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Saturday, April 24, 2010

Best of the Week vol. XLII

Quote of the Week: I feel like a total idiot right now. It’s pretty terrible to be voted out by your own Idol… Worst than that, don’t ever trust women, ever, ever, ever. (J.T., Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains)

Song of the Week: Night Moves – Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band (How I Met Your Mother)

Big News of the Week: A Melancholy Happy Trails to Guru: A sad for all the old school hip hop fans out there as half of the seminal rap group Gang Starr succumbed to cancer. In the early days of rap, every MC had one of two flows, party guy or in your face rap. Then Guru came broke onto the scene and along with Slick Rick was the first at a laid back style that inspired the like of Q-Tip, Digital Planets, and even gangsta rappers like Snoop Dogg and Notorious B.I.G. also smoothed it out for a few songs. Gang Starr also pioneered, in thanks to Guru’s partner DJ Preimer, sampling jazz for their beats which was a perfect fix with Guru’s rap style. For anyone looking to get into Gang Starr (which I highly recommend), start with Mass Appeal, then move onto the album it is from, Hard to Earn.

Free Download of the Week: America: The Story of Us – Sneak Peek (iTunes): Here is a chance to take a look at the upcoming epic twelve part series on the history of this country. Episodes start tomorrow on History and will run every night until Memorial Day with each showing up for download the day after on iTunes.

Deal of the Week: Last Days to Save: Up to 52% Off Television DVDs (Firefly, The Office, V: The Original Miniseries)

Video of the Week: “Friday night there will be a bond formed between and among you that will never be broken. You look at each other and you ask yourselves gentlemen: What kind of a man are you?”

Never Broken

Next Week Pick of the Week: Happy Town, Wednesday at 10:00 on ABC: ABC has been trying to replicate Lost almost since it has been on (remember Invasion?) and with its last season, the channel stepped up its attempt to replace it. But It looks like Flash Forward is going to join Invasion in the one and done scrapheap and V might make it to a second season either. So ABC’s last hope may lay in the lap in Happy Town to carry on the “genre” tradition which even features Lost vet M.C. Gainey (who will also show up on Justified a day earlier next week which sadly make me think we won’t get to see him in sideways world). Check back later this week to see if I think Happy Town could make it as Lost’s heir apparent.

Friday, April 23, 2010

Around the Tubes vol. XLVII

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 Friday Night Lights, Happy Town, Explorer: Fatal Insomnia, The Real Story, and The Marriage Ref.

- Two more weeks until Friday Night Lights returns May 7 to network television, it may take some time to get used to seeing Coach Taylor in East Dillon Red. Here is a preview:

Premiere Preview: East of Dillon

- New show Happy Town premieres next Wedensday at 10:00 on ABC. I will have more on the show next week but until then, here is a preview:

- To all you insomniac at there may want to tune into the National Geographic Channel next Tuesday (4/27) for Explorer: Fatal Insomnia at the relatively early time of 10:00 PM. Check out a preview below:

Sleep Sloth Study

- A new season of The Real Story premieres this coming Sunday at 8:00 on the Smithsonian Channel where they take a look at the real story (natch) behind popular movie including episodes this season on The Exorcist, Silence of the Lamb, Casino, The Bourne Identity, and The Hunt for Red October.

- Wonder when your favorite shows will end their season over the next month or so? Then head over LocateTV for the complete rundown.

- Think you can be a better panelist of The Marriage Ref (which should not be too hard considering most are already multiple divorcees), head over to NBC.com to take the marriage quiz to see how you stack up.

Thursday, April 22, 2010

I Don’t Care if We’re Just Friends I Can Hang out with Myself

2006 was a boon year for bratty British singers with Amy Winehouse and Lily Allen breaking out here in the United States with brash and in your face lyrics. Fatigue must had set in by the following year as the debut album from Kate Nash barely made a blip stateside even though she may have had a more bitter tongue than her countrywoman (but unlike the other two, she also lacked the production of Mark Ronson).

Much like Allen, Nash grew up for her sophomore outing, but instead of getting inexplicitly political like Lily, Kate grew up in the form of a steady boyfriend the most likely led to the most vulnerable song on My Best Friend Is You, I Hate Seagulls where she lists everything she dislikes before finally admitting the things she does.

For the few of you that did catch Nash the first time around, don’t worry, there is still plenty of wit and snark flying toward guys mostly about unrequited love like Kiss the Grrrl. The same goes for the standout track of the album Do-Wah-Doo, a sixties girl group inspired song that maybe the catchiest song you may hear all year.

For those looking for something similar Foundations, check out Don’t You Want to Share the Guilt which comes off like a slower version because divulging into a spoken diatribe at the end which is followed guitar fuzz next track I Just Love You More which could have been a lost song from the riot grrl movement of the early nineties. This somewhat prepares you for the spoken word Mansion Song poetry jam that rails against girls that do not respect themselves, a song that may either be your favorite, or worst song on the album.

Song to Download – Do-Wah-Doo

My Best Friend Is You gets a Terror Alert Level: High [ORANGE]

on my Terror Alert Scale.

Amazon.com Widgets

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Breaking Down the 100 Guiltiest Guilty Pleasures of the 00’s

The 100 Guiltiest Guilty Pleasures of the 00’s may easily be the hardest retrospect of the decade I may do mainly because I am not one to be guilted easy. In retrospect maybe I should had turned my iPod, DVD collection, television watching habits, and the like over to someone and had them pick out the guilty pleasures for me instead of trying to do so myself because I am sure there are plenty missing from the past ten years that I loved but am not ashamed enough to personally file it under a guilty pleasure. But anyway. For you stat junkies out there, I have divided the list by year (not surprising the depression 2001 had the least) and by category.

By Year
2000 – 14
2001 – 3
2002 – 7
2003 – 12
2004 – 12
2005 – 12
2006 – 10
2007 – 9
2008 – 6
2009 - 14

By Category
Songs – 20
Television Shows - 20
Movies – 16
People – 12
Quotes – 11
Videos - 9
Television ads – 4
Feuds – 3
Sporting Events - 3
Performances – 2

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

The 100 Guiltiest Guilty Pleasures of the 00's

Snakes on a Plane (Widescreen New Line Platinum Series)

1. Snakes on a Plane

2. Trapped in the Closet

3. Olympic Curling

4. “I drink your milkshake… I drink it up!”

5. Pootie Tang

6. Dan LeBatard guest hosting PTI (BAM!)

7. Flavor of Love and its countless spin-offs

8. Thong Song - Sisqó

9. “Boom goes the dynamite”

10. “You know how I know you're gay…”

11. Carrot Top audio commentary on Rules of Attraction

12. Blaming it on the al-al-al-al-al-alcohol

13. The Osbornes

14. Chris Hansen

15. Queer Eye for the Straight Guy

16. “Yo Kobe, tell me how my (expletive deleted) tastes”

17. Red Stripe: It's Beer; Hooray Beer

18. Dennis Miller on Monday Night Football

19. Mash Up’s

Melanie Robillard, the reason to watch curling

20. Party in the U.S.A. - Miley Cyrus

21. Wazzzzzzup!?!

22. Taylor Swift

23. Sorority Life

24. using names as verbs (i.e. He got Cheneyed last time he went hunting)

25. Carrie Underwood

26. Kanye West’s ego

27. (Explative Deleted) It (I Don’t Want You Back) - Eamon

28. Coyote Ugly

29. Telling people you are, indeed, bringing sexyback