sweltering tivo green volleyball..

It's so freakin' hot in California tonight that it's gone past ridiculous and back round again. Whatever that means. It hit 100 today, anyhow, and I was glad I didn't have to work outside anywhere. But I do need to get a laptop so I can work in the room that has decent air-conditioning.

So we finally, finally, gloriously got a TiVo, and I'm already drooling at all the good stuff it's got recording for us. I'm also now tempted to subscribe to Showtime, cos they seem to have a 'get 50 bucks if you subscribe for 3 months' offer, and 3 months worth is less than 50 bucks - so seems like a deal. Although just about everything on Showtime itself is either movies we can Netflix or rubbishy, save Penn And Teller: Bullshit!, the jewel in the crown of the Showtime deal seems to be The Sundance Channel, which you can only get with Showtime and has some very good-looking documentaries and independent movies - stuff like Gods And Monsters, Wilde, The Spanish Prisoner, and many many others I haven't seen. If I get it, I'll tell you if it's worth it.

Finally, thanks to TiVo and the skippability factor, you will be getting regular New Tom Green Show updates from me until I bore of it, or he gets cancelled - all bets are off regarding which one will come first. Last night's episode had, well, Glenn Humplik turning up with his arm in a cast 'cos Andy Dick broke Glenn's thumb wrestling on the show the previous night (!), Tom showing a whole bunch of laidback charisma but not a whole bunch of interviewing skills, Jamie Kennedy being vaguely amusing, a good filmed segment where Tom found Tom Green County and harassed all the residents, Fred Durst showing that he can only ever sip a mug of water twice (he's obsessive-compulsive about it, apparently), and.. this one swung back to watchable for me, but I'm still, admittedly, a fan to start with. We'll see how the ratings work out.. the New York Post loved it, but I think the review is a bit too effusive, frankly.

Aren't I meant to talk about videogames sometime, too? I still love Dead Or Alive: Xtreme Beach Volleyball, which is well worth buying at the $30 Target has it for, and my next two GoVoJo rentals are Midtown Madness 3 and Wario World, so I'll bust out the (lack of ) knowledge about those when they arrive. Yay?