Monthly Archives: September 2011
TV Theme Songs
TV theme songs have gone downhill a lot from the classic halcyon days of yore in the 70s and 80s, but are now making a small comeback. Read the rest of this entry
The Fall Season
So there are lots of lists out there about the new fall season. (Here’s the schedule — various reviews here among other places) Are there any shows you are excited about? It seems to me that TV after nearly a decade of being ridiculously well done and exciting has lapsed into the doldrums. The only shows I’m actually excited about are old returning ones. (Justified: no premier date, Dexter: Oct 2)
The new shows are ones that sound intriguing like Terra Nova, but which I’m confident will suck. Couldn’t tell you why but they just do. The one I was most intrigued by, J. J. Abram’s Person of Interest, is getting pretty bad reviews. (It’s on some people’s “worst of fall” lists.) We’ll see if his Alcatraz does better. (That one didn’t look intriguing to me at all)
New Music – Red Hot Chili Peppers and Wilco
Could it possibly be true that this album, I’m With You, is The Red Hot Chili Peppers’ 10th album? And that Anthony Keidis is 48? Where does the time go? And how is it possible that these guys are still able to play shirtless? Are the tube socks coming out next? Read the rest of this entry


