Category: Watching

  • I’ve Seen a Darkness

    Just watched The Promise, a new doc­u­men­tary about Bruce Spring­steen’s Dark­ness on the Edge of Town. I have mixed feel­ings. I’ll be writ­ing about it for Fancast.com this week.

  • I Want to Like Kenny Powers

    But I can’t help but feel like it’s a base­ball-cen­tric Entourage, with John­ny Dra­ma in the lead role. Hav­ing said that, I enjoyed East­bound and Down this morn­ing. Stayed up way too late watch­ing TV last night. Mad Men, Board­walk Empire and East­bound and Down in one night? How am I sup­posed to catch up on…

  • In Praise of Boardwalk Empire

    If this show is the clos­est we ever get to an actu­al con­clu­sion to Dead­wood, I’ll take it. I’ve watched the pilot episode three times! One knock: could they at least pre­tend to know how a Philadel­phi­an talks? Busce­mi will do Busce­mi, but no one in the cast sounds like they’re from Philly at all. Did­n’t…

  • So Pavement Sucked

    Once upon a time, Pave­ment were a spe­cial band to me. That rabid fan­dom petered out since they called it quits in ’99, and ever since I’ve felt like Malk­mus’ solo career was just him navel gazing. The reunion dis­ap­points main­ly because they haven’t learned any­thing about show­man­ship since their start­ed. Maybe that’s good for…

  • My Top 20 Embarrassing ’90s Videos

    Man, were the ’90s real­ly 20 years ago already? Yup, they sure were! Now, I’ve been pay­ing spe­cial atten­tion to Pitch­fork’s nos­tal­gia trip, but I get the keen sense that they’ve oblit­er­at­ed the true gems from this list. What do I mean? I’m talk­ing about the sap­py non­sense that all chil­dren of the ’90s got…