Friday, December 28, 2007

quarterlife


Stephanie Cole got me addicted to this show. They release a new one every Thursday and Sunday night. They are pretty short, only about 10-15 min long.

www.quarterlife.com

I got this info from the website...

quarterlife is the new online series from Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, the creative team behind “My So-Called Life,” “thirtysomething,” “Legends of the Fall,” and “Blood Diamond.” It is the first time a true, network-quality series has been produced directly for the Internet. And it’s the first time an independent project of this distinction has been owned and controlled by its creators.

Known for their incisive portrayals of relationships and experience during life’s key passages, in quarterlife Herkovitz and Zwick take on those crucial years between 20 and 30, when so many of life’s important decisions are made. quarterlife tells the ongoing stories of six creative people in their twenties. As with their earlier series, at the center of quarterlife is a commitment to realism, the recognition of universal human themes through the truthful depiction of the way young people speak, work, think, love, argue, and just goof around.

Starting with Dylan, a young woman whose overly truthful video blog (on quarterlife.com of course) spills the closest secrets of her friends, the show’s characters – filmmakers Danny and Jed, actress-bartender Lisa, geek-extraordinaire Andy, and still-tied-to-her-parents Debra – chart the sometimes excruciating, sometimes comic, often emotional experiences that comprise coming of age in the 21st Century.

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Favorite Music of 2007



By far my favorite album of 2007 was LCD Soundsystem's Sounds of Silver. I also decided to list my favorite songs of the year. I had to list them alphabetically because it was too hard to decide an order. Here they are:

Beirut: Elephant Gun
Bishop Allen: Flight 180
Black Francis: Threshold Apprehension
Blonde Redhead: 23
Caribou: Sundialing
!!!: Heart of Hearts
Cloud Cult: Chemicals Coliide
CocoRosie: Werewolf
Dan Deacon: Crystal Cat
Deerhoof: The Perfect Me
Deerhunter: Spring Hall Convert
Dr Dog: Heart it Races
Edit: Certified Air Raid Material
Flight of the Conchords: Business Time
Grizzly Bear: Knife
Iron and Wine: Boy with a Coin
Jens Lekman: A Postcard to Nina
Jose Gonzales: Killing for Love
Junior Boys: In the Morning (Hot Chip Remix)
Kevin Drew: Frightening Lives
Kings of Leon: Ragoo
LCD Soundsystem: All My Friends
LCD Soundsystem: Someone Great
Los Campesinos!: You! Me! Dancing!
Low: Breaker
Maps: Liquid Sugar
Menomena: Muscle 'n Flo
M.I.A.: Paper Planes
Modest Mouse: Dashboard
Muscles: Ice Cream
Of Montreal: Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse
Of Montreal: The Past is a Grotesque Animal
Panda Bear: Bros
Pela: Waiting on the Stairs
Pinback: Good to Sea
Radiohead: Reckoner
Rogue Wave: Lake Michigan
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings: I'm Not Gonna Cry
Spoon: You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists: La Costa Brava
Tegan and Sara: Back in your Head
The Broken West: Down in the Valley
The Clientele: Bookshop Casanova
The Field: Over the Ice
The French Kicks: So Far we Are
The National: Fake Empire
The National: Mistaken For Strangers
The New Pornographers: Myriad Harbour
The Octopus Project: I Saw the Bright and Shinies
The Shins: Sea Legs
Tokyo Police Club: Your English is Good
Travis: My Eyes
Tunng: Arms
Vampire Weekend: A-Punk
Vampire Weekend: Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
Vampire Weekend: Walcott
Voyager One: The Good You Do Not Do
White Rabbits: The Plot
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: IsIs
Yeasayer: 2080