Perhaps I am easily pleased, but I count today as one of the most convergently awesome days I’ve had lately. “Convergently” you say? Yes, for today marks a convergence of entertainment availability that makes me very happy.
1. The new season of The Guild starts today! You can see it on MSN Video, get it from [...]

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Tagged:The Guild, The Killers, The Rosebuds

I’ve been finding so much new music lately and not posting ANY Music Mondays. What’s that about? Probably because when I have too many choices I get overwhelmed and choose none of them - which is a positive trait when shopping and saves me a lot of money, but less positive when blogging. So let’s [...]

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Tagged:Army Navy, Silversun Pickups

Los Campesinos! is a Welsh band made up of several of the most attractive people I’ve ever seen in a band ever. Wow. It’s a trend that indie rock videos are totally wacked out, and though this one starts out fairly normal, keep watching. It gets there. Rainbows and unicorns for the win. Also, Los [...]

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Monday, November 24
9:00pm EST / 8:00pm CST - IFC - The Proposition
One of the best reviewed westerns in recent memory hails from Australia; the “proposition” is that outlaw Guy Pearce, in order to save himself and his younger brothers from corrupt lawmen, must find and kill his estranged oldest brother. I honestly didn’t like the [...]

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Tagged:Arsenic and Old Lace, Everyone Says I Love You, Fiddler on the Roof, Guys and Dolls, Hannah and Her Sisters, High Noon, Mildred Pierce, Monsoon Wedding, My Fair Lady, Picnic at Hanging Rock, That's Entertainment, The King and I, The Misfits, The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Proposition, Throne of Blood, Twentieth Century, West Side Story, Witness for the Prosecution, You Can't Take It With You

The million dollar prize for improving Netflix’s recommendation system (Cinematch) by 10% has been out there for a couple of years now, and programmers are now within a few tenths of a percent of getting there. The New York Times has a new article about it here. Not a lot of new information over the [...]

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Completely forgot about this yesterday. My bad. And I’m short on time today, so this is just TCM for this week.
Monday, November 17
2:30am / 1:30am (18th) - TCM - Hamlet (1948)
Laurence Olivier’s version of Shakespeare’s play is moody and dark, as befitting melancholy Denmark. This is the Hamlet adaptation by which all others are judged, [...]

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Guess who finally remembered to take her camera to a concert and thus can use her own pictures instead of scrounging ones from Flickr? Yay! On the other hand, I’m still working on finding the best camera settings for low light conditions, so… Still. MINE.

Before Bishop Allen, though, were three opening bands, all of which [...]

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Tagged:An Horse, Bishop Allen, The Echo, The One AM Radio

Anna of Goannatree tagged me for a meme (originally started at Seedlings in Stone) wondering how blogging has changed your life, for better or worse. Let’s see what I can come up with.
1. Blogging has helped me find who I am as a writer. I’m not wholly there yet, in the writer-finding process, but [...]

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