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Been watching a couple of series I hadn’t seen before, one older and one current: When HBO’s Oz originally aired, I gave it a miss. I think I was burned out on prison-set movies at the time. That’s unfortunate since it was a great show. The show’s executive producers were Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana who [...] David Simon’s new series Treme premieres tonight on HBO. I can’t wait. There was a great cover story in the New York Times Magazine the other week on Simon and his latest project. Then I noticed this hilarious quiz in Esquire at the library the other day. Apparently, I’ve been pronouncing the show’s name [...] Watched a couple of documentaries about apple/macintosh this weekend. I thought they were both kind of slight but I guess I would equivocally recommend one of them. I’d assumed Welcome to Macintosh would be about the creation of the mac. Sadly, this was not the case. It is essentially about the history of apple from the [...] According to this article, there will not be a third season of Flight of the Conchords. That’s too bad but I can imagine that show was harder to write than most. In the good news column, the third season of Breaking Bad is scheduled to air starting in March. Sounds like there is the potential for [...] Reading Caligula For President prompted me to revisit a past interest of mine: ancient Rome. I had never watched Bob Guccione’s notorious 1979 film Caligula and figured I should finally check it out. At the same time, I was reminded of the excellent 1976 BBC miniseries I, Claudius. I felt this bore re-viewing so ordered [...] I just started watching this AMC show and so far, I’m pretty impressed. Bryan Cranston (who played the dad on Malcolm in the Middle) plays a high school chemistry teacher in Albuquerque, New Mexico with a pregnant wife and a teenage son with cerebral palsy. When he is diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, he decides [...] I’m late to the party but I’ve really been enjoying this show. For those who haven’t seen it, it’s an HBO comedy about a two man band from New Zealand living in New York City. The clip above is from a recent episode where the guys prostitute themselves as a Simon and Garfunkel tribute act. [...] I was watching last night’s episode of Californication and was pleased to hear the first song played in the party segment was “New Situation” from the Stereotypes awesome album 2. So I went to check if that album was still on emusic since I know over the years, various of their albums have come and gone [...] Just watched the series finale of The Wire. Just maybe the finest hour and a half of television ever made. Fittingly, the teleplay was written by series creator David Simon (shown at left in a small cameo!) and the episode was directed by Clark Johnson. The episode tied up a lot of loose ends. It’s [...] I never watch television but tonight I decided to haul out the rabbit ears and take a look at the Superbowl. A commercial for the Nissan Versa came on and the music was awfully familiar. It was Guided By Voices’ song “Quality of Armor” from the classic 1992 album Propeller. I couldn’t find the commercial [...] |
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