The other day I bought E.S. Posthumus' second CD titled "Cartographer." I really enjoy the new CD. It contains two discs, one featuring vocals by Luna Sans, and the other with remixes of the songs from the first disc. It's still not as grand as the first CD by E.S. Posthumus (titled "Unearthed"), but it's a very good follow-up.

You may know E.S. Posthumus from a few movie trailers, and especially the theme song to the TV show Cold Case. You can listen to the first CD for free,and hear a few snippets of the second CD, on their web site: http://www.esposthumus.com/.

The Missing Pieces

I saw a thread where you grade Buffy episodes and it got me into a whole grading craze for the show. So, I graded each 144 episodes based on memory of watching the episodes when I did...which was a year ago. Some of the grading may seem unfair or whatever, but I'm surprised at the overall grades: ***Series Grade, **Seasonal Grades, and *Episode Grades.

Series Overall Grade (Televsion Only): C-

Seasonal Grades (Television Only):

S1: C

S2: C+

S3: C+

S4: C+

S5: B-

S6: B-

S7: B-

Episode Grades (Television Only):

Season 1

Ep1: Welcome to the Hellmouth: B+

Ep2: The Harvest: B

Ep3: The Witch: B-

Ep4: Teacher's Pet: C-

Ep5: Never Kill a Boy on the First Date: C-

Ep6: The Pack: B+

Ep7: Angel: A-

Ep8: I, Robot...You, Jane: D+

Ep9: The Puppet Show: D+

Ep10: Nightmares: C-

Ep11: Out of Mind, Out of Sight: C-

Ep12: Prophecy Girl: A

Ep1: When She Was Bad: B

Ep2: Some Assembly Required: D

Ep3: School Hard: A-

Ep4: Inca Mummy Girl: D

Ep5: Reptile Boy: D

Ep6: Halloween: A-

Ep7: Lie To Me: B

Ep8: The Dark Age: B-

Ep9: What's My Line? Part 1: A-

Ep10: What's My Line? Part 2: B

Ep11: Ted: C

Ep12: Bad Eggs: D

Ep13: Surprise: A

Ep14: Innocence: A-

Ep15: Phases: B-

Ep16: Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered: C-

Ep17: Passion: A

Ep18: Killed By Death: C+

Ep19: I Only Have Eyes For You: B

Ep20: Go Fish: C-

Ep21: Becoming Part 1: A-

Ep22: Becoming Part 2: A-

Ep1: Anne:B-

Ep2: Dead Man's Party: C

Ep3: Faith, Hope, and Trick: B-

Ep4: Beauty and the Beasts: C

Ep5: Homecoming: C

Ep6: Band Candy: A-

Ep7: Revelations: B+

Ep8: Lover's Walk: B-

Ep9: The Wish: A+

Ep10: Amends: A-

Ep11: Gingerbread: C+

Ep12: Helpless: A

Ep13: The Zeppo: B-

Ep14: Bad Girls: C+

Ep15: Consequences:C+

Ep16: Doppelgangland: B

Ep17: Enemies: B

Ep18: Earshot: B-

Ep19: Choices: C

Ep20: The Prom:B

Ep21: Graduation Day (1): B+

Ep22: Graduation Day (2): A-

Season 4

Ep1: The Freshman: B-

Ep2: Living Conditions: C

Ep3: The Harsh Light of Day: B-

Ep4: Fear, Itself: C

Ep5: Beer Bad: D

Ep6: Wild at Heart: A-

Ep7: The Initiative: B-

Ep8: Pangs: A-

Ep9: Something Blue: B-

Ep10: Hush: A+

Ep11: Doomed: D

Ep12: A New Man: B-

Ep13: The I in Team: B-

Ep14 Goodbye Iowa: C+

Ep15: This Year's Girl: A

Ep16: Who Are You?: A-

Ep17: Superstar: C

Ep18: Where the Wild Things Are: F

Ep19: New Moon Rising: B-

Ep20: The Yoko Factor: C

Ep21: Primeval: A-

Ep22: Restless: A-

Season 5

Ep1: Buffy vs. Dracula: A-

Ep2: Real Me: B-

Ep3: The Replacement: C

Ep4: Out of my Mind: C

Ep5: No Place Like Home: A-

Ep6: Family: B

Ep7: Fool for Love: B

Ep8: Shadow: B-

Ep9: Listening to Fear: C

Ep10: Into the Woods: B-

Ep11: Triangle: B-

Ep12: Checkpoint: A-

Ep13: Blood Ties: B

Ep14: Crush: B+

E15: I Was Made to Love You: C

Ep16: The Body: A+

Ep17: Forever: B

Ep18: Intervention: C

Ep19: Tough Love: B-

Ep20: Spiral: A-

Ep21: The Weight of the World: B-

Ep22: The Gift: A+

Ep1&2: Barganing I & II: A+

Ep3: After Life: B+

Ep4: Flooded: B-

Ep5: Life Serial: B-

Ep6: All the Way:C

Ep7: Once More, With Feeling: A+

Ep8: Tabula Rasa: B-

Ep9: Smashed: C

Ep10: Wrecked: C

Ep11: Gone: D

Ep12: Doublemeat Palace: B-

Ep13: Dead Things: B

Ep14: Older and Far Away: B-

Ep15: As You Were: C

Ep16: Hell's Bells: B-

Ep17: Normal Again: A-

Ep18: Entropy: B

Ep19: Seeing Red: A-

Ep20: Villians: B

Ep21: Two To Go: A

Ep22: Grave: A-

Ep1: Lessons: B

Ep2: Beneath You: A-

Ep3: Same Time, Same Place: B-

Ep4: Help: A-

Ep5: Selfless: A-

Ep6: Him: C+

Ep7: Conversations With Dead People: A+

Ep8: Sleeper: B-

Ep9: Never Leave Me: A-

Ep10: Bring On The Night: B+

Ep11: Showtime: B-

Ep12: Potential: C

Ep13: The Killer In Me: D

Ep14: First Date: D-

Ep15: Get It Done: C

Ep16: Storyteller: B

Ep17: Lies My Parents Told Me: A+

Ep18: Dirty Girls: A-

Ep19: Empty Places:B-

Ep20: Touched: B-

Ep21: End Of Days: B+

Ep22: Chosen: A+

*** Grading for Series Grade was based on grading the overal seasonal grades (to the best of my ability in grading them without a lot of technical constructs).

** Grading for Seasonal was based on the overall grading of the episodes of the season (to the best of my ability in grading them without a lot of technical constructs).

* Grading for seasonal episodes was based on experience of viewage and overall feeling from the episode.

I wanted to add this here, the link to my YouTube videos and discuss things about them.

My YouTube videos are located HEREand I hope you'll take the time to view them, if you're a fan of Buffy or ANGEL.

I made almost 20 fan videos during the last three or four years as of February last year. Most of them aren't listed on that page that I've linked to,simply because my first few were either terrible or had stupid music.My final video was "Bring Me On," and I loved it, still do.

Last year I decided to stop doing the videosbecause I was ending my fan site for Buffy and ANGEL at the time -- I was annoyed by the slow server service I was getting.

Around the internet there were fan sites that judged fan videos, and I entered on a few Buffy/ANGEL video sites and won a few "awards," which were little graphic arts you could put on your site. Well, at the time a few of those sites were ending, so that's another reason why I stopped doing the videos.

A final reason for stopping the "vidding" was due to the fact that they were time consuming. First I had to choose the clips I wanted from my DVDs, and that took hours, then I had to "rip" them and then edit them into a video...that took a few days, especially with using Windows Movie Maker 2 because it would freeze the computer at a certain point (everybody who has used WMM2 knows what I mean).

Then this past fall, by getting encouraged by a few ANGEL fan pals at the ANGEL forum here, I decided to load them on YouTube. My initial reason was for the fact that I put a lot into the videos and thought they shouldn't just be lost forever, even if some of them weren't that great -- because someone would likely enjoy them.

It was a nice experience, editing those videos. It brought out a lot of creativity in me that I never knew was there, and for that I am grateful. And that's why I thought that I needed to add this here.