Category: Watching

  • Clifton Phifer Lee: Full Tilt Boogie

    Beer­lea­guer address­es Clif­f’s tilt prob­lem. Did you see that curve­ball he intro­duced around his 8th strike­out? It was so filthy it deserved an MA rat­ing. Watch high­lights here. Update: Matt Gelb gets down and dirty on Lee’s curve­ball.

  • Who Is Harry Nilsson?

    Just watched this doc­u­men­tary. Only a hand­ful of artists meet a trag­ic end like this, where their fame endures long after their tal­ent burns out. My old boss at TLA Video, Adri­an Hick­man, used to play Nils­son often at the store. I did­n’t have an ear for it then, but lis­ten­ing to his voice com­plete­ly…

  • Check Out Nightlands New Video

    My friend Mark made it. It’s pret­ty cool, so I’m shar­ing it, but chances are you saw it on Pitch­fork or pret­ty much every blog in the known uni­verse. It’s that good! So are Night­lands. Can’t wait to see them play the Ox in late Jan­u­ary. It’s gonna be down­right cozy in that icebox!

  • My Favorite New Show: Brew Masters

    Dis­cov­ery Chan­nel real­ly knows their demo­graph­ic. “Dead­liest Catch” may have run aground, but leave it to those genius­es to hit upon a sub­ject near­er and dear­er to me: craft beer. The kick­er? Throw Dog­fish Head beer guru Sam Cala­gione into the mix and you’re bound to attract an audi­ence of lit­er­al­ly dozens of beer geeks…

  • The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

    Helen and I have had a hell of a time watch­ing movies late­ly. Between work and rais­ing a very active 17-month-old baby, it’s hard to watch any­thing more than a few sit­coms before pass­ing out on the couch. We ral­lied last night to watch a full-length fea­ture for the first time in months and watched…