This weekend the Quentin Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez movie GRINDHOUSE opened. I loved it. Actually it’s two movies… I loved THEM. And I compare the whole exercise to lounge music, which I also love.
Here is the the thing about Lounge Music, also known as easy listening music. Most people my age hated it in the sixties and [...]

KEITH RICHARDS ADMITS TO SNORTING FATHER’S ASHES WITH COCAINE
Freud rises from grave to say “I told you so!”
FINAL SOPARANOS EPISODES TO AIR
It is widely believed the series will go on under a different name, set in a nondescript midwest city to avoid reprisal from other crime dramas.
HALLE BERRY TO SHAVE HEAD FOR NEXT MOVIE
Experts predict [...]

There has been a tempest in a teapot over a leaked internal BBC document. It is noted that the BBC viewership tends to skew towards better-educated, more affluent people and seems to suggest that they would better serve the viewing public by “dumbing down” some of their programming, giving a little more airtime to shows [...]

SFX Magazine polled its readers to determine the top ten science fiction films. Longtime geeks will find much that is familiar on this list.
10. Back The Future
9. The Terminator
8. 2001: A Space Odyssey
7. Forbidden Planet
6. Alien
5. The Matrix
4. Planet Of The Apes
So far so good… I’d quibble with the order of some of them, but [...]

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In todays show: Sony is betting its Animation Future on clay… Will Ferrell makes a fortune by ruining another sport for us… and in my commentary; there is something hypnotic about a slacker geek’s life. All this and a Canadian with a Scottish accent [...]

A lot of bad mojo going down in televille Monday. The culling has begun. New shows are coming in, shows without the stink of failure attached to them. Therefore some shows have to go out to make room. Don’t cry for:
7th Heaven. This was the last Aaron Spelling show still on the air, and it [...]

EMI, the music company which owns the rights to all the Beatles songs, and Apple Corp, the computer company which runs iTunes, made an announcement a few minutes ago. No, not the one you’re thinking. The other one.
EMI will be the first major label to offer DRM-free music on iTunes. It’s a kind of good [...]

Last week I read a throwaway story about a kid named Justin Kan who has started a website with a few of his friends, in which he straps a camera on the side of his head and broadcasts everything he sees. Live. 24 hours a day. Well, actually he takes the camera off when he [...]