Picks

Music:
Score! 20 years of Merge: The Covers Album

Picks

Movies:
Role Models

Books:
Nick Bertozzi - The Salon

Music:
The Jam At The BBC

National Holiday

Happy April Fools Day! From one fool to all of you!

Lost Flashbacks/Flashforwards Guide Season 4

For Seasons 1-3 see here:
Lost Flashbacks Guide Part 1

- 1 Hurley (I ate the Oceanic Six!)
- 2 Nuggets (We already get back stories?)
- 3 Sayid (Meet the new boss.)
- 4 Kate (None that I know of.)
- 5 Desmond (Time, time, time. See what's become of me.)
- 6 Juliet (Bikini Girls With Machine Guns)
- 7 Sun/Jin (Hurley suited up! Panda Bear?)
- 8 Michael (The singer for AC/DC? No, that's Brian Johnson.)
- 9 Ben (Time/space travelling MOFO!)
- 10 Jack/Kate (Is that you?)
- 11 John (Reading is fundamental.)
- 12 & 13 The Six (It's a c-o-n-spiracy.)

Picks

Song I've been playing over and over the last two weeks:
Low "California"

Books:
Martin Millar - The Lonely Werewolf Girl
Grant Morrison & Frank Quitely - All Star Superman Vol. 1

Movies:
Watchmen
Coraline

TV:
Lost (the best season ever)
Heroes (not fully back to form but much better than the fall)
and of course
Battlestar Galactica

Garfield Minus Garfield

This makes me makes me feel better about my life and really creeps me out from time to time.

Garfield Minus Garfield

A really good example of one that does both:

Picks

Movies:
Slumdog Millionaire
Lars and The Real Girl

Music:
Alejandro Escovedo - Real Animal

Alejandro Escovedo at the Music Farm

What a great show!

Alejandro played mostly songs from his new album "Real Animal" including a song written for Iggy Pop. He also dedicated songs to Ron Asheton and Joe Strummer and their influence was definitely felt in the songs he played, especially "Chelsea Hotel '78".

His new album is a look back at his career with bands like the Nuns, True Believers and Rank And File.

The sound was great and all around me people were having a great time. If you get the chance to see him, do so.

Picks

Songs of the week:
Bon Iver - Skinny Love
Flight of the Conchords - Bowie "Bowie's in spaaaaccceee."

Books:
Marjane Satrapi - Persepolis
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange

Event of the Year(so far):
President Obama's inauguration

2008

Last day of 2008. It's been a wonderful year in some ways, a horrible year in others. Let's hope 2009 is fuckin' well better in those other ways.

Good things to keep in mind for 2009:

1) May should be a great month for movies.
2) After February the manufactured corporate holidays end for a good long while. Well, okay after Easter then.
3) July is a great month for birthdays.
4) Perhaps the new government can make some steps to repair the damage of the last eight years.
5) And the world is not scheduled to end until 2012, so we don't have to start worrying about that for a couple more years.