I have to say I was pretty disappointed reading this interview with Aaron Sorkin on GQ’s site. Sorkin’s work on The West Wing was one of the big pushes that motivated me to start Not News. And even when I lost interest in that show, and when Studio 60 turned into a major disappointment, I [...]
I still owe the blog a couple of essays on my overall thoughts about the Obama campaign, but I gotta get my two cents in on the New Yorker cover. The idea of the cover is supposedly to satire the various e-mail smears and rumor-attacks directed at both Barack and Michelle Obama and point out [...]
Matthew Sweet has updated his web site and announced a release date for Sunshine Lies, his next album. Two tracks can be sampled at the web site, and more are available at his myspace site. So far I’m very partial to Byrdgirl, which is one song more attached than I became to his last album.
Joie [...]
Roughly a week into listening to the new REM album, Accelerate, I realized I’m having fun being an REM fan, and that hasn’t been true in a while. I’ve been walking around with my iPod, singing along with many of the tracks and probably scaring passersby. I’ve been recording TV appearances and reading reviews, and [...]
Yesterday was probably the best experience of live music I’ve had, one of those everything-comes-together situations that just makes me feel incredibly lucky to be living the life I’m living. I’m gonna try and get some of those moments onto the record and point you to some spots on the Internet where you can catch [...]
At this very moment, I am listening to the last song on my iPod’s random playlist of my entire library. I have an even 1200 songs on the Pod, and I need to put a few dozen more on. But I couldn’t plug the iPod in to resync it without resetting the Shuffle Song list, [...]
Full review of the new direct-to-DVD Babylon 5 work over at theLogBook. Short answer: one story was decent with some fun dialogue. One was dreadful.
I’ve been trying to put together some more iTunes playlists lately, even though I love just taking my whole library and sticking it on shuffle. It’s the closest thing to WDAVE I’m likely to get. But sometimes it ain’t a bad idea to have a defined playlist to fit a particular mood. Here’s my latest [...]
Comic-Con International in San Diego starts tonight with a preview night, and the panels and big events start tomorrow. I was talking with Earl earlier today, wondering when Comic-Con became such a huge event that the TV and film worlds paid so much attention to. If I had been looking for an example, this Reuters [...]
I’m very happy to have Eureka back on the air. I’ve been going through the commentaries and deleted scenes from the season 1 DVD set - look for a review soon on that - and the first two episodes of season 2 have been strong. I think I’m most amused by the Live Smart PSAs [...]