I was over on the Rolling Stone.com site and saw where they were highlighting a gallery of their tv covers and asking what the readers thought were their sexiest. I decided to go beyond just their tv covers. Now I'm sure I missed some, I didn't go through all their covers, I looked through the gallery of covers they featured on their site and picked from there.
1. Sarah Michelle Gellar (It's Buffy, who else did you think would be number one?)2. Jennifer Aniston (if I was Brad I would have stuck with her.)
3. Evangeline Lilly4. Jennifer Garner (I am just in love with this woman, I can't help it.)
5. Jennifer Love Hewitt 6. Katie Holme (Pre Tom Cruise)
VH1 is bringing back its documentary specials of Behind The Music. I'll be honest, I haven't watched VH1 in years, so I thought they were actually still making the specials. Read more here about the show coming back. When I did watch VH1 I always liked the specials. When the music station was looking for an identity that would differentiate it from its sister channel MTV I thought these specials gave it that difference.
Any big surprises tonight? Who didn't guess that the kid that brought Sayid his sandwich was Ben? And what will Sayid's purpose be for coming back that was foreshadowed in the coming attractions for next week, but to kill young Ben. I don't know why, but I'm starting to feel underwhelmed by Lost lately. I don't know if I feel like they're just making things too complicated with this latest bit of time travel or what. And I have to say, I'm starting to get tired of the soap opera aspect of Sawyer, Jack, Kate and Juliet. I'm in it for the long haul, but I feel like they're going off track somewhat. I want to start seeing some answers.
The other night at work I brought up the name of Richard Pryor. You know, one of the greatest stand up comedians ever. And all I got were blank looks. I was talking to two women in their mid twenties and they had no idea who I was talking about.
Sometimes I feel really old.
Just a note for those unfamiliar with Mr. Pryor, if you're easily offended you might want to skip the clip.
The last two weeks have been so busy with work and other stuff that I forgot to post last Friday. But I'm not forgetting again. This week is Child Singers and my choice is Janis Ian. This video is from the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour and she was 16 when she performed. Janis was a singer that sang of subjects that those older than she was rarely touched.
1. Anyone can participate; any music genre 2. Old School is defined as music created before 1999 3. No offensive words allowed, please use edited radio version 4. Post a video of your favorite Old School song to take us back down memory lane 5. Add your name to the meme list so that others can check you out 6. Have fun & don't forget to leave comments for other participants
Tipitina's is a music club that is famous beyond the city. This is a club that has seen some of the best come through its door and play on its stage. Upon entering there is a bust of piano legend Professor Longhair. It's considered good luck to rub Fess' head. This piece of art was created by Coco Robicheaux. As good a sculptor Coco is he is better known as a musician. He has created his own style of blues/cajun/swamp music that to put simply is great. He puts on an awesome live show, often the greats blues singer Irene Sage accompanys him on stage. The following song is from an upcoming album that I can't wait to have come out.
According to my TV Guide they're repeating the episode of Lost from last week again this week?!? Is that right? I thought when Lost went to a fewer episodes per year the plan was to run each episode every week in a row with no interruptions or reruns. What happened to that plan?
That was one of the problems with the first two years, when they took breaks from running the show. Too much happens in each episode to remember to have to wait a couple weeks inbetween each show.
A few months back Will Hoge was in an accident that was pretty serious. He was busted up pretty bad and has been undergoing surgery and re hap since. He's getting ready to go back out on the road for a small tour soon. To me Will Hoge is the promise of rock and roll. Here's a two part interview/songs from him before his accident.
Last week I was having problems with my phone. I ended up bringing it to the local Sprint Repair Store and getting it fixed, but it made me think about a new phone. I was planning to wait until the new Palm Pre comes out. At first it was scheduled for a mid March delivery, but now it looks like its going to be more towards June.
The Instinct came out right after I got my last phone, the Motorola Q9. If it had been available at the time I would have went with the Instinct. This phone is supposed to be Sprint's version of the I Phone. I've heard it called the I Phone Killer. I've read a lot of things that the Instinct does better than the I Phone and I like a lot of things it does so far.
I wish it had more applications. Most of what there is are just games. I want some of those cool apps you see on the commercials for the I Phone. So far there is a very limited amount of apps out there for the Instinct. I'm not really a game person, so all the games available don't really do much for me. Let's get going Sprint...let's get some other apps out there. If you plan on sticking with the Instinct for the long run you need to get more apps for it.
Saying that I really do like this phone. I can pull up web pages, including this blog on the phone. The touch screen is really easy to use. It's easy to get around and easy to use. So maybe I'll stick with longer than a year.
The new issue of Rolling Stone is out with an article about U2. Very good article. Online check it out here. Since the make over Rolling Stone has gotten better.
Ok, I just finished watching the movie of Dead Like Me. If I had watched this before the tv series I never would have wanted to watch any more. This was like a bad made for TV movie. There were a few glimpses of the old show, but very few. Laura Harris who played Daisy in the show was replaced by another actress that had zero chemistry with the cast and just didn't fit in. Henry Ian Cussiack, who plays Desmond onLost, was another new character that added nothing to the movie.
I was really really disappointed in this movie. I'm glad that they were able to tie up the series with the last episode and give it some sort of closure.
A short interview with Taylor on the release of his new album can be read here.
Now I'm not sure if the album came out today or next Tuesday. I didn't see it today, but that doesn't mean much. So many albums get shuffled off to the side, unless they're one of the big releases they don't always make it out on the shelf on the first day of new releases.
The new Harry Dresden novel Small Favor by Jim Butcher just came out in paperback. He has a new hardback coming out soon called Turn Coat, but I rarely buy a new hardback when it comes out. I just picked up the paperback and finished reading it last night. I was up till about three in the morning because I couldn't stop reading. Harry Dresden is one of my favorite literary characters.
Butcher and Harry have both grown since their first book came out years ago. I feel like Butcher has become much more confident of his abilities, much the same way Harry is becoming with each new volume. I'm not that much into science fiction or fantasy anymore, once that was all I read, but this is one series I continue to pick up.
Harry is a combination of fantasy and detective genres. Harry is a Private Detective who also happens to be a Wizard operating out of present day Chicago.
If I had one complaint about the series is that I wish Butcher would dial down the troubles some. In the beginning some of Harry's cases would involve just a few people and the outcome mattered only to them. Lately every one of Harry's stories include a literally earth saving climax. I'd like to see some stories go back to Harry trying to save just one person, it doesn't always have to be such high stakes. I don't mind stories where Harry has to save the world, but does every new book have to have such high stakes? I guess when you get your hero in such high games it's hard to dial it back down.
Saying that I still enjoyed Small Favor very much. Harry saves the world again, but the fun is seeing how he manages to accomplish this without tripping over his own feet.
So if you haven't read Harry Dresden yet, do yourself a favor and go do it. You'll thank me.
From the mind of Bryan Fuller, who created one of my other favorite least watched shows on tv, Wonderfalls, comes Dead Like Me. Dead Like Me lasted on Showtime for two seasons until more recently they filmed a direct to DVD movie.
Watching the two seasons of this show back to back has made this one of my favorite shows. It has it all, humor, drama, joy, tears...everything you can want in a tv show. And a great cast of characters. The show stars Ellen Muth as George, a young woman who is killed at the age of 18 and recurited in the life (or unlife as it may be) of a Reaper. Reapers collect the souls of the dying. Watching George grow in her new role and actually grow up, something she never did before her death was fascinating.
While there was still unanswered questions the last show actually tied up the show pretty nicely. And it ended with a great last line. I haven't watched the movie yet, I hope it doesn't take away from the show.
If you get a chance this is really I show I can't reccomend highly enough. The first two seasons are out on DVD, as is the movie, or you can buy all three in a specially priced set. It's worth it.
So far this year we've seen releases from such major acts as Bruce Springsteen and U2. Next month Bob Dylan makes a surprising release of a new album and in June Wilco release their newest. That's just the big guys.
Nekko Case released her latest recently, Taylor Hicks is out next week, Kelly Clarkson was this week and there's a lot more that I'm not even thinking of.
This year started off pretty slow, but it looks like it's adding up to a good year for new music.
President Obama is supposed to lift restrictions on stem cell research on Monday. The ban has been in place since the second President Bush was in office. The potential for this research to help find cures for so much is almost limitless. It's a move that is long overdue. Read more about it here.
The new U2 album is out and I am loving it. I could give you a review of it, but I think Starrlight is doing a much better job of it than I could ever do, so go here to read about how great this new album is.
And in other news U2 has announced that they're going to have another album out for next year.
Yes, today is the day the new U2 comes out and I've been talking about it enough on this blog that everyone should know it by now. But while you should run right now and buy the new U2 don't forget today Neko Case's newest album Middle Cyclone comes out also. Neko Case has one of the greatest voices in music.
Dusty Springfield died from breast cancer. Dusty was born Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien in England. She got got her nickname Dusty because she was such a tomboy. After school she joined the sister act The Lana Sisters. In 1960 she left the sisters and formed a pop-folk trio with her brother and another friend that called themselves the Springfields. They traveled to Nashville to record their first album. The group stayed together for three years, disbanding in 1963.
Dusty went on to sing what was called "white soul" and was the leading practitioner of the genre. Her album Dusty in Memphis is considered a classic. Unfortunately as she grew older her career began to shrink. In 1987 the Pet Shop Boys asked her to sing on one of their songs and she found herself in something of a revival for the last decade of her life.
Her influence still can be felt today. The singer Shelby Lynne just recorded an entire album of covers of songs Dusty was known for recently.
Somehow I forgot it was Friday yesterday and didn't post an Old School Fridays. The theme for this week was 10th grade. I hate to admit it but when I was in tenth grade it was 1975. If I had made a post it would have been this. Patti Smith released her album Horses in 1975. Now I wish I could say I was such a hip 10th grader that I was into Patti Smith, but I wasn't. I was bout as square and unaware of music like this as someone could be. It was only later that I discovered Patti Smith. Here is Patti Smith:
All this week on Letterman U2 will perform. Also this Tuesday sees the release of their new album. I just read two reviews of the new album from two different magazines from Time-Warner. Time magazine pretty much rates it a flop, about on a par with Pop. Entertainment Weekly gives it an A. That's about as far about as can be. I have to admit that most of the reviews have been very good for the album, calling it their best work since Actung, Baby! I personally am very anxious to get the new album and am upset because Monday and Tuesday I have to work overnight so I'm going to miss their appearance on Letterman.
In my post about Philip Jose Farmer I made mention of Mark Twain. Today I just happened to pick up a biography of Mr. Twain by Ron Powers. I am a big fan of Mark Twain and am looking forward to reading this.
Eight days left is what the sign on the outside of the building says. My television in the bedroom gave up the ghost the other day. While watching a DVD the picture disappeared as the voices continued from the speakers and suddenly smoke starting drifting up from the back of the set. I'm not in desperate need of a new tv, I still have the main one in the living room. It's just that I like watching my dvds of tv series on the bedroom set. So I've been pricing sets lately. I almost forgot about Circuit City. There is no store in Slidell, but one about thirty minutes away in Covington. I wasn't sure how much longer they had before the final day, so I wasn't sure what they would even still have in stock, but decided to go give them a look.
When I entered the store I realized that I wasn't going to be finding my new tv there. The walls were empty. A few display tvs sat on counters, but I wasn't going to buy a display from a store that I couldn't return it to.
I was surprised that they still have about a hundred cds and dvds left. Both were being sold at 60% off. I managed to find about eight cds and two dvd sets. The second season of Brotherhood, the Showtime show that most critics compare to The Sporanos was on sale for twelve dollars, which was a steal. I would have been glad to pay the original price of thirty dollars for it, I throughly enjoyed the first season. I also picked up the first season of Mad Men, which I haven't seen yet but keep reading how good it is. I was not about to pick it up for the original price, since it's pretty expensive for around a dozen episodes, but at their reduced price it was around sixteen dollars.
I manged to pick up some cds that I've come close to buying before, but always pass over. More from cost than anything else. Cds from Lee Ann Womack, Sam Philips, Tegan and Sara, BoDeans, Elvis Costello, Feist, Foxboro Hot Tubs, Neil Diamond and Tristan Prettyman. A pretty good haul if I do say so myself.
Back in the day I used to buy the majority of my music from Circuit City. When I lived on the Westbank, probably close to twenty years ago, there was a Circuit City across from the Mall. Their prices were good and they had a large selection of music. That was one of the things I liked about them. I could find a lot of stuff that you wouldn't think you would be able to pick up from a big box retailer.
And I bought my first computer from them. And a lot of other stuff. But than I stopped shopping there. I moved but there was always a Circuit City not that far from me. But they changed. And not for the better as far as I was concerned.
Their music selection shrank drastically. It became mostly whatever was coming out and a little of the big names back list. If I wanted something that everyone else wasn't looking for it became impossible to find there. And their prices went up. I'd say their prices for an average cd was at least a dollar more than Best Buy. Not a lot you might say, but when you buy a lot of music it adds up.
And trying to buy eletronics or computers from them became so difficult. No one seemed to know anything about the product, if you could find someone to wait on you in the first place. In what had to be one of the stupidest moves in retail history they let go of their more experienced associates and hired new people for as little as they could. There was no way they were going to attract anyone with any real knowledge for the wages they were willing to pay.
I'm sure that the economy had a lot to do with their eventual demise, but they've been going out of buisness for years before the economy took a nose dive. It's just finally caught up with them. I hate to see any business close but I can't say I was suprised by it.
I guess fans waiting for a reunion of Guns n Roses will have to wait a bit longer. Like maybe forever, at least according to this article. Truthfully, though I enjoy their music, I've never been a fan of Axl Rose.
President Obama has announced an official time table for the troops withdrawal from Iraq. Go read about it here. By August 31, 2010 the majority of our troops will be out of Iraq.
Philip Jose Farmer, one of science fiction's greatest writers died Wednesday. He was 91 years old. I can't remember the first story I read by Mr. Farmer. I've got at least two dozen or more of his novels and probably half a dozen collections of his short fiction. He was not a writer that you could type, he was as comfortable writing pulp fiction as well as writing stories involving sex with aliens. He straddled the new wave and the old vanguard of science fiction. I've been reading his work just about as long as I've been reading. Along with writers like Isaac Asimov and Harlan Ellison Philip Jose Farmer has been one of the constants that I can always go back to and enjoy. When I was younger, in my teenage years, science fiction reached out and grabbed ahold of me in a big way. For about ten years that was probably all I read. I gradually moved away from just reading science fiction until today it's a genre that I rarely read. I don't ignore it, but at one time I could name all the major writers and what they had done, today I'm not sure who would be considered some of the big names in the science fiction field. I'll pick up something science fiction now and than and read it. Except there are always a few I can always go back to and read, no matter how many times I've read their work I know I'll enjoy it again. It's why I hold onto books like gold and rarely if ever throw one out, it's always a thrill to reach back and read something that once gave me joy. Mr. Farmer's work was one of those that I always enjoyed, no matter how many times I've read it. For me his greatest work was his Riverworld novels. This was a collection of novels where everyone that had ever lived and died on earth woke up on the banks of a huge river on another world. It was on this world we read the adventures of Richard Burton (the adventurer, not the actor) and Samuel Clemens and so many others.
I think it might be time for another visit to the Riverworld.
Rest in peace, Mr. Farmer and thanks for all your words.
Ok, I don't want to say too much about this week's episode, but what did you all think? I was surprised by the final scene between Ben and Locke. That's all I'll say for the moment, until everyone has seen it. In the division between Jack and Locke I've always sided with Jack, but it seems that Locke was more right about things. I know they're supposed to be starting to give us answers, but it seems things just get more confusing each week.
Rolling Stone.com has a really good article about the music scene here in New Orleans since Katrina. Go here to read it. The article was written by Alex Rawls, a local that writes for the New Orleans local free paper Offbeat.
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2. Jennifer Aniston (if I was Brad I would have stuck with her.)
3. Evangeline Lilly
4. Jennifer Garner (I am just in love with this woman, I can't help it.)
5. Jennifer Love Hewitt
8. Natassia Kinski
9. Nicole Kidman
11. Cameron Diaz
12. Michelle Pfeiffer
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The new issue of Rolling Stone is out with an article about U2. Very good article. Online check it out here. Since the make over Rolling Stone has gotten better.
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