How do you know when it's time to stop watching a TV show?  Well, when it comes to current network TV shows, it's easy: I stop watching when I lose interest (I'm down to four: The Office, Glee, Family Guy, and No Ordinary Family, and No Ordinary Family is just barely hanging in there).  But what about shows on DVD?  There are so many shows that I ( Read more... )

Facebook in a nutshell:

Person #1 - This is a picture I took.

Person #2 - I like that.

Person #3 - I like that.

Person #4 - I like that.

Person # 5 - I like that.

Person #6 - I got an A on my midterm.

Person #1 - I like that.

Person #2 - I like that.

Person #3 - I like that.

Person #4 - I like that.

Person #5 - I like that.

And this is why I don't use Facebook ( Read more... )

So it turns out that American Idiot is really just Across the Universe meets Fight Club.  Which, you know, is cool with me, they being two of my favorite movies.  I really need to see it on stage, because the soundtrack is kind of amazing.  Anyone want to fly me to New York?

Not quite so amazing is Next to Normal, which I also bought.  This is ( Read more... )

Emma Thompson is such a bitch.

"I find Audrey Hepburn fantastically twee. Twee is whimsy without wit," she said. "It's mimsy-mumsy sweetness without any kind of bite. And that's not for me. She can't sing and she can't really act, I'm afraid. I'm sure she was a delightful woman - and perhaps if I had known her I would have enjoyed her acting ( Read more... )

Dex-Starr makes my life better.

Some background is in order here.  See, there isn't just the Green Lantern, there are thousands of Green Lanterns, who make up the Green Lantern Corps.  And there aren't just Green Lanterns, there are also Red Lanterns, Blue Lanterns, Orange Lanterns, etc.  And they all represent a different emotion.  Green is will ( Read more... )

People really seem to dig Jesus.  And that's cool and all, we all need role models.  But let's face it, things didn't work out too well for Jesus.  As Tim Rice astutely pointed out, he picked a backward time and a strange land to roll out his message.  "Israel in 4 B.C. had no mass communication."  Jesus's time is done.  He lacks relevance for our ( Read more... )

Yeah, I spoke too soon about Dead Like Me.  I can see now why it was canceled.  It lost steam halfway through the first season and never really recovered (apparently Bryan Fuller, the creator, left the show, which would explain it).  So it went from being brilliant to simply being enjoyable.  What a shame.

I think South Park might be the worst TV  ( Read more... )

Hmm, I never knew that the roles of Salieri and Mozart in Amadeus were originated on Broadway by Ian McKellan and Tim Curry, respectively.  That would have been something to see.

In the Heights was marvelous.  I could have done without a lot of the lame sitcom dialogue, most of which wasn't funny (but of course the audience laughed at everything), ( Read more... )

I need to take part in more activities in which I end up dropping acid in a tent and making out with Paul Dano.  But such situations can't be manufactured, can they?  I'll look into it.

There's a restaurant chain called Opaque, in which you sit and eat your food in complete darkness while being served by blind waiters, and it costs $100 a person.  I ( Read more... )

I love "More Than a Feeling" (and Boston in general) even more now that I know that it was just one guy playing all four guitars, and another guy doing all the singing (including his own back-up vocals), plus a third guy on drums.  There's something almost heroic about that kind of DIY music recording.

Why did I feel compelled to watch all six Saw ( Read more... )