I have heard that they are going to be making a ninth season of this show, but that it will be about Zach Braff as Dr. John Dorian.  Now, I don’t know if that is true or not, but I can only hope that it will in fact not be true.  The entire cast is […]

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There are very few people in the rock, particularly Metal genre that do not recognize the name Blaze Bayley. He really hit the radar when he became the front man, and vocalist for Iron Maiden.
His story is far more compelling that of just Iron Maiden, his first real chance at stardom came from his time […]

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“The greatest concert that never was”
It is hard to watch and talk about the new documentary, THIS IS IT, which chronicles the last few months of Michael Jacksons life without feeling some tinge of sadness and a little bit of media sensationalism. Granted the film was created with the full support of Jackson’s estate but […]

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Ah, how quickly the grandchildren grow up. The grandsons have changed from computer game freaks to college geeks, and the granddaughters are now budding teenagers, on the threshold of being a woman.
In the past, the “Themes” for birthday parties were various Disney princesses; now little girls are starting to grow up, so the Theme of […]

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Prior to seeing the commercials for this new diamond edition of this movie, I did not know that this was in fact the first full-length animated movie that was made by Walt Disney.  I hadn’t seen this movie in years, prior to just rewatching it a couple of days ago.  However, if I had seen […]

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Artist: Kirk Whalum
CD:  “The Gospel According to Jazz, Chapter III”
Label: Rendezvous
Release Date: November 17, 2009
 
As an art form Gospel Jazz is still in its infant stage, but with Kirk Whalum as one of the fathers of Gospel Jazz this is proof that it takes a village to raise a child. On his third […]

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Artist: Brian Bromberg
CD:  “It Is What It Is”
Label: Artistry Music
Release Date: August 25, 2009
 
For those of us who heard “Downright Upright” we were eagerly awaiting the next musical endeavor from Mr. Bromberg. In 2008 I had the pleasure of meeting and seeing him in concert at the Detroit Jazz Festival, this only increased […]

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Kung Fu movies seem to have been a little out of vogue ever since the death of Bruce Lee.  He made Hong Kong cinema what it is today and he helped all of us fall in love with the karate action movie.  He killed Chuck Norris and was the best of all time by the […]

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I enjoy watching very classic television show.  Don’t misunderstand me – I’m not a fan of old television.  Most of those shows really sucked, with only a couple of notable exceptions.  But it’s enjoyable to watch as a sociological experiment, to see just how much television, humor and entertainment have changed in the intervening years.  […]

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Congress has censored the gentleman (?) who interrupted the President’s speech last week by shouting Liar.
Good for them.
One of the most terrible things about politics during the Bush administration was that those who should have known better winked at the harsh and even paranoid voices that shouted hatred at him personally. And, alas, now it […]

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The MTV music video awards were presented last night and it was actually a turn of events for me. Being that I am a film graduate and I also own my Music Company and studio, I tend to always watch this event. Besides Rob Dyrdek and Nitrous Circus, I watch no MTV. Funny enough VH1 […]

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I don’t sail or spend much time at all on the water.  But I would like to.  Boating is just a lot of time and money and I don’t have too much of either of those right now.  Nonetheless, sailing is still really interesting and an ideal that I look up to.  Now there is […]

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A few nights ago, I went bowling with some of my friends.  I won one game and did quite badly on the other two, but that’s not the point.  They were playing a bunch of music videos at the alley that night because there weren’t any big sporting events on.  One of the music videos […]

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I was less than excited when I first saw previews for this movie.  But as I learned more about it, I began to look forward to it more and more.  I have always enjoyed Ryan Reynolds, although he needs to start doing more good movies.  Then there’s Jesse Eisenberg, one of my favorite young actors.  […]

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I always get lots of negativity from people when I talk bad about Hannah Montana.  I realize that many adore her, but I think she’s one of the causes for dumbing down that’s happening to children.  If something is very popular, it’s usually because it appeals to the lowest common denominator and that can be […]

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I’m not above liking a good fantasy story every now and again.  I would rather deal with space or the future or a dystopia, but some fantasy stories are magnificent – no doubt about it.  One certainly thinks about J.R.R. Tolkien, but there have been others as well.  In short, there’s nothing intrinsically bad about […]

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I love Lindsay Lohan, or at least I used to.  We watched her as she was growing up and there was great expectation as she grew closer and closer to turning eighteen.  Of course, it would not really make any difference at all to those of us doing the countdown.  For a while there, she […]

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I grew up watching this movie.  See, I come from the era in which Adam Sandler is one of the true comedians and hilarious people.  I watched him on Saturday Night Live and I watched as he switched over to movies.  He was one of the constants in my life when it came to humor.  […]

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I had not even heard of this movie until I was in college.  Evidently, it’s one of the favorites of my roommate and so we rented it one night.  How a movie this great could have eluded me is completely beyond my comprehension.  It’s entered the common vernacular, as I’ve seen it referenced in both […]

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I caught one episode of this show when it was originally broadcast.  It was during spin class, so I wasn’t paying that much attention, but the show still certainly made an impression on me.  Enough so that I was very excited when I learned that this show was being renewed for another season.  Joss Whedon […]

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I’m not a fan of Japanese manga.  I know, I know, saying that is disrespectful to my nerd background.  There are some anime movies I loved, but it’s nothing that lives in the center of my heart.  I’m not a Gundam, alien, space battle, manga type of nerd – I come from more of the […]

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I am genuinely angry with myself that I did not know of this show until I got it on DVD.  It is surprising that it was on ABC Family, a channel more given to entertainment that’s equivalent to The CW, just more wholesome.  But it is based off of the graphic novels by Javier Grillo-Marxuach […]

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A conspiracy movie is something wholly fantastic.  After all, who doesn’t love a great conspiracy?  That’s the fuel that gets nerdy kids through high school while everyone else relies on sex and fun.  And to those who graduate and still find conspiracies entertaining, they become libertarians and vote for Ron Paul.  But movies about them […]

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I had a bunch of G.I. Joe toys when I was younger.  Vehicles, dolls, fortresses, guns that actually shot missiles, all sorts of great things like that.  They would fight epic battles against each other constantly, some of them lasting for days on end.  There were never any surrenders and rarely more than three survivors.  […]

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Group: Four80East
Label: Native Language
Release Date: July 14, 2009
In the music industry nowadays you can not expect consistency when it comes to music especially when it come to jazz. Now I’m not saying there is no good jazz music out there I am saying that when you hear certain names in music you know that what […]

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I don’t understand the American cult of mindless shopping.  I buy clothes so people don’t have to see me naked and for little other reason than that.  I spend my money on books that inform me, on movies that educate and entertain me and on biking gear because I need to have one hobby that […]

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I adore Steve Martin.  It doesn’t matter if most of his movies that come out now aren’t funny – that fact is completely beside the point.  He came up with the idea for Shopgirl and he came up with the idea for the movie Traitor.  Not to mention, he is perhaps the best banjo player […]

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Having best friends is such a girl thing.  I have a select group of close friends and some of those are certainly closer than others, but I’m not in middle school anymore – it can’t just be narrowed down to one person.  Normal people don’t have a hierarchy of friends where places can be jumped […]

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Evidently, the Jonas Brothers are now one of the hottest bands out there, especially among young teenage and pre-teen girls.  Also, probably a lot of those lonely single mothers or old maids as well.  I don’t understand the sex appeal of the Jonas Brothers.  To me, they look like prancing Mormon muppets, not anything a […]

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The Soviets were a fantastic boogeyman.  They were going to bury us when we died.  How awesome is that?  They came to signify everything that we thought was evil and we fought proxy wars against them through most of the Cold War.  In hindsight, all of the interventions and the domino theory turned out to […]

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