Happy Halloween!!!
=cD
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Friday, October 12, 2007
It's that time again...
Cold and Flu season!!!! Everyone, make sure you have fun in the cold and then take care of the cold that follows, 'cause lemme tell ya, it's a doo-zie this year.
Huh... it occurs to me that people pay good money for this kind of altered state.
Some people, of course, are mentally troubled and in need of serious assistance. But the rest of us... should be stocking up on the hot teas and citrus.
Huh... it occurs to me that people pay good money for this kind of altered state.
Some people, of course, are mentally troubled and in need of serious assistance. But the rest of us... should be stocking up on the hot teas and citrus.
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Wow... it's been awhile, no?
Okay... it's been a busy few months on this end. Life being life, I suppose, that's all we can hope for. =c)
My recent discoveries in that time:
Cable TV (as opposed to satellite)
I must admit, I'm NOT a fan. I miss my dish! It's better than networks tho.
The new Vanessa Carlton CD, 'Heroes & Thieves':
For the record... I LOVE VANESSA. I wholly support that she's trying not to become a conformed and plastic-coated music-label-darling. I love her sound and her songwriting and her piano. But... Heroes and Thieves was a major disappointment for me. She was not singing within her vocal range, and the reaches turned out flat, particularly in 'More than This'. That's a 4minute and 48second long song, which, no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get past the first ten seconds of vocals. =c( The songwriting and music itself was still her usual strong, but she should have passed them to another artist. It was not a good showcase.
That being said... 'Nolita Fairytale', 'Hands on Me' and a few others are still on my repeated favorites list. It's still the honest sound of 'Nessa, tho, so me an' the other Nessa'holics are saited for a little while.
CBS TV:
Kudos to CBS... it's so rare that I say that... but I must say this: Moonlight is one of the shining spots on fall TV. A return to classic story-telling. It's a vampire story, but they let the story tell the story instead of relying on the flash and bang of CSI-like special effects. They gave a few familiar faces a place to play, too, and hopefully those guys will bring up the acting standards for the newbies on-cast.
Now just watch, given that I've said this out-loud, they'll yank it from the line-up...
My recent discoveries in that time:
Cable TV (as opposed to satellite)
I must admit, I'm NOT a fan. I miss my dish! It's better than networks tho.
The new Vanessa Carlton CD, 'Heroes & Thieves':
For the record... I LOVE VANESSA. I wholly support that she's trying not to become a conformed and plastic-coated music-label-darling. I love her sound and her songwriting and her piano. But... Heroes and Thieves was a major disappointment for me. She was not singing within her vocal range, and the reaches turned out flat, particularly in 'More than This'. That's a 4minute and 48second long song, which, no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get past the first ten seconds of vocals. =c( The songwriting and music itself was still her usual strong, but she should have passed them to another artist. It was not a good showcase.
That being said... 'Nolita Fairytale', 'Hands on Me' and a few others are still on my repeated favorites list. It's still the honest sound of 'Nessa, tho, so me an' the other Nessa'holics are saited for a little while.
CBS TV:
Kudos to CBS... it's so rare that I say that... but I must say this: Moonlight is one of the shining spots on fall TV. A return to classic story-telling. It's a vampire story, but they let the story tell the story instead of relying on the flash and bang of CSI-like special effects. They gave a few familiar faces a place to play, too, and hopefully those guys will bring up the acting standards for the newbies on-cast.
Now just watch, given that I've said this out-loud, they'll yank it from the line-up...
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