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A good friend of mine has started doing reviews of some of cinema’s more sleazy digressions. Check it out!

I have been a longtime fan of The Onion and of the wing of their website called the AV Club. They have great thoughtful reviews and give you the strenghts of blog writing (speaking from the 1st peron) with a healthy dose of the more traditional way to review contemperary works.

They started the TV Blog and I was very excited as I am an unrepentant TV junkie. I have watched and am currently watching a mirade of shows. If it tells serialized narratives without relying too directly on the soap opera plotlines there is a good change I am watching it attentively.  There has been a lot said about the fact that we are living through the Renessance of Television. I agree I remember that there have been older examples of serialized narrative but really HBO starting back with shows like OZ has hit on something amazing.

So tonight, well morning now, I was reading a review of two Deadwood episode. This show was cancelled long ago but the AV Club has a writer who is reviewing the shows as if they were playing weekly. The reviewer said something I thought did an amazing job of connecting the broader themes of some of the best television ever made:

Deadwood is about the birth of both that civilization and that war, while The Sopranos is about the long decline and The Wire, finally, is about the ultimate consequences of those actions. (In this way, The Wire almost serves as a funhouse mirror version of Deadwood, even though both series had completely separate creative personnel.)

So yeah… this is not really a fully formed blog post. It is sort of a blog fragment. I was just really excited that someone is writing about TV that transends it’s humble format. If you haven’t seen these shows watch them and know that as much as they are trying to just make good TV… there is the potential for something bigger and better going on underneath its skin.

Recently I did an interview with Monica Guzman from the online version of the P-I. I was glad to be able to wedge in a pretty good quote and some plugs for The Last Quest and The Common Language Project. It was an all around pleasurable experience. Here are some quotes:

“That something this old and prestigious was stopping its printed publication was brutal to hear,” said director Brad Hutchinson. “We needed to do something…

“What we were trying to really capture is the sort of collective loss that a community experiences,” Hutchinson said. “(The P-I was) this sort of cultural compass for Seattle…

Found this on a friend’s site. He is a really awesome animator who apparently also program’s flash games and or puzzles. It is really cool you should check it out.

It’s is 9:30am… time to wake up and make some coffee or if you’re at work it about time to change up your work avoidance habits for the day before the boss gets wise. This would be true if you weren’t me. My mind is a slippery gooey thing that even I don’t comprehend. It is 9:30am and I haven’t slept for 20 some hours. Was it because I was inspired and on somekind of artistic high? No. My mind wouldn’t just shut the hell up.

Icky.

But along my sleep-deprived epic youtube/myspace/torrent tracker travels I found a band I think I like a lot. Their music strikes me as what happens when hippies listen to The Melvins too much. It warps the standard hippy mind into something quite interesting.

They are called Tweak Bird and they make me tingle in my special place. I am glad to have something new to cleanse the palette after my stormy three month romance (that I think has ended badly) with the new Animal Collective album.

Here is a weird video of them on some pretty bad TV show. It gets really good at the 1:13 mark.

So I am going to update my wordpress install (the web thingy thing that drives my site) as I have things to write and do on here.

Here’s hoping it doesn’t all go down in flames horribly!