Hello again! In my previous post, I said I’d like to keep these blog posts as a daily thing. That was three weeks ago. So, I failed. But in between then and now, some things have changed that make this a lot easier of a task. First off, the Knicks won the finals; this means that my last post aged well. Second, and much more important to why daily blog posts are easier to do, is that my summer vacation has begun, meaning I should have the time for 69 or 70 daily posts. That’s why I’ve numbered them, so I can keep track.

The goal is to post these “daily,” with daily in quotes because my sleep schedule will be all kinds of messed up. I’m counting this post for Wednesday, June 24th, but as I’m writing this it’s really 1:50 the following Thursday. In other words, daily with days quantified as the span I am awake, rather than a specific 24 hour period. That could mean a day can have one or possibly two posts, or perhaps if my sleep schedule gets extra screwed, some “days” will have two posts while being in different days (this assumes I pull an all-nighter and know I’ll be lazy enough to write a post the next morning).

Anyways, enough about the technicalities of my blog posts made so I can yap to a guy without a guy to yap to, on to the contents. I’d like my posts over the summer really to be something of a time capsule of it. So I may just yap on what I did that day, or current thoughts on a show I’m watching, or review of an album I’ve listened to or movie I watched. For example…

Stuff I’ve Done

or: doing exactly what I said a sentence ago

Note: These sections are collapsible. If you just so happen to be interested in anything here and want to remain unspoiled, don’t read it!

The Sopranos (Last Watched: S6E7)

I like this one. Not a thing I have to justify in the slightest, as I think most people will easily tell you this is one of the greatest shows of all time. What I’ll focus on today is the show up to this point, which is the vast majority of it, but I think that’s OK.

The dynamic of Tony balancing his life as the mob boss and life with his family, especially in the early seasons with his mother, is fantastic. It’s all brought together with what I think is the pivotal aspect to the show, the therapy scenes. The therapy scenes are, in some way, the most difficult scenes for the show to balance.

I think one of the biggest strengths of any show is a great first season. This show has a phenomenal one. So far through the show, it is my personal favorite, although season five is very close. Maybe it’s because they didn’t know where the series would go, but that season is the only one with a complete arc. And I think the dynamic of Tony and his mom, and his reaction to it through therapy while having to hide it from the mob to keep up his “tough guy” image is fantastic.

Another great aspect of the show is how it balances dark comedy with the dramatic elements. The show can manage having some of the most dramatic moments on television, with the line “He was gay, Gary Cooper?”

I also like how the show is not afraid to show its characters in terrible light. This may seem like a point where it’s like “OK, so what?” now that we have shows like Breaking Bad, but I think The Sopranos is better at it too. For every moment where you side with Tony, there’s at least two to remind you that the characters in this show are almost all horrible people.

To wrap this section up as opposed to yapping worse than six barbers, I’ll talk more on where I think the show is going. Predictions are fun. First of, I think Vito is going to die. The show always gives you those moments of hope that maybe something will work out, especially with Tony B trying to be legitimate and Adrianna’s whole character arc, before ripping it all away. I just don’t think Tony can get over Vito’s homosexuality. Second, I think something will happen that will get Tony at war with New York. I don’t know exactly why I think that one, or how it can happen, but I think it will.


That’s really all I have to say this post. I really wanted this to be a shorter post to get back into writing as a fun little hobby. I expect these will get longer as I go on. Have a good rest of your day, and thanks for reading.