Monthly Archives: October 2005
DVR/TIVO Alert
BBC America will be running all six episodes of the excellent mini-series State of Play back to back starting Sunday morning at 10:00 EST. These episodes are otherwise unavailable in the U.S. If you haven’t seen it, but enjoy suspenseful political thrillers and top-notch acting talent (Bill Nighy and James McAvoy have to be the best-played father/son duo I’ve watched in recent years), it’s guaranteed to please. Plus, they’ve all got great accents!
Susan Forgot to Title Me! Or, Mark Kozelek
Mark Kozelek has to be the most brutally honest, intensely personal singer/songwriter I’ve ever heard.
He’s probably most widely known for being the singer for the Red House Painters, a band allmusic.com lists under both the genre of sadcore and dream pop. He’s also done a side project called Sun Kil Moon and a couple solo albums. One of his solo albums is a collection of AC/DC covers. His next album, Tiny Cities, due out next week, is a collection of Modest Mouse covers.
But it’s his sad and brutally candid songs that I love the most.
Playlist Thunderdome, Week 22
Neil Young’s "Cinnamon Girl" destroyed John Lennon and Paul Simon, garnering 19 of 30 votes. wow. Thanks to all who voted!
Let’s bring things into more recent decades, shall we?
Dear NBC
Look, NBC, I know you’re sore about the destruction of Must See TV. And I can only imagine the pain you feel at having lost Thursday nights. E.R., your erstwhile drama flagship, is on its last legs. Will & Grace is past its prime.
But please don’t sacrifice My Name Is Earl in order to try and reclaim lands you’ve lost. Those days are over. Don’t kill a good show in a futile attempt to regain past glory.
Your pal,
Steve
It’s Friday!
This week has been a long one for me. I’m gonna celebrate Friday with some music.
If there’s one thing Thunderdome has taught us, it’s that the KB’ers all have different taste in music. So I’m going with a hodge podge of songs from genre we don’t hear much from around here…So step out of your musical comfort zone for a bit and check them out.
Playlist Thunderdome, Week 21
Prince’s "When Doves Cry" crushed the competition of Morrissey and Bjork, despite Bjork’s song being the best of them. Ah, well, such is Thunderdome.
This week features the biggest hitters yet!
Harold Pinter: Really?
I freely admit that I have never read or seen any of Harold Pinter’s works. But still. Are the members of the Swedish Academy really sure that they picked him for this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature? Didn’t they really mean, I don’t know, say, Phillip Roth or Orhan Pamuk?
Never mind
I’d rather have to weed out our comments than not to have any comments to begin with. Bear with us, folks, as we continue to wage war on spam. Eventually we may have to move away from Typepad.
Party's Over
We’ve been getting a lot of comment spam — usually a half dozen spam comments a day, but last night we got several dozen. As a way of getting rid of it, we’ve turned on mandatory registration through Typekey for comments. It’s a slight burden, but hopefully nothing too onerous. Sorry.
Best TV Police Drama?
There have been lots of police dramas in the history of television — some of the first scripted TV shows were crime-related. Recent decades have shown some of the best. So, let’s decide which are the best of the best.
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