This week (or "this installment", more like), I'm going to recommend a song by singer/songwriter Brandi Carlile. I've become recently obsessed. I mean, I've really enjoyed it over the past few weeks but in the last couple days I've been listening to it a hell of a lot. It's the song Hard Way Home off of her new album Bear Creek. It's wonderfully ( Read more... )

I'm so tempted to just use this championing to champion Grey's Anatomy because I'm so hardcore into this show and Thursday's penultimate episode of the season almost killed me. But I won't.

Instead, I'm going to champion a reason why the episode nearly killed me.

Okay, so, many people say that music on Grey's Anatomy functions as another character. I ( Read more... )

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Okay, so these are poorly named because I definitely don't do it weekly, but go with what you've got.

So I'm sitting here with fierce menstrual cramps (yeah, I said it), listening to some tunes, hoping my medication kicks in so I can go out for a run. (Did I mention I've joined a Gaelic Football team and I desperately need to be in shape for it?)

But ( Read more... )

I'm championing tonight! Wow! It's been a while! I should try to be more militant with my championing, I know. I should be better with it. But what can I say? I'm really that lazy.

But I think this week's championing is pretty good. It's music, which is fun, right? I don't often champion music.

I'm giving a shout out to the album Whokill by the band ( Read more... )

It's been several weeks since my last championing, but only because I didn't really have much to champion. (I considered doing one on Thelma and Louise, but I've already championed a few movies in a row so I decided against it.)

My championing today is a little unusual because I'm going to champion a real life person, which I've never done before. ( Read more... )

More books to champion this week because I am a book reading fiend. Seriously, since May began, I've read . . . six books?

I just finished, not more than five minutes ago, Mockingjay, the third book of The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins, and it totally broke my brain.

The trilogy (the second book is called Catching Fire) is a must read. If ( Read more... )

I have another filled championing to do because, since I've been out-of-internship and have convocated my way out of school (aside from still being a graduate student . . . deferred, you know?), I've had a lot of time to read.

In the last week I've finished four books, including Tina Fey's Bossypants and Pultizer Prize winner Paul Harding's Tinkers ( Read more... )

Expect a review of the cray-zay Xena episode Maternal Instincts tomorrow, but for now, I thought I'd champion two things I've enjoyed this week. Wait, no. Three things, because I missed last week.

First up, I want to give big ups to Thursday's episode of The Office called Goodbye, Michael.

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I was going to write my latest review for Xena but realized I was way too lazy to do so. Instead, I'm going to write out my next championing. D'accord?

This week I'm recommending the movie Hanna. I saw it last night and was pretty impressed. I hadn't intended on seeing it at all until I was listening to the awesome XX Podcast (through Slate). After ( Read more... )