TV SHOW REVIEW - JETT

Are you getting a bit fed up with vampires, zombies or the regular police shows that are currently running on tv and would like to see something else for a change? 

I would suggest that you give Jett a chance, another new show from Cinemax, the company that a couple of years ago gave us Banshee, and earlier this year also showed the first season of Warrior. 

I am in no way saying the show is doing anything that has not been done before, but it is a step towards the older style of tv, where there is no excessive action or impossible tricks. 

The show is about a professional thief named Daisy "Jett" Kowalski that is played by the all so beautiful Carla Gugino. It is one of those shows that get you rooting for someone that in real life would be considered the "bad guy", but I guess there are different grades of bad, and then it makes it easy to root for the least bad of the bad. 

The entire show gives the feeling that it is played out more during the 90s, but I cannot remember that they actually declared when it should be taking place, but it has the classic criminal style, mixed in with the all so popular mobster style. 

Being a show that is shown on Cinemax, you can expect it to have some "direct" language and no bleeping or rewritten words to avoid penalties from the censoring boards in the US, and all this make the show even more..well I guess "real" would be the correct word, even if played out in a world where I do not spend my days. 

If you lack stuff to watch then give Jett a chance, I would probably rate it as 6.8 out of 10 after seeing the first 7 episodes of season 1. 

Enjoy

/J

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I THINK I AM A GEEK

How do you define what a geek is? 

According to Wikipedia, part of the meaning is: 

The word geek is a slang term originally used to describe eccentric or non-mainstream people; in current use, the word typically connotes an expert or enthusiast or a person obsessed with a hobby or intellectual pursuit. 

If we are to go by this definition I would absolutely consider myself a Geek, and proudly so, as I would not see anything wrong in being very interested in your hobby, even though "obsessed" would have a very negative ring to it and more used to describe stalkers. 

What are the hobbies that I would consider myself to be very interested in? 

Well, poker has for the last 15 years been a major part of my life, mainly as I for almost 10 years lived from my poker winnings, even though there were months where I barely made it work, I still managed to keep it up for just about 10 years, this however had its downside as well. 

Being a full-time poker player and mainly playing online, this would mean that I spent most of my time during a day and night was in front of a computer and having only a few short bursts of time for eating. 

To explain that further, that was mainly due to me playing tournaments online, and when doing so, you had 5 minutes of paus every hour, and if you took a paus at another time, you would lose chips and also miss out on hands that could have gained you more poker chips. 

The easy way for this was to order food and have it delivered to you, and you avoided the cooking of food, since this took time you considered yourself not to have, and being lazy and sitting still and eating junk food, we all know this is far from a healthy lifestyle. 

It got me to gain even more weight, and to spiral and become even more lazy, and all this of course is a very bad spiral from which I have yet to get myself out of. 

Further to this, what do you do when you have a lazy lifestyle, you spend more time doing lazy things, and even though I have always loved movies and tv-shows, this interest has grown even more in the years that has past. 

So much so, that now when I see a new show coming, I way to easy identify flaws and bad casting and even though this is a good thing, as it stops me from spending time watching 4 to 7 episodes just to then hear the show has been cancelled. 

You also quickly learn that some actors just cannot be a leading man/woman in a show, and this as well may lead to a show being cancelled, but I will also admit that I am trying to grow my pallet for shows, as I have been very judgmental when it comes to some shows. 

For example, I have always been somewhat negative to Swedish tv-shows, mainly due to the poor budget, which often lead to more comical and amateurish look of a show, however this has changed a lot in the last few years and I am proud to say there are several really good Swedish shows out there. 

I will try and give some recommendations of some of the shows I like in coming posts, in case there are some of you that want to have some tips and suggestions. 

Best regards,
J

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PREMIER LEAGUE START

The daily routine of refreshing twitter or gossip columns to see if there is any new transfers about to happen is coming to a close and the real football season is about to start. 

I am a Liverpool fan and Premier League is always a bit of a sore subject for us Liverpool fans, due to the lack of titles, yeah it is hard to believe I know, but it is true. 

Last year was a year that had Liverpool fans excited as we were involved in the title race up until the end, and of course ended up winning the Champions League. 

And I know there are some people that gets upset when a supporter is phrasing it as "WE won" and so on, but this is a way of expressing that we are a part of club, not as a player or staff but as a fan, a fan that is spending money on tickets, shirts, and whatever else there may be, all to show our support to the club we truly love. 

We also suffer with the players when they have setbacks, and we share their joy when there is success, and this is why supporters use the phrasing of "We" when talking about the club that they love. 

I also know that there are plenty of people out there that has no interest at all in sports, and this is just as surprising to me as it is for them that I really love a club or a sport. 

With Liverpool winning the Champions league for the 6th time last season (yes, 6 times!) we fans of course wants to see our club fight for the title this year, and seeing as we have managed to keep the entire squad and they have gotten to know each other even more, this will be a very interesting season, and I really hope that I will not have lost hope after 10 weeks. 

YNWA!

/J

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GOING HOME!

Last time I went back to Sweden was for christmas 2017, which makes it high time to pack the bag and put my fat ass in one of those "way to small for my ass" airplane seats.

Currently at my all time high on the weight scale and traveling is a pain in the ass and hopefully the plane will not be fully booked and I could be lucky to not get someone on the seat next to me, for both mine and their sake. 

Even if I were smaller, I really due hate the traveling part, standing in line, sitting on uncomfortable seats, waiting, waiting and then having to wait a bit more, and then when I am finally on Swedish grounds, I just have to take a 2 hour ride by car to finally arrive in my home town Sandviken. 

There are of course the obvious reasons to go back home, to visit family and friend and to make sure that everyone is fine, and then there is of course all the great junk food that I have been missing. 

Going home and eating a whole bunch of junk food is not exactly the best of plans, but who would be able to resist the kebab from Pizza House in Gävle and a pizza from Verona, and just to make sure that you get a little better understanding, I will be sure to share a few images with you from the visits. 

I will only go home for a week, and then there is back to work again and try and get into the right mindset to then go and win the Battle of Malta in October. 

I wish all of you out there all the best and talk to you soon. 

/J

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NFL Season Start

It is that wonderful time of the year again, most football leagues in Europe is about to kick off and every fan is refreshing to see what is happening with their favorite team on the transfer market.

However, on the other side of the world there is something else going on, there the interest in European football is to be, well luke warm to say the least.

As a NY Giants fan this is no longer a time of excitement, but more a time of dread and fear of what will happen this season, and of what Eli Manning will do..or not do.

Giants dropped the best wide receiver they had, and looking it from a players perspective it is understandable, since he had no QB that could offer him the deep routes.

Left behind is one of the more promising running backs in the league in Saquon Barkley, who due to lack of other options, probably will be used more often than any other player and I find it unlikely that Giants will manage to have a good season with the lack of depth in quality players.

Maybe this is the year that Eli will step down when Giants are 1-7 and newly drafted QB Daniel Jones will be offered a chance to take some snaps in a competitive game.

As we say, maybe next year...

/J

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