Notes From a Life Asian.

First: Heroes

I watched all of the first Season of Heroes over the past week or two. While I wouldn't say that the show was totally awful since I watched the entire season in 5 or 6 sittings, I will say that there are a lot of awful things about the show.

1) The first, which my brother pointed out, is that the entire show requires that all of the characters act like complete morons all of the time in order for the plot to move forward.

2) Ali Larter is terrible. Like...really terrible. Like...really really terrible. Like...really really really terrible.

3) Hiro's off-screen "Yata!" after the encounter with Sylar in Isaac's apartment is awesome.

4) The entire revealed plot was a direct rip-off of Watchmen. What the hell?

5) This show could potentially have been awesome. It wasn't, even if it was interesting enough to continue watching.

6) I just started Season 2. Amnesia is a stupid, lazy device.

7) Peter Petrelli's floppy sidepart is stupid.

8) Mohinder Suresh's faux Indian accent is atrocious because he's attempting to be British. Fail.

9) My brother just gave me 5 seasons of The Wire.

Two: Glass Palace
Ok. Moving onto literature. I just finished Amitav Ghosh's The Glass Palace after trudging my way through for 2 months and I remain thoroughly, entirely, and sadly unimpressed to the end. Don't read it. I can suggest 5 books that do exactly what he is trying to do, but that execute it much much better. (I haven't read Sea of Poppies, which apparently is quite good...but I'm not taking the chance.) If you want to read a mystical magical India novel, read every other one except for this one. Ugh. I don't understand some of the good reviews. Spoiler Alert:

Everyone dies in stupid meaningless ways and you couldn't care less that they're dead...except that it's clear that you're supposed to sit there after each death and ponder mortality and life. But in reality you ponder his suck.

Moving onto Part 3: Speakers.
I just spent 100 dollars on computer speakers. Generally I would assume that means I get a couple of pieces of garbage and I'm forced to listen to Ingrid Michaelson with less than perfect clarity. But nope! Logitech Z-2300 speakers are friggin INCREDIBLE. Now it turns out the subwoofer is enormous, but it produces such clean, warm, sharp and resilient lows that it's totally worth the space. In addition, although those two tiny little speakers don't look all that impressive...they each have are loaded up with independent tweeters to get those really crisp and clean highs. I imagine that the sound of a handful of pins hitting the floor would sound amazing on these things. Plus, the mids are good. I don't know what mids sound like exactly, but they're good. Heh. In any case, I just wanted to say that if you wanted computer speakers and only want to spend about a hundred bucks...this is the way to go. (Oh, they can also get loud as HELL.)

Part 4: Snack Food.
Don't buy snack food. I just managed to eat an entire bag of japanese rice snacks while watching Heroes S2E1. I was puffy the whole next day.