A sudden moment of clarity leads to a stunning realization.
“Top Chef” is ON FIRE this season. I love All Star competitions on reality shows to begin with, but the “Top Chef” team is putting together one of the best seasons of a reality competition EVER.
The opening to “Men of a Certain Age” is fantastic. It’s 30 seconds long and it features The Beach Boys, you should give it a chance.
I can’t believe it took me this long to get around to this week’s “Terriers”. I really, really, hope FX can stomach sub-par ratings in order to bring one of the top five shows on television back for a second season.
Oh, what’s that? “Winter’s Bone” just hit the internet? There goes the afternoon.
Really, the movie had me at “hard-boiled Appalachian noir” and “tons of meth”. It’s like “Justified” had a baby with “Chinatown”.
Buckingham Palace Band plays Danny Elfman’s “Batman” theme during the changing of the guard. Dan Suitor abandons his homeland and defects to England.
No one paid tribute to 9/11 better than U2. Their Superbowl Halftime Show (February 2002) was, in my mind, the most beautiful thing anyone could muster in those strange few months.
Projecting the names of all those who were killed onto a hundred-plus foot high banner, while singing “Where The Streets Have No Name”, before letting the banners flutter down to Earth- a visual so gentle that it almost mocks the violence of the attacks.
I well up every time.
Ida Blankenship, Queen of Perversions.
I haven’t heard a lot of interesting people talk about Katy Perry’s “California Gurls”, but can we all agree that it has Snoop Dogg’s best verse in years? No one embodies laid back confidence and charisma better than The Dogg.
