Big News of the Week: Tiger Woods Apologies Four Months Later: Yawn.
Free Download of the Week: 20 In 10: Digital Collection – Sister Hazel (Amazon MP3): Many people forgot about Sister Hazel in the nineties, but they are still at it and put out five albums last decade and here is a twenty song sampler of songs from those albums.
Video of the Week: It was a decade ago when Erika Christiansen became the It Girl of the moment after a breakout performance in Traffic. Then she signed onto Swimf@n and things went downhill from there. Hopefully her inclusion in the highly likeable Parenthood will hel her fiannalkly live up to her promice. Here she is talking about her character:
Next Week Pick of the Week: The Winter Olympics, All Week on NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, and USA: A week in and there are still plenty of must see events as they hand out the rest of the medals including curling (men’s on Saturday at 6:00 on CNBC; women’s on Friday at 6:00 on CNBC) and hockey (Sunday at 3:00 on NBC). Head over to NBCOlympics.com for full listings.
I have gotten a plethora of cool press releases have been flooding my inbox recently that you may find interesting. This post will include blurbs on Explorer: Vampire Forensics, The Presidents, The Life and Times of Tim, The Marriage Ref, Yo Gabba Gabba, Celebrity Apprentice, The Yes Men Rule the World, and Louie.
- Vampires were so last decade (I predict the supernatural beings for the Teens will be Zombies), but there are still some still trying to milk the vampire craze into this new decade like Explorer which follows forensic anthropologist Matteo Borrini as he digs deeper into the legend of “shroud eaters” from the 16th century. Explorer: Vampire Forensics airs Tuesday February 23 on The National Geographic Channel. Here is a preview:
- In honor of the recent President’s Day, iTunes and History have dropped the price of the eight episode documentary The Presidents that goes into the personal lives and legacies from George Washington to the second George Bush. Head over to iTunes before February 23 to get them for $.99 each.
- Last week I mentioned the premiere of The Life and Times of Tim on HBO. For those of you like me that are too cheap to pay for premium channels, you can watch the first episode on College Humor.
- Here is Marv Albert rehearsing for The Marriage Ref. So a show about giving advice to married couples will feature the back bitter, the twice divorced Madonna, and Alec Baldwin who didn’t really have an amicable divorce with his former wife. Alrighty.
- For those out there with little ones, mark your calendars for Monday March 8 as the third season of Yo Gabba Gabba at 10:30 AM. And it boosts a nice array of guests to start it off with “Weird Al” Yanovic stopping by. While the rest of the week sees Weezer (Tuesday), Anthony Bourdain (Wednesday), and Mos Def and Devo (Thursday). Also showing up this season will be Fred Armisen, Erykah Badu, Band of Horses, Blitzen Trapper, Chairlift, Rob Dyrdek, The Faint, Flaming Lips, The Killers, Solange Knowles, Mix Master Mike, Angela Kinsey, The Sounds, Taking Back Sunday, Marissa Jaret Winokur, Charlyne Yi and John Francis Daley, Samm Levine and Martin Starr from "Freaks and Greeks." In addition, Biz Markie is back with his regular “Biz’s Beat of the Day” segment teaching preschoolers how to beat-box, singer/illustrator/composer Mark Mothersbaugh returns in his recurring “Mark’s Magic Pictures” drawing segment and Jack McBrayer and Paul Scheer visit with their recurring “Knock Knock” joke segment.
- You know you are watching too much of the Olympics when you start reciting the commercials word for word (but seriously, it is time to start switch up your advertising). This of course includes the new season of Celebrity Apprentice (did you know Bret Michaels is the bad boy of rock?). I split on watching the new season because on one hand I had a massive crush on Summer Sanders during my formative years, but on the other I hate Donald Trump and never want to endorse anything he is involved with. For those that can tolerate him, The new Celebrity Apprentice site is now live where you find Q&As with all the contestants and hear them talk about the charities they’ll be representing this season and read full bios.
- You have to love the tag line for The Yes Men Fix the World: Sometimes it Takes a Lie to Expose the Truth. Naturally a movie about pulling pranks on the corporate greedy is being released on DVD on April 1 (April Fool’s Day).
- There has been a slight change to the premiere of the new FX comedy Louie which now will start after the new season of Rescue Me beginning sometime in June.
Last decade was when MTV and VH1 decided to move away from airing music videos to more reality based programming relegating when made them must watch channel into hours when most people are asleep. But it is hard to complain about the demise of Music Television considering at the same time there was the rise of video streaming sites such as YouTube even if record labels fought with them for most of the decade. Hopefully the Teens will not see those problems with the launch of Vevo, a joint venture between the record labels and YouTube. Below is how The 100 Greatest Music Videos of the 00’s broke down by year, artist and director.
Artists with Multiple Videos
Kanye West – 8
Jack White (The White Stripes, The Dead Weather) - 5
Gnarls Barkley – 4
Lily Allen – 4
Outkast – 4
Weezer - 4
Jay-Z – 3
Norman Cook (Fatboy Slim, The B.P.A.) - 3
Bat for Lashes – 2
Coldplay – 2
Common – 2
Dave Matthews Band – 2
Jack Johnson – 2
Johnny Cash – 2
Ludacris – 2
Norah Jones - 2
Radiohead – 2
The Killers – 2
“Weird Al” Yankovic – 2
Directors with Multiple Videos
Chris Milk – 4
Marc Klasfeld – 3
Patrick Daughters – 3
The Malloys - 3
Anthony Mandler – 2
Bryan Barber – 2
Chris Robinson – 2
Dave Myers – 2
Joseph Khan – 2
Marcos Siega – 2
Mark Romanek – 2
Matthew Cullen – 2
Michael Blieden – 2
Paul Fedor – 2
Robert Hales – 2
Sophie Muller – 2
Spike Jones - 2
– Sister Hazel (Amazon MP3): Many people forgot about Sister Hazel in the nineties, but they are still at it and put out five albums last decade and here is a twenty song sampler of songs from those albums.
(Serenity, Back to the Future Trilogy, Curious George)
. Then she signed onto Swimf@n
and things went downhill from there. Hopefully her inclusion in the highly likeable Parenthood will hel her fiannalkly live up to her promice. Here she is talking about her character:
