Category: Watching

  • Welcome Back, Conan

    I’ve nev­er watched much late night tv. Remem­ber see­ing Conan’s very first show…and then nev­er tun­ing in again. Then I caught the late night bug with Jon Stew­art and Steven Col­bert on Com­e­dy Cen­tral, but even that waned. But after the ker­fuf­fle between he and Leno, I became a fan. One small prob­lem: I almost nev­er…

  • America Lost and Found: The BBS Story

    If A Decade Under the Influ­ence turned you on to Amer­i­can film in the ’70s, then this col­lec­tion is for you. It’s also a great way to see Jack Nichol­son before he entered the realm of self-par­o­dy. Also, Hen­ry Jaglom!

  • Radiohead with Michael Stipe

    Once upon a time, that would’ve been a dream walk-on for me. Real­l­ly hard to imag­ine Radio­head and R.E.M. togeth­er live now. Their forth­com­ing album, Col­lapse Into Now, strikes me as the most des­per­ate attempt at rel­e­vance since their last. What­ev­er hap­pened to aging grace­ful­ly, guys? I get hav­ing Pat­ti Smith and Eddie Ved­der aboard, but Peach­es?…

  • Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me

    Went to see a record­ing of Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! at the Acad­e­my of Music last night here in Philadel­phia. If peo­ple think that this week­end’s Ral­ly to Restore San­i­ty is like the Gath­er­ing of the Smug­ga­loes, then they would­n’t know what to make of this. Let’s just say that Helen and I real­ly love the…

  • The Social Network

    The moral of the sto­ry is that the IT guy isn’t prop­er­ly social­ized? Shocking!