Who's Thrifty?

This morning, I am supposed to be writing a paper on how my writing has grown throughout high school for my senior English class.
This morning, what I am actually doing is blogging. =)
Last night, I went to the thrift store!
At first I intended to shop for my cosplay (I'm hoping to be Maka from Soul Eater). I didn't really find anything that caught my interest. Then, I wandered over to the DVD section and started looking.
They had some weird stuff over there. There were a bunch of weird weight-loss DVDs, a maybe kung-fu movie called Buddhist Shaolin Avengers, and a couple of PS2 games. Of course, I jumped on those, because I only have about 5 games for my PS2. The only one that interested me was X-Men Legends. So I got it. It's really really scratched up, but I'll clean it and see how it fares. If it works I'll post about it.
I also wandered over to the computer game section and found Oregon Trail II (for Microsoft 3.1 and Windows 95! LOL). Skynugget pressured me to get it via text and so of course I caved in. Now we need a computer with Windows 95 (cause I don't know ANYONE who remembers Microsoft 3.1) so we can play this thing. My mom's old broken computer is still sitting up in my computer room. I think if I mess with the hard drive a bit, install Windows 95, and use it lightly, it might work. So Skynugget and I have a computer date for this weekend.
Anyway, now it's time to move from the potatoes to the tender, delicious beef of the post. I have "The Seeker" by The Who stuck in my head this morning, so I was thinking I'd talk about them for a bit.
I love Pete Townshend's voice. It's got a nice growl to it, even when he's not using the letter r. My favorite example of this (and my favorite of their songs, incidentally) is "My Generation". It may seem a bit outdated, because it was written about and for the generation before mine, but it's still a pretty great song.
I saw The Who in concert about 2 or 3 years ago, and though they're not at their peak anymore, it was still fantastic. Their lighting was great, especially on "Who Are You"- it was right with the music and absolutely epic.
From The Who, we can make a nice segway into CSI (the tv show), because all of their theme songs are Who songs.
I used to be a huge huge fan of regular CSI (aka CSI Las Vegas). This was back before the main boss guy, Gil Grissom (played by William Petersen), left the show. I always vowed to my parents that I would stop watching the show if he left, because he pretty much held the team together. Now I know I made the right choice, because about half the original cast remains and they had Justin Bieber as a guest star. (I want you to know that I gave that kid a chance. My parents were watching and I stayed for about 5 minutes before I couldn't take his pathetic wooden acting anymore.)
My favorite character was always Sarah Sidle (played by Jorja Fox). When she left, I wanted her back. When she came back, I didn't like her anymore. So goes life. Someone I have always and will always like is Greg Sanders (because the actor, Eric Szmanda, is really cute).
I watched a few episodes of CSI Miami and quickly developed a bored hatred of it. The head honcho here is Horatio Caine (played by David Caruso). He's not the greatest actor, in my opinion. Horatio Caine is constantly telling his subordinates how to do their jobs, with such lines as "Take it to the lab". The other characters aren't even really worth mentioning.
CSI NY is the only one of the three that I still watch. It has some fairly good characters, a cute lab tech, and interesting cases. However, I am quickly becoming frustrated by the insane techniques the investigators use to prove their cases. They have a bunch of weird technology that would be really cool if it were real, but isn't real and so can't really be used. A great example of this is a sort of light table that displays a 3D holographic image of a person's body without the skin. Wouldn't it be great if we had something like that in real life? Yeah, but we don't, so do an autopsy like a regular coroner, Sid.
All of this said, there are some things I really like about the CSI series. Before the theme song or the first commercial break, there is an obligatory pun about something case-related that's usually worth a groan. The series are all set in the same universe and started with basically the same cast of characters. However, they are drifting apart in terms of plot and what they are known for, brought together again by the occasional crossover episode.
tl;dr? : I like bunnies.
~Pigeonmeister