Mercs. Those guys who don't actually have sports cars, but if they had the money for new tires, they would certainly be out drifting in whatever they have. These men wear kakai slacks and loafers, their silk ties swinging out of their unzipped wind breakers, and one dollar bills drift to the ground in the wake of their purposeful stride as they step up to their gleaming black BMW M series. Ridiculous imagery aside, I'd love to be him, everything from the one dollar bills to the last "s" in series. And Top Gear is a bit of that.

Now seriously, here's the review.

The Talk: Nearly every episode has a bit of talk in it. There are needless challenges, monologues about the prime minister: his various road laws or construction projects on the A1, car specs, new car news, and guest stars: Britain's minor celebs who come on, drive an average car and try to compete with the previous guests. Although I wouldn't say that all of them are minor, some are Tom Cruise.

The Walk: This is a horrible understatement, on Top Gear, they don't walk any where. Driving is the way to go, and -horrible puns excused- go they do! A Ferrari is the highlight of any show, seeing two actually race each other is really great programing. But as you may have expected that's not all, no, Aston Martin DB9, Lamborghini Gallardo, Porsche 911, and cars I'd never heard of before watching Top Gear, like: The Bugatti Veyron, my all time favorite car, and the Maserati Quattroporte, both total beasts of the tarmac.

The Stig: The Top Gear professional faceless racing man: is awesome.

In Summation: As a show, Top Gear, like any other has it's flaws, some it clearly knows about and others slightly deeper. As entertainment, however, Top Gear is an excellent vehicle.

Thank you for reading, for liking what I like, and for allowing my tasteless puns, though you will never stop them anyway.

www.topgear.com/uk/
www.bbc.com
And also, because the corporate big-wigs are stupid, you'll have to obtain this show through the grapevine.
http://tv.blinkx.com/ 
Search for Top Gear.
New episodes start 29th, Blinkx will have them a few days later, if not next day.

The Nerdist Podcast

After reading my interests post, [link] you may have been like; what's a podcast? Well curious fellow, it's a audio track that is delivered to your ears via iTunes (or the internet). On these tracks, people talk, usually in a nonspecific way about the topic that their podcast is about. A theme... I realize that this doesn't make sense. But that's okay with me because I'm not telling you about all podcasts, just one right now.

The Nerdist Podcast: The three hosts, Chris Hardwick, Matt Mira, and Jonah Ray, all have nerdy professions and obsessions. Maybe not professions so much: they're comedians. But as they'll tell you, that really just means that they live life obsessing about those little things that annoy us all. The itches in society. That isn't the only things they do though, not at all. Though the host-full episodes are my personal favorites, the interviews of nerdy celebrities are intriguing, entertaining, and hugely amusing. It's a comedy podcast for nerds and geeks, mostly in their twenties, but still entertaining for an older or younger audience.

The Guests: The sort of celebrity that wants to have a recorded hour-long heartfelt conversation with three men who label themselves nerds is an interesting kind. The most famous, like David Tenant, David Cross, Neil Gaiman, Ben Folds, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Andy Samberg... The list goes on, quite literally, there are one hundred and fifty-seven episodes. (As of January 20th 2012.)

The Live Shows: Recently, with the boom of podcasting and The Nerdist in particular, (number three one the iTunes comedy podcast chart) they have taken to the air in order to land near you and send you into fits of crippling laughter from LIVE shows! Though you might not be able to go no worries, it wouldn't be a podcast if it weren't recorded and cast onto the net. How poetic. I've never been, nor will I. These are twenty-one and up shows, so unless they keep it up for five years, and I'm still listening, I won't be going. Still I recommend it to anyone who can.

Host-full episodes: A Nerdist podcast host-full episode is hilarious, heartfelt and personal. Since a host-full episode doesn't have a guest to focus on, they always swerve all over the place and tangent like non-Euclidean geometry. These episodes really feel like you're there, and the listener often feels like they're just being the quiet guy in the conversation: there, but too far away to say anything. (paradox) You also really get to know the guys, they're really good friends of mine after all the hours I've heard them, and in the least stalker-ey way possible! That is, to know someone with out them ever seeing you. It isn't stalker-ey, right?

Nerdist.com
Nerdist.iTunes.com

My Interests

DISCLAIMER: 

('cause that's cool.)

If you have interests in any one or more of the items on this list, read on. If you are interested in none, not even one, you may want to save your time for better things. If you know someone who does have interests in these things, tell them. Actually, if you have interest and have friends who have interest, tell them. The more the merrier. I don't want to keep up a one-sided  conversation when there really isn't anyone there. Thanks.

Actual post follows:

Hey.

I'd like to introduce myself. 

First and foremost, I'm Me, I'm sixteen, I'm home-schooled, I'm the youngest of five, (I have four siblings). That's me. I'm also pretty weird, and I have one goal in creating this blog.

The Blog, introduces itself.
The purpose of this blog is to communicate in a general manner to those people who are like-minded and enthusiastic about the things I like. So below is a list of the things that I plan on writing about, the stuff I like. See? This is all about the things I like! And other stuff. I won't  be holding myself to anything I say here, I want to keep the field open. Feel free to suggest stuff. If you like the things I do, I might well like the things you like.

/Building with Lego, formerly known as a toy.

/RPing. (If you don't know what it is... I'll tell you in a later post.)

/The SciFi genre (tv, movies, books, anime...)

/Technology

/Comedy 

/Podcasts

/Books

/Social commentary (yes, that is an interest, but it is also a category under-which I will be posting.)

/The Internet (The things I do online.)

/Television
/Gaming

These are the things I like. These are the categories which I will post in. The title will tell you which category it is in, so if you don't like, say, Podcasts, you can just skip or delete that post from your RSS..? No need to read. Every time that I feel that my interests have strayed drastically, I will post another "Interests" post, telling you what is the new and totally rad thing I like.

Thanks.