I think that I should start out by saying that overall I really liked this episode. I thought it was one of the better episodes of this season but breaking the episode into two parts is just unnecessary.
Read more "TV Without Commercials: Newsroom 1.8"Whatever you call a band like Yellowcard – pop-punk, posi-punk, alternative rock, or just straight up pop music – it is pretty hard to discredit them for what they’ve done for whatever genre you label them. In fact, you could say that Yellowcard is one of the most consistent bands out there today. So with […]
Read more "Review of Yellowcard’s ‘Southern Air’"Recently, talking heads have been making a fuss about The Dark Knight Rises, and how Bane was clearly a shot at Bain Capital, a company run by presidential candidate Mitt Romney. However, if any one thing from films this summer that should get under the skins of pundits is the new political satire The Campaign.
Read more "Review of The Campaign"Alright alright, I have to get this out of the way first, and spoiler alert for anyone who missed last night’s Newsroom but Osama Bin Laden is dead. The navy seals killed him and President Barak Obama addressed the nation on May 1st, 2011. Appropriately, this week’s episode was entitled “5/1” and was a very obvious […]
Read more "TV Without Commercials: Newsroom 1.6 &1.7"Music is always moving and evolving with the times, and as it pertains to the genre of alternative, it evolves rather quickly. So to help analyze the genre, I’ve recruited James from the Appetite for Distraction Alternative Top 10 Countdown to help me look into where alternative music is, where it’s going, and who is […]
Read more "The State of Alternative: A Conversation"While readers find peace in the natural beauty of the Pacific Crest Trail and Strayed’s enchanting prose, Strayed searches for peace with herself and her life.
Read more "Book Review: Wild – From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed"You are probably all familiar with the boldly emblazoned (and often bedazzled) word “PINK” festooned across the seats of sweatpants from the ever popular Victoria’s Secret PINK collection. “LOVE PINK” is the motto many girls’ rumps loudly proclaim as they saunter by! And why shouldn’t we “LOVE PINK?”
Read more "Book Review: Cinderella Ate My Daughter by Peggy Orenstein"We are well past the halfway point of the year, and since we are now in a musical drought as of late, I’ve decided to go back and listen to some albums that I might have ignored. This is either because I didn’t get a chance to listen to it before it came out, didn’t […]
Read more "Music Wrap-Up: Early 2012"Who would’ve thought, looking back to almost a year and a half ago that there would not only be the chaos taking place in Egypt but also the protesting going on in Wisconsin, oh and I almost forgot, all of this was going on right around Valentine’s Day! Aaron Sorkin demonstrates for us once again […]
Read more "TV Without Commercials: Newsroom 1.5"I am probably one of the few English majors that graduated without ever reading any Ernest Hemingway in college or high school. I’m not exactly sure how I managed that, but it is what it is.
Read more "Book Review: The Paris Wife by Paula McLain"
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