I watch a lot of TV.  Too much TV.  I figure I should get something out of all those hours on the couch.  So I wrote a blog post. (Hey, I didn’t say I was going to get something valuable out of it.) Despite watching so much TV, there are some shows you will not [...]

Welcome back for my annual list of albums I liked (with the usual caveat that I don’t buy enough music to call this a representative best-of list).  This year, I actually have 10 albums, which is a triumph of counting for me.  (Um, well, it is 10 if you count the little fake bonus compilation [...]

Well, it’s that time of year again for my annual blog post.  This year was actually a slow one for me and music.  I just didn’t find that much that I was interested in.  Looking back through my Ipod, I managed to come up with 7 albums that I bought that I’d recommend. I’ll pad [...]

OK, so somehow I haven’t added anything to this blog for a year.  Go figure.  Most of my blogging/pop culture energy in 2010 got sucked up by posts and reviews over at PopMatters.  So that’ll be my excuse.  But I’m getting back on this horse with my second now annual tradition of naming 10 albums [...]

I wouldn’t say these are necessarily the ten best albums of the year. I didn’t listen to enough music to make that claim. But these are ten albums I bought this year that are worth recommending. I stuck with music that was also released this year (which disqualified two albums that were put out in [...]

OK, I’m capable of being melodramatic.  I’ll admit that.  In high school and college, I would make mix tapes (and yes they were cassette tapes) that I titled Eclectic Mellow that I’d put on when I wanted to sit in the dark and contemplate the injustice of life.  This almost always coincided with periods where [...]

I’m going to say goodbye to Lost sometime around May next year.  I know the end  is coming.  They’ve told me so.  And unlike other shows (Hello, Scrubs) that claim to be exiting stage left and then come back in some lesser distorted form, I know that Lost is going away forever.  (And I really [...]

If it is possible to win an Oscar for the first twenty minutes of a movie, then Where the Wild Things Are has this year’s honor sewed up.  For twenty minutes, Spike Jonze has made the most painfully real portrait of a normal flawed relationship between a parent and a child that I’ve seen in [...]

I’ll just warn you up front.  I’m about to take a metaphor about dedication to TV shows and long-term romantic relationships way too far.  Deal with it. So, I’ve started seeing this show called Fringe.  I had heard about it for a while.  It has been on the air for a full season and last [...]

My indie music extravaganza continues on Emusic.  Here are a couple more standouts. fun. Yes, that is the name of this band, complete with the period at the end and a lowercase f.  Nothing says indie band like punctuation in the name.  And nothing says 70′s nostalgia throwback like a 7:51 minute song with melodic [...]