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Patrick McGoohan and Ricardo Montalban have died.

I guess I'll be watching the Khan episode of Star Trek tonight. Which, to be fair, I may have done anyway.

Everyone's doing end of the year lists, and I want to get in on that! The only problem is that I don't keep up with new releases very well. So here are a couple of new albums I like. I can't say that they're the best, but whatever.

Loudon Wainwright III
Recovery

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I'm stealing mixmaster_morty 's idea, and making a list of notable albums which I heard for the first time in 2008.

Brother Ali - Undisputed Truth
Feel-good hip hop. My new exercise music.

Drive-By Truckers - Southern Rock Opera
A concept album about Lynyrd Skynyrd. Really, it's about the songwriters' relationship and history with the music of Lynyrd Skynyrd, and it' ( Read more... )

Sadly, this is only a frame from a music video, and not a full length movie.

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McCain ads by John Woo, Kevin Smith, and Wes Anderson.

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Everybody should own the soundtrack to Superfly. It's probably Curtis Mayfield's best album, although I don't know enough of his stuff to say that for sure. I do know that Freddie's Dead is a fantastic song. And today only, it's 2 bucks on Amazon. Buy it! You know you want to.

An exterminator came to the new apartment yesterday, and found a black widow living behind our kitchen drawers. He showed it to me before he killed it - it was enormous and spherical. I didn't recognize it as a spider at first ( Read more... )

I signed up for last.fm a few months ago. It pairs with your itunes, and uploads all of the songs in your itunes library, and your play counts, and tries to make an online radio station you would like. I wasn't too impressed with it - it's based on statistics. "You like Springsteen, and statistically, people who like Springsteen like John Hiatt. So ( Read more... )

In a few days, coffeeseraph is going to her home state for a week, for her brother's graduation, meaning I will be alone for a week. I'm already planning what I'm going to do with my freedom, and I have two things on the agenda. The first thing I won't mention, because you people will make fun of me (more). The other thing is Netflix ( Read more... )